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   Weller Talks Enterprise Finale   
      
   Peter Weller, who plays a key role in upcoming final episodes of UPN's   
   Star Trek: Enterprise, told SCI FI Wire that he will play a character   
   who resembles some people today. "He's a xenophobe," Weller said in an   
   interview at the April 13 wrap party for the cast and crew in   
   Hollywood, Calif. "Isolationism is one thing, but he's actively   
   pursuing the cleansing of planet Earth by ridding 'Terra Prime,' or   
   Earth, of any alien impurity whatsoever. It kind of rings of some   
   people walking around on this planet today."   
      
   Weller said that co-executive producer Manny Coto enlisted his   
   participation because the two previously worked together in an SF TV   
   show. "Manny Coto created and produced Odyssey 5 for Columbia-Tristar   
   and Showtime, which I starred in and directed a bunch," Weller said.   
   "We became fast friends, and he browbeat me and browbeat me into   
   coming onto Enterprise and guest-starring on a couple of episodes.   
   When he finally told me they were going to be the last two on planet   
   E, I said I might as well put my feet in the cement of immortality and   
   go to the Paramount lot and shoot the [next-to-the-] last two episodes   
   ever of Enterprise."   
      
   Weller, whose character is named John Frederick Paxton, added that he   
   saw relevance in his xenophobic character's separatist behavior. "The   
   great thing about the whole Star Trek legacy is that they ...   
   metaphorize, they allegorize and they narrate what's going on the   
   planet today," Weller said. "There's a lot of xenophobes walking   
   around today who say, 'Only us, not them.' The bad news about that ...   
   is that the great thing about the world is that people move. Rome   
   tried to build walls to keep the people from moving, but the people   
   will move. If they think they've got a good gig someplace, they will   
   go there, and you can regulate it, but you can't stop it." Weller's   
   episode "Demons" airs May 6 and "Terra Prime" airs May 13. Enterprise   
   is on at 8 pm. ET/PT on Fridays.   
      
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