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Spoilers Are they going to re-cast Archer?

My suspicion is that it'll be a version (or "ghost") of Archer that somehow got stuck in the 28th century during one of the frequent times he was transported to and from the future. Not the actual Archer that made it back and became President.
If they can't get Bakula, they would have to age up Archer to hide the actor change.
 
I think it is one thing to mention Enterprise, quite another to put a season of the series around a character from one of the most unpopular shows.
 
I think it is one thing to mention Enterprise, quite another to put a season of the series around a character from one of the most unpopular shows.
That didn't stop them from basically redoing the Temporal Cold War in Discovery, which was the last popular of Enterprise's stories. I would argue this time crystal business makes even less sense than the Temporal Cold War did.

Also, people can love the character/actor and hate the material they are in. Most Doctor Who fans don't think much of the 1996 movie, but they were all cheering when McGann came back for the 50th anniversary short (and many still think he should have been the Time War Doctor who regenerates into Eccleston).
 
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Except they didn't.
Having watched both the Temporal Cold War episodes and Discovery, it's my belief that they did, and a lot of other people I talk with as well.

We have people fighting across time against a futuristic enemy. It's the same concept in all but name.

And we're the ones paying the CBS All-Access subscriptions... And the same complaints I have about the Temporal Cold War apply to this Control War business.
The Temporal Cold War hasn't featured in DSC at all.
That's like saying the Coalition of Planets doesn't feature in Discovery at all. It's called the Federation. Same idea, new name.
 
'Cold' in cold war doesn't mean open conflict.
Fair enough, I seem to remember a lot of fighting in those episodes though. And for that matter, this "hot" war in Discovery can't be that hot if Julian Bashir hadn't even heard of it.
 
Having watched both the Temporal Cold War episodes and Discovery, it's my belief that they did, and a lot of other people I talk with as well.

We have people fighting across time against a futuristic enemy. It's the same concept in all but name.
The two plots are nothing alike.
 
The two plots are nothing alike.
I guess we'll just have to disagree on that. For what it's worth, other people I've talked with IRL feel the same as me.

If you know Star Wars, I feel it's along the same lines as Jacen Solo and Kylo Ren being way too similar and feeling like it's a rehash.
 
I'm not going to be surprised at all if we meet Future Guy in the third season, given it's far and away the most important historic fact we know about the 28th century.

It doesn't have to be Archer though. That's just fanon.
 
What’s the gist of this idea? I never made it all the way through ENT.
There was an evil figure called "Future Guy" by fans giving orders to the Suliban villains in Enterprise. He comes from the 28th century. Enterprise never revealed who he was.

After Enterprise ended, Brannon Braga, one of the showrunners, said on Twitter that he planned for an evil future Archer to be Future Guy.

Now rumors are that Discovery is headed to the 28th century for an extended stay. Thus, some think we will see Future Guy and possibly he'll be an older evil Archer.
 
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