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Director Robert Duncan McNeill Talks Time-Travelling Archer Episode "Twlight" (SPOILERS)
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Posted: 07:01:07 on October 15 2003
By: Steve Krutzler
Dept: Enterprise | stenterprise.com
VOYAGER actor-turned-director Robert Duncan McNeill spoke with the UK's STAR TREK Monthly recently about his latest STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE directorial outing, "Twilight." The interview was conducted while the episode, which will air November 11th, was in pre-production.

"'Holy crap how are we going to do that?'" McNeill recalls saying when he first read the script in exerpts available at TrekToday. "[It] looks to be a really challenging show to do...right now it reads as if Enterprise is [going to be] destroyed."

McNeill says that the script called for the roof to be blown off the bridge and crewmen to fly into space, scenes that may be difficult to pull off.

"Things change dramatically once you actually get into prepping a show. You realise you can't afford things or you realise something is just impossible to shoot," he told the mag.

The director revealed that "Twilight" will also feature 'Silik' and tie into the Temporal Cold War: "This is jumping into the future with Archer and seeing something that he does that affects the timeline, as well as affecting the past and affecting all sorts of other things, in terms of big issues with hunanity and civilization ans also interpersonal relationships."

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Season Three (2003-2004)
Prod #Title Airdate
153 The Xindi 09/10/03
154 Anomaly 09/17/03
155 Extinction 09/24/03
156 Rajiin 10/01/03
157 Impulse 10/08/03
158 Exile 10/15/03
159 The Shipment 10/22/03
160 Twilight 11/05/03
161 North Star 11/12/03
162 Similitude 11/19/03
163 Carpenter Street 11/26/03
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Finally--back to the "original" storyline
By PatBorg ( PatBorg@aol.com) at 22:44:19 on October 16 2003
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Don't get me wrong, I am enjoying the Xindi storyline a lot more than the previous two seasons, but I thought the "dumping" of the "Future Guy" storyline--it just seemed so much cooler to me. I would love to see this Xindi-plotline lead into Romulan Wars, but that shouldn't happen for a couple more seasons on ENT. I'd just like to get some hints of upcoming storylines or seasons, ala BAB5.

It would be neat to see that something Archer does changes things to look more TOS. It would be funny, although in my fanboy heart I would enjoy it, if Archer does something minor (like stepping on a butterfly in the Bradbury short story) comes back to the "current" timeline and everyone is wearing Classic Kirk and Spock style uniforms! Just for 20 seconds, and then he goes back, fixes it, and everyone is back in the basic blues. Goofy, to be sure, but dammit the press and fans would be all over that one to check it out!

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time travel and people getting friggin sucked out in space rocks
By Bucky ( ) at 13:16:36 on October 15 2003
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sure, seen it before, but we've only seen somebody getting sucked out into space once in NEMESIS and that was one of the best shots of the film -- I wanna see Hosih get sucked out into space, dammit.

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All Good Things...
By Beamer ( ) at 11:19:59 on October 15 2003
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...must be done again.

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