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   Enterprise Changes Revealed   
      
   Producers and cast of UPN's Enterprise revealed details to SCI FI Wire   
   about the show's coming sea-change as it enters its third season,   
   including new cast members, evolution of key characters and a dramatic   
   new story arc. The series' new direction was set in motion in last   
   season's finale, when a new alien threat- the Xindi - revealed   
   themselves, and Enterprise set off into the dangerous Delphic Expanse   
   to confront them.   
      
   "What you see are guys that have spent the entire hiatus trying to   
   position the show and new scripts and new ideas, and they're   
   rethinking everything," star Scott Bakula (Capt. Archer) said in an   
   interview at UPN's fall press preview. "I'm saying to them every day,   
   'Think out of the box.' ... And they're saying, 'Let's do this.' And   
   everybody is doing that. They spent all of their energy creating this   
   new place. And now they're peopling it. And we're discovering it."   
      
   Executive producers Brannon Braga and Rick Berman and the cast   
   revealed several key changes in interviews and during a press   
   conference on July 22:   
      
   * - The Enterprise crew will be joined by new characters, members of a   
   Military Assault Command Operations, or MACO. "They're kind of   
   semi-recurring and will be used on certain away missions," Braga said.   
   Those characters have yet to be cast.   
      
   * - Archer will get a little darker, a bit more driven in his mission   
   to stop the Xindi. "The idea of being the peaceful   
   'We-come-in-friendship' [guy], ... that guy is gone," Bakula said.   
      
   * - T'Pol (Jolene Blalock) will no longer be under the control of the   
   Vulcan High Command and will begin to explore emotions and humanity.   
   She'll also get a new look: new hair, new costumes. "We've got color,   
   and that's always exciting," Blalock said.   
      
   * - Trip (Connor Trinneer) will grieve for his sister and struggle to   
   balance a need for revenge with his sense of duty to Starfleet.   
   Seeking help from T'Pol, he may find himself more intimately involved   
   with her than ever before.   
      
   * - The Temporal Cold War and the Suliban storyline will become an   
   integral part of the Xindi arc later in the season, Berman said.   
      
      
   Enterprise returns to Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT, starting Sept. 10.   
      
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