Why Star Trek Fans Want A Scott Bakula Show That Doesn’t Exist
20 years after Star Trek: Enterprise ended, fans are clamoring for Star Trek: United, a comeback TV series starring Scott Bakula as President Jonathan Archer that doesn't exist. Created by
Star Trek fans certainly didn't expect that Michael Sussman and Scott Bakula had been percolating a President Archer TV series for the past few years. After the news that Sussman and Bakula were plotting Archer's comeback unexpectedly dropped at STLV: Trek to Vegas in August,
Michael Sussman plans Star Trek: United as a political thriller and family drama, and it's aimed to be a prestige series that could become
Star Trek: United's momentum has warped beyond Star Trek-dedicated websites and YouTubers. Mainstream outlets like TV Insider, as well as ScreenRant, have reported on the desire for
Star Trek: United Has Captured Fans’ Imaginations
After Patrick Stewart reprised Admiral Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: Picard
As Michael Sussman reveals more about Star Trek: United's story, characters, and setting, the idea of exploring the late 22nd century and the turbulent galactic politics that could topple the still-young and vulnerable United Federation of Planets is also provocative. As is Sussman's desire to portray President Archer as a family man and bring Jonathan closer to the real-life Scott Bakula.
Numerous Star Trek legacy characters have returned in Star Trek on Paramount+'s various series, but only Jolene Blalock from Star Trek: Enterprise made a canonical comeback as T'Pol. (Connor Trinneer previously voiced Trip Tucker in a non-canonical
Most of all, the groundswell of sentiment is that Scott Bakula's return to
Star Trek: Enterprise Is More Popular Now Than It Was 20 Years Ago
Part of the growing interest in
Enterprise was the only Star Trek series from executive producer Rick Berman's era that ran for just four years instead of the expected seven that
Star Trek: Enterprise faced scorn during its UPN run, with longtime fans not warming up to the prequel. When Enterprise was canceled, it was unfairly labeled as "the show that killed Star Trek"
Michael Sussman feels that Trip Tucker's death in Star Trek: Enterprise'
Although Michael Sussman plans Star Trek: United as a spinoff of
Will Paramount+ Make Star Trek: United?
Michael Sussman presented his plan for
However, as the calendar turns to 2026 and Star Trek's 60th anniversary, several things have changed. The biggest being Paramount Skydance under new management, and
Scott Bakula returning as President Archer, meeting the expanded Archer family, and the politics of the nascent Federation are fascinating concepts for a new
President Archer's comeback after Star Trek: Enterprise has the ingredients ready for a hopeful green light from Paramount Skydance.
Star Trek: United is still only a fanciful dream, but from Michael Sussman's intricate world building and Archer family dynamics, to Archer's new Presidential starship voluntarily designed by legendary Star Trek concept artist Andrew Probert, President Archer's comeback after Star Trek: Enterprise has the ingredients ready for a hopeful green light from Paramount Skydance.
The Last of Us: Bella Ramsey on Spider-Man, Movie With Pedro Pascal
Bella Ramsey has an idea of what they’d like to do next with Pedro Pascal following the death of his character, Joel, on the second season of “The Last of Us.”
“I think maybe like a heist movie where we’re robbing a bank together,” Ramsey told me Sunday at the HBO Emmys nominees event in Hollywood.
Ramsey said they are — no surprise! — most frequently asked about Pascal. “It’s, ‘How is Pedro Pascal? Is he as nice as he seems?’” Ramsey said. “That’s mostly what people ask me, and the answer is, ‘Yes.’…He’s here and I have not seen him in so long. I’m looking around, trying to find him.”
They added, “Most of our texts consist of, ‘Where in the world are you? I’m here, are you there? Oh, we just missed each other.’”
Talk also turned to superheroes because of Pascal’s recent work in “The Fantastic Four: First Steps.”
“You didn’t call [Pascal] and say you wanted to be in the next MCU movie?” I asked.
“I don’t know about that,” Ramsey said, adding, “I could be Spider-Man. Tom Holland did a great job though. So maybe they do need to make a new [superhero] for me.”
Ramsey is actually a newbie to superhero movies. They’ve only watched one, an Andrew Garfield “Spider-Man” film: “It was the first time I watched a Marvel film, and that was two months, three months ago.”
What did they think? “Incredible,” Ramsey said. “I loved it.”
Ramsey is nominated for an Emmy for the second time in as many years for their work as Ellie on “The Last of Us.” The series goes into Emmys night on Sept. 14 with 17 nominations.
