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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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By BWilliams / 07:00, 30 March 2005 / Reviews - Books
Synopsis: While one planet struggles to confront the sins and origins of its mysterious past and present, another world gets down to business in securing a prosperous union with the Federation. At long last, the DEEP SPACE NINE saga continues!
Review: Last fall Pocket Books culminated one of the most ambitious re-launches in publication history with the epic events of UNITY and the fallout from those events in Volume 1 of THE WORLDS OF STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE. Now, Pocket Books continues its exploration into the DS9 universe with its second and third volumes, released simultaneously, that trace the threads of the post-relaunch saga with thorough, in-depth looks at more of the worlds that played such key roles through DS9's seven seasons on television and beyond. With such a rich tapestry already weaved since 1993, DEEP SPACE NINE has, in my opinion, held the richest of possibilities in all of the STAR TREK universe, and it's a tapestry that I'm proud to say continues in Pocket Books' latest volumes.
Volume 2 starts off with events unfolding on the planet Trill, home to the mysterious joined human and symbiont species first introduced in the NEXT GENERATION episode 'The Host', in the tale 'Unjoined', written by Michael A. Martin and Andy Mangels. Right off the bat I can tell you that following the events of Volume 2 absolutely requires you to have previously read UNITY in order to understand what is happening in both "Unjoined" and "Fragments and Omens". Following the events of UNITY, Ezri Dax and Julian Bashir lead an investigation into the possible relationship between the Trill symbionts and the alien parasites that attacked several worlds during the events of the DS9 re-launch.
Both Mangels and Martin have an extremely strong grasp of the Trill culture and its many varied and fascinating aspects, as everything is uncovered and laid bare in "Unjoined". Their premise of a link between the Trill symbionts and the alien parasites, first seen in the NEXT GENERATION episode "Symbiosis", and the ancient Kurl race, first alluded to in the episode "The Chase", is quite interesting indeed, though the latter quarter of the tale never really defines the relationship between the two alien species. They do have an effective conclusion, one that changes the face of the Trill culture forever. I really enjoyed all of the social and political allusions Mangels and Martin presented in "Unjoined", including the allusion to past history and the origins of the Trill symbionts. If they had just clarified the alien parasites' role a little more, then this tale would have been a winner through and through. The lack of resolution to the alien parasites' story is the only downside to this tale.
The second half of this novel focuses on the planet Bajor, the most central of all the planets in the DS9 saga, in J. Noah Kym's tale "Fragments and Omens". In UNITY the formal paperwork between Bajor and the Federation was signed, and now it's time to get down to business with keeping the relationship steadily going in the right direction. For Bajorans such as General Lenaris Holem and Starfleet lieutenant Ro Laren, it means investigating one terrorist attempt after another to sabotage the fragile peace between Bajor and the Federation and determining its origins. It also means finding a new military liaison between the two cultures, despite the fact that no one in mind apparently wants the job.
Kym juxtaposes the main framework of the story with a smaller and equally compelling tale of self-discovery for Jake Sisko. Leaving behind his father, the recently returned Benjamin Sisko, his stepmother Kasidy, and his infant sister Rebecca, Jake embarks on a journey, not unlike the one he undertook in RISING SON, to learn more about himself and the life he wants to pursue. Accompanying Jake on his journey is Rena, a Bajoran artist who equally seeks to find the meaning in her own life.
What Kym presents in "Fragments and Omens" are two strongly balanced tales, one of a planet's political and military future, the other of a young man's growth and progression into adulthood, yet both firmly planted in the theme, as in "Unjoined", of essential and necessary change. And as with "Unjoined", the ending of "Fragments and Omens" is only the beginning of the next new chapter in the DEEP SPACE NINE saga.
While the second volume in the WORLDS OF STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE series may not answer as many questions as the first volume did, it does delve further into the Trill and Bajoran cultures and brings many new details to light, making for compelling reading through and through. We just can't get enough of this series, its characters, and its worlds! Next up: the worlds of the Dominion and the Ferengi are explored.
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