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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 / 17:44, 11 March 2008 / Feature Films
Newsarama have posted an exclusive interview with author Peter David in which he talks about the Star Trek New Frontier novels and comics; it's development, the previous New Frontier comic, Double Time, and of course the new upcoming miniseries from IDW titled Turnaround. Here are few excerpts from the extensive interview.
Newsarama: Peter, probably the first, most obvious question - what took so long to get New Frontier going as a miniseries? It's been seven years since Double Time after all - was this just a matter of the license moving around that kept New Frontier off the table as a comic project for so long?
Peter David: It's not as if it were up to me. It's all Paramount and its various comics licensees. In point of fact, Wildstorm approached me about doing a second New Frontier one-shot, but then they lost the license and that was that. IDW got the license, approached me, and away we went.
NRAMA: With regard to the comic series, you're already at IDW with Fallen Angel - when they landed the Trek license, was New Frontier something that you suggested to them, or did they suggest the possibility to you?
PD: They came to me. I had no idea their Trek license included New Frontier. But they made it clear that they would only do it if I were aboard. And Marvel was generous enough to cut me some slack in my exclusive contract with them to do the series.
NRAMA: Who's in the cast this time around? Obviously Mackenzie is in it, and - the rest of the Excalibur's crew that fans of the novel series will know?
PD: Yes. The thing is, when we first introduced New Frontier, we had a core cast of characters and they were all on the Excalibur. As time as progressed, a number of them have moved on to different venues, as happens in life. And all those venues appear in the miniseries: Calhoun and Co. on the Excalibur, Robin Lefler and Kalinda on New Thallon, Shelby on Bravo Station, Kat Mueller on the Trident, and Soleta on her ship, the Specter.
NRAMA: Roughly what time period is this set in?
PD: This follows directly after Missing in Action. It's basically the next New Frontier story.
NRAMA: From the solicitation, the theft of a time ship gets the ball rolling here...stolen by Admiral Edward Jellico, one of your crossover characters who first appeared on TNG. What's his career been like since for those who only know him from there (and as Ronny Cox)?
PD: He's one of the stalwarts of Starfleet, in charge of Starfleet operations and a complete Federation loyalist. Why he has suddenly made off with a prototype vessel is the central mystery of the series.
NRAMA: Fair enough, but on that track, let's wrap up with a tease - any scenes or elements that you can toss out that might perk some eyebrows?
PD: It features the full range of seriousness and humor that is integral to New Frontier, ranging from Calhoun witnessing the gut-wrenching and brutal death of a key New Frontier cast member, to the mountainous Zak Kebron endeavoring to extract information from an unwilling individual by making him sit through a slide show of every vacation Kebron's family ever went on.
Plus, for the very first time, we'll be visualizing key characters such as Morgan Primus, answering questions that New Frontier fans have had going back years. It's a can't-miss for longtime New Frontier fans. And for people who have never read it, it will serve as a great introduction to the characters.
The full interview is here.
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