"...Storyline Seems To Be Pleasing Fans"

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"Berman Says Core 'Enterprise' Storyline Seems To Be Pleasing Fans"

 

 

Mission Possible For Star Trek: Enterprise Says Berman

Source Sci Fi Pulse

15 December 2003

 

By Ian M. Cullen

 

 

Although the critics and certain fans may have written Enterprise's chances off in spite of the slight increase in ratings Rick Berman is still as ever pragmatically optimistic for the future of the show.

 

"The ratings continue to creep up a little bit." Berman told Ian Spelling for issue 112 of Star Trek: Monthly. "We didn't do that well against the final Cubs [baseball] game, but nobody did well against it. And the week after, we had a repeat. But the ratings are up and the sense that we are getting from the fans, through web sites, through people who have called us and through people we know who stay in contact with the fans, is that people seem to be very pleased with the way Season Three is going.

 

"The idea of a core storyline, a continuing storyline that hopefully doesn't get in the way of the standalone elements of each episode, seems to be something that fans are enjoying. And that is very gratifying to us."

 

 

On thing that has come up recently regarding Enterprise is rumours of changes in scheduling. Berman addressed this issue, but at the time of this interview was not aware about the shortened season which will mean only 24 episodes. However Berman did reiterate his position about changing the day and time of Enterprise in order to attempt to avoid competition from other genre series.

 

"Second guessing scheduling is so difficult for me." The producer said. "The people at Paramount used to program the shows when we were doing The Next Generations of Deep Space Nine. There was always second guessing. Should the show run at 8 O'clock? Should the show run at 9 o'clock and then a year later they switched it back to 8 o'clock.

 

"I don't think that a large portion of our audience is overlapping with Smallville. I could be wrong, but I think that Smallville has a younger - skewed audience than we do. But I would not be apposed to UPN experimenting with other time slots.

 

"The only way to really tell is to give it try."

 

Berman also provided a little information about some of the forthcoming episodes that fans can look foreword to when Enterprise returned to UPN on the 14 January 2004.

 

"We have an episode in which Shran [Jefferey Combs] and his Andorian colleagues catch up with us in the Delphic Expanse. That's going to be a whole lot of fun. We have a number of shows coming up that deal with the mythology of the spheres, one of which Manny Coto is writing now. We'll learn a lot more about the spheres.

 

"There's an episode that's being written by Mike Sussman that's a Mission: Impossible type of sting, dealing with our Xindi Humanoid scientist that we've likened to Oppenheimer. We've got stories beat out through episode 16 and that will put us into 10 - episode march towards the end of the season. And we're already starting to beat out the various things we need to do to take us from there through to the end of Season Three."

 

You can read more of this interview where Berman answers the usual barrage of readers questions and more in issue 112 of Star Trek: Monthly which is out now in all good news agencies.

-- scifipulse http://scifipulse.net/Trek%20Archive/Dec03/R_Berman.html

 

 

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[VaBeachGuy 12]

Interesting read. This line:

 

But the ratings are up and the sense that we are getting from the fans, through web sites...

 

Makes you wonder if we've been visited in the past.

[A l t e r E g o 9]

through people who have called us

 

And this could be direct feedback from calls we made thanks to numbers provided by MoulinRouge. :biggrin: It worked!

[Captain Jean-Luc Picard 1]

I too am happy with the story-line, all though I'm hoping for a return to stand-alone episodes before the Romulan War. :biggrin:

[ddillard 2]

Definitely good to see that they are finally seeing what the fans are actually saying about the series.