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Indiana Jones faces some challenges
SPEED RACER - Disaster at Box Office ?
May 11 | Fox has picked up J.J. Abrams's Fringe, which follows a young female FBI agent who tackle cases involving unexplained medical and scientific phenomena. Abrams' Bad Robot produced a two-hour pilot which was written by Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (Star Trek) and directed by Alex Graves (Journeyman). The series' cast includes Anna Torv, Mark Valley and Joshua Jackson. More info at Variety
May 11 | Comic book writer/artist John Byrne on his own forums, has release some preview art for, and announced the title of his forthcoming Romulan miniseries sequel to his Romulan issue in the first Alien Spotlight series from IDW. The series is Romulans: The Hollow Crown and starts in September.
May 09 | Universal Studios has announced plans to bring hit Xbox 360 shooter BioShock to the big screen. The film will be directed by Gore Verbinski, whose previous credits include the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy and The Ring. John Logan, who wrote Star Trek Nemesis, is in talks to produce the screenplay.
May 09 | Patrick Stewart will appear on Downstage Center, a theatrical interview show on XM Radio's On Broadway Channel 28 on May 9, 2008 @ 6:OO p.m. EST to discuss his role in Macbeth. The show will repeat on Saturday, May 10th @ noon, May 11th @ 7 p.m., and May 14th @ midnight EST. The program becomes available as streaming audio and podcast which can be found here and iTunes beginning May 12th. More details
May 08 | TV Guide reports that veteran Babylon 5 star Bruce Boxleitner has landed a top-secret recurring role in Heroes. The magazine says the role was originally going to be modeled after Sen. John McCain. The character has since been reconceived and is expected to be sharing scenes with a female series regular. They add that, although the show is introducing some new faces next season, the primary focus will remain "on the core characters from the pilot."
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By Steve Krutzler / 10:33, 24 November 2004 / Enterprise
There is no end in sight for the wave of TOS-inspired storylines on STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE this season. On the heels of a three-part Romulan arc helping explain why the Romulans were never seen before the time of TOS, TrekWeb has received information about a new episode titled "Affliction," which will tackle perhaps an even more famous bit of TREK lore.
The episode kicks off in an underground Klingon laboratory where a Klingon scientist and General oversee a strange project. Soldiers bring in a captive Klingon warrior and subject him to injection of a green fluid. After a few moments, it seems that the prisoner's forehead ridges bear the brunt of the fluid's effects. We are very likely looking at a canonical explanation for the famous change in makeup between the Klingons of TOS and the Klingons of STAR TREK: THE MOTION PICTURE?
Meanwhile, Phlox has been offered a prestigious position with the Interspecies Medical Exchange but is kidnapped by a band of hooded aliens. The kidnappers turn out to be Rigelians, our first look at this oft-mentioned STAR TREK race. The Rigel system and its inhabitants have been mentioned in many TREK episodes such as "Mudd's Women," "Wolf in the Fold" and DS9's "The Passenger" among others. ENT's series premiere "Broken Bow" visited Rigel X, but encountered no Rigelians on screen.
As "Affliction" progresses, Klingons attack and board Enterprise for some clandestine purpose. Engaging the MACOs in a firefight, the Klingons implant a computer program into the ship before escaping. One Klingon, however, is shot by the MACOs and captured. His name is 'Marab' and he is thrown in the brig. Marab reveals that he is infected with a plague that is sweeping the Klingon Empire, and we learn that at least one symptom of the fatal disease is increased physical strength.
Also in this episode, 'Erika Hernandez' and the Columbia NX-02 will make an appearance. Hernandez and the Columbia were last seen in "Home."
This information is preliminary and subject to change. You should also treat it lightly until confirmed through official channels.
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... and ballsy. 
There is a good-sized segment of the fandom who are Klingon fans. These are folks who are fluent in the language that has been developed, participate in Klingon-language email lists and forums (which do exist), dress the part at special events, participate in RPGs, etc. I don't know how many of that part of the fandom post on boards like this (the majority of the general Trek fandom doesn't post on forums), but it'll be interesting if they get wind of this. LOL There have been so many neglected segments of the fandom sitting on the sidelines twiddling their thumbs. ;-)
As a side note with respect to addressing the forehead issue - the fact that a conscious decision was made by the showrunners in DS9 "Trials and Tribble-ations" to NOT have Worf off on some mission or still on the station while the rest of the crew are back in time, which they could have easily done, is on them. The comment by Worf may have been in jest, but he damn sure didn't have to be there at all.
Instead they allowed him to interact in that era and permitted his collegues to see obviously different-looking Klingons then himself. This of course, sets up the scene actually acknowledging the differences and fleshing some things out from the Klingon perspective regarding what the rest of the crew were seeing and the deal with Tribbles, where suddenly, Tribbles have a "homeworld", and are not just simple animals who are merely "born pregnant", but are some more intelligent species. ;-)
My thing is this - Here is Arne Darvin. He IS a Klingon:
And the acceptance of the ability to do manipulation and altering enough to produce this guy, who for all intents and purposes appeared Human inside and out (except for the litmus test that was a tribble), indicates that it's obviously do-able. And I think the virus issue is one that could be plausible in that it would be a temporary thing and once a vaccine is found, could allow a reversion back, as was noted by Kor, Kang, and Koloth in DS9 "Blood Oath", where all 3 have ridges. Of course that ep delved into genetic viruses that were released by "The Albino" against their first born during TOS times, and the trio plus Jadzia (with the memories of Curzon), had sworn a Blood Oath against him.
If what is done is entertaining, why the hell not?
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