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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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Redshirt (character)
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A redshirt is a stock character in fiction who dies soon after being introduced. The term originates from the original Star Trek television series in which the security personnel frequently die during episodes. Redshirt deaths are often used to dramatize the potential peril that the characters face. In Star Trek, red-uniformed security officers and engineers who accompany the characters on landing parties often suffer quick deaths. The trope first appears in the episode What Are Little Girls Made Of, of the 59 crew members killed in the series,43 were wearing red shirts. The Star Trek, Deep Space Nine book Legends of the Ferengi says Starfleet security personnel rarely survive beyond the act break. The cinematic reboot of the features a character named Olson who dies early on during a mission. In other media, the redshirt and images of characters wearing red shirts represent characters destined for suffering or death. Crabtrees instructions to remain on the bus and is torn apart by a big scary monster lurking in the shadows. The only character injured in the Buffy the Vampire Slayer episode Older and Far Away wears a red shirt, twenty-three minutes into the movie Spy Game, the target of a sniper assassination is referred to as a redshirt. Early scripts for Lost describe the character of Hurley as a redshirt, the term is also used in the Warehouse 13 episode Implosion. Slates review of Prometheus describes characters who meet grisly ends in the film as redshirts, the term was used by United States District Judge Otis D. Wright II in his May 2013 judgment against Prenda Law. He keeps repeating the phrase Im not a Redshirt to show that hes scared of being attacked, the term is used by Phil Coulson in the Agents of S. H. I. E. L. D. Episode The Man Behind the Shield when ridiculing Anton Ivanov, implying he is not notable within the world, cannon fodder Forlorn hope Greenshirts Sacrificial lamb Spear carrier Redshirt Blues Redshirt at Memory Alpha Redshirts, TV Tropes
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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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Vulcan (Star Trek)
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Vulcans are a fictional extraterrestrial humanoid species in the Star Trek franchise who originate from the planet Vulcan. In the various Star Trek television series and movies, they are noted for their attempt to live by logic and they were the first extraterrestrial species in the Star Trek universe to observe first contact protocol with humans. Vulcans are depicted as similar in appearance to humans, the main physical differences are their eyebrows and ears, the former are arched and upswept, while the latter feature pinnae that taper to a point at the top. The ears have been the subject of jokes on many occasions, Vulcans have been portrayed as various races. Most caucasoid-like Vulcans typically appear with a greenish hue to their skin, due to Vulcans copper-based blood. Other features described include an inner eyelid, or nictitating membrane, which protects their vision from bright lights, Vulcans are vegetarians by choice and were omnivores in ages past. Vulcans are repeatedly stated to be herbivorous in the TAS episode The Slaver Weapon, Vulcans do not like to touch their food with their hands, preferring to use utensils whenever possible. It is a Vulcan custom for guests in the home to prepare meals for their hosts, Vulcans are said to not drink alcohol, though they are depicted indulging on special occasions or as a storyline warrants. In the Star Trek, Voyager episode Repression, humans and Vulcans are shown drinking a Vulcan alcoholic drink called Vulcan Brandy, in Star Trek, First Contact, when the Vulcans first meet Zefram Cochrane, Cochrane serves them alcoholic beverages, which they take in lieu of dancing. In non-canon Trek-related literature, such as the novelization of Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home, There are references to Vulcans becoming inebriated by ingesting chocolate. The novelization of Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home also shows Spock reacting almost as if drunk to the ingestion of sucrose, or common table sugar and he tells Kirk that it has the same effect on Vulcans as alcohol does on humans. Once triggered, a Vulcan must have intercourse with someone. If this is not possible, meditation may be used to stabilize their chemical imbalances and help them cope, in the event that neither of these solutions can be achieved, the Vulcan will face insanity, loss of self-control, and death. If a mate is not available, there are ways to relieve the effects of the pon farr. The first is meditation, by means of which the Vulcan must overcome the urge to mate through mental discipline and this is seen in the Voyager episode Blood Fever, when BElanna Torres and Ensign Vorik fight in the traditional Vulcan manner. The violence ends the pon farr, the other option is extreme shock, in the TOS episode Amok Time, Spock believed he had killed James T. Kirk, his best friend, thus providing sufficient shock to nullify the effects of pon farr. When he experienced pon farr, Tuvok of the USS Voyager made use of a simulation of a temporary mate that resembled his wife. Infection is another mechanism writers have used to induce pon farr in Vulcan characters, likewise in the film Star Trek III, The Search for Spock, the regenerated adolescent Spock went through at least two pon farr episodes at accelerated speed
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Pressure point
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Pressure Point is an American punk band from Sacramento, California, formed in 1995 by Mike Erickson and Kenny Beasley. Pressure Point includes Mike Erickson, Kenny Beasley, Nate Alexander, Tony Courtney, Mike and Kenny have been the only two continuous members of the band since its creation. The band started out of the ashes of their former band Deep Six, one tour being with The Distillers and The Transplants. Lars Frederiksen of Rancid has produced 2 of their full-lengths, their EP and he also appeared on the song Here to Stay from their newest full-length, Resist and Riot
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Neck
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The neck is the part of the body, on many vertebrates, that separates the head from the torso or trunk. It contains blood vessels and nerves that supply structures in the head to the body. These in humans include part of the esophagus, the larynx, trachea, and thyroid gland, major blood vessels including the arteries and jugular veins. In anatomy, the neck is called by its Latin names, cervix or collum, although when used alone, in context, the word cervix more often refers to the uterine cervix. Thus the adjective cervical may refer either to the neck or to the uterine cervix, the neck contains vessels that links structures in the head to the body. In humans these structures include part of the esophagus, larynx, trachea, thyroid and parathyroid glands, lymph nodes, major blood vessels present include the carotid arteries and the jugular veins. Cervical lymph nodes surround the blood vessels, the thyroid gland and parathyroid gland are endocrine glands involved in the regulation of cellular metabolism and growth, and blood calcium levels. The shape of the neck in humans is formed from the part of the vertebral column at the back. Around these sit soft tissues, including muscles, and between and around these sit the other structures mentioned above, muscles of the neck attach to the base of the skull, the hyoid bone, the clavicles and the sternum. The large platysma, sternocleidomastoid muscles contribute to the shape at the front, a number of other muscles attach to and stem from the hyoid bone, facilitating speech and playing a role in swallowing. Sensation to the front areas of the neck comes from the roots of nerves C2-4, the cervical region of the human spine is made up of seven cervical vertebrae referred to as C-1 to C-7, with cartilaginous discs between each vertebral body. The spinal cord sits within the part of the vertebral column. The spinal column carries nerves that carry sensory and motor information from the brain down to the rest of the body, from top to bottom the cervical spine is gently curved in convex-forward fashion. In addition to coming from and within the human spine. In the middle line below the chin can be felt the body of the bone, just below which is the prominence of the thyroid cartilage called Adams apple. Still lower the cricoid cartilage is easily felt, while between this and the notch the trachea and isthmus of the thyroid gland may be made out. At the side the outline of the muscle is the most striking mark. The upper part of the former contains the submaxillary gland also known as the submandibular glands, the line of the common and the external carotid arteries may be marked by joining the sterno-clavicular articulation to the angle of the jaw
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Leonard Nimoy
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Leonard Simon Nimoy was an American actor, film director, photographer, author, singer and songwriter. He was known for his role as Spock of the Star Trek franchise, foreshadowing his fame as a semi-alien, he played Narab, one of three Martian invaders, in the 1952 movie serial Zombies of the Stratosphere. The character has had a significant cultural impact and garnered Nimoy three Emmy Award nominations, TV Guide named Spock one of the 50 greatest TV characters. After the original Star Trek series, Nimoy starred in Mission, narrated Civilization IV, and made several well-received stage appearances. He also had a role in the science fiction series Fringe. Nimoys public profile as Spock was so strong that both of his autobiographies, I Am Not Spock and I Am Spock, were written from the viewpoint of sharing his existence with the character, in 2015 an asteroid was named 4864 Nimoy in his honor. In September 2016, For the Love of Spock, a documentary that covered his life. Leonard Simon Nimoy was born on March 26,1931, in the West End of Boston, Massachusetts and they reunited after arriving in the United States. His mother, Dora, was a homemaker, and his father, Max Nimoy and he had an elder brother, Melvin. He also began acting at the age of eight in a childrens, Nimoy also realized he had an aptitude for singing, which he developed while a member of his synagogues choir. His singing during his bar mitzvah at age 13 was so good that he was asked to repeat his performance the week at another synagogue. He is still the only man I know whose voice was two bar mitzvahs good and his first major role was at 17, as Ralphie in an amateur production of Clifford Odets Awake and Sing. Which dealt with the struggles of a matriarchal Jewish family similar to his during the Great Depression, playing this teenage kid in this Jewish family that was so much like mine was amazing, he said. The same dynamics, the tensions in the household. The role lit a passion that led him to pursue an acting career, I never wanted to do anything else. Shatner notes that Nimoy also worked on radio shows for children, often voice acting Bible stories, adding, Obviously. Many years later as Captain Kirk, I would be busy rescuing civilizations in distress on distant planets while Leonards Mr. Spock would be examining the morality of man– and alienkind. Nimoy took drama classes at Boston College, and after moving to Los Angeles and he took method actor Marlon Brando as a role model, and like him, wore jeans and T-shirt
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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 Enemy Within (Star Trek: The Original Series)
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The Enemy Within is an episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek. It was first broadcast on October 6,1966 and it is the fifth episode of the first season, written by Richard Matheson and directed by Leo Penn. On stardate 1672.1, the Federation starship USS Enterprise is on an exploration of the planet Alpha 177. Geological Technician Fisher is injured after a fall and transported aboard the Enterprise, later, Captain Kirk transports back to the ship. The transporter apparently works correctly, but Kirk experiences some disorientation and they are unaware when the transporter activates a second time, materializing a second version of Kirk which behaves more maliciously than his counterpart. This evil Kirk begins to wander the ship, and those he encounters are confused by his behavior, Scott assists in beaming a dog-like animal specimen from the planet, but he and the others are surprised when two identical creatures materialize - one completely docile and the other vicious. Scott surmises that the ore dust has caused the transporter to split the personalities of those they beamed up, creating a good and evil counterpair. Scott reports this to Mr Spock and then orders the transporters taken out of service to investigate, elsewhere on the ship, the good Kirk begins to feel uncertain, and is unable to make decisions that could affect the safety of the ship and crew. Meanwhile, the evil Kirk, in a state, attempts to assault Yeoman Janice Rand in her quarters. When she tries to escape and gain help from Fisher, the evil Kirk attacks and knocks him out, the evil Kirk hears this announcement and finds makeup to mask his injury, while securing a phaser from another security officer, before going into hiding in Engineering. The good Kirk considers what his evil self would do, though there is a brief scuffle, Spock is able to disable the evil Kirk with a Vulcan nerve pinch. Spock recognizes both Kirks are suffering fatigue, and they must find a way to reverse the accident, not only to save Kirk. Spock and Scott attempt to use power from the impulse drive to reverse the transporter on the dog-like specimen. The two continue to work on making sure Kirk will not suffer the same fate, in Sickbay, where both Kirks wait, the evil Kirk appeals to the good Kirks compassion, to release his bonds, allowing him to overpower his other self and escape to the bridge. There, he orders the crew to orbit, telling the navigator that the landing party cannot be saved. The good Kirk and McCoy race to the bridge, where the two Kirks face off, distressed, the evil Kirk begs for mercy, claiming he only wants to live, to which the good Kirk reassuringly replies they will both live on as parts of each other. The process is completed successfully, with Kirk rejoined as one being, with his sense of command and good will restored, Kirk quickly orders the landing party beamed up, where they are found to be safe despite the cold. Kirk gives Spock his thanks - from both of us and this episode is one of the small group for which a full score was written, in this case by Sol Kaplan
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Knockout
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A full knockout is considered any legal strike or combination thereof that renders an opponent unable to continue fighting. The term is associated with a sudden traumatic loss of consciousness caused by a physical blow. Single powerful blows to the head can produce a cerebral concussion or a carotid sinus reflex with syncope and cause a sudden, body blows, particularly the liver punch, can cause progressive, debilitating pain that can also result in a KO. For example, if a boxer is knocked down and is unable to continue the fight within a count, they are counted as having been knocked out. In mixed martial arts competitions, no time count is given after a knockdown, if a fighter loses consciousness as a result of legal strikes it is declared a KO. Even if the fighter loses consciousness for a moment and wakes up again to continue to fight. As many MMA fights can take place on the mat rather than standing, it is possible to score a KO via ground and pound, a technical knockout, or stoppage, is declared when the referee or official ring physician decide that a fighter cannot safely continue the match. The referee can stop the fight at any time if they feel a fighter cannot safely continue, for if a fighter has been down once. In boxing, if a fighter is knocked down and the stops the bout without a count. However, TKO can only occur when the fight is stopped by the referee, in both boxing and MMA the referee declares TKO when a fighter is not intelligently defending himself while being repeatedly struck. In amateur boxing, a knockout is scored as referee stopped contest, types of technical knockouts, Doctors stoppage/injury, The fighter has suffered an injury and cannot continue the match safely. In some cases, an injury, once a match becomes official is grounds for the fight being declared finished. Corner stoppage/retirement, The fighter is being battered, to the point where it is too dangerous for him to continue. In some cases, the fighter may have been injured, the fighters corner decides to surrender on the fighters behalf to prevent unnecessary damage or potential injury. Stoppage because of strikes, The fighter is overwhelmed by strikes, the referee intervenes to avoid unnecessary damage or potential injury. Multiple knockdowns, The fighter is knocked down three times during a round, or in some sanctioning bodies, four in a fight. A technical knockout goes down as a knockout in a boxers record, little is known about what exactly causes one to be knocked unconscious, but many agree it is related to trauma to the brain stem. This usually happens when the head rotates sharply, often as a result of a strike, a basic principle of boxing and other combat sports is to defend against this vulnerability by keeping both hands raised about the face and the chin tucked in
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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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Vietnam War
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It was the second of the Indochina Wars and was officially fought between North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam. The war is considered a Cold War-era proxy war. As the war continued, the actions of the Viet Cong decreased as the role. U. S. and South Vietnamese forces relied on air superiority and overwhelming firepower to conduct search and destroy operations, involving ground forces, artillery, in the course of the war, the U. S. conducted a large-scale strategic bombing campaign against North Vietnam. The North Vietnamese government and the Viet Cong were fighting to reunify Vietnam and they viewed the conflict as a colonial war and a continuation of the First Indochina War against forces from France and later on the United States. The U. S. government viewed its involvement in the war as a way to prevent a communist takeover of South Vietnam and this was part the domino theory of a wider containment policy, with the stated aim of stopping the spread of communism. Beginning in 1950, American military advisors arrived in what was then French Indochina, U. S. involvement escalated in the early 1960s, with troop levels tripling in 1961 and again in 1962. Regular U. S. combat units were deployed beginning in 1965, despite the Paris Peace Accord, which was signed by all parties in January 1973, the fighting continued. In the U. S. and the Western world, a large anti-Vietnam War movement developed as part of a larger counterculture, the war changed the dynamics between the Eastern and Western Blocs, and altered North–South relations. Direct U. S. military involvement ended on 15 August 1973, the capture of Saigon by the North Vietnamese Army in April 1975 marked the end of the war, and North and South Vietnam were reunified the following year. The war exacted a huge human cost in terms of fatalities, estimates of the number of Vietnamese soldiers and civilians killed vary from 966,000 to 3.8 million. Some 240, 000–300,000 Cambodians,20, 000–62,000 Laotians, and 58,220 U. S. service members died in the conflict. Various names have applied to the conflict. Vietnam War is the most commonly used name in English and it has also been called the Second Indochina War and the Vietnam Conflict. As there have been several conflicts in Indochina, this conflict is known by the names of its primary protagonists to distinguish it from others. In Vietnamese, the war is known as Kháng chiến chống Mỹ. It is also called Chiến tranh Việt Nam, France began its conquest of Indochina in the late 1850s, and completed pacification by 1893. The 1884 Treaty of Huế formed the basis for French colonial rule in Vietnam for the seven decades
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Eugene McCarthy
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Eugene Joseph Gene McCarthy was an American politician, poet, and a long-time Congressman from Minnesota. He served in the U. S. House of Representatives from 1949 to 1959, fellow Minnesotan US Vice-President Hubert Humphrey also entered the race after Johnsons withdrawal. McCarthy would unsuccessfully seek the five times altogether. McCarthy was born in Watkins, Minnesota, McCarthy grew up in Watkins, as one of four children, and attended St. Anthonys Catholic School in Watkins. A bright student who spent hours reading his aunts Harvard Classics, he was influenced by the monks at nearby St. Johns Abbey. McCarthy spent nine months as a novice before he left the monastery, causing a fellow novice to say, McCarthy graduated in 1932 from Saint Johns Preparatory School in Collegeville, Minnesota. He graduated in 1935 from Saint Johns University in Collegeville, Minnesota, McCarthy earned his masters degree from the University of Minnesota in 1939. He taught in public schools in Minnesota and North Dakota from 1935 to 1940. In 1943, considering the contemplative life of a monk, he became a Benedictine novice at Saint Johns Abbey. McCarthy left the novitiate after nine months and enlisted in the Army, serving as a code breaker for the Military Intelligence Division of the War Department in Washington, D. C. in 1944. He was then an instructor in sociology and economics at the College of St. Thomas, St. Paul, McCarthy became a member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party. In 1948 he won election to the United States House of Representatives with labor and Catholic support and he became the leader of young liberals, predominately from the Mid-West, called McCarthys Marauders. In 1952 he engaged Wisconsin Senator Joseph McCarthy in a televised debate in which he parodied the Senators arguments to prove that General Douglas MacArthur had been a communist pawn. In 1958 he won election to the U. S. Senate and he served as a member of the powerful Senate Foreign Relations Committee. McCarthy became known to an audience in 1960 when he supported twice-defeated Presidential candidate Adlai Stevenson for the Democratic nomination. He pleaded during his speech, Do not reject this man who made us all proud to be called Democrats. He joked about his own merits as a candidate, Im twice as liberal as Hubert Humphrey, twice as intelligent as Stuart Symington and he was considered as a possible running mate for Lyndon Johnson in 1964, only to see fellow Minnesota Senator Humphrey chosen for that position. Along with Ted Kennedy, McCarthy was one of the original co-sponsors of the Immigration Act of 1965, taking a turn to the right, McCarthy became a member of the Board of Advisors of the Federation for American Immigration Reform
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William Shatner
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William Shatner is a Canadian actor, author, producer, and director. In his seven decades of television, Shatner became an icon for his portrayal of James T. Kirk, Captain of the USS Enterprise. He has written a series of books chronicling his experiences playing Captain Kirk and being a part of Star Trek and he has written a series of science fiction novels called TekWar, which were adapted for television. Shatner also appeared in the NBC series, 3rd Rock from the Sun in seasons 4 and 5 as the role of the Big Giant Head whom the characters of the Series reported to. He has worked as a musician, an author, a director, and he starred as attorney Denny Crane in the final season of the legal drama The Practice and its spinoff series Boston Legal, a role that earned him two Emmy Awards. Shatner was born on March 22,1931, in the Notre-Dame-de-Grâce neighbourhood of Montreal, Quebec, Canada, the son of Anne and Joseph Shatner and he has two sisters, Joy and Farla. His paternal grandfather, Wolf Schattner, anglicized the name to Shatner. All of Shatners grandparents were Jewish immigrants, and he was raised in Conservative Judaism, Shatner attended two schools in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce, Willingdon Elementary School and Westhill High School, and is an alumnus of the Montreal Childrens Theatre. He studied Economics at the McGill University Faculty of Management in Montreal, Canada, in June 2011, McGill University awarded him an honorary Doctorate of Letters. Shatner began performing at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Ontario, in 1954, he was cast as Ranger Bob on The Canadian Howdy Doody Show. Shatner was an understudy to Christopher Plummer, the two would appear as adversaries in Star Trek VI, The Undiscovered Country. Shatner had a role in an Alfred Hitchcock Presents third-season episode titled The Glass Eye. In 1959, he received good reviews when he played the role of Lomax in the Broadway production of The World of Suzie Wong. He appeared twice as Wayne Gorham in NBCs Outlaws Western series with Barton MacLane, in 1961, he starred in the Broadway play A Shot in the Dark with Julie Harris and directed by Harold Clurman. Walter Matthau and Gene Saks were also featured in this play, Shatner featured in two episodes of the NBC television series Thriller and the film The Explosive Generation. Guthrie had called the young Shatner the Stratford Festivals most promising actor, Shatner was not as successful as the others, however, and during the 1960s he became a working actor who showed up on time, knew his lines, worked cheap and always answered his phone. His motto was Work equals work, but Shatners willingness to take any role, no matter how forgettable, in the 1963–1964 season, he appeared in episodes of two ABC series, Channing and The Outer Limits. In 1963, he starred in the Family Theater production called The Soldier and that same year, he guest starred in Route 66, in the episode, Build Your Houses with Their Backs to the Sea
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Android (robot)
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An android is a humanoid robot or synthetic organism designed to look and act like a human, especially one with a body having a flesh-like resemblance. Historically, androids remained completely within the domain of science fiction where they are seen in film. Only recently have advancements in technology allowed the design of functional. The word was coined from the Greek root ἀνδρ-, man, while the term android is used in reference to human-looking robots in general, a robot with a female appearance can also be referred to as a gynoid. The Oxford English Dictionary traces the earliest use to Ephraim Chambers Cyclopaedia, the term android appears in US patents as early as 1863 in reference to miniature human-like toy automatons. The term android was used in a modern sense by the French author Auguste Villiers de lIsle-Adam in his work Tomorrows Eve. This story features an artificial humanlike robot named Hadaly, as said by the officer in the story, In this age of Realien advancement, who knows what goes on in the mind of those responsible for these mechanical dolls. Although Karel Čapeks robots in R. U. R, —the play that introduced the word robot to the world—were organic artificial humans, the word robot has come to primarily refer to mechanical humans, animals, and other beings. The term android can mean one of these, while a cyborg would be a creature that is a combination of organic. The word android was used in Star Trek, The Original Series episode What Are Little Girls Made Of. The abbreviation andy, coined as a pejorative by writer Philip K. Dick in his novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep. has seen some further usage, authors have used the term android in more diverse ways than robot or cyborg. In some fictional works, the difference between a robot and android is only their appearance, with androids being made to look like humans on the outside, in other stories, authors have used the word android to mean a wholly organic, yet artificial, creation. Other fictional depictions of androids fall somewhere in between, several projects aiming to create androids that look, and, to a certain degree, speak or act like a human being have been launched or are underway. In 2006, Kokoro Co. developed a new DER2 android, the height of the human body part of DER2 is 165 cm. DER2 can not only change its expression but also move its hands and feet, the air servosystem which Kokoro Co. developed originally is used for the actuator. As a result of having an actuator controlled precisely with air pressure via a servosystem, DER2 realized a slimmer body than that of the former version by using a smaller cylinder. Outwardly DER2 has a more beautiful proportion, compared to the previous model, DER2 has thinner arms and a wider repertoire of expressions. Once programmed, it is able to choreograph its motions and gestures with its voice, the Intelligent Mechatronics Lab, directed by Hiroshi Kobayashi at the Tokyo University of Science, has developed an android head called Saya, which was exhibited at Robodex 2002 in Yokohama, Japan
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Data (Star Trek)
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Data is a character in the fictional Star Trek franchise. He appears in the television series Star Trek, The Next Generation and the feature films Star Trek, Generations, Star Trek, First Contact, Star Trek, Insurrection, Data is portrayed by actor Brent Spiner. Data was found by Starfleet in 2338 as a sole survivor on Omicron Theta in the rubble of a colony left after an attack from the Crystalline Entity and his positronic brain allows him impressive computational capabilities. This goal eventually led to the addition of a chip, also created by Soong. Gene Roddenberry told Brent Spiner that over the course of the series, Data was to more and more like a human until the end of the show, when he would be very close. That was the idea and thats the way that the writers took it, Spiner felt that Data exhibited the Chaplinesque characteristics of a sad, tragic clown. To get into his role as Data, Spiner used the character of Robby the Robot from the film Forbidden Planet as a role model. Commenting on Datas perpetual albino-like appearance, he said, I spent more hours of the day in make-up than out of make-up, Spiner also portrayed Datas manipulative and malignant brother Lore, and Datas creator, Dr. Noonien Soong. Additionally, he portrayed another Soong-type android, B-4, in the film Star Trek Nemesis, Spiner said his favorite Data scene takes place in Descent, when Data plays poker on the holodeck with a re-creation of the famous physicist Stephen Hawking, played by Hawking himself. Spiner reprised his role of Data in the Star Trek, Enterprise series finale These Are the Voyages. in a speaking part. Spiner felt that he had aged out of the role. Dialog in Datalore establishes some of Datas backstory and it is stated that he was deactivated in 2336 on Omicron Theta before an attack by the Crystalline Entity, a spaceborne creature which converts life forms to energy for sustenance. He was found and reactivated by Starfleet personnel two years later, Data went to Starfleet Academy from 2341–45 and then served in Starfleet aboard the USS Trieste. He was assigned to the Enterprise under Captain Jean-Luc Picard in 2364, in Datalore, Data discovers his amoral brother, Lore, and learns that he was created after Lore. Lore fails in an attempt to betray the Enterprise to the Crystalline Entity, in Brothers, Data reunites with Dr. Soong. There he meets again with Lore, who steals the emotion chip Soong meant for Data to receive, Lore returns in the two-part episode Descent, using the emotion chip to control Data and make him help with Lores attempt to make the Borg entirely artificial lifeforms. Data eventually deactivates Lore, and recovers, but does not install the damaged emotion chip, in The Measure of a Man, a Starfleet judge rules that Data is not Starfleet property. The episode establishes that Data has a capacity of 800 quadrillion bits
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Odo (Star Trek)
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Odo /ˈoʊdoʊ/, played by René Auberjonois, is a fictional character in the science fiction television series Star Trek, Deep Space Nine. He is a member of a species called Changelings and serves as the head of security for the space station Deep Space Nine on which the show is set. One of the hundred sent out by the Founders long ago to explore the galaxy and it is unclear how long he had been adrift. Since Odo had not yet learned how to morph into a humanoid appearance, Bajoran scientists, not sure of what Odo actually was, put him in a container and labeled it unknown sample. The Cardassian overseers translated this into their own language as odoital, even after it became clear that Odo was sentient, the scientists kept calling him that, giving him the name Odo Ital, which was eventually shortened to simply Odo. While Mora regarded himself as a father of sorts to Odo, Odo felt intense hostility toward Mora and their relationship was difficult, but eventually they did reach a certain understanding. Odo modelled his appearance on Dr. Mora, but never had the skill to duplicate humanoid features with precision. Due to his treatment at the hands of the Cardassians, Odo is extremely uncomfortable changing into his state in the presence of witnesses. As a Changeling, Odo can alter his appearance at will to camouflage his presence, after 18 hours in solid form, he must revert to his gelatinous state in order to rest. Originally, he uses a bucket for this purpose, which he keeps in his office, from this point on, he uses the bucket as a pot for a house plant given to him by Kira Nerys. The other Founders refer to non-shapeshifters as solids or monoforms, while Odo occasionally calls them you humanoids, due to his status as an impartial outsider, he was sometimes employed by Bajorans to settle disputes. During the occupation, Gul Dukat had originally enlisted Odo to investigate the murder of one of the Bajoran station workers, since Odo was seen as a neutral observer, sympathising with no one, he was considered a valuable security officer. Odos early career on Terok Nor hit a snag when he investigated an attempt on Dukat. Three Bajoran workers were initially linked to the attack, and Odo, eager to enforce the rule of law and quickly conclude the investigation, hurriedly convicted them and allowed them to be executed. Soon after, Odo discovered that all three men were innocent and that his lax investigative procedures caused a miscarriage of justice. This prompted Odo to be much more insistent on actual justice, up until this time, Odo was unaware of his people and his ancestry. A criminal showed him a necklace containing an apparently non-sentient shape-shifter in the episode Vortex, later, in the episode The Alternate, Dr. Mora visits Odo at Deep Space Nine and travels with him to the Gamma Quadrant to investigate a planet with a similar lifeform. It isnt until later that Odo learns that his people are the leaders of the Dominion
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USS Voyager (NCC-74656)
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The fictional Intrepid-class starship USS Voyager is the primary setting of the science fiction television series Star Trek, Voyager. It is commanded by Captain Kathryn Janeway, Voyager was designed by Star Trek, Voyager production designer Richard D. James and illustrator Rick Sternbach. Most of the ships on-screen appearances result from computer-generated imagery, although Tony Meinenger built a model used in the series, the principal model of Voyager used for filming sold at Christies auction in 2006 for USD $132,000. The crews first orders were to track down a Maquis ship in the Badlands, an alien force called the Caretaker transports both Voyager and the Maquis vessel across 70,000 light-years to the Delta Quadrant, damaging Voyager and killing several crewmembers. To prevent a genocide of the Ocampans, Janeway orders the destruction of a device that could transport Voyager, stranded, and with the Maquis ship also destroyed, both crews must integrate and work together for the anticipated 75-year journey home. Starfleet Command eventually becomes aware of the presence in the Delta Quadrant and is later able to establish regular communication. After a seven-year journey, the returns to the Alpha Quadrant via a Borg transwarp conduit with the aid of the time-traveling Admiral Kathryn Janeway from an alternate future. USS Voyager was launched with 141 crew on board, as of 2377, the crew complement was at 146, having gained some crew from the Maquis, the Equinox, Samantha Wildmans child Naomi, and several liberated Borg drones, including Seven of Nine and Icheb. Several recurring characters include Naomi Wildman, the Captains Assistant and daughter of Ensign Samantha Wildman, and the Borg children, Icheb, Mezoti, Azan, the 15-deck,700,000 tonne Voyager was built at the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards and launched from Earth Station McKinley. Voyager is equipped with bio-neural gel packs, designed to increase processing speed and better organize processed information, the ship had 47 spare gel packs and could not replicate additional packs. The ship also has two holodecks, Voyager was the first ship to be equipped with a class-9 warp drive, which was intended to be tested in deep space, allowing for a maximum sustainable speed of Warp 9.975. Variable geometry pylons allow Voyager and other Intrepid class ships to exceed warp 5 without damaging subspace, like the Galaxy Class, Voyagers warp nacelles are below the primary hull. Voyager is capable of planetary landings, unlike the Galaxy Class, the ship cannot separate the saucer during an emergency, instead, it ejects the warp core. Voyager includes an Emergency Medical Hologram programmed with a library of more than 5 million different medical treatments from 2,000 medical references and 47 physicians, the hologram itself is generated by a series of holographic emitters installed in sickbay. Voyagers EMH is eventually able to leave due to a piece of 29th century technology commonly referred to as the mobile emitter. The ship is equipped with 38 photon torpedoes with type VI warheads. Quantum torpedoes were also compatible with Voyagers launchers, with some modification, Voyager housed five standard torpedo launchers able to fire up to four torpedoes per launcher at once. In the final episode, an alternate future Kathryn Janeway equips the ship with transphasic torpedoes, several pieces of technology from the future were also installed in the final episode, courtesy of Admiral Janeway who went back in time to bring Voyager home
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Hologram
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Holography is the science and practice of making holograms. The hologram itself is not an image and it is usually unintelligible when viewed under diffuse ambient light and it is an encoding of the light field as an interference pattern of seemingly random variations in the opacity, density, or surface profile of the photographic medium. In its pure form, holography requires the use of light for illuminating the subject. A microscopic level of detail throughout the volume of space can be reproduced. Holograms can now also be entirely computer-generated and show objects or scenes that never existed, stage illusions such as Peppers Ghost and other unusual, baffling, or seemingly magical images are also often incorrectly called holograms. The Hungarian-British physicist Dennis Gabor, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1971 for his invention and development of the holographic method. His work, done in the late 1940s, was built on pioneering work in the field of X-ray microscopy by other scientists including Mieczysław Wolfke in 1920 and William Lawrence Bragg in 1939. The discovery was a result of research into improving electron microscopes at the British Thomson-Houston Company in Rugby, England. The word holography comes from the Greek words ὅλος and γραφή, early holograms used silver halide photographic emulsions as the recording medium. They were not very efficient as the produced grating absorbed much of the incident light, various methods of converting the variation in transmission to a variation in refractive index were developed which enabled much more efficient holograms to be produced. Several types of holograms can be made, a later refinement, the rainbow transmission hologram, allows more convenient illumination by white light rather than by lasers. Rainbow holograms are used for security and authentication, for example, on credit cards. They are also capable of multicolour-image reproduction, specular holography is a related technique for making three-dimensional images by controlling the motion of specularities on a two-dimensional surface. It works by reflectively or refractively manipulating bundles of light rays, most holograms produced are of static objects but systems for displaying changing scenes on a holographic volumetric display are now being developed. Holograms can also be used to store, retrieve, and process information optically and it was thought that it would be possible to use X-rays to make holograms of very small objects and view them using visible light. Today, holograms with x-rays are generated by using synchrotrons or x-ray free-electron lasers as radiation sources, the reconstruction is then retrieved via computation. Due to the wavelength of x-rays compared to visible light. As free-electron lasers can provide ultrashort and x-ray pulses in the range of femtoseconds which are intense and coherent, in laser holography, the hologram is recorded using a source of laser light, which is very pure in its color and orderly in its composition
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The Doctor (Star Trek)
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The Doctor, an Emergency Medical Hologram Mark I, is a fictional character from the television series Star Trek, Voyager, played by actor Robert Picardo. The character also appeared in the now-closed Star Trek, The Experience amusement exhibition at the Las Vegas Hilton, the Doctor began his service on the USS Voyager as the standard Emergency Medical Hologram built into almost every newer Starfleet ships sickbay. The EMH is for use should the ships doctor be incapacitated, in the series first episode, Voyagers Chief Medical Officer, along with his Vulcan nurse, were killed, necessitating extended use of the EMH. The EMH eventually developed his own personality, although he maintained his acerbic wit. As he was intended as a temporary medical backup system, not as a digital life form. His cohorts were Kes and Tom Paris, both of whom functioned as nurses, attempting to develop a realistic personality, The Doctor not only manufactured a holographic family, he had an increasing number of other human experiences. This resulted in The Doctors program evolving to become more lifelike and he developed meaningful and complex relationships with many members of the ships crew. The Doctor also developed talents as a playwright, artist, and photographer, a recurring theme was the ethical aspects of an artificial, yet apparently sentient, being. In Latent Image treating two patients with a chance of survival, with only enough time to treat one, The Doctor chose Harry Kim. The other patient, Ensign Jetal, died, the Doctor was overwhelmed with guilt, believing that his friendship influenced his choice. When the stress led to his program breaking down, Captain Janeway had his memories of these events deleted. The Doctor submitted a holonovel titled Photons Be Free to a publisher on Earth and his characters were closely based on Voyagers crew, but exaggerated to appear more intense and vicious, creating fears among the crew their reputations would be ruined. Tom Paris convinced The Doctor to make adjustments without sacrificing his theme, the Doctor lacked legal rights as Federation law did not classify him as a sentient being. Thus he was forbidden to any subsequent changes to the holonovel. Captain Janeways efforts resulted in The Doctor being accorded the status of artist and this permitted him to rewrite the novel. Four months later, it was throughout the Alpha Quadrant as a very thought-provoking piece of work. Several other EMHs, now relegated to mining duty, experienced the novel, the Doctors standard greeting was Please state the nature of the medical emergency when activated, though later modified to say whatever he chose. He was later given the ability to activate and deactivate himself, the Doctor later acquired a mobile holographic emitter from the 29th century
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Jean-Luc Picard
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Jean-Luc Picard is a fictional character in the Star Trek franchise, most often seen as Captain of the starship USS Enterprise-D. He is most notably portrayed by actor Patrick Stewart, after the success of the contemporary Star Trek feature films, a new Star Trek television series featuring a new cast was announced on October 10,1986. Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry named Picard for one or both of the twin brothers Auguste Piccard and Jean Felix Piccard, 20th-century Swiss scientists, Patrick Stewart, who has a background of theatre at the Royal Shakespeare Company, was initially considered for the role of Data. Roddenberry did not want to cast Stewart as Picard, since he had envisioned an actor who was masculine, virile and he had his toupee delivered from London to meet with Paramount executives, but Roddenberry ordered Stewart to remove the awful looking hairpiece. Stewarts stentorian voice impressed the executives, who approved the casting. As the series progressed, Stewart exercised more control over the characters development, there was a sort of double action that occurred. In one sense Picard was expanding like this and at the time he was also growing closer and closer to me as well. I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well, Stewart stated, however, that he is not nearly as serious or brooding as his alter ego. Stewart also stated, One of the delights of having done this series, several years after the series has ended. I enjoy hearing how much people enjoyed the work we did and its always gratifying to me that this bald, middle-aged Englishman seems to connect with them. Stewart has also commented that his role has helped open up Shakespeare to science fiction fans. He has noted the presence of Trekkies in the audience whenever he plays theater. And they say, Ive never seen Shakespeare before, I didnt think Id understand it, jean-Luc Picard was born to Maurice and Yvette Picard in La Barre, France, on 13 July 2305, and he dreamed of joining Starfleet. He and the rest of his family speak English, with English accents—the French language having become obscure by the 24th century, as mentioned in the Next Generation episode Code of Honor. Shortly after graduation, Picard was stabbed in the heart by a Nausicaan, leaving the organ irreparable and requiring replacement with a parthenogenetic implant, Picard eventually served as first officer aboard the USS Stargazer, which he later commanded. During that time, he invented a warp-speed starship battle tactic that would become known as the Picard Maneuver, though such resolutions are usually peaceful, Picard is also shown using his remarkable tactical cunning in situations when it is required. Picard has a fondness for stories, Shakespearean drama. He is frequently shown drinking Earl Grey tea and issuing the order, Make it so, or, Star Trek, The Next Generation depicts Picards command of the USS Enterprise
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Seven of Nine
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Seven of Nine is a fictional character who appears in seasons four through seven of the American science fiction television series Star Trek, Voyager. Portrayed by Jeri Ryan, she is a former Borg drone who joins the crew of the Federation starship Voyager and her full Borg designation is Seven of Nine, Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero One. Seven was introduced in the part of the episode Scorpion. The character continued to appear throughout the series until the final episode, stories related to her relationships with Captain Janeway and The Doctor appeared throughout the series, and she was involved in a romantic relationship with Chakotay towards the end of season seven. Several episodes such as The Raven explored her background and younger life as Annika Hansen before she was assimilated by the Borg, following the third season of Star Trek, Voyager, the production team decided that the main cast character of Kes was to be dropped from the show. It was decided that Captain Kathryn Janeway needed a contrasting character, in addition, it had been a previous Star Trek staple to have a character that could provide a third-person view on the human condition. Prior examples had been Spock in Star Trek, The Original Series and Data in Star Trek, after being cast, actress Jeri Ryan acknowledged she had hardly even seen Star Trek, and had no idea what the Borg were. To prepare her, the gave her a copy of Star Trek, First Contact. She was specifically not to base her performance on the Borg Queen from the film as she was a completely different animal and were creating something entirely new. Her acting experience up until this point had consisted of television movies and her audition process consisted of two readings for the producers, before Ryan was asked to come in to talk through the part with the executive producers, Jeri Taylor, Rick Berman and Brannon Braga. Following this, she tested for the network and was told that her option had been picked up and she remarked of her experience of joining the team on Voyager, It was a little awkward since the cast had been together for three years already. And one of the characters was being written out pretty much at the same time I was being added. But the cast was terrific, and very welcoming and her hairstyling usually took as long as that combined. In the following years, the Voyager writers wrote several plot lines revolving around Sevens exploration of the positive and negative sides of human individuality, the cyborg nature of the character is seen as representing a challenge to simple conceptions of connections/disconnections between bodies. Ryan maintained that the topic about Seven was humanity and stated that her character was pivotal to the success of the show, because she brought conflict to the show. The Voyager crew was just one big happy family, after the addition of the former Borg drone to the starships crew at the start of the fourth season of Voyager, the shows weekly viewer ratings increased by more than 60%. Ryans arrival on the show was accompanied by a publicity campaign in TV magazines. Ryan thought that the increase may have been because of the way the character looked and she also remarked that combining non-human qualities with an attractive human appearance, as in Sevens character, was a great move by the producers
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Jonathan Archer
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Jonathan Archer is a fictional character in the Star Trek franchise. He is the protagonist of the television series Star Trek, Enterprise, Archer also plays a major role in the formation of Starfleet and the United Federation of Planets. Archer is the officer of the first starship Enterprise from 2151 to 2161. According to a display in the episode In a Mirror, Darkly. The same display states that two planets were named after Archer, Archer IV and Archers Planet, the second-season episode First Flight depicted in flashback that he spent many years as a test pilot in the nascent Starfleets NX program, based in San Francisco. His dreams of exploring started as a boy, as a youth, Archer earned the Eagle Scout Award, along with 26 Merit Badges, from the Boy Scouts of America. He is an avid Water polo fan, often relaxing by watching water polo games, Archer grew up with a distrust of Vulcans, perceiving them as having held back Humanitys progress, particularly with regard to his fathers warp five engine. As a commander in Starfleet, Archer served as a pilot in the NX warp trials with A. G. Robinson, Duvall, Robinson pushed the limits of a test ship, the NX-Alpha, resulting in its destruction. Although Archer was suspended for the act, it is believed his risk eventually secured his role as Captain of Enterprise, as a man who loves to travel amongst the stars, Archer realizes being captain is a larger duty than manager and astronomer. He ran into species from all over the quadrant trying to kill him, encounters with the Mazarites, Tholians, Suliban and Klingons caused Archer to become more of a military commander. In addition, Archer learns that the duties of captain include being a diplomat, during Seasons 1 and 2, he is somewhat uncomfortable with this role, especially in the episode A Night In Sickbay when Porthos contracts a deadly illness on an alien world. While exploring, Archer becomes an enemy of the Klingons, with his escape, a bounty is put on Archers head and tensions with the Klingon Empire increase. Although initially optimistic, Archer becomes involved in his first mission as captain of Enterprise in the middle of the Temporal Cold War, the Temporal Cold War begins at the beginning of the pilot episode, Broken Bow. In that episode, the audience is introduced to the Suliban, as the Temporal Cold War continues, Archer also meets Daniels, whose purpose seemingly is to safeguard Archer in particular and Enterprise in general. In Season 3, he was the Military commander in the Expanse, following the Xindi attack on Earth in 2153, Archer becomes a changed man. No longer a congenial captain, he is now driven and determined to seek out, while on his mission to locate the Xindi, Archer is briefly transformed into a member of the extinct Loqueeque by a mutagenic virus. Later, he is infected by parasites, creating an alternate timeline in which the Enterprises mission fails. With the help of Daniels, Archer, along with TPol, by the end of the season, Archer is presumed dead when the Xindi superweapon is destroyed
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Katra (Star Trek)
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Vulcans are a fictional extraterrestrial humanoid species in the Star Trek franchise who originate from the planet Vulcan. In the various Star Trek television series and movies, they are noted for their attempt to live by logic and they were the first extraterrestrial species in the Star Trek universe to observe first contact protocol with humans. Vulcans are depicted as similar in appearance to humans, the main physical differences are their eyebrows and ears, the former are arched and upswept, while the latter feature pinnae that taper to a point at the top. The ears have been the subject of jokes on many occasions, Vulcans have been portrayed as various races. Most caucasoid-like Vulcans typically appear with a greenish hue to their skin, due to Vulcans copper-based blood. Other features described include an inner eyelid, or nictitating membrane, which protects their vision from bright lights, Vulcans are vegetarians by choice and were omnivores in ages past. Vulcans are repeatedly stated to be herbivorous in the TAS episode The Slaver Weapon, Vulcans do not like to touch their food with their hands, preferring to use utensils whenever possible. It is a Vulcan custom for guests in the home to prepare meals for their hosts, Vulcans are said to not drink alcohol, though they are depicted indulging on special occasions or as a storyline warrants. In the Star Trek, Voyager episode Repression, humans and Vulcans are shown drinking a Vulcan alcoholic drink called Vulcan Brandy, in Star Trek, First Contact, when the Vulcans first meet Zefram Cochrane, Cochrane serves them alcoholic beverages, which they take in lieu of dancing. In non-canon Trek-related literature, such as the novelization of Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home, There are references to Vulcans becoming inebriated by ingesting chocolate. The novelization of Star Trek IV, The Voyage Home also shows Spock reacting almost as if drunk to the ingestion of sucrose, or common table sugar and he tells Kirk that it has the same effect on Vulcans as alcohol does on humans. Once triggered, a Vulcan must have intercourse with someone. If this is not possible, meditation may be used to stabilize their chemical imbalances and help them cope, in the event that neither of these solutions can be achieved, the Vulcan will face insanity, loss of self-control, and death. If a mate is not available, there are ways to relieve the effects of the pon farr. The first is meditation, by means of which the Vulcan must overcome the urge to mate through mental discipline and this is seen in the Voyager episode Blood Fever, when BElanna Torres and Ensign Vorik fight in the traditional Vulcan manner. The violence ends the pon farr, the other option is extreme shock, in the TOS episode Amok Time, Spock believed he had killed James T. Kirk, his best friend, thus providing sufficient shock to nullify the effects of pon farr. When he experienced pon farr, Tuvok of the USS Voyager made use of a simulation of a temporary mate that resembled his wife. Infection is another mechanism writers have used to induce pon farr in Vulcan characters, likewise in the film Star Trek III, The Search for Spock, the regenerated adolescent Spock went through at least two pon farr episodes at accelerated speed
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Surak
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Surak is a fictional character in the backstory of the Star Trek television series and franchises. He is portrayed as the most important philosopher in the history of the planet Vulcan and this period in Vulcan history is referred to as the Time of Awakening. Soon after Suraks death, these Vulcan recidivists abandon their homeworld to colonize the planets Romulus and Remus. His spirit, or katra, is transferred into an urn which remains entombed and undisturbed until its rediscovery after two millennia by a Vulcan character, Syrran, in the 22nd century. Syrran places Suraks katra within his own mind, which leads Syrran to create a group called Syrranites dedicated to returning Vulcan civilization to the teachings of Surak. Before dying of his wounds, Syrran places Suraks katra into Archers mind, experiencing a hallucination, Archer finds himself conversing with Surak within his own mind. Together, they witness the explosion that had occurred on Vulcan 1,800 years earlier. It is implied that those responsible for setting off the nuclear attack are a splinter group of Vulcans that reject Suraks philosophy. A subsequent attempt to transfer Suraks katra to Syrrans second-in-command, TPau, once again conversing with Archer inside his mind, Surak instructs him to recover an artifact called the KirShara, which Surak claims will unite the warring factions on latter-day Vulcan. It is unscripted whether Surak himself creates this artifact, or whether it is created by other Vulcans who carry his katra. The KirShara is a projector of the philosophers original, long-lost testament—capable of restoring Vulcan society to the true path of non-violence. Archer and TPau succeed in taking the artifact to the corrupt Vulcan High Command in the Star Trek, Enterprise episode KirShara, resulting in its overthrow. Suraks katra is subsequently transferred into the mind of an elderly Vulcan priest, what becomes of his katra afterwards in the Star Trek backstory is, as yet, unscripted. The character names of many latter-day Vulcan males begin with S and end in k, perhaps to honor Surak, spock, appears in the original Star Trek series episode The Savage Curtain, and is portrayed by the actor Barry Atwater. The vision of a more elderly Surak appearing in the mind of the character of Captain Jonathan Archer is portrayed by the actor Bruce Gray, sirach Stoicism Plurationalism Surak at Memory Alpha
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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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T'Pol
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Commander TPol, born 2088, /tᵻˈpɒl/ is a fictional character portrayed by Jolene Blalock in Star Trek, Enterprise. She is a Vulcan who serves as the officer aboard the starship Enterprise. According to producer Rick Berman, it was intended that a younger version of TPau would be the Vulcan officer serving on the titular starship in Star Trek. Instead, after determining there were difficulties in using the original series character. TPol is the first Vulcan officer to serve a term on a human vessel. TPol served aboard the Enterprise for 10 years, to compare, the previous record was just 10 days. After the success of the Enterprises initial mission led to the vessel being given an extended exploration mandate, TPol remained aboard the Enterprise despite several attempts by her superiors to recall her to Vulcan. The character of TPol developed from that of a broken record spouting the dogma of the Vulcan Science Council to that of a scientific mind. Though she does not openly defy or reject the rulings of the Vulcan Science Council, TPol is considerably more emotional than many other Vulcans and has always struggled to control her emotions, something that greatly concerned her mother. Her emotions became even more difficult to control following an exposure to trellium ore, nonetheless, TPol serves as an icon of Vulcan integrity. Her willingness to question the stale, self-serving decisions of her superiors, throughout the entire Enterprise run, TPol only once said the trademark Vulcan greeting Live long and prosper. She also only once rendered the Vulcan hand salute, in the episode In a Mirror, in Season 3, episode 24 Zero Hour she tells Trip that she is not old – she will only be 66 years old on her next birthday. TPol was born in 2088 or 2089, TPol was the only child of TLes, an instructor at the Vulcan Science Academy, and her husband. Per Vulcan tradition, TPol was bonded with a Vulcan named Koss while they were children, as a child, TPols path in life was inspired by Ambassador VLar whom she watched negotiating with the Andorians during Treaty of 2097 over possession of the planetoid Paan Mokar. Approximately 16 years before joining the crew of the Enterprise, TPol served as an agent for the Vulcan intelligence service, at age 47, she completed her training for the Vulcan Ministry of Security. During an early mission to apprehend a pair of rogue Vulcans, she was forced to shoot, given the option to once again suppress her memory of killing, she chose to live with it instead. While in the Ministry of Security, TPol was also involved in operations at Tomed near Romulan space. Serving under her was Major Talok, however, unbeknownst to TPol, Talok was a Romulan spy disguised as a Vulcan working in league with corrupt Administrator VLas of the Vulcan High Command
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Travis Mayweather
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Travis Mayweather is a fictional character, portrayed by Anthony Montgomery, in the television series Star Trek, Enterprise, serving as a navigator and helm officer aboard the starship Enterprise. He holds the rank of Ensign, and is in the command division, Mayweather is one of the main characters throughout the shows entire four-season run. Mayweather was born in 2126 aboard the ECS Horizon, a human J-class cargo ship, and visited places such as Trillius Prime, Draylax, Vega Colony. He is a boomer, meaning he grew up in space aboard ships. Mayweather is a quiet and enthusiastic young man who is a skilled pilot and has some spelunking experience. He has at least one brother, Paul, who became the captain of the Horizon after the death of their father and their mother, Rianna, was the ships medic and chief engineer. There is also mention that Mayweather has a sister who is married, Mayweather returned home to the Horizon circa January 10,2153 while the Horizon was heading to the Deneva colony. While heading to Deneva Station, the Horizon was attacked by pirates, over the course of the series, Mayweather has been injured, incapacitated, or even killed more times than any other character in the primary cast. When Star Trek, Enterprise was first conceived, Mayweather was intended to be a lieutenant and his rank was changed to Ensign because the producers thought that having Mayweather and the older Malcolm Reed at a similar rank wouldnt be believable. In the novel Rise of the Federation, A Choice of Futures, in the two-part episode In a Mirror, Darkly, the Mirror Universe version of Travis Mayweather is a sergeant in the MACO corps. He eventually allies himself with the Mirror Hoshi Sato in her attempt to take over the Terran Empire, list of Star Trek, Enterprise characters Travis Mayweather at Memory Alpha Travis Mayweather at Memory Alpha STARTREK. COM, Travis Mayweather
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Phlox (Star Trek)
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Phlox /ˈflɒks/ is a fictional character in the television series Star Trek, Enterprise, played by John Billingsley. Dr. Phlox is the medical officer aboard the starship Enterprise. Phlox is a Denobulan, and was on Earth as part of the Interspecies Medical Exchange when called to serve aboard the Enterprise, as part of the Exchange, he corresponds regularly with his human counterpart on Denobula Triaxa, Dr. Lucas. In accordance with Denobulan custom, Phlox has three wives, each of whom has two other husbands, only one of his wives, Feezal, was seen on the show. Phlox has five children by his wives, two daughters, both of whom, like him, work in the field, and three sons. One is an artist but the two are estranged from him. The doctor is portrayed as having a mind to other species and cultures, even the Antarans. He is extremely frank about romantic and sexual matters, often to the embarrassment of other crew members, and sometimes plays the role of matchmaker. He has an interest in natural remedies, and his sickbay contains a zoo of animals. Phlox is curious with a wry sense of humor, and has an affinity for Earth cuisine, phloxs physical abilities have been revealed gradually over time. He appears to need sleep, instead embarking on an annual hibernation of sorts that lasts for six days. Phlox also has control over his facial muscles, being able to open his mouth wider than humans. When threatened, Phlox has the ability to inflate his head like a blowfish to scare off attackers, Phlox was injected with Borg nanoprobes in the episode Regeneration by an assimilated Tarkalean male. Due to his strong immune system, his assimilation proceeded slowly, the method would be lethal to humans or other non-Denobulan races. In the Mirror Universe, Phlox is not the engaging, peaceful, the Mirror Phlox dresses in a severe black leather uniform, unlike the civilian clothing worn by his counterpart. When the ISS Enterprise is destroyed by the Tholians, Phlox and other survivors transfer to the USS Defiant, which has been commandeered by Commander Jonathan Archer. Eventually, Phlox is convinced by the Mirror TPol and Soval to join a rebellion against the Terran Empire, and attempts to sabotage the ship, Phlox was able to nearly complete his sabotage, as the Terrans trusted Denobulans more so than their other alien subordinates. According to Mirror Archer, they were not prone to rebellion or defiance, list of Star Trek, Enterprise characters Phlox at Memory Alpha Phlox at Memory Alpha
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Carpenter Street (Star Trek: Enterprise)
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Carpenter Street is the sixty-third episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek, Enterprise, the eleventh episode of season three. It first aired on November 26,2003 on the UPN network in the United States, the episode was written by executive producers Rick Berman and Brannon Braga. Set in the 22nd century, the series follows the adventures of the first Starfleet starship Enterprise, season three of the series shows the ship enter the Delphic Expanse to search for a Xindi superweapon in response to an attack on Earth. The guest cast featured Matt Winston returning as Temporal Agent Daniels and it had the lowest number of viewers of season three at that point according to the Nielsen ratings, a decline that was attributed to pre-Thanksgiving travel. Critical response was negative, with criticism directed at the nature of the plot. Temporal Agent Daniels informs Captain Archer that three Reptilians have traveled back in time to Detroit, Michigan, to the year 2004, the Xindi Council had banned the use of bio-weapons, forcing the Reptilians to take extraordinary measures. Daniels sends Archer and Sub-Commander TPol back in time to investigate, using a hand scanner, Archer is able to steal a vehicle, and TPol locates the Xindi bio-signs leading them to an abandoned factory on Carpenter Street. They notice Loomis, a bank employee, exiting the building. Suspecting something, they follow him home, after he tries to escape, TPol uses the Vulcan nerve pinch to stop him. When he awakes, he believes that Archer and TPol are police officers, Archer punches him, and he admits delivering six bodies to his mysterious employers, one for a different blood type. Archer comes up with a plan, and decides to pose as one of the victims, after being delivered by Loomis, Archer realizes that they are developing some sort of a bio-weapon. Archer begins destroying their technology, and kills one of the three Reptilians, two others try to escape with the deadly bio-agent, and Archer kills another one as they flee. The last Xindi escapes due to the interference of Loomis, who TPol stuns with her phaser, on the factorys roof, Archer corners him as he attempts to release the bio-agent. Archer and TPol tag all non-21st-century artefacts, and return to Enterprise, Loomis, still groggy in his car, is apprehended by real police officers and attempts to explain the lizard people and their ray guns. The episode was written by Rick Berman and Brannon Braga, the producers of Star Trek. It was directed by Mike Vejar, his episode of the series. He previously directed episodes for three other Star Trek series and this particular journey back in time is very grounded in story. Guest stars on the episode included Matt Winston, who appeared for the time as Temporal Agent Daniels
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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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Romulan
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The Romulans are an extraterrestrial humanoid species in the science fiction franchise Star Trek. In addition, they have appeared in various media. Throughout the series, they are depicted as antagonists, and are usually at war with or in a tenuous truce with the United Federation of Planets. On extremely rare occasions, they have allied with the Federation, the Romulans also act as a counterpoint to the logical Vulcan race, whom they resemble and with whom they share a common ancestry. As such, the Romulans are characterized as passionate, cunning, the Romulans are the dominant race of the Romulan Star Empire. Although Star Trek Star Charts place the Romulan Empires territory in the Beta Quadrant of the galaxy in Star Trek, Deep Space Nine, the Romulans were created by Paul Schneider, who said it was a matter of developing a good Romanesque set of admirable antagonists. An extension of the Roman civilization to the point of space travel, the Romulans began as a group of Vulcan revolutionaries who refused to accept the Vulcan philosopher Suraks teachings of the complete suppression of emotions. At some point in their history, this group left the planet Vulcan. In the original series episode Balance of Terror, Spock notes that while the events during the period of Surak are well documented and he does state that he thinks them a likely offshoot of Vulcan. The Next Generation episode The Chase implies that Romulans, Vulcans, Cardassians, Klingons and humans share a common ancestry. Like Vulcans, Romulans have pointed ears, upswept eyebrows, and copper-based blood that is green when oxygenated in the arteries, like Vulcans, Romulans are almost always depicted as having dark or black hair. Romulans share the longevity common to their Vulcan cousins, in Unification, the Romulan Senator Pardek shared a friendship with Ambassador Spock lasting at least 80 years. Romulans also have in common with Vulcans physical strength superior to that of humans, however, the similarities end when it comes to Vulcans mental abilities, which the Romulans do not share, or perhaps lost after their arrival on Romulus. Romulan ale is a popular blue alcoholic beverage which was illegal because of a Federation trade embargo in the late 23rd century through the late 24th century. Despite this, it is traded and consumed openly. Other Romulan drinks include Kali-fal, a drink with an aroma that should forcibly open ones frontal sinuses before the first sip. Romulan fashion of the late 24th century had distinctive squared shoulders, hair is generally cut straight across the brow close to the eyebrows, with longer locks framing the face, cut following the cheekbones, a style reminiscent of a helmet. In Star Trek, The Original Series, Romulan military uniforms consisted of a tunic with varying kinds of decorative sashes
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Space Seed
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Space Seed is an episode of the American science fiction television series Star Trek. It is the 22nd episode of the first season and was first broadcast by NBC on February 16,1967, Space Seed was written by Gene L. Coon and Carey Wilber and directed by Marc Daniels. Set in the 23rd century, the series follows the adventures of Captain James T, Kirk and his crew aboard the Starfleet starship USS Enterprise. In this episode, the Enterprise crew encounter a ship holding selectively bred superpeople from Earths past. Their leader, Khan Noonien Singh, attempts to control of Enterprise. The episode also guest stars Madlyn Rhue as Lt. Marla McGivers, Wilber conceived the general plot for a different series, Captain Video and His Video Rangers, which featured humans from Ancient Greece who were preserved in cryogenic suspension and revived. The script changed numerous times during preproduction as producer Bob Justman felt that it would be too expensive to film, eventually Gene L. Coon and series creator Gene Roddenberry also made alterations. These revisions include the marooning of the criminals at the end of the episode, Roddenberry attempted to claim the primary writing credit for Space Seed, a request turned down by the Writers Guild of America. Montalbán was the directors first choice for Khan and described the role as wonderful. Despite being planned as a bottle episode, the special sets and shots using starship miniatures caused the episode to go over budget. On first broadcast, the episode held second place in the ratings for the first half-hour with 13.12 million viewers, Space Seed has been named one of the best episodes of the series by Cinefantastique, IGN, and other publications. The 1982 film Star Trek II, The Wrath of Khan serves as a sequel to this episode. Plot elements of the episode and The Wrath of Khan were also used in the 2013 film Star Trek Into Darkness, on stardate 3141.9, the Federation starship USS Enterprise finds the derelict SS Botany Bay floating in space. Botany Bay was launched from Earth in the 1990s, a landing party comprising Captain James T. Kirk, Doctor Leonard McCoy, Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott, and historian Lieutenant Marla McGivers beams over to the freighter. The landing party finds a cargo of 84 humans,72 of whom are alive in suspended animation after nearly 200 years, the occupant begins to revive, but Kirk brings him to Enterprise for a medical examination when his chamber fails. Kirk has Botany Bay taken in tow by a tractor beam, in sickbay, the groups leader awakens and attacks McCoy but, impressed by McCoys bravery, releases the doctor and introduces himself as Khan. Lt. McGivers marvels over Khan, a relic from the 20th century. First Officer Spock discovers that their guest is Khan Noonien Singh who, the genetic superhumans instead became warlords and conquered more than a third of the planet, sparking the Eugenics Wars, Earths last major global conflict
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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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San Francisco
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San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California. It is the birthplace of the United Nations, the California Gold Rush of 1849 brought rapid growth, making it the largest city on the West Coast at the time. San Francisco became a consolidated city-county in 1856, after three-quarters of the city was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake and fire, San Francisco was quickly rebuilt, hosting the Panama-Pacific International Exposition nine years later. In World War II, San Francisco was a port of embarkation for service members shipping out to the Pacific Theater. Politically, the city votes strongly along liberal Democratic Party lines, San Francisco is also the headquarters of five major banking institutions and various other companies such as Levi Strauss & Co. Dolby, Airbnb, Weebly, Pacific Gas and Electric Company, Yelp, Pinterest, Twitter, Uber, Lyft, Mozilla, Wikimedia Foundation, as of 2016, San Francisco is ranked high on world liveability rankings. The earliest archaeological evidence of habitation of the territory of the city of San Francisco dates to 3000 BC. Upon independence from Spain in 1821, the became part of Mexico. Under Mexican rule, the system gradually ended, and its lands became privatized. In 1835, Englishman William Richardson erected the first independent homestead, together with Alcalde Francisco de Haro, he laid out a street plan for the expanded settlement, and the town, named Yerba Buena, began to attract American settlers. Commodore John D. Sloat claimed California for the United States on July 7,1846, during the Mexican–American War, montgomery arrived to claim Yerba Buena two days later. Yerba Buena was renamed San Francisco on January 30 of the next year, despite its attractive location as a port and naval base, San Francisco was still a small settlement with inhospitable geography. The California Gold Rush brought a flood of treasure seekers, with their sourdough bread in tow, prospectors accumulated in San Francisco over rival Benicia, raising the population from 1,000 in 1848 to 25,000 by December 1849. The promise of fabulous riches was so strong that crews on arriving vessels deserted and rushed off to the gold fields, leaving behind a forest of masts in San Francisco harbor. Some of these approximately 500 abandoned ships were used at times as storeships, saloons and hotels, many were left to rot, by 1851 the harbor was extended out into the bay by wharves while buildings were erected on piles among the ships. By 1870 Yerba Buena Cove had been filled to create new land, buried ships are occasionally exposed when foundations are dug for new buildings. California was quickly granted statehood in 1850 and the U. S. military built Fort Point at the Golden Gate, silver discoveries, including the Comstock Lode in Nevada in 1859, further drove rapid population growth. With hordes of fortune seekers streaming through the city, lawlessness was common, and the Barbary Coast section of town gained notoriety as a haven for criminals, prostitution, entrepreneurs sought to capitalize on the wealth generated by the Gold Rush
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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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Yesteryear (Star Trek: The Animated Series)
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Yesteryear is the second episode of the first season of the animated science fiction television series Star Trek. It first aired in the NBC Saturday morning lineup on September 15,1973, Yesteryear marked the return of actor Mark Lenard to the role of Spocks father, Sarek. In this episode, Enterprise First Officer Spock must travel in time to his childhood, on stardate 5373.4, Captain Kirk and Spock return from a time-traveling research project they have been conducting with the use of the Guardian of Forever and Starfleet historians. When they emerge from the portal, they discover no one on board the Federation starship Enterprise recognizes Spock. Kirk and Spock are further surprised to see that an Andorian officer, Commander Thelin, has replaced Spock as first officer, in the new timeline, history has recorded that Spock died at age seven undergoing the Kahs-wan ordeal on Vulcan. However, Spock remembers that when he took the Kahs-wan, his life was saved by Selek - an adult relative - when a creature with poisonous claws called a la matya had attacked them. While Kirk and Spock were in the portal, the Guardian, the pair quickly realize that as they were observing the birth of Orion at the time, Spock could not have been in two places at once to save himself as a child. Spock must go back through the gate to his childhood. At first, this proceeds smoothly, Spock assumes the identity of Selek, a distant cousin of Sarek, Selek journeys into the desert to find his younger self, and saves the boy. However, I Chaya - Spocks pet sehlat - has been gravely wounded, Spock returns with the Healer who tends to I Chaya and informs Selek and Spock that there is nothing he can do. Young Spock is offered a choice, either I Chaya can be treated with medicines or his pet can be allowed to die with dignity, young Spock chooses the latter, and I Chaya dies peacefully. Instead of having to offer equal time to Takeis challengers, NBC stations in the L. A. area decided to air Yesteryear first, since it did not have any scenes with Hikaru Sulu in it. In the 2009 film Star Trek, young Spock is bullied by three fellow Vulcan students in the manner as is seen happening in this episode. Journey to Babel - an Original Series episode where Spocks parents, Sarek and Amanda, Yesteryear at the Internet Movie Database Yesteryear at TV. com Yesteryear at Memory Alpha Yesteryear at StarTrek. com Yesteryear at Curt Danhausers Guide to the Animated Star Trek
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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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Mork and Mindy
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Mork & Mindy is an American sitcom and a spin-off of Happy Days that aired on ABC from September 14,1978 to May 27,1982. It stars Robin Williams as Mork, an extraterrestrial who comes to Earth from the planet Ork in a small, Pam Dawber co-stars as Mindy McConnell, his human friend and roommate. The character of Mork is played by a then-unknown Robin Williams, Mork appears in the Happy Days season five episode, My Favorite Orkan, which first aired in February 1978 and is a take on the 1960s sitcom My Favorite Martian. Williams character, Mork, attempts to take Richie Cunningham back to his planet of Ork as a human specimen, Mork & Mindy, is set in Boulder, Colorado, in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Mork explains to Richie that he is from the future -- the 1970s, Mork arrives on Earth in an egg-shaped spacecraft. He has been assigned to human behavior by Orson, his mostly unseen. Orson has sent Mork to get him off Ork, where humor is not permitted, attempting to fit in, Mork dresses in an Earth suit, but wears it backward. Landing in Boulder, Colorado, he encounters 21-year-old Mindy, who is upset after an argument with her boyfriend, because of his odd garb, she mistakes him for a priest and is taken in by his willingness to listen. When Mindy notices his backward suit and unconventional behavior, she asks who he really is and she promises to keep his identity a secret and allows him to move into her attic. Mindys father Fred objects to his living with a man, but Freds mother-in-law Cora approves of Mork. Mindy and Cora work at Freds music store, where Cora gives violin lessons to Eugene, also seen occasionally are Mindys snooty old high school friend Susan and the possibly insane Exidor. Storylines usually center on Morks attempts to understand human behavior and American culture as Mindy helps him to adjust to life on Earth and it usually ends up frustrating Mindy, as Mork can only do things according to Orkan customs. For example, lying to someone or not informing them it will rain, is considered a joke on Ork. At the end of episode, Mork reports back to Orson on what he has learned about Earth. These end-of-show summaries allow Mork to humorously comment on social norms, Morks greeting is Na-Nu Na-Nu along with a hand gesture similar to Mr. Spocks Vulcan salute from Star Trek combined with a handshake. It became a popular catchphrase at the time, as did Shazbot, Mork says KO in place of OK. This series is Robin Williams first major acting role and became famous for Williams use of his manic improvisational comedic talent, Williams made up so many jokes during filming, eventually scripts had specific gaps where Williams was allowed to freely perform. Pam Dawber found him so funny that she had to bite her lip in many scenes to avoid breaking up in laughter and ruining the take, the series was extremely popular in its first season
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The Powers of Matthew Star
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The Powers of Matthew Star is an American sci-fi television series that aired from September 17,1982 through April 8,1983, on NBC. It starred Peter Barton as the character, alien prince Matthew ‘E’Hawke’ Star of the planet Quadris. Also starring were Amy Steel as Pam Elliot, Matthew’s girlfriend at Crestridge High, in 2002, The Powers of Matthew Star was ranked #22 on the list of TV Guides 50 Worst TV Shows of All Time. Peter Barton - Matthew Star/EHawke Louis Gossett, Jr. De Souza, Wilson, Bennett and Bruce Lansbury executive produced. Star Trek actors worked behind the scenes, Leonard Nimoy directed the episode Triangle, Peter Barton and Amy Steel beat out actors Tom Cruise and Heather Locklear for their respective leading roles. The series was originally called The Powers of David Star, with this title and a somewhat altered premise, the original pilot was to deal with teenaged David Star, who lived with the school janitor, Max. Max had a secret he was not sharing with David, who had no idea that he, as his powers began to surface, David started to understand who he was. Hot on their trail was the FBI, the original pilot was aired as the last episode of the series. TV Guides 1981 Fall Preview issues network schedule grid lists the series title as The Powers of Daniel Star. After months in the hospital, Barton was released, and the show resumed shooting, the series was cancelled after one season. The show ended ironically, airing the first pilot as the episode broadcast. Those in their lives who had no idea about the truth were girlfriend Pam Elliot, friend Bob Alexander, General Tucker, an Air Force officer specializing in extraterrestrial investigations, had tracked the two of them across the country as they evaded alien agents intent on exterminating them. From time to time, he enlisted their aid in solving monumental problems. EHawke/Matthew was crowned the new king in a torch-lit cave, in the episode Mother, a strange carnival gypsy is revealed to be Matthews mother Nadra, who had been traveling the galaxy and hiding from assassins. This reunion was bittersweet because, due to Nadras health problems, finally, in the Fugitives episode, Walt, trying to elude a nosy doctor, comes into contact with a substance in the hospital that causes him to have a deadly allergic reaction. At the same time, Matthew is being booked into jail, at the last minute, Matthew manages to save Walt, as he has done many times throughout the series. The series took a turn from a dramatic adventure series to a by-the-book adventure series, with Walt. Major Wymore replaced General Tucker and met with the Quadrians in all sorts of locations where he briefed them on the missions
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A Different World
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A Different World is an American sitcom and a spin-off of The Cosby Show which aired for six seasons on NBC from September 24,1987 to July 9,1993. The series originally centered on Denise Huxtable and the life of students at Hillman College and it was inspired by student life at Hampton University and Spelman College and Howard University. After Bonets departure in the first season, the remainder of the series focused more on Southern belle Whitley Gilbert. While it was a spin-off from The Cosby Show, A Different World typically addressed issues that were avoided by The Cosby Show writers, one episode that aired in 1990 was one of the first American network television episodes to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic. It was ultimately decided that Denise, who was of college age, meg Ryan was originally cast for this role, but she decided to pursue a film career, so Marisa Tomei was cast. During the summer of 1988, Lisa Bonet announced that she, Allen was in favor of having a young pregnant student in the show, but Cosby said that Lisa Bonet may be pregnant but not Denise Huxtable. It was felt that viewers would not accept Denise as an unwed mother, however, Tomei left the show, and she and Marie-Alise Recasner were replaced by Cree Summer and Charnele Brown, respectively. Darryl M. Bell and Sinbad were promoted to the principal cast and these changes led to the placement of Whitley and Dwayne at the center of a wider ensemble, dealing with more relevant issues of the day. Denises kid sister Rudy visits Hillman and becomes smitten with Whitley, in season two, the episode titled No Means No deals with date rape. Freddie has a crush on Hillmans new top-notch baseball star Garth Parks, Dwayne hears Garth discuss a disturbing incident involving another woman. Dwayne goes to Walter for advice, and Walter tells him about date rape, Dwayne tries to warn Freddie, but she does not believe Garth would do such a thing. Later at a dance, Garth goes off alone with Freddie and attempts to rape her, at the end of the episode, Walter takes Garth to the police station for his assault on Freddie and the rape of the other woman. In January 1991, Blair Underwood guest-starred in the episode War, a Different World became the first situation comedy to address this topic, and War and Peace was one of the highest-rated episodes of season four. The episode is based on the surrounding the book The Blackmans Guide to Understanding the Blackwoman. This book, written by controversial African American author Shahrazad Ali, blamed many of the problems within the black family, Kim is disheartened with the display of several mammy dolls in a cultural exhibit, while Whitley learns that some of her African-American ancestors were slave owners. In some regions of the U. S. blacks owning black slaves would ensure that they would not be sold to leave the town, the season five episode Cats in the Cradle deals with racism, from both sides of the proverbial fence. They are all arrested by the campus police and they share with the campus police chief the perspectives of the incident, shown from each side. Predictably, it shows drastically different takes, the racist act by the white students is not alone, however, as Dwayne is guilty of the same prejudice by assuming the white campus chief is racist
