{"id":13495,"date":"2011-12-05T11:29:12","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T19:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=13495"},"modified":"2011-12-05T11:29:37","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T19:29:37","slug":"weller-joins-star-trek-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2011\/12\/weller-joins-star-trek-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Weller Joins Star Trek 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Peter Weller<\/strong>, best-known to movie fans for his roles in <em>The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension<\/em> and the first two <em>RoboCop<\/em> movies, will be joining <strong>Chris Pine, Zachary Quinto<\/strong> and the rest in <em>Star Trek 2<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Weller120511.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-13496\" title=\"Weller120511\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/Weller120511.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"104\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The role is said to be a &#8220;principal role,&#8221; according to <em>Deadline<\/em>, but as to be expected, no details have been given.<\/p>\n<p>Weller has been seen in <em>Star Trek<\/em> before. He played John Frederick Paxton in <em>Star Trek: Enterprise<\/em> (<em>Terra Prime, Demons<\/em>), where he was the xenophobic chief administrator of Luna&#8217;s Orpheus Mining Colony. Paxton created a half-Vulcan, half-Human baby using DNA from Trip Tucker and T&#8217;Pol. Paxton was revealed to be a follower of Colonel Green (reference from the original series&#8217; episode <em>The Savage Curtain<\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peter Weller, best-known to movie fans for his roles in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2689,2437],"tags":[3866,3865,3864],"class_list":["post-13495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-xii","category-star-trek-ent","tag-demons","tag-terra-prime","tag-weller"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-xii\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek Into Darkness<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-ent\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: ENT<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: ENT","comment_count":"5","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13495","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13498,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13495\/revisions\/13498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}