Star TrekThe upcoming prequel origin film can finally deliver the original premise that Star Trek: Enterprise. Director Toby Haynes is directing a new, untitled Star Trek Original feature film based on a screenplay by Seth Grahame-Smith. Paramount Pictures’ new Star Trek The film, which will begin production in fall 2024 and could hit theaters in 2025 or 2026, is reportedly takes place mostly on Earth and focuses on humanity’s first contacts with extraterrestrials and the founding of the United Federation of Planets.

The exact placement of Toby Haynes’ Star Trek Prequel film in Star Trek The timing is unclear, but if it is about the founding of the Federation, then the prequel would probably be canonically set after Star Trek: EnterpriseCaptain Jonathan Archer’s (Scott Bakula) pioneering voyages with the NX-01 Enterprise lasted four seasons before Star Trek: Enterprise was canceled by UPN in 2025. One of the problems that audiences have with Pursue during its broadcast was that it was a formulaic Star Trek Show that didn’t fully explore the true dangers of its prequel trappings. Pursue was originally intended as a completely different type of Star Trek Series, And Star TrekThe upcoming Origin prequel could Pursue‘s early promise.

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The prequel film to “Star Trek: Origin” can fulfill the original concept of “Enterprise”

Star Trek’s original film can make space travel scary

The Untitled Origin of Star Trek The film is intended as an introduction for the general audience and as a prequel, Starfleet would not be as technologically advanced and would not have had as much experience with countless aliens how it will be later Star Trek. Toby Haynes’ Star Trek The prequel takes place mostly on Earth and is actually reminiscent of the original Star Trek: Enterprise Premise that executive producers and co-creators Rick Berman and Brannon Braga wanted. As Braga explained on Star Trek: Enterprise Bonus material on the Blu-ray of the first season:

The show was originally going to be set on Earth. The show that Rick and I pitched to the studio was set on Earth. The Klingons attacked Earth. The same things happened, general things, but it was about building the first spaceship and… the Vulcan thing was all over the place… It was about getting the crew together. It was about Archer getting a crew together to be the first to go. Either at the end of the season or sometime in the middle of the season, the ship was going to be launched. So it was a much dirtier, grittier show that took place the first big part of the season on Earth. So the launching of the ship would have been a much bigger deal.

Furthermore, Brannon Braga believed that after spending some time in space battling aliens such as the Klingons, the NX-01 Enterprise would return to Earth battle-damaged and barely functional, making it clear to him how dangerous exploring the galaxy really is. PursueThe original concept is similar to what Toby Haynes created for his Star Trek Prequel film. The Star Trek The crew and starship of Origin would also likely encounter enemies that the Starfleet of this early era is not prepared for, and it would lead to a much darker kind of Star Trek film than audiences have seen before. It is also likely to feature xenophobic themes in humanity’s dealings with Vulcans and other aliens.

Star Trek films have recycled old concepts before

JJ Abrams’ “Star Trek” revived an old Starfleet Academy idea

It is not impossible that Toby Haynes’ Unnamed Star Trek origin Film could be the original concept of Star Trek: Enterprise since Star Trek Movies have used old ideas before. JJ Abrams’ Star Trek (2009) not only relaunched Star Trek: The Original Series with a new and younger cast, led by Chris Pine as Captain James T. Kirk and Zachary Quinto as Spock, but it also finally implemented the discarded idea for the film, which eventually Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. Originally, Star Trek: The Incredible Journey should be a reboot movie with the title Star Trek: The Academy Years.

Based on director William Shatner’s Star Trek: V – The Final Frontier was a flop with critics and at the box office, producer Harve Bennett had a plan to Star Trek Film franchise. Recognize Star Trek: The Original SeriesThe cast aged and became increasingly expensive. Bennett wanted the Star Trek Filmsby casting new and younger actors as the classic USS Enterprise crew and showing how they all met as Starfleet Academy cadets. Although Paramount decided to use the original cast for one last hurrah in Star Trek VI, Director JJ Abrams updated Harve Bennett’s ideas for the reboot and the Starfleet Academy almost 20 years later in Star Trek (2009). It is possible that Toby Haynes Star Trek Prequel could do the same with Star Trek: Enterprise‘s original concept.

Would Star Trek: Enterprise have been better with its original concept?

Season 4 of Enterprise showed from the beginning what the series could have been

A million dollar question that the audience will never get an answer to is whether Star Trek: Enterprise would have been a better and more successful show if Rick Berman and Brannon Braga had been able to realize their original vision. Braga and Berman were very aware that Star Trek was on the way to franchise fatigue after hundreds of episodes of Star Trek in the form of Star Trek: The Next Generation since 1987. For 2001 Company, Berman and Braga developed a bold plan that Take your time with the prequel to see all the known Star Trek insigniawhile at the same time increasing the danger that exploring the final frontier poses to early Starfleet.

Star Trek: Enterpriseas broadcast, addressed some of Rick Berman and Brannon Braga’s wishes for the series, such as having the NX-01 Enterprise use grapples because it lacked tractor beam technology. Ultimately, however, Pursue followed their proven Star Trek Formula by network decree and ended up feeling too safe and comfortable. To Star Trek: Enterprise’Seasons 3 and 4 introduced the Xindi arc, which continued the series as Captain Archer and the Enterprise sought vengeance for a devastating alien attack on Earth. Star Trek: Enterprise Season 4 in particular felt like the show Pursue wanted to be it all along.

Star Trek Fans may be concerned about Toby Haynes’ Star Trek prequel film and whether it will tamper with the established canon. There are also understandable concerns about introducing a new crew and a new spaceship rather than bringing back the Starship Enterprise and familiar faces that audiences want to see again. But the little that is known so far about ‘Star Trek’S Unnamed origin The film sounds eerily similar to what was once intended for Star Trek: Enterprise, and if Toby Haynes’ prequel recycles some of it for the big screen, it could redeem what Rick Berman and Brannon Braga did for Star Trek: Enterprise but had been rejected 25 years earlier.

Star Trek: Enterprise

Seasons

4

Authors

Brannon Braga, Rick Berman, Manny Coto

Showrunner

Brannon Braga, Manny Coto

Main genre

Science fiction

Creator

Rick Berman, Brannon Braga

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