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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 / 09:09, 23 December 2005 / Reviews - Books
Synopsis: Washed up on a faraway galactic shore, Captain Kathryn Janeway of the U.S.S. Voyager faced a choice: accept exile or set a course for home, a 70,000-light year journey fraught with unknown perils. Janeway's decision launched her crew on a seven-year journey pursuing an often lonely path that embodied the purest form of the Starfleet adage "to boldly go"...
Review: Has it really been 10 years since VOYAGER first premiered on UPN? I've got to admit, VOYAGER has not held as strong an appeal to me as the other STAR TREK series. That's not saying I completely dislike it; I don't. There are a number of episodes of VOYAGER that are extremely solid entries in the TREK tapestry. I guess part of the problem is that by the time the series came along and went through its seven-year run on UPN, it became formulaic, at times repetitive, and even downright predictable. Maybe the fault is my own for seeing that way, because somehow I never really connected with the series. I guess that happens sometimes.
To commemorate the 10th anniversary of the premiere of the series, Pocket Books has released the first-ever VOYAGER anthology DISTANT SHORES, a collection of short stories that expands upon and adds to the series' tapestry. Editor Marco Palmieri has assembled some of Pocket Books' top writers in its stable to present all-new tales that further explore the lives of the ship's crew and the loved ones they left behind. And in this collection, Palmieri and company give readers a reason to care.
Robert Greenberger's tale "Command Code", set shortly after the series' premiere episode, addresses the mistrust and tension between new first officer Chakotay and security officer Tuvok. When Voyager is threatened by an alien race for trespassing through their region of space, mutiny nearly breaks out when Tuvok refuses to aid Chakotay in their mission. "Winds of Change" by Kim Sheard focuses on the friendship forged between Kes and B'Elanna Torres in the weeks following "Warlord". Still feeling the effects of dealing with her anger, Kes turns to B'Elanna to seek her guidance in learning how to channel her feelings into something positive and beneficial. "Talent Night" by Jeffrey Lang is a lighter tale that brings the crew together for a shipwide talent show. Lang's tale reminds us how important a role each crewmember plays, whether in daily ship operations or in organizing the talent show.
The most somber tale of DISTANT SHORES, Keith R.A. DeCandido's "Letting Go", is also the anthology's strongest story. Spanning the events of the second, third, and fourth seasons, DeCandido effectively and poignantly reveals how the loved ones left behind must pick up the pieces of their lives and move forward, even if the cost is too high. Some are willing to pay the price; some are not. The theme of letting go continues in James Swallow's "Closure", as Neelix finally comes to terms with the fact that Kes is gone.
"The Secret Heart of Zolaluz" by Robert T. Jeschonek, spotlighting Seven of Nine, occurs as Seven is trapped on an alien world in search of Janeway. When Seven befriends one of the locals to aid in her search for the captain, she unlocks the secret part of herself yearning to live.
In Kirsten Beyer's "Isabo's Shirt", we finally learn what happens when the potential relationship between Janeway and Chakotay reaches its zenith. Romance is also at the heart of "Brief Candle" from Christopher L. Bennett, as Harry Kim risks losing a dying Marika Wilkarah (from "Survival Instinct") all for the richness of love and a life worth living.
Terri Osborne's "18 Minutes" revisits the events of "Blink of an Eye" from the Doctor's perspective. Geoffrey Thorne's "Or the Tiger" sees B'Elanna Torres locating some vital information that may lead to Voyager's return home sooner than expected. And Ilsa J. Bick's "Bottomless" shows that even when wronged, the lowliest crewman is still a human being with much to contribute.
All of the tales in DISTANT SHORES are buoyed between the two-part "Da Capo al Fine" by Heather Jarman, set during the events of the series' finale "Endgame". As a dying Admiral Janeway confronts the Borg Queen, she relives the memories of her past, the decisions she made, the threats she endured, and the peace she finally faces in her last moments, knowing that she was successful in her mission in getting Voyager home safely.
Most of the tales in this collection have a lot of emotional strength to them; for some reason the only tale I could not connect with was "Winds of Change". All of the writers have a strong grasp on the VOYAGER characters, further fleshing them out to greater believability than what was sometimes leff off the series. Had Keith DeCandido's "Letting Go" been produced as an episode, perhaps the series could have had a stronger shot in the arm with fans.
Every tale in this anthology serves to remind us of the human drama that permeated VOYAGER during its seven-year run. Perhaps I, too, have been less kind to this series than I should have been. If anything, writers like Keith DeCandido, Jeffrey Lang, Kirsten Beyer, and Ilsa Bick have reminded me that the people on Voyager do have important contributions to make, as evidenced in this great anthology. Perhaps I should follow their lead.
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