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<blockquote data-quote="Elodan" data-source="post: 1668259" data-attributes="member: 8006"><p><strong>From SciFi.com:</strong></p><p><strong>(<a href="http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-07/22/12.30.tv" target="_blank">http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-07/22/12.30.tv</a>)</strong></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">Manny Coto, co-executive producer of UPN's <em>Star Trek: Enterprise</em>, told SCI FI Wire that as one of the show's new head writers, he wants the show to link up more with the original <em>Star Trek</em> series and its subsequent series. <!-- END -->"I'm a fan of the ... original [<em>Star</em>] <em>Trek</em>," Coto said in an interview at UPN's fall press tour in Los Angeles. "And season four for me is going to be everything I, as an old <em>Star Trek</em> fan, would want to see on <em>Enterprise</em>, Which is basically a lot of touchstones connecting <em>Enterprise</em> with the old series and with the <em>Next Generation</em> series."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">For Coto, that in part means incorporating more of the original series' aliens, such as the green-skinned Orions from "Shadowplay," as well as the more familiar Andorians and Vulcans. "A lot of people have noticed that the Vulcans on <em>Enterprise</em> don't behave like the Vulcans from the Kirk era and/or the <em>Next Generation</em> era," Coto said. "The Vulcans on <em>Enterprise</em> are more impulsive. They actually are somewhat more emotional. They lie. They don't have the same kind of values that the Vulcans that we know of."</span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 10px">To bridge the gap, Coto envisions a story arc in which a revolutionary Vulcan—Coto calls him a "Lawrence of Arabia" of Vulcan—proclaims that Vulcans have strayed from the teachings of Surak, the legendary Vulcan who ushered in the Time of Awakening and founded the movement based on logic and peace. "And this character will lead a revolution on Vulcan, which will bring Vulcan and Vulcan ideals to where we know them in the later series," Coto said. "And <em>Enterprise</em> will get involved in this." As a result of this resurgence, the political situation with the Andorians changes, and mysterious dissidents on the planet Vulcan attempt to stir up a civil war (and will later be revealed to have been Romulans in disguise), he added. "That's an example of the kinds of stories that we're going to tell this season," Coto said.</span></p><p> </p><p>---------------------------</p><p> </p><p>If this is true, I'll start watching again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Elodan, post: 1668259, member: 8006"] [b]From SciFi.com:[/b] [b]([url="http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-07/22/12.30.tv"]http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.html?2004-07/22/12.30.tv[/url])[/b] [size=2]Manny Coto, co-executive producer of UPN's [i]Star Trek: Enterprise[/i], told SCI FI Wire that as one of the show's new head writers, he wants the show to link up more with the original [i]Star Trek[/i] series and its subsequent series. <!-- END -->"I'm a fan of the ... original [[i]Star[/i]] [i]Trek[/i]," Coto said in an interview at UPN's fall press tour in Los Angeles. "And season four for me is going to be everything I, as an old [i]Star Trek[/i] fan, would want to see on [i]Enterprise[/i], Which is basically a lot of touchstones connecting [i]Enterprise[/i] with the old series and with the [i]Next Generation[/i] series."[/size] [size=2]For Coto, that in part means incorporating more of the original series' aliens, such as the green-skinned Orions from "Shadowplay," as well as the more familiar Andorians and Vulcans. "A lot of people have noticed that the Vulcans on [i]Enterprise[/i] don't behave like the Vulcans from the Kirk era and/or the [i]Next Generation[/i] era," Coto said. "The Vulcans on [i]Enterprise[/i] are more impulsive. They actually are somewhat more emotional. They lie. They don't have the same kind of values that the Vulcans that we know of."[/size] [size=2]To bridge the gap, Coto envisions a story arc in which a revolutionary Vulcan—Coto calls him a "Lawrence of Arabia" of Vulcan—proclaims that Vulcans have strayed from the teachings of Surak, the legendary Vulcan who ushered in the Time of Awakening and founded the movement based on logic and peace. "And this character will lead a revolution on Vulcan, which will bring Vulcan and Vulcan ideals to where we know them in the later series," Coto said. "And [i]Enterprise[/i] will get involved in this." As a result of this resurgence, the political situation with the Andorians changes, and mysterious dissidents on the planet Vulcan attempt to stir up a civil war (and will later be revealed to have been Romulans in disguise), he added. "That's an example of the kinds of stories that we're going to tell this season," Coto said.[/size] --------------------------- If this is true, I'll start watching again. [/QUOTE]
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