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Scott Bakula’s Hair Cost Star Trek: Enterprise Five Whole Days Of Filming
By WITNEY SEIBOLD
In “Star Trek: Enterprise,” Scott Bakula’s Captain John Archer was a Boy Scout, and his haircut featured a simple, uncomplicated part, similar to a '50s elementary school yearbook.
Bakula wanted his hair to look a very particular way, and the show’s hair stylists did what he asked, giving him something more militant that resembled the hair of old NASA heroes.
However, Bakula’s personal style clashed with the vision of one of the series’ executives, and the kerfuffle over his hairdo tacked five extra days onto the shooting schedule.
Series director James L. Conway shared, “There’s a lot of hair issues on ‘Star Trek.’ I had to reshoot the first five days of the pilot because of Scott’s hair.”
Paramount president Kerry McCluggage, who was Bakula’s friend and played a significant role in him getting the part, “hated Scott’s hair,” according to Conway.
Conway said, “He wanted it one way, Scott wanted it another [...] So we had to go back and reshoot all of Scott’s close-ups for the first five days and change his hair.”
However, Bakula would eventually get his wish. When events were transposed in the franchise’s Mirror Universe, evil Captain Archer sported Bakula’s preferred hairstyle.