#Star trek archer class series#
Regardless of your opinion of the character, straight-up replacing a captain for the final series of a show would have been a crappy thing to do, especially considering the fans who had stuck with the series through thick and thin up to that point. It's a good thing too, as many fans regard the fourth season as the series' best and praised the uptick in quality, despite a disappointing and widely reviled series finale. The producers talked the network around and Bakula remained in the hot seat for the series' fourth and final season. The studio note? Get rid of Bakula and bring in a younger, sexier captain. Enterprise's producers met with the studio bigwigs to discuss the possibility of a fourth series. The network behind the show, UPN, apparently blamed the show's dwindling popularity on the character of Jonathan Archer, and Scott Bakula's performance in particular. It started strongly, but audience numbers declined as the series wore on. When Enterprise aired, it wasn't exactly a runaway success. 12 The network wanted to kill his character off The new information is sent back to Earth to be used in updated textbooks, and Archer goes from being inspired by the books to serving as their inspiration. When the Enterprise surveys the nebula itself, they find it to be much larger than the book states. Thanks to 2009's Star Trek, we know that Archer did eventually achieve the rank of Admiral (at least in that timeline), making the whole thing rather prophetic. When he shows T'Pol (Jolene Blalock) his well-worn copy of the book, she inquires about the inscription inside, reading “ From the library of Admiral Jonny Archer”, to which Archer cheerfully responds, “I had high hopes as a kid”. Little did he know then that he would visit it in person in the episode “Fusion”. According to Archer himself, he would spend hours staring at the cover image of the Arachnid Nebula, dreaming of adventure. His father encouraged his son's interest in the final frontier and bought him a book called "The Cosmos A to Z" for his eighth birthday. The son of famed warp drive scientist Henry Archer, young Jonny Archer was exposed to humanity's quest for the stars from the off.
Whether or not this dog is the adorable and faithful Porthos from Enterprise is up for debate, but animal lovers out there should be relieved to hear that in both the movie's novelization and the tie-in comic "The Truth About Tribbles!", the beagle is beamed back onto the Enterprise without a scratch on him. I don't know, I do feel guilty about that." Scotty's answer? “I'll tell you when it reappears. So, I tested it out on Admiral Archer's prized beagle.” Kirk responds that he knows the dog and asks whatever happened to it. I told him that I could not only beam a grapefruit from one planet to the adjacent planet in the same system - which is easy, by the way - I could do it with a life form. like a grapefruit was limited to about 100 miles. He seemed to think that the range of transporting something like a. When Spock Prime (the much missed Leonard Nimoy) questions the new Scotty as to whether he is the Montgomery Scott behind the idea of transwarp beaming, Scotty replies : “How do you think I wound up here? Had a little debate with my instructor on relativistic physics and how it pertains to subspace travel. Kirk finds Scotty on a remote ice planet named Delta Vega. One of these is a rather throwaway line spoken by Simon Pegg's Montgomery Scott.
#Star trek archer class movie#
While JJ Abrams' 2009 Star Trek movie went its own way and set up its own alternate timeline, it had a ton of references to classic Trek lore.