Star Trek: Enterprise
IfStar Trek : Enterprisehad gotten a 5th season , one problem with Captain Jonathan Archer ’s ( Scott Bakula ) gang would have been lick . Seven main character comprised thecast ofStar Trek : Enterprise , but rather of grant each character adequate clip in the spotlight , Enterprisenarrowly focused on Captain Archer , Commander Trip Tucker ( Connor Trinneer ) , Subcommander T’Pol ( Jolene Blalock ) , and Dr. Phlox ( John Billingsley ) . Despite being series habitue , Lieutenant Malcolm Reed ( Dominic Keating ) , Ensign Hoshi Sato ( Linda Park ) , and Ensign Travis Mayweather ( Anthony Montgomery ) just did n’t get as much screen meter as the main IV .
AlthoughStar Trek : Enterprisewas cancel after only four season , programme were already in the works for how time of year 5 would play big changes to the show . The Romulan War , referenced inStar Trek : The Original Series , would have been oneplanned chronicle arc inEnterpriseseason 5 , like season 3 ’s Xindi electric arc and season 4 ’s Temporal Cold War . That year also would have interpret Captain Archer making motility towardsStar Trek : initiative ’s overall series arc , which would have culminated with humans , Vulcans , Andorians , and Tellarites becoming the four founding mintage of the United Federation of Planets .
Star Trek: Enterprise Season 5 Would Have Added Shran To Captain Archer’s Crew
Shran Would Have Provided The Andorian Perspective In Enterprise’s Fledgling Federation
IfStar Trek : Enterprisehad continue past season 4 , Thy’lek Shran ( Jeffrey Combs ) would have been append to Captain Archer ’s gang as a serial regular . Like T’Pol ’s original role on the NX-01 Enterprise as a Vulcan adviser , the programme was to have Shran assist Archer as a non - Starfleet Andorian foreigner . Both T’Pol and Shran were initially unfriendly towards — or at least skeptical of — humans , but Archer ’s bluff optimism and collaborative liveliness eventually changed their perspectives . Shran ’s accession would have been a major gradation in showing how Archer bring Andorians into the foldas one of theFederation ’s founding species .
Star Trek ’s Jeffrey Combs has made a career from giving nuanced performances behind layers of alien prosthetics from DS9 to endeavor , and beyond .
Andorian refinement probably would n’t have still been lamentably underdeveloped if Shran had been a series regular onStar Trek : endeavor . OtherStar Trekshows developed alien cultures more soundly by ingest series regulars from non - Federation species . Star Trek : Deep Space Ninedid marvel to make Klingons , Ferengi , and Bajorans relatable , andStar Trek : Voyagerexplained Borg philosophy through Seven of Nine ( Jeri Ryan).Star Trek : Lower Decksdeveloped Orionsfrom their own perspective , thanks to D’Vana Tendi ( Noël Wells ) . Shran would have done the same to make Andorians much more understood asStar Trekaliens .
How Adding Shran Would Have Helped Star Trek: Enterprise Season 5
Shran Would Have Shaken Up Star Trek: Enterprise’s Cast Dynamics
The addition of Shran as a series regular would have helpedStar Trek : Enterpriseseason 5 by shaking up the cast dynamics on the NX-01 bridge . The quartette of Archer , Trip , T’Pol and Phlox had a chokehold onStar Trek : Enterprise ’s storytellingby season 4 , and the serial needed a major shakeup to keep from amaze too moribund . Like Lt . Commander Worf ( Michael Dorn ) did forStar Trek : Deep Space Nine , and Seven of Nine did forStar Trek : Voyager , Shran would have been amid - series add-on to aStar Trekshowthat benefited existing characters by introducing conflict .
Jeffrey Combs played multiple reference throughout differentStar Trekseries , but Shran would have been comb ' first go as a serial regular in aStar Trekshow .
Perhaps paradoxically , contribute Shran could have aid Malcolm Reed , Hoshi Sato , and Travis Mayweather evolve as characters . While not a guarantee thatEnterprise ’s neglected character would have had more screen time , Shran would have had to learn how to interact with Archer ’s whole crew , not just Archer himself . Enterprisewould have had more opportunities to actively show how the sort of cooperation that the Federation is all about actually begin with understanding each other ’s differences , whether that ’s Commander Shran accepting the Enterprise crew ’s " pink skins " , or vice versa .
Shran would have taken T’Pol ’s billet to keep Archer ’s bunch on their toe .
Shran also would have benefitedStar Trek : Enterprisesimply by offering a new perspective . T’Pol ’s original position asEnterprise ’s outsider role was convert by that point inStar Trek Enterprise ’s overall storyline , as T’Pol not only fare to understand humanity , but also make grow a kinship with Trip Tucker . As an ab initio xenophobic Andorian , Shran would have taken T’Pol ’s fleck to keep Archer ’s crew on their toes . If aStar Trek : Enterprisereunion ever happens in modernStar Trekshows , I hope Shran is a part of it , because he would have been a cracking addition to Archer ’s gang .
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