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Jul 03 | Leading sci-fi website, Totalscifionline.com has teamed up with Star Trek Magazine to find out who is the best villain in Star Trek. Together, they want to know the diabolical masterminds who have sent a shiver down your spine and set your heart pounding and the evil geniuses who make it seem good to e bad. The top Star Trek villain will appear on a special commemorative Star Trek
Magazine cover, to be revealed later this year. Your vote could also win you year's subscription to Star Trek Magazine.For information on how to cast your vote, go here
Jul 02 | Doug Drexler's Drex Files blog psoted a couple of making-of for two images in Pocket Books 2010 Ships of the Line calendar. You can see Greg Stewart's "Operation Return", and "We Come In Peace For All Mankind" by Robert Wilde.
Jul 02 | Company of Angels (CoA), which was co-founded in 1959 by actor Leonard Nimoy, is celebrating its 50th Anniversary as Los Angeles' oldest non profit professional theater now headquartered at the historic Alexandria Hotel in downtown LA. CoA is readying to celebrate this milestone in the history of Los Angeles Theater - with a prestigious Charity Awards Gala slated for October 17, 2009 which will honor actor Leonard Nimoy for his role as a founding member as well as veteran actor Robert Ellenstein. "I'm looking forward to celebrating Company of Angels' 50th Anniversary Award Ceremony and Gala." Nimoy says of this special event in which he is proud to be a part of Check out the official website to learn more about The Company of Angels
Jul 01 | There may be no new Boston Legal episodes, but William Shatner is keeping very busy these days. In addition to his new talk show, Raw Nerve, he took time out to film a new TV spot for Priceline, titled Lighten Up. The clip is viewable on the Priceline Travel Blog
Jun 28 | Eight weeks in, Star Trek still drew audiences in eighth ($3.6 million this weekend, $246.2 million overall).
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STAR TREK: The Verdict. Rate J.J. Abrams's STAR TREK!
By O. Deus / 06:58, 6 February 2004 / ENTERPRISE Reviews
Synopsis: Enterprise captures the creator of the Xindi weapon and with time running out try to trick him into revealing the weapon's location.
Review: "Stratagem" is both a strong episode in and of itself and a worthy follow-up to "Proving Ground" as part of the Xindi arc. More intriguingly, "Stratagem" is an ENTERPRISE that plays out more like an episode ALIAS.
By committing to the premise of the third season in which Earth and humanity face the threat of imminent extermination, ENT created the problem of a threat that required extreme measures. "Anomaly" is about as far as a STAR TREK series is likely to take the idea of a Starfleet Captain using force to extract information. "Stratagem" does an ingenious end run around the problem by creating a logically worked out situation in which the solution is both ruthless and non-violent.
But at the same time, "Stratagem" also gives us one of the most human villains to date in terms of our ability to empathize with him. Randy Oglesby's 'Degra' is a fully realized character who is well aware of the moral consequences of his actions and manages to get across the character's emotions in a way that is shocking for a character who never seemed particularly significant or distinctive in earlier episodes. When Degra realizes what he has done in giving away the location on the bridge, his face falls and as perverse as it might be we can empathize with his pain at what he sees as his betrayal of his people.
It is ironic that "Stratagem" is essentially a holodeck episode minus the holodeck but that it manages to succeed far better than most holodeck episodes. Like Moriarty in "Ship in a Bottle," the premise involves a ship within a ship and an illusion within an illusion. But unlike that TNG episode, the goal is not to untangle all the layers of illusion but the interaction between Archer and Degra. Two characters both utterly determined and driven by the fear of a terrible future and the moral compromises they have had to make. And both lying to each other and suppressing their feelings to make themselves as cold and hard as they have to be to do what they believe needs to be done.
Visually the debris of the proving ground serve as both a plausible tool for Enterprise's malfunction without resorting to technobabble, and a credible source of tension whjile the incoming Xindi ship serves as a reminder for the destructive force Degra has unleashed.
Michael Sussman's teleplay and veteran STAR TREK director Mike Vejar bring together their talents to create an episode that flows seamlessly and smoothly without any noticeable gaps to its conclusion. Like "Proving Ground" before it, "Stratagem" has a momentum that the Xindi arc has lacked until now. It's another triumph of efficency in storytelling for ENTERPRISE, overcoming many of the obstacles that have traditionally held the series back.
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