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David Weddle
David Weddle is an American television writer and producer known for episodes of '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' (1996–1999), ''The Twilight Zone'' (2002–2003), '' Battlestar Galactica'' (2004–2009), ''CSI: Crime Scene Investigation'' (2009-2011), '' Falling Skies'' (2011-2013), and ''The Strain'' (2014-2017) with writing partner Bradley Thompson. They are currently writing for their third season of the series '' For All Mankind'', which debuted on Apple TV+ on November 1, 2019. They also wrote for the short-lived series ''Ghost Stories'' (1997) and '' The Fearing Mind'' (2000). Biography Weddle graduated from the USC School of Cinema, as did writing partner Bradley Thompson, whom he first met in an acting class. After Sam Peckinpah's death in 1984, Weddle used Peckinpah's production files and correspondence that had been given to the library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to write a biography of the director. This biography, ''If They Move... Kill 'Em ...
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Television Writer
A screenplay writer (also called screenwriter, scriptwriter, scribe or scenarist) is a writer who practices the craft of screenwriting, writing screenplays on which mass media, such as films, television programs and video games, are based. Terminology In the silent era, writers now considered screenwriters were denoted by terms such as photoplaywright, photoplay writer, photoplay dramatist and screen playwright.Steven Maras. ''Screenwriting: History, Theory and Practice.'' Wallflower Press, 2009. pp. 82–85. Screenwriting historian Steven Maras notes that these early writers were often understood as being the authors of the films as shown and argues that they cannot be precisely equated with present-day screenwriters because they were responsible for a technical product, a brief "scenario", "treatment", or "synopsis" that is a written synopsis of what is to be filmed. Profession Screenwriting is a freelance profession. No education is required to be a professional scree ...
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Paramount Pictures
Paramount Pictures Corporation is an American film and television production company, production and Distribution (marketing), distribution company and the main namesake division of Paramount Global (formerly ViacomCBS). It is the fifth-oldest film studio in the world, the second-oldest film studio in the United States (behind Universal Pictures), and the sole member of the Major film studio, "Big Five" film studios located within the city limits of Los Angeles. In 1916, film producer Adolph Zukor put 24 actors and actresses under contract and honored each with a star on the logo. In 1967, the number of stars was reduced to 22 and their hidden meaning was dropped. In 2014, Paramount Pictures became the first major Hollywood studio to distribute all of its films in digital form only. The company's headquarters and studios are located at 5555 Melrose Avenue, Hollywood, California. Paramount Pictures is a member of the Motion Picture Association of America, Motion Picture Associ ...
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Mexico
Mexico (Spanish: México), officially the United Mexican States, is a country in the southern portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. Mexico covers ,Mexico
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Parras
Parras de la Fuente () is a city located in the southern part of the Mexican state of Coahuila. The city serves as the municipal seat of the surrounding Parras Municipality, which has an area of 9,271.7 km2 (3,579.8 sq mi). At the census of 2010, the population was 45,423. There are many factories that produce denim, including a Dickies factory, and Parras is also a source for Mexican wine. It was the first wine growing region in the Americas. History The former Hacienda del Rosario is the place where Parras de la Fuente was founded in 1598, by Capitán Antón Martín de Zapata. The revolutionary and President of Mexico Francisco I. Madero was born in 1873. In 1846, during the Mexican–American War, Parras was held by American troops. Additionally, French forces were defeated there in 1866 during the French intervention in Mexico. The oldest winery in the Americas is in Parras de la Fuente, and was founded by Lorenzo García on August 19, 1597. Casa Madero i ...
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The Wild Bunch
''The Wild Bunch'' is a 1969 American epic Revisionist Western film directed by Sam Peckinpah and starring William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan, Edmond O'Brien, Ben Johnson and Warren Oates. The plot concerns an aging outlaw gang on the Mexico–United States border trying to adapt to the changing modern world of 1913. The film was controversial because of its graphic violence and its portrayal of crude men attempting to survive by any available means. The screenplay was co-written by Peckinpah, Walon Green, and Roy N. Sickner. ''The Wild Bunch'' was filmed in Technicolor and Panavision, in Mexico, notably at the Hacienda Ciénaga del Carmen, deep in the desert between Torreón and Saltillo, Coahuila, and on the Rio Nazas. ''The Wild Bunch'' is noted for intricate, multi-angle, quick-cut editing using normal and slow motion images, a revolutionary cinema technique in 1969. The writing of Green, Peckinpah, and Sickner was nominated for a best screenplay Oscar, and the ...
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Black Bag Operations
Black bag operations or black bag jobs are covert or clandestine entries into structures to obtain information for human intelligence operations. Some of the tactics, techniques, and procedures associated with black bag operations are lock picking, safe cracking, key impressions, fingerprinting, photography, electronic surveillance (including audio and video surveillance), mail manipulation (flaps and seals), and forgery. The term "black bag" refers to the small bags in which burglars stereotypically carry their tools. History In black bag operations, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents entered offices of targeted individuals and organizations, and photographed information found in their records. This practice was used by the FBI from 1942 through the 1960s. In July 1966, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover allegedly ordered the practice discontinued. President Nixon in 1970 proposed the Huston Plan to reintroduce black bag jobs, but Hoover opposed this, and approval was rev ...
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Star Trek
''Star Trek'' is an American science fiction media franchise created by Gene Roddenberry, which began with the eponymous 1960s television series and quickly became a worldwide pop-culture phenomenon. The franchise has expanded into various films, television series, video games, novels, and comic books. With an estimated $10.6 billion in revenue, it is one of the most recognizable and highest-grossing media franchises of all time. The franchise began with ''Star Trek: The Original Series'', which debuted in the US on September 8, 1966 and aired for three seasons on NBC. It was first broadcast on September 6, 1966 on Canada's CTV network. It followed the voyages of the crew of the starship USS ''Enterprise'', a space exploration vessel built by the United Federation of Planets in the 23rd century, on a mission "to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before". In creating ''Star Trek'', Roddenberry w ...
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Inquisition (DS9 Episode)
"Inquisition" is the 142nd episode of the television series '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine''. It is the 18th episode of the sixth season. This episode introduces Starfleet's secretive intelligence agency, Section 31, which would go on to be featured in future ''Star Trek'' television series and films. Set in the 24th century, ''Deep Space Nine'' follows the adventures of the crew of the fictional space station Deep Space Nine, which lies adjacent to a wormhole connecting the Alpha and Gamma Quadrants of the galaxy. The later seasons of the series follow a war between the United Federation of Planets and the Dominion, a hostile empire from the Gamma Quadrant. In this episode, Deep Space Nine's chief medical officer Dr. Julian Bashir is accused of being a spy for the Dominion; the accusations turn out to be a tool to recruit Bashir to join Section 31. "Inquisition" is one of several espionage stories featured in the later seasons of ''Deep Space Nine'', stemming from a desire to ad ...
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United Federation Of Planets
In the fictional universe of ''Star Trek'' the United Federation of Planets (UFP) is the interstellar government with which, as part of its space force Starfleet, most of the characters and starships of the franchise are affiliated. Commonly referred to as "the Federation", it was introduced in the original ''Star Trek'' television series. The survival, success, and growth of the Federation and its principles of freedom have become some of the ''Star Trek'' franchise's central themes. The Federation is an organization of numerous planetary sovereignties, including Earth and Vulcan. The franchise focuses on Starfleet, the exploration and defence arm of the Federation, rather than the government. Viewers are rarely given details of the internal workings of the government; however, many episodes refer to the rules and laws that the Federation imposes on the characters and their adventures. Development Early in the first season of ''Star Trek'', Captain Kirk had said the ''Enterpris ...
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Section 31 (Star Trek)
Section 31, in the fictional universe of '' Star Trek'', is an autonomous intelligence and defense organization that carries out covert operations for the United Federation of Planets. Created by Ira Steven Behr for the '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' episode "Inquisition", the organization was intended to act as a counterbalance to the utopian portrayal of the Federation. Section 31 settings and characters have appeared in dozens of episodes, novels and comics. In 2019, CBS announced a new series was in development about Section 31, starring Michelle Yeoh. Production Ira Steven Behr was inspired by a line of dialogue from ''Deep Space Nine'' episode " The Maquis" spoken by Commander Benjamin Sisko: "It's easy to be a saint in paradise." Behr said in the 1999 reference companion to the series, "Why ''is'' Earth a paradise in the twenty-fourth century? Well, maybe it's because there's someone watching over it and doing the nasty stuff that no one wants to think about." He expr ...
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Section 31
Section 31 may refer to: * Section 31 (''Star Trek''), a fictional organization ** '' Star Trek: Section 31'', a novel series about the organization ** '' ''Star Trek: Section 31'' (TV series)'', an upcoming television series * Section 31 of the Constitution of Australia * Section 31 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms * Section 31 of the Broadcasting Act of Ireland * Section 31 or Section 31 Project, initial name for the Storyliving by Disney Storyliving by Disney is a business venture and brand of The Walt Disney Company announced on February 16, 2022, to collaboratively develop master-planned communities that utilize Disney Imagineering and are staffed by Disney cast members. It ope ... Cotino community See also * * 31 (other) {{dab ...
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Deep Space Nine Relaunch
List of ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' novels based on the American science fiction television series of the same name. The book line was published by Simon & Schuster imprints Pocket Books, Pocket Star, Gallery, and Atria. More recent ''Deep Space Nine'' novels link directly with other ''Star Trek'' book lines and series, such as: ''Destiny'' (2008), ''Typhon Pact'' (2010–2012), ''The Fall'' (2013–14), and the relaunch of the '' Section 31'' series. Episode novelizations Based on select episodes from the television series. ''Call to Arms'' (1998) and ''Sacrifice of Angels'' (1998) are based on a seven episode arc from ''Deep Space Nine'' fifth and sixth seasons. Numbered novels Numbered paperback releases: Young adult novels ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'' young adult series follows the adventures of Jake Sisko and Nog while living aboard ''Deep Space Nine''. Original novels Includes hardcover and paperback releases: Omnibus editions Collections of n ...
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