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

[ChristopherPike]

I don't recall anybody but George Takei giving a Captain Sulu series the oxygen of publicity. Certainly nothing clicked with anyone working on either DS9 or VOY writer's rooms or Rick Berman - beyond his return being one of two things that celebrated then 30 years of TOS. What was the convention circuit like then? Did any writers join George on stage to present their pitch to fans? Or was it just hardcore wishful thinking and sheer force of the Sulu actor's personality live onstage?

Meanwhile I think the line of thinking about "What happened to Archer after Enterprise..." was among the specific things Kurtzman mentioned while they were optimistically determining whether ideas were either future series, or another streaming movie like Section 31. So it's difficult to know whether it really came from Sussman first or a seed planted by the present regime - which it might've been given the number of references throughout Discovery and SNW.

 

[Uncle Sock]

And now he even wants his own Admiral Sulu show.

Interview: George Takei Talks Timeliness Of ‘Beam Me Up, Sulu’ Doc; Wants To Return As Star Trek Admiral

"Gene Roddenberry had a mission… He wanted to make the statement that our diversity was our strength."

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I mean, we wouldn't be here without TOS. And Sulu was and is a major part of the franchise. But seriously...

 

[tharpdevenport]

We'd still be here is TOS didn't have Sulu or Takei. Seriously, this guy needs a to get a grip. He pissed and moaned for years with statements about Shatner that didn't always add up or were just demonstrably false, went around saying all kinds of stupid shit over the years, and those dingle'member berries just won't wipe away and he has this delusion Sulu's going to be something and we're clamoring for it. I'm not more clamoring for Admiral Sulu than an Admiral fill in the blank.

I'm reminded of a scene from an episode of "The Simpsons" where we see Jay Sherman ("The Critic" in a mental hospital repeatedly saying, "It stinks! It stinks! It stinks!" and a employee says, "Yes, Mr. Sher,man, everything stinks" trying to comfort his delusions. That's Takei right now. "Admiral Sulu! Admiral Sulu! Admiral Sulu!" / Fans: "Yes, George, we all want more Sulu."

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Takei's not stopping the world from spinning, either. He's not the one who need to get a grip.

 

[tharpdevenport]

Unequal comparisons are worth as much as Fool's Gold-pressed Latinum.

 

[XCV330]

. Also, I just can't see Aw Shucks Archer in something like Andor.

Dude was a space pirate and threatened people with torture when he felt it would get results. After "Dear Doctor" he was basically responsible for genocide even if he was trying to do the right thing. I'm not sure there ever really was an Aw Shucks Archer

 

[PCz911]

This Archer show is just the modern day Captain Worf.

And Captain Sulu before that.

Funny….but true

 

[FederationHistorian]

Maybe they would look to Andor as a roadmap. Have Archer doing a "Mon Mothma" dealing with political stuff on Earth and a "Cassian" out in field.

I think that's the idea.

And its worth noting that Enterprise already set up an Andor-like plot decades ago through the Vulcan Reformation arc. With Administrator V'Las (and his Romulan benefactors) pushing state control, suppression of dissent, deception, militarism, ideological erasure - all fascism related traits.

United would just be a continuation of that, but on a more galactic scale amidst a Federation-Romulan Cold War backdrop, a possibly polarized Vulcan society (civil war?), and showing logic extremists and possibly how Vulcan was conquered (as Bones put it in TOS), and cameos from a 20-something Sarek. While showing how the Federation became the Federation.