Braga "regrets" TATV

[archersangel]

I thought it was the coolest thing ever when we were writing it, the idea of doing a 'lost episode' of The Next Generation, but they're going to the holodeck to look back at Enterprise, Rick and I thought was a great sendoff to Star Trek [the franchise as it existed in 2005], and it didn't work out so well...It was a kind of a slap in the face to the Enterprise actors. I heard it from everybody, it was the only time Scott Bakula was ever mean to me. I regret it.

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from what i've seen & heard scott bakula is a ridiculously nice guy so for him to be "mean" to someone is a major thing.

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Comments

[beatrice_otter]

Well, at least he RECOGNIZES what a horrifyingly bad idea it was in retrospect. I hadn't even considered it from the actors' point of view, I was just so mad at it from a fan point of view. The whole idea that the best way to end the show was to throw out everything fans liked about it so you could do a half-assed (not even very GOOD, just half-assed) pseudo-episode of a different show. Like, there was no concept that people might actually like Enterprise itself, as itself, and not as "what we watch when we can't get TNG."

[batsybeth]

Oh wow it's been forever since I last watched Enterprise, but I definitely remembered that terrible episode. It was so badly put together and how Trip's sudden death was just thrown in like "Okay he's dead, onto the next thing!"

[venusinchains]

Everything about that last episode was vile - and B&B deserve all the blame. I'm so glad to hear at least one of the actors gave them grief for being such clueless (and/or spiteful) dicks.

Time for a re-watch of Quantum Leap. :-)

[mr_picard]

This. I'm as huge a TNG fan as they come and I thought it was a huge slap in the face not just for ENT fans but also TNG fans. But the ENT actors suffered the most, no doubt - they made this show for four seasons and acted their butts off and then they get a final episode that is a HOLODECK SIMULATION of another show, like in "your show isn't even good enough to get a standalone final episode". It must have been horrible for them, and I can't blame Scott Bakula ONE BIT for being mean.