Apparently, the story wouldn’t solely be about Archer, but additionally his grownup kids, who would all be following of their father’s footsteps in numerous methods.
“Archer could be in a spot in his life the place Scott type of is correct now, the place Scott is a household man. He’s bought 4 grownup children. And so I gave Archer 4 grownup children, and the story is as a lot about them as it’s about him, as a result of he lived this lifetime of diplomacy … his household kind of grew up with this sense of service,” Sussman stated. “So he’d have these grownup children, one in every of whom is a part of the diplomatic corps, one other is in Starfleet, any person else is in Federation Intelligence. So his grownup children could possibly be introduced into this story in a method that felt very natural… They’d be integral to the story we have been telling.”
The duo reportedly ran this concept previous Paramount a few years in the past, however the streamer handed on it, allegedly resulting from considerations about overlap with its then still-in-development Starfleet Academy sequence. They’ve since retooled the pitch and stay hopeful that the time to discover this specific nook of the franchise universe could be prior to later. (Insert your individual joke about having religion of the guts right here.)
Granted, there’s something fairly intriguing a couple of Trek sequence set throughout the halls of the Federation throughout its earliest days. By way of franchise historical past, there’s truly lots we don’t learn about this time interval or the compromises the group needed to make in its infancy. Is Archer the correct particular person to guide a present that might, seemingly of necessity, concentrate on extra morally advanced political storylines? The model from Enterprise, possibly not. However, then once more, we additionally don’t know what kind of man Archer has turn out to be within the intervening years or the alternatives he’s needed to make alongside the way in which. There are many prospects there, and an actual alternative to make a sequence that’s nothing like anything the franchise is at the moment doing. What I’m saying is, I’d watch.
