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   Enterprise Ties Things Up   
      
   Scott Bakula, star of the UPN series Star Trek: Enterprise, told SCI FI   
   Wire that he is looking forward to returning to self-contained stories   
   after last year's season-long Xindi war story arc. "Well, the first two   
   episodes tie up last year and tie up the Temporal Cold War," Bakula said in   
   an interview. "That was very exciting, and then we went right into what it   
   was like to get back to Earth after everything we've been through and   
   getting a hero's welcome and all of that kind of stuff and seeing how   
   everybody felt about being back on Earth. That was a tremendous episode."   
   That episode, "Home," airs Oct. 22.   
      
   Bakula said that there would be more multi-episode narratives this season,   
   but that they would be limited to two or three episodes. "We got into this   
   big three-parter with Brent Spiner [from Star Trek: The Next Generation],   
   and that takes us into this three-parter about the Vulcan   
   self-determination and Surak and all kinds of wild stuff on Vulcan," he   
   said. "We've been off to a huge start this year, and I think people were   
   worried about the cutbacks and the things the network was asking us to do.   
   And we've done anything but that. The shows are big and very exciting and   
   still lots of effects and action and big stories." Budgets for Enterprise   
   were cut as an incentive for UPN to renew the ratings-challenged show for a   
   fourth season, resulting in such changes as shooting the series on   
   high-definition video instead of 35mm film.   
      
   But Bakula said that telling stories over the course of several episodes   
   gives the series a cinematic scope, even if it occasionally frustrates   
   impatient viewers. "Last year was a rarity, and they had never had that   
   length of an arc in the history of the franchise," Bakula said. "You   
   couldn't really follow that again, but it was a blast to do, and there were   
   so many threads and things going on that I thought they did a wonderful job   
   portraying. I love doing arc stories. As an audience member, it is   
   frustrating sometimes, but I love it, because you get to tell a more   
   in-depth story. You get to stay with characters a little longer, and you   
   get to stay with guests a little bit longer. What's nice about a   
   three-episode arc is that in many ways it's kind of like making a movie.   
   It's a three-act movie, and that's how they kind of treat it. I love doing   
   it." Star Trek: Enterprise airs Fridays at 8 p.m. ET/ PT.   
      
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