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   From the Berman/Braga "They Just Don't Get It" File....   
      
      
   Producers Defend Enterprise End   
      
   Star Trek: Enterprise producers Brannon Braga and Rick Berman told SCI   
   FI Wire that they understood the recent disparaging comments made by   
   cast members about the final episode, but stood by their execution of   
   the series finale. "You have to remember, under normal circumstances,   
   most people probably would have thought this was a very cool episode,   
   because it has a great concept driving it," Braga said in a conference   
   call with reporters. "But when it's the final episode of a series,   
   emotions are running very high."   
      
   The most vocal objection came from cast member Jolene Blalock, who   
   plays T'Pol on the show. "I don't know where to begin with that one,"   
   she recently said of the finale. "The final episode is ... appalling."   
      
   The episode, titled "These Are the Voyages," features Star Trek: The   
   Next Generation stars Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis, who reprise   
   their roles as Commander Riker and Deanna Troi. The pair will view the   
   episode's historic events through a holodeck recreation. Berman said   
   he thought that the opinions expressed by Blalock had to do with the   
   episode's references to the previous Trek series. "The feeling was   
   that if this was going to be the finale of Enterprise, then why bring   
   characters in from another series?" he said. "But I think when people   
   see the episode and realize that to be able to truly pay the respect   
   to our characters that we have, we've couched it in a unique fashion   
   of being able to look back on them, and I think it's going to be a   
   very positive response towards the Enterprise crew."   
      
   Braga said that he was aware that the Enterprise cast had some minor   
   issues with the storyline, but there were no serious objections during   
   the production. "There were a couple of people who were slightly   
   uncomfortable with the fact that we have Next Generation characters in   
   the show, and it is a different kind of episode," he said. "But there   
   were no serious complaints. And none of the actors have seen the   
   episode, so they can't be dissatisfied with how it turned out." Star   
   Trek: Enterprise ends its four-season run May 13 on UPN at 9 p.m.   
   ET/PT.   
      
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