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USS Discovery (NCC-1031)
''Star Trek: Discovery'' is an American television series created by Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman for the streaming service CBS All Access (later rebranded as Paramount+). Premiering in 2017, it is the seventh '' Star Trek'' series and was the first since ''Star Trek: Enterprise'' concluded in 2005. It follows the crew of the starship ''Discovery'', beginning a decade before ''Star Trek: The Original Series'' in the 23rd century. At the end of the second season, ''Discovery'' travels to the 32nd century, which is the setting for subsequent seasons. Sonequa Martin-Green stars as Michael Burnham, a science specialist on ''Discovery'' who eventually becomes captain. Doug Jones, Shazad Latif, Anthony Rapp, Mary Wiseman, Jason Isaacs, Wilson Cruz, Anson Mount, David Ajala, Rachael Ancheril, Blu del Barrio, and Tig Notaro also star. The series was announced in November 2015, with Fuller set as showrunner. He left due to creative differences with CBS and was replaced by Gretche ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Science Fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, extraterrestrial life, sentient artificial intelligence, cybernetics, certain forms of immortality (like mind uploading), and the singularity. Science fiction predicted several existing inventions, such as the atomic bomb, robots, and borazon, whose names entirely match their fictional predecessors. In addition, science fiction might serve as an outlet to facilitate future scientific and technological innovations. Science fiction can trace its roots to ancient mythology. It is also related to fantasy, horror, and superhero fiction and contains many subgenres. Its exact definition has long been disputed among authors, critics, scholars, and readers. Science fiction, in literature, film, television, and other media, has beco ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tig Notaro
Mathilde O'Callaghan "Tig" Notaro (born March 24, 1971) is an American stand-up comedian, writer, radio contributor, and actress. She is known for her deadpan comedy. Her acclaimed album ''Live'' was nominated in 2014 for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album at the 56th Annual Grammy Awards. The special '' Tig Notaro: Boyish Girl Interrupted'' was nominated in 2016 at the 68th Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special. In 2017, the album ''Boyish Girl Interrupted'' was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album at the 59th Annual Grammy Awards. Early life Notaro was born in Jackson, Mississippi, the daughter of Mathilde "Susie" O'Callaghan and Pat Notaro. Her mother was born in New Orleans. Notaro was raised in Pass Christian, Mississippi, until kindergarten. Her family later moved to Spring, Texas, a suburb of Houston, Texas, Houston. She has a brother, Renaud Notaro, who is a year her elder and works as a radio talk show host. "Tig" is a c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roddenberry Entertainment
Eugene Wesley "Rod" Roddenberry Jr. (born February 5, 1974) is an American television producer and the chief executive officer of Roddenberry Entertainment. He is the son of ''Star Trek'' creator Gene Roddenberry and Majel Barrett and is an executive producer on ''Star Trek: Discovery'', ''Star Trek: Picard'', ''Star Trek: Lower Decks'', ''Star Trek: Prodigy'' and ''Star Trek: Strange New Worlds''. Early life Roddenberry was born in Los Angeles, California, the son of actress Majel Barrett and writer and producer Gene Roddenberry, creator of the American science fiction series ''Star Trek''. Roddenberry went to the John Thomas Dye School in Bel Air, Los Angeles, Bel Air and Harvard-Westlake School in North Hollywood. and then attended Hampshire College in the early 1990s. As a young man, Roddenberry was not closely familiar with ''Star Trek'', having never even watched it. In 1991, when he was 17 years old, his father died, after which he began to examine ''Star Trek'' and disc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Secret Hideout
Secret Hideout is a film and television production company founded in 2014 by Alex Kurtzman. It is notable for the recent incarnations of the '' Star Trek'' franchise with Roddenberry Entertainment. History In 2014, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci announced that they would dissolve the partnership in motion pictures in order to focus solely on television. Later that year, the company signed a three-year production deal with Universal Pictures to produce its feature films. Secret Hideout's first film was '' The Mummy''. They hired Jeb Brody, who was formerly an employee of Focus Features, and Bobby Cohen, who was a former K/O Paper Products staffer, to join the company, along with Kim Rosen, who served as head of digital and interactive. In 2016, it was announced that Roberto Orci was not attached to CBS All Access' revival of '' Star Trek: Discovery'' and that Kurtzman had signed a new deal with CBS Television Studios to produce ''Discovery'' along with ''Salvation''. They h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Toronto, Canada
Toronto ( ; or ) is the capital city of the Canadian province of Ontario. With a recorded population of 2,794,356 in 2021, it is the most populous city in Canada and the fourth most populous city in North America. The city is the anchor of the Golden Horseshoe, an urban agglomeration of 9,765,188 people (as of 2021) surrounding the western end of Lake Ontario, while the Greater Toronto Area proper had a 2021 population of 6,712,341. Toronto is an international centre of business, finance, arts, sports and culture, and is recognized as one of the most multicultural and cosmopolitan cities in the world. Indigenous peoples have travelled through and inhabited the Toronto area, located on a broad sloping plateau interspersed with rivers, deep ravines, and urban forest, for more than 10,000 years. After the broadly disputed Toronto Purchase, when the Mississauga surrendered the area to the British Crown, the British established the town of York in 1793 and later designated i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michelle Paradise
Michelle Paradise is an American writer, producer and actress. She created, wrote and starred in the short film ''The Ten Rules'' and the television series ''Exes and Ohs'', and subsequently became a writer and producer for the television series ''The Originals (TV series), The Originals'' and ''Star Trek: Discovery''. Early work Paradise wrote, produced and starred in the short film ''The Ten Rules: The Lesbian Survival Guide'', which debuted in 2002 and subsequently played at gay and lesbian film festivals, both in the United States and in Europe (specifically Copenhagen, Paris and Reykjavík). The film, which focused on a group of lesbian friends in Los Angeles, won awards at the Boulder Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, the Verzaubert International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, the Austin Gay & Lesbian Film Festival and the Philadelphia International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. After the success of ''The Ten Rules'', Paradise developed the themes of the film into a television seri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jenny Lumet
Jenny Lumet (born February 2, 1967) is an American actress and screenwriter. She is the daughter of director Sidney Lumet and granddaughter of Lena Horne. Lumet is perhaps most known for writing the original screenplay of the 2008 Jonathan Demme film ''Rachel Getting Married''. Early life and education Lumet was born on February 2, 1967 in New York City. She is the second daughter born to director Sidney Lumet and journalist/writer Gail Buckley (Gail Buckley Jones). On her paternal side, she is of Polish-Jewish ancestry. Her paternal grandfather was Baruch Lumet, who was a Yiddish theatre actor. On her maternal side, she is African-American, European and Native American with extensive roots in post-colonial America. Her maternal grandmother was singer Lena Horne. In 1984, Lumet graduated from Dalton School. Career Lumet began working in the entertainment industry as an actress. She appeared in small roles in two films directed by her father, '' Deathtrap'' and '' Running on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Olatunde Osunsanmi
Olatunde Osunsanmi (born October 23, 1977) is an American film and television director and producer. He is known for his work on Universal's horror film ''The Fourth Kind'' and for the TNT dystopian drama ''Falling Skies'', as well as being director or producer on several episodes of '' Star Trek: Discovery''. Life and career Osunsanmi was born in the United States to parents who had immigrated from Nigeria. He graduated with a Masters of Fine Arts degree from Dodge College of Film and Media Arts. His first foray in the industry was with a short film he wrote and directed, entitled ''Etat''. The feature explored the 1970s political climate of his parents’ native Nigeria. He went on to direct and co-pen the low-budget horror film ''The Cavern'', before being approached by Universal Studios to helm, produce and write the alien-invasion/horror flick ''The Fourth Kind''. The film claims to be based on "actual case studies" occurring in Nome, Alaska in 2000, and included in the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aaron Harberts
Aaron Harberts (born January 20, 1973) is an American television writer and producer. He was a co-showrunner of CBS's '' Star Trek: Discovery'' with Gretchen J. Berg until their departure in June 2018. Harberts and Berg have been writing/producing partners since they met as students at Northwestern University. In 2019, Aaron Harberts and Gretchen Berg teamed up again as writers and executive producers for ''Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist'' on NBC. Career Harberts and Berg's first staff writing job was on the ninth season of ''Beverly Hills, 90210'' in 1998. When 90210 finished after its tenth season they were offered a producing role on '' Roswell'' which was then starting its second season. At the end of ''Roswells production they started work on ''Wonderfalls'' where they met Bryan Fuller who would later hire them to work on ''Pushing Daisies'' and ''Star Trek: Discovery''. They also wrote for and/or served as executive producers on ''Mercy'', '' Off the Map'', '' GCB'', ''Reve ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gretchen J
Gretchen (, ; literal translation: "Little Grete" or "Little Greta (given name), Greta") is a female given name of Germany, German origin that is mainly prevalent in the United States. Its popularity increased because a major character in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Goethe's ''Goethe's Faust, Faust'' (1808) has this name. In German, the ' ("question by Gretchen"), derived from Faust, is an idiom for a direct question that aims at the core of a problem and that should reveal the intentions and mindset of the questioned. The question is usually inconvenient to the questioned since he or she shall confess to something crucial he or she was intentionally or unintentionally vague about before. In German-speaking countries, Gretchen is not a common stand-alone given name but rather a colloquial diminutive form of Grete (Greta), which itself is a short form of Margarete. It fell out of use when the popularity of the latter two names declined in the 20th century. People *Gretchen (sing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heather Kadin
Heather Kadin (born August 7, 1972) is an American television producer and film producer. She co- executive produces '' Star Trek: Discovery''. Life and career Kadin was born on August 7, 1972, in Scottsdale, Arizona. Before being President of the production company, K/O Paper Products, she was an executive producer at ABC. Kadin had previously worked with Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci together at ABC, where as a drama executive, was involved in J. J. Abrams' spy series ''Alias'', on which Kurtzman and Orci were writer-producers since the first episode. For a brief time, before joining ABC, she had worked at the television division of Shady Acres Entertainment, which at that time, was based at Touchstone Television. She had left Warner Bros. Television where she served as vice president of drama development in 2010. Kadin worked with Kurtzman and Orci on the WBTV-produced ''Fringe'', which Kurtzman and Orci co-created with Abrams. Kadin is the executive producer of '' Sleepy ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akiva Goldsman
Akiva J. Goldsman (born July 7, 1962) is an American filmmaker. He is known for making motion pictures and adaptations of popular novels. Goldsman's filmography as a screenwriter includes ''The Client''; ''Batman Forever'' and its sequel '' Batman & Robin''; ''I, Robot''; '' I Am Legend''; '' Cinderella Man,'' and numerous rewrites that are both credited and uncredited. He also wrote more than a dozen episodes for the science fiction television series ''Fringe''. In 2002, Goldsman received the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay and the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay for the 2001 film '' A Beautiful Mind'', which also won the Academy Award for Best Picture. In 2006, Goldsman re-teamed with ''A Beautiful Mind'' director Ron Howard to adapt Dan Brown's novel ''The Da Vinci Code'' for Howard's film. He also wrote the screenplay for its 2009 sequel ''Angels & Demons''. Goldsman is also known for co-developing the DC Comics TV series ''Titans'' and the Paramount Plus s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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