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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
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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 / 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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