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Posted:
18:19:26 on September 13 2001
By: Steve Krutzler
Dept: Enterprise | www.stenterprise.com
The Great Link web site has transcribed the latest Brannon Braga interview from SFX Magazine. In the interview, Braga says he is encouraged by the positive early "buzz" for ENTERPRISE, as well as makes some candid remarks about continuity and the urge to reinvent 'Star Trek' with the new series:
"The show seems to have a little bit of a different vibe, which is how we wanted it to be, I think if we had just plopped out Starship Intrepid with Captain Jameson and set it in Janeway's time, people probably wouldn't have had this reaction. I think we would have been back to the weariness that a lot of people have referred to. So I think it's the concept, I think it's the casting of Scott Bakula, I think it's the way the uniforms look - it's the whole ambience of the show that people are responding to as a pretty good idea. That's all I can figure out, because, to be honest, on some level I'm just as mystified as you are."
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"I needed something new, something fresh. As a writer, I don't think that I could have written one more line of dialogue for Voyager. I really had just about had it with the 24th Century. One thing I'm finding here after having written ['Broken Bow''] plus 4 other episodes is that I do feel that I'm writing a different television show."
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"Continuity is not a pain in the ass at all. Its only a pain in the ass when it prevents us from telling a story we want to tell...[Brannon then talks about Voyager's 'Future's End' two-parter which took place on Earth, at the same time as the Eugenics Wars which also occurred on Earth at the same time, according to the Star Trek timeline]...if we had paid attention to continuity and depicted the Eugenics Wars, the audience would have said 'What the hell are you doing? Are we in an alternate universe?' The truth is, the people who know that reference from [TOS's 'Space Seed'] is quite small in the grand scheme of things.
"There's a great phrase on the Internet called 'Continuity Porn', which means that there are continuity fetishists out there. People to whom if you just mention a name from TOS, it's a cause for celebration. It's always a fun thing to do, and God knows we're sprinkling plenty of that into this series, but we won't let it interfere with good storytelling. The bottom line is that you have to take license. The first Star Trek movie had a starship Enterprise in it that looked different from the one in the TV show. It had to, because 10 years had passed. It had to look like a cutting edge, Star-Wars type special effect. This really is no different. Even though our ship pre-dates that ship, we can't have a ship that looks like that because it won't look good. So you have to walk that line."
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"We know the mistakes that we've made in the past, and we know what has worked and not worked. The problems we had were usually lacklustre character dynamics, cheesy stories, cheesy-looking aliens, some kind of a tired feeling at times of certain elements. On the flip-side, we'll have brand new problems, but at least they will be the brand new problems versus old problems."
The the full transcription, goto this page.
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