Star Trek: Enterprise’s Connor Trinneer Gave Conflicting Responses To His Thoughts On Trip’s Shocking Death – Looper

In a 2020 interview with TrekMovie, Connor Trinneer was asked if he agrees with fan criticisms of the “Star Trek: Enterprise” finale and the actor insisted he was happy with Trip’s death. “Personally, I liked the way I was able to conclude Trip with his untimely demise,” Trinneer said. “As an actor that was satisfying to me. I have always felt that way.” So it would seem that he disagrees with the many fans who were disappointed with how Trip died, or at least he disagreed with them in 2020.

But Trinneer’s claim about feeling satisfied with the finale doesn’t hold up. According to a 2005 TrekToday article, the actor had some choice words about the finale during DragonCon Q&A, noting that he and the cast were disappointed in the decision to kill Trip. His chief complaint centered on the cameo appearances by Frakes and Marina Sirtis from “Star Trek: The Next Generation,” which led him to feel like someone else got to end “Enterprise” for them. Trinneer said he was so distraught over the finale that he didn’t attend the series’ wrap party — and neither did most of the show’s cast. Speaking about Trip’s death in the finale, Trinneer said, “I’ve gotten out of much worse scrapes than that.” 

It’s certainly true. There are many situations far more dangerous than the one Trip sacrificed himself for, and he had every reason to believe he would survive that particular predicament. Killing him off seems to have just been unnecessary.