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TV Guide has reported that in order to get a renewal, Paramount reduced the Enterprise budget by more than half: from $1.7M to about $800,000 per episode.
Stock footage ahoy... Mind you, after a previous reported budget cut, the show STILL managed to turn out some seriously FX-heavy episodes, including keeping Enterprise all wrecked up through the latter part of the season. Hm.
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Budget slashed, timeslot moved to Friday. It does look like this is the make-it-or-break-it season. Although Season 3 was meant to save the series too...
OTOH, with only half the VFX budget, we'll have plenty of time for quality storytelling*!
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Featuring some nutjob politico back on Earth, who lost his/her family in the Xindi attack, grilling Archer on how he handled the Xindi crisis. As in, not exterminating the lot of them. Flashbacks ahoy!
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No...Daniels will tell Archer in the season premiere that he needs to restore the timeline so that Earth was never hit by the Xindi weapon (as was hinted before). So, the rest of the season will be a rerun of the old episodes, in order, and they'll make a new season finale. Now THAT would save costs!
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Put a superscripted "2" at the end of all the titles to denote the fact that it's the second time around. Viola. New episode. They could even CGI a second Archer in, peeking around corridors, playing with consoles, etc. It'd be like "Trials and Tribbilations".
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Or maybe they'd have the crew sitting around, watching their old episodes a la the "Monkey See, Doggy Two".
Hey, at least it was a different idea for a clip-show.
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On the plus side, special effects are getting cheaper every yaar..
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On the other plus side, maybe if they don't have the easy out of spaceship battles every week, maybe they'll do something novel, like develop some of the characters, Such as Ensign Doorstop...I mean, Mayweather.
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