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The Only Star Trek Guest Star Who Played Himself
Only one real person has ever played himself in the Star Trek franchise. Can you pick him from four names? No sign-in,…
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Stephen Macht Was Almost Picard
Stephen Macht was Rick Berman’s runner-up for Picard. He eventually joined Star Trek as a Bajoran general, then shared the screen with…
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Newton, Hawking and Data Held the Same Job
Isaac Newton, Stephen Hawking and Star Trek's Data all held the Lucasian Professorship of Mathematics at Cambridge, Data only in a future…
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Teri Hatcher’s Star Trek Scene Partner Was Almost Riker
One 1988 episode of The Next Generation put a future Golden Globe winner and Riker's runner-up in the same scene.
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The Actor Who Was Almost Riker
Billy Campbell says he was one of the last two actors up for Commander William Riker before Jonathan Frakes got the part.
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Mae Jemison Went From Endeavour to the Enterprise, Thanks to LeVar Burton
Months after flying on Endeavour, Dr. Mae Jemison took a shift on the Enterprise in an episode LeVar Burton directed.
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Stephen Hawking Asked His Way Onto Star Trek, and Leonard Nimoy Passed It On
A promo shoot, a ride in the captain's chair and one question to Leonard Nimoy got Hawking the franchise's only self-playing role.
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Riker Directed the Borg Movie
Jonathan Frakes, TNG's Commander Riker, made his feature directing debut with Star Trek: First Contact (1996).
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Star Trek: Starfleet Academy Season 2 Sets March 2027 Premiere as Final Season
Paramount+ dated Starfleet Academy Season 2 for March 2027 at NYCC, confirmed it as the final season, and added Bill Nighy and…
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Walter Koenig, Star Trek’s Original Chekov, Dies at 90
Walter Koenig, who played Ensign Pavel Chekov in the original Star Trek and its films and Alfred Bester on Babylon 5, died…