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Star Trek Fan Productions
''Star Trek'' fan productions are productions made by fans using elements of the ''Star Trek'' franchise. Paramount Pictures, CBS, and their licensees are the only organizations legally allowed to create commercial products with the ''Star Trek'' name and trademark. The fan film community has received some coverage from the mainstream media. Films ''Paragon's Paragon'' (1974) ''Star Trek'' fan films have been made since the 1960s by individuals and various fan groups but, before the advent of inexpensive digital cameras, editing and effects in the 1990s, most were on a simple home movie level. An early effort to achieve something more was John Cosentino's ''Paragon's Paragon'', which was an unofficial adaptation of James Blish's ''Spock Must Die!'', an early ''Star Trek'' spinoff novel. The film ran for an hour and was shot on 16mm film using a full-size recreation of the Bridge set. It also used a wide variety of film special effects techniques on a budget of over $2,000 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Video Production
Video production is the process of producing video content for video. It is the equivalent of filmmaking, but with video recorded either as analog signals on videotape, digitally in video tape or as computer files stored on optical discs, hard drives, SSDs, magnetic tape or memory cards instead of film stock. There are three stages of video production: pre-production, production (also known as principal photography), and post-production. Pre-production involves all of the planning aspects of the video production process before filming begins. This includes scriptwriting, scheduling, logistics, and other administrative duties. Production is the phase of video production which captures the video content (electronic moving images) and involves filming the subject(s) of the video. Post-production is the action of selectively combining those video clips through video editing into a finished product that tells a story or communicates a message in either a live event setting (live product ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Big Brother (German TV Series)
''Big Brother'' is the German version of the international reality television franchise '' Big Brother'' created by producer John de Mol in 1997. Following the premise of other versions of the format, the show followed a number of contestants, known as housemates, who are isolated from the outside world for an extended period of time in a custom-built house. Each week, one of the housemates is evicted by a public vote, with the last housemate remaining winning a cash prize. ''Big Brother'' premiered on 28 February 2000 and ran for eleven seasons on RTL Zwei (formerly spelled RTL 2 and RTL II) before the network cancelled it in September 2011. Big Brother returned on 22 September 2015 on sixx, and lasted for one season. After a 5-year break, Sat.1 rebooted the series on 10 February 2020. The show also featured a 24-hour live feed, in which fans could view the inside of the house at any time on the German pay channel Premiere and Sky until the twelfth season. In the Sat.1 iterat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Graham
Gary Graham (born June 6, 1950) is an American actor, musician, and author. He may be best known for his starring role as Detective Matthew Sikes in the television series ''Alien Nation'' (1989–1990) and five subsequent ''Alien Nation'' television films (1994–1997). Biography and career Graham was born in Long Beach, California. One of his earliest roles was in the 1980 CBS mini series ''Scruples'' based on the Judith Krantz novel starring Lindsay Wagner. He was cast as a "hitman" on the television show ''Moonlighting'' co-starring opposite Bruce Willis. He has played more than 38 TV roles and has also been in more than 40 movies. Band names: The Gary Graham Garage Band, The Gary Graham Band and The Sons of Kirk. He is a contributor to Breitbart News. Television As well as Alien Nation and Star Trek, Graham starred in a 2008 TV pilot styled after ''Sin City'' called '' Dead End City''. December 18, 1984 episode of Remington Steele, "Let's Steele A Plot" (Season 3,e ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kate Vernon
Katherine Elizabeth Vernon (born April 21, 1961) is a Canadian-born American actress. She is known for her roles as Lorraine Prescott on the CBS primetime soap opera ''Falcon Crest'' (from 1984–1985), the stuck-up and popular Benny Hanson in the comedy film ''Pretty in Pink'' (1986), Sophia in the 1992 Spike Lee film, ''Malcolm X'', and Ellen Tigh in the 2004 Syfy series ''Battlestar Galactica''. Early life Vernon was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada to Nancy West and actor John Vernon. At age seven, she moved with her family to Los Angeles, California, where her father was pursuing his career. Her sister is singer Nan Vernon. Career Vernon portrayed Lorraine Prescott on the CBS prime time soap opera ''Falcon Crest'' from 1984 to 1985. During the 1980s she appeared on various TV series, including ''Family Ties'', ''Dallas'', ''Remington Steele'', ''Hotel'', ''Murder, She Wrote'' and the 1987 miniseries ''I'll Take Manhattan'', as well as the 1986 comedy-drama film ''Pretty in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Hatch (actor)
Richard Lawrence Hatch (May 21, 1945 – February 7, 2017) was an American actor, writer, and producer. Hatch began his career as a stage actor before moving on to television work in the 1970s. Hatch is best known for his role as Captain Apollo in the original ''Battlestar Galactica (1978 TV series), Battlestar Galactica'' television series. He is also widely known for his role as Tom Zarek in the reimagined ''Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series), Battlestar Galactica''. Early life Hatch was born on May 21, 1945, in Santa Monica, California, to John Raymond Hatch and Elizabeth Hatch (née White). He grew up with four siblings. While in high school, he aspired to become an athlete in pole vaulting, and only had a passing interest in acting, as he considered himself too shy and insecure. The Assassination of John F. Kennedy, assassination of President Kennedy in 1963, while Hatch had just started college, turned him towards acting; he had been enrolled in a required oral interpr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kickstarter
Kickstarter is an American public benefit corporation based in Brooklyn, New York, that maintains a global crowdfunding platform focused on creativity. The company's stated mission is to "help bring creative projects to life". As of July 2021, Kickstarter has received $6.6 billion in pledges from 21 million backers to fund 222,000 projects, such as films, music, stage shows, comics, journalism, video games, board games, technology, publishing, and food-related projects. People who back Kickstarter projects are offered tangible rewards or experiences in exchange for their pledges. This model traces its roots to subscription model of arts patronage, where artists would go directly to their audiences to fund their work. History Kickstarter launched on April 28, 2009, by Perry Chen, Yancey Strickler, and Charles Adler. ''The New York Times'' called Kickstarter "the people's NEA". ''Time'' named it one of the "Best Inventions of 2010" and "Best Websites of 2011". Kickstarter repo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Prelude To Axanar
''Prelude to Axanar'' (working title: ''Star Trek: Prelude to Axanar'', and long title: ''The Four Years War Part III: Prelude to Axanar'') is a 2014 fan-made short film, directed by Christian Gossett and written by Gossett and Alec Peters. Funded through Kickstarter, production sought $10,000 in funding, but raised $101,000. It had its public debut July 26, 2014 at the San Diego Comic-Con. Set in the ''Star Trek'' universe, the film stars Kate Vernon, Tony Todd, Richard Hatch, Gary Graham, and J. G. Hertzler, in a documentary-style film recounting the events surrounding the Battle of Axanar, mentioned without any detail in passing in the original ''Star Trek'' series episode '' Whom Gods Destroy'', here depicted as a decisive military engagement between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire. Production Alec Peters and his original production partner, co-writer and director Christian Gossett, began work on the film in 2010. Gossett's production company, Metamo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Axanar
''Prelude to Axanar'' (working title: ''Star Trek: Prelude to Axanar'', and long title: ''The Four Years War Part III: Prelude to Axanar'') is a 2014 fan-made short film, directed by Christian Gossett and written by Gossett and Alec Peters. Funded through Kickstarter, production sought $10,000 in funding, but raised $101,000. It had its public debut July 26, 2014 at the San Diego Comic-Con. Set in the ''Star Trek'' universe, the film stars Kate Vernon, Tony Todd, Richard Hatch, Gary Graham, and J. G. Hertzler, in a documentary-style film recounting the events surrounding the Battle of Axanar, mentioned without any detail in passing in the original ''Star Trek'' series episode '' Whom Gods Destroy'', here depicted as a decisive military engagement between the United Federation of Planets and the Klingon Empire. Production Alec Peters and his original production partner, co-writer and director Christian Gossett, began work on the film in 2010. Gossett's production company, Metamo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Next Generation)
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a v ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Startrek
''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 was in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Walter Koenig
Walter Marvin Koenig (; born September 14, 1936) is an American actor and screenwriter. He began acting professionally in the mid 1960s and quickly rose to prominence for his supporting role as Ensign Pavel Chekov in ''Star Trek: The Original Series'' (1967–1969). He went on to reprise this role in all six original-cast ''Star Trek'' films. He has also acted in several other series and films including ''Goodbye, Raggedy Ann'' (1971), ''The Questor Tapes'' (1974), and ''Babylon 5'' (1993). In addition to his acting career, Koenig has made a career in writing as well and is known for working on ''Land of the Lost'' (1974),'' Family'' (1976), ''What Really Happened to the Class of '65?'' (1977) and ''The Powers of Matthew Star'' (1982). Early life Koenig was born in Chicago, Illinois, the son of businessman Isadore Koenig and his wife Sarah (née Strauss). They moved to the Inwood neighborhood of Manhattan when Walter was a child, where he went to school. Koenig's parents were R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nichelle Nichols
Nichelle Nichols (, born Grace Dell Nichols; December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) was an American actress, singer, and dancer best known for her portrayal of Nyota Uhura in ''Star Trek'' and its film sequels. Nichols' portrayal of Uhura was groundbreaking for African American actresses on American television. From 1977 until 2015, Nichols volunteered her time to promote NASA's programs and recruit diverse astronauts, including some of the first female and ethnic minority astronauts. Nichols was born in Robbins, Illinois, a Chicago suburb. She trained in dance, and began her career as a dancer, singer, and model in Chicago. She went into stage acting, and had a television and film career. Early life Grace Dell Nichols was born the third of six children on December 28, 1932, in Robbins, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, to Samuel Earl Nichols, a factory worker who was elected both town mayor of Robbins in 1929 and its chief magistrate, and his wife, Lishia (Parks) Nichols, a hom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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