"Akademikernas självbild har påverkats av den ökande konsumtionen av populärkultur. Forskningen på massproducerad tv ökar i takt med acceptansen för det som tidigare kallats "kitsch". Kanske är det oundvikligt? Till och med nödvändigt?
På söndagskvällarna bänkar sig många framför "Aktuellt" eller den deckare som SVT för tillfället valt att sända som lisa för själen inför den stundande veckan. Så inte jag. Mörka eftermiddagar då helgen vankade mot sitt slut såg jag förr i stället med tillförsikt fram emot "Xena - krigarprinsessan" och fortfarande inväntar jag med spänning veckans avsnitt av "Star Trek". Och det gäller inte ens de klassiska avsnitten. I politiskt korrekt anda är det numera den kvinnliga kapten Kathryne Janeway som styr Voyager med fast hand. Och liksom kapten James Kirk är hon hård men rättvis och rationell men mänsklig."
The 2-disc set will include the original theatrical cut of the film on Disc One, in anamorphic widescreen video with Dolby Digital 5.1 audio. You will also find feature-length audio commentary with director Leonard Nimoy, writer/producer Harve Bennett, director of photography Charles Correll and actress Robin Curtis, along with another text commentary by Michael and Denise Okuda. Disc Two will include the Captain's Log production retrospective featurette (featuring new interviews with Leonard Nimoy, William Shatner, Christopher Lloyd and Robin Curtis), the Terraforming and the Prime Directive featurette (which looks at the science fiction and real subject of "terraforming", featuring an interview with a NASA scientist), 3 additional production featurettes (Space Docks and Birds of Prey, Speaking Klingon and Klingon and Vulcan Costumes), the film's theatrical trailer, storyboards and a photo gallery. Note that the street date and features have been officially confirmed with the studio.
"I’ve got a great episode coming up right now, episode three of the second season called ‘Minefield.’ I’m learning the lines like crazy at the moment -- I’m outside the ship and trying to defuse a mine. And then it all goes wrong man! I don’t know if I’m coming back for episode four!"
"We’re shooting it right now. It’s a great episode, it really bonds Captain Archer and Malcolm Reed, we have a lot of scenes together. It’s kind of ‘Shuttlepod One’ but with the captain outside rather [than trapped together with Reed]. I haven’t seen the sets, [but] it’s a great episode, you’re going to like it!"
"We meet the Romulans for the first time, and I have NO idea who they are!"
"My personal favorite film is Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan and that's the one I studied when I started to create this one," berättade Logan för journalisten Anthony C. Ferrante. "What makes a good TREK film is what makes any good action-adventure film, and that's a strong adversary - an antagonist who is worthy of the protagonist."
"As a writer my big coup was being able to go to Rick [Berman] and say 'I know who the villains are'" förklarar Logan. "And he says 'Who?' and I said 'The Remans'. And he says 'Who ?!'. And I say 'The Romulans and the Remans. It's the bird of prey with the two planets. Romulus and Remus. We've never seen Remus. We don't know about Remus. Let's use Remus'. And of course he loved that idea once he knew what it was. I'm really proud of the fact that I was able to go into the TREK empire and add part of it."
"... If you see a good production of KING LEAR, you can see it set around this table and it would still be big because of the passion behind it. That's what I would hope we're doing with NEMESIS. Big ideas. Big emotions."Författaren som gick ihop med Brent Spiner för att skriva berättelsen till Nemesis, berättar att han är redo för ännu en Star Trek-film:
"I'm hoping I'll be back for STAR TREK XI" säger han. "Hopefully, I won't be missing TREK for too long. It all depends on opening weekend. I told Rick [Berman], 'If we have a good opening weekend, I expect that call from you asking me what have I got for Star Trek XI'. If we have a bad opening weekend, you may never hear from me again."
"We've only been back for a week, so I haven't really talked to Brannon [Braga]. I have talked to some of the writers, and they've told me what's coming up, just in the near future, just the next couple of episodes, not for the whole season."berättade hon i en intervju, hon lade även till:
"I like to be surprised. I've talked to the writers about where I'm at, but they don't know either. That's their work. They're figuring it out as they go along. They have a good idea of the major points they want to hit, but within that, there's a lot of room to come up with spontaneous ideas or to try things out and see if that's a direction they want to go."
"We're very conscious of what's come before, and we always try to respect it. We're all fans of the other series, and we enjoy tossing in a future reference, even if only a handful of viewers will get it. I think Phyliss and I have dropped in more references in our scripts than anyone else this year. We mentioned the Malurians, Tellarites, Coridan. We even dropped in Spock's hometown of Shikahr from the animated series."
"The Klingons are a race I imagine we'll revisit. The staff has talked about showing their evolution into the 'smooth headed' and more cutthroat Klingons of the TOS era. I don't know about the smooth foreheads, but I'd be interested in finding out why the Klingons never talked about honor in all the years Kirk dealt with them," Sussman posits. "They really seemed much more interested in glory and treachery than honor in those days. Maybe they found the whole 'honor' thing wasn't working for them. There are so many ways to go with the Klingons. I think the least interesting choice is to show them behaving in exactly the same way as they will in the 24th century, and I think we were a little guilty of that this season."
"Meeting the Ferengi was probably one of the more controversial choices this season, but I think we structured the show in a way that preserves Picard's first contact with them. Besides, every DS9 fan knows Earth's real first contact with the Ferengi was in Roswell in 1947!"
Lite sent kanske men ändå. Art Asylum släppte för ett tag sen sina Enterprise-figurer i Broken Bow-serien till affärerna. I Broken Bow-serien så ingår Captain Archer, Sub-Commander T´Pol, Lieutenant Reed, Ensign Mayweather, Klingonen Klaang och Sulibanen Silik.
Den 2-4 augusti så anordnas det första "3D Star Trek Virtual Convention", samtidigt som "Creation Entertainment's Official Star Trek Convention" som är i Las Vegas. Vir-con är en 3D virtuell konvention, ungefär som de träffar som vi har här i sverige, fast i den virtuella världen."The original warbird logo developed for the Next Generation, while strange and spooky and alien, was also considered too indistinct as an identifying symbol of the Romulan Star Empire, and so I was asked to submit a new look.
A number of mounting schemes were being discussed, from being bolted to a wall to hanging over the senate chamber (the method eventually chosen), but in any case the final sculpture of the bird would be more or less vertical. We gathered references of eagle, hawk, and condor photography, use of eagle symbols in German, Roman, and U.S. armed forces graphics, and even the underbody pattern from the TOS Romulan cruiser. I developed the chiseled, stylized look from a combination of 1930s German eagle political and advertising depictions, with a dash of the naturalistic alien structures, the feather shapes from the TOS cruiser, and what appeared as horns in the TNG logo to tie the new symbol to previous incarnations."
"As to the NX-01, with the approvals process and the marching orders Doug and John Eaves undoubtedly had to follow -- re: the identifiable Akira hull structures -- the result is a decent looking vehicle, just not for the show's time period. I could see the design as something to come *after* the TOS Enterprise, not before, despite the producers' high RPM spin about the updating of the look and feel for a hip new audience and the comments about the visual inspiration of the Lockheed P-38 Lightning. The deflector hardware, the aztec hull plating, the rapid "upgrading" of weapons systems to almost Voyager levels of technology feels totally anachronistic, which is somewhat amusing given the temporal cold war thread of the series. Would that they had made something of an SF connection between the ship design and the storyline; *that* would have been original and clever."



"I was a breath away from saying this is not worth the time. An absolute breath away. They were negotiating so uncompromisingly that it had reached the point where humiliation was the only way of settling this and I wasn't prepared to do that. But luckily the nice thing for actors is that you don't actually have to walk into those rooms yourself, and you don't have to answer the phone when they call. It's a very curious place, Hollywood, in that in the space of the day, someone's attitude can shift from downright brutality to treating you as a member of the family."