That would not have happened. UPN was done with ENT and Star Trek in general. They would have cancelled ENT after the third season, but they needed enough episodes to sell it to syndication. So they let Coto do whatever he wanted because by that time they had all stopped caring about ENT because they knew it was destined for cancellation, and was too expensive to produce in comparison to the revenue they were getting. Making a TV movie would have been counterproductive to their cost-benefit accounting.
Well, we’ll never know now, will we? Since TATV left a sour taste in everyone’s mouth. So sour that ENT has only had callbacks and a Very Short Trek to its name since then.
Ah, the Ed Wood School of filmmaking. Let's make an entire movie out of stock footage! Because the audience loves cheap!
Reusing stock footage did not hurt DS9’s storytelling of the Dominion War.
Huh? TOS-R was being made while production had already started on JJ Abrams' Star Trek. By that time, the idea of a Romulan war TV/theatrical movie had already sailed.
The Connie seen in ENT (IMAD and TATV) literally comes from TOS-R.
So, ships from the late 24th century for a 22nd century Romulan war movie?
They did reuse a bunch of studio models from VOY for ENT. So it’s not that far of a stretch that something like this would have been done.
How very unoriginal. Ships that look almost like ENT Vulcan, Klingon, Xindi and Wisp (?) ships, but aren't. That's exactly how I envisioned the Romulan war would look like for the last 58 years I've known about it.
Why would Romulans not have ships that resemble Vulcans ships if they are an offshoot race from them?
The Klingon BoP was intended to be an Romulan ship anyways in TSFS. Would make for a nice callback to the idea.
Since some of the Xindi were wearing Reman uniform, why is it such a stretch that some Xindi ships are repurposed to be Romulan ships?
Wisp ships (from "The Crossing") have no warp drive that can be identified, as established in the episode. Sound perfect for the Romulans to use and creates continuity with "Balance of Terror" when it comes to warp drives.
Wow. Ok. I'm not sure what to even say about all that.
You could say, “thanks for the idea, but that's not how I would do it" if you disagree with the pitch.
Even though the pitch was meant to show the development and birth of the Federation liek ENt was supposed to show, and address the status of Trip & T'Pol's relationship after the bizzare developments from TATV.
No. What would have completed ENT's story better was to have the people producing it actually give a shit about it, unlike UPN. Why would you think a UPN-produced Romulan war movie made on the cheap would have been any better than the effort they put into TATV?
It would have been on CW, not UPN. But that's all water under the bridge now.
You are entitled to your opinions and I am entitled to mine. Let's leave it at that.
Trip's death made this crappy episode even worse and was totally unneccessary.
If Trip's death had been about protecting the ship from falling apart due to a decade of wear and tear, instead of dying in a stupid way to stop pirates that should not have been able to catch up to the ship in the first place, it would have been better received.
If Trip was also trying to protect specifically T'Pol and his unborn child after years of trying with her after the events of "Terra Prime", along with his friends and cremates, it would have been even better.
Instead of the past couple of decades being about the failings of TATV, it could have been a debate as to whether Archer made the right decision in jeopardizing the lives of the entire crew and founding of the Federation to help Shran for those few hours.
