15 15 15 Publication of the U.S.S. Chesapeake Star Trek and Science-Fiction Club May, 2008 TNG warps to Sci Fi Channel; Look for Next Gen Quinto feels welcome in Trek episodes to begin airing on the Sci Fi The Sci Fi Channel recently acquired the this. I feel like for this point on, Spock will be Channel! cable TV rights to several genre shows from part of my career as an actor. I don’t antici- the CBS library, including Star Trek: The Next pate my career to stop now that I played this Generation. role.” Next Gen reruns are scheduled to begin “I get this question a lot: ‘Now that you airing on the network on Monday, June 2. are playing Spock, what are you going to do?’” The Sci Fi Channel has a long-standing in- he said. “I am going to keep doing things that terest in the Star Trek franchise. It was the first excite me and challenge me and challenge my network to air both Classic Trek and Star Trek: audience and excite my audience as well.” Enterprise on its channel. In fact, Enterprise is Quinto continued, “I have been so very still airing there. Besides airing the franchise’s fortunate to be warmly embraced by the sci-fi movies, Star Trek: The Animated Series ran on community, and now more specifically the the Sci Fi Channel in the early 1990s. Star Trek community. That means a great deal The Next Generation has aired before, on to me, but my career as an actor is not limited the G4 Channel and on the Spike Channel, to that genre or realm. So I am now excited to when that channel was called The Nashville go off and explore other territories and play Network (TNN). other roles and do other things as well.” Star Trek: The Next Generation is not the “We are about to go back into production only genre program acquired by the network on Heroes, and that will take up a lot of time, in the deal. The Sci Fi Channel has also ac- pretty much until Star Trek comes out next quired the rights to such shows as Charmed, year,” the star continued. “I will probably try Highlander and Ghost Whisperer, as well as and squeeze a movie or two in while the show Early Edition, Mork and Mindy and Friday the is in production, and then try and get back on Thirteenth: The Series. stage again.” b Zachary Quinto, who is playing the When asked if playing Spock was “daunt- younger Spock in the upcoming Trek XI film, ing,” Quinto replied: “It felt so right in a weird recently said he feels welcomed by fans of the way. Even last summer at Comic-Con when franchise. we announced I would be playing the role and As reported by trekmovie.com, Quinto there were like 6,500 people in the audience, said, “I have been made to be prepared for I never felt overwhelmed.” IN THIS ISSUE: Art Credits 3 Captain’s Log 2 We “may” return to the Whites’ for our meeting Club Members Insert front The next meeting of the U.S.S. Chesapeake meeting, which will start at 7:00 p.m. Coming Events 6 Star Trek and Science-Fiction Club will be held We’ll discuss what fellow club members Directions to Meeting Insert front on Saturday, May 17, at the Laurel, Maryland, have been up to, talk about the upcoming Meeting Minutes home of Starfleet Intelligence Officer Annie conventions as well as discuss the latest news Insert back White and Chief of Computer Operations about Star Trek and other sci-fi television Reflections 4 John White. shows and feature films. Science Trek 3 Wayne’s Worlds 5 We’ll get together to decide what to do for For directions, please check out this dinner around 5:00 p.m., followed by our club month’s Insert. Volume 17, Issue 4 CAPTAIN’S LOG: “Klingons—Blood Will Tell” What a year I’m having! as a bald black guy with a goatee and lieu- I went back to work following a week tenant’s markings on his gold shirt strolled of recovery from having my gall bladder re- through a corridor and we learned why moved. One week later, it became difficult to Gralmeth was rejected by his people after get any sleep at all. I expect to return to my “Trouble.” job starting part time the week of May 12. Issue #3 leaped from Tribbles to the My thanks to everyone who held down Mugato as Klingon Commander Krell intro- the fort while I was recuperating at the Hall duced Kirk’s friends on the primitive planet homestead up in northeastern Pennsylvania. Neural—including Tyree and his witchy In my previous column, I began review- woman, Nona—to flintlock “fire-sticks” as ing Star Trek comics being produced by IDW part of “A Private Little War.” Publishing, and I wasn’t overwhelmed by “Day of the Dove” was the center of events the first Next Generation series, entitled “The in the fourth part, as Kang (and by extension, Space Between.” other Klingons) learned that cooperation with But better days—and stories—were soon the crew of the Enterprise is not always a bad to come as the company put out a five-is- thing when they joined forces to expel a crea- Commander Krell sue mini-series that focused on the Klingon ture that feeds on violence and hatred. (right) battles a Mugato during IDW’s point of view during Classic Trek. The final issue, entitled “Losses,” showed “Klingons—Blood Will Written by Scott and David Tipton and Councilman Kahnrah coming to a decision Tell” mini-series. penciled by David Messina, the tale had a about his vote. He then had to fight his way framing sequence set during the time of Star past several assassins—including a surprising Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. one—to cast the deciding ballot regarding Copyright 2008 As Kahnrah, a member of the Klingon Gorkon’s proposal of peace with the Federation. U.S.S. Chesapeake NCC-9102, a High Council, struggled with his tie-break- Now available in trade paperback form, not-for-profit ing vote regarding war or peace with the “Blood Will Tell” is without a doubt the best organization. Federation, he explained to his granddaugh- Star Trek series so far produced by the folks All rights reserved, including ter, K’ahlynn, various encounters between at IDW. reproducing parts of the two galactic powers. I have to admit that I was worried at this document. The first issue dealt with the episode first when I heard the premise of the story. Check out our club “Errand of Mercy” and tried to reconcile Would the comics simply give us different website: www. the “mean” Klingons of Classic Trek with “camera angles” from well-known episodes usschesapeake.org their “honorable” descendants in Next Gen and declare those the Klingons’ point of view? The opinions by having Kor’s first officer express doubts Instead, the Tiptons used the opportu- expressed in this about killing the “defenseless” Organians as a nity to flesh out several aspects of some of publication do not necessarily represent means of population control. our favorite Classic Trek episodes, along with those of the And just to show that the folks at IDW some characters we knew little or nothing entire club. are big fans of Trek, the first part also had about before the mini-series, by cleverly “Star Trek,” a variant edition in which all the text was drawing on continuity from throughout the “Star Trek: The Next printed in Klingonese, as translated by Marc Trek “generations.” Generation,” “Star Trek: Deep Space Okrand and the Klingon Language Institute! Artwise, Messina’s work was consistently Nine,” “Star Trek: One of the best issues of the series was good throughout, and there were some Voyager,” and “Star #2, in which the Klingons—now unable to nifty alternative covers featuring photos of Trek: Enterprise,” as well as the terms confront Starfleet directly due to the Orga- the episodes featured in each story. All of “starship” and nians’ involvement—turned to stealth as a those—as well as the issue in Klingonese— “starship Enterprise,” way of defeating the UFP in “The Trouble are included in the trade paperback, which is are registered trademarks of With Tribbles.” well worth your hard-earned quatloos. Paramount Pictures A highlight of the story was our chance Rating: b b b b. Corporation. All rights reserved. to see Gralmeth, a Klingon whose small So where did IDW go from here? Next Absolutely no stature kept him out of the military, undergo time, we’ll look at the first Star Trek: Year infringement on surgery to pass as Arne Darvin at Deep Space Four mini, during which a local comic-book these rights is intended. Station K-7 only to be betrayed by those cute artist makes good and Kirk and company get little Tribbles. caught up in reality TV! COMSTAR, page 2 There was cool continuity all around, Captain Randy Hall SCIENCE TREK: Galaxy wars Imagine a billion billion grains of sand but one Group in the Local aka Virgo super floating in FedEx Field. Nah, that’s not the cluster. (I’m not making this up.) right scale. Try a billion billion ping-pong For those guessing the next step, our super balls scattered inside the Earth. Still not right. cluster and others are heading toward something Okay, let’s just go with reality or some called “The Great Attractor.” (Seriously, I’m not approximation thereof.