IC: We are now entering Season 3 of the series, and the adventures of Captain Alexander Chase have been said to have revived the ailing franchise in the aftermath of the Star Trek: Enterprise fiasco. With the new J.J. Abrams movie coming in a few months, how would the franchise have been altered by the absence of Star Trek: The New Frontier? Would the franchise have survived? Would Abrams and Whedon have teamed up for the creation of the film?