Scott Bakula Was Angry: 4 Reveals About Star Trek: Enterprise’s Hated Finale
Star Trek: Enterprise's series finale centered on Commander Will Riker (Jonathan Frakes) and Counselor Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) from
Enterprise’s Finale Was Intended As A Love Letter To The Star Trek Franchise
Brannon Braga reiterated that he and Rick Berman had the best of intentions for Enterprise's finale, and that "These Are The Voyages..." was meant to be a "love letter"
Rick Berman joined Star Trek: The Next Generation when Gene Roddenberry created it in 1987, and Berman assumed the stewardship of Star Trek in 1991 after Roddenberry's death.
Brannon Braga joined Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1990, and worked on Star Trek: Voyager as an executive producer and showrunner before co-creating Enterprise with Berman.
Berman and Braga were cognizant of the fact that
Why Enterprise’s Finale Was Really A Star Trek: The Next Generation Episode
Star Trek: Enterprise's original 7-year plan was to conclude with the founding of the United Federation of Planets. Enterprise had barely scratched the surface of that macro story when the show was canceled in season 4 after 98 episodes. As Rick Berman explains:
"We can't get ourselves from the 97th episode to the 98th episode [and tell the founding of the Federation] story-wise. There was no way we could do it. So the idea of doing a flashback from the future, looking back with the help of a holodeck, to see... what the culmination was with Jonathan Archer and the United Federation of Planets... And there was no way of doing that other than seeing it through as a flashback..."
Braga and Berman further explained that Enterprise's finale holodeck flashback structure let audiences see "the impact" Captain Archer's crew had on the future in Star Trek: The Next Generation
Star Trek: Enterprise's finale's 24th century scenes are set during Star Trek: The Next Generation
Of course, that concept has always been the beef fans had with "These Are The Voyages...", which they feel was disrespectful to
However, Dominic Keating also praises the scenes he and Enterprise's cast shot with Jonathan Frakes posing as the NX-01's mysterious Chef in the galley were "some of the funnest days we ever had"
Killing Trip Tucker Was Star Trek: Enterprise Finale’s “Real Problem”
Looking back, Brannon Braga feels that Star Trek: Enterprise
While Braga still struggles with the decision to kill Trip, pondering, "Why did we do it?", Connor Trinneer has a very different perspective on the death of his popular
Brannon Braga confirms that Trip's death was to give
Scott Bakula Was Angry About Star Trek: Enterprise’s Finale
Scott Bakula was angry about Star Trek: Enterprise's finale, but Dominic Keating says he didn't know how Bakula felt about "These Are The Voyages..." until
However, Braga admitted that he knew that Bakula "wasn't happy with us,"
Dominic Keating points out that because Captain Archer and the NX-01 crew are holograms, there are moments when Riker and Troi "
However, Rick Berman and Brannon Braga reiterate that their intentions were never to be
20 years later, the fact that fans and Star Trek: Enterprise's cast and executive producers are still discussing and debating "These Are The Voyages..." speaks to its unique impact as a
‘The Bachelorette’ Alum Trista Sutter Answers the ‘Biggest Question’ About Her Marriage
Longtime fans of “The Bachelor” franchise will surely remember Trista Sutter‘s season of “The Bachelorette,” which happened to be the first season of the show, back in 2003. Viewers who watched until the end saw Trista become engaged to Ryan Sutter.
The pair eventually got married, had two children and seemingly have been living happily-ever-after. That’s surely why fans continue to be curious about their relationship and why Trista has just answered the “biggest question” she and her husband get asked about their marriage.
Taking to Instagram on Thursday, October 16, Trista shared a number of pictures featuring herself and her husband throughout the years. She added text on top of the photos to offer her followers her answer.
“The answer to the biggest question we get asked: What is the secret to a successful marriage?” she wrote on the first image which showed the pair sharing a kiss.
“Shared Values! (If he hadn’t wanted to be a dad, that would’ve been a dealbreaker!),” she added on the next photo. She then continued with: “There’s got to be chemistry. (How could I not be attracted to this hottie?! 🔥)”
“Choose your battles! (Prioritize what and when you need to put on blinders),” she also wrote, along with: “Support each other’s career aspirations (especially if it enhances their quality of life!)” and “Remember the vows you took and commit to honoring those vows (and celebrate them wherever you are in the world!).”
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While the is the first time that Trista has gone into detail when it comes to what makes her marriage work, she has opened up before about what it take to keep her relationship healthy.
“There really isn’t a secret,” Trista told to E! News in January. “It’s what you hear all the time. It’s all the advice anyone in a relationship has ever given. It’s communication, it’s trust, it’s respect. Common values. It’s compatibility. All of the things.”
“It’s all cliche,” she noted. “It really is truly all the things that you hear about.”
Trista Is Touched People Still Care About Her Marriage
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There have been plenty of other Bachelorettes since Trista took on the lead role in the show; however, people are still invested in her relationship which is something that she finds touching.
“We’ve been married for 21 years,” Trista pointed out while talking to Us Weekly in January. “The show was on a really long time ago, and the fact that people still care was very humbling to me and very sweet, even though it was very chaotic.”
