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12 May 2008

• ABC has renewed William Shatner and John Larroquette's series Boston Legal for a fifth season. There was doubt as to whether the show would return after a February 2008 report announcing the shows renewed for ABC's 2008-09 TV season did not include Boston Legal. The series will return this fall thanks to a deal reached between ABC, 20th Century Fox TV, and series creator David E. Kelley. The deal also involved Kelley's departure from the American version of Life on Mars, based on the British series of the same name and starring TNG/DS9's Colm Meaney. There is no word yet on whether Meaney's show will be picked up for the fall. [1]

9 May 2008

• Patrick Stewart (Jean-Luc Picard) has been found eligible for a Tony Award nomination as Lead Actor in a Play for his performance in Macbeth. The final nominations will be announced 13 May 2008. [2] In the meantime Stewart's TNG guest star Whoopi Goldberg announced on The View that she will be hosting the Tony Awards ceremony on 15 June 2008. [3]

• Tasha Yar/Sela actress Denise Crosby will be heading to New York next week for a workshop production of the play Epitaph for John Dylan, scheduled to run June 2-15 at the 45th Street Theater. In addition, Crosby has a recurring role as "Gertie" on the AMC series Mad Men, which starts its second season this July. [4][5][6]

• DS9 star Rene Auberjonois has begun rehearsals for his performance as The Imaginary Invalid, which is scheduled to run from June 10th through July 27th at the Shakespeare Theatre Company in Washington, DC. [7]

• Star Trek Nemesis scribe John Logan will be writing a feature film adaptation of the video game Bioshock to be directed by Gore Verbinski. [8]

5 May 2008

• The Sci-Fi Channel has acquired the cable rights to Star Trek: The Next Generation as part of a new deal with CBS. This will be the first time Sci-Fi has aired TNG, which was recently pulled from the schedules of both Spike TV and G4. Sci-Fi will air TNG on Mondays at 7PM EST beginning 2 June 2008. [9][10]

26 April 2008

• Star Trek: The Next Generation's Patrick Stewart (Jean-Luc Picard) has been nominated for both an Outer Critics Circle Award and Drama League Award for his performance in Macbeth, currently running on Broadway's Lyceum Theatre. [11] [12]

• Colm Meaney (Miles O'Brien) has landed a role in The Damned United, a British biopic about legendary soccer coach Brian Clough. Meaney will play rival coach Don Revie. [13]

• Christopher Lloyd (Kruge in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock) will be playing Pellinore in the New York Philharmonic's production of the musical play Camelot at Avery Fisher Hall from 7 May to 10 May 2008. The May 8th performance will be broadcast nationwide on PBS as part of the Live from Lincoln Center series. [14] [15]

• Christopher Plummer's (General Chang in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country) latest film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, wrapped production this week. [16] Plummer will next be starring as Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy in the film The Last Station, [17] after which he will play Julius Caesar in George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra as part of Canada's Stratford Shakespeare Festival. [18]

• An American in China, a film starring Anthony Montgomery (Star Trek: Enterprise's Travis Mayweather), won the 2008 George Sidney Independent Film Competition and picked up Best Full Length Feature Film Award. [19]

• Tom Hardy (Shinzon in Star Trek Nemesis) is up for a BAFTA Award for his role in the BBC movie Stuart: A Life Backwards. [20]

• Star Trek actors George Takei, France Nuyen, and Rosalind Chao will be among those participating in Turner Classic Movies' Race and Hollywood: Asian Images in Film this June. [21]

25 April 2008

• Old news, but Star Trek: The Next Generation's Lieutenant Commander Data was inducted into Carnegie Mellon University's Robot Hall of Fame on 9 April. Attending the ceremony on Data's behalf was actor Zachary Quinto, who has an important role in the upcoming Star Trek. [22]

Did You Know...

Patrick Stewart and Avery Brooks

...that both Patrick Stewart and Avery Brooks directed the penultimate episode ("Preemptive Strike" and "The Dogs of War") of their respective series?

...that both Star Trek: The Motion Picture and Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan set records for box office earnings at their time of release?

Today in Trek history

1948

Richard Riehle is born.

1962

April Grace is born.

1967

A planned sequel to TOS: "The Naked Time" is drafted by John D.F. Black. This script is eventually adapted into TNG: "The Naked Now".

1972

Steve Ihnat dies.

1975

Philip Boyd is born.

1978

Amy Wheaton is born.

1997

DS9: "Blaze of Glory" airs.

1999

DS9: "Tacking Into the Wind" airs.

VOY: "Relativity" airs.

2004

ENT: "The Council" airs.

Article of the Week

IKS Rotarran

The IKS Rotarran was a Klingon Bird-of-Prey in service during the 2370s.

Following the withdrawal of Klingon fleet from Cardassian space in mid-2373, following the Cardassian's successful admittance into the Dominion, the Rotarran suffered half a dozen successive defeats in combat with the Jem'Hadar, mounting heavy casualties over a period of seven months.

Late that year, General Martok was assigned command of the Rotarran by the Klingon High Council and dispatched to locate the missing IKS B'Moth. Joining him as his first officer was Worf and Jadzia Dax as science officer; both serving on detached duty from Starfleet.

Plotting course for the last known position of the B'Moth, the Rotarran was forced to circumnavigate the Tong Beak Nebula in order to avoid the Jem'Hadar. Martok's wish to avoid a fight struck a sour chord with his weary crew.

On the way, Martok reviewed his crew's personnel reports, which included remarks such as: "dishonorable conduct," "lack of respect," "dereliction of duty," "inattention to orders," "unmotivated," and "insufficiently aggressive." This did not go over well with Martok nor Worf. Together they vowed to restore honor to the Rotarran and make it a ship worthy of the Empire.

Upcoming releases

Films

• Star Trek films: Star Trek (8 May 2009)

Episodes

• Remastered TOS (in syndication)
  • "Court Martial" (weekend of 10 May 2008)
  • "A Private Little War" (weekend of 17 May 2008)
  • "Whom Gods Destroy" (weekend of 24 May 2008)
  • "The Mark of Gideon" (weekend of 31 May 2008
  • "The Lights of Zetar" (weekend of 7 June 2008)
  • "The Way to Eden" (weekend of 14 June 2008)

DVDs

• TOS-R Season 2 DVD (5 August 2008)

Novels and reference works

• Day of the Vipers (Star Trek: Terok Nor, paperback, out now)
• Night of the Wolves (Star Trek: Terok Nor, paperback, out now)
• Dawn of the Eagles (Star Trek: Terok Nor, paperback, 20 May 2008)
• These Haunted Seas (Pocket DS9 omnibus, trade paperback, 17 June 2008)

Comics

• IDW Publishing
  • Intelligence Gathering
    • #4, "Matters of the Mind" - released 23 April 2008
  • Turnaround (Star Trek: New Frontier)
    • #2, "Turnaround, Part II" - released 23 April 2008
  • Year Four: The Enterprise Experiment
    • #1, "Part 1" - released 16 April 2008
  • Trade paperback collections
    • Alien Spotlight - 14 May 2008

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