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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. [1] 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. [2]

• 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. [3][4][5]

• 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. [6]

• Star Trek Nemesis scribe John Logan will be writing a feature film adaptation of the video game Bioshock to be directed by Gore Verbinski. [7]

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. [8][9]

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. [10] [11]

• 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. [12]

• 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. [13] [14]

• Christopher Plummer's (General Chang in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country) latest film, The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus, wrapped production this week. [15] Plummer will next be starring as Russian novelist Leo Tolstoy in the film The Last Station, [16] after which he will play Julius Caesar in George Bernard Shaw's Caesar and Cleopatra as part of Canada's Stratford Shakespeare Festival. [17]

• 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. [18]

• Tom Hardy (Shinzon in Star Trek Nemesis) is up for a BAFTA Award for his role in the BBC movie Stuart: A Life Backwards. [19]

• 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. [20]

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. [21]

22 April 2008

• CBS Digital has wrapped up their visual effects work on Star Trek: The Original Series Remastered. The last episode the group worked on was the show's first pilot, "The Cage". According to the project's producers, the final shot that was rendered "showed the Starship Enterprise sailing off into the unknown at the end of an episode." [22]

Did You Know...

...that while many fans have come to believe Star Trek V: The Final Frontier to be entirely apocryphal, Gene Roddenberry stated that only "certain plot elements were", although it's not known to exactly which elements he was referring to. Subsequent Star Trek writers have avoided referencing events from the movie for the most part, one exception is the Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Fusion", which features a group of Vulcans who express their emotions, much as Sybok did.

...that the idea of the katric ark (a device to store a Vulcan's katra after death) did not originate on Enterprise? In non-canon stories, a similar device was depicted by J.M. Dillard's novels, The Lost Years and the novelization of Star Trek V.

Today in Trek history

1940

Ray Young is born.

1952

Gregory Beecroft is born.

1953

Benjamin W.S. Lum is born.

1955

Kevin Peter Hall is born.

1959

Brian Cousins is born.

1966

Second story treatment submitted for TOS: "Charlie X".

Story outline submitted for TOS: "Dagger of the Mind".

1967

Story outline for TOS: "Return to Tomorrow" is submitted.

1970

The Thirteenth UK Story Arc continues in TV21 & Joe 90 #33 with the second of seven installments.

1983

First strip of the Goodbye to Spock comic story arc is published.

1988

TNG: "Conspiracy" airs.

1993

DS9: "Progress" airs.

1994

CIC Video releases Next Generation volume 79 on VHS in the UK.

2001

VOY: "Homestead" airs.

Article of the Week

USS Enterprise at the outer edges of the V'Ger cloud

V'Ger was an enormously powerful entity and one of the most extraordinary lifeforms ever encountered by the Federation when it briefly threatened the destruction of Earth in 2273.

At first sight, V'Ger appeared to be a massive cloud that was far larger than a planet and generated nearly unheard of energy levels. On its approach to Earth V'Ger destroyed three Klingon K't'inga-class cruisers that had been dispatched to intercept it. Not long after, the cloud encountered the Epsilon IX monitoring station and destroyed the station in much the same way as it had the Klingon vessels, but not before the crew of the Starfleet station was able to record the first significant data on the threat.

With the cloud just 54 hours away from Earth, Starfleet sent the newly-refitted USS Enterprise make contact. All linguacode messages were ignored, and it became apparent that the object at the heart of the cloud was unable to comprehend the hailing signals.

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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