Braga reflects on "Enterprise" cancelation.

[coloradodem2005]

03.02.2005
Braga Reflects on Show's Cancellation


The cancellation of Enterprise after its fourth season may signal the end of Star Trek for now, but the franchise is not down and out for good, and a break may be the best thing for it. That's the sentiment expressed by Enterprise co-creator and executive producer Brannon Braga last week during a talk to students and faculty at a college east of Los Angeles.
"After 18 straight years on the air and 750-some episodes the current run of Star Trek is over. Which is a good thing. It needs a rest," Braga told the audience of about 200, mostly undergraduate students. "I don't know for how long. It's not up to me, it's up to Paramount Pictures. It could be a couple of years, it could be eight years, I don't know. But it is over for now."

Without elaborating, he also commented, "I don't see it as a cancellation, I see it as more of a gestation."

Braga's talk, part of a regular speaker series at Claremont McKenna College, was booked well in advance under the titles "The Philosophy of Star Trek" and "Confessions of a Star Trek Writer." But given that the appearance came on the heels of the show's cancellation, he was forced to reflect on the implications of that development.

"The most common question
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[Enraged_Ape]

1. I'd like to see Braga & Berman produce a reality show with porn stars...

going out on dates with "regular people". I think this is a show we need to see, I think it would be a big hit, and I think Braga and Berman have the track record in television to pull it off. It is also as far away from Star Trek as possible.

-- "Taking questions from the students, he was asked to comment on the dialog in "Star Trek: First Contact" — which he co-wrote — that indicated there is no money in the future. 'In Picard's time, and in basic Star Trek's time, the economy is not driven by money. I'm really not sure what goes on,' he confessed." --

That quote right there tells you all you need to know about the difference between Berman & Braga and Gene Roddenberry. Roddenberry would not only have known what they use in the future for currency, but he would have gotten some slick writer like the Snow Crash guy to write a teleplay about it. The events in the story would seem real to you because they would be real to the writer, not just a lot of hack technobabble bullshit thrown on 60 pages and masquerading as plot.

Goodbye, clueless fuckhead Braga. I look forward to the 'next generation' of Star Trek without any of your involvement whatsoever.