Posted on 08/10/2004 9:59:12 AM PDT by presidio9
UPN has reportedly commissioned advertisements touting William Shatner's (James T. Kirk) return to Star Trek.
CBS Television City Research Center, located in Las Vegas's MGM grand hotel, is showing a commercial for Enterprise's fourth season announcing a guest appearance by Shatner, according to a post by 'Lt. Barclay' on the TrekWeb message boards.
Barclay said in his report that the center previewed an episode of CBS's new comedy series, Centre of the Universe, for visitors. "During the show, a few UPN commercials were shown, including one for Enterprise," he said in his report. The Enterprise ad reportedly contained scenes from season three, followed by a Star Trek logo and a voice over announcing that Shatner would be appearing in two episodes this season.
Rumours about Shatner making the trek to Enterprise have circulated since the series premiere in fall 2001, but have picked up steam in recent months. Back in May, executive producer Rick Berman said the writers were looking for a way to bring Shatner on board Enterprise. In June, it was reported the actor approached Berman with a "great story idea" for a guest stint (story). The only stumbling block at that time was that Shatner is signed as a regular on ABC's new drama series, Boston Legal, and would require time off to appear on Enterprise.
The CBS Television City Research Center is a joint initiative between Viacom, the parent company of CBS and UPN, and ACNielsen, which provides television ratings data. The complex includes screening rooms fitted with touch screens so visitors can give instant feedback on the programs as they are watching them.
Please note that this information has yet to be confirmed by UPN or Paramount Pictures and until such time you should treat it as you would any rumour from an unofficial source. The original post can be found here at the TrekWeb forums.
Seriously, why do Star Trek threads always bring in at least one Berman/Braga fanboi?
Yeh babe, it's like so hep! It's swingin' on a star.
Enterprise has already had an episode with a nascent Borg planet/ship, the one where the ship was repaired by an automated repair station.
(Oh, dear. Now I've outed myself as a Trekkie. Maybe I just watch it for the beagle scenes?)
If its on a fourth, they might as well contract for the remaining three seasons so they can syndicate it. However, I do not think there will be a new ST show for a couple of years. Paramount's famous franchise has been a victim of its own success.
Wishful thinking, Enterprise will not get beyond season 4... the only reason UPN even picked it up was because they slashed the price per episode to insanely low levels. THis was done by the production company to get season 4 in the can so they would have 100 episodes and be able to sell its reruns into syndication.
Enterprise will not make another season, at least not another season on non Cable broadcast TV... I suppose it is possible that a cable network might pick it up after this season with original episodes, but I wouldn't bet on it. Sadly they took an reasonable premise and promptly put it in the toilet.
However as bad as Enterprise has been, at least it has not been as bad as the worst ST ever.... Voyager... 7 years and the only character remotely worthwhile was the damned hologram.
After the steaming nugget that Enterprise is, and the insanely lame Voyager that proceeded it (As bad as Enterprise is, Voyager was far worse).. I think ST (new series') needs to "disappear" for a while. Its pretty obvious the whole "ST Universe" is running on empty and has been for a good while now.
I thought it was going to be about his daughter running away and him being educated on interstellar space graphitti and what it meant as he tried to find her and get out of the ugly underbelly side of interstellar exploration....
That's the second episode
"Deep Space Nine" was the last worthwhile Star Trek series, and Sisko was the best captain yet.
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