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More In-Depth Review and Synopsis of "Broken Bow" Pilot Script (SPOILERS!) |
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Posted:
11:50:26 on June 25 2001
By: Steve Krutzler
Dept: Enterprise | www.stenterprise.com
The Dark Horizons web site has posted a script review and synopsis of the ENTERPRISE pilot episode "Broken Bow". The review is of the November 2000 draft and so much may be different by the time the show premieres. The site's summary is as follows:
"2-hour pilot of the fifth "Star Trek" TV series, and set around the year 2160 - around a century before the original series. At this time humanity has only begun to explore the stars with most humans having had little or no contact with aliens, whilst the Vulcans have been supervising and controlling the path of human space exploration programs. At this time a Klingon shuttle crash lands in the American mid-west with its occupant pursued by two aliens known as Suliban - a nomadic race whose members have undergone severe genetic engineering. Heavily injured whilst stopping the pair, the Klingon is taken to Starfleet headquarters where Captain Jackson Archer vows to return him to the Klingon Homeworld of Qo'nos, against the wishes of the Vulcans. Archer and a hastily pulled together crew including an alien doctor, a Japanese multi-lingual comm officer, and a Vulcan science officer/supervisor head off in the SS Enterprise to do so - the first ship capable of Warp Five (100 times faster than any other human ship) that was built by Archer's father. Not far into the mission the Suliban, lead by a creature named 'Silik' who himself is taking orders from an unknown power in another time, attacks and kidnaps the Klingon - forcing the crew to find where they've taken him and why do they so desperately want him back in their clutches. Along the way they'll visit an exotic alien underground marketplace, fly through the liquid atmosphere of a gas giant, and learn space can be a very dangerous place."
You can read more in-depth analysis and description of the script here.
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Impressive
By Turd Ferguson
() at 18:10:17 on June 26
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My attention has finally been gotten. I am actually looking forward to viewing this pilot. Hopefully it and the rest of the series will be executed flawlessly. I believe I may have the answers as to why Voyager sucked so. But, I will need to convey it in a metaphor. While I'm in college, I work part time at a restaurant where I wait tables. Now, when other people go on breaks, and I have to watch their tables, I do a crappy job (Braga took over when Piller and Taylor left). I do a crappy job, because I know I'm not going to get the tip for the table, and because I didn't wait on them from the very start. So, when I wait on tables that are strictly my own, I do the very best job possible. Hopefully, this is what Mr. Braga intends to do on this show, since it was partially his creation.
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"Impressive. Most impressive........BUT YOU ARE NOT A JEDI YET!"
-Darth Vader, The Empire Strikes Back
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oh god....
By Hober Mallow
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An "unknown power" from an another time? Why?! Why do they always have to throw in a stupid gimmick like that? Just tell a good dramatic story. Leave out the time travel/villain from a future century. It's dumb. It's overdone. It's overdumb.
TNG and DS9 didn't have to rely on constant time travel/alternate realities *every single week*. How many different timelines did we see on VOY? And why? Because Braga thinks it's *cool*? Heck, even TOS, as wild as its stories were, was more believeable.
I pray to Andarko that this element has been removed from the series concept, or this series will likely be just as unoriginal as VOY.
(Still looking forward to it, but now more scared than ever...)
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This Is What It's All About
By Locutus
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My friends, if this script draft is any indication, I think we may have a masterpiece on our hands. This episode appears to have the adventurous aspects of its predecessor The Original Series. What made Captain Kirk and his crew's series so enjoyable was that it was . . . well it was fun! Star Trek and science-fiction in general in a medium for epic tales, and this truly sounds like an epic story.
I think that if there was anything that this series could do to truly improve the franchise it would be to reinvigorate the sense of adventure that is inherent to these early space expeditions. They should rekindle the elements of amazement and excitement for the unknown that the newer series' have clearly lost.
I have been a Star Trek fan my entire life but only recently did I realize that the Original Series is truly the best because of the excitement and amazement it inspired toward their exploration of the final frontier.
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Sounds interesting...
By sxottlan
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But this could really change by the time they got to a shooting script. It's eight months old. Who knows what they've changed since then?
That being said, I actually like the story outline. I like how it sounds more like B5 with the Vulcans being like the Mimbari or Vorlons, holding out info on the humans and the Suliban being the new mysterious enemy. I like their description and the fact that they're nomadic will go a long way toward finding out why they aren't around in the 23rd century.
But I still don't like the idea of time travel being an integral part of the premise since it's so worn out anyway. It will probably be the 29th century enemy or Braxton or the Borg Queen and will probably hatch numerous opportunities for crossovers ad nauseum.
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Help me out here...
By Beamer
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This mentions "Star Fleet", but my fuzzy memory tells me that Star Fleet should not exist in the time frames being previously discussed. Am I off on the chronology or is this rumour off?
By the way, this description sound like a good pilot. Since I have been one of the people from the get-go saying, "Hey, let's give them a break and see what they can do with the prequel thing," it is funny to see ALL of the postings now say this sounds good. Seems like only yesterday that so many were burning TPTB at the stake. Hey I know, IT'S THAT PESKY GUY FROM THE FUTURE MESSING WITH THE STAR TREK FAN'S HEADS...DARN THOSE SULIBAN!!!
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September can't come soon enough
By Praetorian Guard
(praetorian.guard@verizon.net) at 17:57:08 on June 25
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I guess I'm one of the few people who's always been excited about the prequel concept. This review give me hope that we are finally getting a fresh take on Trek.
And as far as the villain from the future is concerned, you just knew Braga was gonna find a way to add a time-travel element into the mix, didn't you? :)
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Enterprise is copying Andromeda
By dickcabeza
() at 16:55:07 on June 25
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This review makes the Enterprise pilot sound Andromedaesque with it's Matrix style fight scenes and it's high action/adventure quotient.
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Impressive....most impressive
By Grand Admiral Thrawn
() at 15:46:04 on June 25
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I(orginal anti-prequelist)am turned up by the series premier script review and I am looking forward to it. I am impressed by the action, drama, FX possibilities and storyline. I always missed the personal combat action angle of TOS, the intrigue & drama of TNG and the battle sequences of DS9. Enterprise appears to be encompassing all of them. Furthermore(if this fact remain true), I welcome the concept of a future time-era villain, it would lend a variable to the series. No matter what kind of galactic upheavels and political intrigue takes place end-result would be the creation of the federation. Atleast with a future villian manipulating the events, we can have a air of uncertainity in the series. Anyway, you got win-back fan for Enterprise :)
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Temporal chambers and action oh my!
By Steve Krutzler
(s_krutzler@trekweb.com) at 13:14:46 on June 25
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I must say this script review makes my mouth water. I definitely want the show to undertake important, intelligent writing quandaries but for a pilot that needs to refresh the franchise, kick it in the ass, and bring in new viewers, "Broken Bow" certainly sounds compelling. Something like the "alien open air" market can prove to be a vital scene if the production design is alien enough and the space combat inside the gas giant may be spectacular as well. The general plot seems to be somewhat of an odyssey, with Archer et al obviously trekking their way to Quo'nos, allowing the writers to essentially establish the dramatic arena for ENTERPRISE pretty well in the first episode... the space from here to the Klingon homeworld is quite possibly going to be this crew's "neighborhood" for the next (hopefully) seven years.
On to the specifics, I particularly like the Suliban temporal chamber pieces, and hopefully this elements remains intact in the final production. It's an interesting twist and most clearly from the get go will make future visits/visitors from the future possible and opens entire doorways of possibility for who the Suliban are, why we've never heard of them, what treacherous activities they've been up to during this time. This is definitely the sort of sci-fi "hook" that, if done originally, visually-stunningly, and intelligently, could give the pilot of ENTERPRISE that "something special" for Trek and general sci-fi fans alike.
Can't wait for ENTERPRISE!...
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-Steve Krutzler
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The Suliban?
By sw4747
() at 12:36:00 on June 25
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WHat's with this new race the Suliban? HOw is it that in all the hours of Star Trek we never ever heard of them, but it seems like they were a big deal at the start of the federation.
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