Star Trek currently has only a couple of things on the horizon, which is a far cry from a few years ago, when five shows were running concurrently. There is a thought that the upcoming Trek shows will eventually ramp up, however. This was a point that was amplified as we recently learned that Enterprise star Scott Bakula has had conversations about bringing Captain Archer back through a spinoff.
Thus far, Paramount+ hasn’t decided to move forward with the project, but that hasn’t stopped the former Enterprise writer and producer Mike Sussman from doing what he can to get fans excited about it potentially happening. In an interview with TrekMovie.com, he even talked about the spinoff diving into a moment we never saw on the original series, the Romulan War:
Something that has become clear to me from feedback since we first started talking about this, is fans saying they never got to see the Romulan War. We were waiting for it, and you guys just kind of skipped over it [in the Enterprise series finale]. And I share their frustration. So I would want to show [some of] that, and a particular pivotal moment that’s not just pure fan service. The scene would actually introduce a very important character for the show moving forward.
resolve major Enterprise plotlines. Beyond the goal of bringing Captain Archer back to television, it seems Mike Sussman and others are invested in picking up on other moments that fans of the prequel didn’t get to see.
disguised as a Vulcan named Talok. He is currently booked and is set to appear in Picard showrunner Terry Matalas’ Vision series for Marvel, so I can’t imagine he’d be available for this series if it were greenlighted anytime soon.
That may be just fine, because it doesn’t feel as though Star Trek is in the business of greenlighting any shows in the immediate future. The recent merger with Skydance seems to imply more work is being put into reigniting the franchise’s presence in theaters, though we could see more shows announced in the upcoming year. I’ll be interested to see if the Enterprise spinoff, spearheaded by Scott Bakula returning as Captain Archer, is one of them.
Star Trek: Enterprise is available to stream on Paramount+ right now. For those who haven’t seen it in a while, it certainly holds up. It may age better with a follow-up that helps wash away the taste of that terrible finale.