Sunday, September 02, 2007

Zoë Saldana May Be The Next Uhura...



According to TrekMovie.com, Sources close to the J.J. Abrams Production team for Star Trek 11, Zoë Saldana (”Pirates of the Caribbean: Curse of the Black Pearl”) has been offered the role of Natoya Uhura, the communications officer portrayed for 40+ years by Nichelle Nichols.

If the offer pans out, that gives us three of the bridge crew...But we're still wondering who's gonna play Kirk!

'The Helena Cronicles' Announced


Areakt Productions, has announced a second new series to debt in 2008!

Star Trek: The Helena Chronicles will be a sister series to Odyssey and based around a ship seen in the 6th and 7th seasons based out of Hidden Frontier's DS12.

Starring Sharon Savene as Captain Theresa Faisal, and Adam Browne as Commander Jorian Dao, the series has a fall 2007 production start, with the release of the first of 3 episodes for season one in 2008.

Keep an eye out for the new series at the Hidden Frontier website, or keep your browser pointed here for future updates!

The 'Odyssey' Begins!


Areakt Pictures, in association with Hidden Frontier Productions is in deep production of the first season of the new series Star Trek: Odyssey starring Bobby Rice as Lt. Ro Nevin, and a host of cast members from the now final Hidden Frontier series which ended in May of this year.

Odyssey will pick up where HF left off, exploring the Andromeda Galaxy.

Look for updates on Odyssey here, or at the Hidden Frontier website!

New Voyages to air "Blood and Fire"


Back on June 10, David Gerrold called "It's a Wrap" to the latest episode that's now in post-production for the new voyages crew titled Blood and Fire, which totaled 100+ pages, and was shot in 12 days of principal photography.

Guesting on this episode are Bobby Rice, who was part of the Star Trek: Hidden Frontier series, and now starring in Star Trek: Odyssey and very special guest star Denise Crosby, playing the role of Dr. Jenna Yar!

The teaser from the site says "Pursued and damaged by repeated Klingon attacks, the crew of the Enterprise must respond to the distress call from a Federation research ship. In a matter of hours the ship and crew will be consumed by a nearby star and the crew of the Enterprise will be consumed by an mysterious horror that threatens both ships as the Klingons watch and wait."

Watch for a fall release of this episode!

World Enough and Time Now Available!


Star Trek: New Voyages has announced the release of their latest episode to the public!

In an article on the site, it states that " Scotty's been working double-shifts to restore the video stream for the newest Star Trek: New Voyages episode, World Enough and Time, starring George Takei."

After having a mass influx of over 100,000 + visitors to their site during the announced release, the team at New Voyages has spent the last 10 days re-establishing the feed, and with the help of the DAVE school, and Newtek, Scotty's worked his magic again.

While the limit now is only 300 viewers at a time on the feed, The episode is now available for streaming on the site.

Look for our review to be comming soon!