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Posted: 10:55:05 on September 09 2002
By: Steve Krutzler
Dept: Enterprise | stenterprise.com

The Great Link has transcribed some of co-creator and executive producer Brannon Braga's remarks from the new issue of the UK's TV Zone magazine. Braga says the challenge of developing the brand new STAR STAR series reinvigorated him creatively.

"Its funny, when I left Voyager prior to its final season I thought, ‘Well, I guess I’ve done all I can. That’s it for me as far as Star Trek is concerned,’" he told journalist Steve Eramo. "Then this new show called Enterprise came down the pike. Suddenly, I’m helping Rick Berman write the pilot while all the time thinking, ‘This is a totally new experience.’ So I fell like one very lucky Star Trek guy."

Braga says Paramount was initially trepidatious about going back in time with the TREK franchise.

"Some people weren’t totally sold on the idea. There were a few individuals at the studio who wondered, and perhaps rightly so, ‘Shouldn’t Star Trek be a show about always moving forward? Shouldn’t it be in the 24th century and beyond,'" he explains. "As a result of all this it took a while to get the programme going but it was a blessing in disguise. It would have been a real shame had this series premiered while Voyager was still on the air. The show definitely needed its own space, and that’s what it got."

Brannon says three episodes from last season in particular hit home the concept of ENTERPRISE for him.

"In my opinion, Fight or Flight, Shuttlepod One and Dear Doctor are three standout stories, they had rock solid characterizations and, I feel, captured the essence of the series," he says. "Shuttlepod One, in particular, really did that. It was one of those shows that saved us money, and in the process also turned out to be a very rich and funny story. We realize it didn't have any space battles but I don't think viewers cared. They've seen the space battles. They're a dime-a-dozen. It's not why fans tune in to watch Star Trek and it's certainly not why we continue to make it. Like us, they're interested in the characters and that's really what sets this series apart. A space battle is a space battle no matter what century Star Trek it's set in."

Check out many more excerpts from Braga's interview, in which he discusses writing the pilot "Broken Bow," the choice of the theme song and the stresses of writing episodic television, at this page.

TV Zone also talks with ENTERPRISE actress Linda Park about her character, communications officer Hoshi Sato, season one and what fans can look forward to this year.

"My character gets to do some more action-oriented scenes in Shockwave Part Two, which I enjoyed tremendously," she reveals. "Filming is going great so far. The hiatus actually seemed very short. It didn't take us long to get back into the swing of things once we began shooting the season opener, which was directed by Allan Kroeker. The story we're doing at the moment was written by a former X- Files writer/producer, John Shiban. It's very spooky and has that feeling of stumbling upon a haunted house, only in our case it's a haunted spaceship."

The actress says she would like to see Hoshi develop beyond her limited characterization from the first season.

"I'd love for the writers to reveal more of her personal and feminine side as opposed to her just being an academic prodigy," she says. "Viewers saw a bit of this in Two Days and Two Nights. I would also like her to move outside her given role and become more ambitious in the hope that one day she'll get a promotion."

Park says she was particularly interested in the beginnings of friendship between her character and Jolene Blalock's T'Pol.

"I love in Vox Sola when T'Pol says to Hoshi, 'If I'm hard on you it's just because I have higher expectations of you than the rest'. That just blows Hoshi away. With the exception of Archer, T'Pol is someone she wants to prove herself to. In the beginning, Hoshi felt as if T'Pol didn't respect her and that just made her all the more determined to earn that respect. I thought Vox Sola was a huge turning point in their relationship, especially when Hoshi asks for T'Pol's help."

She also talks about the toned-down sexuality of Sato, seen in "Two Days and Two Nights" last year.

"What sticks out in my mind most about that episode was I had my first film kiss and they didn't use it, in the script it was written as a kiss but then it was changed to an embrace. Come on, who embraces after spending the night together? Michael Dorn, who was directing, said [jokingly], ‘Make the embrace bad so they'll have to use the kiss'. We shot one embrace and three or four kisses and the embrace ended up in the episode."

Linda talks at length about her character's interaction with Archer, Reed and much more in additional excerpts at The Great Link.

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