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Scott Bakula, star of UPN's Star Trek: Enterprise, told SCI FI Wire that he is especially excited about the development of his character, Capt. Jonathan Archer, in the fourth season of the show. "The way the series is laid out, I've been presented with a lot of character adjustments and explorations that in a lot of series you don't get," Bakula said in an interview. "Entering the fourth season [gives me] an opportunity to take some of the lessons from last season and the choices we made and see where he goes this year."
In the fourth season, Archer and his crew will deal in part with the effects of last season's yearlong Xindi war story arc. Bakula said that he's been satisfied with the way the producers and writers of the show have given Archer an opportunity to grow since the series began. "We've all worked together to give this guy an interesting journey," he said. "In year one, when he was this very naive kind of closed-off Starfleet brat. That was his whole world, and he's come far in the last three seasons with all of the catastrophes and challenges that he had last year. The ways that he had to deal with them and the places he had to go to make some of the choices that Archer had to make this year becomes fortunate for me."
Bakula said that he saw the potential for the character's growth as far back as when he was enlisted to shoot the pilot episode four years ago. "I looked at the pilot scripts, and I thought, 'This is a guy who has the potential to be interesting for a few years and be interesting for me to play for a few years,'" he said. "The reality is with Star Trek you're in some kind of moral or ethical dilemma. That's part of the history of the show, and that's interesting anyway, but this guy is still growing and maturing. I feel very lucky I'm in the fourth season, and I'm still finding out stuff. Hopefully it's exciting for the audience, too."