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Enterprise Meets The Xindi

Brannon Braga, executive producer of UPN's Enterprise, told SCI FI Wire
that that viewers can expect to see five species of the Xindi, the new
alien threat facing Capt. Archer (Scott Bakula) and his crew, in the show's
upcoming third season. "Our five Xindi species are a Xindi humanoid; a
Xindi reptilian; the Xindi sloth, which is evolved from a furry, arboreal
creature, an arboreal primate; the Xindi insectoid; and the Xindi
aquatics," Braga said in an interview.

The humanoid, reptilian and sloth Xindi will be portrayed by actors in
prosthetics and costumes, Braga said. The Xindi insectoids and aquatics
will be computer-generated.

"We're calling them the Xindi aquatics, and they're like dolphins and
whales," Braga said. "When they're in meetings, they have to live
in a big tank, in a big and murky tank. When the aquatics and the
insectoids speak, of course, there's going to have to be subtitles, because
the languages are just too weird."

Enterprise will come in contact with all five Xindi species, but the aliens
likely won't act in unison. "There are going to be some questions as
to which Xindi species believes it's the dominant species, as you might
imagine would happen in a situation like that," Braga said. "In
some ways Star Trek lives or dies by how interesting its alien villains
are, and I think the Xindi are an interesting concept." UPN will
re-launch Enterprise in September, with a season opener appropriately
entitled "The Xindi."

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Enterprise Changes Revealed

Producers and cast of UPN's Enterprise revealed details to SCI FI Wire
about the show's coming seachange as it enters its third season, including
new cast members, evolution of key characters and a dramatic new story arc.
The series' new direction was set in motion in last season's finale, when a
new alien threat?the Xindi?revealed themselves, and Enterprise set off into
the dangerous Delphic Expanse to confront them.

"What you see are guys that have spent the entire hiatus trying to
position the show and new scripts and new ideas, and they're rethinking
everything," star Scott Bakula (Capt. Archer) said in an interview at
UPN's fall press preview. "I'm saying to them every day, 'Think out of
the box.' ... And they're saying, 'Let's do this.' And everybody is doing
that. They spent all of their energy creating this new place. And now
they're peopling it. And we're discovering it."

Executive producers Brannon Braga and Rick Berman and the cast revealed
several key changes in interviews and during a press conference on July 22:
?The Enterprise crew will be joined by new characters, members of Military
Assault Command Operations, or MACO. "They're kind of semi-recurring
and will be used on certain away missions," Braga said. Those
characters have yet to be cast.
?Archer will get a little darker, a bit more driven in his mission to stop
the Xindi. "The idea of being the peaceful 'We-come-in-friendship'
[guy], ... that guy is gone," Bakula said.
?T'Pol (Jolene Blalock) will no longer be under the control of the Vulcan
High Command and will begin to explore emotions and humanity. She'll also
get a new look: new hair, new costumes. "We've got color, and that's
always exciting," Blalock said.
?Trip (Connor Trinneer) will grieve for his sister and struggle to balance a
need for revenge with his sense of duty to Starfleet. Seeking help from
T'Pol, he may find himself more intimately involved with her than ever
before.
?The Temporal Cold War and the Suliban storyline will become an integral
part of the Xindi arc later in the season, Berman said.


Enterprise returns to Wednesdays at 8 p.m. ET/PT, starting Sept. 10.


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