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Latest news
- 25 November 2009
- Richard Carlyle, the actor who portrayed geologist Karl Jaeger on Star Trek: The Original Series in the episode "The Squire of Gothos", has died. His death was reported by Star Trek: Enterprise guest star Jim Beaver, who is a member of Los Angeles' Theatre West, a company Carlyle had been part of for many years. Carlyle is believed to have died on 15 November 2009, but this date has not yet been confirmed. According to his family, he was 95 years old.[1]
- 12 November 2009
- The Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, the organization responsible for the Emmy Awards, will induct Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry into the TV Hall of Fame in January. [2] Roddenberry is the second Star Trek personality to be inducted into the TV Hall of Fame since it was introduced in 2006; the first was William Shatner.
- 23 October 2009
- It has been announced that CBS Consumer Products and Mad Science are developing a new interactive stage show based on Star Trek called Star Trek Live. The show will be touring theme parks and performing arts centers across the United States beginning in 2010. For the full press release and further details, see TrekMovie.com.
Article of the Week
Mr. Boothby is the curmudgeonly groundskeeper at Starfleet Academy in San Francisco on Earth. He was born in the mid to late 23rd century. He has been working at Starfleet Academy since about 2321 and has seen a lot of promising young cadets come and go, often offering up helpful advice and kind words; among them such prominent Starfleet captains as Jean-Luc Picard, Kathryn Janeway, Richardson, and Lopez.
Boothby was disdainful of herbicides and other high-tech devices, and preferred to tend to the grounds by hand. After a big parrises squares win in 2324, it took Boothby three weeks to repair the grounds following the celebration. In 2368, Boothby claimed that he was cranky because he had been forced to replant the same flower bed several times.
Picture of the Day
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| An "echo" of Guinan's former self trapped in the Nexus in 2371. (Star Trek Generations) |
Did You Know...
...that the original version of the script for Star Trek: The Next Generation's "Conspiracy" did not feature alien parasites? The 'conspiracy' in question was simply a military coup within Starfleet, but Gene Roddenberry vehemently opposed such an idea, since he believed Starfleet would never stoop to such methods; thus the alien angle was introduced at his insistence.
...that in the Star Trek: The Original Series episodes "Tomorrow is Yesterday" and "Return to Tomorrow" the Apollo moon landing is referred to/predicted (even the approximate date?) Both episodes aired more than a year before it happened.
...that Patrick Stewart and Brent Spiner were the only cast members in Star Trek Generations to have custom early Deep Space Nine and Voyager-style uniforms made for use in the film? Jonathan Frakes had to borrow Avery Brooks' uniform and LeVar Burton had to borrow Colm Meaney's uniform; neither of which fit the actors very well (Frakes had to roll up the sleeves and Burton's is obviously too big for him).
Today in Trek history
- 1945
- Barbara Anderson is born.
- 1948
- James Avery is born.
- 1949
- Gerrit Graham is born.
- 1951
- John Lendale Bennett is born.
- 1954
- Patricia McPherson is born.
- 1971
- The Twenty-Sixth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #9 with the seventh of nine installments.
- 1974
- Alec Newman is born.
- 1975
- Steven Klein is born.
- 1978
- Joshua Harris is born.
- 1985
- Design patent for landing party jackets is issued.
- 1995
- DS9: "Our Man Bashir" airs.
- VOY: "Resistance" airs.
- 1996
- VOY: "The Q and the Grey" airs.
- 1997
- Richard Rubin dies.
- 1999
- Robert F. Shugrue dies.
- 2002
- ENT: "Vanishing Point" airs.
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- TOS Season 2 Blu-ray (Region A, Region B - out now)
- Star Trek: The Next Generation Motion Picture Collection (BD and DVD; Region 1/A, 2/B - out now)
- Star Trek: Motion Picture Trilogy (BD and DVD; Region 1/A, 2/B - out now)
- Star Trek (Basic DVD, Special Edition DVD, Blu-ray) (Region 1/A, 2/B - out now)
- TOS Season 3 Blu-ray (Region A - 15 December 2009; Region B - 1 February 2010)
Novels and reference works
- Star Trek - The Art of the Film (reference book, hardcover, out now)
- Precipice (Star Trek: Vanguard, paperback, out now)
- The Sorrows of Empire (Star Trek: Mirror Universe, paperback, 29 December 2009)
- Inception (Pocket TOS, paperback, 26 January 2010)
Comics
- IDW Publishing
- Alien Spotlight, Volume II
- #5 - "Alien Spotlight: Cardassians" - solicited for December 2009
- Star Trek: Nero
- #4 - "Nero, Number Four" - released 25 November 2009
- Romulans: Schism
- #3 - "Schism, Issue 3" - released 4 November 2009
- Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ghosts
- #1 - "Ghosts, Issue 1" - released 18 November 2009
- Alien Spotlight, Volume II
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