News Exclusive: Scott Bakula Eyeing Star Trek Return In President Archer Series Pitch From ‘Enterprise’ Producer

[Detached Nacelle]

The most recent Sci-Finatics video on the subject discussed the depiction of the attack on Salem Station 4, which is a big historical event in the Trek universe (that I really couldn't remember, but was mentioned several times in the Berman era).

That would only be if the show did flashbacks to the Romulan War. The destruction of Salem Station was what started the Romulan War iirc.

There would no doubt be plenty of times the war could be mentioned but a war that ended 25 years before the show began might not be the most relevant to the plot in an organic way.

Romulans being all sneaky like in the background is an easy plot device but nothing too overt.

 

[The Gatekeeper]

The destruction of Salem Station was what started the Romulan War iirc.

Canonically, we know nothing about Station Salem One other than it was a "bloody preamble to war" similar to Pearl Harbor. Which comes from TNG The Enemy. A quick search on Memory Beta doesn't indicate tie-in material has ever addressed what or when Salem One is, so there's no reason to believe it was connected to the Romulan War.

 

[Detached Nacelle]

Canonically, we know nothing about Station Salem One other than it was a "bloody preamble to war" similar to Pearl Harbor. Which comes from TNG The Enemy. A quick search on Memory Beta doesn't indicate tie-in material has ever addressed what or when Salem One is, so there's no reason to believe it was connected to the Romulan War.

So it could have been the Romulan War or one of the collective Border Wars with the Cardassians, Tzenkethi and Sheliak or a whole other war we've just never heard mention of before?

 

[The Gatekeeper]

Yes, as long as it happens prior to TNG S3, it could be anything.

 

[Daedalus]

From what Mike was saying, it would be part of the reason why Federation HQ was shifted back to Earth from Babel. So basically an event to be depicted during the show.

I could've misunderstood of course, it mightve been part a flashback sequence.

 

[Detached Nacelle]

From what Mike was saying, it would be part of the reason why Federation HQ was shifted back to Earth from Babel. So basically an event to be depicted during the show.

I could've misunderstood of course, it mightve been part a flashback sequence.

When was Federation Headquarters ever on Babel? It was just a neutral diplomacy site wasn' it?

 

[Daedalus]

When was Federation Headquarters ever on Babel? It was just a neutral diplomacy site wasn' it?

In TOS, yes. Sussman imagines that Babel is a big domed colony surrounded by an arid landscape, and that's where it will be in President Archer's time. Later to be relocated after a unspecified incident (probably the Salem thing??).

I'll have to rewatch all his interviews, but that's the basic idea from what I remember.

His pitch was rejected by Paramount because SFA is largely set on Earth, and they didn't won't two shows with similar settings, so he reworked it to shift the bulk of the story to Babel.