Archive for the ‘Star Trek: TOS’ Category
Tuesday, February 7th, 2012

Star Trek‘s William Shatner has been tapped to host the 2012 Juno Awards.
The Juno Awards are chosen by the members of the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences and presented to Canadian musical artists and/or bands for musical or technical achievement.
This year’s ceremony will be held on April 1 at Ottawa’s Scotiabank place, and will be aired on CTV. Performers will include Feist, Deadmau5 and City & Colour.
Tags: Juno Awards, Shatner
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Thursday, January 26th, 2012

Leonard Nimoy has been offered what most Star Trek fans would love to be given, an invitation to visit the Star Trek 2 set.
“I’ve been invited to visit the set of the new Star Trek film,” said Nimoy via his Twitter feed. “Hope to do that next week.”
Tags: Nimoy
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Tuesday, January 24th, 2012

William Shatner’s one-man show, Shatner’s World: We Just Live in It, will be seen in fifteen U.S. cities after it finishes a three-week run on Broadway.
The show, two hours in length, will “take audiences on a voyager through Shatner’s life and career,” from his earliest days as a stage actor to “internationally known icon and raconteur.”
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Tags: Shatner, Shatner's World: We Just Live in It
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Thursday, January 19th, 2012

After fourteen years as the Priceline Negotiator, William Shatner‘s character is going to perish in a heroic fashion.
A new thirty-second commercial will show the Negotiator saving vacationers from a bus that is about to go over the railing of a bridge.
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Tags: Priceline, Shatner
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Tuesday, January 10th, 2012
Roger Perry, who played Air Force Captain John Christopher in the original series episode Tomorrow is Yesterday, remembers landing the job and he shares a Shatner makeup room moment.
Being cast as Christopher was a snap for Perry. “I remember that it was one of the easiest jobs I ever got,” he explained. “To this day, I don’t understand why it was so easy.”
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Tags: John Christopher, Perry, Tomorrow is Yesterday
Posted in Cast & Crew, Star Trek: TOS | 2 Comments »
Thursday, January 5th, 2012
The house in which Leonard Nimoy and his wife Sandra resided during the late 1960s while he was working on the original series has been sold.
In 1968, while Nimoy was playing Spock on Star Trek, he and wife Sandra Zober purchased a house in the Westwood-area of Los Angeles.
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Tags: Nimoy, real estate
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Thursday, January 5th, 2012
There will be five conventions, shows or appearances in January and February that feature actors of interest to Star Trek fans. This listing of conventions and shows features actors from four of the televised series and several of the Star Trek movies.
January begins with Albuquerque Comic Con, which will run from January 13-15 at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Albuquerque. In attendance will be Star Trek: The Next Generation‘s Brent Spiner.
Next up is Oz Trek 7, to be held January 28-29 at the Rydges Melbourne, in Melbourne, Australia. In attendance at Oz Trek 7 will be Walter Koenig and Chase Masterson.
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Tags: Conventions
Posted in Cast & Crew, Star Trek Movies, Star Trek: DS9, Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: TOS, Star Trek: VOY | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, January 4th, 2012
Star Trek‘s George Takei will be one of the eighteen people on the new season of Celebrity Apprentice.
In Celebrity Apprentice, the celebrity contestants vie to raise money and awareness for their charity of choice, with the last person standing “hired” as the “Celebrity Apprentice” who will then have the honor of delivering a check for $250,000 to his or her favorite charity.
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Tags: Celebrity Apprentice, Takei
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Monday, December 12th, 2011
According to George Takei, Star Trek and Star Wars fans shouldn’t be fighting each other, but instead should be uniting against another fandom.
After the recent online exchange between Star Trek‘s William Shatner and Star Wars‘ Carrie Fisher, Takei decided to jump in with his own opinion on the fandom war, with a three minute video, George Takei is the Broker of Star Peace.
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Tags: Fisher, Shatner, Takei
Posted in Cast & Crew, Star Trek: TOS | 7 Comments »
Tuesday, November 29th, 2011
Airing tomorrow, November 30, on the Science Channel at 8 PM, Trek Nation, produced and narrated by Rod Roddenberry, is a documentary about Gene Roddenberry, Star Trek, and the people involved with Star Trek over the years.
In making Trek Nation, Rod Roddenberry interviewed those who worked with his father over the years, including industry professionals who knew Gene Roddenberry, family friends, and Star Trek fans.
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Tags: Langsbard, Nichols, Piller, Rod Roddenberry, Roddenberry, Stewart, Trek Nation
Posted in Fandom, Star Trek: TOS | 8 Comments »
Friday, November 25th, 2011
Voice actor Tom Kane, a fan of Star Trek from his childhood days, got to work with his heroes when doing voice work for Star Trek games.
“Being a voice-over guy in Hollywood has afforded me some really amazingly wonderful encounters with people that just never would have happened anywhere else,” Kane said.
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Tags: Doohan, Kane, Kelley
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Friday, November 18th, 2011
For fans of William Shatner, he will be appearing on the Piers Morgan Tonight show this evening.
Piers Morgan Tonight is an hour-long interview show airing on CNN, featuring Piers Morgan, and airing at 9 PM on CNN.
Tonight, Shatner will be one of the guests on the show, where he will talk about Star Trek, comedy, his family and more.
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