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   Bakula: Enterprise Film Is Dead   
      
   Scott Bakula, star of UPN's canceled Star Trek: Enterprise, told SCI   
   FI Wire that plans for a movie based on the show were put on hold when   
   the regime changed at Paramount and the network pulled the plug on the   
   show earlier this year. Bakula said he's willing to reprise the   
   character of Capt. Jonathan Archer in an Enterprise film. "It's   
   something I would be interested in doing," Bakula said in an interview   
   at the show's wrap party in Hollywood last week. "They haven't   
   [asked], but the reality is that Paramount has been under such   
   internal upheaval in the last year that right now there's really   
   nobody that's there that is a fan of Star Trek."   
      
   Bakula said that recent turnover of several key Paramount executives   
   has dampened enthusiasm for future Trek projects. "It's all turned   
   over, so I don't know what's going to happen with Star Trek as a   
   franchise," Bakula said. "Obviously it's been very important to that   
   studio for a great number of years and brought a lot of revenue for   
   them. But I'm not sure how they will re-address or kind of re-approach   
   it as the dust settles. But we'll see."   
      
   The nearly 40-year-old Trek franchise will find itself next year   
   without an original TV series or future movie on the calendar for the   
   first time since 1987, owing in part to the disappointing box-office   
   performance of the last film, Star Trek Insurrection, and the poor   
   ratings of Enterprise, which winds up its four-year run in May.   
      
   But Bakula said that he thinks Enterprise could make a successful jump   
   to the big screen. "I don't think there's any question about that," he   
   said. "It's just, again, you've got to have interest from the studio,   
   and that doesn't exist right now to my knowledge. It did before. You   
   see, when we started, there was always the idea that we would be the   
   next movie cast and movie ship. But all the people who were interested   
   in that are gone." Enterprise airs Fridays at 8 p.m. ET/PT.   
      
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