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Star Trek: The Experience to end
Filed under: OpEd, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Reality-Free Star Trek: The Experienceis ending after an 11 year run at the Las Vegas Hilton on September 1st, 2008. The interactive ride contained elements from the television series Star Trek: The Next Generationand Star Trek: Voyager.
Chad Boutte, Operations Manager and Director of Marketing, said in a press release, "Hailing frequencies open. We'd like to thank all the fans and friends of Star Trek, whose constant and amazing support we've enjoyed throughout our tenure at the Las Vegas Hilton. As we boldly go into the futures that await, know that we take your love...
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Star Trek TNG Rap (OR: The video that might bring peace to the multiverse) - VIDEO
Filed under: Video, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Reality-Free Cracked,I take back everything bad I ever said about you. Sure you began life as an also-ran copycat of Mad magazine and sure you dominate digg with a seemingly endless string of under-written pop-culture lists, but popularizing the following video makes it all better. Put it this way, I'm Kobe Bryant's wife and this video is a $4 million purple diamond ring.
Be warned before you click through, however, this video contains both obscene languageand a shirtless Jean-Luc Picard in...
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Retro Squad returns, new and improved
Filed under: Arrested Development, Site Announcements, Retro Squad, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, The X-Files, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Reality-Free, Cheers, Frasier, Six Feet Under, Star Trek: Original Series, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, Super Friends, The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Dick Van Dyke Show, British TV, Private Eye Shows The "big" shows are over, and now the typically low-key summer TV schedule begins. Oh sure, there are some real gems in...
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George Takei to marry longtime partner
Filed under: Celebrities, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Reality-Free Now that California's gay marriage ban has been lifted, George Takei is getting married. The 71-year-old Star Trek actor recently announced that he would wed Brad Altman, his partner of 21 years.
Takei broke the news on his official website just one day after the California Supreme Court ruling. The couple has yet to set a date; Takei wrote that he and Altman, a business manager, were "enjoying the delicious dilemma of deciding where, when, and how [they] will be married." This news follows Ellen DeGeneres' announcement that she and girlfriend...
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: Code of Honor
Filed under: Other Sci-Fi/Supernatural Shows, TV on DVD, Retro Squad, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Episode Reviews, Reality-Free Title: Code of Honor Original Air Date: October 12, 1987 Written by: Katharyn Powers and Michael Baron Directed by: Russ Mayberry Episode: S01E04 Stardate: 41235.25
Synopsis: The inhabitants of the Federation planet Styris IV had the fish for dinner, leading to an outbreak of deadly Anchilles fever. With Styris IV's fate in the hands of Acting President Ted Striker and his...
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: Angel One
Filed under: Retro Squad, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Episode Reviews Title: Angel One Original Air Date: January 25, 1988 Written by: Patrick Barry Directed by: Michael Rhodes Episode: S01E14 Stardate: 41636.9
Synopsis: The Enterprise comes across the long-lost freighter Odin, which has been missing since Captain Hazelwood crashed the ship into an asteroid seven years ago. Three escape pods are missing and assumed to be on their way to Tatooine, but since the planet Angel One is closer, Picard decides to look there, first. Besides, it's supposedly run by hot...
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Rufus Sewell cast in new Bruckheimer pilot
Filed under: Other Drama Shows, The Amazing Race, CSI, Doctor Who, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Casting Nobody would ever confuse Rufus Sewell for Patrick Stewart (Star Trek: The Next Generation), right? Well, super-producer Jerry Bruckheimer has chosen Sewell for the lead in the $4 million pilot of the British drama series Eleventh Hour. Presumably, Rufus will be playing the same role Patrick played, that is Professor Ian Hood, Special Advisor to the government's Joint Sciences Committee, enlisted to tackle all kinds of dangerous threats stemming from science gone awry.
Continue reading Rufus Sewell cast...
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Nine fictional beverages from TV - VIDEOS
Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Saturday Night Live, The Simpsons, Video, Family Guy, Animation, Adult Swim, Contests and Giveaways, Futurama, Star Trek: The Next Generation, TV Squad Lists So, we've got this promotional thing going on with this new zero calorie sparkling drink from Pepsi called Tava. Haven't heard of it yet? Well, from what I can tell, you certainly will. What did they give us to give away? How does this sound:
- Two (2) 80GB iPod Classics.
- Five (5) swag bags containing TAVA Canvas tote bag, TAVA t-shirt and TAVA pen.
- Seven...
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: Datalore
Filed under: Retro Squad, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Episode Reviews Title: Datalore Original Air Date: January 18, 1988 Teleplay by: Robert Lewin and Gene Roddenberry Story by: Robert Lewin and Maurice Hurley Directed by: Rob Bowman Episode: S01E013 Stardate: 41242.4
Synopsis: After dropping off a bunch of Human Horn for Lurr in the Omicron Persei system, the Enterprise cruises into the nearby Omicron Theta system, to pay a visit to Data's home planet.
Omicon Theta was once a farming colony, but all the colonists -- and everything they once grew -- were all gone when Data was found. Oh! A mystery! Riker leads an away team...
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Star Trek: The Next Generation - 20th Anniversary Complete Series - DVD review
Filed under: TV on DVD, OpEd, Star Trek: The Next Generation If you're even mildly a fan of Star Trek: The Next Generation, you've no doubt heard of the recent release of the 20th anniversary edition of the complete series DVD set, complete with new bonus features. First you probably said to yourself, "holy crap, that was 20 years ago?! Get outta my yard!" You also likely groaned when you read the price tag of 400 smackeroos, which even for die-hard trekkies is a big pill to swallow.
I was lucky enough to recently get a look at what this new...
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