KKKKAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHNNNN!!!!!!
Oct. 8th, 2004 12:31 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
alonewiththemoonHmm, Enterprise is finally doing something somewhat clever that incorporates--gasp--continuity with original Star Trek. I hope it comes out well in the execution.
--"Originally for this season I wanted there to be an arc that involved the Eugenics Wars," Coto said in an interview at a screening of the fourth-season premiere in Los Angeles. "They were my favorite part of the Star Trek lore, and I always loved Star Trek II, and I really wanted to do something about the Eugenics Wars and the Eugenics warriors. The U.S. government has a repository of virulent diseases, and I thought what if Starfleet has something similar, where they kept diseases, but on top of that they kept embryos from the Eugenics Wars? These were like baby Khans [Ricardo Montalban] essentially, and what if someone got ahold of them and tried to resurrect them?"
Spiner (Star Trek: The Next Generation's Data) will play a criminal ancestor of Noonien Soong, the scientist who created Data. Coto, who joined the production team of Enterprise last season, said that he originally intended the arc's nemesis to be Col. Green, a despotic character from the original series episode "The Savage Curtain," but rewrote the character for Spiner when he expressed interest in appearing on Enterprise. "Originally it was going to be Col. Green, who was briefly mentioned in the original series, but when I heard that Brent Spiner was interested I tailored it towards him," Coto said. "We made him into a scientist who believed in genetic engineering, and he believed that this was the great future of mankind. He conceived this plan to steal the embryos and raise them to adulthood. But what happens is they get away from him. They go on basically a rampage, and they're like mini Khan Noonien Singhs. They're wreaking havoc in this place called the Borderland, which is near the Klingon Empire, and he's threatening to start a war with the Empire."--
While I admit I have mostly posted this for the phrases "baby Khans" and "mini Khan Noonien Singhs," I also think that this plot line could be a neat way to explain why the Klingons looked different for a few generations, and why they don't like to talk about it now. It would be pretty impressive if they could pull off an explanation in a consistent, logical way.
God, I'm a geek.
--"Originally for this season I wanted there to be an arc that involved the Eugenics Wars," Coto said in an interview at a screening of the fourth-season premiere in Los Angeles. "They were my favorite part of the Star Trek lore, and I always loved Star Trek II, and I really wanted to do something about the Eugenics Wars and the Eugenics warriors. The U.S. government has a repository of virulent diseases, and I thought what if Starfleet has something similar, where they kept diseases, but on top of that they kept embryos from the Eugenics Wars? These were like baby Khans [Ricardo Montalban] essentially, and what if someone got ahold of them and tried to resurrect them?"
Spiner (Star Trek: The Next Generation's Data) will play a criminal ancestor of Noonien Soong, the scientist who created Data. Coto, who joined the production team of Enterprise last season, said that he originally intended the arc's nemesis to be Col. Green, a despotic character from the original series episode "The Savage Curtain," but rewrote the character for Spiner when he expressed interest in appearing on Enterprise. "Originally it was going to be Col. Green, who was briefly mentioned in the original series, but when I heard that Brent Spiner was interested I tailored it towards him," Coto said. "We made him into a scientist who believed in genetic engineering, and he believed that this was the great future of mankind. He conceived this plan to steal the embryos and raise them to adulthood. But what happens is they get away from him. They go on basically a rampage, and they're like mini Khan Noonien Singhs. They're wreaking havoc in this place called the Borderland, which is near the Klingon Empire, and he's threatening to start a war with the Empire."--
While I admit I have mostly posted this for the phrases "baby Khans" and "mini Khan Noonien Singhs," I also think that this plot line could be a neat way to explain why the Klingons looked different for a few generations, and why they don't like to talk about it now. It would be pretty impressive if they could pull off an explanation in a consistent, logical way.
God, I'm a geek.
