Nov 23 | Chuck returns to NBC with a special two-hour show on Sunday, Jan 10, 2010, before returning to its regular time slot, Mondays at 8pm on the following night. It's return to prime time television can be attributed to a successful fan renewnal campaign last year. CHUCK is a one-hour, action-comedy series that follows Chuck Bartowski (Zachary Levi, "Less Than Perfect") -- a computer geek who is catapulted into a new career as the government's most vital secret agent. This upcoming season will include some special guest stars, including Brandon Routh of "Superman Returns" who will play CIA agent Daniel Shaw in an episode, and the addition of SUBWAY restaurant as a major advertiser to the show. Chuck averaged a 4.0/6 rating last season, about eight percent better than the recently cancelled "Trauma". Ratings-challenged Heroes moves back an hour when Chuck returns on Monday nights. STAR TREK VOYAGER's Robert Duncan McNeill serves Chuck as a supervising producer and director.
Nov 17 | Originally hired as co-executive producer to help with the second half of the show's first season, Kevin Murphy has now taken the reins of Caprica, the Battlestar Galactica prequel on Syfy, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He now serves as an executive producer along with Ronald D. Moore, David Eick and Jane Espenson and oversees the day-to-day functions of the show.
Nov 12 | Star Trek star Zachary Quinto is loosely attached to star in the romantic dramedy Whirligig, reports Risky Business.Quinto would play the lead role in the independent Canadian film, which is aiming to shoot early next year. The movie centers on a man who, in a misguided attempt to woo an older woman, befriends the woman's adopted son.Chaz Thorne is directing the pic, based on a screenplay by Michael Amo, creator of the Canadian supernatural series "The Listener."
Nov 11 | The CNS Foundation, is hosting an on-line charity auction at www.charitybuzz.com. One of the items they are auctioning is a signed movie poster of the new Star Trek movie which has all the cast members and writers. The president of our organization is Carol Abrams, JJ's mother, and she arranged for the donation from Bad Robot Production Company. J.J. Abrams is also a major donor to their organization. The funds raised will go to help find a cure to neurological disorders in children. The auction link is here.
Nov 10 | Candice Bergen, Charles Lisanby, Don Pardo, Gene Roddenberry, Tom and Dick Smothers and Bob Stewart have been selected as the next inductees into the Television Academy's Hall of Fame. They will be honored at a Jan. 20 ceremony at the Beverly Hills Hotel. "This year's inductees have challenged and shaped popular culture, changed television for the better and entertained us royally while doing so," TV Academy Chairman-CEO John Shaffner said. More info at the Hollywood Reporter
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New Computer Voice. Do You Want Marina Sirtis as the Computer Voice in Star TreK XII?
By O. Deus / 06:59, 19 February 2004 / ENTERPRISE Reviews
Synopsis: While the crew is asleep, Doctor Phlox is left in charge of Enterprise.
Review: Doctor Phlox has been the most consistently underused ENTERPRISE crewmember with the exceptions of poor forgotten Mayweather. But unlike him, Phlox actually has an incredible amount of potential that tends to get wasted by just utilizing him to occasionally move the plot along or as a minor supporting character. A situation that has only grown worse in the third season as a recent interview by the actor testifies.
Nevertheless, Phlox has managed to steal the show in even the smallest parts in other episodes. His appearances in "A Night in Sickbay" that catalogued his routine were the highlight of an awful episode. "Doctor's Orders" is strongest at the start when as in "Sickbay," Phlox is simply and calmly going about his routine. But it's when the episode tries to fit him into a remake of VOYAGER's "One" that the material begins to unravel.
"One" was a very strong episode and a great concept in no small part because it was a way of creating character development for Seven of Nine by demonstrating to her that she needs other people. But there is no similar development necessary for Phlox and "Doctor's Orders" doesn't provide that development. As Billingsley has himself pointed out in the interview, Phlox is at heart an unflappable character. Odd as it might be, a scene of Phlox making his rounds with Porthos is somehow more interesting than one with Phlox stalking imaginary Xindi. "Doctor's Orders"'s plot would have made sense for T'Pol, incredibly derivative of VOYAGER as that may have been. But aside from training him to run parts of the ship it fails to do much in the way of developing Phlox.
While Roxann Dawson's direction is smooth and effective, visually "Doctor's Order" simply never comes close to "One" in evoking a hallucinatory, paranoid atmosphere in which the unreal merges with the real. Instead, the episode quickly demarcates the line of reality with the only exception being the SIXTH SENSE-style twist involving T'Pol.
Billingsley and Blalock do get the chance to do some comedy and Blalock is surprisingly funny but Phlox is funniest when he's relaxed and reacting normally, not in forced scenes when he's running around like a chicken with his head cut off. The problem is that the producers have not grasped that Billingsley's Phlox is naturally funny and that they don't need to put him through awkward routines for that humor to shine.
All in all, "Doctor's Orders" is a somewhat average and uninspired episode about ENTERPRISE's most underused character, whose best moments are not so much plot-derived as montages of Phlox wandering an empty ship. The narrative device of Phlox's letters to the same Doctor Lucas as in prior episodes are good but fails to serve as an adequate showcase for Phlox and Billingsley's talents.
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LOL
I agree with your characterizations of the ep.
It's interesting but when the production info was first released and discussed about this ep and people immediately recognized the plot from VOY "One", so many jumped on the bandwagon to say that it couldn't possibly be a retread. But sure enough, it was. ;-) And it wouldn't surprise me that T'Pol was the original intent for participating as the primary focus of the story save for the fact that a previous VOY "One" retread with a twist featuring T'Pol had already been aired via ENT "Singularity", also written by Chris Black.
And as can be heard in probably every episode this season, the checklist oxymoronic dialog that is apparently required to be said by ANY one or more of the characters - that they are on a "mission", MUST and DOES occur in this episode as well, right on time. 
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