If you could bring closure to Enterprise...

[ChristopherPike]

Imagine the impossible happened and Star Trek Enterprise came back to TV, through the Sci Fi Channel or another station.

There's one proviso - you get a TV Movie, maybe 2 1/2 hours if it's a mini series and that's it... finito (unless it was a ratings success).

This adventure obviously features Archer, T'Pol, Trip, Reed, Sato, Phlox and Mayweather (plus any supporting characters like Shran & Soval). Always subject to castmembers like Bakula, Blalock, Trinner agreeing to return.

What would you like to see?

A standalone story that requires little or no knowledge about past seasons? That would give it a fighting chance with a new audience but probably wouldn't satisfy anyone expecting loose threads to be tied up.

The Romulan War? Given so short a return, perhaps it would be more the aftermath, instead of the conflict itself.

A rewriting of 'These Are The Voyages...' or just accept it? Placing these events before or after this story.

Is it even realistic to write a satisifying conclusion to Enterprise? Afterall Berman and Braga created it and didn't exactly succeed. The consistant quality of Season Four only highlighted how much of a damp squib their "valentine to the fans" ending became.

What is the essential ground that needed covering to put this part of Star Trek history to bed?

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Just for the hell of it, here's a poll because I can't remember the last time I set up one of these...

 

[MattJC]

I voted yes, but as to what I would want to see in just a 2 hour TV movie..... so many choices, it'd be hard to pick one.

 

[JiNX-01]

HELL YES! should have been an option.
I'd be delighted to watch. But not a movie. A miniseries...

 

[ChristopherPike]

JiNX-01 said:
HELL YES! should have been an option.

Believe me, I thought about it! I'm trying not to be bias though. I'm a committed ENT fan, didn't like how it ended and would advocate anyway to bring it back. But I'm interested in hearing everyone's opinion.

I suppose I'm most interested in the fans who've come to terms with TATV and how that's happened. Myself I'm no where near that stage yet.

 

[Ulva]

I think I'd prefer a stand alone actually. Re-writings seems a bit... silly to me. Blissfully ignoring that episode, have some good writers on the job and a decent story would do just fine for me.

So it's a yes. I'd watch it.

 

[JiNX-01]

ChristopherPike said:

JiNX-01 said:
HELL YES! should have been an option.

Believe me, I thought about it! I'm trying not to be bias though. I'm a committed ENT fan, didn't like how it ended and would advocate anyway to bring it back. But I'm interested in hearing everyone's opinion.

I suppose I'm most interested in the fans who've come to terms with TATV and how that's happened. Myself I'm no where near that stage yet.

Well, HELL YES! could have been an option along with Meh, yeahsurewhynot? That would have helped cover a lot of territory.

 

[Skywalker]

Hell yes!

 

[Nebusj]

Not honestly, no. There's some loose ends, I suppose, but the things that are most compelling to the Trek Universe are the historical developments of that era and so the stories would be what part Our Heroes play in them. But that makes for stories that open up new issues rather than twisting old ones.

That is to say, I can see how a fifth season would have interesting things to do. A reunion movie, though? That's harder to fit in.

 

[Anna Yolei]

ChristopherPike said:

A standalone story that requires little or no knowledge about past seasons? That would give it a fighting chance with a new audience but probably wouldn't satisfy anyone expecting loose threads to be tied up.

Agreed. That and a movie would probably drive off more new viewers than it brings in, since most people know it's a show and will probably think it's relating to the show and all (which it should anyway, IMO).

The Romulan War? Given so short a return, perhaps it would be more the aftermath, instead of the conflict itself.

Seeing the battle would be most of the fun for me. It's like makign a movie on DS9 without referring to the Dominion war.

A rewriting of 'These Are The Voyages...' or just accept it? Placing these events before or after this story.

Yeah, I'd just start it from a point between seasons five and TATV instead of trying to re-write a broadcasted episode. The online fanbase in general (with a few exceptions that I'm acknowledging to avoid wank about speaking for everyone ) is not too happy with the episode, but I doubt the general audience would have strong feelings either way.

Is it even realistic to write a satisfying conclusion to Enterprise?

In the Trek fandom, everything is subjected to being nitpicked to death But I do think it's possible. One of the best ways being to make connections to TOS--and I don't mean strip away anything that made Enterprise stand out as a series on it's own. A senario someone proposed for TATV was having Spock and T'Pol talking together the night before the TOS Enterprise takes off. Given the relations between humans and Vulcans, it only makes sense.

 

[sbk1234]

To answer the original question: I would like to see a conclusion, which takes the main characters beyond the series, to see what happened to them in their future, such as Archer as President, making Trip's fate meaningful in some way, etc. I'd like this to finally lead up to the actual Star Trek universe that we know and love, hopefully with a better appearance by one of the original characters.

 

[number6]

Demons/Terra Prime provided closure to the series.

 

[SlyCardie]

Of course I'd watch Enterprise if it came back, but a movie or mini-series really isn't enough. All I want is for season 4 to continue because the stories were finally good and the series was getting some momentum (from a plot standpoint anyways).

I do think that the formation of the Federation was the logical conclusion to the series, but the one they made felt rushed. Plus you could feel the characters acting bitter about the end (of the series perhaps even more than their adventures).

 

[azzurri08]

Put simply I would like to see a continuation of ENT in any form, because at the end of the series I felt the was more to be told.

 

[C.E. Evans]

"These Are The Voyages" is the big clusterfuck that makes any possible return of ENT difficult, but not impossible. A direct-to-DVD movie or miniseries on SCI-FI could be set before TATV and deal with the Battle of Cheron--the supposedly final engagement in the Romulan Wars that gave Earth its victory.

The story's epilogue could be post-TATV with the crew gathered one final time to remember Trip, but I personally hate that idea myself...

 

[number6]

TATV takes place years after Terra Prime, so it's not that difficult to fill in the years between.

There's no reason an ENT story has to be told post-TATV.

 

[Peacemaker]

I'd probably get Quinto as young Spock on board and have him meet T'Pol, now very old of course, who recounts the story to him. Perhaps this would take place @ the launching of the 1701 under Robert April. Thus T'Pol would be there christening the ship, the only survivor from the NX01. I'm not sure what I would actually make the main story about though.

 

[commodore64]

I think there's a lot of story before TATV and after to be told, and I'd be interested in seeing/hearing it as long as the characters don't seen AU.

 

[azzurri08]

Can someone explain the acronym TATV, sorry I'm new to this site and have never been on one like this. I'm just trying to follow the comments being made. Thanks

Other acronyms would be helpful to IMO, and anything else. Thanks Again.

 

[ChristopherPike]

^ It's just an abreviation for "These Are The Voyages..."

Cool title for an episode and so it should be, as one of the all-time greatest ever catchphrases from Star Trek. Sometimes it's just easier to type "T A T V", than be reminded it's also connected to such a below average episode. I loved that fourth and final season, they certainly did "pull out all the stops". Such a shame it only took 42 minutes to push 'em back in again...

 

[azzurri08]

Thanks for the info. Any other abreviations would be greatly appreicated.