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by MICHAEL HINMAN
May-19-2013 - No Comments
Also appeared in 'Twilight Zone,' 'Star Trek' among others
Warren Stevens, who has appeared in more than 160 television shows and movies over the years -- including "Star Trek" and a pair of stints on "The Twilight Zone" in different decades -- has died. He was 92. Stevens was already a veteran character actor when he played Rojan in the 1968 "Star Trek" ...
Read MoreClaim combination could hurt health and retirement benefits for actors
A group of actors are banding together to stop two of Hollywood's largest actors unions from merging, and among them are a couple of people famous for their Star Trek work. Nichelle Nichols, who played Uhura in the original "Star Trek" series as well as six subsequent movies, along with Malachi T ...
Read MoreActress loves Star Trek and fandom, but is ready to move beyond that in 'R.U.R.'
It's been 13 years since "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine" ended its seven-year syndicated run. But like anything else with the name "Star Trek" attached, it's still hard to get away from. That's exactly what actress Chase Masterson has had to deal with over that period -- and she only appeared in 17 ...
Read MoreWriter is now offering fans a chance to read the script even he didn't like
It was meant to be a vehicle designed for actor Milton Berle. Instead, it ended up in Gene Roddenberry's wastebasket -- at the insistence of the original scribe -- and was considered lost forever. But now a lost "Star Trek" script is back, and despite his feelings on it, Norman Spinrad wants to e ...
Read MoreQualcomm to offer $10 million prize to first team that can develop one
The X Prize Foundation has helped move commercial space flight forward leaps and bounds. So why not help create the tricorder device, which is currently a fictional device on "Star Trek"? That's exactly what the X Prize Foundation is doing. The group, led by Peter Diamandis, is offering $10 mill ...
Read MoreSays the real threat is not Carrie Fisher or William Shatner, it's Twilight
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Read MoreDocumentary from Eugene W. Roddenberry debuts Nov. 30 on Science
Director Scott Colthorp and narrator Eugene W. Roddenberry Jr. are set to finally debut their documentary "Trek Nation" on the Science cable channel Nov. 30. But getting from there to here was a path that took years -- and more than once almost seemed dead in its tracks. "Trek Nation" is a celebr ...
Read MoreRod Roddenberry's documentary celebrating Star Trek finally set to premiere
Several years ago, I was one of the few honored with the chance to see a rough cut of a documentary Eugene W. Roddenberry Jr. and director Scott Colthorp was making called "Trek Nation." Even then, the project had been in development for a few years, and I was now excited to finally see what Rod ...
Read MoreClassic 'Star Trek' episode featuring Nazis finally airs
"Star Trek" has been watched and adored around the world, but not every episode has made it to television screens in every country. In fact, Germans have been deprived of an episode for more than 40 years. Until now. "Patterns of Force," which first aired in the United States in February 1968 ...
Read MoreSan Francisco now home to Roddenberry Center for Stem Cell Biology and Medicine
There are a number of buildings around the country named after the late "Star Trek" creator Gene Roddenberry. But there has never been one like this before. The Roddenberry Foundation, led by the Great Bird's son Eugene W. Roddenberry Jr., has provided a $5 million gift to Gladstone Institutes. G ...
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