People in Scott Bakula’s Orbit

Maura Kilbride

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Scott Bakula is suddenly everywhere in my feed again because he’s set to star in a new untitled detective procedural in development at CBS—apparently Dean Devlin is driving the train this time instead of a time machine. So, while the internet argues about which version of Bakula they love most (Pride, Archer, or Sam Beckett), I started thinking about the people who orbit him creatively. This is my little character map: the writers, co-stars, and fellow captains whose names pop into my head whenever someone mentions Scott over a glass of red after a SoWa opening.

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People in Scott Bakula’s Orbit — 3 items
Name	Connection	Claim to fame	Best Scott-era touchpoint	Vibe in my head	My take
1Scott Bakula	The man at the center of the multiverse	Quantum Leap, Star Trek: Enterprise, NCIS: New Orleans	Dwayne Pride at his piano in NCIS: New Orleans	Earnest, slightly rumpled, secretly steely	Feels like the rare TV lead who could actually show up at a neighborhood fundraiser in JP and remember your name the next year.
2Dean Devlin	Producing Scott’s new CBS detective drama	Producer behind Leverage, The Librarians, lots of genre comfort food	The new high-concept Los Angeles-set procedural they’re cooking up	Genre nerd who knows how to butter network notes	If anyone can build a slightly off-center mystery sandbox for Bakula to play in, it’s the guy who’s been quietly running clever capers for years.
3Michael Sussman	Writer-producer linking Enterprise days to the new CBS project	Writer on Star Trek: Enterprise and various genre procedurals	Shaping Jonathan Archer’s more human, hesitant side on Enterprise	The guy in the room who knows the lore and the act breaks	I like that one of the new show’s architects already understands how to write Bakula as flawed but fundamentally decent—it’s his sweet spot.