Star Trek: United – The Scott Bakula Collection Followers Are Clamoring For

20 years after Star Trek: Enterprise ended, followers are clamoring for Star Trek: United, a comeback TV sequence starring Scott Bakula as President Jonathan Archer that does not exist. Created by Star Trek: Enterprise writer-producer Michael Sussman, with Bakula’s enter and blessing, Star Trek: United is among the largest surprises of 2025.

Star Trek followers definitely did not anticipate that Michael Sussman and Scott Bakula had been percolating a President Archer TV sequence for the previous few years. After the information that Sussman and Bakula had been plotting Archer’s comeback unexpectedly dropped at STLV: Trek to Vegas in August, Star Trek: United has caught fireplace.

Michael Sussman plans Star Trek: United as a political thriller and household drama, and it is aimed to be a status sequence that would change into Star Trek’s equal of Star Wars: Andor. Breaking freed from Star Trek’s common motif of exploring unusual new worlds, Star Trek: United has a brand new and intriguing premise for the 60-year-old franchise.

Star Trek: United‘s momentum has warped past Star Trek-dedicated web sites and YouTubers. Mainstream shops like TV Insider, in addition to ScreenRant, have reported on the will for Star Trek: United and the provocative particulars revealed by Mike Sussman. It is clear followers need Star Trek: United to occur as a lot as its creators do.

Star Trek: United Has Captured Followers’ Imaginations

The principle motive followers are clamoring for Star Trek: United is the huge need to see Scott Bakula return as President Jonathan Archer. Bakula’s star has by no means dimmed after Star Trek: Enterprise ended in 2005, and esteem for Scott’s efficiency as Captain Archer has solely grown within the final 20 years.

After Patrick Stewart reprised Admiral Jean-Luc Picard in Star Trek: Picard (which prompted Michael Sussman to ponder Scott Bakula’s comeback as Archer) and Kate Mulgrew returned as Admiral Kathryn Janeway in Star Trek: Prodigy, followers really feel that it is ‘Scott Bakula’s flip’ to play Jonathan Archer once more, in a brand new section for the previous Captain of the NX-01 Enterprise‘s life.

As Michael Sussman reveals extra about Star Trek: United’s story, characters, and setting, the concept of exploring the late twenty second century and the turbulent galactic politics that would topple the still-young and weak United Federation of Planets can be provocative. As is Sussman’s need to painting President Archer as a household man and convey Jonathan nearer to the real-life Scott Bakula.

Quite a few Star Trek legacy characters have returned in Star Trek on Paramount+’s numerous sequence, however solely Jolene Blalock from Star Trek: Enterprise made a canonical comeback as T’Pol. (Connor Trinneer beforehand voiced Journey Tucker in a non-canonical Star Trek: very Brief Treks episode). Followers really feel Star Trek: Enterprise wants its long-deserved comeback second as nicely.

Most of all, the groundswell of sentiment is that Scott Bakula’s return to Star Trek is an thought whose time has come. Bakula has re-embraced Star Trek lately, and the followers have lovingly welcomed him again at STLV: Trek to Vegas. Michael Sussman and Bakula have additionally developed an interesting plan for Star Trek: United that begs for the present to be made.

Star Trek: Enterprise Is Extra Common Now Than It Was 20 Years In the past

A part of the rising curiosity in Star Trek: United comes from two key components: Star Trek: Enterprise has solely change into extra standard within the 20 years since United Paramount Community canceled the present, and the general sentiment from followers that they and Enterprise had been robbed by the prequel solely lasting 4 seasons.

Enterprise was the one Star Trek sequence from govt producer Rick Berman’s period that ran for simply 4 years as an alternative of the anticipated seven that Star Trek: The Subsequent Era, Star Trek: Deep House 9, and Star Trek: Voyager loved. Including insult to harm is that Enterprise grew to become a a lot better present in seasons 3 and 4 earlier than it was reduce off on the knees.

Star Trek: Enterprise confronted scorn throughout its UPN run, with longtime followers not warming as much as the prequel. When Enterprise was canceled, it was unfairly labeled as “the present that killed Star Trek” as a result of there was no new Star Trek tv produced for 12 years till Star Trek: Discovery premiered in 2017.

Nonetheless, time and streaming’s binge mannequin have been remarkably variety to Star Trek: Enterprise, arguably greater than another Star Trek sequence apart from the still-relevant Star Trek: Deep House 9. Followers who skipped Enterprise on UPN, and brand-new audiences, found that Enterprise is a high-quality Star Trek sequence with lovable characters that also holds up and is much better than its repute.

Though Michael Sussman plans Star Trek: United as a derivative of Star Trek: Enterprise slightly than a direct sequel, he hopes to incorporate as many Enterprise actors and characters as attainable if the present will get made. Star Trek: United now emerges as followers’ greatest probability to see Enterprise characters again in live-action and discover out what occurred to them after their voyages on the NX-01.

Will Paramount+ Make Star Trek: United?

Michael Sussman offered his plan for Star Trek: United to Secret Hideout, Alex Kurtzman’s manufacturing firm that oversees all Star Trek tv, and Paramount+ a couple of years in the past. Although Star Trek: United was well-received, the executives felt the premise was too near the then-in-development Star Trek: Starfleet Academy.

Nonetheless, because the calendar turns to 2026 and Star Trek‘s sixtieth anniversary, a number of issues have modified. The largest being Paramount Skydance underneath new administration, and Star Trek being labeled a precedence for the studio to supply new theatrical characteristic movies and extra TV reveals to stream on Paramount+.

Apart from Star Trek: Legacy, which followers proceed to fervently champion after Star Trek: Picard ended in 2023, no different potential Star Trek undertaking has garnered a lot fan help as rapidly as Star Trek: United.

Scott Bakula returning as President Archer, assembly the expanded Archer household, and the politics of the nascent Federation are fascinating ideas for a brand new Star Trek sequence not like any earlier than. Mike Sussman would not really feel Star Trek: United is a flagship sequence, but it surely’s one that would break new floor for the 60-year-old franchise.

Star Trek: United continues to be solely a fantastic dream, however from Michael Sussman’s intricate world constructing and Archer household dynamics, to Archer’s new Presidential starship voluntarily designed by legendary Star Trek idea artist Andrew Probert, President Archer’s comeback after Star Trek: Enterprise has the elements prepared for a hopeful inexperienced gentle from Paramount Skydance.

Launch Date

2001 – 2005-00-00

Community

UPN

Showrunner

Brannon Braga

Administrators

David Livingston, Allan Kroeker, Michael Vejar, David Straiton, Roxann Dawson, LeVar Burton, James A. Contner, Robert Duncan McNeill, James L. Conway, James Whitmore Jr., Michael Grossman, Marvin V. Rush, Patrick R. Norris, David Barrett, Jim Charleston, Michael Dorn, Rob Hedden, Terry Windell, Winrich Kolbe, Les Landau, Manny Coto

Writers

Chris Black, Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Judith Reeves-Stevens, David A. Goodman, Alan Brennert, André Jacquemetton, Brent V. Friedman, Fred Dekker, Ken LaZebnik, Maria Jacquemetton, James Duff, Jonathan Fernandez, Paul Brown, Stephen Beck, André Bormanis, Manny Coto, Michael Sussman, Allan Kroeker, Brannon Braga, David Wilcox, John Shiban, Judith Reeves-Stevens, Phyllis Robust, Rick Berman, Tim Finch

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  Charles Lucia

  Captain Keene

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  D. Elliot Woods

  Nausicaan Prisoner