we wanted to send a valentine to the franchise, and I still stand by the concept of the episode, which is it’s actually an episode of Next Generation where they’re looking back at Enterprise on the holodeck, which I think is a cool idea
I mean it is a cool idea. It’s not a cool idea for a last minute series finale, but it’s a cool idea.
which is it’s
And bad grammar too. Tsk, tsk.
Which is: it’s actually an episode of Star Trek The Next Generation.
Sorry I think grammar checks out this time. Is the transcript of an interview, right?
Punctuation can change context and/or grammar, but I’ll meet you in the middle on that one. I’ll also just keep telling myself that it was an intentional mistake by the editors to trigger real grammar nazis.
i.e. the Vulcans
I think the core concept could have worked. Look at Babylon season 4’s finale, which was at the time expected to wrap up the series: they hop through future time periods to see the enduring legacy these characters leave behind. It worked well, and there’s no reason it couldn’t have worked even better if we already had an emotional attachment to the future era we jumped to.
What failed was that the “enduring legacy” was to be consumed like a daytime soap in between shifts. Frakes and Sirtis playing themselves a decade younger sure didn’t help. Maybe if they put them together on the Titan at the appropriate age and crafted a new story that somehow called back to the founding of the Federation in a way that tied both periods together meaningfully they could have had something.
Just to be clear, this article does not mention that this episode of The D-Con Chamber was their Watch Party for “Shuttlepod One”. This just happened to come up in conversation as being a notable episode of the series which Berman and Braga worked on.
If a final episode was impossible to produce, they could have just added one or five more seasons instead.
