ENT "Carpenter Street"

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ENT "Carpenter Street"

 

Sources today revealed the first plot details for Enterprise's upcoming 21st century episode mentioned by executive producer Rick Berman last month (story).

 

Currently entitled "Carpenter Street", the episode will reportedly see T'Pol and Archer going "undercover" in the North American city of Detroit. But this isn't any ordinary time travel outing, with "Carpenter Street" set to tie into Enterprise's overall Xindi story arc.

 

The Xindi have an agent on Earth, a man named Loomis, whom they have coerced into helping them with their master plan. Under the spell of the Xindi, Loomis reportedly uses a blood bank as a cover for kidnapping humans in order to deliver them to the aliens. It's up to Archer and T'Pol to put a stop to the Xindi's infiltration of 21st century Earth.

 

Speaking about "Carpenter Street" last month, Rick Berman said the producers were "very excited" about the episode. "We've got a story in development now that will, in what I think is quite an intriguing way, bring some of our characters into the 21st Century, better known as our present," he said (story).

 

Please note that these episode details have not yet been officially confirmed by Paramount Pictures or UPN and until such time you should treat this information as you would any other rumour from an unofficial source. These details come from an early draft of the script and aspects of the episode may change as it enters production.

 

"Carpenter Street" will likely air in November, 2003.

--TrekToday http://www.trektoday.com/news/021003_01.shtml

 

 

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"Star Trek: Enterprise" Travels Back in Time

 

 

Earlier this week, MediaWeek’s Mark Berman joked that it’s “too bad Scott Bakula can't leap back into an older - and better - edition of “Star Trek.”” Well, at least producers are trying in part to acquiese the trade writer. In the eleventh episode of the new season, “Star Trek: Enterprise” is boldly going…back in time. Detroit, circa 2004, to be exact.

 

According to official casting documents obtained by FilmJerk.com, producers for the UPN series are looking to cast a villain for an episode entitled “Carpenter Street,” which will film between October 10 through 20.

 

According to these documents, which are used by actor’s agents to match up their clientele with roles currently up for audition, the series is seeking a star name for “a villain,” a role described as being between the wide-set ages of 25 and 40. This as-yet-unnamed guest star serves as the impetus for bringing the fleet’s lead characters back to the Motor City. He is described as “slimy, contemporary, and urban petty criminal.”

 

According to TrekWeb, the episodes focuses on “a Xindi agent in Detroit must be stopped from funneling unsuspecting people to their deaths, using a blood bank as a cover.” According to the news item there, Archer and T'Pol must travel back in time to stop him. It is unknown at this time how the “unnamed villain” above plays into this plot.

 

While in scenic Detroit, the series’ stars will encounter a pair of prostitutes, a panhandler, police officers and an impoverished and wheelchair-bound middle-aged man named “Strode.”

 

Last Wednesday’s episode of the series came in sixth among the major broadcast networks (out of six), drawing 4.52 million viewers.

 

The Scorecard

Producers: Rick Berman and Brannon Braga

Director: Mike Vejar

Casting Directors: Junie Lowry Johnson and Ron Surma

Shoot dates: 10/10-10/20

Location: Los Angeles

Production Company: Paramount

Network: UPN

-- http://www.filmjerk.com/nuke/article643.html

 

 

Master Q

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"Carpenter Street" sounds like it ought to be a very interesting episode.I'll be watching

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ill wait for it until November 2004!~

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StarTrek.COM Production Report

 

 

 

"Assignment: Earth," "Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home," "Future's End" ... The fine tradition of bringing Star Trek heroes back in time and seeing them deal with our contemporary world is carried on in "Carpenter Street," a continuation of the Temporal Cold War saga that puts Archer and T'Pol in the urban jungle of Detroit in the year 2004.

In the story, temporal agent Daniels (last seen over a year ago in "Shockwave, Part II") appears to Archer and tells him that three Xindi-Reptilians have been detected in Earth's timeline where they should not be. He wants Archer to go find out why. The captain recruits T'Pol for the mission, and the two suddenly find themselves 150 years in the past in the Motor City.

 

After a relatively simple "bottle show" in "Similitude," the cast and crew were back on a rare location shoot a mere two weeks after "North Star" (related story), and spent almost an entire week literally working from dusk 'til dawn. Most of the principal cast was spared this nighttime schedule, however, as the on-location scenes required only Scott Bakula and Jolene Blalock among the show's stars. The guest cast in this episode is topped by Leland Orser as "Loomis," a pathetic Detroiter who obliviously gets involved in the Xindi's nefarious activities.

 

You probably remember Orser's striking performance as "Dejaren," the intensely paranoid hologram in Star Trek: Voyager's "Revulsion." He was also "Colonel Lovok" in "The Die is Cast" and "Gai" in "Sanctuary" (both Star Trek: Deep Space Nine). He is a very familiar face in genre fare, having appeared in "Independence Day," "Alien: Resurrection," "Se7en," "Daredevil," The X-Files and much more. He can currently be seen in "Runaway Jury."

 

The schedule on "Carpenter Street" commenced Friday, October 10, on the Enterprise soundstages with scenes in standing sets such as the Galley and T'Pol's Quarters, plus a swing set of Loomis' tenement apartment. Those apartment scenes continued Monday morning, with the afternoon spent in additional photography for "Twilight" and "Similitude." Then everyone slept late on Tuesday so they could report to work just before dark in downtown Los Angeles. The entire night was spent shooting scenes in and around various vehicles. Most of the time was spent in moving shots throughout downtown (depicting Detroit), with a camera rig on two principal vehicles — a pickup truck and an old Chevy station wagon — with Bakula driving and Blalock in the passenger seat, along with Orser in some scenes.

 

From Wednesday night through the rest of the week, filming shifted to the Lacy Street Production Center, a studio northwest of downtown not far from Dodger Stadium. This facility provided most of the other urban settings, mainly the exterior of an abandoned factory on the titular Carpenter Street (which, by the way, actually exists in the Detroit metropolitan area), along with dark alleys, rooftops, and streets, plus the interior hallway of Loomis' tenement. Most of the guest cast, including three Reptilians, a couple of Prostitutes and some Cops, did their bits here.

 

After the weekend, it was back to Paramount and a more normal schedule. Swing sets depicted the interior of the Carpenter Street factory, then after dark everyone moved outside again. Paramount's historic New York Streets backlot provided the rest of the Detroit Streets scenes, including one involving an ATM machine on the same corner where Marlon Brando's character was shot in "The Godfather." Just behind one of the Enterprise soundstages, a small fast-food drive-up set was constructed, and Bakula got back behind the wheel of the Chevy with Blalock and Orser for an amusing scene involving "animal products."

 

The Enterprise Art Department had the unique challenge of making set details look realistic rather than fantastic. For instance, instead of futuristic transparencies for command consoles, they had to create a back-lit "Burgerland" menu. And they covered the street sets with graffiti and urban posters. Though you'll be hard-pressed to see them in any detail on screen, those posters are filled with inside jokes, using the names and visages of crew members to depict them as boxers and rap artists.

 

Shooting on this episode continued through Wednesday of this week, going into second-unit on Tuesday as it overlapped commencement of the next episode (titled "Chosen Realm" directed by Roxann Dawson). As usual there may be some additional post-production photography, but this episode will be particularly light on the visual effects. (There will be some phase-pistol blasts and the like.)

 

As for the other guest actors, Matt Winston returned for the fourth time to play Daniels, of course. And one of the Xindi-Reptilians is played by Tom Morga, who has worked extensively on Star Trek for many years, on both the movies and TV shows. He's mainly a stuntman, but he has received acting credits in such heavy-makeup parts as "Glinn Corak" in "Chain of Command, Part I" (Star Trek: The Next Generation), "Soto" in "The Sword of Kahless" and a Jem'Hadar Soldier in "The Search, Part II" (ST:DS9), among others.

 

Mike Vejar took the reins of this unconventional Trek episode. Vejar is a veteran director from TNG, DS9 and Voyager, and has six prior Enterprise credits including the recent "Rajiin." "Carpenter Street" was written by executive producers Rick Berman and Brannon Braga.

 

This show is tentatively scheduled to air November 26. More information can be found at its Episode Detail page.

 

Please note: All production, story and scheduling information is subject to change.

--StarTrek.com http://www.startrek.com/startrek/view/news/article/3275.html

 

 

 

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