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Complete Shatner Scenes from Star Trek script
SMALLVILLE Justice Society Trailer
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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 BWilliams / 12:45, 23 March 2006 / Reviews - Books
Peter David certainly knows how to excite and stun his readers. At times humorous, at other times deadly serious, yet at all times he's in full command of both characters and plot that keeps the reader's attention focused on the action at hand. So it should be no surprise that MISSING IN ACTION, the latest installment in the NEW FRONTIER novels, solidly delivers all the action we've come to expect in spades, and then some.Shortly after the events of STAR TREK: NEMESIS, and immediately following the events of AFTER THE FALL, MISSING IN ACTION finds Captain Mackenzie Calhoun and the crew of the U.S.S. Excalibur, well, missing in action and lost in space (insert requisite groans here!). Catapulted into another universe, far from the New Thallonian Protectorate and Sector 221-G, the Excalibur finds itself in the middle of an ancient war between two powerful alien races, the Teuthis and the Bolgar. But Calhoun has no intention of staying put and must decide where his true loyalty lies, either to save an oppressed race from certain destruction, or ally himself with violent alien warriors if he ever wants to get the Excalibur home again. The only problem is, which race is the oppressed, and which is the oppressor?Meanwhile, Starfleet has declared Sector 221-G off limits, leaving Admiral Elizabeth Shelby and Captain Kat Mueller of the U.S.S. Trident to take matters into their own hands, ignoring orders by finding some way of getting to the Excalibur. But they never count on the most unexpected ally, an old friend whose shifting loyalties are put to the ultimate test even as a growing cataclysm looms.And that's just for starters. Si Cwan, the prime minister of the New Thallonian Protectorate, has got enough on his hands. Tiraud, the son of his long-time political rival Fhermus, is dead at the hands of Kalinda, Si Cwan's sister and Tiraud's bride-to-be. Out of this, civil war breaks out among the neighboring cities and continents of New Thallon, all at the hands of Fhermus. David brilliantly paints a modern-day allegory to the long-troubled crises in Iraq by giving us a world seesawing between peace and total war, a political madman in Fhermus who is unafraid to kill for the thrill of it, varying political factions trumping for power, and, somewhere behind the scenes, someone pushing everyone's buttons. Of course, sooner or later, someone's going to pay for it. David's highly aware of the current political and military crises, and like David Mack's hard-hitting Tezwa crisis in A TIME TO KILL and A TIME TO HEAL, he's not afraid of pulling his punches.MISSING IN ACTION is more than just politics and all-out fighting. It's about fighting for survival and making things right once again. The decisions Shelby, Mueller, and Robin Lefler make together is classic old-school TREK, and David serves up great fun by putting them in a quite funny drinking scene together. And Calhoun? He's still Calhoun, kicking ass before taking names, and we wouldn't have him any other way. When Calhoun is put into the middle of the Teuthis-Bolgar conflict, leave it to David to give Calhoun the way out of the long-standing whining and griping between the races who, like the Hatfields and the McCoys before them, have forgotten why they're fighting to begin with.Of course, all this comes at a price. By the novel's end, David has once again shaken up the NEW FRONTIER saga, leaving it changed forever as he did at the start of AFTER THE FALL.But don't take my word for it. You simply must read MISSING IN ACTION. Peter David shows us once again why he's one of the best STAR TREK writers around, and this new installment is no exception. It's fast-paced action, crackling with energy and character byplay at every turn. Too bad we have to wait awhile for the next chapter to arrive. I'm sure by then there will be even more changes in store to surprise and entertain us.
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