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Sep 08 | TNT has also picked up a pilot tentatively titled "Perception" from Star Trek Voyager veterans Kenneth Biller and Mike Sussman that follows "an eccentric neuroscientist" named Dr. Geoffrey Pierce who helps the government solve strange and complex cases. The premise has drawn early comparisons to "House" and "Bones."
Sep 07 | Star Trek The Next Generation star Patrick Stewart is interiewed by NY1 about reprising his role in A Life In The Theatre.Watch the interview
Sep 05 | Moon, Duncan Jones’ poignant and thought-provoking psychodrama about a lonely lunar miner, won the 2010 Hugo Award for best sci-fi movie.The award, technically titled “best dramatic presentation, long form,” honored screenplay writer Nathan Parker as well as Jones, who came up with the story and directed the movie. The indie movie, Jones’ feature debut, bested big-budget competitors like Avatar, Star Trek, Up and District 9.
Sep 02 | Manchester Starfleet is a UK based Star Trek fan club. They recently turned one year young and proudly announced the registration of their 200th member. In the wake of Star Trek XI (2009), Manchester Starfleet was reborn. One year on and they already have 2 Trek conventions under their belt with the 3rd in October 2010 being their biggest yet. Their website appears on top of most search websites. The member's discussion forum is always very busy and they have an online store with club t-shirts and other trek-related merchandise in the making. So please join us in welcoming their 200th member and applauding the club's continued interest and success. Considering Star Trek has been off our screens for some time, it's wonderful to see there is still a huge and still growing fan base in the UK (partly thanks to JJ.Abrams). May Trek Live Long and Prosper.Manchester Starfleet is a not for profit, charity-led Star Trek Fan Club, run by the fans for the fans.Manchester Starfleet's Mini-Con 3 event is on the 23rd October 2010 at the Trafford Hall Hotel, Manchester. Tickets are on sale now via their online store.
Sep 01 | George Takei will have a cameo in the new season of The Big Bang Theory. TV Squad reports that the former Star Trek actor will appear in an episode alongside guest star Katee Sackhoff. The show's executive producer Bill Prady suggested that Takei and Sackhoff will play different sides of Wolowitz's conscience as he considers reuniting with his ex-girlfriend Bernadette (Melissa Rauchberg).He explained: "George Takei plays himself, and he's the other person guiding Wolowitz in his thoughts as he tries to figure out what to do about Bernadette."
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By Steve Krutzler / 06:53, 5 February 2003 / Enterprise
Producer Brannon Braga speaks to the Baltimore Sun today about tonight's ENTERPRISE episode "Stigma," an allegory for the AIDS epidemic. In the episode, Jolene Blalock's 'T'Pol' learns that she has contracted a disease from an illicit mind meld she unwillingly participated in last season.
"The mind meld in Vulcan culture at this point in Star Trek history is only performed by a small population on Vulcan who are born with the ability... It's more about the prejudice surrounding the disease than the disease itself," Braga said. "It's about the stigmatization of a group of people because of the way they choose to live their lives."
Braga says he hopes the episode has a positive impact but can never anticipate how everyone might react.
"The danger is no matter how you approach the subject matter you sometimes still offend people in the most unexpected ways."
Braga's "Stigma" follows sixteen years after an AIDS episode was to be a part of STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION's first season. Writer David Gerrold, who penned the classic episode "Trouble With Tribbles," had written "Blood and Fire," a story with heavy allusion to the AIDS crisis, much more associated with stigmatization in 1987 than today.
"While I'm delighted that Star Trek is finally doing a show about AIDS, they should have done it in 1987, when it could have had a much greater impact," Gerrold told the Sun. "I think if the episode had been made, and if a plea for blood donors had been attached to the end of it as I had hoped, we could have ended the Red Cross' chronic blood shortages."
Gerrold says the episode included homosexual characters, something STAR TREK creator Gene Roddenberry had promised some fans to include in the TREK universe with TNG.
"The first draft of the script included two gay crew members," he said. "This was because, in answer to a question by a gay fan, Gene had publicly promised to include gay crew members on the new Enterprise, and he had repeated that promise to the staff. So it seemed appropriate to keep that promise in a script about the fear of AIDS. I was ordered to take the gay characters out."
Gerrold says his script would've presented a situation where Starfleet gave standing orders to destroy any ship found to be infected with a deadly plague.
"The story was a parable about the irrational fear of AIDS," Gerrold continues. "The key line in the script, for me, came when [Capt. Jean-Luc] Picard said, 'We are not going to sacrifice half the human race because the other half is scared.'"
You can read more from Braga and Gerrold at this page.
Jolene Blalock told TV Guide Online in anticipation of tonight's episode that she was honored to help bring awareness about today's AIDS crisis.
"It's still a crisis," she said. "Our next generation needs to be educated in AIDS awareness. I was honored to do something with this issue."
The actress says she saw the devastation of AIDS on the African continent first-hand when filming DIAMOND HUNTERS a few years ago.
"One out of every 10 people has AIDS. Some of these people actually believe that if they sleep with a virgin, they'll be cured! It's not a sob story, it's serious."
Read more of her interview here.
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