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Titolo: Brannon Braga fa lo spiritoso

http://www.trektoday.com/news/290904_05.shtml
Star Trek: Enterprise executive producer Brannon Braga promised that the
show will not put Earth in jeopardy this season but joked that fans should
not sing "Ding Dong, the witch is dead" because of his stated plans to
scale back his role in hands-on production.
Speaking to the October/November issue of Star Trek Magazine (via his
official web site), Braga spoke of his plans for next season, including a
number of mini-arcs and an overarching thread for the season that "will
probably culminate in the formation of the Federation. I don't know exactly
how...but it's really time to usher in the birth of modern-day Star Trek
and see how Archer and the gang were involved in that."
At the end of the Xindi arc, said Braga, the production staff always knew
that Enterprise would save Earth, and joked that they wanted "some twist
where the crew gets home and giant cockroaches are ruling the Earth." Then
they decided that they wanted to do something other than a predictable
ending or a Xindi cliffhanger. "We went through a lot of different
scenarios about what they would find when they got back home. I can't
remember who said 'Nazis,' but we just somehow ended up with Nazis. Then
that didn't even feel like enough, so we decided to make them alien Nazis."
That, they felt, would enable them to kick off the next season in an
unexpected direction.
After the seriousness of the Xindi arc, Braga felt that "it was a radical
shift in tone to something that was wacky" with the alien Nazis, who
dominate the first mini-arc at the start of the new season. "What's most
fun to me about these Nazi stories is that they take place in New York
City," he said. "It's very entertaining, but kind of disturbing to see the
optical effects of a Nazi flag draped on the White House. Take the
political commentary as you will."
Braga was pleased with the development of each of the Xindi species and
"the backstabbing and Shakespearean stuff that was going on" near the end
of the arc. He also had particular praise for Randy Oglesby as Degra. "We
knew we wanted to create an Oppenheimer-like-character who was the
mastermind behind building the bomb, who was very committed to his species
but wracked with guilt, just like Oppenheimer," he said. "And we found a
great actor...Randy gave us more than we ever expected, so we used the
character more than we thought we would."
Next season, said Braga, there will be a lot of continuity and "a lot of
concepts and characters and villains that have been part of Star Trek over
the years, but that haven't been explored yet or haven't been revisited in
some way." These include Vulcan history and the Eugenics Wars from the time
of Khan. In addition, the Temporal Cold War will be resolved once and for
all, and a character will get married and stay married.
As for his own role, "I am not leaving. I am going to remain a producer on
the show, but in a supervisory capacity," explained Braga. "I'm not going
to do what I did in the final season of Star Trek: Voyager. I was basically
a 'consultant' and didn't do anything...I'll be more involved in the
development of stories and giving Manny notes and definitely keeping a hand
in the production and stuff like that. But I have a lot of faith in Manny
Coto to kind of grab the reins and take on the daily creative running of
the show."
For more, including Braga's plans to develop a new series with Rick Berman,
see the transcript from Star Trek Magazine at BrannonBraga.com.
http://www.brannonbraga.com/2004_october.htm
Jolan Tru
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 scale back his role in hands-on production.
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