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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
Magazine cover, to be revealed later this year. Your vote could also win you year's subscription to Star Trek Magazine.For information on how to cast your vote, go here
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 GustavoLeao / 16:34, 18 July 2008 / Feature Films
GateWorld posted a new interview with Voyager actor Robert Picardo, in which he talks about the Star Trek and Stargate franchises. Here are few excerpts.
GW: Should the [Star Trek] franchise, God willing, ever return to the twenty-fourth century, would you like to go back to that character and spend more time with the Doctor in some capacity?
RP: I had a fun time. It was a great run. I think it's a great idea that J.J. Abrams is going to reboot the franchise. And I suspect the movie will be a great success because I think he's a very smart guy and an exciting director. So I think your question has already been rendered moot by that. That they are going to start over again, and they are going to be set in a different point and time.
Sure, it was great fun to play the character. It would be wonderful to kind of slip the shoes on again. But I don't see it happening. What they might do, if they start making Star Trek movie after Star Trek movie, is they might start stunt casting, in different ways, some of the familiar faces -- but probably playing different roles because of the different time frame.
I've been contacted by the "New Voyages" [fan film, now "Star Trek: Phase II"] crew. I thought the one with George Takei was just splendid. And they've asked to do one with me. My initial idea was to play a character who was virulently against the development of artificial intelligence -- sort of a religious or quasi-religious figure who felt that it was satanic or something like that. The anti-"Zimmerman." That's what I wanted to do.
GW: Like how Brent Spiner did on Enterprise ...
RP: Did he do the same thing? That's right. They told me that.
GW: He played Soong's ancestor.
RP: But I do think it will be interesting to see the franchise come back. And I think good science fiction just encourages people's appetites for more good science fiction. I don't really see a competition between the franchises. I know I'm the first [regular cast] actor to have one foot in each franchise, which I'm proud of.
I know this: It will mean I get a lot of offers to write my name on my face all over the world. [Laughter]
The full interview can be found here.
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