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[grunts]

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[McFadden] After the original series
and The Next Generation,

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it felt like Star Trek had been
just about everywhere imaginable.

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No, don't. No!

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[McFadden]
But it hadn't.

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Deep Space Nine , we decided,
"Let's do it on a space station."

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Space station?

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[McFadden]
And there was even more.

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With Voyager , "Let's do something
that's gonna toss us across space.

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So instead of going out,
we're trying to get back in again."

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[McFadden]
And that's where it might have ended.

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Welcome back.

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[McFadden]
But it didn't.

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They went back for more.

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Right back.

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Then for Enterprise ,
"Let's see how it all began."

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Be ready.

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[McFadden]
So join us one final time,

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as we look back at the end
of Star Trek on TV...

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for a while.

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And you can see it all from here
in The Center Seat.

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Perhaps this is where it begins.

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[McFadden]
At the dawn of the 21st century,

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the 20th century's longest running
sci-fi franchise was ready for a reset.

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I'll never forget you.

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[Rick Berman] When Deep Space Nine ended
and we had the last seasons of Voyager ,

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the studio was very stern about
wanting to get right into something.

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[McFadden] And not just because the
struggling UPN network loved Star Trek .

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Voyager absolutely was our premier show.

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[McFadden]
And now they needed another one.

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"The network is floundering.
We need the...

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We need the bolstering of the boon
that a new Star Trek will bring us."

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We were asked to be
a cornerstone of the network.

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[McFadden]
So with the fate of a franchise

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and possibly a whole network
in the balance,

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Paramount turned to the man

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who had been successfully steering
Star Trek 's course on television.

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Rick Berman was the torchbearer
of Roddenberry's vision,

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and I think he oversaw everything.

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[McFadden]
But he couldn't do it alone.

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Brannon and I had developed
a very close relationship,

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and we decided
that we would do it together:

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Brandon running the writing staff
and me overseeing everything.

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[McFadden] Also on deck was veteran
Paramount executive Kerry McCluggage,

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who had worked with the duo
on DS9 and Voyager .

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Kerry McCluggage
was a huge fan of Star Trek.

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[McFadden] And so the Star Trek veterans
began their new enterprise:

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creating a brand-new Star Trek series.

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Our goal was to make Enterprise different,
but not different for different's sake.

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We wanted to explore
a new phase of Star Trek.

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[McFadden] Except in this case,
the idea wasn't exactly new.

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In fact, it was actually really old.

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Rick, he had a concept for a prequel.
He wanted to set it in Star Trek 's past.

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[McFadden]
The way forward was to go back.

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Obviously.

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The final frontier begins in this hall.

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[McFadden]
In a time largely before prequels,

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it was actually quite a brilliant idea.

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[Andre Bormanis] We're going to explore
the origins of the Federation,

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our encounters with the species
we've all come to know and love

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from the original series
and all of the other spinoffs.

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[sighs] Who the hell are you?

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Who we are is unimportant.

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[McFadden]
Enterprise would have

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the entire history of Star Trek
as its playground.

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In a time before
Federation of Planets was formed,

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the new show imagined
a unique point in human history.

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Starfleet, the Federation,
is pulling together with other planets,

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with other races
aboard the ship as well.

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And this is what
Gene Roddenberry wanted to see.

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[McFadden] But would modern audiences
want to see it?

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Or would they be opening up
a can of wormholes?

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Interspecies alliance?

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[McFadden] The jumping-off point for this
new phase was the mid-22nd century.

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We were picking up
where the movie First Contact left off.

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You're all astronauts
on some kind of star trek.

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[McFadden]
Which had seen the Vulcans drop by,

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only to catch humanity at a bad time
and not expecting guests.

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Look at the state of the world
that they land in. It's war-torn.

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It's like, a guy invented warp drive.

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It means they've reached
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but they're hillbillies.

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[rock music playing]

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[McFadden]
Which raised an interesting question.

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Well, what happened
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where the Vulcans land,
we're meeting them for the first time,

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and Kirk's era?

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[McFadden]
To help them explore this fertile ground,

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in casting the new series,
producers wanted to emulate

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the famous Star Trek triumvirate

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that had served it well
since the original series.

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[Mark A. Altman] The original Star Trek ,
you had Kirk, Spock, and McCoy.

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Next Gen, you had Picard, Data, and Worf
were sort of like your big three.

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And then on this show,
it's like, "Who are the big three?"

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It's Archer, T'Pol, and Trip.

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Trip. I'm called Trip.

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[McFadden]
Much like Kirk's Iowa farm boy,

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Trip hailed from the heartland.

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Keep your shirt on, Lieutenant.

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All I got in the breakdown
was that he's a good old Southern boy.

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I had done a play the year before,
playing this kid from Oklahoma.

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I did that and I stuck with it
and they liked it.

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Fried catfish with hush puppies.

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And then we're well into the show,
it turns out I'm from Florida.

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And I said, "Wait, wait, wait a minute."

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This is nothing compared to a hurricane
coming up through the Florida Keys.

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"I'm not doing Florida
and you guys don't wanna hear Florida."

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And they were like,
"Ah, they're never gonna know."

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And I was like,
"People from Florida are gonna know."

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No kidding.

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[McFadden] Unlike Kirk's trio
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this one would feature a woman.

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Infinite diversity...

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...in infinite combinations.

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Vulcan characters have to walk
this really hard line

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of being tight-asses
and somehow a little charming.

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I won't dispute that.

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[McFadden] That balancing act
became a challenge

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for young actress Jolene Blalock.

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Is there something I can do for you?

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You are very beautiful.

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Now, Brannon told me privately,
"They just loved the way Jo looked.

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I mean, she has
a slightly gorgeous, alien look to her."

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And she did.

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Is there a problem?

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No, sir.

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[McFadden]
For its captain,

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Enterprise would be returning
to the tried and true.

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Rick and I had an archetype
of, like, Harrison Ford.

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[McFadden] But naturally,
Paramount had a TV hero in mind.

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[Brannon Braga]
Kerry McCluggage,

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who was running TV
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was friendly with Scott Bakula.

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[ Quantum Leap theme playing]

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He just seemed like the perfect guy.

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[McFadden] So much so,
he never even had to read for the role.

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Producers just took a leap.

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Don't screw this up.

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Bakula was a huge get.
Everybody was talking about it.

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You know, he was a big star.

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He had a fan base already
from Quantum Leap.

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It was the biggest captain get
Star Trek had ever had.

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[McFadden]
British actor Dominic Keating...

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Coffee.

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[McFadden]
...played Lt. Malcolm Reed.

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-No tea?
-Yeah, no crumpets either, thank you.

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[McFadden]
But he had some reservations.

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"If I play this for seven years,
I'm gonna go barking mad, mate.

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It's gonna be boring and...
I'm gonna go crazy."

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Well, I just went, "You know what?

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I'm gonna let
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and see what happens."

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[chuckles]

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"Loosen him up a bit."

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Awfully nice. [chuckles]

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[McFadden]
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played by John Billingsley.

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I'm Dr. Phlox, the ship's physician.

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[John Billingsley] Dr. Phlox carried
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and enthusiasm around with him.

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Optimism, Captain.

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It wells up and it manifests itself.

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See if you can find a good place
to set down.

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Yes, sir.

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[McFadden] Anthony Montgomery
played Ensign Mayweather.

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I read it and was like, "Oh,
this would be fun. I'd love to get this."

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I was scared because I knew that there
were really big shoes that I had to fill.

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It must have felt like
you had lead in your boots.

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Obviously, I did well
'cause I got the job.

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[screaming]

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Do you know how to tell him to shut up?

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Shut up!

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[McFadden]
Communications Officer Hoshi Sato,

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played by Linda Park,
rounded out the core cast.

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Starfleet seems to think that
we're ready to begin our mission.

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[McFadden]
But what made this ensemble remarkable

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was its unremarkableness.

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They're more like
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as opposed to the sort of heroic,
larger-than-life characters

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that we're familiar with
from the other shows.

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This is a crew who's brand-new
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Whoa!

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[McFadden] And with a different crew
came a different kind of pilot.

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It takes practice.

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We were looking to do something that had
a little more pace, a little more action.

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[McFadden]
And action we got.

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That opening sequence
with the Klingon was fantastic!

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[McFadden] Thanks to the unexpectedly
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of a Klingon and corn.

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We actually, uh...
We built cornfields.

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[McFadden] This was a set piece that
was corny by design, not by accident.

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[Merri D. Howard] We had to seed the field
and the corn had to be raised

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to whatever amount of feet that we did.

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[groans]

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On Enterprise , I wanted to really
push the limits of what we could do.

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I wanted it to be more ambitious.

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[McFadden] The pilot for Enterprise ,
broadcast on September 26th of 2001,

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seemed to have everything.

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They threw a lot of money at our pilot
and we shot it for a long time.

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[McFadden]
The stage was set for Enterprise

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to be the best Star Trek series
ever to carry the Star Trek name...

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minus the actual name.

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They just wanted to call it Enterprise.

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[McFadden]
So not Star Trek ?

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It's called Enterprise.

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They didn't want to put
Star Trek in front of it.

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[Braga]
Rick had the idea to call it Enterprise,

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which is the only word
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without saying Star Trek.

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That's Enterprise.

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Something that had
a slightly different tone to it.

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Prepare for warp.

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[McFadden] And the pilot
was also slightly less engaging,

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if you know what I mean.

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-Engage.
-Engage.

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-Engage.
-Engage.

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-[record scratches]
-Let's go.

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[McFadden]
So what did audiences think?

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I remember watching the pilot, thinking,
"Wow, this could be a pretty good show."

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The show really got off
to a bangin' start.

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We got an extraordinary number of people
coming to look at that.

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We got 13 million.

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You must really be proud of yourself.

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[McFadden] The premiere's stellar ratings
were music to flailing UPN's ears.

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But as for the actual music?

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[man]
♪ It's been a long road ♪

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The theme song was,
out of the gate, panned.

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[McFadden]
They had a big problem.

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[man]
♪ Faith of the heart ♪

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[McFadden] Despite fantastic ratings
for the first episode,

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when it came to the theme song,
the verdict was unanimous.

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[man]
♪ I'm going where my heart will take me ♪

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That sounds terrible.

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[McFadden] And it wasn't just panned,
it was protested.

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There were a group of people
picketing outside and I thought,

237
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"What are they picketing Paramount for?"

238
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And the placards were...
"We hate the theme song, we hate..."

239
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[laughs]

240
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[man]
♪ I can reach any star ♪

241
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I was accused of heresy.

242
00:10:42,769 --> 00:10:44,521
[McFadden]
Well, to be fair...

243
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If anybody is to blame
about the theme song, it's 100% me.

244
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[McFadden]
And it could have been so different.

245
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For a long time,
we had "Beautiful Day" by U2 in there.

246
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Against "Beautiful Day,"
It was badass.

247
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[McFadden] There was only one problem
with "Beautiful Day."

248
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We're going to need money.
U.S. currency.

249
00:11:01,579 --> 00:11:03,456
They couldn't afford
U2's "Beautiful Day."

250
00:11:03,540 --> 00:11:07,502
[McFadden] And its replacement
was not making anyone's day beautiful,

251
00:11:07,585 --> 00:11:09,254
least of all Rick Berman's.

252
00:11:09,337 --> 00:11:13,591
How dare you put a song at the opening
of a Star Trek series.

253
00:11:13,675 --> 00:11:16,928
[McFadden] But the first season
had a much bigger problem...

254
00:11:17,011 --> 00:11:19,264
best summed up in a number.

255
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Twenty-six episodes.

256
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You know, you're doing 26 little movies.

257
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Brannon's office,
the walls were covered with calendars.

258
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And when every episode
was scheduled to start shooting

259
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and we had to have a script by
that first day of shooting, if not sooner,

260
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or we were in trouble.

261
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All work and no play.

262
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You're like, "How are we gonna do this?"

263
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[McFadden] Before long, the writers were
struggling to keep up with the schedule.

264
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It could be 3:00 in the morning and
what they would call the finished script,

265
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to date, would arrive.

266
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[Connor Trinneer]
You know, act four didn't exist yet.

267
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You wouldn't even know
where you were going.

268
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And that's when things get kind of scary.

269
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We just made so much of it.

270
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You couldn't hit
the bullseye every time, you know.

271
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[McFadden] The writers weren't only
struggling with the punishing schedule,

272
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they were struggling with
the long legacy of their own franchise.

273
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There was something familiar
about all this.

274
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[Trinneer] Being the fourth
Star Trek series in a row,

275
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I mean, there might have been some
going to the well one too many times.

276
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[McFadden]
There's even a name for this condition.

277
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It was franchise fatigue.

278
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Captain, you need a vacation.

279
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I have absolutely no intention
of taking a holiday.

280
00:12:23,203 --> 00:12:24,162
-Is that clear?
-Very clear.

281
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[Dominic Keating] You know,
writing a variation of a theme

282
00:12:26,748 --> 00:12:29,667
for 17 years,
you try coming up with a new episode,

283
00:12:29,751 --> 00:12:31,961
26 a year for a lot of those years.

284
00:12:32,045 --> 00:12:32,879
[glasses clink]

285
00:12:32,962 --> 00:12:34,547
You'd think they would've
come up with something

286
00:12:34,631 --> 00:12:36,341
a little more imaginative this time.

287
00:12:36,424 --> 00:12:39,552
[McFadden] Some episodes
were blighted by bizarre tangents,

288
00:12:39,636 --> 00:12:42,430
including this scene
from "Breaking the Ice."

289
00:12:42,514 --> 00:12:43,598
This is important.

290
00:12:43,681 --> 00:12:46,935
[McFadden] Which literally
raised more questions than it answered.

291
00:12:47,018 --> 00:12:49,687
When you flush the toilet,
where does it go?

292
00:12:49,771 --> 00:12:53,983
[McFadden] It was starting to look like
Enterprise was also going down the tubes.

293
00:12:54,067 --> 00:12:55,944
A poop question, sir?

294
00:12:56,027 --> 00:12:58,321
[McFadden]
But not all the scripts were stinkers.

295
00:12:58,404 --> 00:13:02,075
Don't forget, Brannon and the writing team
had the origin stories

296
00:13:02,158 --> 00:13:05,328
of original series characters
to draw from.

297
00:13:05,411 --> 00:13:06,287
For example...

298
00:13:06,371 --> 00:13:07,413
Andorians?

299
00:13:07,497 --> 00:13:09,624
I wanted to do these people with antenna.

300
00:13:14,128 --> 00:13:17,131
But try to do them believably,
like where you're not laughing at it.

301
00:13:17,215 --> 00:13:18,591
[sighs]

302
00:13:18,675 --> 00:13:22,053
[McFadden] Both the audience
and Captain Archer struggled to take

303
00:13:22,136 --> 00:13:25,473
the Andorians' feelers
as seriously as their feelings.

304
00:13:25,557 --> 00:13:26,683
What?

305
00:13:26,766 --> 00:13:30,228
They told me, "With the Andorians,
if you can't make the antenna wiggle,

306
00:13:30,311 --> 00:13:31,229
we're not gonna do 'em."

307
00:13:31,312 --> 00:13:33,565
There's no need for threats.

308
00:13:33,648 --> 00:13:35,692
[McFadden]
Which was a shame because

309
00:13:35,775 --> 00:13:38,695
these Andorians
were more animated than most.

310
00:13:38,778 --> 00:13:39,737
We made 'em wiggle.

311
00:13:39,821 --> 00:13:43,157
You've earned a brief respite.
Andorian ale.

312
00:13:43,241 --> 00:13:45,910
[Bormanis] They had wiring inside of them
and little motors,

313
00:13:45,994 --> 00:13:48,705
and there was a puppeteer off camera
who would, you know,

314
00:13:48,788 --> 00:13:49,706
work the antennae.

315
00:13:49,789 --> 00:13:51,416
Stop looking at me.

316
00:13:51,499 --> 00:13:54,252
Okay, okay,
don't get your antennas in a twist.

317
00:13:54,335 --> 00:13:57,422
Andorians on the Enterprise
was not only a shock.

318
00:13:57,505 --> 00:14:00,592
I don't like the idea of having the
Andorians down here any more than you do.

319
00:14:00,675 --> 00:14:01,718
...and an excitement...

320
00:14:01,801 --> 00:14:03,761
Starfleet could certainly use you.

321
00:14:03,845 --> 00:14:07,765
...but it was a signal to me that Rick and
Brannon had liberated their parameters.

322
00:14:07,849 --> 00:14:09,434
You've endangered us all.

323
00:14:09,517 --> 00:14:11,936
[McFadden]
But when it came to the Vulcans,

324
00:14:12,020 --> 00:14:16,107
some felt Enterprise had pushed
the parameters too far.

325
00:14:16,190 --> 00:14:19,485
Vulcans are very deceptive.

326
00:14:19,569 --> 00:14:22,697
And we thought, "Well,
what if the Vulcans just had a heavy hand

327
00:14:22,780 --> 00:14:25,074
and they didn't think
we were really ready?"

328
00:14:25,158 --> 00:14:27,076
You're a stubborn man.

329
00:14:27,160 --> 00:14:29,621
[McFadden]
These were not Spock-era Vulcans.

330
00:14:29,704 --> 00:14:32,790
The Vulcans were stern, kind of mentors.

331
00:14:32,874 --> 00:14:34,125
It's a Klingot.

332
00:14:35,126 --> 00:14:36,711
A Klingon.

333
00:14:36,794 --> 00:14:40,298
[McFadden] They were more like
overbearing life coaches.

334
00:14:40,381 --> 00:14:44,052
Your superiors don't think we can flush
a toilet without one of you to assist us.

335
00:14:44,135 --> 00:14:46,054
We conceived them as annoying nannies,

336
00:14:46,137 --> 00:14:48,389
but a lot of fans
were like, "Those aren't Vulcans.

337
00:14:48,473 --> 00:14:51,559
You know, they wouldn't act that way.
Why are you doing that?"

338
00:14:51,643 --> 00:14:56,147
The Vulcans we saw the first season
of Enterprise were kind of strange.

339
00:14:56,230 --> 00:14:59,609
I will kill him if necessary.

340
00:14:59,692 --> 00:15:02,987
So that was controversial.
A lot of people didn't like it.

341
00:15:03,071 --> 00:15:05,073
[Doug Drexler] We're always supposed
to admire the Vulcans.

342
00:15:05,156 --> 00:15:06,449
They're wiser than we are.

343
00:15:06,532 --> 00:15:09,369
Sometimes they could be annoying
because they're so logical,

344
00:15:09,452 --> 00:15:12,205
but they made them unlikable,
really unlikable.

345
00:15:12,288 --> 00:15:14,791
-Tea?
-I only drink water.

346
00:15:14,874 --> 00:15:17,293
Why do Vulcans if you're not
gonna do something new?

347
00:15:17,377 --> 00:15:21,839
[McFadden] Enterprise 's Vulcans were
creating problems behind the scenes too.

348
00:15:21,923 --> 00:15:24,717
Well, one key Vulcan.

349
00:15:24,801 --> 00:15:26,344
Is there a problem, Commander?

350
00:15:26,427 --> 00:15:28,429
[Keating]
Jolene, she's not a natural.

351
00:15:29,430 --> 00:15:31,432
It's hard to put it any other way.

352
00:15:31,516 --> 00:15:32,517
That's his theory.

353
00:15:32,600 --> 00:15:35,436
She had an acting coach on set
for the first season.

354
00:15:35,520 --> 00:15:37,522
[muffled]
As your highest ranking officer,

355
00:15:37,605 --> 00:15:40,108
I assumed command
while you were incapacitated.

356
00:15:40,942 --> 00:15:42,485
-What?
-[indistinct]

357
00:15:42,568 --> 00:15:43,403
[director] Cut.

358
00:15:43,486 --> 00:15:47,031
They literally would coddle off
into the corner after every take.

359
00:15:47,115 --> 00:15:50,243
That was quite disconcerting
as a cast.

360
00:15:50,326 --> 00:15:52,412
Acting isn't exactly a Vulcan tradition.

361
00:15:52,495 --> 00:15:55,123
[Keating]
I literally was biting my knocker, going,

362
00:15:55,206 --> 00:16:00,211
"Oh, well, we're not gonna make it
past the first five episodes."

363
00:16:00,294 --> 00:16:03,464
[McFadden]
Jolene Blalock's on-camera performance

364
00:16:03,548 --> 00:16:07,385
took time to get right,
but luckily not too much time.

365
00:16:07,468 --> 00:16:10,888
You see, very quickly,
Jolene take command of the character.

366
00:16:10,972 --> 00:16:12,890
It's not an opinion.

367
00:16:12,974 --> 00:16:13,933
It's simple logic.

368
00:16:14,016 --> 00:16:17,103
[McFadden] There were problems
at the top of the billing too,

369
00:16:17,186 --> 00:16:20,523
where Scott Bakula was slowing things down
in a different way...

370
00:16:20,606 --> 00:16:21,441
[Archer] By all means.

371
00:16:21,524 --> 00:16:22,775
[McFadden]
...because his...

372
00:16:22,859 --> 00:16:23,901
I wonder...

373
00:16:23,985 --> 00:16:25,027
[McFadden] ...peculiar...

374
00:16:25,111 --> 00:16:28,114
...if they'll believe that
humans and Vulcans will be...

375
00:16:28,197 --> 00:16:30,658
[McFadden] ...cadence was...

376
00:16:30,742 --> 00:16:32,535
...swapping chromosomes one day.

377
00:16:32,618 --> 00:16:34,495
[McFadden] ...unsettling for some.

378
00:16:34,579 --> 00:16:39,125
He paced Archer 10-20% slower,
to put it bluntly,

379
00:16:39,208 --> 00:16:41,169
than Rick and Brannon had perceived it,

380
00:16:41,252 --> 00:16:46,090
to the point of they're cutting scenes
because the scripts are running way long,

381
00:16:46,174 --> 00:16:50,970
and there was a back and forth between,
"We need to have Archer be oomphier."

382
00:16:51,053 --> 00:16:54,265
[McFadden] But where Enterprise
really needed more oomph

383
00:16:54,348 --> 00:16:56,184
was on the ratings front.

384
00:16:56,267 --> 00:16:57,894
The drop in ratings was quite dramatic.

385
00:16:57,977 --> 00:17:00,521
[McFadden]
On Paramount's own struggling network,

386
00:17:00,605 --> 00:17:05,193
Enterprise was languishing in
a syndicated television's no man's land.

387
00:17:05,276 --> 00:17:07,987
[Larry Nemecek] It's UPN.
They were the little tinhorn network.

388
00:17:08,070 --> 00:17:10,239
Not in the whole country,
they didn't have total penetration.

389
00:17:10,323 --> 00:17:12,366
This antenna is inadequate.

390
00:17:12,450 --> 00:17:14,327
[McFadden]
In some parts of the country,

391
00:17:14,410 --> 00:17:17,413
you needed your own antennae
to pick up UPN.

392
00:17:17,497 --> 00:17:21,209
It was not like NBC or CBS.
Not everybody got UPN.

393
00:17:21,292 --> 00:17:23,503
It's probably just white noise.

394
00:17:23,586 --> 00:17:26,130
[McFadden] And even then,
the show's haphazard scheduling

395
00:17:26,214 --> 00:17:29,091
made it hard for Enterprise
to find its audience.

396
00:17:29,175 --> 00:17:32,220
Most affiliate stations,
they have a contractual obligation

397
00:17:32,303 --> 00:17:33,805
to air the network's shows.

398
00:17:33,888 --> 00:17:35,223
That wasn't true for UPN.

399
00:17:35,306 --> 00:17:38,726
Individual stations could choose
to move it around the schedule.

400
00:17:38,810 --> 00:17:41,020
Hope for the best, prepare for the worst.

401
00:17:41,103 --> 00:17:41,938
[announcer]
...this pitch.

402
00:17:42,021 --> 00:17:47,026
Major cities would postpone our show
for the baseball game.

403
00:17:47,109 --> 00:17:50,571
[McFadden] For those on Enterprise,
it was starting to get lonely.

404
00:17:50,655 --> 00:17:53,241
[Billingsley] At the very first convention
we did in San Antonio,

405
00:17:53,324 --> 00:17:55,535
we're there, it was like,
"There's nobody here."

406
00:17:55,618 --> 00:17:57,453
Well, it turned out
it never aired in San Antonio

407
00:17:57,537 --> 00:18:00,248
and it was always canceled
for high school football night.

408
00:18:00,331 --> 00:18:02,959
[McFadden] The convention center
might have been empty,

409
00:18:03,042 --> 00:18:06,254
but the Enterprise cast and crew
weren't alone at all

410
00:18:06,337 --> 00:18:09,465
because the on-screen camaraderie
the crew shared

411
00:18:09,549 --> 00:18:11,467
was happening off-screen as well.

412
00:18:11,551 --> 00:18:15,346
And when you're with people for as long
as we are, it's truly a family.

413
00:18:15,429 --> 00:18:18,432
[McFadden] A fact Dominic Keating
was acutely aware of.

414
00:18:18,516 --> 00:18:22,603
You know, my mother died
in the second season.

415
00:18:22,687 --> 00:18:24,814
And, uh...

416
00:18:24,897 --> 00:18:30,570
[sighs] And what could have been
a really lonely time

417
00:18:30,653 --> 00:18:34,740
was saved by the...

418
00:18:34,824 --> 00:18:37,785
the closeness of our family.

419
00:18:42,039 --> 00:18:44,292
Look hard at those stars,
find something that looks familiar,

420
00:18:44,375 --> 00:18:45,668
and tell me which way to go!

421
00:18:45,751 --> 00:18:49,630
[McFadden] Star Trek, at its heart,
has always been about a quest,

422
00:18:49,714 --> 00:18:51,757
and Enterprise was no different.

423
00:18:51,841 --> 00:18:53,885
The show was searching
for its identity.

424
00:18:53,968 --> 00:18:56,053
In the first couple of years,
you know, it lost its way,

425
00:18:56,137 --> 00:18:58,097
it kind of found its way,
it lost its way again.

426
00:18:58,180 --> 00:19:00,349
There was not really
an overarching sense

427
00:19:00,433 --> 00:19:02,894
that the show knew
exactly where it was going.

428
00:19:02,977 --> 00:19:05,104
Obviously don't know anything
about writing.

429
00:19:05,187 --> 00:19:06,606
[McFadden]
Maybe none of them did.

430
00:19:06,689 --> 00:19:09,942
[Manny Coto] Brannon had unfortunately
put together a brand-new writing staff.

431
00:19:10,026 --> 00:19:12,403
And a lot of them just weren't able
to get the voice of the show.

432
00:19:12,486 --> 00:19:14,071
Some people left.

433
00:19:14,155 --> 00:19:17,283
He was in desperate need of
someone who can write the series.

434
00:19:17,366 --> 00:19:20,036
[McFadden]
Someone like this gentleman perhaps.

435
00:19:20,119 --> 00:19:23,831
[Coto] When I got there in season three,
the ratings were already pretty low.

436
00:19:23,915 --> 00:19:26,667
Everybody was scrambling to figure out,
"How do we fix this?"

437
00:19:26,751 --> 00:19:31,005
[McFadden] New writer Manny Coto
was meant to be part of the solution.

438
00:19:31,088 --> 00:19:32,089
He came to the show

439
00:19:32,173 --> 00:19:35,843
having already completed
a lifelong apprenticeship in Trek.

440
00:19:35,927 --> 00:19:38,220
[Coto] I was one of the generation
that found Star Trek in the reruns.

441
00:19:38,304 --> 00:19:39,347
[McFadden]
That was a time

442
00:19:39,430 --> 00:19:42,850
when Star Trek had been
out in television wilderness.

443
00:19:42,934 --> 00:19:45,978
Now his favorite show
was nearing the same fate,

444
00:19:46,062 --> 00:19:48,105
and he wanted to save it.

445
00:19:48,189 --> 00:19:51,067
Star Trek was what
made me go into this business.

446
00:19:51,150 --> 00:19:53,152
[McFadden]
He arrived just in time.

447
00:19:53,235 --> 00:19:55,821
Paramount had already
pressed the panic button.

448
00:19:55,905 --> 00:19:58,950
[Braga] We got called into one
of the big bosses at Paramount.

449
00:19:59,033 --> 00:20:01,160
"You gotta do something.
You gotta do something.

450
00:20:01,243 --> 00:20:02,745
Shake up the show.
Do something new."

451
00:20:02,828 --> 00:20:05,623
"Guys, turn this ship around,
or you're out of here."

452
00:20:05,706 --> 00:20:06,749
All right, what do you got?

453
00:20:06,832 --> 00:20:10,419
[McFadden] Brannon's idea
for something new was not new at all.

454
00:20:10,503 --> 00:20:13,756
But it was an idea
whose time had finally come.

455
00:20:13,839 --> 00:20:17,051
And I'm like, "I would like to do
a season-long arc."

456
00:20:17,134 --> 00:20:21,514
[McFadden] With a deep disdain
for the concept during Deep Space Nine...

457
00:20:21,597 --> 00:20:23,975
The studio absolutely said no.

458
00:20:24,058 --> 00:20:26,143
[McFadden]
Now things were different.

459
00:20:26,227 --> 00:20:28,688
The idea of doing serialized storytelling

460
00:20:28,771 --> 00:20:30,648
was becoming
more and more common in television.

461
00:20:30,731 --> 00:20:33,150
Yeah, the serialized notion was super hot.

462
00:20:33,234 --> 00:20:35,987
[McFadden]
But a real-life drama was about to unfold,

463
00:20:36,070 --> 00:20:39,365
and it was going to change
a lot more than TV.

464
00:20:39,448 --> 00:20:40,992
There's been an attack on Earth.

465
00:20:41,075 --> 00:20:45,663
[McFadden] A catastrophe would be
the catalyst Enterprise needed.

466
00:20:45,746 --> 00:20:47,915
We took our cues from 9/11.

467
00:20:47,999 --> 00:20:52,795
Build a weapon to destroy an entire world.

468
00:20:53,921 --> 00:20:57,341
[McFadden] The story
envisioned an alien attack on Earth

469
00:20:57,425 --> 00:21:00,511
whose echoes of terror
would not be lost on anyone.

470
00:21:00,594 --> 00:21:04,265
[Braga] 9/11 hit, I think, when we were
producing the first season of Enterprise,

471
00:21:04,348 --> 00:21:05,725
so it was on everybody's minds.

472
00:21:05,808 --> 00:21:07,518
Why would someone do this?

473
00:21:07,601 --> 00:21:10,896
[McFadden] It was either a brilliant idea
or a terrible one.

474
00:21:10,980 --> 00:21:14,233
The network bet on the former,
greenlighting Brannon's plans

475
00:21:14,316 --> 00:21:17,069
for an epic tale of war and destruction.

476
00:21:17,153 --> 00:21:20,406
Ever since the attack on Earth,
all I've thought about is getting back

477
00:21:20,489 --> 00:21:21,782
at whoever was responsible.

478
00:21:21,866 --> 00:21:24,452
[Bormanis] With, you know,
9/11 still fresh in our memories,

479
00:21:24,535 --> 00:21:28,164
if we're gonna do that story, we're gonna
need a pretty big canvas to service it.

480
00:21:28,247 --> 00:21:30,791
Your species is doomed.

481
00:21:30,875 --> 00:21:33,627
I had this idea for a species
called the Xindi.

482
00:21:33,711 --> 00:21:35,337
[speaking Xindi]

483
00:21:35,421 --> 00:21:38,382
[McFadden]
They were the scheming, enigmatic enemy.

484
00:21:38,466 --> 00:21:40,009
Which species of Xindi were they?

485
00:21:40,092 --> 00:21:43,554
[McFadden]
Star Trek had created its own terrorists.

486
00:21:43,637 --> 00:21:47,266
What everybody wanted to do was to go
out and hurt the people that had hurt us.

487
00:21:47,349 --> 00:21:49,894
I don't think you'd be very comfortable
torturing another man.

488
00:21:49,977 --> 00:21:53,522
There was an episode and we essentially
say, "I'm throwing you out the airlock

489
00:21:53,606 --> 00:21:54,857
if you don't give me what I want."

490
00:21:54,940 --> 00:21:58,944
You better start talking now
'cause in about 40 seconds,

491
00:21:59,028 --> 00:22:00,488
you won't be able to.

492
00:22:00,571 --> 00:22:03,199
He was torturing people
and fans didn't like that

493
00:22:03,282 --> 00:22:05,868
because that's not
what a captain would do.

494
00:22:05,951 --> 00:22:06,786
He'll die.

495
00:22:06,869 --> 00:22:08,412
-[groans]
-The Xindi.

496
00:22:08,496 --> 00:22:10,748
[McFadden]
As the story stretched into season three,

497
00:22:10,831 --> 00:22:14,293
fans proved to have little appetite
for art imitating life

498
00:22:14,376 --> 00:22:16,378
in Enterprise 's new format.

499
00:22:16,462 --> 00:22:19,131
Why are you wasting our time?

500
00:22:19,215 --> 00:22:24,178
The serialized idea, I do think
that there was a momentum loss

501
00:22:24,261 --> 00:22:25,429
as a result of that.

502
00:22:25,513 --> 00:22:29,391
Enterprise was designed
to be a ship of exploration.

503
00:22:29,475 --> 00:22:32,561
It did take us a little bit away
from the premise of the show,

504
00:22:32,645 --> 00:22:34,730
the foundations of the Star Trek universe.

505
00:22:34,814 --> 00:22:36,941
A United Federation of Planets.

506
00:22:37,024 --> 00:22:40,986
[McFadden] And the serialized Xindi saga
wasn't doing anything for the ratings.

507
00:22:41,070 --> 00:22:42,738
Damn.

508
00:22:42,822 --> 00:22:44,532
[McFadden]
Enterprise looked destined

509
00:22:44,615 --> 00:22:47,910
to have one more thing in common
with the original series.

510
00:22:47,993 --> 00:22:48,911
[gasps]

511
00:22:48,994 --> 00:22:49,870
[McFadden] Cancellation.

512
00:22:49,954 --> 00:22:52,414
Just because of the ratings,
there was a very real possibility

513
00:22:52,498 --> 00:22:53,666
season three was gonna be the last.

514
00:22:53,749 --> 00:22:55,501
[McFadden]
Bad ratings aside,

515
00:22:55,584 --> 00:22:58,712
there were actually
even larger forces at play.

516
00:22:58,796 --> 00:23:03,050
The universe that sustained Enterprise
was now collapsing in on itself.

517
00:23:03,134 --> 00:23:07,346
UPN, that was a network that
was itself on the verge of extinction.

518
00:23:07,429 --> 00:23:09,682
We would survive if UPN survived,

519
00:23:09,765 --> 00:23:12,226
and it was UPN's handwriting
that was on the wall.

520
00:23:12,309 --> 00:23:14,353
[McFadden]
And on top of all that,

521
00:23:14,436 --> 00:23:17,982
behind the scenes,
a seismic shift at Paramount

522
00:23:18,065 --> 00:23:20,192
was about to change
the balance of power.

523
00:23:20,276 --> 00:23:23,779
CBS took over Paramount Television
and all of a sudden,

524
00:23:23,863 --> 00:23:27,158
there were a whole new bunch
of executives at CBS.

525
00:23:27,241 --> 00:23:30,244
[Braga] All our bosses
changed virtually overnight,

526
00:23:30,327 --> 00:23:33,497
and the people who had built
this franchise with us were gone.

527
00:23:33,581 --> 00:23:36,667
[McFadden]
CBS big cheese Les Moonves

528
00:23:36,750 --> 00:23:40,087
was installed as
Rick Berman's new overlord.

529
00:23:40,171 --> 00:23:44,258
He was the wonder boy at Viacom,
CBS, and the like,

530
00:23:44,341 --> 00:23:47,761
and he put Dawn Ostroff in charge of UPN.

531
00:23:47,845 --> 00:23:50,806
[McFadden] That meant
Star Trek stalwart Kerry McCluggage

532
00:23:50,890 --> 00:23:52,558
was thrown out of the airlock.

533
00:23:52,641 --> 00:23:55,895
[Trinneer] Kerry McCluggage
was a huge Star Trek fan

534
00:23:55,978 --> 00:24:00,357
and when he got let go, I was
just thinking, "That kind of pinched.

535
00:24:00,441 --> 00:24:03,027
I'm not sure
if that's a good thing for us."

536
00:24:03,110 --> 00:24:07,740
My impression was that Les Moonves did not
have a tremendous amount of affection

537
00:24:07,823 --> 00:24:10,075
either for the franchise
or perhaps even the genre.

538
00:24:10,159 --> 00:24:13,370
Jeez, you know, I mean, it's like,
find somebody who does like it.

539
00:24:13,454 --> 00:24:16,040
At least recognize
that it's a great, viable franchise

540
00:24:16,123 --> 00:24:17,041
and let somebody run it.

541
00:24:17,124 --> 00:24:21,754
The network didn't support us in the
same way that the previous networks had.

542
00:24:21,921 --> 00:24:24,215
They don't get it. They don't seem
to like their own franchise.

543
00:24:24,298 --> 00:24:28,177
[McFadden] But that wasn't the only thing
Les Moonves didn't like.

544
00:24:28,260 --> 00:24:29,261
He didn't like Rick Berman.

545
00:24:34,058 --> 00:24:36,977
[McFadden] Down in the ratings
and down in network allies,

546
00:24:37,061 --> 00:24:43,067
an under-fire Enterprise suddenly found
itself having to defend even its name.

547
00:24:43,150 --> 00:24:45,527
[Braga]
Les wanted to put Star Trek in the title

548
00:24:45,611 --> 00:24:47,488
and I think Rick took offense to that,

549
00:24:47,571 --> 00:24:52,243
and I suspect he was trying to
increase the show's odds of continuing.

550
00:24:52,326 --> 00:24:55,913
[McFadden] And he wasn't anywhere
near done undoing Rick Berman's work.

551
00:24:55,996 --> 00:24:59,250
They suddenly jazzed up our theme song
'cause apparently it was too funerial.

552
00:24:59,333 --> 00:25:03,921
[McFadden] Yep, Rick Berman's
signature theme tune was in for a tune-up.

553
00:25:04,004 --> 00:25:07,675
The studio wanted to put the fun
back into funerial.

554
00:25:07,758 --> 00:25:10,094
[man]
♪ It's been a long road ♪

555
00:25:10,177 --> 00:25:15,057
They asked me to remix it so it had
a little bit more of a pop feeling to it.

556
00:25:15,140 --> 00:25:18,102
[man]
♪ I will touch the sky ♪

557
00:25:18,185 --> 00:25:19,853
Yeah, they put a tambourine in there.

558
00:25:19,937 --> 00:25:22,398
They give it a little extra percussion
or something.

559
00:25:22,481 --> 00:25:24,817
- ♪ No, they're not gonna change my mind ♪
-[snapping fingers]

560
00:25:24,900 --> 00:25:26,277
The dance version.

561
00:25:26,360 --> 00:25:29,697
[man]
♪ 'Cause I've got faith of the heart ♪

562
00:25:29,780 --> 00:25:33,158
[McFadden] But this was merely
window dressing a broken window.

563
00:25:33,242 --> 00:25:36,453
If I'm giving you a great show
and you're just not liking the show,

564
00:25:36,537 --> 00:25:40,874
I don't think putting in a symbol
or a tambourine or whatever it was,

565
00:25:40,958 --> 00:25:42,501
that's not going to do anything.

566
00:25:42,584 --> 00:25:46,422
[McFadden] Moonves was recalibrating
more than a theme tune,

567
00:25:46,505 --> 00:25:51,010
he was retooling an entire network
for a younger audience.

568
00:25:51,093 --> 00:25:54,555
When he took over the network,
they put much more a focus

569
00:25:54,638 --> 00:25:57,391
on shows for teenagers, young girls.

570
00:25:57,474 --> 00:26:02,479
Their whole promotional wing
became less and less focused on Star Trek .

571
00:26:02,563 --> 00:26:05,149
[McFadden]
And besides, it was the early 2000s.

572
00:26:05,274 --> 00:26:07,651
Getting higher ratings
would be easy.

573
00:26:07,735 --> 00:26:09,528
In one of the first meetings I had...

574
00:26:09,611 --> 00:26:13,157
[McFadden] The answer was so obvious,
someone just came right out and said it.

575
00:26:13,240 --> 00:26:16,827
[Berman] ...one of the new executives
actually said...

576
00:26:16,910 --> 00:26:20,956
"Can we get a boy band on the Enterprise
to play in, like, the rec room?"

577
00:26:21,040 --> 00:26:23,959
Oh, Lord, have mercy.

578
00:26:24,043 --> 00:26:24,960
That was their pitch.

579
00:26:25,044 --> 00:26:27,921
Are you kidding?

580
00:26:28,005 --> 00:26:30,090
It was one of the legendary bad ideas.

581
00:26:30,174 --> 00:26:33,260
[McFadden] Star Trek 's track record
with pop music speaks...

582
00:26:33,344 --> 00:26:35,929
♪ My friend ♪

583
00:26:36,013 --> 00:26:37,681
[McFadden]
...and sings for itself.

584
00:26:37,765 --> 00:26:39,391
Well, what's it going to be?

585
00:26:39,475 --> 00:26:42,436
I don't think I laughed,
but I think that I probably said,

586
00:26:42,561 --> 00:26:44,104
"Oh, yeah, that's something
worth discussing."

587
00:26:44,188 --> 00:26:47,816
Their understanding of science fiction

588
00:26:47,900 --> 00:26:49,485
was nothing like
the previous three series.

589
00:26:49,568 --> 00:26:52,446
[McFadden]
Rick Berman felt he was now in a battle

590
00:26:52,529 --> 00:26:55,407
to defend Star Trek
from an existential threat.

591
00:26:55,491 --> 00:26:58,619
[Altman] Berman thought it was his job
to protect the legacy of Gene Roddenberry.

592
00:26:58,702 --> 00:27:01,580
The network, they just cared about
doing whatever they could

593
00:27:01,663 --> 00:27:03,290
to increase the ratings.

594
00:27:03,374 --> 00:27:05,793
Now get the hell out there
and make yourself useful.

595
00:27:05,876 --> 00:27:09,129
[McFadden] Star Trek appeared
to be under attack from its own network.

596
00:27:09,213 --> 00:27:11,799
Surrender or be destroyed.

597
00:27:11,882 --> 00:27:12,716
Go to hell.

598
00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:15,636
[Nemecek] People say Les Moonves
hated science fiction.

599
00:27:15,719 --> 00:27:18,764
I say that might be true,
but he hated a loser more.

600
00:27:18,847 --> 00:27:22,059
Are you saying this was a failure?

601
00:27:22,142 --> 00:27:25,521
[McFadden] Poor ratings led to a purge
of top executives.

602
00:27:25,604 --> 00:27:30,192
Now Les Moonves
was preparing to purge Star Trek itself.

603
00:27:30,275 --> 00:27:32,277
Kind of feels like being called
to the principal's office.

604
00:27:32,361 --> 00:27:36,490
Les wanted to replace Scott Bakula
with another actor

605
00:27:36,573 --> 00:27:37,825
'cause he thought he was terrible.

606
00:27:37,908 --> 00:27:40,077
I am not prepared to walk away.

607
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:44,581
There was talk that replacing him
with somebody else was in the wind.

608
00:27:44,665 --> 00:27:46,166
We can't be afraid of the wind.

609
00:27:46,250 --> 00:27:48,252
[Coto] They were just trying
to figure out how to fix the ratings,

610
00:27:48,335 --> 00:27:50,254
and I think they thought,
"Maybe if we bring in a new captain,

611
00:27:50,337 --> 00:27:51,463
maybe the ratings will go back up,"

612
00:27:51,547 --> 00:27:52,381
which was a little silly.

613
00:27:52,464 --> 00:27:54,883
[McFadden]
The writers prepared for the worst,

614
00:27:54,967 --> 00:27:57,469
imagining their show
without Captain Archer.

615
00:27:57,553 --> 00:27:59,012
Captain Archer is dead.

616
00:27:59,096 --> 00:28:02,474
[Coto] We were talking about
doing a season where Scott is,

617
00:28:02,558 --> 00:28:05,644
if not dead,
then incapacitated or lost,

618
00:28:05,727 --> 00:28:07,771
where you have a crew
trying to function without a captain.

619
00:28:07,855 --> 00:28:09,314
I can't let that happen.

620
00:28:09,398 --> 00:28:11,233
[McFadden]
But the fight to control Star Trek

621
00:28:11,316 --> 00:28:14,862
was merely a proxy war
for the battle between the executives.

622
00:28:14,945 --> 00:28:18,407
Les and Rick had a huge disagreement.

623
00:28:18,490 --> 00:28:19,700
Rick refused to do it.

624
00:28:19,783 --> 00:28:21,326
That speaks to Rick's loyalty.

625
00:28:21,410 --> 00:28:22,703
Rick was not gonna have it.

626
00:28:22,786 --> 00:28:24,037
The answer is no.

627
00:28:24,121 --> 00:28:26,165
[McFadden]
There's a technical term for this.

628
00:28:26,248 --> 00:28:27,082
It became a pissing match.

629
00:28:27,166 --> 00:28:28,834
-[laughs]
-[McFadden] Yep, that's the one.

630
00:28:28,917 --> 00:28:31,336
Rick, rightly, was like,
"No, Bakula is wonderful."

631
00:28:31,420 --> 00:28:34,173
I'm glad that that didn't happen.

632
00:28:34,256 --> 00:28:38,552
That would have been a completely
disastrous move if they had done that.

633
00:28:38,635 --> 00:28:42,264
[Keating] I can't say enough
about Scott Bakula. He's just such a gent.

634
00:28:42,347 --> 00:28:45,851
He made those years joyous and lovely
and, you know,

635
00:28:45,934 --> 00:28:47,853
a lot of Hollywood sets are not that.

636
00:28:47,936 --> 00:28:50,564
[McFadden]
Captain Archer's charge was preserved,

637
00:28:50,647 --> 00:28:53,525
but Rick Berman's defense of Star Trek
came at a cost.

638
00:28:53,609 --> 00:28:56,653
[Coto]
Rick made a lot of enemies at the studio

639
00:28:56,737 --> 00:28:58,071
because he was protecting Star Trek.

640
00:28:58,155 --> 00:29:01,116
[McFadden] And the one thing that
would have strengthened his case

641
00:29:01,200 --> 00:29:03,911
for the status quo
still eluded him.

642
00:29:03,994 --> 00:29:06,497
The ratings continue to go down
despite their best efforts.

643
00:29:06,580 --> 00:29:08,624
So if anyone has a suggestion...

644
00:29:08,707 --> 00:29:11,627
[Nemecek] They say,
"Part of the deal for a fourth year is,

645
00:29:11,710 --> 00:29:14,379
Rick and Brannon,
that you guys step back.

646
00:29:14,463 --> 00:29:16,340
Shake things up
and have somebody else run the ship."

647
00:29:16,423 --> 00:29:18,467
[McFadden]
Taking less of a hands-on role.

648
00:29:18,550 --> 00:29:23,180
And I think
I was just ready to move on.

649
00:29:23,263 --> 00:29:25,432
[McFadden]
Making room for someone to move up.

650
00:29:25,516 --> 00:29:27,976
Brannon called me and said,
"I want you to run season four."

651
00:29:28,060 --> 00:29:30,938
I was like, "Oh, wow. Really?"
[chuckles]

652
00:29:31,021 --> 00:29:32,606
[McFadden]
For the first time,

653
00:29:32,689 --> 00:29:36,360
a hardcore Trekker
was about to take the helm,

654
00:29:36,443 --> 00:29:38,862
as Brannon stepped back
to focus on writing.

655
00:29:38,946 --> 00:29:42,074
Brannon was never
a full-bore Trekkie like I was.

656
00:29:42,157 --> 00:29:46,203
I have a deep love for Star Trek .
I spent most of my adult life there.

657
00:29:46,286 --> 00:29:50,457
But I think I probably could
have used more passion

658
00:29:50,541 --> 00:29:53,085
about the original series,
which is what Manny had.

659
00:29:53,168 --> 00:29:55,587
[McFadden] As showrunner,
Manny Coto knew

660
00:29:55,671 --> 00:29:58,090
exactly where he wanted
Enterprise to go.

661
00:29:58,173 --> 00:30:00,759
"Let's live up to the promise of the show.

662
00:30:00,842 --> 00:30:04,137
Let's make Enterprise
a prequel to the original series."

663
00:30:06,056 --> 00:30:10,644
[McFadden] At the start of season four,
Enterprise 's newly installed showrunner

664
00:30:10,727 --> 00:30:14,481
found himself in charge of the program
he had grown up with.

665
00:30:14,565 --> 00:30:16,608
I just wanted to do what
I thought the show should be.

666
00:30:16,692 --> 00:30:19,444
[McFadden]
But first he had some loose ends to tie up

667
00:30:19,528 --> 00:30:23,740
because executive producer Rick Berman
had left season three's audience

668
00:30:23,824 --> 00:30:25,367
at the edge of a cliff.

669
00:30:25,450 --> 00:30:28,954
For the third-season finale,
they intentionally made a cliffhanger

670
00:30:29,037 --> 00:30:31,331
because they thought it would help them
get renewed for a fourth season.

671
00:30:31,415 --> 00:30:34,543
-[Archer] What year is this?
-It's 1944.

672
00:30:34,626 --> 00:30:40,048
Season three ended with Archer
waking up in World War II Earth.

673
00:30:40,132 --> 00:30:43,510
[McFadden] So season four
began locked into a story

674
00:30:43,594 --> 00:30:47,097
set in one of Star Trek 's
favorite haunts, World War II.

675
00:30:47,180 --> 00:30:48,015
Hail the Führer.

676
00:30:48,098 --> 00:30:49,433
-Hail to the Führer.
-Hail.

677
00:30:49,516 --> 00:30:53,604
"Look, its Archer in World War II.
Nazis come to Star Trek again."

678
00:30:53,687 --> 00:30:57,065
In Hollywood movies,
Americans always win.

679
00:30:58,191 --> 00:31:00,110
Too bad for you
you're not in a movie.

680
00:31:00,193 --> 00:31:03,196
[McFadden] This was a classic
alternate-universe scenario,

681
00:31:03,280 --> 00:31:08,243
in which the Nazis won the war,
with a Star Trek twist.

682
00:31:08,327 --> 00:31:12,039
The very last thing you see
is alien space Nazi.

683
00:31:12,122 --> 00:31:13,665
Wait, what?

684
00:31:13,749 --> 00:31:15,334
That was an extraterrestrial.

685
00:31:15,417 --> 00:31:16,335
A Martian?

686
00:31:16,418 --> 00:31:19,338
That was an attempt to wrap up the season,
but leave a thread dangling.

687
00:31:22,382 --> 00:31:25,510
[McFadden] But that thread
was intended to be woven into a rope

688
00:31:25,594 --> 00:31:28,889
to form the backbone
of a whole season of space Nazis.

689
00:31:28,972 --> 00:31:30,349
Or Spazis?

690
00:31:30,432 --> 00:31:34,102
I didn't believe in Nazi Martians,
you know, not until I saw one myself.

691
00:31:34,186 --> 00:31:37,648
Season four was going
to all take place in World War II.

692
00:31:37,731 --> 00:31:40,025
[McFadden]
This was not what Manny signed up for.

693
00:31:40,108 --> 00:31:42,903
[Coto] Here's an opportunity
to run a season of Star Trek,

694
00:31:42,986 --> 00:31:45,113
and I'm gonna be stuck
doing World War II stories?

695
00:31:45,197 --> 00:31:47,741
I mean, I like World War II as much,
I'm fascinated with history as much,

696
00:31:47,824 --> 00:31:51,370
but I don't wanna Archer and these guys
running around Nazi Germany.

697
00:31:51,453 --> 00:31:52,788
It's not what Star Trek is.

698
00:31:52,871 --> 00:31:54,456
I mean, maybe an episode or two, but no.

699
00:31:54,539 --> 00:31:56,375
I've arrived at the same conclusion.

700
00:31:56,458 --> 00:31:59,211
[McFadden] Even though
Rick and Brannon were still around...

701
00:31:59,294 --> 00:32:01,755
I certainly was reading
and commenting on stuff.

702
00:32:01,838 --> 00:32:05,509
[McFadden] ...Manny wanted
to throw out the entire series arc.

703
00:32:05,592 --> 00:32:07,010
At that point, it was his show.

704
00:32:07,094 --> 00:32:09,513
[McFadden]
Maybe it was in Manny

705
00:32:09,596 --> 00:32:12,641
that Rick and Brannon
found their heroic Indiana Jones.

706
00:32:12,724 --> 00:32:15,268
Nazis. I hate these guys.

707
00:32:15,352 --> 00:32:17,896
[McFadden]
Many did away with all of them.

708
00:32:17,979 --> 00:32:19,147
No!

709
00:32:19,231 --> 00:32:21,400
[McFadden]
Indy would be proud.

710
00:32:21,483 --> 00:32:23,819
And with a clean slate,

711
00:32:23,902 --> 00:32:28,615
Manny got to work mining what was
always Enterprise' s greatest treasure.

712
00:32:28,699 --> 00:32:31,493
We have plenty of species
that are fascinating to deal with.

713
00:32:31,576 --> 00:32:35,831
Vulcans, Klingons, Suliban,
Xyrillians, Andorians...

714
00:32:35,914 --> 00:32:38,458
God knows who's gonna be lurking
around the next planet we run into.

715
00:32:38,542 --> 00:32:40,585
[McFadden]
But there was one alien world

716
00:32:40,669 --> 00:32:43,672
Manny wanted to explore above all others,

717
00:32:43,755 --> 00:32:45,841
a true Mecca for all Trekkers,

718
00:32:45,924 --> 00:32:47,342
if they could only go there.

719
00:32:47,426 --> 00:32:52,347
Tell me how your planet Vulcan looks
on a lazy evening when the moon is full.

720
00:32:52,431 --> 00:32:54,182
[Coto]
We were like, "We wanna go to Vulcan.

721
00:32:54,266 --> 00:32:57,060
We wanna see elements of Vulcan
that we have not seen before.

722
00:32:57,144 --> 00:32:57,978
I wanna see a sehlat."

723
00:32:58,061 --> 00:32:59,187
Sehlat?

724
00:32:59,271 --> 00:33:01,940
It's sort of a fat teddy bear.

725
00:33:02,023 --> 00:33:03,442
[sehlat screeching]

726
00:33:03,525 --> 00:33:04,484
What the hell was that?

727
00:33:04,568 --> 00:33:05,777
Sehlat.

728
00:33:05,861 --> 00:33:08,864
[McFadden] Hoping to appeal
to Trek fans old and new.

729
00:33:08,947 --> 00:33:12,159
When I was a child,
I had one has a pet.

730
00:33:12,242 --> 00:33:13,243
You had one of those?

731
00:33:13,326 --> 00:33:14,453
Domesticated.

732
00:33:14,536 --> 00:33:15,996
[McFadden]
Season four of Enterprise

733
00:33:16,079 --> 00:33:20,208
further explored almost every avenue
the original series had hinted at.

734
00:33:20,292 --> 00:33:21,793
Prepare yourselves.

735
00:33:21,877 --> 00:33:23,420
[Altman]
Back to the Organians.

736
00:33:23,503 --> 00:33:25,005
A non-physical life form.

737
00:33:25,088 --> 00:33:26,089
Brent Spiner shows up.

738
00:33:26,173 --> 00:33:27,799
Permission to come aboard, sir?

739
00:33:27,883 --> 00:33:29,509
[Altman]
They're calling in all the favors.

740
00:33:29,593 --> 00:33:30,719
Thank you, Captain.

741
00:33:30,802 --> 00:33:34,848
A lot of missed opportunities were
being made up for in the fourth season.

742
00:33:34,931 --> 00:33:37,642
There were a lot of things
about the four season that were fun.

743
00:33:37,726 --> 00:33:38,977
Great callbacks.

744
00:33:39,060 --> 00:33:42,689
Orion females are known
for their extreme appetites.

745
00:33:42,773 --> 00:33:45,901
[Altman] You wanna tap into
all these parts of Star Trek lore,

746
00:33:45,984 --> 00:33:47,569
but they haven't happened yet.

747
00:33:47,652 --> 00:33:50,614
[sighs] We're not a patient people.

748
00:33:50,697 --> 00:33:52,032
[Michael Westmore]
We redid the Tellarites,

749
00:33:52,115 --> 00:33:54,743
and I thought we did a beautiful job
in redesigning them.

750
00:33:54,826 --> 00:33:55,660
[screaming]

751
00:33:55,744 --> 00:33:57,704
[McFadden]
If it was an original series alien,

752
00:33:57,788 --> 00:34:00,040
it could have a guest spot.

753
00:34:00,123 --> 00:34:04,085
Enterprise also fulfilled
its prequel mission statement

754
00:34:04,169 --> 00:34:07,005
by rebooting and reimagining
a famous moment

755
00:34:07,088 --> 00:34:09,174
from Star Trek: First Contact.

756
00:34:09,257 --> 00:34:11,134
Or should that be first conflict?

757
00:34:11,218 --> 00:34:13,345
Board their ship!
Take everything you can!

758
00:34:13,428 --> 00:34:18,058
[McFadden] In a two-part special,
Manny took fans back to the Terran Empire,

759
00:34:18,141 --> 00:34:22,312
first seen in the original series episode
"Mirror, Mirror."

760
00:34:22,395 --> 00:34:24,940
Terror must be maintained
or the Empire is doomed.

761
00:34:25,023 --> 00:34:27,234
[Coto]
I love alternate realities.

762
00:34:27,317 --> 00:34:29,402
I thought it would be cool
to do the whole episode

763
00:34:29,486 --> 00:34:31,279
as if it was from the mirror universe.

764
00:34:31,363 --> 00:34:34,366
Apparently some kind of transposition
has taken place.

765
00:34:34,449 --> 00:34:36,076
[McFadden]
In which a bearded Spock

766
00:34:36,159 --> 00:34:39,204
showed us how,
in a parallel universe,

767
00:34:39,287 --> 00:34:41,331
things might have
worked out differently.

768
00:34:41,414 --> 00:34:44,793
That's when we got to meet the evil Kirk
and the evil Spock.

769
00:34:44,876 --> 00:34:46,670
I am ordered to kill you.

770
00:34:46,753 --> 00:34:49,256
[McFadden]
Now a new Enterprise crew was suffering,

771
00:34:49,339 --> 00:34:50,841
or enjoying,

772
00:34:50,924 --> 00:34:51,758
the same fate.

773
00:34:51,842 --> 00:34:54,553
And I went, "Oh, I get to be a badass?"

774
00:34:54,636 --> 00:34:57,514
Oh, let's have some fun with Travis."

775
00:34:57,597 --> 00:35:00,225
We had to play, you know,
the bad version of ourselves.

776
00:35:00,308 --> 00:35:03,979
[groaning]

777
00:35:04,062 --> 00:35:05,814
Reed.

778
00:35:05,897 --> 00:35:07,941
I'll kill you when I get out of this.

779
00:35:08,024 --> 00:35:12,320
Manny Coto did this ingenious thing,
where, in the mirror universe,

780
00:35:12,404 --> 00:35:13,613
even our title sequence was different.

781
00:35:13,697 --> 00:35:15,824
[Coto]
I just thought it was an opportunity

782
00:35:15,907 --> 00:35:18,159
to do at least one opening credit
without that theme song.

783
00:35:18,243 --> 00:35:22,956
[man]
♪ 'Cause I've got faith of the heart ♪

784
00:35:23,039 --> 00:35:24,916
[mirror universe theme music playing]

785
00:35:25,000 --> 00:35:29,045
[Billingsley] The theme song
turned into what the theme song would be

786
00:35:29,129 --> 00:35:31,339
for a fascist television show.

787
00:35:31,423 --> 00:35:32,632
[Braga]
It was better.

788
00:35:32,716 --> 00:35:35,302
The mirror universe version
of the theme song was much better.

789
00:35:35,385 --> 00:35:37,053
[McFadden]
By returning to its roots,

790
00:35:37,137 --> 00:35:40,557
Enterprise could finally give
the fans what they wanted.

791
00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:45,812
From what I'm told, the maximum setting
can actually disintegrate a person.

792
00:35:46,771 --> 00:35:48,899
I've been looking forward to trying it.

793
00:35:48,982 --> 00:35:51,026
[Billingsley] The fourth season worked
because it captured

794
00:35:51,109 --> 00:35:52,319
more of the spirit of the original.

795
00:35:52,402 --> 00:35:54,446
We were really picking up steam.

796
00:35:54,529 --> 00:35:59,284
I felt like we jelled as a family
and by season four,

797
00:35:59,367 --> 00:36:01,578
we had definitely found our space legs.

798
00:36:01,661 --> 00:36:03,204
And I felt it was on an upswing.

799
00:36:03,288 --> 00:36:07,334
Enterprise was just starting to get good
and take off.

800
00:36:07,417 --> 00:36:10,128
[McFadden]
But just as Star Trek: Enterprise

801
00:36:10,211 --> 00:36:12,464
began to show the promise
of its forebears...

802
00:36:12,547 --> 00:36:15,884
We were in the middle of shooting
those "Mirror, Darkly" episodes.

803
00:36:15,967 --> 00:36:17,302
[McFadden]
...things went darkly.

804
00:36:17,385 --> 00:36:20,513
[Trinneer] Season four,
we probably had four episodes left,

805
00:36:20,597 --> 00:36:22,891
and we found out that the plug got pulled.

806
00:36:28,021 --> 00:36:29,898
Will you kindly die?

807
00:36:29,981 --> 00:36:32,067
[McFadden]
On the eve of its fifth season,

808
00:36:32,150 --> 00:36:35,153
Star Trek: Enterprise
received some bad news.

809
00:36:35,236 --> 00:36:36,655
[Keating]
We'd spent some years together,

810
00:36:36,738 --> 00:36:38,990
and now we were taking it
to the finish line.

811
00:36:39,074 --> 00:36:41,159
[McFadden]
Enterprise was canceled.

812
00:36:41,242 --> 00:36:44,871
It really was sad that it had to end
at the end of four seasons.

813
00:36:44,955 --> 00:36:46,790
[McFadden]
Sad, but not unexpected.

814
00:36:46,873 --> 00:36:48,124
This is quite a surprise.

815
00:36:48,208 --> 00:36:49,501
No, it was a surprise.

816
00:36:49,584 --> 00:36:51,086
[McFadden]
Okay, but only for some.

817
00:36:51,169 --> 00:36:53,505
Oh, come on. [laughs]
I mean, what were you expecting?

818
00:36:53,588 --> 00:36:56,800
I started hearing talks of us
being canceled the first season.

819
00:36:56,883 --> 00:36:59,386
It was a miracle that we survived
as long as we did.

820
00:36:59,469 --> 00:37:01,054
[McFadden]
The way Rick Berman found out

821
00:37:01,137 --> 00:37:05,767
said a lot about everything
that had changed at now CBS-run Paramount.

822
00:37:05,850 --> 00:37:08,979
I remember the person who called me
and told me that the show

823
00:37:09,062 --> 00:37:13,608
was not gonna go to a fifth season
was somebody I barely knew at CBS.

824
00:37:13,692 --> 00:37:16,444
We were never given a reason.
We were just told it was over.

825
00:37:17,278 --> 00:37:20,490
I think the studio was just like,
"This is it."

826
00:37:20,573 --> 00:37:23,535
I was hoping it was all just a bad dream.

827
00:37:23,618 --> 00:37:26,413
[McFadden]
But this wasn't just a bad dream

828
00:37:26,621 --> 00:37:27,872
or about bad ratings.

829
00:37:27,956 --> 00:37:30,125
This was about bad blood.

830
00:37:30,208 --> 00:37:33,461
That's what happened there.
It was a personality conflict.

831
00:37:33,545 --> 00:37:37,799
The problem was CBS, Les Moonves,
who was in charge,

832
00:37:37,882 --> 00:37:39,634
and he and Rick Berman hated each other.

833
00:37:39,718 --> 00:37:43,513
The pissing match had been pissed,
and Rick lost.

834
00:37:43,596 --> 00:37:47,100
Les Moonves just says, "Well,
I'm gonna shut this down right now."

835
00:37:47,183 --> 00:37:50,937
[McFadden] Whether the hit on Enterprise
was personal or professional...

836
00:37:51,021 --> 00:37:53,565
I was as disappointed as everyone.

837
00:37:53,648 --> 00:37:57,027
[McFadden] ...if it felt slightly personal
for Rick Berman,

838
00:37:57,110 --> 00:38:00,071
it was just as hard
for the Enterprise crew.

839
00:38:00,155 --> 00:38:01,322
Ah, something in my eye.

840
00:38:01,406 --> 00:38:05,326
[Trinneer] Getting canceled
was such a slap in the face.

841
00:38:05,410 --> 00:38:06,703
I took it kind of personally.

842
00:38:06,786 --> 00:38:09,456
You know, I've devoted four years
of my life to this thing.

843
00:38:09,539 --> 00:38:14,252
"Say it ain't so."
"Yeah, I'm afraid so. It's done."

844
00:38:14,335 --> 00:38:16,212
At least I'm capable
of accepting our fate.

845
00:38:16,296 --> 00:38:20,759
[McFadden] The question now was how
to go out with a bang, not a whimper.

846
00:38:20,842 --> 00:38:24,721
I looked at "Demons" and "Terra Prime"
as the finale for Enterprise.

847
00:38:24,804 --> 00:38:26,264
[Archer]
Enterprise has been called home

848
00:38:26,347 --> 00:38:29,768
for what could prove to be
a pivotal moment in human history.

849
00:38:29,851 --> 00:38:32,395
[McFadden] A two-episode arc
that proved the crucial peace

850
00:38:32,479 --> 00:38:34,439
in the Star Trek prequel puzzle.

851
00:38:34,522 --> 00:38:36,483
An unprecedented alliance.

852
00:38:36,566 --> 00:38:39,527
[McFadden]
How the Federation of Planets came to be.

853
00:38:40,695 --> 00:38:44,324
Those two episodes were really good.

854
00:38:44,407 --> 00:38:47,827
And a lot of people consider those
the finale of Enterprise

855
00:38:47,911 --> 00:38:48,870
and they don't count the finale.

856
00:38:48,953 --> 00:38:51,289
[McFadden]
That's because for many fans

857
00:38:51,372 --> 00:38:55,460
the official finale saw Enterprise
not just taking leave of its post,

858
00:38:55,543 --> 00:38:57,420
but taking leave of its senses.

859
00:38:57,504 --> 00:39:00,757
[Braga] Rick and I had been working
on Star Trek for a long time.

860
00:39:00,840 --> 00:39:04,385
Maybe the last one would be
a little Valentine to the franchise.

861
00:39:06,221 --> 00:39:07,180
That's better.

862
00:39:07,263 --> 00:39:10,892
[McFadden] But this Valentine turned out
to be more like a Valentine massacre.

863
00:39:10,975 --> 00:39:12,143
[groans]

864
00:39:12,227 --> 00:39:15,021
[Braga] What if it's actually
a Next Generation episode

865
00:39:15,105 --> 00:39:16,147
that we haven't seen?

866
00:39:16,231 --> 00:39:17,315
I don't like it.

867
00:39:17,398 --> 00:39:19,234
[McFadden]
And so the whole final episode

868
00:39:19,317 --> 00:39:21,736
takes place
on a different Enterprise,

869
00:39:21,820 --> 00:39:24,447
with Commander Riker
from The Next Generation

870
00:39:24,531 --> 00:39:27,450
taking viewers to a different era.

871
00:39:27,534 --> 00:39:29,786
Pull up a chair.
I could use the company.

872
00:39:29,869 --> 00:39:33,540
[McFadden] It was like Star Trek
had been hijacked by itself,

873
00:39:33,623 --> 00:39:35,500
and it was all thanks to the holodeck...

874
00:39:35,583 --> 00:39:36,876
End program.

875
00:39:36,960 --> 00:39:40,922
[McFadden] ...where Riker had been playing
back Captain Archer's Enterprise odyssey.

876
00:39:41,005 --> 00:39:43,591
Have you learned anything
on the holodeck about breaking orders?

877
00:39:43,675 --> 00:39:47,262
Not yet. I've gone back a couple
of days earlier to get a perspective.

878
00:39:47,345 --> 00:39:51,516
The device to get Jonathan and Marina
into our episode was pretty clunky.

879
00:39:51,599 --> 00:39:55,145
[McFadden] Not only that,
it raised some uncomfortable questions

880
00:39:55,228 --> 00:39:56,479
for Enterprise fans.

881
00:39:56,563 --> 00:39:59,232
[Anthony Montgomery] "So, wait,
did our show actually happen then?

882
00:39:59,315 --> 00:40:02,819
Are you saying that these 96 episodes,
they happened on a holiday?

883
00:40:02,902 --> 00:40:04,445
Is that what I'm reading?"

884
00:40:04,529 --> 00:40:05,864
That's where I was with it.

885
00:40:05,947 --> 00:40:07,323
Like, "Wait, what?"

886
00:40:07,407 --> 00:40:08,533
We'll see about that.

887
00:40:08,616 --> 00:40:11,286
[McFadden]
Scott Bakula reacted so badly,

888
00:40:11,369 --> 00:40:13,788
Brannon almost lost
his seat at the captain's table.

889
00:40:13,872 --> 00:40:17,375
[Braga] It's the only time
I ever saw Scott Bakula get mad.

890
00:40:17,458 --> 00:40:19,043
He was mad at me.

891
00:40:19,127 --> 00:40:21,462
Scott loathed that last episode.

892
00:40:21,546 --> 00:40:23,214
Here's to the next generation.

893
00:40:23,298 --> 00:40:24,549
[Braga]
The cast felt disrespected.

894
00:40:24,632 --> 00:40:27,468
It wasn't really their final episode.

895
00:40:27,552 --> 00:40:30,221
We tried to do something
more all-encompassing,

896
00:40:30,305 --> 00:40:35,101
and perhaps we diminished Enterprise
as a result.

897
00:40:35,185 --> 00:40:37,604
I had to memorize this speech
in grammar school.

898
00:40:37,687 --> 00:40:39,522
[McFadden]
This was an ambitious finale

899
00:40:39,606 --> 00:40:43,067
designed to wrap up
much more than just one show.

900
00:40:43,151 --> 00:40:46,863
[Coto] Rick and Brannon wanted a finale
to wrap up the entire 18 year

901
00:40:46,946 --> 00:40:48,907
of Rick's Star Trek
from Next Generation on.

902
00:40:48,990 --> 00:40:50,533
That's impossible.

903
00:40:50,617 --> 00:40:53,328
[Coto] Rick and Brannon wrote it
on their own and produced it on their own.

904
00:40:53,411 --> 00:40:55,371
It was not just the end of Enterprise,

905
00:40:55,455 --> 00:40:58,041
it was the end of what
we now call the Berman era.

906
00:40:58,124 --> 00:41:01,211
Trying to bookend and put a bow
on the Berman era,

907
00:41:01,294 --> 00:41:02,128
you know, it made sense.

908
00:41:02,212 --> 00:41:04,797
-[applause]
-End program.

909
00:41:04,881 --> 00:41:06,883
[McFadden]
But not to fans.

910
00:41:06,966 --> 00:41:11,262
Great idea at the time,
but that's a much-maligned episode,

911
00:41:11,346 --> 00:41:14,182
judging from the reaction
to the episode over the years.

912
00:41:14,265 --> 00:41:17,435
[McFadden]
And so 18 years of Star Trek,

913
00:41:17,518 --> 00:41:22,065
now known as the Berman era,
had come to a confusing conclusion.

914
00:41:22,148 --> 00:41:24,150
I never thought it would come to an end.

915
00:41:24,234 --> 00:41:26,069
All good things.

916
00:41:26,152 --> 00:41:29,447
[Altman] This wasn't the cancelation
of four years of Enterprise.

917
00:41:29,530 --> 00:41:32,825
This was the cancelation
of like 20 years of Star Trek.

918
00:41:32,909 --> 00:41:33,993
Impressive.

919
00:41:34,077 --> 00:41:35,495
[McFadden]
Enterprise now had the distinction

920
00:41:35,578 --> 00:41:40,083
of being the first live-action
Star Trek show since the original series

921
00:41:40,166 --> 00:41:42,293
not to run a full seven seasons.

922
00:41:42,377 --> 00:41:44,754
[Trinneer]
The fact that we went four seasons,

923
00:41:44,837 --> 00:41:47,257
I guess in the club of Star Trek
was a disappointment.

924
00:41:47,340 --> 00:41:48,591
I think that's ridiculous.

925
00:41:48,675 --> 00:41:50,510
We did 98 episodes.

926
00:41:50,593 --> 00:41:53,179
In my mind,
that's nothing but a success.

927
00:41:53,263 --> 00:41:54,973
You should be very proud
of yourself, Captain.

928
00:41:55,056 --> 00:41:59,894
[McFadden] The reign of Gene Roddenberry's
handpicked successor was over.

929
00:41:59,978 --> 00:42:05,483
Nineteen years of doing Star Trek ,
it was incredibly rewarding.

930
00:42:05,566 --> 00:42:10,113
[McFadden] After more than
600 episodes across four series.

931
00:42:10,196 --> 00:42:12,615
[Berman]
It meant a great deal to a lot of people.

932
00:42:12,699 --> 00:42:16,619
But to me, the thing that I'll remember
more than anything else is that family.

933
00:42:16,703 --> 00:42:19,414
[McFadden]
The Star Trek family has survived

934
00:42:19,497 --> 00:42:24,544
and remains the most enduring
science-fiction dynasty on our screens,

935
00:42:24,627 --> 00:42:26,629
after well over half a century.

936
00:42:26,713 --> 00:42:27,547
Energize.

937
00:42:31,634 --> 00:42:34,595
Don't think I'm quite ready to have my
molecules compressed into a data stream.

938
00:42:34,679 --> 00:42:38,308
[McFadden]
And despite dematerializing many times,

939
00:42:38,391 --> 00:42:40,601
it continues to transport us.

940
00:42:40,685 --> 00:42:44,355
[Altman] You know, Star Trek always
resurrects itself and reinvents itself.

941
00:42:44,439 --> 00:42:45,815
You know, it's a hard thing to kill.

942
00:42:45,898 --> 00:42:47,942
We live in a world where
you can't turn on the television

943
00:42:48,026 --> 00:42:48,943
without a Star Trek spinoff.

944
00:42:49,027 --> 00:42:52,989
There's a legacy involved here
that we're privileged to be a part of.

945
00:42:53,072 --> 00:42:56,200
[McFadden] Today, as one
of the most watched, most loved,

946
00:42:56,284 --> 00:42:59,037
and most influential franchises ever,

947
00:42:59,120 --> 00:43:01,956
for 55 years and counting,

948
00:43:02,040 --> 00:43:04,834
the Star Trek mission continues.

949
00:43:07,211 --> 00:43:09,297
[theme music playing]