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Latest news
- 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. [1] 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.
- 19 October 2009
- Star Trek has won six out of the seventeen Spike Scream Awards for which it was nominated, including the top honor, the Ultimate Scream (their version of the Academy Award's Best Picture). The film also won the award for Best Science Fiction Film, Best Director (J.J. Abrams), Best Science Fiction Actor (Chris Pine), Best Cameo (Winona Ryder), and Best Fight Scene (Kirk vs. Spock). The awards ceremony was taped out on Saturday, 17 October, and will air on Spike on Tuesday, 27 October. [2] [3]
Article of the Week
"Day of the Dove" was the eleventh episode of the third season of Star Trek: The Original Series.
Responding to a distress call from Beta XII-A, a landing party from the Enterprise beams down to the planet. They find no evidence of a colony nor any indication that one was attacked. From the bridge of the orbiting Enterprise, Spock hails Captain Kirk and reports that a Klingon battle cruiser is approaching. Although Kirk authorizes the Vulcan to defend the Starfleet ship, Sulu determines that the Klingon vessel is totally disabled. A team of Klingons beams to the planet and approaches the Starfleet officers. Kang, the leader of the team, believes that Kirk is responsible for the damage to his ship and for killing four hundred members of his crew. As a result, the Klingon claims the Enterprise as his own and takes the captain prisoner. Both men are unaware of a strange anomaly nearby.
Kang threatens to torture one of the Starfleet prisoners, but has difficulty deciding which officer will suffer – until Ensign Chekov angrily cries out that Klingons killed his brother, Piotr Chekov, on Archanis IV. One of the Klingons uses an agonizer to inflict pain on the Russian. After much debating with Kang, Kirk authorizes Spock to beam the Klingon and Starfleet officers aboard the Enterprise. The landing party is beamed into the ship's transporter room, but the Klingons are suspended in transit and are later arrested.
Did You Know...
...that it has never been confirmed whether or not there is any actual blood in Klingon bloodwine? However, the Star Trek Cookbook suggests that bloodwine is made of fermented blood and sugar.
...that Robert Picardo, Ethan Phillips, Dwight Schultz and Alice Krige all appeared together in Star Trek: First Contact and in the Star Trek: Voyager series finale "Endgame"? Phillips played two completely different characters, the nightclub maitre d' and Neelix, but Picardo played EMHs both times, Krige played Borg Queens both times, and Schultz played Reginald Barclay in both appearances.
...the final season of Star Trek: Enterprise was shot almost exclusively on Sony 900 digital cameras, thus making it the first Trek series to be photographed on digital video instead of film. The only scene in the entire season that wasn't shot on digital video was the teaser of "In a Mirror, Darkly", which was shot on 35mm film to better intercut with stock footage from the 1996 movie Star Trek: First Contact.
Today in Trek history
- 1929
- Jerry Hardin is born.
- 1931
- William Ware Theiss is born.
- 1964
- Ned Vaughn is born.
- Second revised script of "The Cage" is submitted, with the captain named "James Winter".
- 1967
- D7-class design perfected on the twenty-fourth sketch by Matt Jefferies.
- 1971
- Christopher Leps is born.
- The Twenty-Sixth UK Story Arc continues in Valiant & TV21 #8 with the sixth of nine installments.
- 1987
- First day of filming on TNG: "11001001". Among the scenes filmed today is scene 15, Riker and La Forge observing Data painting the zylo eggs.
- 1989
- TNG: "The Vengeance Factor" airs.
- 1993
- DS9: "Second Sight" airs.
- 1995
- DS9: "The Sword of Kahless" airs.
- VOY: "Maneuvers" airs.
- 2002
- ENT: "Singularity" airs.
- 2007
- Original Series remastered season 1 released in HD-DVD/DVD combo format.
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- 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 - to be confirmed)
Novels and reference works
- Synthesis (Star Trek: Titan, paperback, out now)
- Star Trek - The Art of the Film (reference book, hardcover, out now)
- Precipice (Star Trek: Vanguard, paperback, 24 November 2009)
- The Sorrows of Empire (Star Trek: Mirror Universe, paperback, 29 December 2009)
Comics
- IDW Publishing
- Star Trek: Nero
- #3 - "Nero, Number Three" - released 21 October 2009
- #4 - "Nero, Number Four" - solicited for 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
- Collected volumes
- Mission's End trade paperback collection - released 21 October 2009
- Star Trek: Nero
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