Canadian actress Nicole de Boer (BEYOND REALITY, MISSION GENESIS) will be joining the cast of STAR TREK: DEEP SPACE NINE for its seventh season to play the next recipient of the Dax symbioant. She is slated to appear in the season premiere, "Images in the Sand", but this DOES NOT mean that she will permanately be a part of the cast. Nor does it mean that she and Worf will take up any kind of relationship, as she plays a new host with a separate life.
According to OPTICAL DATA NETWORK, author Phil Farrand has announced that Dell Books, the publisher of the popular NITPICKERS' GUIDE TO STAR TREK, will no longer be publishing his books due to lawsuit fears brought on by various actions by Paramount, including their lawsuit against the publishers of THE JOY OF TREK. Farrand notes that while the NITPICKERS' guides are legal under fair use laws, the threat of a lawsuit, grounded or not, is too great a risk. Farrand is therefore looking into changing careers.
The US Postal Service has finally announced the results from its 1960s-themed stamp vote. With more than 930,000 cast, the STAR TREK stamp was included among Woodstock and The Beatles for the Arts and Entertainment category. The stamp with the most votes cast was the moon landing. The stamps will be issued in June 1999. (Early issues of POWER STAR reported on the original STAR TREK stamp campaign.)
Gary Cole (AMERICAN GOTHIC) has been signed to play the lead in THE BABYLON PROJECT: CRUSADE, the BABYLON 5 spinoff series. Cole will play the captain of the EXCALIBUR, a starship that searches the universe for a cure to a virus that will wipe out humanity in 5 years. CRUSADE is tentatively scheduled to start airing in January.
THE ENEMY MINE OMNIBUS contains all three works in Barry Longyear's acclaimed ENEMY MINE series: "Enemy Mine/The Enemy Papers," "The Tomorrow Testament," and "The Last Enemy." White Wolf will be releasing a greatly expanded "Author's Cut" of "Enemy Mine" this year, along with selections from the Drac bible and two essays: "On Alien Languages" and "Run Drac Run," which is a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the ENEMY MINE movie.
Arthur C. Clarke (2001, RENDEZVOUS WITH RAMA) and Michael P. Kube-McDowell (ENIGMA, THE BLACK FLEET CRISIS) have delivered their 680-page, 160,000-word manuscript of TRIGGER, a near-future novel, to Bantam Books. Kube-McDowell is currently working on a romantic science fiction novel titled VECTORS.
FILM THREAT WEEKLY reports TNT's Rough Cut Online (www.roughcut.com) and New Line Cinema are currently presenting the Rough Cut Screenplay Challenge, a chance for Web surfers to collaborate online with Hollywood screenwriter David S. Goyer (THE CROW: CITY OF ANGELS, DARK CITY, BLADE). The first pages of an original SF thriller introduce the characters and their world, and set a direction for the story. What happens next? Movie fans and aspiring screenwriters will be encouraged to continue the story by submitting ten pages as the possible next chapter. Each week, a panel of judges will select the best submission and post those ten new pages on the site. In addition to the opportunity to "collaborate" with Goyer and publish online, the winners will be awarded $100.00 and a chance to win a laptop computer. The final screenplay will total between 100 and 120 pages - the standard length for a feature film - and will be available online for fans to read and enjoy.
ZENtertainment reports that FOX has ordered 13 new episodes of Dick Clark Productions' BEYOND BELIEF: FACT OR FICTION?, hosted by Jonathan Frakes (STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION).
According to both producer Majel Barrett Roddenberry and writer Dorothy Fontana, Kevin Kilner (William Boone) will not be returning for EARTH: FINAL CONFLICT's second season and has been recast with a young, largely unknown, New York actor, playing a half-human, half-Taelon character. There have also been some other cast changes as well as changes in the writing staff. The specifics of all of these changes are so far unknown, although they will severely affect the show's arc format.