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Trivia Extra: What year did Star Trek premiere on NBC, what year did NBC unwisely dock it?
What was William Shatner's first theatrical movie?
Star Trek was launched in 1966 and cancelled 1969 after NBC kept orbiting it's time slots.
Shatner's first motion picture was "The Devilmaster" in 1962.
In 1954, William Shatner Was Ranger Bob On "Howdy Doody" also on NBC. Hey kids, what time is it?
Nimoy had been a Shakespearian stage actor, Kelly had done umpteen character parts in TV oaters.
Paramount announced that a new Trek series
Star Trek owned by CBS? Didn't it run on NBC?
Of course, the original Star Trek ran three seasons on NBC (1967-68-69) before
being canceled to the dismay of millions of Trekkies. But, oh, how things change. NBC was
the original licensor. But Paramount Pictures, who paid for the shoots by Desilu Productions
has more recently merged or been bought out by CBS, or vice versa (depending on who tells the story)
CBS. Voilla, complete original Star Trek episodes (worst of them, season 3 when cast saw
writing on wall at NBC). The company confusion extends to here: the vid here sez "Questar Oldies TV,
but OTV and site domain Xoteria-TV are owned by Carlson International. Well, anyway, we are
pleased to present all the full length Star Trek TV shows for you to go boldly
again and view, we also have bios on all principal cast and production crew below.
After NBC's geniuses axed Trek to the rage of Trekkies, British TV attempted a
rescue mission with Space:1999 starring
Mission Impossible's dynamic wedded duo, Martin Landau and Barbara Bain.
New York area viewers can watch the original Star Trek episodes Saturdays at (yawn) 1AM
on WPIX Channel 11 where The
Honeymooners reside Sundays at 1AM. Star Trek full episodes also run on
CBS' tv.com and AOL.And yes, it's true. Despite popular catch-phrasing, Captain Kirk never said "Beam Me Up, Scotty." It was versed
usually "Scotty, (number) to beam up."
The new Star Trek movie, which made it's debut May 8th to the tune of
$75 million box office bucks (according to Paramount) shows us how Spock met Kirk and Kirk met Mc Coy.
In the 2009 re-made movie prequel,
James T. Kirk is played by Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto
points up his ears as Spock, Karl Urban is the Doctor, Jim, Leonard "Bones"
Mc Coy and Simon Pegg, Aye, is Scotty. Leonard Nimoy, at 78 years young,
makes an appearance in the new Star Trek movie, giving some
connection between the original and the new (which probably bummed
William Shatner out, who streaks to appear in everything from margerine commercials
to stupid game show hosting, in addition to Trek, T.J. Hooker
Go Ask Alice, The Devil Worshiper, The Devil's Rain, and Boston Legal).
'Not Your Father's Star Trek' is the catch phrase the marketing people at
Paramount used to assure young sci-fi fans. "Not necessary, Captain" as Spock would say.
Great reviews (five stars NY Daily News & LA Times) and great word of mouth
zoomed the Trek movie passed Wolverine to the #1 position on the
box office charts the opening weekend.Lou @ oldiestelevision.com
found the movie "awesome." Read his review below the Star Trek bios
Update Nov 17, 2009 Entertainment Weekly and ilk tabloid TV trash like
Entertainment Tonight can make all the snide remarks about the "mothballed
Trek franchise" (as if their love of Madonna & Cher isn't all mothballs), but the excitement
surrounding today's release of both the newest movie and the remnastered Trek original
& TNG is nothing short of incredible. I heard radio personalities raving about it
on broadcast FM and the mothball heads at EW had to admit that the hot celebs came
out for Paramount's Trek DVD party, including cast members from now hits including
"House" and "Gossip Girls." The movie DVD/Blu Ray has deleted scenes including
Spock's birth (do Vulcan babies goe "waah?") and the original has the pilot the\
way it was originally made plus a new spin on the "Space: The Final Frontier"
anthem. Betcha another movie & new TV series are "on screen, lieutenant."
The new trek crew
Remember the mouthy writer
Harlan Ellison made on the original series' Emmy award winning episode City
On The Edge Of Forever? In Ellison's original script, Dr. Mc Coy was dealing drugs
on board The Enterprise which caused him to jump the time travel portal back to
a WW II era mission house run by Joan Collins. Trek creator Gene Roddenberry demanded
the script changed to the good doctor accidentally being injected with a drug during
a subspace disturbance because "none of Star Trek icons would ever do anything
bad. In the new milenium movie, the Enterprise crew are anything but the squeaky
clean, homogenized heros Shatner, Nimoy, Kelly Doohan and the rest were constrained
to portray, The new generation Star Trek, by previews peddled by co-op promos
with Esurance.com, has graphic violence, sassy sex and a Mc Coy who looks like he'd
turn druggie in a heartbeat. No, indeed, this is not Daddy's Trek.
What happens now, after the 2009 prequel cinema success
(new TV series?) should prove....fascinating..
He Never Dies, Jim Let's face it. Bill Shatner is always best known for being Captain James T. Kirk
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6.04.10 Why broadcast stations are shunning reruns of "Star Trek"
It's the demogaphic suits again. The people that pulled the "oldies" format from
commercial radio stations. The people who cancelled "Golden Girls" while
it remained in the top 10.
Omigawd! It's Kirk, No, it's T.J. Hooker. No, It's Denny Crane.
No, it's William Shatner as William Shatner doing in yet another show at
age 120
(not really...Bill was born 1931 so, okay, 75)
Fascinating! He's surrounded by Vegas Buxoms in
Go For The Money a game show bouncing around on these days on the ABC schedule.
Could Bill be the new Bob Barker veteran game show host?
Well, we heard ABC quietly canceled the quiz show
Not too worry. Aside from "Boston Legal," Shatner, as of 11.30.09,
has also his own talk show on the obscure BIO cable network.
In the pilot, Shat had a heated discussion with the conservative squeak,
Rush Limbaugh. Wonder what Limbaugh's executive producer, Linda Cecere,
thought of Shatner vs. Limbaugh battle. Where are those Romulans when you need them?
aboard the Enterprise next to Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and Bones (De Forest Kelly)
Quirky For Kirky NBC claimed it canceled "Star Trek" because it "cost too much"
(in the boardroom, "not cost effective") A few
years later, that same network picked up Lorne Greene's "Battlestar Galactica" which cost
more and did no better, in fact eventually worse, in the ratings, according to Arbitron.
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THE ORIGINAL FLASH GORDON Buster Crabbe 1939 on TV 1960's
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CAPTAIN VIDEO & HIS VIDEO RANGERS 1950-54
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About William Shatner Actor, Born on March 22, 1931, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, best known for his roles on Boston Legal and Star Trek, William Shatner is one of the most recognizable stars working today. His distinctive voice and cadence have been the subject of many imitations, spoofs, and parodies—all contributing to his status as a pop icon. In addition to being an Emmy Award-winning actor, he has also written numerous books, directed several projects, and even recorded a few albums.
Shatner started his career as a child performer in radio programs for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. As a student at McGill University, he continued to pursue acting. Shatner spent his summers performing with the Royal Mount Theater Company. He graduated from the university in 1952 and joined the National Repertory Theater of Ottawa. Working with Sir Tyrone Guthrie, Shatner also appeared in productions at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario.
In 1956, Shatner made his Broadway debut in Tamburlaine the Great, which was directed by Guthrie. He also found work in the emerging medium of television, appearing on such shows as the Goodyear Television Playhouse, Studio One, and Playhouse 90. Playing one of the title characters, Shatner made his film debut in 1958’s The Brothers Karamazov with Yul Brynner. That same year, he returned to Broadway for a two-year run in The Secret Life of Suzie Wong. He won the 1959 Theatre World Award for his performance.
In 1961, Shatner had a small part in the Holocaust drama Judgment at Nuremberg (1961), playing an army captain. He had a lead part in The Intruder (1962) as a racist who fought against school integration. On the small screen, Shatner had his first television series, For the People, in 1965. He starred on the short-lived drama as an assistant district attorney in New York City.
The following year, Shatner took on the role that made him famous around the world. As Captain James T. Kirk on Star Trek, he commanded the U.S.S. Enterprise, a starship traveling through space in the twenty-third century. Kirk encountered all sorts of unusual aliens and challenging situations during his journeys. Accompanying him on these adventures was his loyal crew, which included first officer Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and medical officer Dr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy (DeForest Kelley). The science fiction series created by Gene Roddenberry premiered on September 8, 1966, and lasted for three seasons.
During the run of the show, Shatner also made an unusual career move. He recorded an album, The Transformed Man (1968), which featured spoken word versions of contemporary pop hits. Already known for his overly dramatic, but earnest delivery of his lines on Star Trek, Shatner really went over the top with his renditions of such songs as the Beatles’ “Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds.”
About Leonard Nimoy Born Leonard Simon Nimoy on March 26, 1931, in Boston, Massachusetts. Nimoy was the youngest child of Max and Dora, Yiddish-speaking Jewish immigrants who had escaped from Stalinist Russia. The family settled in the West End of Boston, where Max was a popular local figure and enjoyed his life as a barber. The young Nimoy brothers—Leonard and older brother Melvin—were neighborhood fixtures, and sold newspapers in Boston Common.
The acting bug bit Nimoy early on, and he was just eight years old when he appeared in his first play. He performed throughout his teen years at Boston's English High School, and after his graduation in 1949, he attended Boston College. While playing the role of Ralphie in a collegiate production of Clifford Odets' "Awake and Sing," Nimoy noticed that another Odets play was making a professional, pre-Broadway debut in Boston. After seeking career advice from one of the play's established cast members, Nimoy submitted an application to California's Pasadena Playhouse. He made his way out to the West Coast using money he earned by selling vacuum cleaners.
By the early 1950s, Nimoy was appearing in bit parts in feature films, and his first title role came with 1952s boxing-themed Kid Monk Baroni. After a two-year stretch in the U.S. Army Reserve beginning in 1953, and marrying Sandra Zober in 1954, Nimoy resumed his acting career in 1955. He began studying with Jeff Corey, a highly respected acting coach, and continued to land bit parts on television series and B-movies. During this time, he became a father of two; daughter Julie was born in 1955 and son Adam followed in 1956.
After carving out a niche with day-player roles on the likes of "Dragnet," "The Rough Riders," "Sea Hunt," "Bonanza," "The Twilight Zone," "Dr. Kildaire" and "Perry Mason," Nimoy's featured role on a 1965 episode of "The Lieutenant" earned the attention of producer and writer Gene Roddenberry. At the time, Roddenberry was casting for the upcoming sci-fi series "Star Trek," and thought Nimoy would be ideal for the role of the stoic, logical, and brilliant science officer known as Dr. Spock. Roddenberry even allowed Nimoy to contribute his own elements to the character. Nimoy developed both the pacifistic Vulcan Nerve Pinch and the two-fingered Vulcan salute; the latter is reportedly based on a Jewish blessing.
"Star Trek" premiered in 1966, and turned both Nimoy and co-star William Shatner into legitimate stars. The groundbreaking show garnered a steady following (and earned Nimoy three Emmy nominations), but forged an active rivalry between its two competitive leading men. "The truth is, every good actor has an ego," Shatner said in his book, Up Till Now: An Autobiography. "I was supposed to be the star, but Leonard was getting more attention than I was. It bothered me." Despite the show's cult popularity, "Star Trek" closed down production and was taken off the air by 1969.
About DeForest Kelly Born January 20, 1920, the son of a Baptist minister, actor DeForest Kelley was one of the lucky few chosen to be groomed for stardom by Paramount Pictures' "young talent" program in 1946. He served an apprenticeship in 2-reel musicals like Gypsy Holiday before starring as a tormented musician in Fear in the Night (47). Unfortunately, a sweeping cancellation of Paramount young talent contracts ended Kelley's stardom virtually before it began. By the mid-1950s, he was scrounging up work on episodic TV and playing bits in such films as The Man in the Grey Flannel Suit (56) (this film, by the way, is the first in which Kelley uttered his now-famous line, "He's dead, captain"). Producer/writer Gene Roddenberry took a liking to Kelley and cast the actor in the leading role of a flamboyant criminal attorney in the 1959 TV pilot film 333 Montgomery. The series didn't sell, but Roddenberry was still determined to help Kelley on the road back to stardom. One of their next collaborations was Star Trek (66-69), in which (as everybody in the galaxy knows) Kelley appeared as truculent ship's doctor Leonard "Bones" McCoy. Virtually all of Kelley's subsequent film appearances have been as McCoy in the seemingly endless series of elaborate Star Trek feature films.
And on the pilot for the 1987
syndie Star Trek: The Next Generation, DeForrest Kelley was once more seen as "Bones" -- albeit appropriately stooped and greyed.
About Patrick Stewart Born: 13 July 1940 in Hampshire, England,
Patrick Stewart is best known to most audiences as Captain Jean-Luc Picard on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-94). Throughout the 1960s and '70s Stewart was active with the Old Vic Company, the Manchester Library Theater and the Royal Shakespeare Company, and he followed his stage appearances with roles in television series and movies. He was memorable as Karla, the Soviet spymaster in the mini-series Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979) and Smiley's People (1982), both based on novels by John LeCarré. Stewart really became an international star as the thoughtful, quietly commanding Picard, commander of the starship Enterprise. He played the role in both the television series and the feature films that followed, including Star Trek: Generations (1994, with William Shatner) and Star Trek: First Contact (1996, with James Cromwell). Stewart has put his classical training to good use in voice work and on film, playing characters with an authoritative bearing in TV movies like Moby Dick (1998) and A Christmas Carol (1999) and in feature films such as Conspiracy Theory (1997, starring Mel Gibson) and the X-Men movies (with Hugh Jackman).
About Jonathan Frakes Born August 19, 1952, in the small town of Bellefonte, in central Pennsylvania. His father, James, and his mother, Doris, soon moved with Jonathan and his younger brother Daniel to Bethlehem, in eastern Pennsylvania. There Dr. Frakes taught English at Lehigh University, where he held the Fairchild chair in American Literature until his death in 2002. While growing up, Jonathan was introduced to jazz by his father, and started playing the trombone when he was in fourth grade. As a child Jonathan was always friendly, funny and somewhat of an actor, according to a childhood friend.
In high school, he played in the band and ran track. He graduated from Liberty High in Bethlehem in 1970. The day after he graduated he started classes at Pennsylvania State University, enrolling as a psychology major. The next summer he worked as an usher for the local theater and observed his peers thoroughly enjoying acting. He was motivated to switch his major to theater arts and graduated with a bachelor's degree in 1974. He then moved to Boston to attain his masters degree from Harvard University by 1976.
At this point, he decided to move to New York City and try to make it as an actor. The roles didn't come easily, so he had to take side jobs, such as a waiter, a furniture mover (where he injured up his back), and a stint as Captain America for Marvel Comics. Meanwhile, he won roles in the Broadway musical "Shenandoah" and on the soap opera "The Doctors" (1969) as Vietnam vet Tom Carroll from 1977 to 1978.
During the 1980s, Jonathan landed a starring role in a prime-time soap opera, "Bare Essence" (1983), which had spun off a successful miniseries of the same name. The show didn't take off with the viewers, however, and was soon canceled. He went back to guest appearances for two more years, until he got the part of Stanley Hazard in the Civil War epic "North and South" (1985). After spending more than six months filming all over the southern United States, he and his co-star, Genie Francis, fell in love (he had met her three years before when they co-starred in "Bare Essence" (1983)). During that time, he and Genie didn't have much to do with each other, other than his making fun of her hair, according to her. Three years later, however, they were an item.
In early 1987, Jonathan went to an audition for a new television series at the urging of his soon-to-be wife and her family. After six weeks, and seven auditions, he won the role that would bring him worldwide fame: that of Cmdr. William Riker on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987). It was at this time he and Genie announced their engagement. They would have to postpone their wedding twice because of his job but were finally married in the first-season hiatus on May 28, 1988. All of his new co-stars attended the wedding, along with "Star Trek" (1966) creator Gene Roddenberry. During the seven years Frakes starred on "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987), he not only acted but discovered that he had a talent for directing. He helmed eight episodes in all and was invited to direct on the Next Generation spin-offs, "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" (1993) and "Star Trek: Voyager" (1995).
About Kate Mulgrew Born April 25, 1955, the daughter of a contractor father and an artist mother, Kate Mulgrew was the second oldest of eight children. At 18, Mulgrew headed to New York to study acting with Stella Adler. She spent a grueling year or so pounding on casting-agency doors and making ends meet as a waitress and model. Then, on the same day in 1975, she landed two plum roles: Emily Webb in a stage revival of Our Town, and Mary Ryan on the new ABC TV soap opera Ryan's Hope. Four years later, she was tapped to play Kate Columbo, the previously never-seen wife of dishevelled TV detective Columbo (Peter Falk), on the prime-time series Mrs. Columbo, later retitled Kate Loves a Mystery. Columbo himself would never be seen on Mrs. Columbo; for that matter, few viewers saw Kate Mulgrew, since the rather ill-conceived series never built up much of an audience. Despite this setback, the actress persevered, starring in the 1981 miniseries The Manions of America and appearing in such theatrical features as A Stranger is Watching (1982), Remo Williams (1985) and Throw Mama from the Train (1987). She went on to co-star with James Garner in the short-lived weekly Man of the People (1991), and in 1995 joined the ever-growing "Star Trek" family as Captain Kathryn Janeway in Star Trek Voyager (she replaced Genevieve Bujold, who dropped out of the role in the middle of filming the first episode). Her significant TV guest appearances include a Boston councilwoman who carries on a torrid romance with Sam Malone (Ted Danson) in a 1986 episode of Cheers, and an alcoholic broadcast journalist on a 1992 installment of Murphy Brown; this last-named performance earned her a Tracey Humanitarian Award. Throughout her film and TV career, she has periodically returned to the stage, most recently in an all-star Broadway revival of Peter Schaffer's Black Comedy. In recognition of twenty years' worth of "artistic contributions," Kate Mulgrew was made an Honorary Doctor of Letters by Seton Hall Universit
The day after his 42nd birthday, on August 20, his son, Jameson Ivor Frakes was born. Jameson is named after both his grandfathers, the late James Frakes, and the late actor Ivor Francis, Genie's father. During this time, Jonathan actually turned down work, preferring to stay at home and raise his son with his wife. For the next two years, he did a few guest appearances on television.
About Scott Bakula Scott Bakula came from a musical family. In the fourth grade, he started a rock band and wrote songs for them. Later, he sang with the St. Louis Symphony. He studied Law at the University of Kansas. In 1976, he was first hired professionally in the role of Sam in "Shenandoah" and went to New York. After several small roles on TV, he made "Quantum Leap" (1989).
He won a Golden Globe in 1992 for Best Performance by an Actor in a TV series - Drama for "Quantum Leap" (1989) and was nominated for a Tony award in 1988. Today, he lives in Los Angeles and has a farm in upstate New York.
About Jolene Blalock Born on the March 5, 1975 in San Diego, California. Jolene Blalock is known from Star Trek Enterprise as the Vulcan sub commander T’Pol. Jolene is also a top model and her face has covered many of the most famous men’s magazines. She had been twice on the cover of Maxim’s Gils of Maxim. Jolene Blalock also appeared in the 2002 April issue of Playboy and then again it featured an interview with her on the 2005 February issue.
Although Jolene Blalock has been most famous for her appearance on Star Trek Enterprise, she was criticized for her comment on the last shooting day of the television series. She was caught saying that the final episode was “appalling”. Jolene Blalock later explained that the reason for her saying so was Star Trek’s last episode focused more on the characters than on the Enterprise.
She was also not happy the final episode had to be supported by characters from Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Though a self professed Trekkie, Jolene was once again criticized for her reluctance to be a part of the Star Trek conventions. Jolene Blalock first appeared on the convention in California in March of 2005. Then she attended the English convention at Milton Keynes the following April. She was accommodating enough to sign autographs for the fans. This was then followed by the convention in Bonn, Germany and the other conventions across the globe. Jolene Blalock was supposed to be the guest by the Creation Entertainment in 2005 by the Las Vegas Star Trek Convention when weeks before the event she backed out saying she has other commitments.
During the third and fourth season of Star Trek Enterprise, Jolene Blalock openly criticized the development of the seasons’ show. She called the third season as lacking in creativity and that the producers as out of touch with Star Trek fans. As for the fourth season, she said that it is still disappointing though it was quite an improvement from the previous season.
After Start Trek Enterprise, Jolene Blalock appeared in 2006 in the film made for television, I Dream of Murder. Prior to this she was seen in the film Slow Burn which premiered in September 2005 at the Toronto International Film Festival and was limitedly released for theatre in 2007. She played opposite Ray Liotta and LL Cool J. She was also seen in Stargate SG-1.
Jolene Blalock once dated actor Edward Furlong in 2001. She is now married to Michael Rapino of Live Nation. She is a dog lover and appeared with her dogs in the British publication K9 Magazine. Jolrnr is also an avid surfer and art enthusiast.
About Gene Roddenberry Born Eugene Wesley Roddenberry
August 19. 1921 in El Paso, Texas. We lost Gene October 24, 1991 from a massive heart attach
while he lived in Santa Monica, Caligornia.
During WWII he had a friend named Kim Noonien Singh; after the war Kim disappeared, and Gene used his name for some characters in the Star Trek series (Khan Noonien Singh from Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and Noonien Soong from "Star Trek: The Next Generation" (1987)) in hopes that Kim might recognize his name and contact him.
Some of his ashes sent up in a rocket, launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base.
Might have died in a house fire when still a toddler along with Bob, Doris, and their mother, but a milkman came along and woke them in time.
In 1943 while a US Army Air Corps pilot, he flew B-17 bombers during World War II, his plane crashed on takeoff due to a mechanical failure, killing two crew members.
On 19 June 1947 he was deadheading (traveling while not on duty) on a Pan Am plane when it crashed in the Syrian desert, killing 7 of 9 crew and 7 of 26 passengers on board. He rescued the Maharani of Pheleton from the wreck. Rescue came in hours, but too late to save most of the luggage, and the victims' possessions, from local tribesmen and villagers.
During the war he wrote a song lyric "I Wanna Go Home", which became popular.
His first TV script sale, in 1953, was the episode ``Defense Plant Gambling'' for the show "Mr. District Attorney" (1954). It was broadcast 2 March 1954. In the science-fiction field, his first was "The Secret Weapon of 117", broadcast 6 March 1956 on the anthology series "Chevron Hall of Stars".
He had many lovers and was sometimes overt about it. He and Majel Barrett had been lovers for years when he decided it was time to marry her and asked her to join him -- although he happened to be visiting Japan at the time. Gene did not adhere to any particular religion and since they were in Japan they chose to have a Shinto-Buddhist wedding on 6 August 1969. They regarded this as their real wedding, but his divorce was not yet final and they made it legal with a civil ceremony on 29 December 1969.
In 1996, it was announced that he was to be the director of the next Star Trek film, Star Trek: First Contact (1996). He received critical praise for his work on the film, and it became the highest-grossing entry of the franchise to date. He formed a production company, Goepp Circle Productions, named after the street he lived on in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. Just two days after his ninth wedding anniversary in 1997, Elizabeth Francis Frakes was born. Sadly, just two weeks prior, Jonathan's brother, Daniel, passed away from pancreatic cancer.
In 1998, he was asked to direct the ninth Star Trek film, Star Trek: Insurrection (1998). Following mixed reviews for this film, he continued to direct in movies and television, act in a few non-Star Trek roles, and starred in the tenth Star Trek film, Star Trek: Nemesis (2002).
About Jeri Taylor Born June 30, 1938, Jeri is a television scriptwriter and producer who is known for her contributions to the Star Trek series. She is an alumna of Indiana University, where she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta.
Having previously written scripts for television series like Little House on the Prairie and The Incredible Hulk, and served as a producer and director on Quincy, M.E. and Jake and the Fatman, Jeri was recommended to the producers of Star Trek: The Next Generation by Lee Sheldon, with whom she had worked on Quincy.
Jeri joined The Next Generation staff at the beginning of the fourth season as a supervising producer, co-writing the second episode to go into production Suddenly Human (which actually aired fourth). After two years, Jeri became co-executive producer with Rick Berman and Michael Piller and served as an executive producer for the final seventh season of The Next Generation. During this time she received credit on a number of episodes including Wil Wheaton's final episode as a regular character ("Final Mission"), the episode that introduced the Cardassian race which would feature heavily in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ("The Wounded") and the first part of the two-parter that featured Spock ("Unification").
During the last year of The Next Generation, Jeri worked with Rick Berman and Michael Piller to develop the fourth Star Trek series, Star Trek: Voyager. When The Next Generation production ended, Jeri transferred over to the Voyager production staff and served as executive producer with Rick Berman during the first four years. At the beginning of the second season, when Piller moved to a reduced creative consultant role, Jeri became head of the writing staff and stayed in that role until the end of the fourth season, when she retired and handed over control of the writing staff to Brannon Braga.
Jeri was married to Sports broadcaster Dick Enberg. Their son Alexander Enberg has played a vulcan in both The Next Generation and Voyager.
During her time on The Next Generation and Voyager, Jeri wrote three Star Trek novels for Pocket Books: a novelisation of Unification that she wrote at the same time she was scripting the first part, and two Voyager novels that expanded on the background of the characters she had helped create for the series. In Pathways, for example, she uses a fix-up presentation to describe several characters' childhood and early adult experiences leading to joining the Voyager crew.
About Rick Berman
With over 600 episodes of Star Trek to his credit, Emmy Award-winning producer Rick Berman is co-creator and executive producer of Paramount Network Television's Star Trek: Enterprise for UPN.
Berman was previously the co-creator and executive producer of Star Trek: Voyager for UPN and was executive producer, since its inception in 1987, of Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He was producer and co-story writer of the feature films "Star Trek Generations," "Star Trek: First Contact" and "Star Trek: Insurrection." Berman also oversaw the tenth Star Trek movie, "Star Trek Nemesis," released in December 2002.
Under Berman's guidance Star Trek: The Next Generation became the first syndicated series in history to be nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Drama. In all, the series won 16 Emmy Awards and, with a total of 55 Emmy nominations, remains one of the most-nominated dramatic series of all time. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine garnered four Emmy Awards and 31 nominations, and Star Trek: Voyager won five Emmy Awards and landed 26 nominations.
Berman joined the Paramount family in 1984 as director of current programming, overseeing Cheers, Family Ties and Webster. Within a year, he was named executive director of dramatic programming, overseeing the development of the telefilms, mini-series and specials including the epic "Space," "Wallenberg: A Hero's Story" and ABC's top-rated MacGyver. He was promoted in May 1986 to vice president, longform and special projects for Paramount Network Television, overseeing the development of telefilms, mini-series and specials. In 1987, he was selected by Gene Roddenberry to join him as he created Star Trek: The Next Generation. In 1991, following Roddenberry's death, Berman took over the reins for Star Trek.
Prior to joining Paramount, he was director of dramatic development for Warner Bros. Television. He was an independent producer on numerous projects from 1982-1984, including What on Earth, an informational series for HBO, and "The Primal Mind," a one-hour award-winning special for PBS. From 1977-1982, he was senior producer of The Big Blue Marble, for which he won an Emmy for Outstanding Children's Series.
Awesome. I rented the DVD the day it came out (11.17.09) and that night was glued to my monitor
screen for the entire 2 hours and 10 minutes. Paramount promo'd the movie as "Not Your Father's Trek." But
I found elements to please both the old Trekkie and the high school geek (or, is it "emo" now?).
There was the essence of the old Shatner-Nimor-Kelly portrayals. I won't spoil the ending, but the meeting
of whom we know as the original Spock, Leonard Nimoy, and the true to Vulcan form young Spock,
Zachary Quinto is, well, fascinating.
I found Chris Pine's mimic of William Shatner's drop-mouth-before-speaking Captain James Tiberius Kirk
amusing and charming. We are treated to Kirk as a baby (when his father, George Kirk, dies a hero in the
spacecraft), Kirk as a reckless kid pursued by a street cop, Kirk as a smart ass college guy putting
the make on a vivacious Uhura (Zoe Saldana) in a bar. And for us old trekkers, we are treated to Lt Uhura
undressing down to scanty underwear with Kirk hiding under her roommate's bed.
Also for us elder Trek TV fans, Dr. McCoy (Eric Bana) spits the famous "I'm a doctor not a..." quip.
Scotty is portrayed a wee more nervous by Simon Pegg, Chekov a more comedic figure by Anton Yelchin
and Sulu a bit quieter by John Ocho. While at the outset one might not think so (especially given Uhura's
disdain for Kirk's cockiness...literally), the familiar Enterprise crew chemistry shines again with the
brilliant new players, new brilliant set and today's mind boggling s/f/x.
Many people believed the elderly Leonard Nimoy's appearance to be a brief homage. No, old Spock
is on screen for the entire final hour of the movie and recites the famous anthem ("Space,
the final frontier") at the end which concludes with a majestic orchestra and chorus arrangement if
Alexander Courage's original Star Trek theme.
Old Trekkie like me or new cinema sci-fi junkie like my nephews, "Star Trek" in 2009 is a spectacular
motion picture by any standard. Spy Glass Productions' movie revival is spectacular on it's own
and deserves all the five star reviews by major press and the loot it took in at the box office.
I hardly buy videos anymore since I subscribed to Netflix, but I am going to buy the DVD of
this movie I so immensely enjoyed.
Chris Pine
Christopher Whitelaw Pine was born in Los Angeles, California on August 26, 1980 to actors Robert Pine and Gwynne Glifford. His maternal grandparents were Hollywood actress Anne Gywnne and Hollywood attorney Max M. Gliford. He has a sister named Katie. He grew up in the San Fernando Valley, and attended the University of California in Berkeley where he majored in English.
His career in acting started in theater where he performed at the Williamstown Theater Festival, the University of California as well as theater companies in Los Angeles. He started his TV career in 2003 when he guest starred in ER, and went on to appear in the short filmWhy Germany? in 2004. He was the love interest of Anne Hathaway in The Princess Diaries 2: Royal Engagement, playing the role of Lord Nicholas Devereaux, where he got his big break. He then appeared in the dramatic thriller Confession and the short story The Bulls. He kept himself visible by appearing in American Dreamz and Six Feet Under. In 2006, he starred with Lindsay Lohan in another romantic comedy, Just My Luck, and appeared in the play The Atheist. He was recently seen in the movie Smokin’ Aces (2007) with Jeremy Piven and Ben Affleck.
Zachary Quintio Born 1977, a computer whiz on "24,"
a brain-stealing serial killer on "Heroes" and Tori Spelling's gay best bud on "Notorious:" this up-and-coming TV actor is nothing if not versatile. Intrigued by acting from an early age, Quinto began appearing in Pittsburgh Civic Light Opera productions as a child. But he decided to pursue acting as a vocation after being involved in a car accident at age 16. After high school, the dark and handsome player studied at Carnegie Mellon's prestigious acting conservatory, and a year after graduating, he began landing guest spots on diverse series, everything from Touched by an Angel to CSI. His recurring role on the third season of 24 upped his profile, but 2006 was his breakthrough year. Although his first series-regular gig on So NoTORIous was cut short when the campy show failed to get picked up for a second season, he quickly snagged his signature Heroes role. With his icy stare and monotone delivery, Quinto proved a breath-taking villain, and producers announced that he would become a series regular during the sci-fi smash's second season.
Zoe Saldana
Born June, 1978, beauty and talent combine in a form so complimentary to each other than in the case of actress Zoe Saldana. Whether gracefully gliding across the stage in dance, pounding the boards in a play, or lighting up the screen in such popular films as Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl, the multi-faceted Saldana seems capable of achieving anything she puts her mind to. The New Jersey native was raised in Queens until the age of ten, when her family relocated to the Dominican Republic. The move proved a fateful blessing when young Saldana discovered her love of dance and enrolled in the ECOS Espacio de Danza Academy shortly thereafter, where she would study ballet, jazz, and modern Latin dance. Following her sophomore year in high school, Saldana and her family returned to the U.S. It was while completing her primary studies stateside that Saldana became involved with the Faces theater troupe, whose aim was to make a positive impact on teenage audiences by performing improvisational skits on such issues as substance abuse and sexuality. Involvement with another troupe, the New York Youth Theater, provided more traditional stage experience through such productions as +Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dream Coat, and it was while performing with that troupe that a talent agent recognized great potential in the burgeoning actress.
In 1999, Saldana received what seemed to be the ideal first film role when she was cast as a talented but snippy dancer vying for a spot at the fictional American Ballet Company in the dance drama Center Stage. Other film roles followed, including Get Over It, Snipes, and a featured part in the Britney Spears teen drama Crossroads, which offered Saldana's first major theatrical release. Widely panned by critics but performing moderately at the box office thanks to legions of Spears fans, Crossroads proved just the fuel needed to get Saldana's struggling feature career running. The following year, she was back on the big screen in Drumline, which found her once again utilizing her dance skills as a college dance major and love interest of the talented but conflicted protagonist. Though her subsequent role as the sole female pirate in Pirates of the Caribbean offered little screen time, her performance as the only woman able to cast a spell over Johnny Depp's charismatic Jack Sparrow offered one of the film's most memorable comic scenes. Back on the indie circuit, Saldana headlined the 2003 rock musical Temptation as a talented singer facing hard times. A brief turn as a by-the-books customs officer in Steven Spielberg's The Terminal found the charming Saldana slowly warming to an immigrant stuck in bureaucratic limbo (played by Tom Hanks), and with six major roles scheduled through 2005, audiences could rest assured that they would be seeing plenty more of the talented young actress in the very near future. Jason Buchanan, All Movie Guide
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8.17.10 Classic Fan, Modesto, CA The best show. I loved all the episodes.
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THE TOP 10 MOST POPULAR STAR TREK EPISODES our visitor's votes:
voting results as of 8.26.10
1, Amok Time (original) Spock's marital rite ==32 votes
2. City On The Edge Of Forever (original) back in time Emmy winner ==31 votes
3. Trouble With Tribbles (original) furry pets ==26 votes
4. Q (Next Generation) Picard's recurring nemesis ==25 votes
5. Charlie X (original) bad alien adolescent ==17 votes
6. Carbon Creek (Enterprise) back in time ==16 votes
6. I, Mudd (original) pesky space salesman ==11 votes
7. Spock's Brain (original) vulcan mind powers planet ==9 votes
8. The Seven Of Nine (Voyager) sexiest alien ==8 votes
9. The Corbomite Maneuver (original) but fear itself ==7 votes
10. The Menagerie (original/pilot) so that was Capt. Pike ==2 votes
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voting results as of 8.26.10
1. Mr Spock (ST: original, Leonard Nimoy ==39 votes
2. Data (ST: TNG, Brent Spiner) ==27 votes
3. Captain Jon Luke Picard (ST: TNG, Patrick Stewart) ==22 votes
4. Dr Mc Coy (ST: original, De Forest Kelly) ==19 votes
5. Seven Of Nine (ST: Voyager, Jeri Ryan) ==17 votes
6. Captain James T. Kirk (ST: original, William Shatner) ==16 votes
7. Beverly Crusher (ST: TNG Gates Mc Fadden) ==13 votes
8. Captain Janeway (ST: Voyager, Kate Mulgrew) ==12 votes
9. Armanda Spock (Spock's mother) (ST: original, Jane Wyatt) ==7 votes
10. Edith Keeler (ST: original, Joan Collins) ==4 votes
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Television and radio stations listen to one supreme being: the marketing executive.
He or she decides that certain programs are not "demographically viable" - they
don't have a strong enough viewing base for audiences between the ages of
13-40. If you are over 40, according to the demograph hounds, you don't buy
anything except, a CBS executive once cracked "Craftmatics and canes."
For example, years ago, rereuns of the original "Star Trek" had a strong "young" following
on WPIX, channel 11, in New York until the WB Network (now CW) stepped in.
"Star Trek" disappeared, to return years later on Rupert Murdoch's "My9"
at the same time block as Pix, 6:00PM, but Sunday nights. Problem was, the
reruns were often interrupted by infomercial "specials." Kirk and Spock had
to step aside for Kitchen Magician. Oddly, "Star Trek: Voyager"
did extremely well in that spot for several years on My9/NY, both
shows got the shaft unceremoniously.
CBS/Paramount went back to Pix and made a "sweet deal" to return "Trek" to it's
original syndication home in New York, "Pix 11" (the off-network nostalgia
I.D.) Mc Coy reminded us New Yorker's he was a doctor not a... Saturdays
at 11PM. Replaced by an hour of "Family Guy" reruns, it moved to midnight,
to be replaced by "The Chapelle Show," a real knee slapper, then to 2AM.
"Trek" was always the lead-in for "Stargate Atlantis." so it must have had a
strong showing. That wasn't good enough for the demographic hounds who
believe rap hip urban comedy drew better bucks than sci-fi.
Apparently, CBS/Paramount made a "sweet deal" to Pix 11 for "Star Trek:
The Next Generation." The demographic genius thought it'd be a great
idea to run it at 3AM amidst other channel's infomercial blanket. Since most
people are asleep at 3AM, 11 decided to add the anesthesia of "Friends"
and "According To Jim" in that slot, relegating "Trek TNG" to cable fill-ins,
and thank the stars for us, the internet.
The story was the same at WGN, Chicago and KPIX, LA (not affiliated
with WPIX New York) and every station offered a deal on the "Treks"
by owner CBS/Paramount. Youth is wasted on the young.
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