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Brent Spiner to Star in Brannon Braga's New Sci-Fi Series

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By GustavoLeao / 16:27, 8 March 2005 / General Genre/SciFi

According to the Hollywood Reporter, TNG actor Brent Spiner ('Data') has signed to star in THRESHOLD, the upcoming CBS science-fiction series produced by former STAR TREK producer Brannon Braga. It is his first regular role in a television series since STAR TREK THE NEXT GENERATION ended its run in May 1994.



The new series focuses on a team of scientists and military personnel who make contact with alien lifeforms. Spiner join actors Carla Gugino and Charles S. Dutton in the cast.

The original report can be found at Zap2It



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By: dropdeadnelixx (Odo's file, contact) @ 04:59:50 on Mar 09, 2005

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By: falcon (Odo's file, contact) @ 05:58:28 on Mar 09, 2005

Good Lord, I hope you're joking.

Do you realize that "Threshold" will be Braga's only non-STAR TREK television credit? Have you looked him up on IMDB lately? The last thing we need is someone who's been to the well one too many times, to come BACK to STAR TREK.

Hell, let's face it: Even Roddenberry's ideas began to get really stale after ST:TMP. In fact, if you read "Inside Star Trek" by Herb Solow and Bob Justman, he started to get stale during the run of the original series. Gene Coon, John D. F. Black, Dorothy Fontana, and others kept the series on track despite Roddenberry's ramblings.

And you think Braga was bad about time travel -- Roddenberry wanted to write a story where Kirk & Co. go back to 1963 and prevent President Kennedy's assassination! And he harped on this story idea almost until the day he died. That was a story with no resolution...how do you change the past and not reap the consequences?

No, Braga needs to concentrate on "Threshold" and leave STAR TREK behind...and when his series tanks, he'll be just another unemployed TV hack writer and producer, with not much on his resume.

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RE: So are we going to see this? by Dukat @ 14:41:50 on Mar 09
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