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Posted:
07:03:56 on April 16 2002
By: Steve Krutzler
Dept: Enterprise | www.stenterprise.com
Co-creator/executive producer Brannon Braga talks in a new interview in the May 2002 issue of Cinescape magazine on various topics, including reading Internet message boards and the criticism ENTERPRISE has received thusfar online.
"I do read the boards, but people who log onto these boards represent a small part of the show's audience. They are, however, an audience. And they are fans of the show, so I'm interested to hear what they have to say. But if you try to track everything, you'll go crazy. Some of these people are vicious. It can really bruise your ego. They get personal. And some of them are 12 years old, but you don't know that," he says diplomatically about the online universe.
Braga goes on to say that while much Internet criticism can be harsh and unwelcome, some is quite insightful and useful.
"Well, initially there wasn't a lot of criticism. Initially, it was a love fest, Internet fans loved the show! But recently some of the old angst is coming back. The biggest criticism is the basic stuff: 'This episode sucks. It's bland. It's a shitty episode. Archer is stupid. They are ruining the franchise.' There is also a great deal of intelligent criticism on the Net- People who give very bright analysis. And I can't tell you how much I appreciate that."
He also deals with the sticky issue of continuity, the treatment of which in ENTERPRISE has been either praised or lambasted by hardcore fans of the TREK series.
"We're very aware of that, and we try very hard. We have made a few mistakes but nothing major. I read all these things on the Internet, these 'continuity pornographers' as I like to call them, though I didn't invent the term. These people honestly think that Rick and I are morons! of course we know that the Ferengi didn't make first contact with Archer. They made it with Picard. The only people who see the Ferengi are Trip, T'pol and Archer, and they never find out who they were. They were 'those weird looking guys' and they never see them again, so you can have fun with continuity!"
Braga says he dislikes the rigorous 26-episode schedule imposed on him by outside forces, saying creativity could have larger license if there were less episodes to deal with.
"There are some shows I can name where every episode is great,
but
those are going to be shows on HBO where they only do a handful each
season.
I don't like doing 26 episodes a year, but it's not my decision. In
fact,
I'd rather do 13 like "The Sopranos". I can't imagine that kind of
luxury."
Finally, the writer/producer who has been with the franchise for over a decade now has some thoughts about burn out on TREK:
"That's a very good question and it's a question I ask myself
every
day. Every morning I ask, "Do I have anything else to give to this
franchise? Does this franchise have anything else to give to me besides
money?" The day I wake up and answer "yes" to either of those
questions, I
will quit. I often wonder if I'll ever work on anything else, and the
thought that I won't frightens me. But then here I am writing this
"Midnight
Express" like prison breakout drama and I'm thinking "Shit, I've never
written a prison breakout story. How lucky am I to still be writing
things
that I've never written before?" Trek lets me play in all genres. I've
written westerns; I've written gothic romance; I've written dramas. Out
of
the 100 or so Trek episodes I've done, I've written in almost every
genre.
That is the great thing about Star Trek- you can do anything."
You can read the full interview in the latest issue of Cinescape and thanks to TrekWeb reader 'Cyrus' for providing the excerpts.
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