master_q 0 Posted May 16, 2003 Spoliers! Click for Spoiler: New spoilers for the Enterprise season finale, "The Expanse", reveal the roles that the Klingon Duras and the Suliban play in Captain Archer's struggle with the mysterious Xindi. As previously reported, the finale begins with an alien probe wreaking havoc on Earth from Florida to Venezuela, killing Tucker's sister and millions of others. The Great Link cites sources from SFX magazine with more details of the plot. Returning home at warp speed, Archer is briefly abducted by the Suliban, who bring him to the mysterious futuristic time-traveler. The time-traveler identifies Earth's attackers as the Xindi — a race that humans will destroy 400 years in the future. Archer is warned that the Temporal Cold War is heating up and that an unknown party is aiding the Xindi. Upon its approach to Earth, Enterprise comes under attack from Duras, but other vessels deter the Klingons. The Vulcans doubt Archer's information about an attack from a different era, but Archer is able to demonstrate that the probe's remains appear to be from the future. The coordinates Archer has been given for the Xindi are in the Delphic Expanse, a region of space so dangerous that the Vulcans believe any mission there would be suicidal. With new weapons, Enterprise — along with a defiant T'Pol, who has been ordered back to Vulcan — heads toward the Expanse. But the Klingons attack again, though Duras' ship is destroyed. Enterprise enters the Expanse at the very end of the cliffhanger episode. SFX also reports that the NX-02 is under construction. Please visit The Great Link for the full SFX summary. --TrekToday http://www.trektoday.com/news/160503_03.shtml Are you looking forward to this episode? Why? Why not? Will this give ENT the ‘edge’ it needs? Master Q StarTrek_Master_Q@yahoo.com Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
master_q 0 Posted May 21, 2003 Warning: Spoliers! Click for Spoiler: Enterprise Sets New Course Rick Berman, executive producer of UPN's Enterprise, told SCI FI Wire that the upcoming second-season finale will send the show off in a "startling" new direction. "What we've decided to take on here in our third season, which is more than hinted on in this final episode, is that for the first time a Star Trek television series is taking on a specific mission other than just exploring space. And because this mission is preceded by a very heinous act of destruction on Earth, the series is going to be far more action-packed." The finale, "The Expanse," which was written by Berman and Brannon Braga, begins with a terrible attack on the Earth that leads to the Enterprise's being recalled home. Berman admits to seeing parallels in the episode with the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. But he added that they weren't apparent when he and Braga began to work on the story. "We were literally way into the scripting stages before we started to see the parallel," Berman said. "I think one of the things that motivated us is in analyzing the 10 existing Star Trek movies, we were looking for something that would help torque up our series and add a little dimension to get a little added excitement towards the end of the season. We did a little analysis of our own, and we saw that two of the most popular movies ... were Star Trek IV [The Voyage Home], which was the one about whales, and Star Trek VIII, which was First Contact. These were both films that had to do with the future of Earth being at stake. And we decided that that would be a great place to start. ... It wasn't literally for a long time that we suddenly realized [the parallel]. But the idea of aliens coming to destroy Earth has been around a lot longer than 9/11." Berman said that "The Expanse" will set in motion a series of events that will play out in an arc next season, involving the Enterprise's journey into a dangerous Bermuda-Triangle-type area of space to search for those responsible for the attack. "The Expanse" airs at 8 p.m. ET/PT May 21. --SciFiWire http://www.scifi.com/scifiwire/art-main.ht...-05/20/12.30.tv Master Q StarTrek_Master_Q@yahoo.com Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
removed 0 Posted May 21, 2003 i AM and i AM NOT looking forward to it. i think it will be a good little direction, but i dont want it to go on for the rest of the series unless it is as good as the cardassian war. it could get old quickly. lets hope for some good and creative writing Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
