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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 / 05:18, 19 September 2008 / Trek Books
Star Trek Destiny Book I Gods of Night
Review by Jeff Ayers
When I heard the announcement of the Destiny trilogy and that David Mack was writing it, I was excited. Then, the hype machine started and I began to worry that it wouldn't live up to all the hyperbole. After all, these days, what really does? Then I actually read the first book, Gods of Night...
The storyline examines the captaincy of Ezri Dax aboard the Starship Aventine (immediately my hackles went up, but her quick elevation is explained well). Their mission is to explore the remains of the NX-02 Columbia, which disappeared during the Romulan War over 200 years ago. The ship crashed on a planet in another quadrant and there are no bodies aboard. On board the Titan, Captain Riker and his wife, Troi, battle personal problems as well as Starfleet. They want to be involved in the upcoming battle against the Borg, but are too far away to provide assistance. On the Enterprise-E, Captain Picard can hear the Borg and knows that the Federation cannot possibly win. Mixed in with their stories is the story of Captain Hernandez and what really happened to the crew of the Columbia so long ago.
While it was disappointing to have the Borg be the main villains again, the novel focuses on the characters and their preparations for the inevitable fight, elevating the story above the usual fare. Star Trek show fans will find much to enjoy. Fans of the Star Trek books should consider this a gift from the Gods. As far as the first entry in the trilogy is concerned, it lives up to the hype and is one of the best Trek novels in quite a while. Will the next books be as great? I, for one, can't wait to find out.
10 out of 10
Reviewer Jeff Ayers is the author of Voyages of Imagination: The Star Trek Fiction Companion trade paperback, and webmaster of VoyagesOfImagination.com
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