“I’m not immersed in the industry right now,” said Roddenberry, “and I don’t have a whole list of names I could pull out a hat. I come from the point of view of a fan, a fan of Star Trek and a fan of Gene Roddenberry.”

“Brent Spiner did a fantastic job as Data [Star Trek: The Next Generation],” said Roddenberry. “The character was an android, yet there was something very human about it. Perhaps it’s my inability to be creative. Brent Spiner is who I fall back to when I think of Questor.”

Although Roddenberry has Spiner in mind, Tim Minear (Lois & Clark, The X-Files, Angel) and Imagine might go in a different direction, or Spiner might not be interested if asked. “I’m not suggesting that’s the way we would go,” said Roddenberry. “If you’re asking the question who right now would I pick, it would be him because I really don’t have anyone else that I am thinking of that has ever done a role like that convincingly.”

Spiner’s Data was modeled after the Questor character by Gene Roddenberry for Star Trek: The Next Generation.

The Questor Tapes is currently in development, with a script to possibly be written later this year.

Several of Stewart’s co-stars, including LeVar Burton, Wil Wheaton and Brent Spiner tweeted regarding Stewart’s knighthood, and mixed with the congratulations was a little teasing.

“Congratulations Patrick, on your Knighthood…!” said Burton.

Wheaton found out the news from Burton’s tweet. “You know what’s even more wonderful for me than finding out that Patrick is going to be knighted? Finding out from @levarburton,” he said.

“Hip hip hooray! Congratulations to my friend, Patrick Stewart,” said Spiner. “I can’t believe he’s being made King of England!”

“Guess I wasn’t completely correct about Patrick,” Spiner said a day later. “Apparently he’ll be King of Scotland, Wales and North Ireland, as well.”

“Wait, you mean he’s not going to be K…oh,” tweeted Spiner a half-hour later. “Well, a Knight is good too, right? Hooray for Sir Patrick! He still lives with the Queen, right?”

Trek fan Ted Moustakis paid $11,400 at a Christie’s auction for what he believed was a one-of-a-kind uniform worn by Data in Star Trek: The Next Generation.

However, the uniform was only one of several made for the program and not a unique one, as Moustakis said he was led to believe by Christie’s auction house.

In addition to the uniform, Moustakis bought a $6,000 poker visor supposedly worn by Data and a $6,600 table from the set of The Next Generation. But when Moustakis showed the visor to Brent Spiner (Data) at a convention in 2007, he was told that the visor wasn’t genuine. In addition, the table also wasn’t authentic.

Moustakis sued for seven million dollars in damages. The New York Supreme Court’s Appellate Division ruled that the costume had not been represented in the auction catalog as one-of-a-kind and even if the other two items were not genuine, Moustakis wasn’t entitled to “the massive recovery he now demands.”

Christie’s stands behind the authenticity of the auction. “The sale was and remains a fantastic highlight in the memorabilia market,” said Sandra L. Cobden, a lawyer for the famous auction house.

Fans of War of the Worlds are in for a special Trek treat, as an airing of a classic radio show featuring several well-known Star Trek actors is available this weekend.

The L.A. Theater Works has posted their broadcast of War of the Worlds, which features Leonard Nimoy, Gates McFadden, Wil Wheaton and Brent Spiner. This War of the Worlds broadcast was directed by John de Lancie.

In addition to War of the Worlds, one can listen to Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Lost World which follows a scientific expedition deep into the Amazon jungle and back to the time of cavemen and dinosaurs.

Finally, there is an all-new “Question and Answer” session with Leonard Nimoy, recorded before a studio audience.

Head here to listen to the broadcasts.

As reported by Comics Continuum, A new photo for the Family Guy “Star Trek: The Next Generation” episode was released today, showing the Next Generation crewmembers standing in a transporter with Stewie standing in front of them.

According to the episode description, “The Griffin family heads to the annual Quahog Star Trek convention, but Stewie blows a fuse when he doesn’t get a chance to ask his favorite Next Generation cast members any questions. He devises a plan, builds a transporter and beams the entire cast to his bedroom so they can spend a fun-filled day together in Quahog.”

The main cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation voiced their respective characters. Not All Dogs Go to Heaven airs on Sunday, March 29.

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Not All Dogs Go To Heaven will air on Sunday, March 29, at 9:00 P.M. on FOX.

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As reported by TrekMovie.com, The Next Generation’s Brent Spiner (Data) will have a guest role very different from that of Riker, while Deep Space Nine’s Armin Shimerman (Quark) will be a corrupt doctor in next weeks Leverage: The Juror #6 Job episode. “That was my idea,” explained Frakes. “I asked [Producer] Dean [Devlin] if I could offer it to Brent, and he was already big fan of Brent’s because he used him in ‘Independence Day.’ And I suggested to the casting director to offer [the corrupt doctor] to Armin and why don’t we give [Armin's wife] Kitty [Swink] the judge, she also had a recurring role on DS9. Everyone signed off on it. These are wonderful actors who just happened to be on ‘Star Trek.’ And this interview is a perfect example of what happens, the bloodlines from ‘Star Trek’ to ‘Leverage’ are connected and I think that is interesting for people. It will be great for Data fans and fans of Brent to see him play a slime-ball sleazy character.”

Frakes is hoping that Leverage is picked up for a second season. He is a fan of heist movies. “I love heist movies,” he said. “‘Leverage’ is influenced by ‘Oceans Eleven’ and [Steven] Soderbergh. Dean established that in the pilot and that is something that we have all maintained as the template, it doesn’t hurt that we have a great cast to work with. The characters are very well defined thanks to [writers] Chris Downey and John Rogers. I think it is a great show.”

Having worked on Star Trek can be both good and bad. The bad is being so well-known for his Riker role, that it becomes hard to find other roles. “I am looking for a[n acting] job,” said Frakes. “It has been good to direct, but, you know ‘Star Trek,’ as you know from talking to all the people from all the shows, is a double-edged sword. It makes you famous and you run the risk of type-casting.”

The Juror #6 Job, directed by Frakes, airs Tuesday, February 10th at 10 P.M.

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