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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Sol System: [QB] No speculation that Enterprise's basic premise (humans, standing in for America, go out and unite a number of diverse and often angry aliens into a peaceful, lasting, and powerful alliance) was rendered 100% unbelievable after 9/11 and the subsequent responses? Not that there should be, I guess, because I'm as tired as anyone of overwrought arguments about The Day Everything Changed, but the thought has sort of occured to me, off and on. I mean, contrast Enterprise to the only other space opera to start on U.S. network TV this century, in which there's a huge disaster and afterwards democracy falls apart. ("Hey Sol System, what about Stargate Atlantis?" I am ignoring it because it does not fit perfectly into my hypothesis. Though note that Atlantis' setup allows it to totally ignore Earth and the various events and attitudes there, if it pleases to.) Ron Moore and Brannon Braga raise the question of "rebooting" Star Trek in their First Contact commentary, even going so far as to namecheck Crisis on Infinite Earths, though they don't remember the name exactly. (Nor do they mention how it was all very complicated and quickly ignored.) On the pro side, it would let the creators set things up however they wished, to allow for the stories they wanted to tell. Con: how much of Star Trek's appeal is its built-up fake history? [/QB][/QUOTE]
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