I think it’s fair to say that the Star Trek fanbase has been dealt a severe blow with the cancellation of the very good Enterprise series. So what’s in store with the show they promise to revitalise the franchise? Coming Soon has some news on it from the writer Erik Jendresen no less.
He says he has turned in the first draft of the script to Paramount Pictures.
“This would take place just a couple of years after the end of the events in ‘Enterprise’ but well before the original series, and it would look at the inciting incident that started everything,” he said. “The story is big and epic, and it isn’t as antiseptic as the television stories had to be.”
Jendresen adds that “The Beginning” would also not be centered around the traditional “Star Trek” model of a captain, crew, and starship.
“We’re looking at a very small group of men and women, particularly focusing on one character,” he explains. “There are a couple of ships, including a principal ship, but this is not a traditional captain and crew of a starship story in the least.”
What inciting incident that started everything is that? I thought that with Enterprise we were getting to see everything evolve towards the Federation? Is there something I missed? Oh, and what’s with calling the stories “antiseptic”? I’m not a huge Star Trek fan, I mean I do like the films but until Enterprise, and the latter stories of Deep Space Nine and Voyager, I wasn’t really interested. I was a Babylon 5 man. Yet calling the shows “antisceptic”, isn’t that rather harsh? Would you agree with him, and what of the idea that this is not about a Captain and crew?
