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Nexus writes, Trek Today is reporting
the rumour that Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis may
be reprising their roles as William Riker and Deanna
Troi in the season finale of Enterprise. Considering
the finale is being written by B&B, and not Manny
Coto, I wouldn’t be suprised to see them pull a stunt
like this. GrimSean also provided us with links
to this story.
Let’s do the time warp again
Ugh! WTF let B&B near the cameras again?!?! Is there no security?
Just the idea of this blows especially when I had thought that they had done away with the time travel bull***t already.
Why is it that B&B get 3 years to destroy Enterprise before Manny is brought in to save it but he’s had less than a season and they’re already talking about emergency rescue procedures. Geez, give the man time to recapture all the fans that B&B shat on first. Also, if the series is still in trouble why the hell give it back to the fools that destroyed it in the first place?
Stick a fork in it, Enterprise is done. :P
Re: Let’s do the time warp again
It’s Berman’s franchise, Berman’s series. He has the power. The reason why he’s allowed to do this is that there’s no one to stop him.
How Enterprise Should End
Q suddenly appears. Then he exclaims “hellooo…what do we have here? A screwed up timeline! Tsk tsk… this is what happens when you’re not careful with time travel. Jean-Luc should have been more careful during the Borg-first-contact incident. I guess I’ll just have to fix up his mess. Sigh”
He snaps his fingers. *snap*
Enterprise and its crew disappears. In its place is some cheesy looking spaceship that looks like it was from a 60’s sci-fi series.
-The end-
Re: How Enterprise Should End
You mean like the USS-Swinetrek from the Muppets “Pigs in Space”?
what the hell….
I can’t figure out how the hell someone could let B&B back in to write something as important as the finale… and then bring back Riker and Troi… it smacks of time travel… The only way they’d not bring up time travel is if the actors are playing other people. Here’s hoping that is the case. If they bring the STNG characters up from the future… it will be the end. B&B are idiots and I hope they burn for it!
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Or, it could be some sort of bookend on the episode where Riker and Troi are transporting some museum pieces and Troi holds up some unimpressive looking common item like a spoon or something and says that it must have been accidentally mixed up with the important historical artifacts, but then Riker corrects her “Hey, be careful with that! That spoon was essential to the foundation of the Federation.” “Really? How?” “Well, it all started like this…” Fade to Archer stirring his coffee – cue opening theme.
Cheesy stunt casting cameo, but no time travel needed.
Re: what the hell….
Like that time Mulder and Scully were finally going to kiss. Then you watch the episode and it’s only Bermuda Triangle 1940’s Scully.
Re: what the hell….
And they use ancestors of Riker and Troi in the story.
Ya that could work…..
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Except half of Troi’s ancestors are Betazoid – so does this mean we meet another species that originally wasn’t mentioned until TNG?
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Her daddy was human…
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True, but this is B&B we’re talking about – why would they go with humans when they could introduce an alien species that looks just like us, but walks around naked all the time?
Of course knowing them they’ll return to the temporal cold war thing, and Sirtis and Frakes will be guesting as Troi and Riker – and to think that Manny Coto was so close to making Enterprise good, too.
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Which is probably why Berman is obviously in a rush to re-crapify it: This was making him look bad. Cameos, that’s the ticket!
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If it’s Riker noticing an artifact, there’s no way it’s anything less than that de-con gel. “Hey, be careful with that! That gel isn’t sented.”
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Okay, since B&B are involved, it’s probably naive to assume anything but time-travel, but there is another way it could work. It could be interesting to see a split story-line where we see the Enterprise crew dealing with a situation and then see Riker and Troi dealing with the consequences in the future. They could be taking a tour of the Enterprise NX at the Starfleet museum or performing some traditional ceremony as a result of Archer flubbing the first contact with the Betazoids. Well, something like that, but not boring. I’m just hoping that it’s only the camera that’s travelling through time.
Re: what the hell….
Reports say it will be Riker and Troi. My first reaction was hope of some connection to the bar scene in First Contact, but that’s too far removed from the “Enterprise” time.
Now, would it suck more or less if they were “present-day” Riker and Troi (husband and wife) from the USS Titan?
And where are Xanatos and Demona when you need them?
Dammit, NO.
Give me another Battlestar Galactica Episode.
Freaking morons.
WHY can’t they stop stealing from each of the old series? What’s next, will Shatner fall out of the nexus before he did in Generations and land on the enterprise and take it over to save the day for a few minutes before popping back into the Nexus?
Sigh. No more Star Trek on TV after the end of this TV season.
Re: Dammit, NO.
Dear God, don’t say that! If you speak it it will come true!
To be honest, at this point I’m hoping UPN cancels the series and then Viacom takes two years off from Trek all together. Don’t get me wrong, I love Trek – but this is lunacy. The best thing they could do now is the same thing WB did with the Batman movie franchise: fire just about everyone (keep the Okudas at least), wait two years, pretend the mistakes of the past never happened, and start over. Just don’t start over from the beginning – pick up where you left off: in the NextGen universe. You’ve got the a great setup for a huge war or two, old enemies are becoming allies, old allies are becoming enemies, warp drive has been declared enviromentally unfriendly, and another quarter of the Galaxy is open for business. Why on earth did they leave that timeline to rot?
Re: Dammit, NO.
Indeed, it was really going somewhere, and there are lots of unanswered questions. Such as:
There’s also the issue of other Voyager-related things. In a way, that series offers vast amounts of potential for change in the Trek universe, because they discovered a great deal. They have serious knowledge of Borg technology (not to mention the technology from the future, which wasn’t all horrible contrived crappy plotlines (well, the last one was)). They’ve got that very long distance transporter module they couldn’t get to work, now available to the brightest minds in the Federation for study. Couple that to all the strange and unusual things found in DS9, and I think there’s a serious change in the works.
Actually, something from Enterprise also intrigues me. Are they still planning on having the war with the sphere builders at the time of the Enterprise-J or did they already remove the possibility when they were mucking about with the timeline?
Riker and Troy in exciting action sequence
I hear from a reliable source that Riker and Troy will be involved in a very exciting action sequence. The crew of the Enterprise is being chased by genetically enhanced Suliban warriors. The only way to escape is for Riker and Troy to jump over a chasm filled with man eating sharks. Riker and Troy will tie a rope to a nearby speedboat and use it to pull themselves over a ramp and jump over the sharks. Riker will be wearing a speedo and his Federation-spec combat boots at the time. Troy will follow Betazoid fashion and be naked.
If they all survive, there will be a celebratory gathering afterwards at Arnold’s Burger place.
Re: Riker and Troy in exciting action sequence
As opposed to the vegetable eating kind? ;)
Re: Riker and Troy in exciting action sequence
Mmmm no, the fish eating kind.
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Great post!! Hillarious.
Rare footage
I have just received this sneak photo taken from the on-location shooting of the final episode of Enterprise. B&B had ‘no comment’.
It’s all been said
Yeah, I agree with pretty much everyone here. I certainly hope someone from UPN is monitoring fan response including these responses here at bureau42 so that they realize how much we all hate B&B, their STUPID ideas, and the ruining of Trek.
The dark lord
I’m pretty sure Berman awnsers to Paramount, or maybe even to Viacom. His unholy presence is above that of mere network authorities. Fear him and tremble!
I think trek is in the can
I just remembered reading somewhere that Paramont promised that if trek was cancelled they would try and come up with a final episode that wrapped things up. I’m not sure that B&B are capable of doing that, but it appears that the studio bosses were sold a bill of goods here….IOW I guess they have already decided not to renew.