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Complete Shatner Scenes from Star Trek script
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 / 19:48, 23 July 2004 / Enterprise
Jolene Blalock let the cat out of the bag during this week's fall press tour: 'T'Pol' may be getting married. In fact, TrekWeb has received the first information on the third episode of the season in which the big event might occur, entitled simply "Home."
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Of course things aren't perfect now, I certainly am not saying they are. But having a female captain in ENT? I have no problem with that, because to me that is what Star Trek is all about.
Really? Seems like we had 7 years of one, her name being Captain Kathryn Janeway. Yet so many who post here have called her what? All SORTS of ugly names. "Psychotic", "barbaric", "incompetent", "ugly bitch", and worse.
No. Trek doesn't need any more "female" Captains. That one was enough to know that THIS group in Human society isn't ready for one.
We've come a long way baby but we STILL have a long way to go. 
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If you want to tell a story about sexism then make it an alien race.
No. We need to START with Humanity. And better, we need to start with THIS website.
My god, when someone posted some screenshots of Geneive Bujold as "Nicole Janeway" this past year, it was an absolute disgrace what the comments were in that thread.
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"Turnabout intruder" seems to fly in the face of Gene's future vision.
It was WRITTEN by him MaxPower. Which is why in that spacebeluga thread that I posted a link to below, I argued that it was his "up you" to NBC.
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It's like they
Who is they? You mean "Gene Roddenberry" who WROTE TOS "Turnabout Intruder".
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wanted to use Star Trek to tell this kind of story even though it contradicts everything that Star Trek's utopia is supposed to be all about.
EXACTLY. And if you look at what was done there, you might find that just like what Solow said that Gene Coon did with TOS "Spock's Brain" as HIS ultimate "up you" to NBC, so too did Roddenberry do with this episode - ie., we all know that Roddenberry's original pilot was rejected, in part because of the female "Number One" character. And so what do you do as a finale? You slap that "woman" in there "as Captain", anyway. But you "cover it up" by doing a literal parody or exaggeration of everything that is considered "stereotypical" about women and the "censors" miss the message that he got his "Captain" in an episode just the same.
If you look at Janice Lester BEFORE she made the switch, she never did all that exaggerated "stereotypical female" crap that Shatner did to play her. And note the actress who played Kirk and HOW she did him.
And NOTE that ACTRESS WAS KIRK-IN-CHARGE. Shatner says this in commentary that this was the only ep where "someone other than himself had played Captain James Tiberius Kirk".
So you symbollically HAVE your "female" (for all intents and purposes, including appearance - female body, female voice, etc) AS A CAPTAIN, but with the plot device being that Kirk was "inside her". And EVERYTHING presented in this episode as a statement of "fact", whether "medical" or "psychological" - everything "scientific" and thus based on hardcore "provable" information, indicated that NO SUCH SWITCH OCCURED.
Yet the only thing that we can use AS "evidence" on the distaff side, is to note the change of "behavior" of the 2 and Spock's information based on a "mind meld" - both of these things being plot devices for the audience to show that something had changed. Yet the "real" science said that this "woman" (who supposedly had Kirk's soul in it) WAS the Captain.
And it's a shame because all the exaggerated Shatner acting going on here, that this whole message is missed and that people just chalk it up as "She was psychotic" and other nonsense that women are usually called.
No other ep was so over the top than that (although TOS "Spock's Brain" and TOS "Omega Glory" were close).
I mean it was well known that he and the others did this sort of thing. TOS "Bread and Circuses", with the whole "television" backdrop for gladiator fights, with dialog where a Centurion monitoring the fighting says:
"You bring this network's ratings down Flavius and we'll do a special on you!"
was a well known in the fandom double-entendre jab at NBC within an episode that had aired during a time when TOS was threatened with cancellation.
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Maybe since this was the last episode produced(I think) this ep was kind of rushed out, a story with a moral even though it rubbed against the ideals of Trek.
It wasn't "rushed". According to Shatner's commentary, it was known well in advance that the show was over and when they would conclude filming, to the point where they had a wrap party all planned.
You all have to think "politics" and the fact that certainly those who are professional writers, especially in THAT industry, truly learn that "The pen is mightier than the sword". ;-)
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