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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 / 00:24, 22 April 2005 / Reviews - Books
Synopsis: Tensions between the Federation and the Klingon Empire are the highest they've been since the Battle of Donatu V twenty-five years earlier. Even as Federation Ambassador Robert Fox engages in tense negotiations with the Klingon ambassador to maintain the peace, Captain Kirk sees the U.S.S. Enterprise refit from a ship of exploration into a ship of war...
Review: "Do you remember the Klingon proverb that tells us revenge is a dish that is best served cold?" - Khan Noonien Singh, THE WRATH OF KHAN
In 2002 Pocket Books published the ERRAND OF VENGEANCE trilogy, a series of novels that took readers back to the days of the first season of the Original Series with a look at events that transpired during those classic episodes and the stories of the men and women who made up the crew of the Federation flagship. Now, writer Kevin Ryan has returned to the Original Series era with SEEDS OF RAGE, the first book in his latest series, ERRAND OF FURY, that sees tensions mounting all around.
Set just before the days of the classic episode "Errand of Mercy", Starfleet has received crucial information that the Klingons are arming for war, and it's up to Robert Fox, one of the leading ambassadors and negotiators in the Federation, to convince the Klingons of a peaceful alternative to war. Aboard the Enterprise, upgrades are in progress to turn the peaceful ship of exploration into a ship of war, and Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, and the crew are not happy about it one bit. But it's not just the crew of the Enterprise who are unhappy. Personal vendettas are at hand on both sides, and they may just cost Starfleet a crucial victory in the battle to come.
SEEDS OF RAGE is a story of two men on different sides of the conflict. Michael Fuller, the father of a young Starfleet security officer killed during the ERRAND OF VENGEANCE trilogy, has come back to action on board the Enterprise. But is his mission one of defense or of revenge? On the other side is Karel, brother of the Klingon operative Kell who infiltrated Starfleet's ranks by posing as a human and was ultimately killed for his betrayal of his oath to the Klingon Empire. Karel holds the Federation in general, and James Kirk in particular, for corrupting Kell's spirit and twisting his beliefs, and he's out for blood at any cost.
Between the mounting tensions on both sides, Ryan takes the reader back in time to the decisive battle of Donatu V, one that could have ended very badly for the Federation but ended even worse for the Klingons. Stalemate is not an option for the Klingons, Ryan posits, and the only way to avenge that stalemate is through war. But the cost of the conflict takes a dramatic toll for both sides, leaving no one for the happier as a result. It is this uneasiness and tension that Ryan keeps at the forefront of SEEDS OF RAGE, and through his straightforward and personal narrative he paints a very human portrait of men and women affected by war in both great and small ways.
This is just the first chapter of Ryan's story. His second novel, DEMANDS OF HONOR, should be just as exciting and filled with the same tension and yet the same dedication to humanity that the original STAR TREK was so noted for observing. This futuristic equivalent to Erich Maria Remarque's ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT is one tale that I look forward to seeing continue in the months to come.
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