Scott Bakula: ‘Star Trek: Enterprise’ Was At Its Best When It Tackled Real-World Issues

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well the joy of Star Trek has always been that it deals with things uh in in in the future that are still going on on the planet so it took us a year and a half to be honest to uh really Circle back and get into what happened on 911 but I can remember Rick and Brandon calling me into the office and saying we W to we want to make a change in the direction of the show my take on our series was that we really started kicking ass about halfway through the second season and then we were just you know wildly in my opinion successful as a series in relating our world to what was happening to in today on the planet um from then on for the last you know two and a half years that we that we had I always attribute that to you know it all comes from the writers and the writers were more inclined to write about how they were feeling and how they were dealing with what they were going through in their their worlds and it just felt it it grounded series it it made us uh different and it gave us a sense of purpose that I didn't feel to be honest that we had from the out of the gate um that we were doing kind of one-off episodes in the tradition of in the wonderful tradition of Star Trek but all of a sudden we had we had somewhere to go and and a message that we could hang our hat on and and the joy for me in all of this work has in the Star Trek universe has been um showing the world the possibilities that we could and the differences that we could make as human beings to be able to expand the specifics of what happened on on to us and take it into the Star Trek world and introduce us to five species that we' never met before and how we dealt with meeting those species and the relationships that we developed is to me the heart and soul of Star Trek which which never paid attention to what color people were what where they were what planet they were from I believe that our show really delivered on that once we got into that kind of that whole expanse and yes desert Crossing and all that

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