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2 July 2008

Cedar Fair and CBS Consumer Products has confirmed that Star Trek: The Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton will shut down on 1 September 2008. However, CBS has stated they are currently exploring several possibilities to keep The Experience running, possibly at another location. [1]

Star Trek: First Contact actor Neal McDonough has joined the cast of the ABC drama series Desperate Housewives. He will be playing the recurring role of a white-collar resident expected to become romantically involved with Nicolette Sheridan's character, Edie Britt. Teri Hatcher is a regular on this series; Brenda Strong is the narrator. [2]

30 June 2008

Lilyan Chauvin, the actress who played Vedek Yassim in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Rocks and Shoals", died of breast cancer and congestive heart disease at her home in Studio City, California, on 26 June 2008. She was 82 years old. [3]

29 June

Various sources have informed TrekMovie.com that Star Trek: The Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton will be closing in early September. An official announcement is expected early this week. The future of The Experience had been in doubt due to declining attendance. No agreements were reached between CBS, Paramount, the Hilton, and Cedar Fair (the company which owns The Experience) to keep The Experience in operation, and Cedar Fair is required to completely vacate the Hilton by 31 December 2008, when their contract expires. [4]

26 June

DS9's Alexander Siddig is currently on location in Cairo, Egypt, shooting a film entitled Cairo Time. In the film, Siddig plays a retired Egyptian police officer sent to pick up his friend's wife, only to begin an affair with her. [5]

25 June 2008

VOY's Kate Mulgrew has been cast in the Broadway revival of Peter Shaffer's London stage play Equus. She will step into the role of Hester Salomon when the play begins previews at the Broadhurst Theatre on 5 September 2008 followed by a 22-week-run starting on 25 September 2008. [6]

Did You Know...

Gates McFadden

...that 1994's "Genesis" was the first episode of Star Trek to be directed by a female cast member? It was directed by Gates McFadden. The next female cast director would be Roxann Dawson's "Riddles", on Star Trek: Voyager.

...that the Kazon were originally meant to be a social commentary on "gangs" in the United States, aggressive groups that only looked out for each other?

...that according to the personnel file for Captain Jonathan Archer seen in "In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II", the planet Enterprise visited in "Strange New World" was later named Archer IV in his honor? The file lists that several hundred million people live on a colony there in the 23rd century after a cure for the hallucinogenic pollen there was found.

Today in Trek history

1922

William Schallert is born.

1943

Rosemary Forsyth is born.

1950

John Byrne is born.

1951

Rick Sternbach is born.

1966

First draft script for TOS: "Dagger of the Mind" is submitted.

1970

Symba Smith is born.

1983

Brady Bluhm is born.

1998

CIC Video releases Next Generation volume 1.5, Deep Space Nine volume 6.7 and Voyager volume 4.7 on VHS in the UK.

1999

Ray Young dies.

2004

Jimmie F. Skaggs dies.

Star Trek: Voyager season 3 DVD released in Region 1.

Article of the Week

Gul Dukat stands casually in Ops as the self-destruct counts down

The counter-insurgency program was a security measure designed for a hypothetical revolt by Bajoran laborers aboard Terok Nor.

It was installed by its commanding officer, then-Gul Dukat during the Occupation of Bajor because the Bajorans far outnumbered their Cardassian overseers. The program was designed so Dukat and his fellow Cardassian officers could interact with and control it, but if necessary, it could run independently. To ensure smooth operation, the program had several levels of severity to allow it to deal with a variety of scenarios, the focus being a revolt by laborers in ore processing. Naturally, Dukat omitted mention of the program's existence when control of what was now called Deep Space 9 passed to Benjamin Sisko in 2369.

If the workers escaped or the insurgency spread and resulted in an escape from ore processing, the program was set to take control of the station. Force fields would secure sensitive areas of the station's computer circuitry, Ops and the security office, with similar force fields blocking access to virtually every major doorway on the station.

The program was discovered by Miles O'Brien in 2371 while investigating the possibility of turning the ore-processing area into a deuterium refinery. Lack of knowledge about the program caused the crew to activate the program's higher levels once the station-wide program took effect...

Upcoming releases

Films

• Star Trek films: Star Trek (8 May 2009)

Episodes

• Remastered TOS (in syndication)
  • "The Omega Glory" (repeat; weekend of 5 July 2008)
  • "The Cloud Minders" (weekend of 12 July 2008)
  • "Spectre of the Gun" (weekend of 19 July 2008)
  • "The Empath" (weekend of 26 July 2008)
  • "Turnabout Intruder" (weekend of 2 August 2008)
  • "Metamorphosis" (repeat; weekend of 9 August 2008)

DVDs

• TOS-R Season 2 DVD (5 August 2008)
• Fan Collective - Alternate Realities (16 September 2008)

Novels and reference works

• These Haunted Seas (Pocket DS9 omnibus, trade paperback, out now)
• Fearful Symmetry (Pocket DS9, paperback, out now)
• Infinity's Prism (Star Trek: Myriad Universes, trade paperback, 22 July 2008)
• Greater than the Sum (Pocket TNG, paperback, 29 July 2008)

Comics

• IDW Publishing
  • Turnaround (Star Trek: New Frontier)
    • #4, "Turnaround, Part IV" - released 2 July 2008
    • #5, "Part V" - solicited for 23 July 2008
  • Year Four: The Enterprise Experiment
    • #3, "Enterprise Experiment, Part 3" - released 2 July 2008
    • #4, "Part 4" - solicited for 30 July 2008
  • Star Trek: Assignment Earth
    • #3, "My Name Is Legion" - released 2 July 2008
  • Star Trek: Mirror Images
    • #1, "Mirror Images, Part 1" - released 2 July 2008
  • Trade paperback collections
    • Alien Spotlight - Volume 1 - released 14 May 2008
    • Best of Peter David - solicited for 29 September 2008
• Tokyopop
  • Star Trek: The Manga
    • "Uchu" - to be released 15 July 2008

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