Berman and Braga’s only lingering regret with “These Are The Voyages” is their decision to kill off Connor Trinneer’s character, Charles “Trip” Tucker. “I feel like that’s the real problem,” mused Braga. “One of the most beloved characters. What were we thinking?”
After some thought, Braga noted that they may have been chasing some “emotional impact” by killing Trip. “We felt that the flashback needed some power, some emotional potency, but I can see why that might have been upsetting to people, to find out indirectly, that Trip died.”
Trinneer himself, who co-hosts the D-Con Chamber podcast, doesn’t have any hard feelings about Trip’s death, though, telling Berman and Braga that he’s “very satisfied” with the finale. “As an actor, I got to tell the entire arc of a story,” he informed the pair. “You don’t have to wonder about him. I don’t have to wonder about him. I don’t have to answer questions about him. What you saw was the totality of this person’s career and life.”
It seems like the duo were stuck between a rock and a hard place and felt they made the best decisions possible at the time. Arguably, the real antagonist was the network that cancelled the show and forced Enterprise to skip to the end.
