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Also, as I said earlier, Romulus and Remus no longer exist in the future prime timeline (2387), they remain in the altered timeline.

Do you have that reversed?

This is as much Canon as Enterprise is and in fact this movie helps to further cement Enterprise as Canon. That said....

 

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This movie really throws a lot of Trek history into question, which of course goes with an alternate timeline. First, is Tuvok ever born? His date of birth is 2264 but Vulcan is destroyed in 2258. I know that Tuvok is born on Vulcanis Lunar Colony but where is that? How close to Vulcan is it? If it's close enough to be destroyed by the black hole that destroys Vulcan then Tuvok is in trouble. This could be explained away by saying that Tuvok's parents were among the 10,000 or so survivors.

 

Another thing, everyone points out that Vulcan is destroyed but so too is Romulus and Remus. If Romulus is destroyed then how will the Federation defeat the Dominion in the Dominion war... assuming that the war even happens. ...

 

Those are just a few issues that I've thought of and I know they can all be explained away as an alternate timeline and thus "our" timeline is still there, it's just existing as a parallel timeline but I'm really hoping that they set things right in the next movie.

 

If I could ask the producers/directors a question it would be this... Is this an "alternate reality" and is "our reality" (the 800 hours that came before) still there and intact or does this "alternate reality" replace "our reality"?

 

It clearly can't be both ways. When writing "Trek History" you MUST put Star Trek XI into it's own category. It's canon but it can't co-exist with all that came before. The only way you can do it is by making it sort of like the Alternate Universe or all of Worf's different quantum realities in Parallels.

I haven't seen the movie yet (going on Monday unless something unforeseen comes up AGAIN) but based on what VBG says

You may be right, AE. I checked at Box Office Mojo and they have the estimated box office for Friday being $24,000,000.

TNG is my personal favourite of all the series so I would have to agree. Can't say that I agree with Dr. Who being the best sci-fi series of all time though. There were times when that series was just too cheesy for words.

The only time I vote is if there is a tie so there will always be a winning entry. I haven't had to break a tie yet. Having said that though, there hasn't been a lot of interest in voting the last couple of contests. IIRC, last contest there were only 8 votes cast altogether so a number of people who have entered aren't voting for themself or anyone else. If members want, I could go back to choosing three finalists from the entries with members then voting.

Strip 98: Don’t Waste Food

Strip 99: Traffic Tickets

From Associated Press:

Dom DeLuise, actor, comedian and chef, dies at 75

By BOB THOMAS

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Dom DeLuise, the portly entertainer and chef whose affable nature made him a popular character actor for decades with movie and TV audiences as well as directors and fellow actors, has died. He was 75.

 

Agent Robert Malcolm said DeLuise died about 6 p.m. Monday at St. John's Health Center in Santa Monica. Malcolm said the family did not release the cause of death.

 

"He had high blood pressure, he had diabetes, he had lots of things," but seemed fine as recently as two weeks ago, he said.

 

DeLuise entered the hospital on Friday and his wife and all three sons were there when he died "peacefully," Malcolm said. A family statement said: "It's easy to mourn his death but easier to remember a time when he made you laugh."

 

DeLuise, who loved to cook and eat almost as much as he enjoyed acting, also carved out a formidable second career later in life as a chef of fine cuisine. He authored two cookbooks and would appear often on morning TV shows to whip up his favorite recipes.

 

As an actor, he was incredibly prolific, appearing in scores of movies and TV shows, in Broadway plays and voicing characters for numerous cartoon shows.

 

Writer-director-actor Mel Brooks particularly admired DeLuise's talent for offbeat comedy and cast him in several films, including "The Twelve Chairs," "Blazing Saddles," "Silent Movie," "History of the World Part I" and "Robin Hood: Men in Tights." DeLuise was also the voice of Pizza the Hutt in Brooks' "Star Wars" parody, "Spaceballs."

 

The actor also frequently appeared opposite his friend Burt Reynolds in films such as "The End," "The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas," "Smokey and the Bandit II," "The Cannonball Run" and "Cannonball Run II." Reynolds fondly recalled DeLuise in a statement issued by his publicist.

 

"I was thinking about this the other day," Reynolds said. "As you get older and start to lose people you love, you think about it more and I was dreading this moment. Dom always made you feel better when he was around and there will never be another like him. I never heard him say an unkind word about anyone. I will miss him very much."

 

Another actor-friend, Dean Martin, admired his comic abilities so much that he cast DeLuise as a regular on his 1960s comedy-variety show. In 1973, he starred in a situation comedy, "Lotsa Luck," but it proved to be short-lived.

 

"To know Dom was to love him and I knew him very well. Not only was he talented and extremely funny, but he was a very special human being," said actress Carol Burnett, who starred with DeLuise on TV show "The Entertainers" in the '60s. DeLuise also appeared on "The Carol Burnett Show" in the '70s.

 

Other TV credits included appearances on such shows as "The Munsters," "The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.," "Burke's Law," "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" and "Diagnosis Murder."

 

On Broadway, DeLuise appeared in Neil Simon's "Last of the Red Hot Lovers" and other plays.

 

Because of his passion for food, the actor battled obesity, reaching as much as 325 pounds and for years resisting the efforts of family members and doctors who tried to put him on various diets. He finally agreed in 1993 when his doctor refused to perform hip replacement surgery until he lost 100 pounds (he lost enough weight for the surgery, though gained some of it back).

 

On the positive side, his love of food resulted in two successful cookbooks, 1988's "Eat This — It Will Make You Feel Better!" and 1997's "Eat This Too! It'll Also Make You Feel Good."

 

He strongly resembled the famed chef Paul Prudhomme and joked in a 1987 interview that he had posed as Prudhomme while visiting his New Orleans restaurant, K-Paul's Louisiana Kitchen.

 

DeLuise was appearing on Broadway in "Here's Love" in the early 1960s when Garry Moore saw him and hired him to play the magician "Dominick the Great" on "The Garry Moore Show."

 

His appearances on the hit comedy-variety program brought offers from Hollywood, and DeLuise first came to the attention of movie goers in "Fail Safe," a drama starring Henry Fonda. He followed with a comedy, "The Glass Bottom Boat," starring Doris Day, and alternated between films and television thereafter.

 

"I was making $7,000 a week — a lot of money back then — but I didn't even know I was rich," he recalled in 1994. "I was just having such a great time."

 

Day remembered him Tuesday as "such a sweet man."

 

"I met Dom when we were filming 'The Glass Bottom Boat,' and I loved him from the moment we met," she said from Carmel, Calif. "Not only did we have the greatest time working together, but I never laughed so hard in my life as when we were together."

 

He was born Dominick DeLuise in New York City on Aug. 1, 1933, to Italian immigrants. His father, who spoke only Italian, was a garbage collector, and those humble beginnings stayed with him.

 

"My dad knows everything there is to know about garbage," one of the actor's sons, David DeLuise, said in 2008. "He loves to pick up a broken chair and fix it."

 

DeLuise's introduction to acting came at age 8 when he played the title role of Peter Rabbit in a school play. He went on to graduate from New York City's famed School of Performing Arts in Manhattan. For five years, he sought work in theater or television with little luck, and finally decided to enroll at Tufts College and study biology, with the aim of becoming a teacher.

 

Acting called him back, however, and he found work at the Cleveland Playhouse, appearing in stage productions that ranged from comedies like "Kiss Me Kate" to Shakespeare's "Hamlet."

 

"I worked two years solidly on plays and moving furniture and painting scenery and playing parts," he remarked in a 2006 interview. "It was quite an amazing learning place for me."

 

While working in summer stock in Provincetown, Mass., he met actress Carol Arthur, and they were soon married. The couple's three sons, Peter, Michael and David, all became actors and all appeared with their father in the 1990s TV series "SeaQuestDSV," in which Peter and Michael were regulars. David was one of the co-stars of the hit children's series "Wizards of Waverly Place."

 

Besides his wife and sons, DeLuise is survived by a sister, Anne, and three grandchildren. The family said in a statement that memorial services would be private.

In an upcoming episode of The Mentalist (I believe it airs May 12) Clayton Rohner will be a guest. He played the young Admiral Mark Jameson in the TNG episode Too Short A Season.

In last week's episode Jack Kehler (Jaheel in the DS9 episode Babel) was a guest.

In an episode of NCIS that is set to air May 12, Jude Ciccolella (Commander Suran in ST:NEM) will portray Secretary of the Navy Phillip Davenport. Also with NCIS, on May 19, Michael Nouri (Arev, aka Syrran in the ENT episode The Forge) will be a guest.

"Not your father's Star Trek" bugs me for perpetuating the stereotype that only the male of the species is into sci-fi and Trek.

To quote a certain positronic gent..'Intriguing'....I seem to recall Jeremy playing a German officer somewhere in his career...or do I misremember? Anyway...yes, I was going to add in the title of that particular Holmes installment, but forgot...thanks, Takara.

Just checked at IMDB and Jeremy Kemp played Brigadier General Armin Von Roon in The Winds of War and its sequel War and Remembrance. Or if you are referring to him playing a German character in a Holmes adaptation, he played Baron von Leinsdorf in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution. The novel The Seven-Per-Cent Solution was written by Nicholas Meyer who is, of course, well known to Trek fans.

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Funny that you should mention Sherlock Holmes. The episode you're referring to was called The Six Napoleons from The Return of Sherlock Holmes. I just finished watching an episode called The Speckled Band from The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and the villain in that episode was played by Jeremy Kemp who portrayed Robert Picard in the TNG episode Family. As well, the client who hired Holmes was played by Rosalyn Landor who played Brenna O'Dell in the TNG episode Up The Long Ladder.

Strip 93: Star Trek Styles

They put up the wrong strip last time so Strip 92 is the "new" one and Strip 93 is the one that was put up last Thursday by mistake.

Golden Girls' star Bea Arthur dies at 86

LOS ANGELES - Beatrice Arthur, the tall, deep-voiced actress whose razor-sharp delivery of comedy lines made her a TV star in the hit shows "Maude" and "The Golden Girls" and who won a Tony Award for the musical "Mame," died Saturday. She was 86.

 

Arthur died peacefully at her Los Angeles home with her family at her side, family spokesman Dan Watt said. She had cancer, Watt said, declining to give further details.

 

"She was a brilliant and witty woman," said Watt, who was Arthur's personal assistant for six years. "Bea will always have a special place in my heart."

 

Arthur first appeared in the landmark comedy series "All in the Family" as Edith Bunker's loudly outspoken, liberal cousin, Maude Finley. She proved a perfect foil for blue-collar bigot Archie Bunker (Carroll O'Connor), and their blistering exchanges were so entertaining that producer Norman Lear fashioned Arthur's own series.

 

In a 2008 interview with The Associated Press, Arthur said she was lucky to be discovered by TV after a long stage career, recalling with bemusement CBS executives asking about the new "girl."

 

"I was already 50 years old. I had done so much off-Broadway, on Broadway, but they said, 'Who is that girl? Let's give her her own series,"' Arthur said.

 

"Maude" scored with television viewers immediately on its CBS debut in September 1972, and Arthur won an Emmy Award for the role in 1977.

 

The comedy flowed from Maude's efforts to cast off the traditional restraints that women faced, but the series often had a serious base. Her TV husband Walter (Bill Macy) became an alcoholic, and she underwent an abortion, which drew a torrent of viewer protests. Maude became a standard bearer for the growing feminist movement in America.

 

The ratings of "Maude" in the early years approached those of its parent, "All in the Family," but by 1977 the audience started to dwindle. A major format change was planned, but in early 1978 Arthur announced she was quitting the show.

 

"It's been absolutely glorious; I've loved every minute of it," she said. "But it's been six years, and I think it's time to leave."

 

"Golden Girls" (1985-1992) was another groundbreaking comedy, finding surprising success in a television market increasingly skewed toward a younger, product-buying audience.

 

The series concerned three retirees - Arthur, Betty White and Rue McClanahan - and the mother of Arthur's character, Estelle Getty, who lived together in a Miami apartment. In contrast to the violent "Miami Vice," the comedy was nicknamed "Miami Nice."

 

As Dorothy Zbornak, Arthur seemed as caustic and domineering as Maude. She was unconcerned about the similarity of the two roles. "Look - I'm 5-feet-9, I have a deep voice and I have a way with a line," she told an interviewer. "What can I do about it? I can't stay home waiting for something different. I think it's a total waste of energy worrying about typecasting."

 

The interplay among the four women and their relations with men fuelled the comedy, and the show amassed a big audience and 10 Emmys, including two as best comedy series and individual awards for each of the stars.

 

In 1992, Arthur announced she was leaving "Golden Girls." The three other stars returned in "The Golden Palace," but it lasted only one season.

 

Arthur was born Bernice Frankel in New York City in 1922. When she was 11, her family moved to Cambridge, Md., where her father opened a clothing store. At 12 she had grown to full height, and she dreamed of being a petite blond movie star like June Allyson. There was one advantage of being tall and deep-voiced: She was chosen for the male roles in school plays.

 

Bernice - she hated the name and adopted her mother's nickname of Bea - overcame shyness about her size by winning over her classmates with wisecracks. She was elected the wittiest girl in her class. After two years at a junior college in Virginia, she earned a degree as a medical lab technician, but she "loathed" doing lab work at a hospital.

 

Acting held more appeal, and she enrolled in a drama course at the New School of Social Research in New York City. To support herself, she sang in a night spot that required her to push drinks on customers.

 

During this time she had a brief marriage that provided her stage name of Beatrice Arthur. In 1950, she married again, to Broadway actor and future Tony-winning director Gene Saks. They divorces in 1978.

 

After a few years in off-Broadway and stock company plays and television dramas, Arthur's career gathered momentum with her role as Lucy Brown in the 1955 production of "The Threepenny Opera."

 

In 2008, when Arthur was inducted in the TV Academy Hall of Fame, she pointed to the role as the highlight of her long career. "A lot of that had to do with the fact that I felt, 'Ah, yes, I belong here,"' Arthur said.

 

More plays and musicals followed, and she also sang in nightclubs and played small roles in TV comedy shows.

 

Then, in 1964, Harold Prince cast her as Yente the Matchmaker in the original company of "Fiddler on the Roof."

 

Arthur's biggest Broadway triumph came in 1966 as Vera Charles, Angela Lansbury's acerbic friend in the musical "Mame," directed by Saks. Richard Watts of the New York Post called her performance "a portrait in acid of a savagely witty, cynical and serpent-tongued woman."

 

She won the Tony as best supporting actress and repeated the role in the unsuccessful film version that also was directed by Saks, starring Lucille Ball as Mame. Arthur would play a variation of Vera Charles in "Maude" and "The Golden Girls."

 

In 1983, Arthur attempted another series, "Amanda's," an Americanized version of John Cleese's hilarious "Fawlty Towers." She was cast as owner of a small seaside hotel with a staff of eccentrics. It lasted a mere nine episodes.

 

Between series, Arthur remained active in films and theatre. Among the movies: "That Kind of Woman" (1959), "Lovers and Other Strangers" (1970), Mel Brooks' "The History of the World: Part I" (1981), "For Better or Worse" (1995).

 

The plays included Woody Allen's "The Floating Light Bulb" and "The Bermuda Avenue Triangle," written by and co-starring Renee Taylor and Joseph Bologna. During 2001 and 2002 she toured the U.S. in a one-woman show of songs and stories, "... And Then There's Bea."

 

In 1999, Arthur told an interviewer of the three influences in her career: "Sid Caesar taught me the outrageous; (method acting guru) Lee Strasberg taught me what I call reality; and ("Threepenny Opera" star) Lotte Lenya, whom I adored, taught me economy."

 

In recent years, Arthur made guest appearances on shows including "Curb Your Enthusiasm" and "Malcolm in the Middle." She was chairwoman of the Art Attack Foundation, a non-profit performing arts scholarship organization.

 

By Lynn Elber, Associated Press

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I saw a commercial for an episode of Criminal Minds that's on this week and John Billingsley is a guest. It's supposed to be the second of the two episodes that is on CBS Wednesday. Also appearing in that episode is Spencer Garrett who played Simon Tarses in the TNG episode The Drumhead and Weiss in the VOY episode Flesh and Blood.

I'm on Patrick Stewart's side regarding this matter. People today just have no concept of proper theatre etiquette.

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