Posted:
08:09:42 on May 22 2002
By: Steve Krutzler
Dept: Enterprise | www.stenterprise.com
In a new interview published this morning at TV Guide Online, actor Scott Bakula reveals some spoiler information about tonight's anticipated first season finale of ENTERPRISE.
"We've been invited to come visit this planet with 3500 colonists, and as we're entering the atmosphere, there's an explosion — they're all dead," the actor told the online 'zine. "Needless to say, no one's happy about it, the Vulcans want to shut down the whole space-travel program because of this huge disaster."
Bakula also weighs in on the now-infamous opening theme song difference of opinion, saying "Nobody [here] asked what I thought of it. I think it works for this Trek incarnation. In the past, it was always theme music and never lyrics. [Exec producer] Rick Berman wanted to say, 'This isn't the Star Trek of old' and this is one of the ways they chose to do it."
He also says tonight's final episode had some particularly daunting STAR TREK technobabble to master: "In this season finale, I think I modify our phaser cannons and turn them into something else — and it's a page of techno-babble in the script. It's quantum physics combined with engineering technology, and I'm just spewing it. They saved the worst for last for me this year!"
For the full interview, check out this page.
In other news, Ain't It Cool News's regular source 'Herc' has chimed in with his review of tonight's episode, giving it a whopping four out of five stars or "beter than most motion pictures."
"This is almost certainly the best installment of the series since the Suliban saved the Enterprise in 'Cold Front.'," Herc says in his new review posted this morning. "The episode is paced like lightning. All 3,600 settlers die in the teaser."
Herc goes on to reveal plot information about tonight's finale, saying, "This week FutureGuy’s minions are behind framing the Enterprise crew for the 3,600 deaths."
He has high praise for ENTERPRISE's resident vulcan, Jolene Blalock, who he calls the shows's single biggest asset "who week in and week out almost beats Leonard Nimoy at his own deadpan Vulcan game. Check out that faintest glimmer of impatience as T’Pol reminds that the Vulcan Science Directorate concluded that time travel is impossible."
Herc also reveals the surprise ending of the episode, something that has not been reported before and is sure to leave fans gasping when the "to be continued..." scrolls onto their screens. But we won't spoil it for you here, so head on over to this page to get all the juicy details.
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