Star Trek: How It Should Have Ended

Star Trek 11 Arrives!

The latest movie entry in the Star Trek franchise has arrived and with it comes the resultant hoopla. Not wanting to be left out of the hoopla, here are a few Trek related items I found interesting:


A Klingon Opera

Movie Review by Bob Mondello 'Star Trek': That Final Frontier, Boldly Reapproached


Star Trek Trailers









Special Features: Trek Yourself

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Ricardo Gonzalo Pedro Montalbán y Merino (November 25, 1920 – January 14, 2009)

Best known for his role as Khan Noonien Singh in Star Trek, as Mr.Roarke in Fantasy Island, and as a spokesman for the Chrysler Cordoba and its ". . . fine Corinthian leather." Here are a few sides of the many facets of Ricardo Montalban.











The following is an excerpt of an interview conducted in 2002.



To view the entire interview go
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here, or
here.

Majel Barrett Roddenberry Memorial. 1932-2008

Born Majel Lee Hudec on Feb. 23, 1932, in Cleveland, Ohio, Roddenberry died of complications from leukemia early Thursday morning at her home in Bel-Air. She was 76

Star Trek: Back to the Future

The buzz grows louder as the Star Trek Universe prepares for the reset of the movie series. Go here for the Entertainment Weekly article on what J.J. Abrams has in store for movie goers.

Here is what William Shatner had to say about his appearance (or lack there of) in the new film:

Wally Wingert's AckerMansion and More

Over at his excellent blog, News From Me, Mark Evanier embedded a YouTube video of voice actor, Wally Wingert, posted by a woman who calls herself GloZell. After a bit of investigation, I discovered that GloZell shot three videos of Wingert in his home showing off his collection of memorabilia.

Notice:
I want to apologize for her chaotic and uninformed comments as well as her poor camera work, but Wingert's collection is interesting enough to make the videos worth watching.













Uncle Davver, the horror host with the most . . .the most . . .err . . .well, YOU figure it out!

To learn more about Wally (No relation to "Wall-E") Wingert's voice acting, go to IMDB, Wikipedia, or Voice Chasers.

Robert Justman, "Star Trek" Producer, dead at 81

Robert Harris Justman (July 13, 1926 – May 28, 2008), who served as Gene Roddenberry's right hand man during the production of the original Star Trek series and was involved with the production of Mission: Impossible, The Adventures of Superman, Search, Then Came Bronson and Star Trek: The Next Generation, died from complications of Parkinson's disease. He was 81. Go here for a BBC interview.

Below are a series of recorded interviews I located on YouTube:


















Robert H. Justman

Producer, Robert Justman, was born in New York City on July 13, 1926. His job titles in the film industry included production assistant, assistant director, associate producer, co-producer, supervising producer, production manager, and he acted in The Outer Limits episode “A Feasibility Study” as the “Elder of Luminos.” His film credits include Joe Palooka in the Squared Circle (1950), Kiss Me Deadly (1955), and Mutiny on the Bounty (1962.) The television series on which he worked include The Adventures of Superman (1953-1958), The Outer Limits (1963-1965), Star Trek (1966-1969) Mission: Impossible (1966 Pilot), Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987-1988.) Justman and Herbert Solow co-wrote Inside Star Trek: The Real Story, published by Pocket Books in 1996.

At the time Justman was casting for Star Trek: The Next Generation, he saw Patrick Stewart on stage, turned to his wife and said, “I think I’ve found our new captain.” Arranging a meeting between Gene Roddenberry and Stewart, Justman felt that the conversation had gone well when Roddenberry was bidding Stewart goodbye, closed the door, turned to Justman and said, “I won’t have him.” When questioned, Roddenberry would not say why he felt Stewart was wrong for the part, but Justman had his suspicions: Roddenberry had conceived of Jean-Luc Picard as a masculine, virile Frenchman with a lot of hair. “And Patrick didn't fit that at all. Patrick was not so handsome, he was distinctive, and he was quite bald. Quite bald,” said Justman. He would not give up on Stewart, so Justman continued to badger Roddenberry and Roddenberry continued to say no. A new producer, Rick Berman, came on the scene, saw some film of Stewart, and fell in love with the actors work. Roddenberry still resisted, and eventually Justman realized he needed to approach the problem from a different angle. One day in a meeting, Justman announced that he never wanted to hear the name Patrick Stewart ever again. Whenever someone mentioned Stewart’s name, Justman would fain anger, state it was over with Stewart and to move on. One day, the final candidate for the role of Picard came to audition, did his reading, spoke to Roddenberry and Justman, and then left. The room was deadly silent. Roddenberry heaved a great sigh and said, “All right, I’ll go with Patrick.”
Justman died on May 28th, 2008 in Los Angeles, California from complications of Parkinson’s disease.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Justman

http://articles.latimes.com/2008/jun/01/local/me-justman1

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0433226/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/st/clips/clip27.shtml

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/st/interviews/justman/page6.shtml

http://trekmovie.com/2008/05/31/tos-tng-producer-robert-justman-has-passed-away/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/cult/st/interviews/justman/index.shtml

http://www.memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Robert_Justman

http://trekmovie.com/2007/03/18/bob-justman-talks-tos-and-tos-r-with-trekmoviecom/

http://www.trektoday.com/news/010608_01.shtml