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Sep 08 | TNT has also picked up a pilot tentatively titled "Perception" from Star Trek Voyager veterans Kenneth Biller and Mike Sussman that follows "an eccentric neuroscientist" named Dr. Geoffrey Pierce who helps the government solve strange and complex cases. The premise has drawn early comparisons to "House" and "Bones."
Sep 07 | Star Trek The Next Generation star Patrick Stewart is interiewed by NY1 about reprising his role in A Life In The Theatre.Watch the interview
Sep 05 | Moon, Duncan Jones’ poignant and thought-provoking psychodrama about a lonely lunar miner, won the 2010 Hugo Award for best sci-fi movie.The award, technically titled “best dramatic presentation, long form,” honored screenplay writer Nathan Parker as well as Jones, who came up with the story and directed the movie. The indie movie, Jones’ feature debut, bested big-budget competitors like Avatar, Star Trek, Up and District 9.
Sep 02 | Manchester Starfleet is a UK based Star Trek fan club. They recently turned one year young and proudly announced the registration of their 200th member. In the wake of Star Trek XI (2009), Manchester Starfleet was reborn. One year on and they already have 2 Trek conventions under their belt with the 3rd in October 2010 being their biggest yet. Their website appears on top of most search websites. The member's discussion forum is always very busy and they have an online store with club t-shirts and other trek-related merchandise in the making. So please join us in welcoming their 200th member and applauding the club's continued interest and success. Considering Star Trek has been off our screens for some time, it's wonderful to see there is still a huge and still growing fan base in the UK (partly thanks to JJ.Abrams). May Trek Live Long and Prosper.Manchester Starfleet is a not for profit, charity-led Star Trek Fan Club, run by the fans for the fans.Manchester Starfleet's Mini-Con 3 event is on the 23rd October 2010 at the Trafford Hall Hotel, Manchester. Tickets are on sale now via their online store.
Sep 01 | George Takei will have a cameo in the new season of The Big Bang Theory. TV Squad reports that the former Star Trek actor will appear in an episode alongside guest star Katee Sackhoff. The show's executive producer Bill Prady suggested that Takei and Sackhoff will play different sides of Wolowitz's conscience as he considers reuniting with his ex-girlfriend Bernadette (Melissa Rauchberg).He explained: "George Takei plays himself, and he's the other person guiding Wolowitz in his thoughts as he tries to figure out what to do about Bernadette."
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By GustavoLeao / 09:16, 18 November 2007 / General Genre/SciFi
Blockbuster.co.uk posted an interview with TNG actor Brent Spiner. Here are few excerpts.
When asked about his favourite episodes, as a viewer and as an actor, Brent makes a startling admission. "I actually didn't see most of them. I mean, I watched maybe the first 20 or so, and then I felt I'd spent enough time doing that. I'd read them all and acted in them all and really didn't need to watch them too. There was nothing to be gained. So I don't remember them! It was like one big, long episode to me!"
Brent at least concedes that one day, eventually, he might possibly get around to watching his famous show. "Maybe when I'm very, very, very old, if I'm on an island and I've got a DVD player and the Next Gen DVDs..." Clearly, he can't wait. "Yeah, really, I'm dying to see them... They're not for me though. Why do I need to see them? I've done movies I've never seen too. I don't particularly enjoy watching myself, and I'm also not interested. I've done that. It's over. Let's move on..."
Brent adds he'd be happy to return to the role, under the right circumstances. "If I liked the script, if I thought it was good, sure. When Rick [Berman] asked me to go on Enterprise for three episodes, I was happy to do it. They were good. It was fun."
"We had a really great time. It was a wonderful group to be with, and we all enjoyed being around one another. Patrick [Stewart] once said, 'How many jobs can you go to where you laugh every day?' And that's what we did. Every day we had a laugh."
The full interview is here.
Close-Up Film also interviewed Spiner, in which he talks about the four TNG movies - Star Trek Generations (1994), Star Trek First Contact (1996), Star Trek Insurrection (1998) and Star Trek Nemesis (2002), which he co-wrote with John Logan. Here are excerpts.
And how did you feel about the subsequent films? There were
three....
There were four.
Of course, I forgot about the third one.
I wish I could forget about the third one.
There was Generations, and then there was First Contact, then Insurrection and then Nemesis, which you were involved in writing.
How do you feel about them?
Generations, I thought was rushed. There were things that I liked about it but we started shooting about two weeks after we wrapped the series and the same writers that were writing the series wrote the film. It had some nice things about it but oddly what I think worked the least in Generations was the coming together of the two captains, which should have been the best part of it. Although they really became friends, they worked well together and they liked being around each other, something about that story just didn't blend correctly. Generations was OK. It wasn't horrible.
First Contact was probably our best film just because we had a better script. It was a great idea. You could hardly beat the Borg who were always good even in the series but the creation of the Borg Queen was what really brought it together. Plus we had a great cast with James Cromwell, Alfre Woodard and Alice Krige, who was fantastic as the Borg Queen. We were all at the top of our game by then because we'd had some time off and we'd come back with a sense of reunion that really made it work.
The third one was Insurrection. What can you say about Insurrection? Some people like it. It got some good reviews but I think that it was our weakest film because it was just too light. The stakes were too small and I didn't understand it quite frankly. We went to this planet to save these people who ultimately when you analyse the story were not really particularly worth saving. [Laughs] They were just these really banal people and their world was like a Renaissance festival. They made bread and that's all that you could tell that they did. They had the secret of life but did they offer to share it with anyone? We risked everything for them. We broke the prime directive for them and they never said to us, ‘look, you must have some people who are old and sick, why don't you bring them here?' Never. It was just, ‘thanks a lot, we'll see you later.' We left and I would have liked to have stayed with those people after we left and have them look at each other and say, ‘what shall we do now? I know, let's bake some bread' because that's all they did. I think that the story was misguided.
And then there was Nemesis, which could have been our best film. I actually think Nemesis is pretty good. I think it's perhaps our second best film. There were some problems with it - I'm not sure where exactly - but I don't think they were in the story. I thought the story was good. There was an interesting examination of what the nature of family is, what friendship is and what sacrifice is. I liked it. [Laughs] I mean I don't want to see it again. It's not The Searchers for God's sake.
The full interview is here.
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