I don't have to be a detective to know what Trekkies and Trekkers are going to say about this.
Star Trek: Enterprise celebrated its 25th anniversary back on Sept. 26. And, quite frankly, the fandom has been holding their collective breath — like they been stuck in an airless D-Con Chamber — hoping against hope that Trek actor Scott Bakula and writer/producer Mike Sussman would team up again on television. Well, here’s the good news: they are! But the bad news is that it’s not for a United follow-up series to Enterprise.
According to Deadline, Bakula will be joining forces again with Sussman for an upcoming procedural, which hasn’t been given a title yet. Bakula will lead the new CBS detective venture on screen, while Sussman is slated to pen the drama and tackle the project as an executive producer.
Bakula, too, will serve as an EP on the unnamed detective project, “which comes from Dean Devlin’s Electric Entertainment,” according to the well-renowned trade publication. Bakula’s “character is described as quite a ‘leap’ [a nod to his time on the television show Quantum Leap] from the one he played on NCIS: New Orleans."
For those Star Trek fans who can stomach watching the Los Angeles-based procedural, which is currently in "early development,” an official production date wasn’t revealed by the trade publication, and it’s certainly too early to even take a guess at a release window for Bakula and Sussman’s upcoming collaboration.
Worse yet is that both creatives are now dedicated to another project, and that’s a red alert devoted fans can hear screeching in the background — signaling that a Star Trek: United has virtually no chance of coming to fruition now.
I’m truly disheartened because a Bakula-led sequel series to Enterprise would have brought back a beloved character in Jonathan Archer and would have given the devoted fandom something to truly look forward to in a new Star Trek streaming series.
I am NOT bitter, though. So much so that I probably won’t be able to watch a single episode of their CBS procedural because I’ll realize the creative duo could have been United again for the Star Trek fandom to enjoy. Bad news for Trekkies and Trekkers, but it's still good news for Bakula and Sussman — congratulations, gentlemen.
So, for us fans, set your phasers to “disappointed” and sound off in the comments on the Redshirts Always Die Facebook and X pages about Bakula and Sussman’s reunion elsewhere on television outside of Trek.
Live long and prosper, Trekkies!
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