CBS All Access has released "Give Them a Vulcan Hello," a 40-second clip from the Star Trek: Discovery series premiere. In it, Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) states her case to Captain Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh) for attacking the Klingons before the Klingons attack the U.S.S. Shenzhou.
Check it out:
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Hello again, StarTrek.com readers. Captain Kirk in my new Planetary Post? Watch as William Shatner sends Voyager a message! OK, not my Voyager... NASA's Voyager I spacecraft which, along with Voyager II, celebrates 40 years in space. Plus: the OSIRIS REx flyby and our CEO Bill Nye at the International Astronautical Congress. Don't miss this one.
Learn more about The Planetary Society by going to www.planetary.org. And just tell them the Doctor sent you.
We kind of knew which show would win this week's StarTrek.com poll, but weren't sure by how much. The question we asked was, If you could make a guest appearance on one Trek series, which would it be? Thousands of fans participated, selecting from The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise. Here are the results:
The Next Generation (37%)
Deep Space Nine (20%)
The Original Series (17%)
Voyager (16%)
Enterprise (9%)
The Animated Series (1%)
How did your choice fare?
Here is an inside look at Star Trek Online's next featured episode, "Melting Pot," which will be available on October 3 with the launch of Season 14 – Emergence:
Dranuur is a paradisiacal world hidden behind a space anomaly that warps sensors. There, with a little engineering and a little bioforming, the Lukari and the Kentari have established a new colony. This idyllic home is in its early stages of development, still under construction, but it's quite the departure from the polluted New Kentar or the tiny moon of Lukar.
In "Melting Pot," you'll pay a visit to the new joint Lukari-Kentari colony. The two newcomers to the galactic scene have forged an uneasy collaboration in an attempt to make their new colony world the best of both of their cultures — if they can find common ground to agree upon. With Captain Kuumaarke and Captain La Forge, explore what Dranuur holds and find out if the colonists can make it work. But remember, settling a new planet may draw the attention of other galactic powers. And the Lukari and Kentari keep their own secrets…
This new episode will be available for Captains levels 10 and up (Romulan Captains must have chosen a faction) for a limited time very soon, before being available in the Mission Journal.
Jesse Heinig
Staff Game Designer
Star Trek Online
Here is an inside look at Star Trek Online's next featured episode, "Melting Pot," which will be available on October 3 with the launch of Season 14 – Emergence:
Dranuur is a paradisiacal world hidden behind a space anomaly that warps sensors. There, with a little engineering and a little bioforming, the Lukari and the Kentari have established a new colony. This idyllic home is in its early stages of development, still under construction, but it's quite the departure from the polluted New Kentar or the tiny moon of Lukar.
In "Melting Pot," you'll pay a visit to the new joint Lukari-Kentari colony. The two newcomers to the galactic scene have forged an uneasy collaboration in an attempt to make their new colony world the best of both of their cultures — if they can find common ground to agree upon. With Captain Kuumaarke and Captain La Forge, explore what Dranuur holds and find out if the colonists can make it work. But remember, settling a new planet may draw the attention of other galactic powers. And the Lukari and Kentari keep their own secrets…
This new episode will be available for Captains levels 10 and up (Romulan Captains must have chosen a faction) for a limited time very soon, before being available in the Mission Journal.
Jesse Heinig
Staff Game Designer
Star Trek Online
Star Trek: The Next Generation celebrates its 30th anniversary this week, and to mark the occasion, StarTrek.com reached out to Rick Berman. He, of course, worked with Gene Roddenberry to launch the show and then ran TNG when Roddenberry pulled back as his health faded. Berman went on to executive produce the TNG features and to executive produce and co-create Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise. Quite appropriately, Berman gave us 30 minutes of his time for a rare interview last week. Below is part two of our conversation; click HERE to read part one.
We're sure you don't sit around and actively watch TNG episodes these days, but when you catch an episode, how do you feel the show as a whole holds up?
Well, it's a funny thing. What's always amazing when I happen to watch an episode is that I'm looking at something that I have absolutely no recollection about and that I, of course, was involved with from beginning to end. I hear this from everybody, including the actors. Patrick will tell me that he'll watch an episode and see scenes that he did, and he won't remember a single thing about having done them. In terms of holding up, I think storytelling-wise, dialogue-wise, acting-wise, things hold up, but television has changed so dramatically that when you look at anything from 30 years ago, there's a certain hokeyness.
That's true with any show or movie...
If you look at the best television from the 50's and 60's, the way people speak, the way the camera moves, the way things are lit, everything has evolved. Star Trek and all of television have evolved over the last 30 years and, as a result, some of the stuff looks a little hokey.
Bill Gates just admitted that he regrets not making ctrl alt delete a single button. What's your single biggest regret when it comes to TNG?
I'd say that probably the only two regrets I have… One was the studio's refusal to let us, with a couple of tiny exceptions, have continuing storylines. They wanted standalone episodes. Also, the fact that Gene felt so strongly about avoiding conflict amongst the Starfleet characters, which made it very difficult for the writers sometimes.
Back in December, you had dinner with everybody from TNG but Gates McFadden. This summer, you posted a photo of you with John de Lancie, Armin Shimerman and Brent Spiner. What does it mean to you and what do you think it says about the overall experience everybody on the show had that they, and you, still seem so close all these years later?
I did four Star Trek series and if I had to list the people I am still very close to, 95% of them are from TNG. I am close to all of them, including Gates, who was out of the country at the time of that dinner. We see each other more than once a year, and people like Patrick and Brent and Jonathan (Frakes), I see on a regular basis. There are people from the other shows I'm close to, Armin Shimerman, René Auberjonois and a number of others. But the tightest group, at least from my point of view, is the TNG group. I know some of the actors from DS9, Voyager and possibly Enterprise are close, but I don't think it's quite like with TNG, where everyone is still close and gets together when they can.
Why do you think that is?
I know with me, it has to do with the fact that we all cut our teeth for the first time in series television, dramatic series television at least. I had been a documentarian. In terms of dramatic series television and in terms of Star Trek, we all were born and grew up together with TNG and that bond has, I think, been very important in holding us together over all these years.
Life goes on with or without us and so does Star Trek. Do you miss Trek, and how much attention have you paid to the Abrams-produced movies and Discovery?
I miss it in that it was such an integral part of my life for more than 20 years. I miss the excitement of being somewhat in charge of such a gigantic undertaking and dealing with such talented people who made it all so easy for me. But 20 years was enough. I have seen all the recent movies and have mixed feelings. I think they've been extraordinary because, unlike the films that we made, which were all TNG movies and all with extremely limited budgets, Paramount decided to pull the plug on that, to go full hog on making some very big action science-fiction films that were successful to different degrees, in my opinion. I think they have an amazing look to them. The casting was great. The production was great. As far as the storylines and the content, I wish they'd done a little bit more Star Trek than Iron Man. I wish they'd been a little bit more connected to Gene's vision than big, exciting adventure movies. I have seen them all and enjoyed them. I have been following things that have been written about and things I've heard about Discovery, and I'm curious to see what it's going to be like. I was invited to a screening, which I could not make, and I'll be watching with the rest of the crowd.
What's happening with your Trek memoir?
It's going slowly. I play with it a little bit here, a little bit there. I'm staggered by the number of things you can remember correctly and the number of things you realize you've remembered incorrectly after so many years. I think I've mentioned this to you before, I'll be having dinner with Jonathan and I'll say, "Do you remember the day you did X?" He'll say, "No, that wasn't me, that was Brent." I'll say, "No, no, you're wrong. That was you." Then I'll speak to Brent and he'll say, "No, no, no, it was me." I'll realize, "Wow, I got confused about that." Then, there will be other times where the same thing will happen and I'll go to Brent and he'll say, "No, that was Jonathan." There are a lot of things you forget and a lot of things you remember incorrectly. When you're trying to write about it, it's difficult and confusing. My wife, who's a writer, is always reminding me that memoirs don't have to be perfect, don't have to have absolutely correct recollections. They're the recollection from the point of view of when you're writing them. The answer to your question is I'm still toying with it. Whether it will ever get done… I'm hoping it will. Will I get done in the very near future? Most likely not.
The latest Trek tale from veteran authors Paula M. Block and Terry J. Erdmann is... Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: I, The Constable. The Odo-centric eBook will be released November 13 by Simon & Schuster/Pocket Books. Here's the official synopsis and check out our exclusive First Look at the cover:
With his Starfleet assignment temporarily on hold, Odo needs a distraction. He welcomes Chief O'Brien's offer to loan him some of the action-packed books that both men relish: tales about hard-boiled private eyes, threatening thugs, and duplicitous dames. Then Quark suddenly goes missing during a hastily planned trip to Ferenginar. His concerned friends on Deep Space Nine feel that Odo, as the station's former chief of security, is uniquely suited to track Quark down. But once on Ferenginar, Odo learns that Quark is trapped in the seamy underbelly of a criminal enterprise that could have been ripped from the pages of one of O'Brien's novels. To find the bartender, Odo discovers that he must rely not only on his law enforcement background, but his knowledge of all things noir…
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: I, The Constable will run 174 pages and cost $2.99. Go to http://ift.tt/hewKkZ to pre-order it.
Star Trek: The Next Generation celebrates its 30th anniversary today, and to mark the occasion, StarTrek.com reached out to Rick Berman. He, of course, worked with Gene Roddenberry to launch the show and then ran TNG when Roddenberry pulled back as his health faded. Berman went on to executive produce the TNG features and to executive produce and co-create Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise. Quite appropriately, Berman gave us 30 minutes of his time for a rare interview last week. We're breaking the conversation in half, so be sure to visit StarTrek.com again tomorrow to read part two.
Here we are, talking about the 30th anniversary of TNG…
It's all a little mind-boggling. For me, it's really almost 31 because I got involved in 1986, when I first hooked up with Gene. It's been like 31 years; it's scary how quickly time goes.
Go back to the buildup to the show's debut. What was the mood on the set, in the production offices, as the premiere approached?
We had three strikes against us. We were a science-fiction show, which was not at all popular at that time. We were a sequel to another TV show, which had never been successful at the time. We were going to be syndicated, as opposed to on a network, which was unheard of unless you were a cooking show or something. So, everybody was a little nervous whether this was going to work as a syndicated sequel to a sci-fi show. That was one side of the coin. The other side of the coin was we had a product that we were extremely pleased with. Gene, myself, Bob Justman, all the people who were involved with the show at that time felt that we had a pretty terrific cast and a great pilot. I think everybody was guardedly optimistic, and I was amongst them.
What do you recall most about getting "Encounter at Farpoint" ready to air? Was it VFX? Was it editing to graft the two disparate story halves into one?
The Farpoint station and the whole story about running into Q and Q's putting us on trial, those two stories, they were written at different times, but they had been well melded together by the time we were shooting. That was not a problem at all, as I recall. Things like the cast and the costumes and the sets had been finished. The music was wonderful, and as far as the visual effects, in those days we were using, I think, 100% models and we were not able, budgetarily, to compete with some of the big science-fiction feature films of recent years at that point. So, I think we were a little bit nervous whether people were going to buy the visual effects, but they certainly were of a higher quality than The Original Series simply because of the technology that had developed over the years.
Patrick Stewart... toupee or not toupee. What was your personal opinion on it?
That was very funny. I remember when he did his reading for John Pike, president of Paramount Television, he wore the toupee. When he finished, he left the room and Pike's response was, "He's your guy, but lose the wig." I was delighted. I had gotten to know Patrick a little bit and the wig always seemed a little awkward to me, only because I knew he was bald. I was perfectly fine with losing the wig. If they had said, "Keep the wig on," I think I would've been a little bit more uncomfortable.
Other actors were considered for the roles we now associate with Patrick, Brent, Marina, etc. How close did Mitch Ryan or Patrick Bauchau come to landing Picard? Reggie Jackson or Wesley Snipes come to Geordi? J.D. Roth as Wesley? Was anybody really close?
Well, the runner up for Picard was an actor named Stephen Macht. He was a lovely, lovely man and a really good actor.
He was on DS9 later.
He was, but the role of Picard was never offered to anyone other than Patrick. Who were the other names you just mentioned for Picard?
Mitch Ryan, Patrick Bauchau…
They were, I would say, in the top half dozen people that we were interested in.
Reggie Jackson, Wesley Snipes for Geordi?
Wesley Snipes, I don't know where the hell that came from. I have no recollection of Wesley Snipes.
All these names, by the way, are in an internal memo from April 13th 1987…
A memo from who to who?
To John Pike from John Ferraro, on Paramount letterhead.
It's very possible someone had thrown Snipes' name out, but I don't believe we ever read him and I don't believe he was ever considered.
The names under Geordi are Snipes and Jackson, LeVar Burton, Tim Russ, Wesley Snipes, Victor Love, Chip McCallister, Clarence Gilliard Jr, and Kevin Peter Hall.
Tim Russ was definitely one of the top runners-up. On the other hand, LeVar, he was the most famous of all of our actors because of Roots. I'd say that Wil Wheaton was probably the next most-famous because of Stand By Me. LeVar was our first choice. The other names you mentioned were on a list of possibilities that one of my associates… you said John Ferraro, right? John may have thrown the names onto a memo, but I don't recall ever reading those actors. The only one that I recall reading, although we could've read a number of them, was Tim Russ, who I liked very much, but we picked LeVar.
And, for Riker, the memo reads, "Michael O'Gorman seems to be a favorite. He's an atypical choice for the role, however, a good one."
The only role where we had an actor that was our first choice and we were turned down by the studio was Riker. The actor was Billy Campbell. He came in, and we had him read for the same people, Pike and the other studio executives. They thought this was not a person you'd necessarily follow into battle. They didn't reject him 100%, but they wanted to see others, and our second choice was Jonathan Frakes. Everybody loved him, and that was that.
Do you remember J.D. Roth as Wesley?
It's 30 years ago, so I don't have a clue, but I can tell you we had Wil Wheaton come in and read with Gates McFadden. They read a mother-son scene together. Wil had been in a huge movie recently and... We read many, many, many actors, but the only one I remember anybody being excited about for Wesley was Wil.
This is an early memo. April 13, 1987. Wil's not even on the list yet, so he may have come up in the next memo.
Exactly.
That same memo had Riker spelled with a Y. This is totally nitpicking three decades later, but was that a typo or was there ever consideration given to spelling Riker differently?
I don't have a clue.
Let's mix it up. What's the best advice Roddenberry gave you during your time with him?
We spent a lot of time discussing his vision of the 23rd and 24th century, and he felt strongly that the script, stories and production elements all reflect that vision. He was not at all demanding. He'd be demanding to the writers if something was written that didn't work. I remember when we had one, Michael Wagner..., the young writer who we had for a few minutes, who passed away, before Piller. He was going to take over for Maurice Hurley after the second season. I remember he came in with a story where there was a character who had the ability to destroy a planet just by thinking; that's how powerful he was. Far more powerful than Q, far more powerful than anybody that had ever been on Star Trek. Roddenberry got very upset and told Michael you can't have that, and Michael's attitude was, "Why not?" Gene basically got a bit pissed off and his attitude was like, "Because I said so. Because that doesn't fit into the rules of the Star Trek I created." Gene would give me directives on things like that, to keep stories from being outlandish or too hokey. I didn't get a whole lot of instructions from him. We worked very closely for two years and I think by the end of that two-year period he was pretty comfortable that I understood what he wanted. But Michael Wagner, he in fact was hired before Michael Piller to be the head writer and he only lasted a month.
Four episodes, apparently...
He had a lot of problems with Gene during that time, in terms of story ideas and Gene nixing a number of them. He was a very nice guy, got very upset, ended up leaving and then, at a very young age, he passed away. (Wagner died in 1992 at the age of 44).
Visit StarTrek.com again to read part two of our conversation with Rick Berman.
The latest Trek tale from veteran authors Paula M. Block and Terry J. Erdmann is... Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Constable. The Odo-centric eBook will be released November 13 by Simon & Schuster/Pocket Books. Here's the official synopsis and check out our exclusive First Look at the cover:
With his Starfleet assignment temporarily on hold, Odo needs a distraction. He welcomes Chief O'Brien's offer to loan him some of the action-packed books that both men relish: tales about hard-boiled private eyes, threatening thugs, and duplicitous dames. Then Quark suddenly goes missing during a hastily planned trip to Ferenginar. His concerned friends on Deep Space Nine feel that Odo, as the station's former chief of security, is uniquely suited to track Quark down. But once on Ferenginar, Odo learns that Quark is trapped in the seamy underbelly of a criminal enterprise that could have been ripped from the pages of one of O'Brien's novels. To find the bartender, Odo discovers that he must rely not only on his law enforcement background, but his knowledge of all things noir…
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: The Constable will run 174 pages and cost $2.99. Go to http://ift.tt/hewKkZ to pre-order it.
Bye Bye, Robot announced that returning artists Tracie Ching and Charity Wood have created two new posters, one each, inspired by the celebration of Star Trek: The Next Generation's 30th anniversary on September 28, 2017.
Ching's newest print, titled "TNG 30," is an 18"x24" lithograph printed on 100lb paper. It depicts the show's key characters a vast starfield and features the official TNG 30th anniversary logo. Included in the portrait are Captain Picard, Commander Riker, Lt. Commander La Forge, Lt. Commander Data, Lt. Worf, Counselor Troi, and Doctor Crusher.
"We're very pleased to be working again with Tracie Ching," Chris Wood, co-founder of Bye Bye Robot, said in a statement. "Her work spans films, concerts, sports and much more, and brings a modern bold style to our Star Trek artwork lineup."
The second poster in the release is Charity Wood's newest print, "Make It So." It's an extra-wide 14"x36" piece that unites well with the other ships in her series. Printed on acid-free heavy-weight card stock, "Make It So" depicts the U.S.S. Enterprise as she flies through uncharted territory on her signature mission of continued exploration. Wood's stylized use of paint splatters, bold color and inverse linework adds to the energetic feel of this iconic ship's portrait.
The new art prints are available for $25 each, with "Make It So" offered at a limited-time introductory price. They can be purchased in the U.S., beginning today, from byebyerobot.com at the price listed above, plus shipping.
Star Trek: The Next Generation celebrates its 30th anniversary today, and to mark the occasion, StarTrek.com reached out to Rick Berman. He, of course, worked with Gene Roddenberry to launch the show and then ran TNG when Roddenberry pulled back as his health faded. Berman went on to executive produce the TNG features and to executive produce and co-create Deep Space Nine, Voyager and Enterprise. Quite appropriately, Berman gave us 30 minutes of his time for a rare interview last week. We're breaking the conversation in half, so be sure to visit StarTrek.com again tomorrow to read part two.
Here we are, talking about the 30th anniversary of TNG…
It's all a little mind-boggling. For me, it's really almost 31 because I got involved in 1986, when I first hooked up with Gene. It's been like 31 years; it's scary how quickly time goes.
Go back to the buildup to the show's debut. What was the mood on the set, in the production offices, as the premiere approached?
We had three strikes against us. We were a science-fiction show, which was not at all popular at that time. We were a sequel to another TV show, which had never been successful at the time. We were going to be syndicated, as opposed to on a network, which was unheard of unless you were a cooking show or something. So, everybody was a little nervous whether this was going to work as a syndicated sequel to a sci-fi show. That was one side of the coin. The other side of the coin was we had a product that we were extremely pleased with. Gene, myself, Bob Justman, all the people who were involved with the show at that time felt that we had a pretty terrific cast and a great pilot. I think everybody was guardedly optimistic, and I was amongst them.
What do you recall most about getting "Encounter at Farpoint" ready to air? Was it VFX? Was it editing to graft the two disparate story halves into one?
The Farpoint station and the whole story about running into Q and Q's putting us on trial, those two stories, they were written at different times, but they had been well melded together by the time we were shooting. That was not a problem at all, as I recall. Things like the cast and the costumes and the sets had been finished. The music was wonderful, and as far as the visual effects, in those days we were using, I think, 100% models and we were not able, budgetarily, to compete with some of the big science-fiction feature films of recent years at that point. So, I think we were a little bit nervous whether people were going to buy the visual effects, but they certainly were of a higher quality than The Original Series simply because of the technology that had developed over the years.
Patrick Stewart... toupee or not toupee. What was your personal opinion on it?
That was very funny. I remember when he did his reading for John Pike, president of Paramount Television, he wore the toupee. When he finished, he left the room and Pike's response was, "He's your guy, but lose the wig." I was delighted. I had gotten to know Patrick a little bit and the wig always seemed a little awkward to me, only because I knew he was bald. I was perfectly fine with losing the wig. If they had said, "Keep the wig on," I think I would've been a little bit more uncomfortable.
Other actors were considered for the roles we now associate with Patrick, Brent, Marina, etc. How close did Mitch Ryan or Patrick Bauchau come to landing Picard? Reggie Jackson or Wesley Snipes come to Geordi? J.D. Roth as Wesley? Was anybody really close?
Well, the runner up for Picard was an actor named Stephen Macht. He was a lovely, lovely man and a really good actor.
He was on DS9 later.
He was, but the role of Picard was never offered to anyone other than Patrick. Who were the other names you just mentioned for Picard?
Mitch Ryan, Patrick Bauchau…
They were, I would say, in the top half dozen people that we were interested in.
Reggie Jackson, Wesley Snipes for Geordi?
Wesley Snipes, I don't know where the hell that came from. I have no recollection of Wesley Snipes.
All these names, by the way, are in an internal memo from April 13th 1987…
A memo from who to who?
To John Pike from John Ferraro, on Paramount letterhead.
It's very possible someone had thrown Snipes' name out, but I don't believe we ever read him and I don't believe he was ever considered.
The names under Geordi are Snipes and Jackson, LeVar Burton, Tim Russ, Wesley Snipes, Victor Love, Chip McCallister, Clarence Gilliard Jr, and Kevin Peter Hall.
Tim Russ was definitely one of the top runners-up. On the other hand, LeVar, he was the most famous of all of our actors because of Roots. I'd say that Wil Wheaton was probably the next most-famous because of Stand By Me. LeVar was our first choice. The other names you mentioned were on a list of possibilities that one of my associates… you said John Ferraro, right? John may have thrown the names onto a memo, but I don't recall ever reading those actors. The only one that I recall reading, although we could've read a number of them, was Tim Russ, who I liked very much, but we picked LeVar.
And, for Riker, the memo reads, "Michael O'Gorman seems to be a favorite. He's an atypical choice for the role, however, a good one."
The only role where we had an actor that was our first choice and we were turned down by the studio was Riker. The actor was... the fellow that played the Rocketeer.
Billy Campbell.
Billy Campbell. He came in, and we had him read for the same people, Pike and the other studio executives. They thought this was not a person you'd necessarily follow into battle. They didn't reject him 100%, but they wanted to see others, and our second choice was Jonathan Frakes. Everybody loved him, and that was that.
Do you remember J.D. Roth as Wesley?
It's 30 years ago, so I don't have a clue, but I can tell you we had Wil Wheaton come in and read with Gates McFadden. They read a mother-son scene together. Wil had been in a huge movie recently and... We read many, many, many actors, but the only one I remember anybody being excited about for Wesley was Wil.
This is an early memo. April 13, 1987. Wil's not even on the list yet, so he may have come up in the next memo.
Exactly.
That same memo had Riker spelled with a Y. This is totally nitpicking three decades later, but was that a typo or was there ever consideration given to spelling Riker differently?
I don't have a clue.
Let's mix it up. What's the best advice Roddenberry gave you during your time with him?
We spent a lot of time discussing his vision of the 23rd and 24th century, and he felt strongly that the script, stories and production elements all reflect that vision. He was not at all demanding. He'd be demanding to the writers if something was written that didn't work. I remember when we had one, Michael..., the young writer who we had for a few minutes, who passed away, before Piller. His name is... He was someone who was going to take over for Maurice Hurley after the second season. Michael… I can't think of his name. I think his last name started with a W.
Wagner. Michael Wagner.
I remember he came in with a story where there was a character who had the ability to destroy a planet just by thinking; that's how powerful he was. Far more powerful than Q, far more powerful than anybody that had ever been on Star Trek. Roddenberry got very upset and told Michael you can't have that, and Michael's attitude was, "Why not?" Gene basically got a bit pissed off and his attitude was like, "Because I said so. Because that doesn't fit into the rules of the Star Trek I created." Gene would give me directives on things like that, to keep stories from being outlandish or too hokey. I didn't get a whole lot of instructions from him. We worked very closely for two years and I think by the end of that two-year period he was pretty comfortable that I understood what he wanted. But Michael Wagner, he in fact was hired before Michael Piller to be the head writer and he only lasted a month.
Four episodes, apparently...
He had a lot of problems with Gene during that time, in terms of story ideas and Gene nixing a number of them. He was a very nice guy, got very upset, ended up leaving and then, at a very young age, he passed away. (Wagner died in 1992 at the age of 44).
Visit StarTrek.com again to read part two of our conversation with Rick Berman.
Loot Crate is celebrating the 30th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation in a big way with the theme of their inaugural Star Trek Mission Crate – and a brand-new exclusive Mini Master figure from Quantum Mechanix to commemorate the occasion.
"Wolf 359" is the theme, celebrating the landmark story point of the battle between the Federation and the Borg that was the climax of "The Best of Both Worlds I & II," also celebrating an anniversary this week, by the way, and one of the best Trek two-parters… ever. And Loot Crate and QMx are proud to present an exclusive Mini Master figure of Jean-Luc Picard's assimilated alter-ego, Locutus of Borg. This Mini Master is highly detailed, stands approx.. 6 inches tall and will only be available in the Star Trek Mission Crate while supplies last. The crate will also feature an assortment of collectibles, apparel and more, including a 20% discount code for 3 months of CBS All Access, home of Star Trek: Discovery. Plus, every subscriber is automatically entered to win a $1,200 "Admiral's Crate" prize package courtesy of ANOVOS.
Signups for "Wolf 359" will be available through November 15th, or until the first crate sells out; it is priced at $39.99 (plus shipping and handling) per crate for domestic purchases and $49.99 (includes shipping and handling, plus VAT) per crate for international purchases. The first Mission Crate will ship in early December, and others will arrive bi-monthly thereafter at the beginning of every even month.
You can sign up now for your first mission at http://ift.tt/1QHzqst.
Episode three of Star Trek: Discovery will be "Context is for Kings," and the first six photos have been released. Look closely to see the first appearance of a furry friend!
Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green)
Michael Burnham and Saru (Doug Jones) on the bridge of the U.S.S. Discovery
Captain Gabriel Lorca (Jason Isaacs) of the U.S.S. Discovery with Michael Burnham
Lt. Paul Stamets (Anthony Rapp)
Saru on the U.S.S. Discovery bridge
Cadet Sylvia Tilly (Mary Wiseman), Michael Burnham & Lt. Paul Stamets
Star Trek: Discovery airs Sunday nights on CBS All Access in the U.S. and Space Channel in Canada. The series airs on Mondays on Netflix in the rest of the world.
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