I wish them luck. Another Star Trek alum trying his hand. I bet Ronald Moore's 
success with "Galactica" is a great incentive.  It's great to see a decent 
number of speculative fiction shows again, isn't it? Always fun and frustrating 
to see which are good, which stink, and whether the networks make the right 
choice in what they kill or keep.  By the way, TV Guide has picked "Threshold", 
along with "Invasion" and "Supernatural", as three of its favorite shows. The 
ones they really dogged were "Surface" and, not surprisingly, "Medium" clone 
"Ghost Whisperer".

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16-SEPTEMBER-05

Braga: Threshold Won't Hold Back


Brannon Braga, co-creator and executive producer of CBS' upcoming SF
suspense thriller, Threshold, told SCI FI Wire that the show will not be
shy in explaining up front what its aliens are doing. "It's bioforming,"
Braga (Star Trek: Enterprise) said in an interview. "They're sending out
this bizarre technological signal that mutates our DNA, [turning us] into
them. There are no aliens. They're turning us into them."

In Threshold, Carla Gugino stars as Dr. Molly Caffrey, the woman who wrote
Operation: Threshold, a contingency plan that outlines what to do in case
of an alien threat. When a cargo freighter discovers an extraterrestrial
craft, Threshold is put into motion, and Caffrey must pull together a "red
team" to investigate.

Braga, who created the series with executive producers David S. Goyer and
David Heyman, said he liked the idea of having a female protagonist. "I
liked the concept that she wrote this contingency plan about what if an
alien intelligence came to Earth and it was hostile," he said. "This plan
was purely theoretical, and one day the government calls her and says it's
really happening. So that her 'What if?' scenario becomes a 'What now?'
scenario. And she really has to start planning this s--t, because it's
really happening."

Threshold is premiering amid a glut of new SF shows on the fall television
schedule. But Braga believes that NBC's Surface and ABC's Invasion are
very different shows. Threshold deals with a group of people who work for
the government who are trying to stop the aliens. "In a funny way, a lot
of shows deal with government conspiracy, and there are the people in the
shadows who you don't quite know what they're up to," Braga said. "We are
the conspiracy. We're leading the conspiracy. And they are going to do
some shady things. The Threshold protocols are going to occasionally call
for some gray areas to be explored."

Threshold debuts with a two-hour premiere on Sept. 16 at 9 p.m. ET/PT.




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