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Feb 05 | Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Michael Dorn, LeVar Burton, Gates McFadden, Wil Wheaton and Denise Crosby will be part of Star Trek® TNG EXPOsed – a full-cast reunion of Star Trek: The Next Generation® to be held at the Calgary Expo April 27-29, 2012. The special reunion event will be held at Calgary Stampede Corral on the evening of Saturday, April 28, 2012. This auspicious occasion marks the 25th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation® and will be the first time in over twenty years that the cast has participated in an event such as this. Included in the evening’s program is a 90 minute panel discussion, a Q&A session, and a video presentation in honour of the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation®. A commemorative guide will produced solely for this event along with exclusive merchandise. This is a separate ticketed event with tickets going on sale through Ticketmaster on February 18, 2012 at 10 AM MST. Although the cast will be participating in various panels throughout the course of the weekend, Star Trek® TNG EXPOsed will be the only opportunity to see all nine of the cast members in one incredible panel. Tickets will be available at www.ticketmaster.com and range from $40-$125 CDN.
Jan 30 | A large, heavy pewter sculpture that Paramount
commissioned, commemorating the series finale of DS9 in 1999 is available on eBay.
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By GustavoLeao / 21:35, 12 May 2005 / Enterprise
Many critics have weighed in on the final episode of STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE, "These Are The Voyages...". The series finale ends 18 years of almost non-stop STAR TREK production on the small screen.
SciFi.com is decidedly lukewarm, writing: "Even without the intrusive presence of Riker and Troi, the episode doesn't live up to the season's best episodes, which include the excellent two-parter "In a Mirror, Darkly." The central plot, in which the Enterprise crew returns to Rigel X (the very first planet they visited in Enterprise's pilot episode, "Broken Bow"), centers on a rescue mission that is of little consequence to the series' prequel arc and is merely an excuse to set up the demise of a central character. Once that sacrifice is made, it seems to have little resonance for the remaining crew members (compare the touching wake for Tasha Yar in TNG's "Skin of Evil"). At the end, the audience is robbed even of Archer's triumphant moment before the newly formed Federation."
You can read the full spoiled-filled review here.
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette likes the finale, claiming "What's nice about this finale is that even those of us who long ago gave up watching STAR TREK can appreciate the nods to the past, present and future "Trek" crews, including a toast "to the next generation," a joke about Captain Picard's aquarium and a closing sequence that links three of the TV shows."
"I never hated ENTERPRISE the way I abhorred VOYAGER for squandering an interesting premise after only a handful of episodes; I just got bored with "Star Trek." The ENTERPRISE finale - and some good word-of-mouth about the current season - makes me wish I'd stuck with it. And that's a better way for a show to end its run - leaving a viewer wanting more."
The full review can be found here.
Ain't It Cool News's 'Herc' posted a positive review of the finale, awarding 3.5/5 stars to the episode and writing: "It is not appalling. It is certainly the weakest TREK series finale since 1969's "The Turnabout Intruder," but this represents faint condemnation. The episode boasts...virtues."
'Herc' lists what is so good about the finale "The fact that the TNG regulars play decidedly supportive roles. The loving recreation of the Enterprise-D, with its strangely multihued new-age consoles and oddly-shaped arches. The Patrick Stewart body-double glimpsed so fleetingly in the opening seconds of act one. Jeffrey Combs generally, but especially the way he spits out "former associates." The little Andorian girl. The "flashback." No Ferengi! The always-compelling Blalock, betraying onscreen no hint of her contempt for the teleplay. "Did you find him attractive?" The Phlox moment that recalls too vividly the promise of the ENTERPRISE pilot. T'Pol's final scene."
The original review can be found here.
Elsewhere in the Boston Herald, writer Mark A. Perigard reports on finale: "Ten minutes of this dreck and you'll be trying to give yourself a Vulcan neck pinch.
"If this really is STAR TREK THE LAST GENERATION, blame should fall squarely on the shoulders of co-creators and writers Rick Berman and Brannon Braga, who have stewarded the TREK franchise for the last 15 years through increasingly turgid films and series."
Read the full review "here.
In the latest issue of Entertainment Weekly magazine, just out in the US, critic Marc Bernardin gives the STAR TREK ENTERPRISE finale "These Are The Voyages..." a grade of "B".
"This is the end of the voyages of the starship Enterprise." wrote Bernardin in his review "Its mission: to make sci-fi history, to redefine pop culture, to go off the air in a manner that does not suck. Mission accomplished, mostly. No, the finale does not reveal that Captain Archer's foray through the universe was one big holodeck fantasy (despite a visit by NEXT GENERATION vets Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis). But does it feel like a fitting send-off for a TV institution? Not really. Then again, it probably never could have."
And USA Today posted an editorial on the ending of the STAR TREK franchise here.
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More reading material...
The last voyage of the 'Enterprise'
@ CNN.
Damn It Jim! The Show's Over
By John Stith @ Web Pro News.
Local Star Trek fans mourn end of series
By Roger Bryant @ Midland Daily News.
'Star Trek' is boldly going ... off the air
By Jay Rath @ Wisconsin State Journal.
Slightly-Insanely-Difficult Star Trek Quiz
By Tim Clodfelter @ Journal Now.
Scifi Lives As Star Trek Dies
By Frederick Smith @ Useless Knowledge Mag.
Star Trek: Enterprise [The Worst Series Cancellation]
By Lee Caldwell-Owens @ Useless Knowledge Mag.
Fans bid farewell, expect 'Trek' will take off again
By John Coffren @ Baltimore Sun.
"Star Trek" will never die
By Stephen Seitz @ New Hampshire Union Leader.
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Here are excerpts from other TATV reviews...
Jim Slotek at the Toronto Sun: "After seeing These Are The Voyages, the series finale of STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE, I've decided the castmembers of this last Star Trek series really are being punished for failing. I mean, why else would they be reduced to the role of bit players in the last episode of their own show?"
Enterprise: These are The Voyages – I've Got Good News And I've Got Bad News..., from Eclipse Magazine.
'Trek' finale: Big promise, no payoff, at The Arizona Republic.
With my own disappointment in ENTERPRISE, I've been discarding links to newspaper articles which are based on B&B and cast quotes already covered at TrekWeb, without my considering that others might be interested in reading them anyway. Here are some of those...
Departing ‘Enterprise’ didn’t capture magic
By Andy Dehnart @ MSNBC
Enterprise limps off to oblivion
By Rob Salem @ The Toronto Star.
The end of the Final Frontier
By Michael Peck @ USA Today.
"Beam 'em off"
By Thomas Conner @ Chicago Sun-Times.
A warped end to 'Star Trek'
By David Zurawik @ Baltimore Sun.
Final Star Trek spin-off beams up
@ BBC News.
'Star Trek' Franchise Went Where No TV Show Had Gone Before
By Frank Ahrens @ The Washington Post
'Captain, we're losing power!'
By Maureen Ryan @ Chicago Tribune.
Where No Geek Has Gone Before
By Douglas Kern @ Tech Central Station.
Series ends, but Trekkies refuse to be grounded
By Vince Horiuchi @ The Salt Lake Tribune.
STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE
By Jamie Gumbrecht, Lexington Herald-Leader.
Goin' where all other 'Treks' have gone before
By Robert Philpot @ Star-Telegram.
Spaced out: 'Star Trek' is in dry dock, but it changed our world.
By Rick Kushman @ Sacrimento Bee.
Trek's final voyage
By Kevin Williamson @ Calgary Sun
'Enterprise' nearing black hole
By Charlie McCollum @ Knight Ridder Newspapers.
'Star Trek' beams up for last time
By Edward J. Crowder @ Connecticut Post.
Dwindling ratings rocket Star Trek series off the air
By Tim Clodfelter @ Winston-Salem Journal.
'Star Trek' ends long stint on air
By Robert Jablon @ The Associated Press
'Star Trek Enterprise' wraps up the series and the franchise
By Scott D. Pierce @ Deseret Morning News.
Long lost in space, 'Star Trek: Enterprise' limps back to Earth for its last gasp
By Melanie Mcfarland @ Seattle Post-Intelligencer.
STAR TREK moves out of orbit
By Diane Werts @ Newsday.
The final, final frontier. 'Enterprise' is dead. Can 'Star Trek' live?
By Bobby Bryant @ South Carolina The State.
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