Posted Jun 26th 2009 2:07PM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Industry, Celebrities, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Casting, Reality-Free
Being a nerd, I'm very familiar with Jeri Ryan's career. She helped make
Star Trek: Voyager watchable for a while as a self-aware Borg and recently starred in CBS'
Shark alongside James Woods. But it was her work on the David Kelley shows
Boston Public and
Boston Legal that has me thinking she'll be a good fit for
Leverage.
The actress handled Kelley's sharp dialogue like a pro, and I'm guessing she'll bring the same confidence to her role as a "smart-ass, street-wise con woman" on the second season of
Leverage. Ryan has
signed on for a recurring role on the TNT heist drama. Her character will be a friend of Sophie's (Gina Bellman),
Leverage's sexy grifter with a bag full of tricks and foreign accents.
Continue reading Another Star Trek actor joins TNT's Leverage
Posted Jun 9th 2009 5:40PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Reality-Free, Star Trek: Original Series
Okay, I understand the mock phasers and the shirts and the action figures. But when someone releases a
Star Trek casket and/or urn for when you die, I have to scratch my head a little.
Admittedly, I've heard of
Star Trek weddings and even known people who have attended them. I guess since
Star Trek fans are getting up there in age, caskets and urns are the next step. Hell, they probably still run
Star Trek-themed weddings at
Star Trek: The Experience in Las Vegas.
The truth is that most of the original cast is getting up there in age. I cannot help but wonder if someone is going to buy one of them a casket or urn from Eternal Image.
Besides all that, the real
Star Trek fans would want a Klingon funeral. That's where they scream on top of the recently deceased body then let anybody else dispose of it however they wish.
Posted Jun 7th 2009 1:42PM by John Scott Lewinski
Filed under: Animation, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Reality-Free, Star Trek: Original Series
With J.J. Abrams'
Star Trek topping the box office charts, fans can now shape their Trekker energies into fresh, free cartoons with new characters added to the GoAnimate.com line-up.
The do-it-yourself cartoon site wrapped a licensing agreement with Paramount and CBS early in 2009, allowing fans to use stylized versions of classic
Trek characters, sets and props in original short animations. Setting up an account is free - unless you count the time you're going to burn making your cartoon.
In addition to Kirk, Spock and other familar faces, the site just upped the supporting player factor with usable avatars of the Gorn, alien female Mara, Klingons and Nurse Chapel.
Continue reading GoAnimate brings Star Trek characters to fan animations
Posted Jun 3rd 2009 5:01PM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Animation, Celebrities, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Reality-Free, The Big Bang Theory
OK, so she turned evil and veiny and almost destroyed the world after someone murdered her hot lesbian lover. But at heart, Willow Rosenberg was always a computer-hacking, research-loving nerd.
The
Buffy the Vampire Slayer character landed at number one on Topless Robot's list of
"Pop Culture's 10 Greatest Nerds." I was surprised by the pick at first, but I can't think of a better choice to top the list. Willow was a great character, and will probably always be actor Alyson Hannigan's best role (sorry,
HIMYM fans, but it's true).
Continue reading Buffy's Willow tops list of pop culture's greatest nerds
Posted Jun 1st 2009 5:04PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: TV Royalty, Programming, Doctor Who, Celebrities, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Reality-Free
I may be getting a little obsessed. Most of the
posts I've written recently have been about the soon-to-be-departing
Doctor Who lead David Tennant. I'm also quite disappointed that a lack of time and funds did not permit me to take a trip to England to see Tennant in the RSC production of
Hamlet. Thankfully, the BBC has come to the rescue.
For those like me, the BBC is
reassembling the cast and filming that production of
Hamlet for broadcast in late 2009, with American and Japanese broadcasts to occur in 2010 (I wonder which channel would show it in the States? BBC America? PBS?). To sweeten the deal for us nerds, former
Star Trek: The Next Generation captain Patrick Stewart plays Claudius.
Perhaps they'll even let Tennant improvise the role a bit. I would love it if he could throw a little script that
Neil Gaiman wrote for him upon hearing of his participation in the role.
Posted May 12th 2009 7:00PM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Reality-Free, Star Trek: Original Series
Over at ComicMix, Alan Kistler has
written annotations for the new Star Trek movie and how well it fits into the overall continuity of the show. It's a pretty impressive list and does prove that despite the blatant contradiction of the show's history as a result of time travel, they were actually pretty good with getting the details of the characters correct.
Spoilers follow this paragraph. You have been warned.
Continue reading Everything you didn't want to know about the Star Trek movie
Posted Mar 30th 2009 1:16AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Reality-Free
I made it my business to catch the episode of
Family Guy which
guest-voiced the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation, and I have to say I was somewhat disappointed.
Don't get me wrong. I enjoyed some parts of the episode. The "shut up Wil" line by Patrick Stewart had me in stitches, as well as the sudden death of Denise Crosby (obviously, the writers are
ST:TNG fans). Hell, Patrick Stewart is a recurring guest on Seth McFarlane's other series
American Dad.
It just seemed to me that after the brilliant
Star Wars parody from last year, they would do something more with such a line-up of talent than simply "Stewie gets to hang out and go bowling with the cast." It was even relegated to the "B" plot, with the "A" plot being Meg's sudden faith in God as a result of watching Kirk Cameron on TV.
I was hoping for something more akin to an episode of
The Next Generation done
Family Guy-style. Or would that have been redundant of the
Star Wars episode? What do you think? Was the episode decent or could it have used improvement?
Posted Mar 26th 2009 5:17PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Animation, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Reality-Free
If
this clip is any indication, this could be one of the funniest
Family Guy episodes ever (at least for
Star Trek fans).
The entire cast of
Star Trek: The Next Generation lend their voices to the episode, which features Stewie going to a Trekkie (er, sorry, Trekker I guess they like to be called) convention and not being able to ask the group a question. So he does a very Stewie-like thing and kidnaps the entire cast.
Continue reading Stewie kidnaps the cast of Star Trek: TNG this Sunday
Posted Feb 10th 2009 11:01AM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, Video, Interviews, Celebrities, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Reality-Free
There is life after
Star Trek. Jonathan Frakes,
Star Trek: The Next Generation's former "Number One," has moved on from sci-fi stardom to a successful career as a TV and film director. He's helmed four feature films, countless hours of
Star Trek and
Roswell, plus the two latest entries in TNT's
Librarian telemovie franchise. Now, he's joining one of TV's most
critically acclaimed new shows.
Frakes directed tonight's episode of
Leverage, TNT's hit heist drama starring Timothy Hutton. The episode is a
Star Trek reunion of sorts with Frakes behind the camera and his former
Star Trek co-stars Brent Spiner (Data from
TNG) and Armin Shimerman (Quark from
Deep Space Nine) guest starring.
I spoke to Frakes by phone for a few minutes this week and, somehow, I was able to hold back from asking him a million geeky
Star Trek questions. (Now I'll never know if "Tom" Riker ever escaped from the Cardassians!) We discussed his love for
Leverage, his friendships with his former cast mates, and the possible return of
"Number One" Will Riker.
Continue reading Jonathan Frakes: The TV Squad Interview - VIDEO
Posted Jan 1st 2009 5:29PM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Programming, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Reality-Free
Reason #1: Because the Sci Fi Channel wouldn't be the Sci Fi Channel without those craptastic movies-of-the-week.
Reason #2: Because it might star Marina Sirtis (
Star Trek: TNG's Counselor Troi) and Luke Goss (the pastey prince from
Hellboy II).
Reason #3: Because TV could use more evil mohawk-sporting, Fine Young Cannibal-rockin' punks and medieval mad scientists.
Am I wrong?
Continue reading Why do we need a Doomsday TV movie?
Posted Dec 17th 2008 3:05PM by Mike Moody
Filed under: The Daily Show, Stargate, Web, Celebrities, Heroes, Star Trek: The Next Generation, TV Squad Lists, Reality-Free, TV Squad Ten
Yep, I got a
Twitter. It's part of my plan to plaster the Internet with links to my must-read blog posts about
'90s indie rock and that handsome bastard Neil Patrick Harris (don't ask). Fortunately for you, some clever TV stars also use Twitter for fun and shameless self-promotion.
Here are ten fan-friendly TV celebs worth stalking on Twitter. Unlike that
fake Stephen Colbert, these guys are all one-hundred percent, real-life paparazzo magnets.
Continue reading TV Squad Ten: TV celebs worth following on Twitter
Posted Dec 11th 2008 6:07PM by Mike Moody
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Casting, Reality-Free, Star Trek: Original Series
It's almost as if J.J. Abrams is patting nervous
Star Trek fans on the back and cooing, "It's OK. Everything's gonna be alright."
Variety reported this week that Majel Barrett-Roddenberry will reprise her role as
the voice of the Enterprise computer for Abrams' upcoming
Star Trek flick. Barret-Roddenberry, the widow of
Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, voiced the computer for all six
Trek series and many of the movies. She also played Christine Chapel in the original series and two of the films as well as "Number One" in
Star Trek's original pilot. And who could forget her as
Lwaxana Troi, the randy Betazoid from
The Next Genertation?
Continue reading Star Trek creator's widow to voice J.J. Abrams' Enterprise computer
Posted Oct 1st 2008 8:00AM by Paul Goebel
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Ask TV Squad, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Reality-Free, Stump the King
This week's letter comes from a fan named Jim Rodrigues.
Jim writes...
"I just saw an episode I've never seen before! This was rare indeed. It involved the crew of the Enterprise devolving into different creatures. Barkley became a spider. Captain Picard was becoming a lemur. Warf (sic) was biting amphibian Troi. It was my favorite episode other than one of the best T.V. episodes ever, "Cause and Effect." I was wondering if this "monsters running around" episode was released for Halloween? It would be the perfect October 31st episode. If someone knows the title and the date of release, I surely would appreciate it."
Continue reading Stump the King: Star Trek: TNG
Posted Jul 4th 2008 8:24AM by Brad Trechak
Filed under: OpEd, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Reality-Free
Star Trek: The Experience is ending after an 11 year run at the Las Vegas Hilton on September 1st, 2008. The interactive ride contained elements from the television series
Star Trek: The Next Generation and
Star Trek: Voyager.
Chad Boutte, Operations Manager and Director of Marketing, said in a press release, "Hailing frequencies open. We'd like to thank all the fans and friends of Star Trek, whose constant and amazing support we've enjoyed throughout our tenure at the Las Vegas Hilton. As we boldly go into the futures that await, know that we take your love of Star Trek: The Experience with us. We share the memories of time spent in the most unique place in the Galaxy, and we carry those memories into our futures with us. Live long, and prosper. Hailing frequencies closed." He said it in this fashion because he's a big nerd.
Continue reading Star Trek: The Experience to end
Posted Jun 6th 2008 5:25PM by Jay Black
Filed under: Video, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Reality-Free
Cracked,I take back everything bad I ever said about you. Sure you began life as an also-ran copycat of
Mad magazine and sure you dominate
digg with a seemingly endless string of under-written pop-culture lists, but popularizing the following video makes it all better. Put it this way, I'm Kobe Bryant's wife and this video is a $4 million purple diamond ring.
Be warned before you click through, however, this
video contains both obscene language and a
shirtless Jean-Luc Picard in bed with Q. Also, if you play it more than two or three times, there's a chance the nerd secret police will repel line right into your office.
That said, this might be the best silly internet video to come out in a long while. I'm convinced it will usher in a new world order, much like the music of Wyld Stallyns. If you're prepared for that, follow me after the jump...
Continue reading Star Trek TNG Rap (OR: The video that might bring peace to the multiverse) - VIDEO
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