Star Trek: Enterprise Showrunner Reveals Rejected Plan to Kill Off Captain Archer

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Star Trek: Enterprise Showrunner Reveals Rejected Plan to Kill Off Captain Archer
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Star Trek: Enterprise season 4's showrunner revealed his rejected plan to kill off Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) and replace him with a new Captain.

Star Trek : Enterprise season 4's showrunner revealed his rejected plan to kill off Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) and replace him with a new Captain. When the late Manny Coto took over as Enterprise 's showrunner from Brannon Braga, the low-rated Star Trek prequel had gotten a stay of execution and UPN granted them a late season 4 pickup order.

Coto, a die-hard fan of Star Trek: The Original Series, plotted ways to boost Enterprise, such as utilizing serialized arcs and delving more into fan service, including Enterprise season 4's lauded Mirror Universe two-parter, 'In a Mirror, Darkly.' In the Star Trek oral history 'The Fifty-Year Mission: The Next 25 Years' by Mark A. Altman and Edward Gross, Manny Coto revealed that although Enterprise was 'always going to stick with Scott', he had an idea to kill off Captain Jonathan Archer and introduce a new Captain who would upend the crew of the NX-01 Enterprise for dramatic purposes

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