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Posted:
14:18:46 on September 18 2001
By: Steve Krutzler
Dept: Enterprise | www.stenterprise.com
Co-creator and executive-producer Brannon Braga spoke with writers Gregory Norris and Laura Van Fleet for TrekGalaxy recently:
About ENTERPRISE's "identity": "Well, sometimes you don't know until a few years in. I don't know exactly, but I would definitely say it's about firsts. It's about what it would be like for you and me to go out there in space. These are trained astronauts, but not all of them are entirely comfortable being on a warp ship meeting creepy aliens. They've never done it before now. There is a corny line we keep using about 'making history with every light year'. Every step these people take is being scrutinized back on earth. Nothing is taken for granted. So Enterprise is about making history."
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About brainstorming with Rick Berman for the new series: "I wish I could say it was a dark chamber with holograms all around, but it's no different than two people talking about the stock market or talking about how they are going to build a bridge, or whatever people do in business - except we are talking time travel and Klingons. We just kind of sit and figure things out, talk about the characters, talk about what kind of stories we want to tell. We really took our time when we created the show. We basically met every day for two years, and we created seven characters and the story for the pilot. We took our time writing the pilot script. During our sessions, we get together, have coffee and some cookies, and just sit and write all day. Nothing special really. The biggest challenge is trying to come out with stories beyond the pilot, those twenty-four more episodes. We've got eight under our belt now, so we are doing pretty well."
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On the unfinished "Broken Bow" footage seen for weeks in UPN ads: "Remember, these clips you are seeing are from raw footage. You are not yet seeing opticals or special effects yet. It's going to look ten times better when you see the actual pilot. The Suliban have subcutaneous pigment sacs, like Octopi have on their skin. This allows them to not become fully invisible, but take on the colorization of backgrounds. It's a very imperfect camouflage. The Suliban are bald, and they have a really weird texture to their skin, and we've came up with a makeup design that is really unique and very cool looking."
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On things to look forward to beyond the pilot: "Oh, a lot of spookiness! You are going to see the Suliban again, our villains in Enterprise. We are going to reveal a little more about the Temporal Cold War that's going on. But for the most part, we are going to be doing some exploring, and the crew is going to find some really weird stuff. We are going to see one of the characters totally freak out, and want to go home early on. We are going see the Vulcan/human rift come out again in a very dramatic episode. We are going to see a surprising character development with T'Pol. It's going to be a lot of firsts. You know, even having the Enterprise pull up to another spaceship to say hi is a big deal to this crew. They don't have any of the famous Star Trek protocols yet, so it's going to have a different feeling from other shows that we've done. And we are already finding that out as we cut together the first episode now. It feels different from anything that's gone before. It feels more naturalistic somehow, and realistic, and it's totally cool. It's great to work on."
For the rest of the interview, check out this page.
See Also: STENTERPRISE.com
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