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Latest news
- 1 July 2009
- Harve Presnell, the actor who played Colonel Q in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "The Q and the Grey", has died at the age of 75. The actor died of pancreatic cancer yesterday, 30 June 2009, at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica, California. [1]
- 24 June 2009
- Details for the Blu-ray release of Star Trek have been released. Included on the disc will be ten featurettes, nine deleted scenes, a gag reel, four trailers, a Starfleet vessel simulator, a demo of Star Trek D-A-C, and an audio commentary by J.J. Abrams, Bryan Burk, Alex Kurtzman, Damon Lindelof, and Roberto Orci. There will be three home video versions in total: standard widescreen DVD, special edition DVD set, and special edition Blu-ray. [2]
- 16 June 2009
- Star Trek has received five nominations from this year's Teen Choice Awards. The film itself is up for "Choice Movie: Action Adventure;" Zoe Saldana is up for "Choice Movie Actress: Action Adventure;" Eric Bana is in the running for "Choice Movie: Villain;" Chris Pine is up for "Choice Movie: Fresh Face Male;" and both Pine and Zachary Quinto are nominated for "Choice Movie: Rumble" for their fight sequence on the bridge of the USS Enterprise. [3] To vote, visit TeenChoiceAwards.com. You must be registered to vote (it is free), and you also have to be a teenager (or you can just say that you are one).
- Actor Ward Costello, who played Admiral Gregory Quinn in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes "Coming of Age" and "Conspiracy", has died. According to Variety, Costello died in Redlands, California, on 4 June 2009 due to complications from a stroke. He was 89 years old. [4]
Article of the Week
The counter-insurgency program was a security measure designed for a hypothetical revolt by Bajoran laborers aboard Terok Nor.
It was installed by its commanding officer, then-Gul Dukat during the Occupation of Bajor because the Bajorans far outnumbered their Cardassian overseers. The program was designed so Dukat and his fellow Cardassian officers could interact with and control it, but if necessary, it could run independently. To ensure smooth operation, the program had several levels of severity to allow it to deal with a variety of scenarios, the focus being a revolt by laborers in ore processing. Naturally, Dukat omitted mention of the program's existence when control of what was now called Deep Space 9 passed to Benjamin Sisko in 2369.
If the workers escaped or the insurgency spread and resulted in an escape from ore processing, the program was set to take control of the station. Force fields would secure sensitive areas of the station's computer circuitry, Ops and the security office, with similar force fields blocking access to virtually every major doorway on the station.
The program was discovered by Miles O'Brien in 2371 while investigating the possibility of turning the ore-processing area into a deuterium refinery. Lack of knowledge about the program caused the crew to activate the program's higher levels once the station-wide program took effect...
Did You Know...
...that 1994's "Genesis" was the first episode of Star Trek to be directed by a female cast member? It was directed by Gates McFadden. The next female cast director would be Roxann Dawson's "Riddles", on Star Trek: Voyager.
...that the Kazon were originally meant to be a social commentary on "gangs" in the United States, aggressive groups that only looked out for each other?
...that according to the personnel file for Captain Jonathan Archer seen in "In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II", the planet Enterprise visited in "Strange New World" was later named Archer IV in his honor? The file lists that several hundred million people live on a colony there in the 23rd century after a cure for the hallucinogenic pollen there was found.
Today in Trek history
- 1927
- Tim O'Connor is born.
- 1930
- Rhoda Williams is born.
- 1943
- Kurtwood Smith is born.
- 1971
- The Twenty-Second UK Story Arc continues in TV21 & Joe 90 #93 with the third of four installments.
- 1978
- James Daly dies.
- 2000
- Paramount Home Entertainment releases Next Generation volume 3.5 and Voyager volume 6.5 on VHS in the UK.
- 2006
- Star Trek: Fan Collective - Borg DVD released in region 2.
- 2007
- Corps of Engineers print omnibus Grand Designs is released.
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- Troublesome Minds (Pocket TOS, paperback, out now)
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- The Soul Key (Pocket DS9, paperback, 28 July 2009)
- The Never Ending Sacrifice (Pocket DS9, paperback, 25 August 2009)
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- Crew
- #4 - "Shadows of the Past" - released 3 June 2009
- #5 - "The Ends of Eternity" - solicited for 9 July 2009
- Mission's End
- #4 - "Mission's End, Issue 4" - released 24 June 2009
- Alien Spotlight, Volume II
- #3 - "Alien Spotlight: Romulans" - released 20 May 2009
- Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
- #2 - "The Wrath of Khan, Issue 2" - released 17 June 2009
- #3 - "The Wrath of Khan, Issue 3" - released 1 July 2009
- Star Trek Omnibus
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