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Idris Elba no será un villano 'Klingon' en 'Star Trek 3'

Simon Pegg, actor y guionista de la película negó los rumores surgidos en torno al papel de Idris Elba en la saga.

A  mediados de marzo de 2015 surgió un rumor sobre que Idris Elba estaba en pláticas para interpretar al villano de 'Star Trek 3' y también algunos medios informaron que ese personaje sería 'Klingon', miembro de la raza alienígena. 

 

Sin embargo, el actor Simon Pegg también funge como guionista en la entrega galáctica e informó en una entrevista con Absolute Radio que estas especulaciones son mentira. Claro que tiempo atrás el actor también declaró que Khan no sería el villano de la segunda entrega, pero al final sí lo fue. Klingon', miembro de la raza alienígena. 

 

 

La conquista del espacio llega al Salón del Cómic

 El mundo de la ciencia tendrá un gran protagonismo en el 33 Salón Internacional del Cómic de Barcelona.

 Además habrán mesas redondas y conferencias que exploren la relación entre los cómics y la ciencia: Los cómics de ciencia ficción (Star Trek, Star Wars, Doctor Who), que contará, entre otros, con la presencia del autor italiano Stefano Martino; Cyrano de Bergerac, Superman y Flash Gordon: Ciencia en la ciencia ficción (literatura, cine y cómic), por Miquel Barceló (UPC), Jordi José (UPC) y Manuel Moreno (UPC), y La ciencia de leer un tebeo: percepción y viñetas, por Álvaro Pons. También se dedicarán conferencias  dedicadas al mundo de las series, como la mesa redonda Star Trek y la ciencia, organizada por la Asociación Star Trek o Sheldon Cooper, el científico y amante de los cómics más famoso de la TV, por Toni de la Torre (autor de La vida según Sheldon, Álvaro Pons y David Saltzberg, profesor de Física y Astronomía en la Universidad de California, Los Ángeles (UCLA) y asesor científico de la serie televisiva The Big Bang Theory.

 

¿Devolverá Bryan Singer ‘Star Trek’ a la televisión?

Se rumorea que el director de la saga 'X-Men', 'trekkie' confeso, podría devolver a la Flota Estelar a la televisión, aunque no recuperar 'Star Trek: Federation'.

Bryan Singer es un fan furibundo de Star Trek que no por nada fichó al capitán Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) para interpretar al Profesor X de sus películas de X-Men e incluso logró rascar un cameo en Star Trek: Némesis (2002). Hace unos años, encabezó junto a Christopher McQuarrie y Robert Burnett un proyecto para el desarrollo de una nueva serie de la franquicia interesetelar para el canal CBS bajo el título de Star Trek: Federation, pero entonces llegaron las películas de J.J. Abrams y el plan quedó abandonado. ¿Hasta ahora? Así lo afirma el último rumor publicado por Latino Review, según el cual Singer vuelve a estar asociado a una nueva serie de Star Trek para CBS.

Mientras Justin Lin prepara Star Trek 3 para celebrar el 50 aniversario de la serie el año que viene en los cines, puede que el medio siglo de existencia de la saga interestelar creada por Gene Roddenberry tenga otro espacio de celebración en la pequeña pantalla que la vio nacer. Sin embargo, desde io9 prefieren no dar credibilidad al rumor por lo mucho que se apoya en el viejo proyecto de Star Trek: Federation. Por ese motivo, se han puesto en contacto con Burnett para clarificar el asunto, y esto es lo que les ha dicho: “Toda la información sobre Federation es cierta… pero lo hicimos hace diez años. El tratamiento fue escrito pero pasó a mejor vida cuando J.J. [Abrams] tomó el mando. Nunca fue nada más que un tratamiento… Mientras he estado trabajando en [la fan movie] Star Trek: Prelude to Axanar, hemos construido sets, etc… no he sabido NADA sobre una nueva serie de Star Trek para CBS”.

Lo cual, nos deja las siguientes preguntas: ¿está la información inicial de Latino Review completamente errada y se refiere a un proyecyo que murió hace diez años? ¿O lo que CBS busca es otra serie de Star Trek, distinta de aquella idea, pero de nuevo con Singer a bordo? La cercanía del 50 aniversario lleva a pensar que todo es posible con el fin de sacar un poco más de partido a uno de los hitos de ciencia-ficción de la cultura pop, así que quedamos expectantes ante más novedades.

STAR TREK QUADRANTS:

ALPHA QUADRANT

The Alpha Quadrant was the common designation for one-quarter of the Milky Way Galaxy. It was adjacent to the Beta Quadrant and the Gamma Quadrant. One-quarter of the galactic core was located in this quadrant. (Star Trek: Voyager, Season 7 production art [1]; Star Trek Into Darkness display graphics)
In late 24th century interstellar politics and diplomacy, the four great powers in the Alpha Quadrant were the United Federation of Planets, the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Star Empire, and the Cardassian Union. Other powers at the time were divided into two groups. The mercantile powers, like the Ferengi Alliance, traded with the great powers. The isolationist powers, like the Breen Confederacy and the Tholian Assembly, defended their territory aggressively and, would on occasion, battle with other powers. (Star Trek: The Original Series; Star Trek: Deep Space Nine; Star Trek Into Darkness display graphics) By the late 23rd century, the Alpha Quadrant still remained largely unexplored by the United Federation of Planets. (VOY: "Flashback")
The Bajoran wormhole connected the Bajoran sector in the Alpha Quadrant to a point near the Idran system on the far side of the Gamma Quadrant near Dominion space. The use of this wormhole for exploration and trade by parties from the Alpha Quadrant incited hostility from the Dominion, culminating in the Dominion War. (Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
In the alternate 2259, a section of this quadrant, from a galactic map, was in a collection of graphics and video media that were seen on a powerwall in the offices of Admirals Christopher Pike and Alexander Marcus at Starfleet Headquarters. The map was being used primarily for charting activity on the Neutral Zone, Sectors 45 to 89. The three largest powers in this section - the Federation, the Empire, and the Orion Union - were labeled on this map. (Star Trek Into Darkness)

BETA QUADRANT

The Beta Quadrant was the common designation for one-quarter of the Milky Way Galaxy. It was adjacent to the Alpha and Delta Quadrants. One-quarter of the galactic core was located in this quadrant. (Star Trek: Voyager, Season 7 production art [1]; Star Trek Into Darkness, display graphics)
Qo'noS, the Klingon homeworld, was located in the Beta Quadrant. (Star Trek Into Darkness, display graphic) The Klingon Empire and the Romulan Star Empire claimed territory in the Beta Quadrant in the 24th century.

In 2293, the starship USS Excelsior, commanded by Captain Hikaru Sulu, completed a three-year exploratory voyage in the Beta Quadrant which included cataloging gaseous anomalies. (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country)
In 2363, Captain Lisa Cusak and the crew of the USS Olympia began an eight-year mission in the Beta Quadrant. Following this mission, the Olympia crashed on a planet in the Rutharian sector en route back to Federation space. While escorting a convoy to the Vegan system in 2374, the crew of the USS Defiant made contact with Cusak in 2371 via a temporal anomaly. (DS9: "The Sound of Her Voice")
In an alternate timeline, the USS Voyager used a quantum slipstream drive to cross the Delta and Beta Quadrants, before crashing on an Class L planet in the Takara sector, a few parsecs short of reaching the Alpha Quadrant. Also in this timeline, Starfleet Intelligence had salvaged a Borg temporal transmitter from the debris of a Borg cube in the Beta Quadrant. (VOY: "Timeless")
A Borg ship, commandeered by liberated drones and Axum, was located in a remote sector of the Beta Quadrant patrolling the border of fluidic space. (VOY: "Unimatrix Zero, Part II")
When members of the Hierarchy captured Captain Janeway and forced The Doctor to obtain Voyager's warp core for them, he impersonated Janeway and told Commander Chakotay a cover story involving a fictitious R'Kaal Imperium which supposedly controlled "thousands of parsecs from here to the edge of the Beta Quadrant." (VOY: "Renaissance Man")

DELTA QUADRANT


The Delta Quadrant was the common designation for one-quarter of the Milky Way Galaxy. This quadrant was adjacent to the Beta Quadrant and to the Gamma Quadrant. The quadrant's closest point to the United Federation of Planets was located in the galactic core, which was located approximately 30,000 light years away. (Star Trek: Voyager, Season 7 production art [1])
The Delta Quadrant was home to thousands of species, including the Kazon, Talaxians, Ocampans, Borg, Vidiians, Hirogen, Krenim, and many others.
Humans were first planted in the Delta Quadrant by a race known as the Briori around the year 1937 as a form of slave labor. The slaves rebelled and their descendants built a new civilization on a Class L planet. (VOY: "The 37's")
The Delta Quadrant was first visited by Humans of their own free will on stardate 32629.4, when the USS Raven followed a Borg vessel into a transwarp conduit. (VOY: "Dark Frontier") The first Starfleet mission into the Delta Quadrant occurred during an inspection of the Barzan wormhole in 2366. (TNG: "The Price")
Due to the immense distance between the Alpha and Delta Quadrants (an Intrepid-class starship would take thirty years to reach the edges of the quadrant at its maximum warp velocity), the Federation knew very little about this region of space until 2371, when the starship USS Voyager was pulled into the quadrant by an alien force called the Caretaker. When contact was reestablished with the starship in 2374, hundreds of kiloquads of data on the region was received, increasing the Federation's knowledge of the quadrant immensely.
When Q discovered Voyager, he assumed Quinn was responsible for transporting it there, stating that Humans weren't supposed to be in the Delta Quadrant for another one hundred years. (VOY: "Death Wish")
When Voyager returned to Earth from the Borg transwarp network in 2378, the Federation's knowledge of the quadrant was expanded considerably. (VOY: "Endgame")


Millions of years before recorded Human history, it is speculated that the Voth may have left Earth and traveled to the Delta Quadrant where they established a powerful and reclusive civilization. (VOY: "Distant Origin")
Around 45,000 years ago, a humanoid species from the Delta Quadrant traveled to Earth, where they discovered a tribe of Humans. Though the Humans at this time had no language or tools, the humanoid visitors admired their respect for the land. The humanoids continued to visit Earth for thousands more years, seeing the tribe they visited become the Native American people, and they came to worship the humanoids as the Sky Spirits. The humanoids stopped visiting when European settlers started to conquer their land. (VOY: "Tattoo")
Around the 3rd century, an epidemic known as Phage spread throughout the Vidiian Sodality, reducing a previously renowned culture to subsisting on organ piracy and slave labor. (VOY: "Phage", "Faces")
In the 15th century, the Vaadwaur controlled many colonies and exerted influence across much of the Delta Quadrant, if not further, via a series of underspace corridors. In 1484 an alliance of species led by the Turei destroyed the Vaadwaur empire, forcing survivors to undergo cryostasis in the hopes of preserving their society. (VOY: "Dragon's Teeth")
Jal Sankur united the Kazon sects in 2346 to overthrow their enslavers, the Trabe. Virtually all Trabe territory fell under control of the various sects, which soon began fighting amongst each other. (VOY: "Initiations", "Maneuvers", "Alliances")
In 2369, Q told Vash that there was still the Delta Quadrant for her to explore with him. (DS9: "Q-Less")
Prior to 2371, an entity known as the Caretaker, while not claiming any specific territory per se, was a major factor in the sociopolitical climate near the outer rim of the Delta Quadrant, in the midst of Kazon space. (VOY: "Caretaker")

The great power in the Delta Quadrant, until at least 2378, was the Borg Collective. In addition to a vast swath of territory which they had completely assimilated, the Borg used a transwarp network to routinely visit different points scattered throughout the quadrant. Following the Borg-Species 8472 War, the insurrection led by Axum, the destruction of a part of the transwarp network and the destruction of Unimatrix 01, it was unclear how the Borg's status in the Delta Quadrant had been altered. (VOY: "Scorpion", "Unimatrix Zero", "Endgame")
Other alien species that controlled significant areas of the quadrant included, among others, the Vidiians, the Devore, the Kazon, the Voth, the Hirogen, the Hierarchy, and the Malon. Species 8472 had also established a presence in the Delta Quadrant until they returned to fluidic space. (Star Trek: Voyager)
The political power of the Krenim Imperium depended largely on its temporal weapons, and as such its influence may have been altered dramatically by its own manipulation of the timeline. (VOY: "Year of Hell")

GAMMA QUADRANT

 The Gamma Quadrant was the common designation for one-quarter of the Milky Way Galaxy. This quadrant was adjacent to the Alpha Quadrant and to the Delta Quadrant. One-quarter of the galactic core was located in this quadrant. The quadrant's closest point to the United Federation of Planets was located in the galactic core, which was located approximately 30,000 light years away. The Denkiri Arm was located in this quadrant. (TNG: "The Price"; Star Trek: Voyager, Season 7 production art 

Vash commented that some of the cultures she had encountered in the Gamma Quadrant had histories spanning millions of years. (DS9: "Q-Less") It is believed the Hur'q originated from the quadrant. (DS9: "The Sword of Kahless")
Using their system of gateways, the Iconians were able to settle the world of Vandros IV, on the edge of the Gamma Quadrant. (DS9: "To the Death")

The quadrant was first explored by the Federation's Quadros-1 probe in the 22nd century. (DS9: "Emissary")
A Barzan probe sent through the Barzan wormhole discovered that the Gamma Quadrant terminus was located beyond the Denkiri Arm, a distance that at warp 9 would have taken nearly a century to cover, this later shifted to the Delta Quadrant and the wormhole was discovered to be unstable. (TNG: "The Price")
In 2369, the Bajoran wormhole in the Bajoran system was discovered. This wormhole had a terminus in the Gamma Quadrant that was four light years from the Idran system. This wormhole linked this quadrant with the Alpha Quadrant. (DS9: "Emissary")
A Tosk came through the Bajoran Wormhole from the Gamma Quadrant and docked at Deep Space 9 on a hunt and was pursed by Hunters, The Hunters said that Tosk was bred to be hunted by them and had spent his entire life preparing, later the Hunters were allowed to resume the hunt and take the Tosk back with them to the Gamma Quadrant after Chief O'Brien helped the Tosk to escape and leave back through the Bajoran Wormhole and into the Gamma Quadrant. (DS9: "Captive Pursuit")
The archaeologist Vash explored the Gamma Quadrant for two years at the invitation of Q in 2367. She was found there in 2369 by members of Deep Space 9's crew. (TNG: "Qpid"; DS9: "Q-Less")
Deep Space Nine had the distinction of making first contact with a Gamma Quadrant species known as the Wadi. However, the Wadi showed no interest in formalities and headed straight to Quark's. The Ferengi initially saw the Wadi as a potential source of great profit, but when the Wadi Master Surchid Falow started to win at Dabo and went on a winning streak, Quark had one of his waiters rig the game. The Wadi caught him and forced Quark to play "an honest game" called Chula, using living people as players, but this was revealed later to be only a game and not really dangerous. (DS9: "Move Along Home")
Kai Opaka was taken through the Bajoran Wormhole by Benjamin Sisko, where they received a distress signal. They then found a planet with a network of satellites, one of which was malfunctioning. Their runabout approached the planet and one of the satellites attacked it, forcing them to crash land. Opaka died in the landing, which devastated Kira; however, her mourning was interrupted by a group of people called the Ennis are who were at war with a group called the Nol-Ennis, both groups were being regenerated by some form of extraterrestrial nanotechnology. The same technology revives the Ennis and Nol-Ennis, but rather than a blessing it is a curse: Both groups were sent to the planet as punishment for centuries of conflict, doomed to die over and over, Kai Opaka accepts that she cannot leave the planet in the Gamma Quadrant and feels called to help the two warring factions learn how to live in peace. (DS9: "Battle Lines")
The Vulcans were at the forefront of the exploration of the Quadrant, beginning only months after the wormhole was discovered by Benjamin Sisko and Jadzia Dax in 2369, the Vulcans made many discoveries, including the remains of the Hur'q race. (DS9: "The Sword of Kahless")
The Klingons showed an interest in exploring the Gamma Quadrant shortly after its discovery by sending their own scout ships to the quadrant. (DS9: "Q-Less") The IKS Toh'Kaht was among the first ships to explore the quadrant in an effort to establish colonies on the other side of the wormhole. They also operated freighters to the quadrant. (DS9: "Dramatis Personae", "The Storyteller")
On the other hand, no Romulan ship had ever been to the Gamma Quadrant until late 2371 during the Tal Shiar's abortive attack on the Founders' homeworld. (DS9: "Visionary", "The Die is Cast")
The Ferengi saw the Gamma Quadrant as an enormous chance to make a profit and their reputations would be, as Gral put "absolutely stainless". (DS9: "The Nagus", "Rules of Acquisition", "Starship Down")
The Bajorans also colonized a planet in the Gamma Quadrant, New Bajor, in late 2370. Unfortunately, the planet was invaded by the Jem'Hadar, who massacred the population. (DS9: "Crossover", "The Jem'Hadar")
The planet Meridian was also located in the Gamma Quadrant, and spends most of its time in another phase of existence, where its people exist only as consciousness, with no physical being. The planet is in this dimension for a very short time. In twelve days it will disappear for sixty years. Each time it returns, the planet will have less time in this universe, and eventually will stop appearing. (DS9: "Meridian")
The starship Defiant was caught in a type of "quantum-bubble" surrounding an inhabited planet. After investigation, it is discovered that the inhabitants are the descendants of the Defiant's crew. Generations of descendants have been living on the planet for many years and their own history began when the Defiant tried to escape from the bubble. Instead of passing through its energy barrier, the ship was thrown back in time two centuries and crashed with no hope of contacting the Federation or repairing the ship. Faced with that reality, the small stranded crew of the Defiant (including Dax, Sisko, O'Brien, etc.) decided to remain and establish a society. (DS9: "Children of Time")

The Dominion was established approximately 10,000 years prior to 2375. This galactic power was located between 40,000 and 50,000 light years from the galactic core in an arm of the galaxy. Other powers have been encountered, but their status with the Dominion was unclear. (DS9: "The Dogs of War", "Whispers", "Hard Time"; Star Trek: Voyager, Season 7 production art)
In the act directly precipitous to the Dominion War, the Federation mined the entrance to the wormhole (leading to the Gamma Quadrant) in 2373. This cut off access to this quadrant from any Alpha Quadrant powers and prevented Dominion reinforcements from adding to the Dominion War. (DS9: "Call to Arms", "Sacrifice of Angels", "Tears of the Prophets")

  Michael Dorn Confirms He’s Working on a ‘Star Trek: Captain Worf’ TV Series

Geek favorites Bryan Fuller and Bryan Singer have been forthcoming about their hopes for bringing Star Trek back to the small screen, after the release of J.J. Abrams’ elusive sequel to his Trek movie reboot next summer. However, it turns out those two aren’t the only ones with big dreams about a new TV series set in that sci-fi universe – Michael Dorn is also taking steps to reprise his signature Trek role on a spinoff, tentatively titled Star Trek: Captain Worf.
Worf, Son of Mogh, of course, is the first Klingon main character on a Star Trek TV series. He appeared on The Next Generation throughout its seven-season run, then became a Deep Space Nine regular for its last four seasons. Dorn portrayed Worf in all four Next Generation films; in addition, he played Worf’s grandfather, Colonel Worf, in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country.
Rumors and reports about a prospective Worf spinoff began circulating earlier this year – which, perhaps not-so-coincidentally, marks the 25th anniversary of The Next Generation. Trek News caught up with recently with Dorn, who gave them the following exclusive “scoop” on the project:

“I had come up with the idea because I love [Worf] and I think he’s a character that hasn’t been fully developed and hasn’t been fully realized. Once I started thinking about it, it became obvious to me that I wanted to at least put it out there, which I have, and the response has been pretty amazing. We’ve been contacted by different individuals–I can’t say who and all that–about wanting to come on board and be part of this. “

Deep Space Nine concluded with Worf being made Federation ambassador to the Klingon homeworld, Qo’noS. An official prequel comic book to Abrams’ Trek reboot featured Worf as a Klingon Empire General, who battles the Romulan Captain Nero (Eric Bana, in Abrams’ film). Worf sustained life-threatening injuries during the encounter, but it was indicated he was still alive by the story’s conclusion.

However, the overlap between events on DS9 and the Star Trek film continuity has always been kind of fuzzy; hence, it stands to reason that could also hold true for a Worf spinoff and the post-reboot movies. Dorn’s in the same boat of uncertainty as Fuller and Singer, when it comes to how his plans are affected by Abrams’ films – as he put it, “there’s all the political stuff going on with the new movies with J.J. Abrams and Paramount and all that stuff, which I have no clue about and what it all entails, but that’s where it is right now.”

The in-progress subtitle Captain Worf is open to interpretation, as far as indications for when, exactly, the TV series could take place. Such a Star Trek spinoff would, for certain, retain the ensemble format of its predecessors to some degree – with a focus on the adventures of Worf and a new group of space explorers. Morever, Dorn says the show isn’t so much a pipe dream as one might think (at first):

“Interestingly enough it has gotten traction. I was very surprised, I was on a movie not too long ago, where one of the producers was basically lobbying to be part of it. He was like “Michael, I’d love to write it, if you haven’t.” So at this point, my agents and my manager are looking at all the avenues and trying to figure out which is the best one. My agent and manager have been in the business for awhile, so they’re very savvy about where to start and how to get it going. Like I said, in this business you never know and I’ve been through pitching things and I never want to do that again [laughs]. It’s pretty brutal, but definitely I think once again, if Paramount or CBS or anybody thinks this is a viable thing, they’ll jump on it.”

Worf’s Klingon manner and instincts often put him at odds with his fellow officers on The Next Generation, as hilariously highlighted in this 15-minute compilation video; still, there were a few episodes on DS9 that explored Worf’s personal sense of duty and honor beyond the surface level. Nonetheless, there does remain room for further development of the character – even given the substantial amount of backstory already in place for Worf.
However, as Dorn mentions above, the Star Trek: Captain Worf television series is far from getting an official greenlight right now. Nevertheless, we will keep you up-to-date on the situation as more information is released (or Dorn continues to talk about it).

Source: Trek News [via Moviehole]

‘Star Trek 3’: Simon Pegg’s Script Is Completely New

Writer Simon Pegg confirms that Roberto Orci’s original screenplay for ‘Star Trek 3’ has been tossed out, with new director Justin Lin contributing ideas.

Simon Pegg is currently making the press rounds for his latest comedy thriller Kill Me Three Times, and he's been fairly open about the scripting process on Star Trek 3. The actor, who plays Scotty in the sci-fi franchise, took over as writer, working alongside Doug Jung to redraft a new version of the script once Roberto Orci was booted off the sequel. And it appears that Roberto Orci's screenplay was completely tossed aside to make way for the ideas had by incoming director Justin Lin. About this latest script, Simon Pegg tells Den of Geeks that it's a fresh take:
"It's completely new. I haven't read Bob (Orci)'s script and they didn't want us to. So we went back to the drawing board. We had creative meetings with Justin and there were things he wanted in there. I haven't written like this before. I've never been a custodian of something, it's usually mine what I'm writing. Whereas with this, you're given a bunch of stuff - 'Look we want this in it and this in it.' Or Justin will say - he's got an amazing visual mind, Justin. He's great at that kind of choreography. So he'll say, 'What if this happens?' So Doug and I go, 'Okay, right, let's try and get that into it.' So it's an interesting process."
Simon Pegg was approached to write the script by producers J.J. Abrams and Bryan Burk while they were all shooting Mission: Impossible Rogue Nation. Paramount apparently didn't like the direction Roberto Orci was taking the sequel, and he was removed as a director and replaced by Justin Lin. His script, which was written alongside newcomers J.D. Payne and Patrick McKay reportedly had the Enterprise, the Vulcans and a new alien race competing to get a time travel device. The Vulcans want to go back and stop the destruction of their planet, and the time travel storyline would have allowed Chris Pine and William Shatner to share the screen. While it sounded like William Shatner was ready to return, it is not known if that will still be the case. In an earlier interview Simon Pegg said that this new movie will retain the spirit of the original TV.

Star Trek PADD

 

 Una app para los amantes de la popular serie de televisión
Caracol Radio | 27 de Febrero de 2015

SI tu eres  un fanático de la serie de aventuras interestelares, esta aplicación es para usted.
Desarrollada por CBS Interactive, esta herramienta convierte su iPad en tablero de navegación similar al usado por la tripulación de la nave de Star Treak.

Su dispositivo móvil será un PADD (Personal Acces Display Device), y usted se sentirá parte de la tripulación del Enterprise.

La funcionalidad real de la herramienta está pensada exclusivamente en los fans de la serie, pues en ella se incluye una guía de episodios, así como contenidos particulares de la serie, la información de la nave sobre extraterrestres y otras naves.

La aplicación esta disponible en el app store, y por el momento sólo está a disposición de los clientes de Apple.

 

Leonard Nimoy’s Son Plans Spock Documentary

A month after the death of Leonard Nimoy, his son Adam Nimoy has announced plans to produce and direct a documentary about his father titled “For the Love of Spock.”
The project is aimed at celebrating the 50th anniversary of “Star Trek,” which aired for the first time on Sept. 8, 1966. Zachary Quinto, who portrayed the Spock character in last two “Star Trek” films, will narrate the documentary.
David Zappone, the owner and president of Paramount-based 455 Films, will produce.
“This will be a tribute to my dad and Spock,” Adam Nimoy told Variety. “We have plenty to work from because my dad loved telling stories and he was very fond of the role.”

Adam Nimoy said that he and his father began discussing the project several months ago and agreed that it should focus on the enduring nature of Spock and Nimoy’s portrayal of the relentlessly logical human-alien first officer of the Starship Enterprise. The elder Nimoy had announced last year that he was suffering from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease but had continued working on the project — even speaking with with his son about it two days before his death.

“He felt as if he had plenty of time, but then he declined precipitously,” Adam Nimoy said. “I was struck with the outpouring of affection for him after he died, so this feels like the right thing to do.”

The filmmaker said William Shatner, who played Enterprise captain James T. Kirk, had agreed to appear in the doc. “My father wrote two books — ‘I Am Not Spock’ and ‘I Am Spock’ — and we’ve got lots of recordings so there’s plenty for us to work with.”
He’s planning to seek conventional film financing, which would be used partly to license portions of the movies from Paramount and TV shows from CBS. But he said he would not be opposed to crowdfunding from a site such as Kickstarter.
Adam Nimoy broke into show business as an attorney in entertainment law specializing in music and music publishing and was a business affairs executive for EMI America Records and Enigma Records before becoming a TV director. He has gone on to direct episodes of “NYPD Blue,” “The Practice,” “Ally McBeal” and “Gilmore Girls.”
He also wrote his own biography, “My Incredibly Wonderful, Miserable Life,” published by Simon and Schuster in 2008.
Zaponne has produced “Star Trek”-related content including “The Captains,” “William Shatner’s Get a Life,” and “Still Kicking.” He recently produced “Chaos on the Bridge,” an inside look at the first few tumultuous years of “Star Trek: The Next Generation” for HBO Canada.

 

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Planean documental sobre Leonard Nimoy

 

 El hijo del actor, Adam Nimoy, anunció sus planes de producir y dirigir el largometraje 'For the Love of Spock'. 

 

 A un poco más de un mes de la muerte del actor Leonard Nimoy, su hijo Adam Nimoy anunció los planes de producir y dirigir un documental sobre la vida de su padre, el cual llevará por nombre 'For the Love of Spock'.

 "Este será un homenaje a mi padre y Spock (...) Tenemos mucho que trabajar desde ya, a mi padre le encantaba contar historias y él era muy aficionado a su papel", dijo Adam a la revista 'Variety'.
Adam dijo que su padre había platicado sobre este proyecto antes de su muerte, en el que hablaría del personaje más importante de su carrera, El señor Spock, de la forma en que interpretó a este ser extraterrestre de implacable lógica.
Entre los materiales que se utilizarán para desarrollar este proyecto cinematográfico se encuentran las grabaciones que Leonard Nimoy realizó cuando escribió los libros 'I Am Not Spock' y 'I Am Spock'.
David Zappone, dueño y presidente de Paramount, será el encargado de producir la cinta que será narrada por el actor Zachary Quinto, quien interpreta al señor Spock en la nueva saga para el cine de 'Star Trek'.
Este proyecto está planeado para la celebración del 50 aniversario de 'Star Trek', programa de televisión que salió al aire el 8 de septiembre de 1966.

Maniobra Picard.

Esta maniobra bélica toma su nombre del Capitán Jean-Luc Picard, quien al mando de la USS Stargazer NCC-2893 la puso en práctica en el año 2355.

Los hechos ocurrieron en el sistema Zeta Maxia, cuando el Stargazer fue atacado sin previo aviso por una nave Ferengi de tipo Marauder. Tras múltiples intentos de comunicación por parte de la nave Federal, el navío Ferengi lanzó un ataque a gran escala con sus poderosas armas de plasma, que causaron graves daños a la Stargazer. Estos daños impidieron a Picard llevar a cabo un ataque frontal contra la nave enemiga, que le superaba en armamento, sin embargo los sensores revelaron que la nave enemiga contaba con deficiencias en sus sistemas de sensores (la nave Ferengi era incapaz de detectar objetos que se movieran a velocidades superiores a la de la luz) y de localización. Esto último, junto con la gran maniobrabilidad de la Stargazer fueron utilizados por el Capitán Picard para llevar a cabo su plan de acción.

La maniobra básicamente consistía en lo siguiente:

- Picard comprobó que su distancia al enemigo estaba cifrada en nueve millones de kilómetros por lo que un objeto moviéndose a la velocidad de la luz tardaría alrededor de 30 segundos en recorrer esa distancia. Si la nave Ferengi era incapaz de detectar el movimiento de la Stargazer, la imagen de esta saltando a la velocidad de la luz les llegaría con 30 segundos de retraso (justo el tiempo que emplearía la imagen en recorrer los nueve millones de kilómetros que separaban ambas naves). Estaba claro que los ferengi no podrían detectar el salto de la Stargazer en el momento en el que este se produciría.
- El Capitán Picard ordenó acelerar a una velocidad superior a la de la luz para que así el Stargazer lograra llegar a las inmediaciones de la nave Ferengi antes que la imagen del salto. El movimiento de la nave Federal duró 15 segundos, es decir, llegó a las inmediaciones de la nave enemiga quince segundos antes de que estos se dieran cuenta de que el Stargazer estaba acelerando.
- En el momento de la deceleración, y a ojos de los Ferengi, en el espacio había dos Stargazer distintos: uno el original en su posición original (en realidad era la imagen antigua del Stargazer antes del salto a curvatura), otro el Stargazer surgido de ese viaje de 15 segundos y que aparecía mucho más cerca que el primero.
- El Capitán Picard ordenó abrir fuego ante la total sorpresa de los enemigos. Las armas del Stargazer hicieron blanco y la nave Ferengi fue destruida.

Esta es, a grandes rasgos, la mítica maniobra Picard que, incluso, se estudia en la Academia de la Flota.
Fuente:Mundostartrek.com

Bucle de Tyken Un bucle de Tyken, es una anomalia que consiste en una disrupción espacial que absorbe energía de manera continuada, pudiendo quedar atrapadas en su interior cualquier tipo de nave e ir perdiendo gradualmente toda la energía existente. El fenómeno debe su nombre al capitán Bela Tyken, cuya nave fue la primera en quedar atrapada dentro de un fenómeno de estas características. La manera de salir de un bucle de Tyken, es la de realizar una emisión masiva de energía, originando así una fisura en el bucle y deshaciéndolo, esto fue precisamente lo que hizo el capitán Tyken para salir de su encuentro con este fenómeno. Fuente:Mundostartrek.com

Why ‘Enterprise’ Is Getting Another Look and Why You Should Give It a Chance Too 


They say “absence makes the heart grow fonder”. As much as this statement is true in life, it certainly is true for Star Trek, specifically Trek on television. This May, it will have been a decade since we have last seen Star Trek broadcast as a weekly series. On May 13th, 2005, the Enterprise episode entitled “These Are The Voyages…” aired and it capped off an interesting period in Trek fandom because it not only marked the end of Enterprise after only 4 seasons, but it also began the period of drought of Trek on television that currently exists today.


But something has happened in these intervening 10 years which has caused a significant change in fandom: more and more people are rediscovering Enterprise and reconsidering its merits. This article will examine not only why this is happening, but also why you should give it a chance if you haven’t already.





Two Factors What Worked Against Enterprise



1. The Nature of Media Consumption Was Different Ten Years Ago



With the advent of on-demand, video streaming services such as Netflix, Amazon Instant, Hulu and the proliferation of user-friendly media devices such as the Roku and Google Chromecast, the entire Star Trek television canon (The Original Series, The Animated Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise) is now available to dedicated and casual fans in a way that’s accessible as never before. This type of a la carte watching really allows for focused “binge” or “marathon” viewing and it’s perfect to really get the taste of what a show is and if necessary, allow people to skip parts they don’t like.



Unfortunately for Enterprise, it never got this luxury in its first run on television. Arguably it got the worst of both worlds. In 2000, when its pilot episode “Broken Bow” aired, the television world was only just leaving the syndication model that had dominated much of 90’s era Star Trek. The Next Generation and Deep Space Nine had been the bread and butter for syndicated networks and Voyager had just finished its seven year run in May of 2001 anchoring Paramount’s “United Paramount Network” or UPN. But while Voyager had the luxury of UPN being a fresh newcomer in the eyes of audiences, by the time of Enterprise’s launch, the network was already something of a faded afterthought among TV networks.


With UPN facing plummeting ratings due to its identity crisis and reluctance to continue its reputation as a sci-fi oriented network after seven years of Voyager, it routinely bumped Enterprise into the worst timeslots (Friday night at 10 pm, for example in some markets) in favor of mediocre sitcoms and pro wrestling. No wonder then Enterprise often had to work at a significant disadvantage to get viewers from its very onset.






2. Star Trek Wasn’t The Only Game in Town Anymore




When The Next Generation debuted in 1987, it arguably revitalized not only Star Trek on television, but it also revitalized the entire American science fiction genre. There really was no competition for the type of sci-fi loving audience that routinely tuned into TNG. This would gradually begin to shift with Deep Space Nine and Voyager, which faced increased competition for viewers with the advent of shows like Babylon 5 and the X-Files, but Trek arguably still came out on top. However, with the start of Enterprise, two factors began working against it. First, Enterprise launched in September of 2001, a mere three months after Voyager had ended, to officially become the fifth live-action Star Trek series. Historically, concurrent or adjacent Trek series have never been a problem. Deep Space Nine launched to great fanfare alongside TNG’s final two seasons and Voyager similarly debuted to great fanfare during DS9’s first two seasons. However, by the time of Enterprise, that well had begun to be tapped dry. With four TNG movies and two additional series under its belt, Star Trek just didn’t seem as fresh as it used to in the early 1990s. This fatigue also coincided with a boomlet of outstanding sci-fi shows such as Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, and Farscape that were also airing at roughly the same time, which provided additional competition for Enterprise that just didn’t exist for the other Trek series.






So What’s Changed?



1. JJ Trek 



For better or for worse, the new J.J. Abrams Star Trek movies have literally changed the trajectory of the Trek franchise. 2009’s Star Trek was unequivocally a hit with both critics and fans alike, while 2013’s Into Darkness, while still a financial success, was received more tepidly by the fan base. However, this takes nothing away from how these two movies (and the upcoming third film in 2016) have rejuvenated the franchise since 2002’s ill-received Nemesis. New fans are discovering Trek for the first time through these movies and are primed in a sense to consume more stories within this universe. Since all five Trek series are so easily accessible to be streamed on-demand, the barriers to entry for new viewers to watch are so low compared to older fans who had to either stay up late to catch their episode in syndication or record it manually with a VHS tape. Couple this with the fact that Enterprise is the most visually polished of all of the Trek series and it’s easy to see why audiences who were introduced to Trek through the slick and modern aesthetic of the Abrams movies would be attracted to the advanced visual styling of Enterprise.




2. Time




Ten years is a long time. Ten years is certainly a long time for a franchise not to be on television, particularly one such as Star Trek, which has always thrived in this medium. Doug Drexler, the designer of the NX-01 Enterprise, had a wonderful quote about the series’ resurgence: “There is an entire generation of fans out there who are rediscovering this show that have no idea they’re supposed to hate it.” With the passage of time, many fans’ preconceptions of what a prequel Trek series should be is being replaced with more realistic and reasonable expectations. And when viewed through this lens, I think both old and new fans alike are rediscovering and discovering, respectively, that there are many aspects of the show to appreciate.



The Enterprise crew

Final Thoughts


Despite these new factors working in its favor, I’m certainly not saying that Enterprise is a perfect show. From its very inception, there were clear signs of friction between the direction the studios wanted to take the show and where the writers wanted to go. This is particularly evident with the entire Temporal Cold War arc. Furthermore, as the first Trek series made in the 21st century, it demonstrated very problematic tendencies to marginalize its only two main characters of color (Hoshi and Travis), over-sexualize its female characters (most egregiously with T’Pol), and failing to really represent humanity’s diversity by backing away from making Malcolm Reed Trek’s first openly gay character.

However, Enterprise does do a lot right. In many ways, the entire mission of the NX-01, from its crew to its design to its atmosphere, evokes a sense that this is really humanity’s first real deep space flight. They’re still learning the ropes, they’re going to make mistakes, they’re not yet the polished Starfleet we all know and love in the future. But most importantly, it begins to lay the foundation for what we will later see in all of Star Trek. We finally see Andorians and Tellarites for the first time since The Original Series. We delve further into Vulcan culture, society, and mythology than we have ever before. We finally see the foundation being laid for the formation of the Federation. And in the process of doing this, Enterprise produces some of the best Star Trek episodes we’ve seen since the end of Deep Space Nine.


Through a combination of time, distance, and the changing nature of media consumption and the franchise itself, Enterprise is experiencing a revival of sorts from both old and new Star Trek fans alike. And I, for one, am glad to see that more and more people are discovering this fact each and every day!

photos: CBS Home Entertainment