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SMALLVILLE Justice Society Trailer
Twilight: New Moon dethrones The Dark Knight - New opening day record set
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
Nov 08 | Unreality-SF.net has interviewed Star Trerk author James Swallow about some of his upcoming projects. He talks about Titan: Synthesis and Seven Deadly Sins: The Slow Knife, as well as some forthcoming Doctor Who and Stargate stories.
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By Steve Krutzler / 12:01, 28 September 2003 / TrekWeb Features
STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE
The year starts off well with “Apocalypse Rising,” wrapping up the ominous warning of season four’s “Broken Link” and giving us Sisko’s bellowing “brag all you want” line—probably one of the character’s best moments. Gritty war drama is the heart of “Nor the Battle to the Strong…” and even the infamous “Let He Who Is Without Sin…” tries to be about something.
The tribute episode “Trials and Tribble-ations” comes early in the season and it’s definitely one for the history books. They even got the original actor from the episode to appear 30 years later--Charlie Brill (‘Darvin’)--and Dax with a beehive and a miniskirt beats a catsuit any day. The effects shots of the Enterprise are just astounding and catching a glimpse of the original series with modern technology is breathtaking. The matching of classic footage is extremely well done, entirely convincing us that Sisko et al are occupying the same space as the classic actors. Celebrating “The Trouble With Tribbles” in such a fond manner with sets and costumes and visual effects that are completely top-notch, the self-congratulatory nostalgia is just the kind of thing to get you in a good mood and probably a great episode to show a friend who hasn’t been turned onto DS9 yet.
Things pick up plot-wise as Odo gets his powers back in “The Begotten,” the Maquis and ‘Mister Eddington’ get a reprise in “For the Uniform” and “Blaze of Glory,” Doctor Bashir turns out to be a test-tube baby, and the Dominion arc heats up in “In Purgatory’s Shadow”/”By Inferno’s Light” and the explosive final “Call to Arms.” The finale is probably one of the best TREK episodes of all time and also one of the most different. Character is central here and Marc Alaimo and Jeffrey Combs solidify themselves as some of the greatest villains in TREK’s history in this episode. The notion that the heroes would actually lose at the end of this one just blew our minds and the closing shot was unlike anything we’d ever seen before. It’s probably safe to say “Call to Arms” made for the longest summer since TNG’s “The Best of Both Worlds.” Thank goodness we only have to wait a couple months for season six this time.
UNITING TWO LEGENDS mostly includes remarks on the writing process from the staff, as well as general statements from the actors. Behr relays his tale of coincidentally running into Charlie Brill in a pizza joint while the episode was being developed and segments with Moore and Echevarria retell their fan-like exuberance at writing it. HISTORIC ENDEAVOR takes a more technical approach, offering discussion from Herman Zimmerman on recreating the Enterprise sets with a faulty blueprint and visual effects supervisor Gary Hutzel on building new NCC-1701 and Station K-7 models. The tributes to the tribute are fun and insightful but there’s no reason they couldn’t have been merged, freeing up space for a documentary on the overall development of the season, which is surprisingly absent in this package.
That said, again the SECTION 31 HIDDEN FILES steal the show. Easily the best bonus material aside from the “Tribble-ations” programs, all ten files offer very different material and some of the only glimpses at other episodes in the year. Numbers 1 and 2 offer new footage of Rene Auberjonois on “The Begotten” and “The Ascent;” The third tackles writer Robert Wolfe’s decision to leave after “Call to Arms;” Number four presents new footage of Nana Visitor reflecting on giving birth during the season, and she offers some interesting remarks on “Ties of Blood and Water” in the fifth hidden file.
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I don't know if it was like turning a corner or anything like that-- There are outstanding episodes consistently throughtout all seven seasons. Season 4 was the point where it just became fantastic, kinda like the boots finally got really well broken in.
I do think that externally there were some factors on this. With the addition of Worf, it really did bring a new freshness, but unlike the Xindi, or Seven before that, the show did not really freak out over this addition.
Also with First Contact and Voyager happening, Paramount was completely engaged in other matters and DS9 was really left alone.
Lastly, I think it was about season 4 when I became aware of Ron D Moore's online Q&A's -- While I think paying too much attention to the online fanbase is dangerous, I always got the feeling like he understood what the issues were and cared, and probably took that back to Ira and the others too. If nothing else he could explain what was really going on or why things had to happen-- he did not treat the fans like dolts. (However, I wish he had not been so clear on how evil Dukat was, because I always liked thinking that Dukat was really a good hero, just not for our guys). I get the feeling with Berman & Braga they are aware of the net, but really have not spent the time to even try and understand what people are really complaining about.
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