Tag: Denise Crosby
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Star Trek: Lower Decks Is Looking To Up Its Body Count In Season 4
For many years, death in “Star Trek” was a permanent event. To cite a notable example: when Captain Kirk’s brother Sam (William Shatner) was killed in the episode “Operation — Annihilate!”, he was dead forever. There wasn’t a storyline later in the series wherein Sam was cloned or resurrected somehow. In 2023, the tune on death…
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A Lying Star Trek Producer Tried To ‘Sabotage’ Wil Wheaton’s Career
The start of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” was a difficult and tempestuous time. Many Trekkies will be able to tell you the series of events: “Star Trek: The Motion Picture” wasn’t the enormous hit that Paramount wanted when the film was released in 1979, and “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry was uninvited from participating…
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The Legacy Of Armus, Star Trek’s Cheapest, Scariest, Most Controversial Villain
In the first-season “Star Trek: The Next Generation” episode “Skin of Evil”, the shuttlecraft carrying Deanna Troi (Marina Sirtis) crashes on a seemingly uninhabited alien world called Vagra II. The Enterprise goes to rescue her, but finds that Troi’s crashed shuttle is being guarded by a mysterious living puddle of black tar. The tar shapeshifts…