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Rick Berman Gives TVG Exclusive: Summary of Important Points and Notable Quotes PLUS! Better Cover Image |
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09:26:58 on July 09 2001
By: Steve Krutzler
Dept: Enterprise | www.stenterprise.com
 The July 14 issue of TV Guide has hit the stands, and with it not only a spectacular (if somewhat small) view of the brand new Enterprise NX-01, but a semi-extensive interview with co-creator/executive producer Rick Berman, who gives a first "official" look into the new show. Here is a summary of important points and notable quotes:
The Enterprise
Registry number is NX-01 and from the poster it appears that the sensor dish sits in the forward notch in the saucer section. Berman confirms that it is a Starfleet (a human organization) ship, but describes the founding of the Federation as "decades away" (shouldn't it be founded in 2161, only one decade from the start of ENTERPRISE?). The ship can go warp 5, which Berman says is "more than five times the speed of light". The ship holds a crew of 70-80 people and is "not all sleek, smooth Plexiglas like the ships we've seen before."
The inside of the ship
Like a submarine. Berman & Co. actually visited a nuclear submarine to get a feel for more cramped military quarters. The bridge has "more depth" than width and has 80 plasma screens built in. Zimmerman used new spatial shapes even though the ship is small and cramped more like the Space Shuttle or a submarine.
Aliens
Berman says many fans will ask why some races we haven't heard of by the time of the previous series and that "there are good reasons for that", which will be revealed throughout the series. He confirms all the info on the Suliban and the future villain, adding that the future villain is part of a "temporal cold war" in which the 22nd century is one of its "fronts".
The Klingon Look
"We will take creative license" says Berman, and thus the Klingons will appear as they have since TNG. Berman says your Nokia cell phone is more advanced looking than Kirk's communicator and so obviously they will be taking license with other areas as well.
On Scott Bakula and Jonathan Archer
Berman likens the character to Han Solo and says "he is nothing like Captain Kirk" or any of the other captains. He is down to earth and is "an exciting and excited human being" who has been a Starfleet officer for 15 years.
The Crew
These aren't "Roddenberry humans" who are perfect; Berman says they'll wear sneakers and jeans once in a while.
Berman confirms everything we've known for months about the characters and adds: Charlie Tucker, the engineer, is the second-highest ranking human onboard. T'Pol will NOT be dressed in a catsuit, and when asked about if the character was originally intended to be 'T'Pau' from TOS, Berman replies "that's not the case anymore."
Hoshi Sato's linguistic genius is needed because universal translators don't work half the time, and the helmsman Travis Mayweather has logged more space time as a "space boomer" on cargo ships than even Captain Archer. Dr. Phlox joins the crew as the pilot unfolds and when asked if ENTERPRISE will be a "lustier 'Trek'", Berman says "We're certainly not going to be avoiding [sex] with Captain Archer. What can I say? He's single and healthy."
If you are looking for a great view of the new Enterprise, pick up this issue of TV Guide. The poster is quite stunning and hopefully soon we'll have permission to provide the image online. The TV Guide cover above is Copyright © 2001 TV Guide Magazine Group, Inc., and thanks to 'Anthony' for the better cover scan.
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Just remember...
By Rat Boy
() at 17:45:32 on July 10
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...if there's something about the series you don't like, blame the "Villian from the Future"!
"Who's idea was it to wear pink uniforms?"
"Some guy from the future told me it would be all the rage."
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its growing on me... slowly
By TheAdmiral
(admkingsley@yahoo.com) at 11:17:07 on July 10
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I tried to pick up the new TVGuide last night, but the store I went to was out of them. I've seen several blown-up scans now and I'm starting to change my tune on the new Enterprise... the first post on this board is a pretty good one...
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Tech aside, the story still sets off alarms... time travel has become nothing more than a crutch for today's scifi TV shows when the writers have nothing better to write about. I sincerely hope Voyager's reception (or lack thereof as the case may be) gave B&B the kick in the pants they needed to realize that's not what we want. I thought Voyager ended pretty well, despite its history, even though it was a time travel story. It was handled with more dignity than a lot of other episodes.
Continuity is a huge part of the Star Trek universe. We're talking about a "history of the future" that's been written for the past 30 years here. Granted, some of it is pretty open to interpretation, but other parts are definitely not. I hope to God they get it right, because it's going to have some stiff competition in the near future: shows such as possibly the new Battlestar Galactica series (Bryan Singer and Tom DeSanto -- nuff said), and definitely Babylon 5: The Legend of the Rangers (J. Michael Straczynski -- nuff said).
I was a Star Trek fan long before I was a fan of B5 or any other scifi show, and I've missed that rush of adrenaline and increased heartbeat I used to get when I'd see the Enterprise and her crew in action. Cast chemistry is SO important, and character development is even MORE important. We'll see if they get it right this time 'round.
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Fleet Admiral Jason Kingsley
Beta Fleet Command, Starfleet Division at New Klaxonia
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Impulse engines?
By STFan
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Take a look at the back end of the struts that attach the warp nacelles to the saucer section. Is it just me, or does that look like an exhaust of some sort? Could these be impulse engines? It looks like there are already impulse engine exhausts on the saucer section, but I suppose the ship could have four impulse engines. Or, perhaps the struts are where the shuttle bays are located.
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Yet another TOS jab by the Rickster
By Informed
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Archer is "down to earth and is "an exciting and excited human being." -- Sounds like Kirk to me. And the TOS communicators DO look more advanced than cellphones, Ricky.
Klingon creative license - Ya know, you could simply say there are different races.
It's no wonder so many Berman Trekkers dislike TOS, they are getting brainwashed by Berman mantra.
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Nacelle pylons are definitely angled UPWARD
By STFan
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Having carefully studied the TV Guide poster, I think it's clear that the nacelle pylons are angled upward, as on the original Enterprise. Those of you who have the poster, look at the port nacelle pylon. Notice that it's attached to the TOP of the thingy that attaches the nacelles to the saucer section, and to the BOTTOM of the warp nacelle itself. The pylon clearly extends UPWARD from the support thingy to the bottom of the warp nacelle.
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About that deflector dish
By salander3
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How wide do you think it is? If it is anything like the one in TOS' Enterprise, then the fact that this dish is in front of the saucer section leads to some further speculation regarding the saucer section's shape. Could it possibly be a thicker dish, perhaps more cylindrical and not as flat? It would look kinda goofy to have a thin TNG style saucer section with a wide deflector dish in front. I guess we'll have to wait for the profie shot to get a good idea of how it looks.
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Warp scale...
By DiggsBiggly
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Somebody tell me that they're just using an old warp scale and Warp 5 is 5 times the speed of light... because as I recall, warp five is a hell of alot faster than 5 times the speed of light. I hope Berman isn't that uninformed and its only me that's uninformed.
-DiggsBiggly
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Large picture of ship
By Gamera
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Ok, that does it!
Seeing the newly posted LARGE sized scan of the TV guide photo, i am finally at peace with the new/old ship design. It does look retro enough, and the hull details look much more realistic for a ship built during that time. I can buy it! I can't wait to see it in action, and from more angles.
As for the "it can't resemble the Akira and still be an old ship" argument, think about this:
remember the "Pasteur," Beverly Crusher's ship from "All Good Things?" It was based on the old Daedalus designs from the past that we know existed from the model on display in Sisko's office on DS9. A future ship, inspired by an old design (kind of like the cars we are seeing come out now, looking like cars from the 40's and 50's, but with all new technology).
It could similarly be explained, to satisfy continuity, that the Akira is simply a new ship designed with a nod to the old Enterprise design, only updated.
Perhaps we WILL see some of the large, bulky, ugly Daedalus class ships in service during the series to establish that they did exist, but that the Enterprise is a step up.
So, now that we see that the original Enterprise is a rougher, bulkier, low-tech version of the ships we know from TOS thru the TNG era, we can accept it and move on. Now, let's start seeing some of the sets!
-Gamera, Guardian of the universe
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Is It Just Me?
By God's Media
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Is it just me, or is this the only place on the web that even remotely cares about the news in this week's TV Guide? Seems like the official site is more interested in promoting those cheezy post cards they've been trying to pass off to everyone. I would think that news as big as the first look at the Enterprise might be of greater interest to fans than someone's two-bit cheeseball drawings on postcards that nobody wants.
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I wonder if many people's hatred of the new ship...
By Steve Krutzler
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is because they haven't seen the full color poster version, which makes it look very different from the Akira and much more interesting and quite stunning. For copyright reasons, this site, which is in the U.S., won't be posting this image until other U.S. sites do with permission or TV Guide gives us permission, but you can check out enterpriseuk.tv or treknews.de, two foreign sites that have decided that the American copyright issue isn't going to bother them and have posted it...
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Enterprise Picture
By Neil_2k1
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I can assure you that the picture that is in TV Guide is the real Enterprise for the new series.
Our site recently interviewed Rick Sternbach who has confirmed confirmed this for us via sources working on the show.
Neil
EnterprsieUK.TV
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Pray That It's A Side View
By luckybucky
(luckybucky@earthlink.net) at 16:42:58 on July 09
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I still entertain the hope that we're being jerked around, and that what we're seeing is a side view of a ship with a spherical hull and four nacelle's behind. That would make Enterprise a stylistic precursor to the Stargazer and Daedalus class ships, and not the Akira at all.
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A Moment of Silence
By God's Media
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Let us all now have a moment of silence for the death of our sacred text: the ancient scripts, and for our most holy and cherished idol: the sacred continuity. Oh, that we had only listened to the grand egos of Takei and Barrret-Roddenberry. Oh, that the fans had had the strength to resist the evils of progress since 1969. Oh that we could all travel back in time and do the prequel in 1959 so that none of our cherished gods would have been destroyed.
Get a life!
I like science fiction and a good story. Who really gives a rip about all these little details? What is so sacred about television shows? It's all for good fun. Let's just watch and have fun. If you don't want to watch, go outside and look up at the real stars as God made them, or go to a library and learn about real histories and the real continuity from creation to now, or spend some time preparing to be a real astronaut to discover the real truths of space travel and quit worrying over phasers, lasers, and warp drives, none of which exist in this real world today. You have made idols out of images that never really existed and the world God made around you goes unnoticed. How shallow to blame Berman for having fun and not taking Trek as seriously as you do. Berman at least realizes that reality is much more than your fantasies and can put aside fantasy to just enjoy what reality enables him to do.
I, too, love Trek. But I love life more. I just watch to have fun, to see spaceships and aliens and watch lasers make things go boom. It's fun to speculate, but let's not get off the track. Let's watch the lights flash and the hear the aliens make their noises then let's all sit back have a soda and a laugh and realize it was all just for fun.
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Good Sign
By Sankoni
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I think Berman's comment about the Federation being "decades away" should be taken as a good sign.
It was his way of assuring fans that that there would be NO continuity problems. In other words, we should not expect any mention of the Federation, or the "coming of the Federation" during this series. If he would have simply said "a decade away" then that would have implied that he planned to run this series at least that long, which he probably doesn't.
Now I am almost certain that when this series end we can expect a Star Trek movie about the birth of the Federation.
But will they call it "Star Trek - Federation" or "Enterprise - Federation"?
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Ramblings on the new series
By TOS4EVER
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I put the following under a different story, too....
What kind of technology will be used in Enterprise? Let's see:
- In a previous post, I mentioned the fact that in the TOS ep "Balace of Terror" Spock
stated that the Romulan Wars of 100 years previous were fought with crude atomic
weapons. Will atomic missiles replace the famous photon torpedoes?
- Transporters: In the first 2 TOS pilots, using the transpoters took a longer time to use
than in subsequent episodes. It seemed to be a longer, more drawn out process. Also,
the effect was, in my opinion, a LOT better in TOS than anywhere else in Trek. It didn't
look computerized at all.... Hopefully the effect in Enterprise will be very similar to
TOS...
- Phasers... in The Cage, LASERS were used. Remember the guns with the power
adjustment on the barrel (it clicked when turned)... I hope Berman remembers this...
use lasers, call them lasers and not phasers...
-Warp Effect: Will the TNG era warp effect be used? Hope not... use something
completely different as the technology is different.
-Aliens in Starfleet: Wasn't Spock established as the first Vulcan in Starfleet?
- Previously seen planets: I would love to see the Iotians from A Piece of the Action in
a prequel to that episode. How about first contact with the Andorians and Tellerites?
First contact with Betazoids? YES!!! It would be awesome!
-Communicators and tricorders: Big and bulky. Yeah, cell phones look more sleek that
TOS communicators, BUT you are calling your ship from a planet... that ship may be
on the other side of the planet... use something that reflects that! Something that
comes 100 years before the TOS era... tricorders will hopfully be more computer-like...
- The uniforms: while I was hoping for more velour, the jumpsuits sound more logical.
-Holodecks: NO HOLODECKS!!!!! They better not put them in there!!!!!
more ramblings as I think of them...
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Enterprise
By greg
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Ok, I'm new at this but here it goes. Do I like the design yes, would I prefer a more direct link to 1701 yes, but 100 years is long time. Personally I like the Starbase design by Larry, it had a closer look to 1701. I remember these same pros and cons back in 87 before STTG. Let's see what happens.
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I HATE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By Jiat
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OH MY GOD!!! This has got to be the most dumbest, stupidest, UNORINGINAL design ever!!!!! Why would Rick approve this idea? Why couldn't they come up with something new? Why use the AKIRA class and gave it TOS nacelles? You know what? I think that this signals the end of STAR TREK as we know it. George Takei and Majel Barret-Roddenberry was right, this was a bad idea and by looking at the new ENTERPRISE, I'd say that this show will go off the air after a couple of episodes or get axed before it's September release. BUT......here are some ways to prevent that from happening. First thing to do is SCRAP the ship design and come up with something ORIGINAL, second is to stick with the timeline as it said in the STAR TREK CHRONOLOGY books and third, get REAL!!! I'll bet that Gene would be turning in his grave right about now.
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Enterprise (or What I Learned in Temporal Mechanics)
By Sean
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I like the new (old?) design of the Enterprise. I also like Kirk's Enterprise. Now with that having been said...
There have been a lot grumbling about the ship not looking like the predecessor of Kirk's 1701. But who ever said it had to be?
We can see the obvious relationship between Kirk's 1701 and Picard's 1701-E, but that was intentional by the designers at Utopia Planetia Ship Yards (or wherever). But for those six ships, there was not such a large gap in time between ships as there would be now -- over 100 years between Archer's Enterprise and Kirk's. Whose to say there won't be another one, two, or even five Enterprises between the two, which would show more of a design lineage history?
Starfleet has hundreds of designs for their starships, and with Archer's being the first real Starfleet starship (from the NX-01), could Kirk's 1701 not have been a "bold new direction in starship design" for space exploration?
Sure the new Enterprise bears more than a passing resemblance to the Akira, which was intentional by TPTB, but why not? Obviously the Akira design was so good that Starfleet did not feel the need to change it in 200+ years.
Sure there are some people who would have liked to have seen an obvious reverse design lineage, but why does there has to be?
Does the USS Enterprise Aircraft Carrier CVAN-65 look like the Enterprise Space Shuttle OV-101? Does the Enterprise Space Shuttle OV-101 look like the Enterprise module is being developed by Spacehab, Inc., in partnership with the Russian company Energia, and will be attached to the Russian side of the ISS (International Space Station) set to launch in 2003?
Come on folks, just because the name is Enterprise doesn't mean it has to look like what we are used to.
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the design and Berman
By TheAdmiral
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I see how this would make the Akira look like a retro-style ship, as a possible tribute to this "earlier class"... however, the design in TV Guide looks WAY too "First Contact-ish" to me. They should give the TOS designs a little credit; borrow from the Daedalus class starship design a bit, as far as ship components go. This is almost 100 years after the Phoenix, so I'd stay away from that look ... however what they've got here does not look like a natural progression from the Phoenix to NCC-1701.
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I like it
By sliny
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People say it resembles the Akira. Now I like the Akira, and I guess the only downside is that it's not entirely creative to not create a brand new design. But think of it this way. This ship is launched way before the first Akira. The Akira, got it's inspiration from the Enterprise. I look foward to this Series very much.
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"We're a totem pole! Hiya-hiya hiya-hiya hiya-hiya..."
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Rick Berman
By RRen Leitaren
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Rick needs to get a clue. The Federation will come about "decades" later? Come on, pick up a Star Trek Encyclopedia Rick. The Federation is founded in 2161. As for the Klingons, hello! there isn't any first contact with Klingons until 2218. The series is taking place only 5 years before the Romulan War in 2156. I knew this "Enterprise" idea was going to be a bad one. To do an ep on history _after_ is has been created is pretty shaky. All I can say is Rick & Co. better do more then a little sub research and stick to the already established Star Trek timeline. Consistancy is what makes Star Trek what it is (setting aside the screw-ups that have already take place, thanks Rick!). Without consistancy in it's own history, Star Trek loses a lot. And the ship.. again really poor work. Couldn't you come up with something new? This is just a poorly recycled Akira class design. The design should be more along the lines of a cross between the Pheonix and the Enterprise NCC-1701 leaning toward the Enterprise. If you want the ship to look like an Akira, make it truely look like the predicessor, like this link
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Hell hath frozen over.....
By Turd Ferguson
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Rick Berman and Co. have actually done............*gasp* RESEARCH on this series?!? I'm impressed. This series does sound like it will be more interesting than previous Star Trek series. Let's just hope they stick to the premise. A temporal cold war sounds pretty nifty. Maybe Trek X will deal with this. I still say I put my money on Captain Braxton being the mysterious figure from the future.
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Rick Berman, you ARE the weakest link. Goodbye.
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"W" shaped nacelle supports?
By STFan
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Judging from the light and shadows on the enlarged TV Guide image (where the light is clearly coming from the left of the ship), it appears that the nacelle supports are W-shaped, rather than V-shaped.
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so stupid
By Tad
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that people who have a subscription have to buy a newstand copy to see this poster thing. but i suppose they want to see as many copies as possible and i'll be one who has both versions.
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