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   Enterprise Looks To Future   
      
   Manny Coto, the executive producer of UPN's Star Trek: Enterprise, told the   
   Chicago Tribune that he wants to explore the founding of the Federation if   
   the ratings-challenged series makes it to a fifth season next year. That's   
   a big "if," Coto told the newspaper: "I haven't spoken to anyone [about]   
   the [ratings] performance, so I'd be talking in the dark. I don't know if   
   they're happy or not. It's still pretty much up in the air [whether there   
   will be a season five]."   
      
   Enterprise's fate won't be announced until May, the newspaper reported. But   
   UPN head Dawn Ostroff told the newspaper: "We've gotten great feedback from   
   fans. The show is at a great place [creatively], and we're very happy with   
   the ideas and execution."   
      
   Enterprise reportedly has fewer viewers in its new Friday 8 p.m. timeslot,   
   but UPN is earning higher ratings on that night than it did before   
   Enterprise moved. As for the show's creative direction this season, which   
   has included a guest stint by Brent Spiner, Coto said: "We consciously set   
   out to make this season a real prequel, to really embrace the prequel   
   concept. We've got ... great stories coming up, and I think there's a whole   
   season's worth of great stuff, the founding of the Federation."   
      
   Coto added: "That's not something that can happen in three episodes at the   
   end of the season, but we'll be headed toward the founding of the   
   Federation [toward the end of season four]. I would love to make that a   
   season-long arc. What's great about it is that it's a positive arc, instead   
   of a story of pure conflict [like the Xindi arc]. It becomes an arc about   
   trying to bring different cultures together, .... which is a really   
   resonant idea for our time. I would love to come back, and we would do some   
   serious research on the founding of the U.N., how that came together."   
      
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