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Titolo: Il flop di ENT secondo Berman

http://scifipulse.net/Trek_ArchiveII/December2006/Rick_Berman.html
It’s hard to believe that this year has been for many the first season of
Television where we haven’t joined one Star Trek crew or another on their
latest adventures. One person who also finds it a bit hard to swallow is
Rick Berman who for most part of 18 years was a main player in the various
incarnations of Star Trek. As we all know this year marked the 40th
Anniversary of Star Trek and it also marked the first year in 18 years that
there has been no new star trek on Television. In the new issue of Star
Trek Magazine Rick Berman talked about Enterprise and where he feels that
it may have failed to live up to its promise.
“There was a feeling that Enterprise was going to be a show that was a
precursor to the original series, and although I’ve read a lot of
depictions of both Brannon and myself ‘hating’ the original series, that
could not be farther from the truth. We were not obsessed by the original
series. I can openly admit that I did not see all 79 episodes of the
original series, or 80 if you include the various versions of the pilot,
but it was something we respected and did our best to lead up to. But I
think that was something that was unsettling for the fans.”
As we all know the mandate for Enterprise was to produce a Star Trek show,
which would hopefully appeal to a broader audience. Berman and Braga tried
to do this by introducing us to what they felt were more contemporary
characters.
“They weren’t from the distant future as much. And we felt we could have
more of a contemporary television show and less of a show-taking place in
the distant future, something a little different from the Roddenberry
humans of the 23rd Century or even the 24th Century who were pretty
flawless. From that point of view, these were the choices at the time that
seemed very reasonable and I would probably do again. But it had pitfalls
and maybe at times it became a bit too casual, and a bit too contemporary,
and lost some of its science fiction flavour and some of its futuristic
flavour that would make it a precursor to the original series. It certainly
had its problems.”
As we all know Enterprise really only really started to find its ‘Star Trek
Factor’ once Manny Coto came on the scene and produced a set of episodes
which tied into some of the more popular episodes and plot threads of the
original series. In fact Berman revealed that Coto’s enthusiasm for the
series was infectious.
“Manny had a tremendous amount of excitement about the potential links
between Enterprise and the first season of the original series, and he
wanted to build those bridges, or at least create steps that would
foreshadow some of the things that would happen in the original series. I
think to the hardcore fans it was a terrific direction to go. On the other
hand, the ratings continued to slip a bit. The problems that existed
continued and the release of our final movie [Nemesis] did not help.
“Looking back, the lack of support and the lack of interest people seemed
to have in UPN didn’t help us, either. We were working on a network that,
in a sense, was completely contradictory to the nature of the show. UPN had
become a network of young women and girls and it was not a good marriage at
that point.”
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Il flop di Berman secondo ENT: già durante la 3a stagione si sapeva che 
sarebbe stata presto chiusa :-\
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 sarebbe stata presto chiusa :-\
Praticamente ha dato la colpa a tutto tranne che al fatto che il casting e' 
stato osceno.
I personaggi con lo spessore della carta velina.
Hanno provato a fare una mega guerra sperando di ottenere quello che ds9 
ottenne quando comincio' la guerra col dominio.
Hanno messo una bella ragaSSuola ma che non reggerebbe mai il paragone con 
la bellezza e lo spessore del personaggio di 7di9 (per fare un paragone).
Mah.. devo dire che a parte Scott Bakula (che come capitano non sarebbe 
stato malvagio) e Portos, non e' che ne abbiano imbroccate molte.
E per la cronaca, IO ADORO STAR TREK... ho tutti i cofanetti, l'uniforme, 
etc etc...
Ho invece esultato per una serie 'strana' come Firefly e la nuova Battlestar 
galactica...
Mah.. speriamo in bene...