Tellarites (spoilers)

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03.28.03 Dawson Brings in "Bounty"

When Roxann Dawson began her Enterprise directing career last season, she oversaw the revival of a race first introduced in the Original Series episode "Journey to Babel" � the Andorians. Now she's done it again, this time with a species mentioned several times in the show but not seen until now, the gruff and argumentative Tellarites.

"Bounty" picks up on the events of "Judgment" (airing April 9) whereby Captain Archer is considered a fugitive from the Klingon justice system. He is abducted by a Tellarite bounty hunter who intends to hand him over to the Klingons for a substantial reward. Meanwhile in a "B" storyline, T'Pol has returned from an away mission infected with an alien pathogen that is unleashing her ... shall we say ... "primal" Vulcan urges.

Makeup supervisor Michael Westmore has publicly stated that he's been wanting a chance to revisit the Tellarites and bring that makeup scheme up to contemporary standards, and he finally got it. Expect to see the same basic snout-nosed look, but with a great deal of refinement.

The actor with the honor of being the first to sport the new improved Tellarite visage is Jordan Lund, as the bounty hunter "Skalaar." Lund has previously been seen as the Bajoran "Woban" in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's "The Storyteller." Also, in Star Trek: The Next Generation's "Redemption, Part II," he played the Klingon "Kulge," who was killed by Gowron. And in a bit of parallelism, "Gowron" himself, Robert O'Reilly, makes a cameo appearance as another bounty hunter (of an unspecified alien race) named "Kago-Darr" who gives Skalaar trouble. The Klingon makeup this time is reserved for Trek newcomer Michael Garvey, as "Captain Goroth." And a second Tellarite, Skalaar's brother "Gaavrin," is played by Ed O'Ross.

Production started last Wednesday, the 19th, with the principal cast for the Bridge scenes. On Day 2, Dawson's Voyager mate Robert Duncan McNeill returned to the lot to do pickup shots for "The Breach." Then Dawson got the crew back to shoot scenes in a Klingon Ship with Scott Bakula, Garvey and several other Klingon extras and stuntmen. O'Reilly also shot his scenes that day in a swing set depicting Kago-Darr's Ship. Early Friday morning, Lund reported to Makeup for three-and-a-half hours for a day's worth of scenes capturing Archer and then holding him prisoner on the Tellarite Shuttle. Monday and Tuesday were dedicated to the Decon Chamber sequences between T'Pol and Phlox. The remaining Tellarite scenes filled out the last two days of the schedule, concluding yesterday.

Of course, the exterior of the Tellarite Shuttle is being created in post-production, along with Kago-Darr's ship, the Klingon Transport and an alien space station. Principal photography started today on the season finale (more info on that in a couple of weeks).

"Bounty" is Dawson's third Enterprise episode this season, and her fifth overall. The script was written by Hans Tobeason with Mike Sussman & Phyllis Strong. Tobeason is a Trek newcomer, having previously written for and/or produced such shows as SeaQuest DSV, Now and Again and Birds of Prey. The story concept originated from Rick Berman & Brannon Braga.

UPDATE: UPN has changed its Wednesday-night airdate schedule. "Bounty" will now be seen on May 14, at 9:00 p.m. (ET/PT) after "First Flight." The season finale is still scheduled to air on May 21.

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[shrek man]

That should be a good one.

[thegame]

Robert O'Reilly gets only a cameo? WTF?