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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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By BWilliams / 11:34, 19 July 2004 / Reviews - Books
Synopsis: Captain Picard and his crew, still recovering from the tragic events that have tarnished the career of one of the Federation’s most decorated captains, must come to the aid of a world that once knew only peace, but now faces emerging violence and chaos… and Commander Riker must confront some dreaded realities in the process.
Review: Former DC Comics writer/editor Robert Greenberger returns to the STAR TREK fold with A TIME TO LOVE, the first of a two-part NEXT GENERATION tale (along with A TIME TO HATE) that further explores the events leading up to STAR TREK: NEMESIS. As opposed to the four previous entries in the A TIME TO... series, much of which relied on well-written back stories that tended to slow down the action, Greenberger brings the action forward from the first page and never lets up.
The planet Delta Sigma IV, a planet jointly colonized by members of two different species, the Bader and the Dorset, has enjoyed peace and prosperity for over a hundred years as a member of the Federation. Now, on the 100th anniversary of its founding, there’s been a murder that has caused a violent uprising on Delta Sigma IV, and it’s up to Starfleet Command to determine the who, the what, and the why. Furthermore, they have information that Delta Sigma’s inhabitants are dying as a result of a chemical agent initially believed to prolong their life span. It’s a messy situation, one further complicated by the fact that Starfleet Ambassador Kyle Riker -- Will Riker’s father -- was part of the team responsible for the introduction of the chemical agent into the planet’s atmosphere, and that Kyle Riker has disappeared on Delta Sigma IV in the midst of the murder investigation, making him one of the prime suspects. To that end, Starfleet sends its most dispensable starship -- the Enterprise-E -- to clean up this messy situation, no matter how bad it looks.
It’s bad enough that the Enterprise-E has a tarnished reputation on its hands, with many of its junior crewmembers requesting personnel transfers and jumping ship. No one wants to be associated with the Enterprise or with Captain Jean-Luc Picard, and who can blame them? It’s only the most loyal personnel who are sticking it out and doing what is called of them. Of course, this upsets Starfleet Command, who wants nothing more than to oust Will Riker from the first officer’s seat into a captaincy of his own.
Greenberger exponentially builds upon the increasing tension to the story with the threat of insurgence among the Bader and Dorset colonies, and the possibility of a forced Federation martial law and interventional government taken right out of today’s headlines. He also turns up the heat with the rapidly increasing murder rate between both species, with Beverly Crusher left to uncover the reasons behind it. After the slow build-up of action in the four previous novels in this series, it’s refreshing to see Greenberger launch into action right at the beginning of the tale.
One of Greenberger’s strengths, as he has previously evidenced in earlier TNG novels and the DC Comics STAR TREK comic, is his penchant for developing and furthering the relationships among the main and supporting characters. The passages with Will Riker and Seer’s family are priceless, as they further suggest elements that will come into play in the future. He further explores the growing relationship between Will Riker and Deanna Troi, as well as the continued lack of a relationship between Will Riker and his father Kyle, and the continued lack of a relationship between Picard and Crusher. It’s these story threads that, continuing in A TIME TO HATE, will push the TNG cast to the limit.
Of course, no Bob Greenberger tale would be complete without his trademark inside humor. If you look carefully in the pages of A TIME TO LOVE (as well as in A TIME TO HATE), you’ll find references to certain members of the AMERICAN IDOL finalists, the New York Mets’ 25-man lineup, and the E Street Band as part of the security and engineering crews. The first mention of Crewmen Aiken and Studdard had me smiling, as did the “little” (or should it be “Little”?) crewman named Van Zandt and his associate, Crewman Clemons, while at the same time it had me dreading the possibility of a Crewman William Hung lurking on the ship warbling “She Bangs” -- that would have everyone jumping ship! (Let us hope this does not become so in a future novel.) He also gives a nice tip of the hat by naming the Bader race in memory of former TNG writer Hilary J. Bader, who passed away in 2003.
My only caveat with this novel is that it seems much shorter in length than it actually appears. By the time of the book’s conclusion, we’re left with a cliffhanger that easily could have appeared at the end of a commercial break between acts in a TNG episode. But the ending leaves an interesting question that everyone had asked since the beginning of the novel, leaving the follow-up A TIME TO HATE to clarify the situation.
Bob Greenberger returns to the pages of STAR TREK with a great story, wonderful characterization, and page-turning action that leaves you wanting more.
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