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   Archer Grows In Enterprise   
      
   Scott Bakula, star of UPN's Star Trek: Enterprise, told SCI FI Wire that he   
   is especially excited about the development of his character, Capt.   
   Jonathan Archer, in the fourth season of the show. "The way the series is   
   laid out, I've been presented with a lot of character adjustments and   
   explorations that in a lot of series you don't get," Bakula said in an   
   interview. "Entering the fourth season [gives me] an opportunity to take   
   some of the lessons from last season and the choices we made and see where   
   he goes this year."   
      
   In the fourth season, Archer and his crew will deal in part with the   
   effects of last season's yearlong Xindi war story arc. Bakula said that   
   he's been satisfied with the way the producers and writers of the show have   
   given Archer an opportunity to grow since the series began. "We've all   
   worked together to give this guy an interesting journey," he said. "In year   
   one, when he was this very naive kind of closed-off Starfleet brat. That   
   was his whole world, and he's come far in the last three seasons with all   
   of the catastrophes and challenges that he had last year. The ways that he   
   had to deal with them and the places he had to go to make some of the   
   choices that Archer had to make this year becomes fortunate for me."   
      
   Bakula said that he saw the potential for the character's growth as far   
   back as when he was enlisted to shoot the pilot episode four years ago. "I   
   looked at the pilot scripts, and I thought, 'This is a guy who has the   
   potential to be interesting for a few years and be interesting for me to   
   play for a few years,'" he said. "The reality is with Star Trek you're in   
   some kind of moral or ethical dilemma. That's part of the history of the   
   show, and that's interesting anyway, but this guy is still growing and   
   maturing. I feel very lucky I'm in the fourth season, and I'm still finding   
   out stuff. Hopefully it's exciting for the audience, too." Star Trek:   
   Enterprise airs in its new Friday 8 p.m. ET/PT timeslot.   
      
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