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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 Steve Krutzler / 14:22, 7 June 2004 / Enterprise
STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE actor Dominic Keating speaks this morning in a new interview with BBC Cult about his role as 'Malcolm Reed' and the future of his show, which airs its season finale "Zero Hour" in the United Kingdom for the first time this evening.
"It's a good finale - my girlfriend said she saw it in America a week and a half ago, and said it was absolutely terrific," Keating says. "I think it rounds off the season really cleverly, with a lot of action and adventure and suspense, and a lovely twist at the end that just makes you scratch your head and wonder at what you've just seen."
Keating says he and the rest of the cast grew nervous during this previous season, wondering whether STAR TREK was going to be abruptly cancelled.
"There was a time about five, six months ago when we were all on set with one another, and we were looking around at one another going, 'Damn, this might be it, on our watch'," he says. "So there was a period of time when I was rather worried. I signed for seven years, and they kept telling me it was going to be for seven years and it looked like it was going to be three and that was it. I was getting my head around the fact that I wasn't going to have all that secure work for the next three years, and the house I'd bought, and thinking, "Ooh, I wonder if I can afford that mortgage", so it was quite a relief when we did get the pick-up."
The actor says that the relationship between UPN's new management (since the merger with CBS) and Paramount Television has degraded, leaving ENTERPRISE in something of a quagmire. The BBC asked him whether he thinks the show will fulfill its original seven-year hopes.
"I would say no, unfortunately," Keating responds. "There's two arguments here. One is that Paramount has made a lot of money out of the show for the last seventeen years, and the back lot at Paramount is basically run on the back of STAR TREK. So without it there's a big hole there, a massive hole... The new management has been put in place at UPN to try and eke out a new demographic and bolster up failing audiences, and we don't fit into what they imagine. But in the same bracket we happen to be their number one drama. So it's a double-edged sword. As much as they'd love to get rid of us, they can't."
The actor further likens ENTERPRISE to a "poor cousin that came to dinner at the moment" when describing the show's current relationship with UPN brass. Keating also becomes the latest to suggest that ENTERPRISE co-creator and executive producer Brannon Braga may take a less involved role in the show's fourth season, with Manny Coto perhaps taking over as show runner.
"He's done it for about fifteen years and I think he's tired," Keating says. "It bodes quite well. [Manny Coto]'s got a good eye for it, and he's certainly a good writer, and with Brannon overseeing the whole thing, I think we could come up with something quite interesting."
For the complete interview, check out this page.
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It's interesting that I had been reading how UPN was slowly moving towards attracting a female demographic, along the lines of Dawn Ostroff's former job as head of Lifetime.
Yet when it comes to ENT, rather than broaden the demographic to include women, they would rather leave it swinging out there to remain with this fictious "male" demographic focus? Certainly TOS and TNG had a BROAD audience in order to pull in the numbers. I can't understand this idiotic "all or nothing" attitude with respect to Trek. It has always appealed to both men and women, boys and girls and now they have gone on a crusade to chase away the females, and won't even bother to try to embrace them instead - ie., be inclusive as Trek has always been about.
It must be the drugs they are taking. 
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"He's done it for about fifteen years and I think he's tired," Keating says. "It bodes quite well. [Manny Coto]'s got a good eye for it, and he's certainly a good writer, and with Brannon overseeing the whole thing, I think we could come up with something quite interesting."
ANSWER: Um no, Braga has to go. This show is absolutely going in circles and is so twisted around that it doesn't know whether it's coming or going and the show-runners don't seem to give a damn. It is like they are biding time until their contracts run out in 2006. Meanwhile, they take the franchise down with them by this type of benign neglect.
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"I think the show talked to people through the characters. They're stories that speak to the heart. They talk about love, they talk about friendship, they talk about loyalty, they talk about patriotism, exploration, curiosity, reaching out... And I think all those things still touch people. Even when you look at a 30-year old show, it still has something to say." - D.C. Fontana, Sci Fi Channel Special Edition TOS 1998
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Outer Space. The last frontier.
These are the trips of the Star Trek Enterprise.
Its 5-year plan...
Calls for us to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations.
To boldly fly where no man has gone in space.
Patrick Stewart on SNL 2/5/94
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