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   Enterprise Cheaper, But OK   
      
   Scott Bakula, star of UPN's Star Trek: Enterprise, told SCI FI Wire that   
   the show's lower budgets won't affect what appears on the screen in the   
   upcoming fourth season. UPN renewed the ratings-challenged series in part   
   because Paramount, which produces the show, agreed to cut the series'   
   licensing fees; that, in turn, means less money to make the show.   
      
   But Bakula, who plays Capt. Jonathan Archer, said viewers will hardly   
   notice a change. "No," he said in an interview at UPN's fall press preview   
   last week in Los Angeles. "I know where the cuts are, where the money's   
   coming out of, and it's not going to affect the show. I've also seen the   
   first two scripts [of the season], and it's a show as big [as before]. I   
   don't know how we're doing it - smoke and mirrors - but it's as big as a   
   lot of the shows we made last year."   
      
   One big change will be a shift to high-definition digital video from the   
   more traditional film, Bakula said. "Yeah, that helps a lot," he said. "It   
   saves a great chunk of money every week, and we've got a great   
   [cinematographer] who's figured out how, ... with the latest technology.   
   HD's the wave of the future, so it's just a matter of time, and we're   
   getting very, very good quality out of it." Star Trek: Enterprise returns   
   Oct. 8 in its new 8 p.m. ET/PT Friday timeslot.   
      
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