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08:46:12 on March 12 2002
By: Steve Krutzler
Dept: Enterprise | www.stenterprise.com
The official Star Trek web site has posted a new Q&A with long-time production designer Herman Zimmerman. The answers range from introductory information about his position to his favorite ENT episode thusfar. Having been with the franchise since 1987, through DEEP SPACE NINE, VOYAGER, and STAR TREK V through NEMESIS with only a brief hiatus during the latter half of TNG's run, Zimmerman is one of the stalwarts behind the camera.
"The challenge was to still make it futuristic, but make it more recognizably connected to what is going on in aerospace today and projected to what will be happening in 2150, the time period of Archer and his crew. It's actually been a lot of fun and a breath of fresh air for the franchise to get things the actors can work with; levers, pulleys and gauges. It's more hands on and not quite so slick. Things can go wrong, prototypes haven't been tested. These are things that make for good drama that we can build into the sets," Zimmerman offers in familar fashion.
He says the cast stands out from previous TREK series and makes ENTERPRISE work the most for him: "I'm delighted with Enterprise. I think it's the best thing we've done in quite a while, and we've done a lot of good things. I like the cast immensely. Not to take anything away from the other casts, it's just that I think this cast, for this property, at this time (2150) — they're athletic, they're fresh. They’re all good actors and an ensemble group that has fun. You can tell that they all like each other and that makes for great chemistry on screen."
On his favorite episode thusfar, "Aside from the pilot, I guess the episode in the Vulcan monastery ["The Andorian Incident"] was the most challenging just because of the nature of the number of sets and the quality they had to represent P'Jem, the monastery. It's hard to pick one. I like them all! The writers have done such an incredible job. In the first season of a TV series, quite often you'll get a great looking pilot and then they'll pull back the ambition of the show and try to make it with less money or hire guest stars that cost them less. Paramount is not doing that. Paramount's allowing the writers to write, if anything, even better scripts than the pilot script. And it shows."
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