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Posted: 18:43:03 on June 07 2002
By: GustavoLeao
Dept: Enterprise | stenterprise.com

The latest issue of Star Trek The Magazine, out in the U.S., features an exclusive interview with ENTERPRISE executive producer Brannon Braga. Looking back on the show's first year, he says he's delighted with Scott Bakula and the cast, and with the aliens we've seen, both old and new; he also discusses some favorite shows and some disappointments, and looks foward to fleshing out all of the characters and giving Archer and his crew an even more exciting second year. Here are some excerpts :

"I feel pretty good" Braga says "Predominantly the feedback has been great, but I can't tell you how the show is; you tell me ! I think it's good. There are episodes I wish could have been better, but there are some shows we're very proud of."

"I think we've struggled to get the right writing staff together, and there are all the time pressures you have with a TV show. Star Trek is a hard enough show to write as it is, and this show's a little different; it's been difficult for me to get the right voice; so finding writers that can get it very quickly and do it just right has been hard. Basically, I, or Rick [Berman] and I, have rewritten every episode, and it's been a lot of work."

"We know the original series very well, and we know the subsequent series very well, obviously, and we just sat down and said "Look, we've been working on this show for a long time - what are we bored with ? If we're bored with something, there can be no doubt that the audience is bored with it.' And we just set out to create the most fun show that we could. We wanted more charm, and more humor - this show is hopefully just more organically funny. On Voyager we would sometimes do the 'funny' episode; we wanted this show to be more inherently funny so that the humor didn't seem forced. And we wanted more of a sense of camaraderie and the awe of exploration; a feeling of true adventure. Those were things that were offered us in the original series that perhaps got diluted a little bit in subsequent series."

"The pilot, 'Fight or Flight', 'Unexpected', 'The Andorian Incident', 'Dear Doctor' and 'Shuttlepod One' are standout shows; 'Detained' was a great Suliban episode; and I really liked 'Fusion'. 'Terra Nova' had some great stuff in it, but wasn't a great show. And personally I feel the Klingon show, 'Sleeping Dogs' could have been better - I thought it was much ado about nothing and that we didn't really add anything to the mythos. And 'Oasis', where we encountered some spooky holograms, I felt just wasn't very inspired."

"We pay attention to what people say; absolutely" he continues "I think the theme song is cheesy, but I like cheesy things. We wanted a sentimental theme song with just the right lyrics that obliquely capture the spirit of human exploration. I think the song nails it."

"But every little comment sinks it. If the fans weren't watching the show, it wouldn't exist. You can't ignore what they're saying, but you can't set out to please everyone all at once, or you just come up with something very bland. The stories we tell and the concept of the show are very subjective; there is no wrong or right way to tell a story or depict Star Trek. Rick's and my feeling is that, as long as we stay true to Gene Roddenberry's original vision of the show and we're telling good, moralistic stories that are fun, we're doing our job."

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