Trekkies were faced with breaking off cold turkey from their Star Trek jones with Voyager's season finale (syndication of the four series notwithstanding) until UPN announced that it would carry this fall Enterprise, the fifth serial based on the 1960s original.
And everyone exhaled.
UPN announced May 17 that Enterprise would launch earlier than most other serials, sometime in mid-September, limiting fans' downtime to a mere 12 weeks or so.
Meet the captain of the next Star Trek frontier: Scott Bakula.
A veteran sci-fi actor, Bakula (TV's Quantum Leap) will play Capt. Jonathan Archer in the fourth spin-off of the original Star Trek series, Star Trek: Enterprise.
Bakula follows in the formidable shoes of William Shatner, Patrick Stewart, Avery Brooks and Kate Mulgrew as leader of a Federation starship boldly going where no one else has gone.