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Saturday, May 24, 2003 |
We spent a jolly shore leave there, for just three days or four
From The Capital Times, May 19, 2003, a tie-in between Star Trek: Enterprise and Madison.
Provis snapped to attention when the show's star, Scott Bakula , and the episode guest star, Keith Carradine, decided to have a beer at a place called the 602 Club.
"There were at least three sequences in the bar," Provis was recalling Friday. "Star Fleet headquarters is located somewhere in the San Francisco area, because you can see the Golden Gate Bridge in some of the shots. And in the episode Wednesday, at one point Carradine or Bakula said, 'Wouldn't you rather be having a beer at the 602?' "
Could it be a coincidence? Could some TV writer have just snatched the name of one of Madison's most famous bars - the 602 Club, which operated from 1951 to 1994 on University Avenue at Frances Street - out of the air?
It could have been a coincidence, but it wasn't. It turns out that Rick Berman , writer-producer of "Enterprise" and the man handpicked by Roddenberry to shepherd the "Star Trek" saga into the future, studied TV and film at UW-Madison. Like so many students in the 1960s, Berman drank beer at the 602, or "the Six," as many of the regulars called it.
I swear I have no idea why there are so many links to Star Trek related things in my blog lately; I don't even watch Star Trek anymore (Deep Space Nine was the last good Star Trek show, in my opinion).
