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Star Trek: The Original Series
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Star Trek is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship USS Enterprise and its crew. It later acquired the retronym of Star Trek, The Original Series to distinguish the show within the franchise that it began. The show is set in the Milky Way galaxy, roughly during the 2260s, the ship and crew are led by Captain James T. Kirk, first officer and science officer Spock, and chief medical officer Leonard McCoy. Shatners voice-over introduction during each episodes opening credits stated the purpose, Space. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise and its five-year mission, to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before. The series was produced from September 1966 to December 1967 by Norway Productions and Desilu Productions, Star Trek aired on NBC from September 8,1966 to June 3,1969 and was actually seen first on September 6,1966, on Canadas CTV network. Star Treks Nielsen ratings while on NBC were low, and the network cancelled it after three seasons and 79 episodes. Several years later, the became a bona fide hit in broadcast syndication, remaining so throughout the 1970s, achieving cult classic status. The series contains significant elements of Space Western, as described by Gene Roddenberry, on March 11,1964, Gene Roddenberry, a long-time fan of science fiction, drafted a short treatment for a science-fiction television series that he called Star Trek. This was to be set on board a large interstellar spaceship S. S. Yorktown in the 23rd century, whose crew was dedicated to exploring a small portion of our galaxy. Some of the influences on his idea that Roddenberry noted included A. E. van Vogts tales of the spaceship Space Beagle, Eric Frank Russells Marathon series of stories, and the film Forbidden Planet. Roddenberry also drew heavily from C. S. Foresters Horatio Hornblower novels that depict a sea captain who exercises broad discretionary authority on distant sea missions of noble purpose. Roddenberry often humorously referred to Captain Kirk as Horatio Hornblower in Space, Roddenberry had extensive experience in writing for series about the Old West that had been popular television fare earlier in the 1960s and the 1950s. Armed with this background, the first draft deliberately characterizes the new show as Wagon Train to the stars. Like the familiar Wagon Train, each episode was to be an adventure story, set within the overarching structure of a continuing journey. With the notable exception of Star Trek, Deep Space Nine, all future television, in Roddenberrys original concept, the protagonist was Captain Robert April of the starship S. S. Yorktown. This character was developed into Captain Christopher Pike, first portrayed by Jeffrey Hunter, in April 1964, Roddenberry presented the Star Trek draft to Desilu Productions, a leading independent television production company. He met with Herb Solow, Desilus Director of Production, Solow saw promise in the idea and signed a three-year program-development contract with Roddenberry
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The original starship Enterprise
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Star Trek title card for the first season
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William Shatner as Kirk in action, from the episode "Where No Man Has Gone Before", 1966
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Spock, Kirk and the Enterprise, 1968.
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David Gerrold
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Gerrold was born to a Jewish family on January 24,1944 in Chicago, Illinois. He attended Van Nuys High School, Los Angeles Valley College, although Star Trek producer Gene L. Coon rejected the outline, he realized Gerrold was talented and expressed interest in his submitting some story premises. Bearing preliminary titles and, in cases, preliminary character names. A third premise, Bandi, involved a small being running about the Enterprise as someones pet, a fourth premise, The Protracted Man, applied science fiction to an effect seen in West Side Story, when Maria twirls in her dancing dress and the colours separate. Gerrolds story involved a man transported from a shuttlecraft trying out a new space warp technology, the man is no longer unified, separating into three visible forms when he moves, separated by a fraction of a second. As efforts are undertaken to correct the condition and move the Enterprise to where corrective action can be taken, the fifth premise, The Fuzzies, was also initially rejected by Coon, but a while later he changed his mind and called Gerrolds agent to accept it. Gerrold then expanded the story to a television story outline entitled A Fuzzy Thing Happened To Me…. The name Fuzzy was changed because H, beam Piper had written novels about a fictional alien species of the same name. The script went through numerous rewrites, including, at the insistence of Gerrolds agent, Gerrold later wrote a book, The Trouble With Tribbles, telling the whole story about producing the episode and his earlier premises. The Trouble with Tribbles was one of two books Gerrold wrote about Star Trek in the early 1970s after the series had been canceled. Gerrold contributed two stories for the Emmy Award-winning Star Trek, The Animated Series which ran from 1973 to 1974, More Tribbles, More Troubles, Bem featured the first use of James T. Kirks middle name, which was revealed to be Tiberius. This was later entered into live-action canon in the movie Star Trek VI, The Undiscovered Country when Captain Kirk, many of the changes Gerrold had advocated in The World of Star Trek were incorporated into Star Trek, The Next Generation when it debuted in 1987. He parted company with the producers at the beginning of the first season, Gerrold wrote a script for Star Trek, The Next Generation entitled Blood and Fire, which included an AIDS metaphor and a gay couple in the ships crew. The script was purchased by the TNG producers, but eventually shelved and he later reworked the story into the third book in the Star Wolf series and again as a two-part episode of the fan-produced Star Trek, New Voyages, which he also directed. Gerrold had wanted to appear onscreen in an episode of Star Trek and he also had an in joke cameo of sorts in Star Trek The Animated Series, More Tribbles, More Troubles where a very thin Ensign is told to seal off the transporter room area by Kirk. Gerrold also provided the voice for alien Em/3/Green in The Jihad, in 2006, for the 40th anniversary of Star Trek, he co-edited, with Robert J. Sawyer, an essay collection titled Boarding the Enterprise. Gerrold acted as a consultant for fan-produced series Star Trek, New Voyages and Star Trek. In June 2013 he was named Show Runner of the series and he also is a creative consultant for Star Trek, Axanar
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David Gerrold
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Jeff Corey
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For the American ice hockey player, see Jeff Corey. Jeff Corey was an American stage and screen actor and director who became an acting teacher after being blacklisted in the 1950s. Jeff Corey was born Arthur Zwerling in Brooklyn, New York, the son of Mary, a Russian Jewish immigrant, and Nathan Zwerling and he attended the Feagin School of Dramatic Art and took part in the New York Federal Theatre Project. He worked with Jules Dassin, Elia Kazan, John Randolph, although he attended some meetings of the Communist Party, Corey never joined. A World War II veteran, Corey served in the US Navy and his memoir, Improvising Out Loud, My Life Teaching Hollywood How To Act which he wrote with his daughter, Emily Corey, will be published by the University Press of Kentucky in May 2017. His longtime friend and former student, Leonard Nimoy, wrote the foreword for the book, Corey moved to Hollywood in 1940 and became a highly respected character actor. One of his roles was in Superman and the Mole Men. His portrayal of a xenophobic vigilante coincidentally reflected what was about to happen to him, coreys career was halted in the early 1950s, when he was summoned before the House Un-American Activities Committee. This behavior led to his being blacklisted for 12 years, most of us were retired Reds. We had left it, at least I had, years before, Corey told Patrick McGilligan, the co-author of Tender Comrades, A Backstory of the Hollywood Blacklist, who also teaches film at Marquette University. The only issue was, did you want to just give them their names so you could continue your career. I had no impulse to defend a point of view that no longer interested me particularly. They just wanted two new names so they could hand out more subpoenas, during his blacklisting Corey drew upon his experience in various actors workshops by seeking work as an acting teacher. He soon became one of the most influential teachers in Hollywood, smith, Diane Varsi, Sharon Tate, Rita Moreno, Leonard Nimoy, Sally Forrest, Anthony Perkins, Rob Reiner, Robert Towne, Barbra Streisand and Robin Williams. In 1962 Corey began working in films again, and remained active into the 1990s, Corey played a police detective in the psychological thriller The Premonition and he reprised the role of sheriff Bledsoe in the prequel Butch and Sundance, The Early Days. He also played Wild Bill Hickok in Little Big Man, Corey directed some of the screen tests for Superman, which can be seen in the DVD extras, and played Lex Luthor in several try-outs. Corey made guest appearances on many TV shows, Corey appeared as murder victim Carl Bascom in the Perry Mason episode, The Case of the Reckless Rockhound. He was also the voice of the villain Silvermane in Spider-Man and he also appeared in the short-lived Paper Moon, a comedy about a father and his presumed daughter roaming through the American Midwest during the Great Depression based on the film
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Jeff Corey
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Fred Williamson
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Frederick Robert Williamson Sr. nicknamed The Hammer, is an American actor and former professional American football defensive back who played mainly in the American Football League during the 1960s. He has black belts in Kenpō, Shotokan karate and taekwondo, since 1997 Williamson has had a home in Palm Springs, California. After playing college football for Northwestern in the late 1950s, he was signed as a free agent by the Pittsburgh Steelers. Thus, The Hammer quickly stuck and became his nickname, Williamson played one year for the Steelers in the National Football League in 1960. Next, he moved to the new American Football League, Williamson played four seasons for the AFLs Oakland Raiders, making the AFL All-Star team in 1961,1962, and 1963. He also played three seasons for the AFLs Kansas City Chiefs, before Super Bowl I, Williamson gathered national headlines by boasting that he would knock the Green Bay Packers starting receivers, Carroll Dale and Boyd Dowler, out of the game. He stated Two hammers to Dowler, one to Dale should be enough and his prediction turned out to be an ironic one because they broke the hammer as Williamson himself was knocked out of the game in the fourth quarter on the way to a 35–10 defeat. Williamsons head met the knee of the Packers running back Donny Anderson, Williamson later suffered a broken arm from his own teammate when Chiefs linebacker Sherrill Headrick fell on him. Williamson finished his pro football career in 1967 with a history of many hard tackles, passes knocked away. Williamson returned his interceptions for 479 yards and two touchdowns, after signing with the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League during the 1968 season, but not having played in a league game, Williamson retired. Williamson became a much in the mold of star running back Jim Brown. He acted alongside Brown in films such as 1974s Three the Hard Way, 1975s Take a Hard Ride, 1982s One Down, Two to Go, 1996s Original Gangstas and he also guest starred with Brown in various television roles. In October 1973, Williamson posed nude for Playgirl magazine, preempting Browns appearance in 1974, williamsons early television roles included a role in the 1969 Star Trek episode The Cloud Minders, in which he played Anka. He also played Diahann Carrolls love interest in the sitcom Julia, williamsons early film work included roles in M*A*S*H and Tell Me That You Love Me, Junie Moon. In 1973 he played the role of an African-American mafioso in the film Black Caesar and its subsequent sequel and he also starred in the 1975 western film Boss Nigger, in which he played the title role. After this he appeared as an actor in films, most of which are considered to be of the blaxploitation genre. In 1974 he starred alongside Peter Boyle and Eli Wallach in the movie Crazy Joe, Williamson was used on a few pre-season broadcasts, but was quickly declared unsuitable by ABC. He was relieved of his duties at the beginning of the regular season and he was replaced by the fellow former player Alex Karras
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Williamson in 2010
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Williamson at the
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The Way to Eden
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The Way to Eden is the twentieth episode of the third season of the original science fiction television series, Star Trek was broadcast February 21,1969. It was written by Arthur Heinemann, based on a story by Heinemann, Fontana, and directed by David Alexander. In this episode, the Enterprise is hijacked by a madman-scientist and his fanatical, hippie-like followers who are blindly obsessed in finding a mythical planet of perpetual paradise. On stardate 5832.3, the Federation starship USS Enterprise is in hot pursuit of the space cruiser Aurora. The Enterprise locks onto the ship with a beam. With the craft already straining with pushed engines, the vessel begins to break up, Captain Kirk orders the transporter room to lock on the passengers and beam them aboard immediately. As the Aurora explodes, the six passengers are safely brought aboard the Enterprise. Kirk heads down to meet them and is shocked by their wild appearance. The six beings are barefoot, dressed in robes and colorful tunics. Despite their close brush with death, they appear completely calm, the group identifies themselves, starting with Tongo Rad, Irina Galliulin, Dr. Sevrin, Adam, and two other women. The group shows a disrespect for authority and demands to be taken to a planet they call Eden, edens existence is believed to be a myth, however. The group refuses to co-operate with Kirk, calling him Herbert, however, the group is impressed by First Officer Spock, who understands their philosophy. Spock makes a symbol of peace hand gesture and simply says. The group responds with the gesture, We are one. They ask Spock, Are you One, Herbert, Spock replies that he is not Herbert, and Adam declares, Hes not Herbert. Having developed a respect for Spocks straightforwardness, the group agrees to go to Sickbay for a medical examination. Meanwhile, Spock explains to Kirk that Herbert is a term for a rigid, hidebound person, named from an unimaginative minor official. Medical scans reveal the party to be in health, except for Dr. Sevrin, who is a carrier of the Synthecoccus novae virus
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The "space
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The Savage Curtain
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The Savage Curtain is a third season episode of the original science fiction television series, Star Trek, first broadcast on March 7,1969, and repeated July 1,1969. It is episode #77, production #77, written by Gene Roddenberry and Arthur Heinemann, based on a story by Gene Roddenberry. In this episode, aliens force Captain Kirk and First Officer Spock to join forces with Abraham Lincoln, the Federation starship Enterprise arrives at the volcanic planet of Excalbia to conduct a geological survey. Sensors curiously pick up the presence of carbon-based life on the surface which Science Officer Spock deems impossible owing to Excalbias extreme volcanism, suddenly, the image of a seated Abraham Lincoln appears drifting toward the ship on the viewscreen. While Spock is skeptical that the figure cannot possibly be the real president, the president appears to be human, claiming to be all too human. Lincoln has no knowledge of technology past the 19th century, but is familiar with the Vulcan philosophy of Nom. Lincoln invites Kirk and Spock to accompany him down to the planet, Kirk accepts despite objections from Chief Medical Officer Dr. McCoy and Chief Engineer Scott. Lincoln reassures them that they will be perfectly safe, once on the planet, Kirk and Spock discover their tricorder and phasers did not transport with them. They are met by a Vulcan named Surak, the father of Vulcan civilization, Spock does not believe this Surak is real and accordingly refers to him as the Image of Surak. Nearby, a boulder changes form into a rocklike being with clawed hands, the alien, named Yarnek, announces that the inhabitants of the planet wish to conduct an experiment to determine which opposing human philosophy is stronger — good or evil. The inhabitants of the planet, as well as the crew of the Enterprise, will be able to witness the drama, the test will be a simple one of survival. Kirk grabs the alien but withdraws in pain, as the alien is as hot as lava, the alien pits Kirk, Spock, Lincoln, and Surak against Green, Kahless, Zora, and Genghis in a fight to the death. Meanwhile, Greens associates secretly ready an attack, familiar with Greens treachery, Kirk and his companions are prepared for the surprise attack. They manage to fend off their opponents and make a run for cover, Kirk protests the experiment and refuses to continue the battle. The Excalbians offer an incentive to fight by threatening to destroy the Enterprise in four hours if Kirk does not comply, without another choice, Kirk and the others plan strategies and begin to manufacture spears. After another round of rock tossing and spear throwing, Surak surmises that their belief in peace is being tested, while Spock says he will fight alongside Kirk, he urges Kirk to let Surak try. Surak makes his way to the camp to talk while Kirk. A moment later, a scream of pain is heard in the distance followed by Surak shouting for Spocks help, Green tries to lure Kirk from hiding by taunting him about Suraks need for assistance
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The Excalbians experiment on good and evil.
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List of Star Trek: The Original Series episodes
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The series originally aired from September 1966 through June 1969 on NBC. This is the first television series in the Star Trek franchise, the episodes are listed in order by original air date, which match the episode order in each seasons original, remastered, and Blu-ray DVD box sets. The original, single-disc DVD releases placed the episodes by production order and this list also includes the stardate on which the events of each episode took place within the fictional Star Trek universe. This popularity would lead to the expansion of the Star Trek catalog. The remastered episodes began with Balance of Terror during the weekend of September 16,2006, and ended with The Cage, the remastered air dates listed below are based on the weekend each episode aired in syndication. The Cage never aired during Star Treks original run on NBC, in some markets, the special did not air until October 15,1988. In the United States, The Cage was first released to DVD in December 2001 and it was later included on the final disc in both the original and remastered Season 3 DVD box sets. Also joining the cast were DeForest Kelley as ships surgeon and Nichelle Nichols as the communications officer Uhura in The Man Trap, grace Lee Whitney appeared in eight episodes as yeoman Janice Rand, beginning with The Man Trap. Star Treks first season comprised 29 episodes, including the two-part episode The Menagerie, the season ended with Assignment, Earth, an attempt to launch a spin-off television series set in the present day. After Star Treks second season, NBC was prepared to cancel the show due to low ratings, led by fans Bjo and John Trimble, Trek viewers inundated NBC with letters protesting the shows demise and pleading the network to renew the series for another year. In addition to the schedule, the shows budget was seriously slashed. Star Treks final, 24-episode season began in September 1968 with Spocks Brain, the third season also includes The Tholian Web, where Kirk becomes trapped between universes, this episode would later be revisited by two 2005 episodes of the prequel series Star Trek, Enterprise. The last episode of the series, Turnabout Intruder, aired on June 3,1969, the list below details the series episodes in production order, including the original series pilot, The Cage. While the complete season DVD releases follow the original broadcast order, Star Trek was first broadcast in the UK on BBC One starting on July 12,1969 with the episode Where No Man Has Gone Before. The first episode broadcast in color was Arena on November 15,1969, the running order was very different from the US original with the episodes being shown in four seasons between 1969 and 1971. The Cage was first transmitted on Sky One in July 1990, the BBC broadcast versions of the episodes differed from the way they had been shown in America. The opening elements of each episode were transposed so that the sequence was the first thing seen, followed by the teaser. These prints were used up until the 1990s but for their new run the BBC were supplied with NTSC tape transfers instead of new film prints and this resulted in the odd blurry appearance that viewers were getting used to on new US shows at the time
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Science fiction
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Science fiction often explores the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations, and has been called a literature of ideas. Science fiction is difficult to define, as it includes a range of subgenres and themes. Author and editor Damon Knight summed up the difficulty, saying science fiction is what we point to when we say it, a definition echoed by author Mark C. Glassy, who argues that the definition of science fiction is like the definition of pornography, you do not know what it is, in 1970 or 1971William Atheling Jr. According to science fiction writer Robert A, rod Serlings definition is fantasy is the impossible made probable. Science fiction is the improbable made possible, Science fiction is largely based on writing rationally about alternative possible worlds or futures. Science fiction elements include, A time setting in the future, in alternative timelines, a spatial setting or scenes in outer space, on other worlds, or on subterranean earth. Characters that include aliens, mutants, androids, or humanoid robots, futuristic or plausible technology such as ray guns, teleportation machines, and humanoid computers. Scientific principles that are new or that contradict accepted physical laws, for time travel, wormholes. New and different political or social systems, e. g. utopian, dystopian, post-scarcity, paranormal abilities such as mind control, telepathy, telekinesis Other universes or dimensions and travel between them. A product of the budding Age of Reason and the development of science itself. Isaac Asimov and Carl Sagan considered Keplers work the first science fiction story and it depicts a journey to the Moon and how the Earths motion is seen from there. Later, Edgar Allan Poe wrote a story about a flight to the moon, more examples appeared throughout the 19th century. Wells The War of the Worlds describes an invasion of late Victorian England by Martians using tripod fighting machines equipped with advanced weaponry and it is a seminal depiction of an alien invasion of Earth. In the late 19th century, the scientific romance was used in Britain to describe much of this fiction. This produced additional offshoots, such as the 1884 novella Flatland, the term would continue to be used into the early 20th century for writers such as Olaf Stapledon. In the early 20th century, pulp magazines helped develop a new generation of mainly American SF writers, influenced by Hugo Gernsback, the founder of Amazing Stories magazine. In 1912 Edgar Rice Burroughs published A Princess of Mars, the first of his series of Barsoom novels, situated on Mars
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A futuristic setting is a common but not a necessary hallmark of science fiction. A common thread in science fiction is exploring the potential consequences of scientific and other innovations on people's lives.
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H. G. Wells
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Jules Verne
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Arthur C. Clarke
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James T. Kirk
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James Tiberius Jim Kirk is a fictional character in the Star Trek franchise. Kirk first appears in Star Trek, The Original Series and has portrayed in numerous films, books, comics, webisodes. As the captain of the starship USS Enterprise, Kirk leads his crew as they explore where no man has gone before, often, the characters of Spock and Leonard McCoy act as his logical and emotional sounding boards, respectively. Kirk, played by William Shatner, first appears in the broadcast pilot episode, The Man Trap, Shatner continued in the role for the shows three seasons, and later provided the voice of the animated version of Kirk in Star Trek, The Animated Series. Shatner returned to the role for Star Trek, The Motion Picture, chris Pine portrays a young version of the character in the 2009 reboot Star Trek film, with Jimmy Bennett playing Kirk as a child. Pine reprised his role in Star Trek Into Darkness and in Star Trek Beyond, other actors have played the character in fan-created media, and the character has been the subject of multiple spoofs and satires. The character has been praised for his leadership traits and criticized for his relationships with women, James Tiberius Kirk was born in Riverside, Iowa, where he was raised by his parents, George and Winona Kirk. Although born on Earth, Kirk lived for a time on Tarsus IV, James Kirks brother, George Samuel Kirk, is first mentioned in What Are Little Girls Made Of. and introduced and killed in Operation, Annihilate. Kirk was granted a commission as an ensign and posted to advanced training aboard the USS Republic. He was then promoted to lieutenant junior grade and returned to Starfleet Academy as a student instructor, students could either think or sink in his class, and Kirk himself was a stack of books with legs. Upon graduating in the top five percent, Kirk was promoted to lieutenant and he received his first command, a spaceship roughly equivalent to a destroyer, while still quite young. Kirk became Starfleets youngest captain after receiving command of the USS Enterprise for a five-year mission, Kirks most significant relationships in the television series are with first officer Spock and chief medical officer Dr. Leonard Bones McCoy. McCoy is someone to whom Kirk unburdens himself and is a foil to Spock, robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrences The Myth of the American Superhero describes Kirk as a hard-driving leader who pushes himself and his crew beyond human limits. Terry J. Erdman and Paula M, although Kirk throughout the series becomes romantically involved with various women, when confronted with a choice between a woman and the Enterprise, his ship always won. Roddenberry wrote in a memo that Kirk is not afraid of being fallible. J. M. Dillards novel The Lost Years describes Kirks promotion to rear admiral, in Star Trek, The Motion Picture, Kirk is chief of Starfleet operations, and he takes command of the Enterprise from Captain Willard Decker. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberrys novelization of The Motion Picture depicts Kirk married to a Starfleet officer killed during a transporter accident. At the beginning of Star Trek II, The Wrath of Khan, Kirk takes command of the Enterprise from Captain Spock to pursue his enemy from Space Seed, the movie introduces Kirks son, David Marcus
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William Shatner as Kirk, in a publicity photograph for the original Star Trek
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The plaque marking
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Social stratification
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Social stratification is a societys categorization of people into socioeconomic strata, based upon their occupation and income, wealth and social status, or derived power. As such, stratification is the social position of persons within a social group, category, geographic region. The upper-stratum, the middle-stratum, and the lower stratum, moreover, a social stratum can be formed upon the bases of kinship or caste, or both. Determining the structures of social stratification arises from inequalities of status among persons, therefore, generally, the greater the social complexity of a society, the more social strata exist, by way of social differentiation. Social stratification is a used in the social sciences to describe the relative social position of persons in a given social group, category. In modern Western societies, stratification is often classified into three major divisions of social class, upper class, middle class, and lower class. Each of these classes can be subdivided into smaller classes. Social strata may also be delineated on the basis of kinship ties or caste relations, the concept of social stratification is often used and interpreted differently within specific theories. So-called conflict theories, such as Marxism, point to the inaccessibility of resources, talcott Parsons, an American sociologist, asserted that stability and social order are regulated, in part, by universal values. Such values are not identical with consensus but can as well be an impetus for ardent social conflict as it has multiple times through history. Parsons never claimed that universal values, in and by themselves, indeed, the constitution of society is a much more complicated codification of emerging historical factors. Theorists such as Ralf Dahrendorf alternately note the tendency toward an enlarged middle-class in modern Western societies due to the necessity of a workforce in technological economies. Various social and political perspectives concerning globalization, such as dependency theory, four principles are posited to underlie social stratification. First, social stratification is socially defined as a property of a society rather than individuals in that society, second, social stratification is reproduced from generation to generation. Third, social stratification is universal but variable, fourth, social stratification involves not just quantitative inequality but qualitative beliefs and attitudes about social status. Although stratification is not limited to complex societies, all complex societies exhibit features of stratification, the term stratification system is sometimes used to refer to the complex social relationships and social structure that generate these observed inequalities. Social mobility is the movement of individuals, social groups or categories of people between the layers or strata in a stratification system and this movement can be intragenerational or intergenerational. Such mobility is used to classify different systems of social stratification
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The 1911 "
Pyramid of Capitalist System " cartoon is an example of socialist
critique of capitalism and of social stratification
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United Federation of Planets
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The Federation was first introduced in the 1966–1969 television show Star Trek as the organization that sent the starship USS Enterprise on its mission of peaceful exploration. As the Federation has continued to explore the galaxy and expanded its membership, it has been challenged by hostile alien civilizations such as the Borg. The survival, success, and growth of the Federation and its principles of freedom have become some of the Star Trek franchises central themes, the Federation was originally conceived as an idealized version of the United Nations. The Federation has been well received by critics and fans, becoming one of the most enduring storylines. As part of the message he wanted the show to convey, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry intended to depict the Federation as an ideal. The social structure within the Federation is classless and operates within a money-less New World Economy, the Federation is described as stressing, at least nominally, the values of universal liberty, equality, justice, peace, and cooperation. The Federation also maintains its own quasi-militaristic and scientific exploratory agency, the television series and films depict Earth and humanity as holding a center-stage political role within the Federation, in some ways first among equals. The legislature, the Federation Council, is located at the Presidio of San Francisco, several other bodies of the Federation have been depicted. There is an executive headed by a Federation President, who keeps offices in the Palais de la Concorde in Paris. There is a branch as well, the highest court of which is the Federation Supreme Court. The Federations scientific, diplomatic and defensive/military arm is Starfleet, depicted as being headquartered at Fort Baker, just north of San Francisco across the Golden Gate Bridge. The Federation comes into conflict with other major powers in the galaxy such as the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Star Empire, the Cardassian Union, the Borg. The United Federation of Planets has existed as part of the Star Trek universe since the first season of the series and is the primary focus of all the Star Trek series. Several episodes of Star Trek, Enterprise follow events leading up the creation of the Federation, the formation of the Coalition seems to have been the event that provoked the xenophobic Terra Prime incident in the episodes Demons and Terra Prime. After Terra Prime leader John Frederick Paxton exploited the xenophobia on Earth, many of the aliens were unnerved, however, they were convinced by a speech from Captain Jonathan Archer to give the idea of a united organization of worlds a chance. Six years later in 2161, the United Federation of Planets was organized, the Federation is founded under a document known as the Charter of the United Federation of Planets October 9,2161, which is occasionally referred to informally as the Constitution. It draws text and inspiration from the United Nations Charter and other sources and this is intended to prevent even well-intentioned Federation personnel from introducing changes which could destabilize or even destroy other pre-warp-era cultures through interference. Starfleets Omega Directive supersedes the Prime Directive allowing for any means possible to destroy the Omega particle if encountered and it includes a set of guarantees of civil rights, the Seventh Guarantee being analogous to the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution and its protection against self-incrimination
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The Flag of the United Federation of Planets
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USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)
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USS Enterprise is a starship in the fictional Star Trek universe, depicted in four network television series, six feature films, and countless books and fan-created media. The ships design formed the basis for one of sci-fis most iconic images, though the ship has gone over many changes over the course of its television, a refit version of NCC-1701 appears in the first three Star Trek films. The 2009 Star Trek film, which place in an alternate timeline. The original starship was destroyed in Star Trek III, The Search for Spock, Star Trek art director Matt Jefferies was the primary designer of the original Enterprise, which was originally named Yorktown in series creator Gene Roddenberrys first outline drafts of the series. Jefferies experience with aviation led to his Enterprise designs being imbued with what he called aircraft logic, the ships NCC-1701 registry number stemmed from NC being one of the international aircraft registration codes assigned to the United States, the second C was added for differentiation. According to The Making of Star Trek, NCC is the Starfleet abbreviation for Naval Construction Contract, the 1701 was chosen to avoid any possible ambiguity, according to Jefferies, the numbers 3,6,8, and 9 are too easily confused. Other sources cite it as a reference to the house across the street from where Roddenberry grew up, Jefferies own sketches provide the explanation that it was his 17th cruiser design with the first serial number of that series,1701. The Making of Star Trek explains that USS should mean United Space Ship, however, the decals included with the AMT USS Enterprise model kit permitted the builder to customize the ship as any of the twelve starships in the class. As the lowest hull number is NCC-1700, USS Constitution, it is accepted that Constitution is the class leader. The first miniature built for the pilot episode The Cage was unlit and approximately 33 inches long, initially, the models were static and had no electronics. For the second pilot, Where No Man Has Gone Before, various details of the 11-foot model were altered, when the series was picked up and went into production, the model was altered yet again. Save for re-used footage from the two episodes, this was the appearance of the ship throughout the series, except for some detail added to nacelles for shots used in The Trouble with Tribbles. Two small models were made for the episode Catspaw, one embedded in a block of lucite. Greg Jein created a model of the original Enterprise for the Star Trek, Deep Space Nine episode Trials, jeins model was built to be exactly half the size of the larger of the two original models, and later appeared in the 1998 Star Trek wall calendar. The refit Enterprise that appears in the first three Star Trek films was designed by Richard Taylor, the ship was based on conceptual sketches done by Jeffries for the scrapped Star Trek, Phase II TV series. The 8-foot model was re-used as the USS Enterprise-A in the fourth, fifth, foundation Imaging created a CGI model of the ship for the Directors Edition release of Star Trek, The Motion Picture to add footage envisioned but never shot by director Robert Wise. Enterprise was redesigned for the 2009 Star Trek film, director J. J. Abrams wanted Enterprise to have a hot rod look while retaining the traditional shape, but otherwise afforded Industrial Light & Magic tremendous leeway in creating the ship. Perhaps the most notable change was in the engine cells
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The USS Enterprise
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An 11-foot (3.4 m) model donated by Paramount to the Smithsonian in 1974
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The re-conceptualized USS Enterprise in the 2009 Star Trek film
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Spock
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Spock, commonly Mr. Spock, is a fictional character in the Star Trek media franchise. In addition, numerous actors portrayed the various stages of Spocks rapid growth, due to the effects of the Genesis Planet, in the 1984 Star Trek film Star Trek III, The Search for Spock. In the 2009 film Star Trek, Nimoy reprised his role with Zachary Quinto, both reprised their roles in the 2013 sequel Star Trek Into Darkness and Quinto reprised his role again in 2016s Star Trek Beyond. Spock serves aboard the starship Enterprise, as officer and first officer. Spocks mixed human-Vulcan heritage serves as an important plot element in many of the characters appearances, Kirk and Dr. Leonard Bones McCoy, he is one of the three central characters in the original Star Trek series and its films. After retiring from Starfleet, Spock serves as a Federation ambassador, born to the Vulcan Sarek and the human Amanda Grayson, Spock has a troubled childhood due to his mixed heritage. On his homeworld, he was bullied and tormented by full-blooded Vulcan children. For a time, he grew up alongside his older half-brother Sybok, in the episode Amok Time, it is revealed that Spock became betrothed to TPring during his childhood. Sarek supported Spocks scientific learning and supporting his application to the Vulcan Science Academy, in the 2009 film Star Trek, Spock is seen rejecting his acceptance into the Vulcan Science Academy on the basis that they would never fully accept someone who was only half-Vulcan. Because Spock did not enter the VSA, and sought to join Starfleet instead, Spock appeared as the science officer on the USS Enterprise in the first pilot for the series, The Cage. Spock was one of the members of the team who joined Captain Christopher Pike on a mission to Talos IV in order to investigate a distress call. Spock did appear in the pilot, Where No Man Has Gone Before. During the events of that pilot, Spock became concerned at the risk to the ship posed by Lieutenant Commander Gary Mitchell, the earliest appearance of Spock in the series as broadcast was The Man Trap, the first such episode. When he needs to knock out a version of Kirk in The Enemy Within. Together with Chief Engineer Montgomery Scotty Scott work together to rejoin the good and evil versions of the Captain, during Miri, he finds himself to be the only member of the landing party to be immune to the physical affects of the disease affecting human adults on the planet. However, he realises that he is probably a carrier and could infect the Enterprise if he were to return, doctor Leonard McCoy manages to devise a cure, allowing the team to return to the ship. When Simon van Gelder enters the bridge armed with a phaser in Dagger of the Mind and he later conducts a mind meld with van Gelder as part of the investigation into the activities of the nearby colony. After the power to the colony is shut down, and a force field drops
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Leonard Nimoy as Spock (left) beside William Shatner as James T. Kirk (right)
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Spock with his parents, Sarek and Amanda
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Zachary Quinto as Spock in the 2009
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Nimoy as Spock in 1967
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Cave dweller
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A cave dweller, or troglodyte, is a human being who inhabits a cave or the area beneath the overhanging rocks of a cliff. Some prehistoric humans were cave dwellers, but most were not, such early cave dwellers, and other prehistoric peoples, are also called cave men. The Grotte du Vallonnet, a cave in the French Riviera, was used by approximately one million years ago. Although stone tools and the remains of animals have been found in the cave. Since about 750,000 years ago, the Zhoukoudian cave system, in Beijing, China, has been inhabited by species of human being, including Peking Man. Starting about 170,000 years ago, some Homo sapiens lived in cave systems in what is now South Africa, such as Pinnacle Point. Caves were the place to shelter from the midday sun in the equatorial regions. The stable temperatures of caves provided a habitat in summers. Approximately 100,000 years ago, some Neanderthal humans dwelt in caves in Europe, Caves there also were inhabited by some Cro-Magnons from about 35,000 years ago until approximately 8,000 BC. Both species built shelters, including tents, at the mouths of caves, the Cro-Magnon people also made representational paintings on cave walls. Also about 100,000 years ago, some Homo sapiens worked in Blombos Cave and they made the earliest paint workshop now known, but apparently did not dwell in the caves. Especially during war and other times of strife, relatively small groups of people have lived temporarily in caves and they also have used caves for clandestine and other special purposes while living elsewhere. The DeSoto Caverns, in what became Alabama, in the United States, were a burial ground for local Amerindians, the Caves of St. Louis may have been a hiding-place along the Underground Railroad. From about 1000 to about 1300, some Pueblo people lived in villages that they built beneath cliffs in what is now the Southwestern United States, in the 1970s, several members of the Tasaday apparently inhabited caves near Cotabato, in the Philippines. Some families have built homes in caves, as in Missouri, Matera, Italy, Sicily. In the Australian mining towns of Coober Pedy and Lightning Ridge, many families have carved homes into the underground opal mines, in the Loire Valley, abandoned caves are being privately renovated as affordable housing
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Cave dwellings in
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Leonard McCoy
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Bones McCoy is a character in the American science fiction franchise Star Trek. Karl Urban assumed the role of the character in the 2009 film Star Trek, McCoy was born in Atlanta, Georgia, January 20,2227. In 2266, McCoy was posted as chief officer of the USS Enterprise under Captain James T. Kirk. McCoy and Kirk are good friends, even brotherly, the passionate, sometimes cantankerous McCoy frequently argues with Kirks other confidant, science officer Spock, and occasionally is bigoted toward Spocks Vulcan heritage. McCoy often plays the role of Kirks conscience, offering a counterpoint to Spocks logic, McCoy is suspicious of technology, especially the transporter. As a physician, he prefers less intrusive treatment and believes in the bodys innate recuperative powers, the characters nickname, Bones, is a play on sawbones, an epithet for physicians qualified as surgeons. Kirk orders McCoys commission reactivated in Star Trek, The Motion Picture, Spock transfers his katra—his knowledge and experience—into McCoy before dying in Star Trek II, The Wrath of Khan. This causes mental anguish for McCoy, who in Star Trek III, McCoy Kirks crew aboard the in Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home. In Star Trek V, The Final Frontier, McCoy reveals that he helped his father commit suicide to him of his pain. Shortly after the suicide, a cure was found for his fathers disease, Kelley reprised the role for the Encounter at Farpoint pilot episode of Star Trek, The Next Generation, insisting upon no more than the minimum Screen Actors Guild payment for his appearance. In the Star Trek, The Animated Series episode The Survivor, McCoy mentions he has a daughter, chekovs friend Irina in the original series episode The Way to Eden was originally written as McCoys daughter, but changed before the episode was shot. This line, improvised by Urban, explains how McCoy earned the nickname Bones, McCoy later helps get Kirk posted aboard the USS Enterprise. Kelley had worked with Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry on previous television pilots, however, for the rejected pilot The Cage, Roddenberry went with director Robert Butlers choice of John Hoyt to play Dr. Philip Boyce. For the second pilot, Where No Man Has Gone Before, although Roddenberry wanted Kelley to play the character of ships doctor, he did not put Kelleys name forward to NBC, the network never rejected the actor as Roddenberry sometimes suggested. Kelleys first broadcast appearance as Doctor Leonard McCoy was in The Man Trap, Kelley was apprehensive about Star Treks future, telling Roddenberry that the show was going to be the biggest hit or the biggest miss God ever made. Kelley portrayed McCoy throughout the original Star Trek series and voiced the character in the animated Star Trek, fontana said that while Roddenberry created the series, Kelley essentially created McCoy, everything done with the character was done with Kelleys input. Exquisite chemistry among Kelley, William Shatner, and Leonard Nimoy manifested itself in their performances as McCoy, Kirk and science officer Spock, respectively. For the 2009 film Star Trek, writers Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman saw McCoy as an arbiter in Kirk and they chose to reveal that McCoy befriended Kirk first, explaining the bias in their friendship and why he would often be a little dismissive of Spock
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DeForest Kelley as Leonard McCoy in a publicity photograph for the original Star Trek
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Karl Urban as McCoy in
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Phaser (Star Trek)
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The Star Trek fictional universe contains a variety of weapons, ranging from missiles to melee. A directed-energy weapon emits energy in an aimed direction without the means of a projectile and it transfers energy to a target for a desired effect. Intended effects may be non-lethal or lethal, for example, in Star Trek, a hand phaser can be set to stun or kill. Phasers come in a range of sizes, ranging from small arms to starship-mounted weaponry. There are several types of phasers used by the United Federation of Planets Starfleet. Though they seem to discharge in a beam, close observation reveals that phasers actually discharge a series of pulsed energy projectiles into the target. This versatility means they can also be used as welding torches or cutting tools, the stream can be adjusted to strike multiple targets at once, strike a single target with precision, or even destroy large amounts of material. The overload process is marked by a sound that increases in volume. Personal phasers can be small enough to fit in the users palm. Larger and more powerful phaser rifles are issued to security personnel. The ships phaser system was said to be capable of destroying continents. Starship phasers can be used while the ship is travelling at Warp speeds. According to later series, Phasers release a beam of fictional subatomic particles called rapid nadions and this was a homage to the 1990 anime series Fushigi no Umi no Nadia, known in North America as Nadia, The Secret of Blue Water. This version of the phaser seems to only have two settings, stun and kill, which fire blue and red colored projectiles respectively. The barrel of the weapon is two-sided, one being colored red and the blue to indicate the current setting. A similar change was seen in the starship-mounted phaser banks, which also fire single projectiles instead of continuous streams. In Star Trek Beyond, the sides of the sidearm phasers are flat and both barrels shoot blue bolts that deal no physical damage, while the barrel tips are still colored blue. The original phaser rifle prop from Where No Man Has Gone Before sold at auction for $231,000, the Borg cutter weapon is a laser, as mentioned in the Star Trek, The Next Generation episode Q Who and is apparently incapable of directly penetrating Federation shielding
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The A.V. Club
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Club was initially created in 1993 as a supplemental part of The Onion and had a minimal presence on The Onion’s website in its early years. However, a 2005 website redesign placed The A. V, Club in a more prominent position, allowing its online identity to grow. Unlike its parent publication, The A. V, the publication’s name is a reference to school audiovisual clubs, composed of a bunch of geeks who actually knew how to run the film strip and film projectors. In 1993, five years after the founding of The Onion at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, UWM student Stephen Thompson launched an entertainment section, Club, as part of the newspapers 1995 redesign. Both The Onion and The A. V, Club made their Internet debut in 1996. Club acquired its own Internet domain name in December 1999, in December 2004, Stephen Thompson left his position as founding editor of The A. V. Club website was redesigned in 2005 to incorporate blogs and reader comments, in 2006, concurrent with another redesign, the website shifted its model to begin adding content on a daily, rather than weekly, basis. According to Sean Mills, then-president of The Onion, the A. V, Club website received more than 1 million unique visitors for the first time in October 2007. In late 2009, the website was reported as receiving over 1.4 million unique visitors and 75,000 comments per month, the offending review was removed from The A. V. Club, and then-editor Keith Phipps posted an apology on the website, leonard Pierce, the author of the review, was terminated from his freelance role with the website. At its peak, the print version of The A. V, Club was available in 17 different cities. Localized sections of the website were also maintained, with reviews and news relevant to specific cities, the print version and localized websites were gradually discontinued alongside the print version of The Onion, and in December 2013, publication ceased in the final three markets. On 13 December,2012, long-time writer and editor Keith Phipps and he stated, Onion, Inc. and I have come to a mutual parting of the ways. On 2 April,2013, longtime editor and critic Scott Tobias stepped down from his role as film editor of The A. V. Club stating via Twitter, After 15 great years @theavclub, I step down as Film Editor next Friday. In the comments section of the announcing the departures, writer Noel Murray announced he would also be joining their project. On 30 May,2013, it was announced that the six writers would be a part of the staff of The Dissolve. In April and June 2014, senior staff writers Kyle Ryan, Sonia Saraiya and Todd VanDerWerff left the website for positions at Entertainment Weekly, Salon and Vox Media, in 2015, Ryan returned to Onion, Inc. for a position in development
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Manny Coto
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Manuel Manny Hector Coto is a Cuban American writer, director and producer of films and television programs. Coto was the producer and showrunner of Star Trek, Enterprise in its final season. He was a producer and writer for the fifth season of Emmy Award-winning hit Showtime series Dexter. Coto graduated from the American Film Institute and has had experience in sci-fi. He wrote and directed an episode of Tales from the Crypt and also wrote an episode for and he was given the chance to create and write a series for Showtime after The Outer Limits was cancelled. The resulting series was Odyssey 5 and starred Peter Weller, Coto joined the writing crew of Enterprise in 2003, when the show was in its third season, his episodes include Similitude, Chosen Realm and Azati Prime. He became a co-executive producer later that season, in the fourth season he became executive producer of the show, alongside series creators Rick Berman and Brannon Braga. According to his bio on StarTrek. com, he has been a fan of Star Trek all his life, after that he became executive producer on the fifth, sixth, seventh, and the eighth and final season of 24. In 2010 Coto joined the crew of Showtime drama series Dexter as a writer and he continued to work as a writer and executive producer for the shows sixth and seventh seasons, airing 2011 and 2012. Coto has also directed a number of films, including Cover Up, Dr. Giggles, Coto married Robin Trickett on December 27,2004 in Venice, Italy. Jack in the Box Playroom Cover Up Dr. Giggles Star Kid The Other Me Zenon, The Zequel Monsters Tales from the Crypt Manny Coto at the Internet Movie Database Manny Coto at AllMovie
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Coto at
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Star Trek: Enterprise
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Star Trek, Enterprise is an American science fiction television series created by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga as a prequel to Star Trek, The Original Series. It originally aired from September 26,2001 to May 13,2005 on UPN, Set in the 22nd century 100 years before the USS Enterprises five-year mission, the series follows the adventures of the crew of the first Starfleet starship, Enterprise, as they explore the galaxy. An ongoing storyline, referred to as the Temporal Cold War, continued through the third season, in the third season, an escalation of this campaign introduced the Xindi and dealt with the repercussions of their attack on Earth. After being asked to produce a fifth Star Trek series by UPN, Braga and Berman sought to create a basic and relatable series set after the events of the film Star Trek. The episodes concentrated on a trio of characters, Captain Jonathan Archer, Commander Charles Trip Tucker III. It was filmed on the Paramount lot in Los Angeles, California, on the stages that had housed the Star Trek series and films since the abandoned Star Trek. Although Berman and Braga wanted to do a prequel to the original Star Trek series. At the start of the season, Braga said that the storyline would continue to be included while viewers were still interested. The pilot, Broken Bow, was received positively by critics, with praise for the writing and its ratings were good enough that a full seven-season order was expected. However, reviews became more mixed as the first season progressed, by the following season, reviews improved during the last two seasons, but ratings continued to decline. UPN cut its orders for the third and fourth seasons by two episodes each, and canceled the series in 2005. Prior to cancellation, work had begun on planning episodes for the fifth season. Star Trek, Enterprise follows the adventures of the crew of the starship Enterprise and they are the first deep space explorers in Starfleet, using the first Warp 5 equipped vessel. At the start of the series, it is revealed that the Vulcans have withheld advanced technology from humanity since their first contact, concerned that humans were not ready for it. This has delayed human space exploration and caused resentment in Captain Jonathan Archer, whose father developed the Warp 5 engine, Enterprise was intentionally equipped with less advanced versions of technologies seen in previous series. For example, it has no tractor beam, uses instead of photon torpedoes. Communications Officer Linguist Hoshi Satos expertise in linguistics helps compensate for the lack of advanced universal translators, the series also showed the crew making first contacts with a number of races previously seen in the franchise. This particular change was attributed by Berman and Braga to advancements in makeup and they felt that contradictions in the continuity such as the Klingon ridges were unavoidable, as well as those involving technology
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StarTrek.com
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Star Trek is an American science fiction media franchise based on the television series created by Gene Roddenberry. The first television series, simply called Star Trek and now referred to as The Original Series, debuted in 1966 and it followed the interstellar adventures of Captain James T. Kirk and his crew aboard the starship USS Enterprise, an exploration vessel. The Star Trek canon of the franchise include The Original Series, a series, four spin-off television series, its film franchise. In creating Star Trek, Roddenberry was inspired by the Horatio Hornblower novels, the satirical book Gullivers Travels and these adventures continued in the short-lived Star Trek, The Animated Series and six feature films. The adventures of The Next Generation crew continued in four feature films. In 2009, the franchise underwent a reboot set in an alternate timeline, or Kelvin Timeline. This film featured a new cast portraying younger versions of the crew from the show, their adventures were continued in the sequel film. The thirteenth film feature and sequel, Star Trek Beyond, was released to coincide with the franchises 50th anniversary, a new Star Trek TV series, titled Star Trek, Discovery, will premiere in May 2017 on the digital platform CBS All Access. Star Trek has been a phenomenon for decades. Fans of the franchise are called Trekkies or Trekkers, the franchise spans a wide range of spin-offs including games, figurines, novels, toys, and comics. Star Trek had an attraction in Las Vegas that opened in 1998. At least two museum exhibits of props travel the world, the series has its own full-fledged constructed language, Klingon. Several parodies have been made of Star Trek, in addition, viewers have produced several fan productions. As of July 2016, the franchise had generated $10 billion in revenue, Star Trek is noted for its cultural influence beyond works of science fiction. The franchise is also noted for its civil rights stances. The Original Series included one of televisions first multiracial casts, Star Trek references can be found throughout popular culture from movies such as the submarine thriller Crimson Tide to the animated series South Park. As early as 1964, Gene Roddenberry drafted a proposal for the series that would become Star Trek
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The Star Trek logo as it appears in the reboot
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Captain James T. Kirk and Commander Spock, played by
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William Shatner played the unflappable Captain James T. Kirk in The Original Series, The Animated Series, and seven films, helping to create the standard for all subsequent fictional Starfleet captains.
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Star Trek
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Star Trek is an American science fiction media franchise based on the television series created by Gene Roddenberry. The first television series, simply called Star Trek and now referred to as The Original Series, debuted in 1966 and it followed the interstellar adventures of Captain James T. Kirk and his crew aboard the starship USS Enterprise, an exploration vessel. The Star Trek canon of the franchise include The Original Series, a series, four spin-off television series, its film franchise. In creating Star Trek, Roddenberry was inspired by the Horatio Hornblower novels, the satirical book Gullivers Travels and these adventures continued in the short-lived Star Trek, The Animated Series and six feature films. The adventures of The Next Generation crew continued in four feature films. In 2009, the franchise underwent a reboot set in an alternate timeline, or Kelvin Timeline. This film featured a new cast portraying younger versions of the crew from the show, their adventures were continued in the sequel film. The thirteenth film feature and sequel, Star Trek Beyond, was released to coincide with the franchises 50th anniversary, a new Star Trek TV series, titled Star Trek, Discovery, will premiere in May 2017 on the digital platform CBS All Access. Star Trek has been a phenomenon for decades. Fans of the franchise are called Trekkies or Trekkers, the franchise spans a wide range of spin-offs including games, figurines, novels, toys, and comics. Star Trek had an attraction in Las Vegas that opened in 1998. At least two museum exhibits of props travel the world, the series has its own full-fledged constructed language, Klingon. Several parodies have been made of Star Trek, in addition, viewers have produced several fan productions. As of July 2016, the franchise had generated $10 billion in revenue, Star Trek is noted for its cultural influence beyond works of science fiction. The franchise is also noted for its civil rights stances. The Original Series included one of televisions first multiracial casts, Star Trek references can be found throughout popular culture from movies such as the submarine thriller Crimson Tide to the animated series South Park. As early as 1964, Gene Roddenberry drafted a proposal for the series that would become Star Trek
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The Star Trek logo as it appears in the reboot
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The Starfleet emblem as seen in the franchise.
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Captain James T. Kirk and Commander Spock, played by
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IMDb
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In 1998 it became a subsidiary of Amazon Inc, who were then able to use it as an advertising resource for selling DVDs and videotapes. As of January 2017, IMDb has approximately 4.1 million titles and 7.7 million personalities in its database, the site enables registered users to submit new material and edits to existing entries. Although all data is checked before going live, the system has open to abuse. The site also featured message boards which stimulate regular debates and dialogue among authenticated users, IMDb shutdown the message boards permanently on February 20,2017. Anyone with a connection can read the movie and talent pages of IMDb. A registration process is however, to contribute info to the site. A registered user chooses a name for themselves, and is given a profile page. These badges range from total contributions made, to independent categories such as photos, trivia, bios, if a registered user or visitor happens to be in the entertainment industry, and has an IMDb page, that user/visitor can add photos to that page by enrolling in IMDbPRO. Actors, crew, and industry executives can post their own resume and this fee enrolls them in a membership called IMDbPro. PRO can be accessed by anyone willing to pay the fee, which is $19.99 USD per month, or if paid annually, $149.99, which comes to approximately $12.50 per month USD. Membership enables a user to access the rank order of each industry personality, as well as agent contact information for any actor, producer, director etc. that has an IMDb page. Enrolling in PRO for industry personnel, enables those members the ability to upload a head shot to open their page, as well as the ability to upload hundreds of photos to accompany their page. Anyone can register as a user, and contribute to the site as well as enjoy its content, however those users enrolled in PRO have greater access and privileges. IMDb originated with a Usenet posting by British film fan and computer programmer Col Needham entitled Those Eyes, others with similar interests soon responded with additions or different lists of their own. Needham subsequently started an Actors List, while Dave Knight began a Directors List, and Andy Krieg took over THE LIST from Hank Driskill, which would later be renamed the Actress List. Both lists had been restricted to people who were alive and working, the goal of the participants now was to make the lists as inclusive as possible. By late 1990, the lists included almost 10,000 movies and television series correlated with actors and actresses appearing therein. On October 17,1990, Needham developed and posted a collection of Unix shell scripts which could be used to search the four lists, at the time, it was known as the rec. arts. movies movie database
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Wiki
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A wiki is a website that provides collaborative modification of its content and structure directly from the web browser. In a typical wiki, text is written using a markup language. A wiki is run using wiki software, otherwise known as a wiki engine, there are dozens of different wiki engines in use, both standalone and part of other software, such as bug tracking systems. Some wiki engines are open source, whereas others are proprietary, some permit control over different functions, for example, editing rights may permit changing, adding or removing material. Others may permit access without enforcing access control, other rules may also be imposed to organize content. Wikipedia is not a wiki but rather a collection of hundreds of wikis. There are at least tens of thousands of other wikis in use, both public and private, including functioning as knowledge management resources, notetaking tools, community websites. The English-language Wikipedia has the largest collection of articles, as of September 2016, ward Cunningham, the developer of the first wiki software, WikiWikiWeb, originally described it as the simplest online database that could possibly work. Wiki is a Hawaiian word meaning quick, Wiki promotes meaningful topic associations between different pages by making page link creation intuitively easy and showing whether an intended target page exists or not. A wiki is not a carefully crafted site created by experts and professional writers, instead, it seeks to involve the typical visitor/user in an ongoing process of creation and collaboration that constantly changes the website landscape. A wiki enables communities of editors and contributors to write documents collaboratively, all that people require to contribute is a computer, Internet access, a web browser and a basic understanding of a simple markup language. A single page in a website is referred to as a wiki page, while the entire collection of pages. A wiki is essentially a database for creating, browsing, a wiki allows non-linear, evolving, complex and networked text, while also allowing for editor argument, debate and interaction regarding the content and formatting. A defining characteristic of wiki technology is the ease with which pages can be created and updated, generally, there is no review by a moderator or gatekeeper before modifications are accepted and thus lead to changes on the website. Many wikis are open to alteration by the public without requiring registration of user accounts. Many edits can be made in real-time and appear almost instantly online, however, this feature facilitates abuse of the system. Private wiki servers require user authentication to edit pages, and sometimes even to read them, maged N. Kamel Boulos, Cito Maramba and Steve Wheeler write that the open wikis produce a process of Social Darwinism. Unfit sentences and sections are ruthlessly culled, edited and replaced if they are not considered fit, while such openness may invite vandalism and the posting of untrue information, this same openness also makes it possible to rapidly correct or restore a quality wiki page
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Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki
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Wiki Wiki Shuttle at
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TV.com
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TV. com is a website owned by CBS Interactive. The site covers television and focuses on English-language shows made or broadcast in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, the United States and the United Kingdom. Australia and UK versions of the website are available, at au. tv. com and uk. tv. com. CNET originally acquired the name in the mid-1990s to host a website for the companys technology-related TV shows. One of these shows was titled TV. com, the program, highlighting the best of the Internet for new and casual computer users, aired in U. S. syndication. CNET then acquired TV Tome, a television database. TV. com was launched a few months after that acquisition on June 1,2005, many of the features and content from the original TV Tome site were maintained in the new TV. com site. On May 15,2008, CBS formally announced its purchase of CNET Networks, TV. com continually looked at innovating the television-viewing experience by incorporating it with technology, as seen with the creation of WatchList. This service offered personalized TV listings influenced by user actions and social media, TV Tome was an American website devoted to documenting English-language television shows and their production. It was run by volunteer editors, with the assistance of user contributions, the site was founded by John Nestoriak III. The site had over 2,500 complete television series guides, over 3,500 developing television series guides, in addition to the television series guides, TV Tome had a forum for each television series, with information regarding episodes, their interpretation, and general discussions. A spin-off site, Movie Tome, was established in August 2003, a video game tome and a music tome were originally planned as well, but such plans were abandoned with the purchase of TV Tome and Movie Tome by CNET. On April 22,2005, TV Tome officially announced its acquisition by CNET, CNET reportedly bought TV Tome for US $5 million in January 2005. CNET announced plans to relocate the site to its TV. com domain, a preliminary version of the new site launched on June 1,2005 and on June 13,2005, the site was permanently redirected to TV. com with an entirely new layout. TV. com provides show descriptions, cast and crew listings, full episodes, clip length videos, discussion forums, episode guides may include synopsis information, a recap, credits, notes, trivia, quotes, and images provided by the networks. All textual information in the guides is user-generated, after a user earns a certain number of points, s/he becomes an editor for the guide and can moderate user submissions. The site provides actor guides that include actor bios, credits, trivia, like show pages, users can become editors for these guides after earning points by providing sourced content. The sites mobile application allows users to video content, including clips and full length episodes
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TrekMovie.com
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TrekMovie. com is a news blog website about the Star Trek media franchise. It features news reports about the films, television and web series. The site was founded by Trek fan Anthony Pascale as a focused on bringing accurate and up-to-date news. TrekMovie. com was launched as The Trek XI Report on July 15,2006, over time, TrekMovie. com garnered a reputation for scooping Star Trek news and has been cited as a source by websites like Slashdot, Fark, SciFiWire, Yahoo. Pascale and his site have also been cited on the G4TV, various local TV stations, TrekMovie. com continued to grow as a range of editors and contributors—respected experts covering different areas of the Star Trek franchise—were brought on. The site was the highest ranked Star Trek news site in 2008, beginning around May 2013, the site often went weeks or months with no updates. When updates resumed, no explanation was given, after the release of 2013s Star Trek Into Darkness, the site posted an article about the films second week of release, and then went for several weeks without any new updates. For a significant period of time Anthony Pascale did not post or write anything for the site, in September of that same year, the site was a source of controversy following the release of Into Darkness. Guest writer Joseph Dickersons op-ed Is Star Trek Broken, opined that Into Darkness had moved too far from the themes that made Star Trek relevant and popular. The op-ed generated thousands of comments, including harsh reaction by the co-writer of the film Roberto Orci, orcis comments—which criticized fans negative reactions, dismissed the op-ed, and ultimately suggested that detractors fuck off—were covered by multiple news sites. Orci later apologized and briefly stopped commenting on TrekMovie, Anthony Pascale has since returned to regularly posting articles
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Anthony Pascale, founder of TrekMovie.com.
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The Enterprise Incident
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The Enterprise Incident is a third season episode of the science fiction television series, Star Trek, first broadcast September 27,1968, and repeated December 27,1968. It is episode #57, production #59, written by D. C, fontana and directed by John Meredyth Lucas. In this episode, the crew of the Enterprise are on a mission to steal a Romulan cloaking device. On stardate 5027.3, Captain James T, Kirk takes the Federation starship USS Enterprise, without apparent authorization, into the Neutral Zone between Federation and Romulan space. Three Romulan vessels decloak and intercept the ship, and Kirk is given an order to surrender, Kirk responds by threatening to destroy the Enterprise if the Romulans attempt a boarding. He is then invited, along with Vulcan First Officer Spock aboard the Romulan flagship, Kirk accepts on condition that the Romulans simultaneously transport two of their officers over as an exchange. Once aboard the Romulan ship, Kirk and Spock are taken before a female commander who demands an explanation for their intrusion into Romulan space. Kirk claims that instrument failure caused the ship to stray off course, the Romulan guards lead a furious Kirk, now charged with espionage and railing against the treachery of his First Officer, to the brig. The Romulan Commander orders Chief Engineer Scott to follow the Romulans back to their base, in the Romulan brig, Kirk injures himself by lunging against the force field enclosing the cell door. Chief Medical Officer Dr. McCoy is summoned from the Enterprise to attend to him, with Spock in tow, the Romulan commander asks McCoy to confirm Spocks characterization of the Captain as being mentally incompetent and McCoy does so. Upon hearing the Doctors corroboration, the Romulan Commander orders Spock to assume command of the Enterprise, Kirk, calling Spock a filthy traitor, lunges toward him. Spock instinctively defends himself by using the Vulcan death grip on Kirk, alone with Spock in her quarters, the Romulan Commander continues her attempt to persuade him to her peoples cause. Back on the Enterprise, Kirk returns to life, emerging from a state of suspended animation brought on by Spocks death grip. Kirks insanity, the venture into Romulan space, and Spocks betrayal have all been a ruse as part of a secret Federation plan to acquire the Romulan cloaking device. Kirk orders McCoy to perform the plastic surgery necessary to give him Romulan features, with his features altered, Kirk borrows the uniform of one of the Romulan hostages and has Scotty transport him back to the Romulan vessel. While the Romulan Commander is changing into more comfortable attire, Spock directs Kirk, via communicator, from the bridge, Romulan Subcommander Tal discovers and tracks the signal, then informs the Romulan Commander of the alien transmission. Spock presents himself to the Romulan officers and affirms Tals report, Spock takes advantage of the traditional Romulan right of making a statement before his conviction and execution to stall for time, as well as admit Kirks and his guilt of espionage. Simultaneously, Kirk re-assumes command of the Enterprise as Scotty attempts to adapt the Romulan cloaking device technology to the Enterprise deflectors, ensign Chekov tries to distinguish between Vulcan and Romulan life signatures so that Spock can be transported back to the Enterprise
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Kirk prepares to steal the Romulans' cloaking device.
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The Paradise Syndrome
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The Paradise Syndrome is a third season episode of the original science fiction television series, Star Trek, and was broadcast October 4,1968. It is episode #58, production #58, written by Margaret Armen, in this episode, an alien device on a primitive planet erases Captain Kirks memory, and he begins a new life with the planets indigenous people modeled on Native American Indians. On stardate 4842.6, the Federation starship USS Enterprise arrives at a planet in anticipation of deflecting an asteroid headed for it. With some time to spare, Captain James T. Kirk, First Officer Spock and they find an obelisk with strange markings as well as a humanoid species whose customs seem to follow those of various North American Native tribes. Returning to the obelisk, Kirk starts to communicate with the Enterprise, Spock and McCoy are unable to open the door, and are forced to return to the Enterprise to oversee the asteroid deflection. Kirk awakens with amnesia, and finds his way out of the obelisk, women from the native people witness his appearance and proclaim him as a god, and take him back to their village. Miramanee, the priestess, attempts to sway the elders of the tribe of Kirks divinity. At that moment, other villagers arrive with a boy that had drowned in a nearby lake, Salish, the medicine chief, declares the child dead, but Kirk uses mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to revive the boy. The elders accept Kirk as their god, forcing Salish to give up his position, Kirk, when asked his name, can only recall it as Kirok. Meanwhile, the Enterprise arrives at the asteroid and attempt numerous means to disrupt its course, however, these fail to do any significant damage, leaving the ships weapons and warp systems offline and the asteroid still on a collision course. Spock orders the ship back to the planet, now a two-month ordeal on impulse power, during this time, Kirk becomes accustomed the village life and as the villages new healer, though hounded by memories of the strange lodge that moves through the sky. Traditionally, the healer and priestess are husband and wife, and Kirk and Miramanee find growing affection for each other, Kirk agrees to officially join Miramanee. On the day of joining, Salish cuts Kirk with a knife and attempts to show the elders that Kirk is mortal, later, Miramanee reveals she is pregnant with their child. As the asteroid nears the planet, the sky begins to darken and gale-force winds sweep the surface, and they take him to the obelisk but Kirk cannot recall how he got inside. Salish steps forward and declares Kirk to be a false god and they begin to stone him, and Miramanee attempts to stop the stoning only to be mortally wounded herself. Suddenly, Spock and McCoy transport nearby, scaring the villagers away, finding that Kirk does not recognize them, Spock uses a mind meld to reach Kirks mind, while McCoy tends to Miramanees wounds. Kirk regains his memories and Spock quickly alerts him to the situation, Kirk uses his communicator again, opening the trap door, and he and Spock go inside to repair the deflector beam. The obelisk activates and deflects the asteroid with minutes to spare, later, in the lodge where Kirk and Miramanee lived, McCoy tells Kirk that she will not survive
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Kirk examines the alien symbols on a obelisk built by the Preservers.
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Captain Kirk, with Miramanee
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The Tholian Web
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The Tholian Web is the ninth episode of the third season of the original American science fiction television series, Star Trek. It is episode #64, production #64, first broadcast on November 15,1968 and it was written by Judy Burns and Chet Richards and directed by Herb Wallerstein. Set in the 23rd century, the series follows the adventures of Captain James T, Kirk and the crew of the Federation starship Enterprise. In this episode, Captain Kirk is caught between dimensions while the crew of the Enterprise works to retrieve him, all the while, the Tholians are weaving a destructive energy web around the Enterprise because Spock will not leave Tholian space without his Captain. The Federation starship USS Enterprise enters a region of space while searching for her sister ship, the USS Defiant. Their sensors detect dimensional fractures in the area of space, which are draining power from all systems. They find the Defiant adrift, and Captain James T. Kirk, First Officer Spock, Chief Medical Officer Dr. McCoy, aboard Defiant, they find the crew is dead, apparently having killed each other in the midst of a mutiny. The boarding party discovers that the Defiant is slowly dissolving as it enters an interdimensional rift, at one point, McCoy is able to pass his hand through an almost invisible man and a table. With limited transporter functionality due to the rift in the fabric of space-time, the beaming takes much longer than normal, and they are almost lost. As Chief Engineer Mr. Scott tries to beam Kirk aboard, while they wait, an increasingly furious Chekov starts to go mad and lashes out, a symptom that Dr. McCoy believes is due to their proximity to the rift, as happened to the Defiants crew. McCoy urges Spock to move the Enterprise to safety but Spock refuses, believing that movement will disrupt the interphase, with two hours to go before the next interphase, the Enterprise is approached by a small, unfamiliar ship. Its captain, Commander Loskene of the Tholian Assembly, asserts that the Enterprise has violated Tholian space, Spock negotiates to get them one hour and fifty three minutes until Kirk reappears and then promises they will then leave, the Tholian vessel moves away. When the time is up, Kirk does not reappear, Spock determines that the Tholain ship disrupted the interphase, and that Kirk may still be alive but in a different location. McCoy again urges him to leave, believing that Kirk is dead, the Enterprise is attacked by Loskene, and Spock returns fire. The Tholian ship is disabled, but the Enterprise takes damage as well, a second Tholian ship joins the first, and the two begin to create the filaments of a vast energy web that cages the Enterprise. Spock determines that if the web is completed before repairs are done, the field will destroy the Enterprise. Amid further reports of crewmen going insane, Spock conducts a memorial service for Kirk. Spock and McCoy then view a tape left by Kirk meant to be played in the event of his death, which asks the two of them to work together for the benefit of the ship
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The Tholians spin an energy web around the Enterprise.
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A view of the Tholian aliens
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The completed Tholian web around the alternate universe ISS Enterprise (NX-01) from Star Trek: Enterprise.
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Whom Gods Destroy (Star Trek: The Original Series)
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Whom Gods Destroy is a third season episode of the original science fiction television series, Star Trek. It is episode #69, production #71, and was broadcast on January 3,1969 and it was written by Lee Erwin, based on a story by Lee Erwin and Jerry Sohl, and directed by Herb Wallerstein. The title is based on a spoken by Prometheus in Henry Wadsworth Longfellows poem, The Masque of Pandora, Whom the gods would destroy. This episode was withdrawn by the BBC in the UK because of plot elements during the initial run in 1971 and was not shown until a repeat run in January 1994. In this episode, Captain Kirk faces off with a demented shape-shifting starship captain determined to control the universe and they carry a shipment of medicine to be used to cure the patients. Captain Kirk and First Officer Spock beam down with the shipment and he gives them a brief tour, where one of the inmates, an Orion female named Marta, warns the two that Cory is not who they think he is. Too late, they discover the real Cory imprisoned in a cell, when Garth threatened to attack Antos, his crew mutinied and stranded him. Despite his fall from grace, Kirk has looked up to Garth as one of his personal heroes, Kirk and Spock are imprisoned, and Garth, taking on Kirks form, tries to have Chief Engineer Scott beam him back aboard. However, Scott refuses when Garth fails to give the response to a chess-based passphrase challenge. Garth tries to learn the required passphrase by first treating Kirk and Spock to an opulent dinner with himself, despite bragging about his own infamy before his fall to Kirk, Kirk refuses to give over the code. Garth then turns to torturing both Doctor Cory, and then Kirk, but the latter remains steadfast, finally, Garth has Marta attempt to seduce Kirk, but Spock arrives and subdues her. The two make contact with the ship, and again Scott challenges them with the passphrase, Kirk, sensing something amiss, instructs Spock to provide it, forcing Garth, disguised as Spock, to reveal his ploy. Kirk is again captured, and he is forced to watch Garth crown himself Master of the Universe in front of the other inmates and he demonstrates his power by killing Marta with an explosive he planted on her body. The explosion gives Spock enough time to disable his guard, acquire a phaser, on entering a control room, Spock finds two Kirks in front on him. The two accuse the other of being Garth, and attempt to play knowledge of famous Starfleet battles to prove their identity. One Kirk finally orders Spock to stun them both, Spock realizes that this could only be an order the real Kirk would give, and stuns the other one, who is revealed to be truly Garth. Garth is put into custody, and Doctor Cory begins administration of the drugs to put Garth and the other inmates on track for recovery
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Asylum inmates Marta (left) and Garth of Izar
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Requiem for Methuselah
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Requiem for Methuselah is a third season episode of the original science fiction television series, Star Trek, first broadcast on February 14,1969. Its repeat broadcast, on September 2,1969, was the last official telecast of the series to air on NBC,76, written by Jerome Bixby and directed by Murray Golden. It guest-stars James Daly as Mr. Flint, and Louise Sorel as Rayna Kapec, in this episode, the crew of the Enterprise encounters an immortal human. The crew of the Federation starship USS Enterprise is struck with deadly Rigellian Fever and they arrive at the remote planet Holberg 917-G in search of the mineral Ryetalyn, used to manufacture a cure. Captain Kirk, first officer Spock and medical officer Dr. McCoy beam down to the planet to investigate and are attacked by a robot, the robot is called off by its master, who identifies himself as Flint. Flint claims that the party is trespassing, and orders them to leave immediately. Kirk will not accept Flints authority, and orders chief engineer Scott on the Enterprise to fire the ships phasers at their position if they are harmed, McCoy tells Flint about the disease threatening the Enterprise crew and their urgent need for Ryetalyn. Flint displays emotion when he hears McCoys comparison of the disease to bubonic plague and he gives the landing party two hours to gather the Ryetalyn, offering his sentry robot M4 to find and gather the mineral. Flint escorts them to his home, which has a collection of Earth artifacts. Spock, however, is puzzled when his tricorder scans indicate that the works are recent creations with contemporary materials, the party is surprised by the appearance of Flints beautiful young ward, Rayna Kapec. Rayna likes Spock, who is impressed by her knowledge of physics, according to Flint, her parents were employees who died in an accident. Kirk plays billiards with Rayna, and they dance to a waltz played on the piano by Spock, the Vulcan calls the waltz an unknown piece by Johannes Brahms, written in manuscript with contemporary ink. In Flints laboratory, McCoy analyzes the Ryetalyn gathered by M4, it is contaminated with irilium, when Kirk kisses Rayna, M4 attacks him and Spock destroys the robot with his phaser. Kirk confronts Flint about the attack and Flint says that M4 misinterpreted Kirks actions as hostile, although Kirk forgives the incident, Flint summons a replacement sentry. Kirk contacts the Enterprise and asks communications officer Uhura to research Flint, Uhura learns that Holberg 917-G was purchased thirty years earlier by Brack, a private investor. With a surreptitious tricorder scan, Spock learns that Flint is over 6,000 years old, Rayna comes to say goodbye to Kirk, who has fallen in love with her and begs her to accompany him. McCoy tells them that the Ryetalyn is missing, and Spock follows tricorder readings to a chamber with the bodies of other Raynas—all androids, Kirk demands an explanation, and Flint confesses that he was born in Mesopotamia in 3834 BC. A soldier, after falling in battle he discovered he could not die, Flint lived lifetimes as Leonardo da Vinci, Brahms, Solomon, Alexander, Lazarus, Methuselah, Merlin and others
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Turnabout Intruder
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Turnabout Intruder is a third season, as well as the final first-run, episode of the original science fiction television series, Star Trek. It is episode #79, production #79, written by Arthur H. Singer, based on a story by Gene Roddenberry and this was the last original episode of Star Trek to air on NBC. On June 3,1969, after an absence of 2 months, Star Trek was brought back on a new night and time, Tuesdays at 7, turnabout Intruder was the only first-run episode to be shown in this new time slot. In this episode, Captain Kirk becomes trapped in the body of an unstable woman bent on killing him. Upon arrival, the party finds three survivors, among them are Dr. Janice Lester and Dr. Arthur Coleman. Medical scans reveal that the survivors are suffering from radiation exposure which threatens their lives, Dr. Coleman, Science Officer Spock and Chief Medical Officer Dr. McCoy go off to tend to the other survivor, leaving Lester and Kirk alone for a moment to talk. Kirk finds Lester has been driven to the point of madness by her Self hatred personality complex and she traps Kirk in an alien device which can swap the personalities between two individuals. Joining Kirk in the machine, Lesters essence is transferred into Kirks body while Kirks mind enters hers, now functioning as Kirk, Lester-in-Kirk tries to strangle her former body, inside which Kirk is trapped. Spock and McCoy return before Lester-in-Kirk can finish him off, and she orders the landing party, once there, Lester-in-Kirk removes McCoy from Kirk-in-Lesters case and gives Dr. Coleman, Lesters partner in crime, full authority for treatment. McCoy protests the decision, but McCoy stands his ground with a tone of voice. Alone, Coleman and Lester-in-Kirk privately converse about their plans and it is revealed that the two are in love with each other and had planned to have their personnel killed in order to lure the Enterprise to Camus II. Lester-in-Kirk has now achieved her goal of commanding a starship. Likewise, Coleman has now given a chance to become a starships chief medical officer. Lester-in-Kirk puts Coleman in charge of making sure that Kirk-in-Lester, who is trapped inside Lesters female body. No one recognizes Kirks consciousness in a womans body, Kirk-in-Lester manages to escape and goes to sickbay for help, but finds Lester-in-Kirk still there being given a clean bill of health by McCoy. Lester-in-Kirk uses a series of violent slaps to render her former body unconscious, Lester-in-Kirk orders the hysterical woman to be taken into custody and put into isolation with the express order, No one is to speak to her without my permission. Kirk-in-Lester is taken away, and Spock persuades the guard that the Captains orders have never been meant to apply to his officers and, in this case. Spock tries to free Kirk-in-Lester but is stopped by a security team led by the impostor Captain, Lester-in-Kirk accuses Spock of mutiny and immediately orders a court-martial
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Kirk has an
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Star Trek: The Animated Series
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Star Trek, The Animated Series is a 1973 animated science fiction television series set in the Star Trek universe following the events of Star Trek, The Original Series of the 1960s. The animated series was aired under the name Star Trek, the series was critically acclaimed and was the first Star Trek series to win an Emmy Award when its second season won the 1975 Emmy for Outstanding Entertainment - Childrens Series. The series featured most of the original cast voicing their characters, except for Pavel Chekov and he was replaced by two animated characters who made semi-regular appearances, Lieutenant Arex, whose Edosian species had three arms and three legs, and Lt. MRess, a female Caitian. Besides performing their characters Montgomery Scott and Christine Chapel, James Doohan and Majel Barrett also performed the voices of Arex and MRess, initially, Filmation was only going to use the voices of William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, Doohan, and Barrett. Doohan and Barrett would also perform the voices of Sulu and Uhura, Nimoy also took this stand as a matter of principle, as he knew of the financial troubles many of his Star Trek co-stars were facing after cancellation of the series. Koenig was not forgotten, and later wrote an episode for the series, koenig wrote The Infinite Vulcan, which had plot elements from the original Star Trek episode Space Seed blended into it. As is usual with animation projects, the actors did not perform together. For example, William Shatner, who was touring in a play at the time, other occasional guest voice actors were also used, including Ed Bishop who voiced the Megan Prosecutor in The Magicks of Megas-tu, and Ted Knight who voiced Carter Winston in The Survivor. Nichelle Nichols also performed character voices in addition to Uhura in several episodes, including The Time Trap. Similar to most animated series of the era, the 22 episodes of TAS were spread out over two seasons, with copious reruns of each episode. The director of the first season was Hal Sutherland and Bill Reed directed the 6 episodes of season two, all of this series episodes were novelized by Alan Dean Foster and released in ten volumes under the Star Trek Logs banner. Initially, Foster adapted three episodes per book, but later saw the half-hour scripts expanded into full, novel-length stories. Star Trek, The Animated Series was the only Star Trek series not to be produced with a cold open, instead starting directly with the title credits sequence. However, some versions of the original live action series. The series writing benefited from a Writers Guild of America, East strike in 1973, here Cyrano Jones is rescued from the Klingons, bringing with him a genetically altered breed of tribbles which do not reproduce but do grow extremely large. The Klingons, because of their hatred of tribbles, are eager to get Jones back because he stole a creature they created and this is the only animated Trek episode written by original series and later Next Generation writer D. C. This was the first actual appearance of Spocks pet sehlat, first mentioned in Journey to Babel, elements of Spocks childhood from Yesteryear are also referenced in the Star Trek, The Next Generation episode Unification as well as the 2009 Star Trek feature film. Larry Nivens The Slaver Weapon, adapted from his own short story The Soft Weapon and it includes some elements from his Known Space mythos such as the Kzinti and the Slavers
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The characters of TAS.
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Scotty faces problems with the food replicator in the episode "
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Actor
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Star Trek (film series)
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Reruns of the series proved to be wildly successful in syndication during the 1970s, which persuaded the series then-owner, Paramount Pictures, to expand the franchise. Paramount originally began work on a Star Trek feature film in 1975 after lobbying by the creator of the franchise, the studio scrapped the project two years later in favor of creating a television series, Star Trek, Phase II, with the original cast. Five more films featuring the original cast followed. The cast of the 1987–1994 spin-off series Star Trek, The Next Generation starred in a further four films, a sequel to Star Trek, Star Trek Into Darkness, was released in theaters on May 16,2013. A second sequel, Star Trek Beyond, was released on July 22,2016, the Star Trek films have received 15 Academy Award nominations. Star Trek won for Best Makeup in 2010, and four of the films were nominated mainly in the areas of makeup, music, set design. The early Star Trek films, the first to film, were originally released on VHS. Later films were released on LaserDisc as well. For those films that did not receive an initial DVD release, later, the first ten films were released in two-disc collectors versions, with The Motion Picture and The Wrath of Khan branded as directors cuts, followed by later box set releases. All of the films are now available on Blu-ray, digital download, streaming media, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry first suggested the idea of a Star Trek feature in 1969. When the original series was cancelled, he lobbied to continue the franchise through a film. The success of the series in syndication convinced the studio to work on a feature film in 1975. A series of writers attempted to craft a suitably epic script, Paramount instead planned on returning the franchise to its roots with a new television series, Star Trek, Phase II. The massive worldwide box office success of Star Wars in mid-1977 sent Hollywood studios to their vaults in search of similar properties that could be adapted or re-launched to the big screen. Principal photography for Star Trek, The Motion Picture commenced August 7,1978 with director Robert Wise helming the feature, the production encountered difficulties and slipped behind schedule, with effects team Robert Abel and Associates proving unable to handle the films large amount of effects work. Douglas Trumbull was hired and given a check to complete the effects work in time and location. The film introduced an upgrade to the technology and starship designs, many of the set elements created for Phase II were adapted and enhanced for use in the first feature films. The film received mixed reviews critics, while it grossed $82,258,456
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The Star Trek logo from the 2009 film
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Star Trek: The Motion Picture
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Star Trek, The Motion Picture is a 1979 American science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures. It is the first Star Trek film and stars the cast of the original 1966–1969 Star Trek television series, the film is set in the twenty-third century when a mysterious and immensely powerful alien cloud known as VGer approaches Earth, destroying everything in its path. Kirk resumes command of his previous starship—the recently refitted USS Enterprise—to lead it on a mission to save the planet, when the original television series was cancelled in 1969, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry lobbied Paramount to continue the franchise through a film. The success of the series in syndication convinced the studio to work on a feature film in 1975. A series of writers attempted to craft a suitably epic script, Paramount instead planned on returning the franchise to its roots with a new television series, Star Trek, Phase II. With the cancellation of Phase II, writers rushed to adapt its planned pilot episode, In Thy Image, constant revisions to the story and shooting script continued to the extent of hourly script updates on shooting dates. The Enterprise was modified inside and out, costume designer Robert Fletcher provided new uniforms, Jerry Goldsmith composed the score, beginning an association with Star Trek that would continue until 2002. The final production cost ballooned to approximately $46 million, the film earned $139 million worldwide, falling short of studio expectations but enough for Paramount to propose a cheaper sequel. Roddenberry was forced out of control for The Wrath of Khan. In 2001, Wise oversaw a directors cut for a special DVD release of the film, with remastered audio, tightened and added scenes, and new computer-generated effects. In 2273, a Starfleet monitoring station, Epsilon Nine, detects an alien force, hidden in a cloud of energy. The cloud destroys three of the Klingon Empires new Ktinga-class warships and the station en route. On Earth, the starship Enterprise is undergoing a refit, her former commanding officer, James T. Kirk, has been promoted to Admiral. Starfleet dispatches Enterprise to investigate the cloud entity as the ship is the one in intercept range. Kirk takes command of the ship citing his experience, angering Captain Willard Decker, testing of Enterprises new systems goes poorly, two officers, including the science officer, are killed by a malfunctioning transporter, and improperly calibrated engines almost destroy the ship. Kirks unfamiliarity with the new systems of the Enterprise increases the tension between him and first officer Decker, Enterprise intercepts the energy cloud and is attacked by an alien vessel within. A probe appears on the bridge, attacks Spock and abducts the navigator and she is replaced by a robotic replica, another probe sent by VGer to study the crew. Decker is distraught over the loss of Ilia, with whom he had a romantic history and he becomes troubled as he attempts to extract information from the doppelgänger, which has Ilias memories and feelings buried within
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Ray Bradbury was one of the science-fiction writers who offered a premise for the Star Trek feature film.
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Theatrical release poster by
Bob Peak
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Roddenberry and the Star Trek cast on hand for the space shuttle Enterprise 's maiden voyage on September 17, 1976.
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Barry Diller planned on anchoring a new Paramount television network with a new Star Trek series.
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Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
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Star Trek II, The Wrath of Khan is a 1982 American science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures. It is the film based on Star Trek, and is a sequel to Star Trek. The plot features Admiral James T, when Khan escapes from a 15-year exile to exact revenge on Kirk, the crew of the Enterprise must stop him from acquiring a powerful terraforming device named Genesis. This film is the beginning of an arc that continues with the 1984 film Star Trek III, The Search for Spock and concludes with 1986s Star Trek IV. After the lackluster critical and commercial response to The Motion Picture, executive producer Harve Bennett wrote the films original outline, which Jack B. Sowards developed into a full script, director Nicholas Meyer completed the final script in 12 days, without accepting a writing credit. Meyers approach evoked the atmosphere of the original series. Nimoy had not intended to have a role in The Motion Pictures sequel, negative test audience reaction to Spocks death led to significant revisions of the ending over Meyers objections. The production used various cost-cutting techniques to keep within budget, including utilizing miniatures from past projects and re-using sets, effects footage, among the films technical achievements is it being the first feature film to contain a complete sequence created entirely with computer-generated graphics. The Wrath of Khan was released in North America on June 4,1982 and it was a box office success, earning US$97 million worldwide and setting a world record for first-day box office gross. Critical reaction to the film was positive, reviewers highlighted Khan, the pacing. Negative reaction focused on special effects and some of the acting. The Wrath of Khan is considered by some to be the best film of the Star Trek series, in the year 2285, Admiral James T. Kirk oversees a simulator session of Captain Spocks trainees, in the simulation, Lieutenant Saavik commands the starship USS Enterprise on a rescue mission to save the crew of the damaged ship Kobayashi Maru. When the Enterprise enters the Klingon Neutral Zone to reach the ship it is attacked by Klingon cruisers, the simulation is a no-win scenario designed to test the character of Starfleet officers. Later, Dr. McCoy joins Kirk on his birthday, seeing Kirk in low spirits, meanwhile, the USS Reliant is on a mission to search for a lifeless planet for testing of the Genesis Device, a technology designed to reorganize matter to create habitable worlds for colonization. 15 years prior, the Enterprise discovered Khans ship adrift in space, Kirk exiled Khan, after they were marooned, Ceti Alpha VI exploded, shifting the orbit of Ceti Alpha V and destroying its ecosystem. Khan blames Kirk for the death of his wife and plans revenge and he implants Chekov and Terrell with indigenous creatures that enter the ears of their victims and render them susceptible to mind control, and uses the officers to capture the Reliant
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Gene Roddenberry was removed from a direct role in the development of The Wrath of Khan due to concerns that he was the main reason behind The Motion Picture 's lukewarm reception.
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Theatrical release poster art by
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Director Nicholas Meyer had never seen an episode of Star Trek when approached to direct the film and rewrite the script
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Uniform exemplar from The Wrath of Khan on display at
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Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
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Star Trek III, The Search for Spock is a 1984 American science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures. After the death of Spock, the crew of the USS Enterprise returns to Earth, Kirk learns that Spocks spirit, or katra, is held in the mind of Dr. Leonard Bones McCoy, Kirk and company steal the Enterprise to return Spocks body to his home planet. The crew must also contend with hostile Klingons, led by Kruge, Paramount commissioned the film after positive critical and commercial reaction to The Wrath of Khan. Nimoy directed, the first Star Trek cast member to do so, producer Harve Bennett wrote the script starting from the end and working back, and intended the destruction of the Enterprise to be a shocking development. Bennett and Nimoy collaborated with effects house Industrial Light & Magic to develop storyboards and new ship designs, aside from a single day of location shooting, all of the films scenes were shot on Paramount and ILM soundstages. Composer James Horner returned to expand his themes from the previous film, the Search for Spock opened June 1,1984. In its first week of release, the film grossed over $16 million from almost 2,000 theaters across North America and it went on to gross $76 million at the domestic box office, toward a total of $87 million worldwide. Critical reaction to The Search for Spock was positive, but notably less so than the previous film, reviewers generally praised the cast and characters, while criticism tended to focus on the plot, the special effects were conflictingly received. Roger Ebert called the film a compromise between the tones of the first and second Star Trek films, the Search for Spock was released on multiple home video formats, including VHS, DVD, and Blu-ray high definition discs. Nimoy went on to direct The Search for Spocks sequel, Star Trek IV, the casualties of the fight include Admiral James T. Kirks Vulcan friend, Spock, whose casket was launched into space and eventually landed on the planet created by the Genesis Device. On arriving at Earth Spacedock, Doctor Leonard McCoy begins to act strangely and is detained, David Marcus —Kirks son, a key scientist in Genesiss development—and Lieutenant Saavik are investigating the Genesis planet on board the science vessel Grissom. Discovering an unexpected life form on the surface, Marcus and Saavik transport to the planet and they find that the Genesis Device has resurrected Spock in the form of a child, although his mind is not present. Marcus admits that he used unstable protomatter in the development of the Genesis Device, causing Spock to age rapidly, meanwhile, Kruge, the commander of a Klingon vessel, intercepts information about Genesis. Believing the device to be useful as a weapon, he takes his cloaked ship to the Genesis planet, destroys the Grissom. Spocks father, Sarek, confronts Kirk about his sons death, the pair learn that before he died, Spock transferred his katra, or living spirit, to McCoy. Spocks katra and body are needed to lay him to rest on his homeworld, Vulcan, disobeying orders, Kirk and his officers spring McCoy from detention, disable the USS Excelsior, and steal the Enterprise from Spacedock to return to the Genesis planet to retrieve Spocks body. In orbit, the undermanned Enterprise is attacked and disabled by Kruge, in the standoff that follows, Kruge orders that one of the hostages on the surface be executed. Marcus is killed defending Saavik and Spock, Kirk and company feign surrender and activate the Enterprises self-destruct sequence, killing the Klingon boarding party while the Enterprise crew transports to the planets surface
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Visual supervisor
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Theatrical poster art by
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The Search for Spock continues The Wrath of Khan 's exploration of Christian biblical themes of life, death, and rebirth.
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Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
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Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home is a 1986 American science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures. It is the feature film based on Star Trek, and is a sequel to Star Trek III. It completes the arc begun in Star Trek II, The Wrath of Khan. The crew travel to Earths past to find whales who can answer the probes call, after directing The Search for Spock, cast member Leonard Nimoy was asked to direct the next feature, and given greater freedom regarding the films content. Nimoy and producer Harve Bennett conceived a story with an environmental message, dissatisfied with the first screenplay produced by Steve Meerson and Peter Krikes, Paramount hired The Wrath of Khan writer and director Nicholas Meyer. Meyer and Bennett divided the story between them and wrote different parts of the script, requiring approval from Nimoy, lead actor William Shatner, principal photography commenced on February 24,1986. Unlike previous Star Trek films, The Voyage Home was shot extensively on location, many settings and buildings were used as stand-ins for scenes set around. Special effects firm Industrial Light & Magic assisted in post-production and the special effects. Few of the whales in the film were real, ILM devised full-size animatronics. The Voyage Home was released on November 26,1986 in North America, the films humor and unconventional story were well received by critics, fans of the series and the general audience. It was financially successful, earning $133 million worldwide, the film earned several awards and four Academy Award nominations for its cinematography and audio. It was dedicated to the crew of the Space Shuttle Challenger, principal photography for The Voyage Home began four weeks after Challenger and her crew were lost. In 2286, a cylindrical probe moves through space, sending out an indecipherable signal. As it takes up orbit around Earth, its signal disables the power grid and generates planetary storms, creating catastrophic. Starfleet Command sends out a distress call and warns starships not to approach Earth. On the planet Vulcan, the officers of the USS Enterprise are living in exile. Hearing Starfleets warning, Spock determines that the signal matches the song of extinct humpback whales. The crew uses their ship to back in time via a slingshot maneuver around the Sun
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The Monterey Aquarium, viewed from the back. The shallow area behind the rocks was turned into a whale tank via special effects; other changes included the addition of the San Francisco skyline in the background
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Theatrical release poster by
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Vasquez Rocks was used as a stand-in for the alien world of Vulcan.
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Star Trek V: The Final Frontier
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Star Trek V, The Final Frontier is a 1989 American science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures. It is the feature film based on Star Trek. The film was directed by cast member William Shatner, following two films directed by his co-star, Leonard Nimoy, Shatner also developed the initial storyline in which Sybok searches for God but instead finds an alien being. The script went through revisions to please the cast and studio. Despite a writers-guild strike cutting into the films pre-production, Paramount commenced filming in October 1988, production problems plagued the film on set and during location shooting in Yosemite National Park and the Mojave Desert. The films ending was reworked because of poor test-audience reaction and the failure of planned special effects, Jerry Goldsmith, composer for Star Trek, The Motion Picture, returned to score The Final Frontier. The Final Frontier was released in North America on June 9,1989 and it had the highest-opening gross of any film in the series at that point and was number one in its first week at the box office, but its grosses quickly dropped in subsequent weeks. The film received mixed to poor reviews by critics on release. The next entry in the series, Star Trek VI, The Undiscovered Country, the crew of the newly commissioned USS Enterprise are enjoying shore leave after the starships shakedown cruise goes poorly. At Yosemite National Park James T. Kirk, recently demoted back to Captain after the events of the two films, is camping with Spock and Dr. Leonard McCoy. Their leave is interrupted when the Enterprise is ordered by Starfleet Command to rescue human, Klingon, learning of the Enterprises mission, the Klingon Captain Klaa decides to pursue Kirk for personal glory. On Nimbus III, the Enterprise crew discovers that renegade Vulcan Sybok, Sybok reveals the hostage situation was a ruse to lure a starship to Nimbus III. Sybok wants to use a ship to reach the mythical planet Sha Ka Ree, the place where creation began, Sybok uses his unique ability to reveal and heal the innermost pain of a person through the mind meld to subvert the wills of the hostages and crew members. Only Spock and Kirk prove resistant to Sybok, Spock is unmoved by the experience and Kirk refuses the Vulcans offer, Sybok reluctantly declares a truce with Kirk, realizing he needs his leadership experience to navigate the Enterprise to Sha Ka Ree. The Enterprise successfully breaches the barrier, pursued by Klaas vessel, Sybok, Kirk, Spock, and McCoy journey to the surface, where Sybok calls out to his perceived vision of God. An entity appears, and when told of how Sybok breached the barrier, when a skeptical Kirk inquires, What does God need with a starship. The entity attacks him in retribution, the others doubt a god who would inflict harm on people for pleasure. Realizing his foolishness, Sybok sacrifices himself in an effort to combat the creature, intent on stopping the being, Kirk orders the Enterprise to fire a photon torpedo at their location, to little effect
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Shatner reprised his role as Kirk while also serving as director.
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Theatrical release poster art by
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A fiberglass model on location at Yosemite stood in for the real El Capitan, pictured here
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Bran Ferren was chosen to develop the film's optical effects after
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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
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Star Trek VI, The Undiscovered Country is a 1991 American science fiction film released by Paramount Pictures. It is the feature film based on Star Trek. Taking place after the events of Star Trek V, The Final Frontier, principal photography took place between April and September 1991. The production budget was smaller than anticipated because of the critical and commercial disappointment of The Final Frontier, because of a lack of sound stage space on the Paramount lot, many scenes were filmed around Hollywood. Meyer and cinematographer Hiro Narita aimed for a darker and more dramatic mood, subtly altering sets originally used for the television series Star Trek, producer Steven-Charles Jaffe led a second unit that filmed on an Alaskan glacier that stood in for a Klingon gulag. Cliff Eidelman produced the score, which is intentionally darker than previous Star Trek offerings. The film was released in North America on December 6,1991, the Undiscovered Country garnered positive reviews, with publications praising the lighthearted acting and facetious references. The film performed strongly at the box office and it posted the largest opening weekend gross of the series before going on to earn $96,888,996 worldwide. The film earned two Academy Award nominations, for Best Makeup and Best Sound Effects, and is the only Star Trek movie to win the Saturn Award for Best Science Fiction Film. A special collectors edition DVD version of the film was released in 2004, Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry died shortly before the movies premiere, just days after viewing the film. The film marked the final appearance together of the series cast. The loss of their key energy production facility and the destruction of the Klingon homeworlds ozone layer throws the Klingon Empire into turmoil, no longer able to maintain a hostile footing, the Klingons sue for peace with their longstanding enemy, the United Federation of Planets. Enterprises captain, James T. Kirk, whose son David was murdered by Klingons years earlier, opposes the negotiations, after a rendezvous between Enterprise and Gorkons battlecruiser they continue towards Earth, with the crews sharing a tense meal aboard Enterprise. Later that night, Enterprise appears to fire on the Klingon ship with a pair of photon torpedoes, during the confusion, two figures wearing Starfleet suits and gravity boots beam aboard the Klingon ship and grievously wound Gorkon before beaming away. Kirk surrenders to avoid a fight, and beams aboard the Klingon ship with Doctor Leonard McCoy to attempt to save Gorkons life, the chancellor dies, and Gorkons chief of staff, General Chang, puts Kirk and McCoy on trial for his assassination. The pair are found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment on the frozen asteroid Rura Penthe. Gorkons daughter, Azetbur, becomes the new chancellor, and continues diplomatic negotiations, for reasons of security, the conference is relocated, while several senior Starfleet officers want to rescue Kirk and McCoy, the Federation president refuses to risk full-scale war. Azetbur likewise refuses to invade Federation space, stating that only Kirk, once her betrayal is revealed, Martia transforms into Kirks double and fights him, but she is killed by the prison guards to silence any witnesses
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Christopher Plummer had worked with Shatner in radio plays and requested a more human look for his character, involving wearing "less severe" Klingon make-up.
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Theatrical release poster by
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Walter Koenig wrote a story outline for the sixth film where all the Enterprise crew members except Spock and McCoy are killed
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Cinematographer Hiro Narita
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Christine Chapel
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Portrayed by Majel Barrett, she was the ships nurse on board the Starfleet starship USS Enterprise. Barrett had previously been cast under her name as Number One in the first pilot for the series, The Cage. But following feedback from the Network executives, she was not in the cast for the second pilot, the character made her first appearance in The Naked Time following a re-write of the script by Roddenberry. He had been inspired after Barrett read a proposal for the episode What Are Little Girls Made Of. the change of color caused Roddenberry to believe that NBC executives might not notice that Barrett had returned against their wishes. The character was featured in episodes covering several broad themes, such as showing her feelings for Spock. By the time of The Motion Picture, Chapel was a Doctor and during the events of The Voyage Home, she was stationed at Starfleet Command. Executive producer Robert H. Justman was initially critical of Barrett’s performance as Chapel, Barrett herself was not fond of the Chapel character, and David Gerrold felt that she only served to demonstrate Spocks emotionless behavior. Critics saw the character as being a degradation for Barrett compared to her first character, while the position of nurse was seen as a stereotype, the characters promotion to doctor was praised. Among fans, she was unpopular due to her feelings for Spock. Prior to working on Star Trek, Gene Roddenberry had been developing a variety of pilots for Screen Gems. One actress he auditioned was Majel Leigh Hudec, later to use the name Majel Barrett, later when he created the drama series The Lieutenant, he cast her in the episode In the Highest Tradition. They quickly became friends, and entered into a relationship although Roddenberry was married at the time. During the development of the first pilot for Star Trek, The Original Series, there was reluctance from the NBC executives to agree to an actress who was almost unknown. Roddenberry did see other actresses for the part, but no one else was considered, executive producer Herbert Franklin Solow attempted to sell them on the idea that a fresh face would bring believability to the part, but they were aware that she was Roddenberrys girlfriend. Despite this they agreed to her casting, not wanting to upset Roddenberry at this point in the production, after the pilot was rejected, a second pilot was produced. While it was explained that the network disliked a female character as the second-in-command of the Enterprise. He explained that No one liked her acting and she was a nice woman, but the reality was, she couldnt act. Where No Man Has Gone Before successfully took Star Trek to a series order, Barrett had been given the role of voicing the computer on the USS Enterprise, but was demanding that Roddenberry write her into the main cast
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Nurse Christine Chapel from the Star Trek TOS Season One episode "What Are Little Girls Made Of?
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Pavel Chekov
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Pavel Andreievich Chekov is a fictional character in the Star Trek universe. Walter Koenig portrayed Chekov in the second and third seasons of the original Star Trek series, anton Yelchin portrayed the character in the 2009 Star Trek reboot film and two sequels, Star Trek Into Darkness and Star Trek Beyond. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry wanted to include a younger cast member, with a second season of Star Trek to be produced, Roddenberry interviewed Walter Koenig on the recommendation of director Joseph Pevney. Roddenberry had previously mentioned, in a memo to his casting director and we badly need a young man aboard the Enterprise -- we need youthful attitudes and perspectives. Chekov can be used potently here, in actuality, Koenig is only five years younger than co-stars Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner. The episode Amok Time, which was the first episode aired during the season, was Chekovs first television appearance. Because of budgetary constraints the character did not appear in the animated Star Trek, Pavel Andreievich Chekov was born in 2241 in Russia and is a young and naïve ensign who first appears on-screen in The Original Series’ second season as the Enterprises navigator. According to Roddenberry, he is a capable young man—almost Spocks equal in some areas. An honor graduate of the Space Academy, Chekov also substitutes for Mr. Spock at the science officer station when necessary. His promotion to lieutenant for Star Trek, The Motion Picture brings with it his transfer as the tactical officer. By the events of Star Trek II, The Wrath of Khan, in that film, Khan Noonien Singh uses a creature that wraps itself around Chekovs cerebral cortex to control him and his captain. Chekov overcomes the mind control and serves as Enterprise tactical officer in the films climactic battle. Although Khan recognizes Chekov in the film, the Chekov character is not a part of the crew during Space Seed. Adaptations, From Text to Screen, Screen to Text calls this the apparent gaffe notorious throughout Star Trek fandom, Koenig joked that Khan remembers Chekov from the episode after he takes too long in a restroom Khan wants to use. Chekov is an accomplice in Kirks theft of the Enterprise to rescue Spock in Star Trek III, The Search for Spock and he serves as navigator aboard the Enterprise-A during the events of Star Trek V, The Final Frontier and Star Trek VI, The Undiscovered Country. The characters final appearance is as a guest aboard the Enterprise-B on its maiden voyage in Star Trek Generations. Spinoff novels show a continued career path, but these are not considered canon in the Star Trek universe, novels written by William Shatner detail that Chekov reaches the rank of Admiral, and even serves as Commander in Chief of Starfleet. The 2009 Star Trek film creates a timeline in the franchise
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Walter Koenig as Pavel Andreievich Chekov
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Anton Yelchin as Pavel Chekov
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Janice Rand
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Janice Rand is a fictional character in the American science fiction television series Star Trek, The Original Series during its first season, as well three of the Star Trek films. She is the Captains yeoman on board the USS Enterprise, Whitney as Rand was involved in promoting Star Trek before it aired, but did not appear in the first two pilots. Roddenberry set out the role of Rand to Whitney, saying that she and Kirk were meant to have feelings for one another, part way through the first season, Whitney was released from her contract. It is unclear as to who suggested that her contract should be terminated, Roddenberry later blamed NBC for her release and said he regretted it. Whitney later directly linked her departure from the show to her alcoholism and this was subsequently cancelled, but Rand did reappear in Star Trek, The Motion Picture. Whitney made further appearances as Rand in Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home and Star Trek VI and she later returned to Star Trek for memory sequences set in the latter film, but shown as part of the Star Trek, Voyager episode Flashback. Whitney made further appearances as Rand in Star Trek, New Voyages and Star Trek, Of Gods and Men, prior to the start of The Original Series, Whitney was used to promote the series and was popular with the media. Critics later called the character a stereotype in her initial appearances, gene Roddenberrys original pitch for Star Trek featured a female Captains Yeoman named Colt. She was described as blonde and with a shape that even a uniform could not hide, in this first version of Star Trek, she worked as Captain Robert Aprils secretary, reporter, bookkeeper, and undoubtedly wishes she could serve him in more personal departments. Roddenberrys description of her ended with She is not dumb, she is very female and this character was cast for the first pilot of the series, The Cage, with Laurel Goodwin cast in that role. A similar character was created for the pilot, Where No Man Has Gone Before, this time called Smith. Whitney had previously appeared in Roddenberrys The Lieutenant and was then cast in his unsold pilot Police Story where she played Police Lieutenant Lily Monroe. She was available to appear in the series and was promptly cast in the role, being paid $750 per episode and she admitted that he had made numerous passes at her, but she wanted their relationship to remain professional only. In the early publicity photos, Whitney was dressed in the manner that the women had been in the two pilots – a loose gold colored tunic and black trousers. She said the outfit was sensational and that it stopped traffic, despite the outfit being designed specifically for Whitney, Theiss was concerned and would tell her to lose weight. She was subsequently prescribed amphetamines by her doctor, for the purpose of weight loss, Whitney stated that this was the start of her addiction to them, and in order to come down off them at night, she began drinking in the evening to take away the edginess. He also developed her hair styles for the series, which Roddenberry insisted must be unique and it was created by weaving two Max Factor wigs into a mesh cone. Whitney described the application of the wig, saying they nailed it to my head every morning
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A promotional photo of Grace Lee Whitney as Janice Rand
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Roddenberry wanted Kirk and Rand to have an undercurrent of affection but never to act on it.
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Grace Lee Whitney at a Star Trek convention in the mid 1970s
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Grace Lee Whitney at a convention circa 1980
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Scotty (Star Trek)
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Montgomery Christopher Jorgensen Scotty Scott is a fictional character in the science fiction franchise Star Trek. Simon Pegg has assumed the character and appeared in the 2009 film Star Trek and its sequels, Star Trek Into Darkness, Chris Doohan, son of James Doohan, has taken on the role of Scotty in the popular web series, Star Trek Continues. Chris has also had roles in the J. J Abrams films Star Trek, the character almost did not make it to the show after series creator Gene Roddenberry sent Doohan a letter informing him, We dont think we need an engineer in the series. Only through the intervention of Doohans agent did the character remain, Doohan tried a variety of accents for the part and decided to use a Scottish accent on the basis that he thought Scottish people make the best engineers. Doohan himself chose Scottys first name, Montgomery, in honor of his maternal grandfather James Montgomery, in a third-season production memo, Roddenberry said Doohan is capable of handling anything we throw at him and that the dour Scot works better when being protective of the ships engines. Scotty spent part of his life in Aberdeen, Scotland, on March 3,2222, Doohan claimed to have based Scottys accent on an Aberdeen accent he once heard. Scottys technical knowledge and skill allow him to devise unconventional and effective solutions to dire problems. Scottys identity is connected to the Enterprise itself, and the character often takes a paternal attitude toward the ship. He is frequently the liaison between Captain James T. Kirks ambitious tactical plans and what is feasible in the realm of the starships capabilities. Scotty oversaw the Enterprises refit prior to the events of Star Trek, The Motion Picture, and is part of the crew when the Enterprise confronts Khan Noonien Singh in Star Trek II, The Wrath of Khan. After Scotty was promoted to captain of engineering of the USS Excelsior in Star Trek III, The Search for Spock, he sabotages the new ship, Scotty joins Kirks crew aboard the USS Enterprise-A at the end of Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home. In Star Trek V, The Final Frontier, he helps Kirk, Spock and Dr. Leonard McCoy escape the brig, Scotty kills Colonel West before the latter can assassinate the Federation president in Star Trek VI, The Undiscovered Country. Scotty joins Kirk and Pavel Chekov for the USS Enterprise-Bs maiden voyage in Star Trek Generations, in September 2007, Paul McGillion auditioned for the Scotty role in the 2009 Star Trek movie and received James Doohans son Chris endorsement. However, Simon Peggs casting was announced on October 12,2007, with assistance from Spock Prime and James Kirk, he joins the Enterprise crew and becomes the ships chief engineer. Slate. com called Peggs performance of Scotty in the 2009 Star Trek film juicily comic. The character of Scotty has a role in the film Star Trek Beyond, in which he meets an alien woman named Jaylah, who leads him to the crashed Federation starship. Working together, the two make the ship again flightworthy and Scotty helps Jaylah to see the value of working together with a crew, following Doohans death, several Scottish towns campaigned to be named Scottys official birthplace. Scripts, production materials and Doohans family support Linlithgows claim to being Scottys birthplace, however, Scotty says in Wolf in the Fold that he is an old Aberdeen pub crawler, and Aberdeen city leaders proposed plans to erect a monument to the actor and character
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James Doohan in Star Trek (1966)
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Simon Pegg (2008)
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Hikaru Sulu
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Hikaru Kato Sulu is a fictional character in the Star Trek media franchise. Originally known simply as Sulu, he was portrayed by George Takei in the original Star Trek series. Sulu also appears in the animated Star Trek series, the first six Star Trek movies, one episode of Star Trek, Voyager, and in books, comics. Sulus first name, Hikaru, appeared in a 1981 novel well over a decade after the series had ended. John Cho assumed the role of the character in both the 2009 film Star Trek and its sequels, Star Trek Into Darkness and Star Trek Beyond. Takei recalled Gene Roddenberry wanted the character to represent all of Asia, Roddenberry did not want a nationally specific surname, so he looked at a map and saw the Sulu Sea. He thought, Ah, the waters of that sea touch all shores, the actor recalled, historically, Sulu was a Muslim sultanate founded in 1405 until March 1915 when the Sultan abdicated when it had become part of the United States. The island province of Sulu continued to be a US territory until 1946, in the book Inside Star Trek, The Real Story, the characters name is noted as a pun on the name of vice president of Desilu Studios, Herb Solow. Novelist Vonda McIntyre first presents Hikaru as the characters first name in the novel The Entropy Effect, McIntyre derived the characters first name from The Tale of Genji. In some Japanese dubs, Commander Sulus family name is changed to Kato and this is because there is no lu syllable in Japanese, so to Japanese speakers Sulu does not sound like a Japanese name. However, in recent movies, it is slightly changed. The name スールー, is used as opposed to スル, which would be a closer transliteration, suru with short vowels in Japanese is the verb to do, and as such might also come across as odd to Japanese audiences. The fictional character Hikaru Sulu was born in San Francisco, and is of Japanese heritage and he was shown as the USS Enterprises staff physicist in the pilot episode, Where No Man Has Gone Before. An early Paramount press release described this initial conception of his character as follows, Physicist Sulu is the trim, frequently it is his assessment of the conditions on unexplored planets that finally determines when and how they will be approached, or if they can be explored at all. However, throughout the rest of the series, he served as officer and senior helmsman. Throughout the series, Sulu is shown having many interests and hobbies, including gymnastics, botany, fencing, in the episode The Naked Time, Spock observes that Sulu is at heart a swashbuckler out of the 18th century. The character is promoted to lieutenant commander some time before Star Trek, The Motion Picture, during the first five Star Trek movies, he serves as helmsman aboard both the USS Enterprise and USS Enterprise-A. He is promoted to captain and given command of the USS Excelsior three years before the events of Star Trek VI, The Undiscovered Country, Star Trek Generations introduces Hikarus daughter, Demora Sulu, whose origins are also depicted in Peter Davids non-canon novel The Captains Daughter
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George Takei as Lieutenant Hikaru Sulu, from Star Trek (1966)
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John Cho
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Uhura
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Nyota Uhura /niːˈoʊtə ʊˈhʊrə/ is a fictional character in the Star Trek franchise. The character was portrayed by Nichelle Nichols through the sixth Star Trek film, since 2009, a younger Uhura has been portrayed by actress Zoe Saldana. Uhura is a translator and communications officer who specializes in linguistics, cryptography and she was an important part of the original series multicultural crew and one of the first characters of African descent to be featured in a non-menial role on an American television series. Gene Roddenberry had intended his new female officer to be called Lieutenant Sulu. Herb Solow pointed out how similar this was to Zulu and thought it might act against the plan for racial diversity in the show, Uhura comes from the Swahili word uhuru, meaning freedom. Nichols states in her book Beyond Uhura that the name was inspired by Robert Ruarks book Uhuru, when producer Robert Justman explained to Roddenberry what the word uhuru meant, he changed it to Uhura and adopted that as the characters name. Coincidentally, the end credits of the film Star Trek VI, Uhuras first name was not used in Star Trek canon until Abramss 2009 film, in a scene where the young Spock calls her Nyota in a moment of intimacy. Although other non-canon names had existed, Nyota had been the most common. Author William Rotsler created the name Nyota for his 1982 licensed tie-in book, seeking approval for the name he contacted Gene Roddenberry and Nichelle Nichols. Gene Roddenberry approved of the name, Nichelle Nichols also approved and was very excited when Rotsler informed her that Nyota means star in Swahili. After originating in Star Trek II Biographies Nyota started appearing in Star Trek novels, while guest-starring on the game show Super Password on January 7,1987, Nichols stated that Uhuras first name was Nyota. That Nyota is the Swahili word for star is mentioned by William Shatner in his book Star Trek Memories, startrek. com uses the name Nyota on its character biography page for the Animated Series but not on the TOS biography page. Nyota was also used as Uhuras first name when Nichols reprised the character in the fan film Star Trek, Of Gods and Men. The non-canon book The Best of Trek suggests that Uhuras first name is Penda, in the 2009 film, the mystery regarding Uhuras first name is the subject of a running joke as Kirk repeatedly tries to find out what it is before finally hearing Spock call her Nyota. Nichols planned to leave Star Trek in 1967 after its first season and she changed her mind after talking to Martin Luther King, Jr. who was a fan of the show. King explained that her character signified a future of greater racial harmony, King told Nichols, You are our image of where were going, youre 300 years from now, and that means thats where we are and it takes place now. Keep doing what youre doing, you are our inspiration, as Nichols recounted, Star Trek was one of the only shows that and his wife Coretta would allow their little children to watch. And I thanked him and I told him I was leaving the show, all the smile came off his face
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Nichelle Nichols as Uhura on the set of
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Zoë Saldana as Uhura in the 2009 film
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Number One (Star Trek)
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She performs the same role for Pike as Spock later does for Kirk. Although not shown on-screen, it is implied that Number One briefly takes command of the Enterprise when Captain Pike and she later beams down to the planet several times herself. During The Cage, Number One proves to her captors that humans would rather die than be slaves. The character was played by Majel Barrett, who went on to play Nurse Christine Chapel in the original Star Trek and Lwaxana Troi in Star Trek, The Next Generation, the character appears only in the unaired pilot and in the footage used in The Menagerie. Since the very first Star Trek episode, some have interpreted her title as being a proper name, One Star Trek novel, Vulcans Glory, mentions her being the top intellect of her generation, hence her name, and that she was from the planet Ilyria. Number One is a term applied to the Executive Officer of a ship. In Star Trek, The Next Generation, Captain Jean-Luc Picard frequently uses the title Number One to address his first officer, Kirk never referred on-screen to his executive officer Mr. In the Star Trek, Early Voyages comic book series she is called Lieutenant Commander Robbins, a character stating her first name is interrupted, in one issue, and we know only it starts with Eu-. In March 2009, IDW Publishing launched Star Trek, Crew, in keeping with the ongoing mystery regarding her name, the comic never refers to the character by any name, and often uses tricks of dialogue to avoid identifying her beyond her rank. Although no Star Trek comic books are considered canon, the series Early Voyages fleshed out the characters and story from The Cage, in this series, she is depicted much as she is in The Cage, and often finds herself taking command in the captains absence. Her surname is given as Robbins, Pike is interrupted when saying her first name, which starts with Eure--. Close to the end of the series, she was offered a promotion to the rank of captain and she turned it down, opting to stay aboard the Enterprise. Soon afterwards, Robert April, the captain of the Enterprise. During the mission, April gave reckless orders which led to Number One nearly being killed, much like the comic books, all novels based on Star Trek are not considered canon. Peter Davids original book series, Star Trek, New Frontier and her name is Morgan Primus, and she is the mother of Robin Lefler, a regular character in the series. New Frontier greatly fleshes out the character, assuming that she is, in fact and she frequently changed her name throughout her life, taking new identities each time so that no one would realize her immortality. She left her husband and daughter, Robin, and faked her death and she then changed her last name to Primus. Years later, the Excalibur finds her in a prison on a planet in sector 221-G, upon hearing of the impending arrival of a Starfleet ship, she expresses hope that it isnt the Enterprise, which she still mistakenly believed her daughter was serving on
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Number One at the Helm
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Star Trek: The God Thing
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Star Trek, The God Thing is an unproduced film script written by Star Trek series creator Gene Roddenberry. Following the success of Star Trek in broadcast syndication during the early 1970s, the films plot follows the Enterprise crew after the events of The Original Series, when an alien entity declares itself God and begins travel to Earth, Admiral James T. Kirk reunites the crew, who send it back to its own dimension, Roddenberry completed the story on June 30,1976, but Paramount rejected the script for reasons Roddenberry attributed to the religious views of company executives. The story was rewritten as In Thy Image for the television series Star Trek, Phase II and then as Star Trek. After Paramount rejected the film, Roddenberry sought to produce The God Thing as a novel in the late 1970s and he signed a deal with Bantam Books to publish it, but was given extensions because of his work, first on Phase II and then The Motion Picture. During this period, Star Trek actor Walter Koenig helped Roddenberry expand the novel, in 1991, shortly before Roddenberrys death, his assistant Susan Sackett rediscovered the work on the novel. Michael Jan Friedman was later engaged to expand the work but it went unpublished, the God Thing has been compared to the film Star Trek V, The Final Frontier that dealt with similar religious concepts. NBC canceled Star Trek following the season in 1969. Because of this success and fans responses at science fiction conventions held in honor of the series, by March 1972, series creator Gene Roddenberry said there was interest in a Star Trek feature film, and that the series could return to television on NBC. The five-year mission of Star Trek has finished and the crew has moved on from their postings on the starship Enterprise, Kirk has been promoted to Admiral, Doctor Leonard McCoy has left Starfleet to become a veterinarian, and other crew members have been given desk jobs. Engineer Montgomery Scott has become an alcoholic through boredom, Spock has returned to his home planet, Vulcan, where he was seeking to control the human half of his persona. After an alien entity declaring itself to be God destroys spacecraft en route to Earth and he re-assembles the former crew, including Spock, and sets out to intercept the alien. As they approach the entity, it transports a humanoid probe on board the Enterprise that takes a variety of forms—including that of Jesus, the being is malfunctioning, the crew repair it and send it back to its own dimension. In May 1975, Roddenberry entered a development deal with Paramount, with principal photography intended to start on July 15,1976, and his first major submitted script was The God Thing. A scene involving a discussion in which Spocks tutors describe religion on Earth worried the studio, the tutor says, We have never really understood your Earth legend of gods. Particularly in that so many of your gods have said, You have to bow down on your bellies every seven days and this seems to us like they are very insecure gods. Roddenberry completed the script on 30 June, Paramount rejected it the following month, the studio was also unhappy with, and rejected, scripts by Robert Silverberg, Chris Knopt, Dick Simmons and Theodore Sturgeon. Roddenberry blamed religious Paramount executives including Barry Diller for turning down The God Thing, the production start date for the film was postponed to 1977, and Paramount brought in new staff
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Cover artwork of a planned but cancelled Pocket Books novelization
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Gene Roddenberry in 1976
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Walter Koenig (photographed in 1980) worked to expand Roddenberry's initial draft of the novelization.
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Star Trek: Planet of the Titans
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Star Trek, Planet of the Titans, also known as Star Trek, Planet of Titans, is an unproduced film based on Star Trek, which reached the script and design phases of pre-production. In 1975, Star Trek, The God Thing was proposed by franchise creator Gene Roddenberry but was not picked up by the studio, Philip Kaufman was signed up to direct, after several others were asked first. Paramount immediately changed course and launched a plan to take Star Trek back to television via a new TV network as Star Trek, Phase II. By March 1972, Roddenberry said that there was interest in a Star Trek feature film, in May 1975, Roddenberry entered into a development deal with Paramount Pictures to develop a film based on Star Trek. Principal photography was intended to start on July 15,1976 and it was given the initial title of Star Trek, The God Thing and had a budget of $5 million. Roddenberrys plot would have reunited the crew of the Enterprise and sent to face God, Paramount Studios Chief executive officer Barry Diller ended the development deal in August 1975, although Roddenberry was allowed to keep his office at the studio. Ellisons treatment featured the crew forced to back in time to prevent a reptilian race from wiping out humanity at the dawn of time. He met with Paramount executives, including Barry Trabulus, who recently read Chariots of the Gods. by Erich von Däniken, Ellison and Trabulus disagreed, and Ellison left the meeting refusing to have anything more to do with the film. George Lucas later enquired about whether or not Star Trek was available for purchase in order to be turned into a film, in the original treatment by Chris Bryant and Allan Scott, the USS Enterprise investigates the disappearance of the USS DaVinci. Upon arriving at the last known location, they find no other ship, Kirk is struck by electromagnetic waves and leaves the Enterprise in a shuttlecraft. He pilots it out into space and disappears, three years pass and the Enterprise returns to the area under Captain Gregory Westlake, after picking up Spock, who had retired from Starfleet and returned to Vulcan. The crew discovers a previously hidden planet at the location where Kirk vanished and they believe it to be the planet of the Titans, a mythical and powerful alien race. However, the planet is being drawn into a black hole, the Klingons also want to claim the planet. Spock travels to the surface and finds Kirk, who has been living on the planet for three years, together, they discover the planet is inhabited by the Cygnans, who destroyed the Titans. The planet and the Enterprise enter the hole, with the Cygnans being destroyed in the process. Planet of the Titans also explored the concept of the third eye and he later described this version as being less cult-ish and more of an adult movie, dealing with sexuality and wonders rather than oddness. He intended this version to feature Spock facing off against a Klingon nemesis, while Povill had felt that Bryant and Scotts treatment was unsuccessful, he thought that Kaufmans was worse. Planet of the Titans was expected to be filmed in the United Kingdom in order to keep costs low
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Gene Roddenberry, the creator of Star Trek, in 1976
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In his treatment, director Phillip Kaufman intended to cast Toshiro Mifune (pictured in 1968) as Spock's Klingon nemesis.
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Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, George Lucas and Robert Wise were all asked to direct Planet of the Titans.
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USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A)
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USS Enterprise is a starship in the fourth, fifth, sixth films of the Roddenberry era and later in the alternative timeline film Star Trek Beyond. Enterprise-A used the shooting model as the preceding NCC-1701. When first unveiled in the sequences of Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home. On October 5–7,2006, Christies auctioned off many of the used in the Star Trek films. In that auction the model of Enterprise-A used for the films was sold for $240,000, the Constitution-class starship Enterprise-A was commissioned in 2286, at the end of the events depicted in Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home. It is the second Federation starship to carry the name Enterprise, the ship is placed under the command of newly demoted Captain James T. Kirk as punishment for his and his crews actions in the rescue of Captain Spock in Star Trek III and it replaces the original Enterprise, destroyed in Star Trek III. In Star Trek V, The Final Frontier, the ship is dispatched to rescue hostages on Nimbus III. The Vulcan renegade Sybok and his followers hijack the ship and take it to a planet at the center of the galaxy, several novels and comics explore the six-year period between the fifth and sixth films. In Star Trek VI, The Undiscovered Country, Enterprise escorts Klingon chancellor Gorkon to a summit on Earth. The renegade Klingon general Chang, assisted by traitors aboard Enterprise, the Klingons take Kirk and Leonard McCoy prisoner, Spock and Enterprise crew disregard Starfleet orders and instead rescue Kirk and McCoy. Enterprise encounters and, with aid from USS Excelsior, destroys Changs ship, the film concludes with Starfleet ordering a return to Spacedock to be decommissioned, an order which Kirk and the crew gleefully disregard. There is no information about the ships fate beyond Star Trek VI. In the epilogue of Star Trek VI, The Undiscovered Country, however, she may have been speaking only of the ships original crew members as Captain James T. Documentation provided with the Bandai model states that the ship was displayed in the Starfleet Museum at Memory Alpha, ultimately, Enterprise is destroyed to prevent Drakes completion of a disastrous personal agenda. Enterprise was already under construction at the time of its predecessors arrival at Star base Yorktown, following the destruction of its predecessor, its crew was reassigned to the NCC-1701-A after its completion. A new design for Enterprise NCC-1701-A appears in Star Trek Beyond, USS Enterprise at Memory Alpha USS Enterprise at Memory Alpha
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The USS Enterprise -A
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Replica of the Enterprise -A in
Vulcan, Alberta
