BrentSpiner-related stories
Posted Jul 24th 2009 9:29AM by John Scott Lewinski
Filed under: Celebrities, Reality-Free, Comic-Con
A Thursday panel at Comic-Con International announced a new animated project about space that packs a stellar voice cast.
TV stars like William Shatner, Brent Spiner and Mark Hamill will join movie big shots like Chris Pine, Samuel L. Jackson and James Earl Jones in
Quantum Quest: A Cassini Space Odyssey.
Producer -- Dr. Larry "Doc" Kloor (scientist science fiction writer and the only human in history to earn two doctorates simultaneously) -- led the panel with special guests Bob Picardo, Doug Jones and a call-in by Pine.
According to Kloor, Pine plays Dave -- "a photon who lives in Sun City, at the core of the Sun. He's forced from the Sun and drawn into an epic battle between The Core (Shatner -- right) and The Void -- the embodiment of nothingness (Hamill)."
Continue reading TV, movie stars lend voices to Quantum Quest - Comic-Con Report
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 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 Oct 1st 2007 12:03PM by Paul Goebel
Filed under: Saturday Night Live, Ask TV Squad, Star Trek: The Next Generation
Tonight at dinner, a friend of mine mentioned that he recently met Brent Spiner at an event. He then proceeded to tell me about how a particularly annoying Star Trek fan spent the entire evening bothering Spiner with questions about his character Data.
It reminded me of an episode of Joey where a similar thing happened, except in the episode, Spiner was more than happy to reminisce about his Star Trek days. He even went so far as to take Joey's nephew out to his car to show him his actual uniform from the show.
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Posted Nov 12th 2006 6:39PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, TV on DVD
I'm reading
this review of the Threshold DVD set in the
New York Times (yes,
The New York Times - glad to see they actually have a review of the set), and while I knew that the set includes the final four episodes that weren't shown on CBS last year, I didn't realize that the creators found out about the cancellation before the final episode was filmed and actually had a little time to put a little closure on the show.
The paper describes the finale as "slapstick comedy," and an episode that will remind viewers of
Three Men and a Baby,
Rosemary's Baby, and
Night of the Living Dead.
Wow, with that description, I might have to get this set after all. Though the Sci-Fi Channel is currently showing repeats of the series (including a mini marathon tomorrow night at 8) and the run will include the final four episodes.
Posted Sep 11th 2006 5:55PM by Joel Keller
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, Talent, Industry, Celebrities, Star Trek: The Next Generation
According to ComingSoon.net, Brent Spiner, who played Data on
Star Trek: The Next Generation and associated theatrical movies, has ruled out a return to the role in the new
Trek movie,
which will be directed by J.J. Abrams. It's not that he doesn't think the movie, tentatively titled
Star Trek XI, is going to be any good. He just thinks he's too old for the role.
"There certain characters that I think work in a youthful way and I think I really skated along the edge in the last couple movies as it was," he tells Simon Thompson of
BANG Showbiz. Of course, he also jokes that he'll play the android again if the money is right. I think that's the same joke Leonard Nimoy made before
Star Treks III through
VI, and we all know how
that turned out.
Posted Sep 16th 2005 11:50PM by Bob Sassone
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, CBS, Threshold
Was it me or did it seem like there was an incredible number of commercials during this two-hour premiere? Everytime I started getting into the plot, something dramatic would happen and they'd go to a commercial.
The first episode of Threshold was half X-Files, half The Invaders. It was half good, half oh-will-you-please-just-get-on-with-it. Let's start with the latter first.
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