News Bullets

By Christian
March 27, 2001 - 11:29 PM

This is not a member of Star Trek fandom we can be particularly proud of, but an AP article mentions that Timothy McVeigh is a Star Trek fan. The Oklahoma City bomber, who killed 168, corresponded for two years with a reporter, and the letters will soon be published in Esquire Magazine. "Lest you think I'm only a mindless cartoon addict," he wrote, "I will admit that I am a Star Trek junkie, too (whenever one of this unit's 'panic alarms' goes off, I start screaming: 'Red Alert! Shields up!') (Hey it gives me something to do! A man has to exercise his vocal cords on something!)."
S.D. Perry, writer of the upcoming 'Avatar' DS9 Relaunch novels, has begun posting on Psi Phi's Star Trek Books BBS.
Jamahl Epsicokhan at Star Trek: Hypertext has put up an editorial on the XFL, the troubled football league set up by NBC and UPN.
Donna Murphy, who played Anij in 'Star Trek: Insurrection', has a starring role as the psychologist Ruby on 'What About Joan', a new sitcom premiering on ABC tonight at 9:30pm. A review of the show, which stars Joan Cusack, can be found here at MediaWeek.

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