Brannon Braga Talks about Star Trek:Enterprise

TrekToday.com has an interesting article about Brannon Braga discussing what a 5th season of Enterprise would have looked like as well as the controversial final episode of season 4.

From the article:
As reported by TrekMovie.com, a fifth season of Star Trek: Enterprise would have included a return to the Mirror Universe. Four or five episodes would have been spread through the season as a "mini-series within a series."
Season Five would have been about tying the "origins of the Federation" and the "begin whispers of the Romulan War" together. The Romulans were to be the only major villains in the fifth season, but new minor villains within "mini-arcs" would have appeared at various points.

Well, in my opinion, the mirror universe worked best in the Original Series and did not work well in Deep Space Nine. Some of the mirror episodes were just ok in DS9 but not all that interesting. I really do not know what they could have done differently with Enterprise.
The origins of the Federation would have been very interesting and Season 4 was well done in terms of explaining some discrepancies such as the difference in the Klingon appearance and I felt they had found their writing groove so could have done a great job with that topic.

From the article:
Braga spoke about These Are The Voyages, the Star Trek: Enterprise finale that angered many Enterprise fans. "I will take full blame for that episode, for those that didn't like it," he said. "In retrospect, it was a very cool idea, that in the end was a mistake. The concept was to have Manny do a final two-part finale, but then have a final episode send a valentine to all of Star Trek over the last eighteen years. We just thought it would be a cool concept to show the Next Generation's crew looking back, though the holodeck, at Archer's crew. It is a high concept, but I am not sure it came together."

I hated the ending. It made it appear that the entire experience of the crew in the series Enterprise took place in a holodeck in TNG. I wish they had just left that episode out and I am glad that it was viewed as a bad idea.
If you want to read the article just look to the right of this blog and click on the news under Trek Today.

As a side note: It seems like a short time since this series ended(in 2005) and yet it seems so long ago. I have been hoping for a new television series especially since the most recent Star Trek Movie opened the door to an entire new direction for Star Trek, but with such problems in the economy I don't know if that will happen any time soon. The good thing is that the Star Trek series are so well written that they are fun to watch many times through and in addition, I have been enjoying the Star Trek novels such as The New Frontier series and specifically Dark Allies.