{"id":5512,"date":"2009-04-02T21:54:14","date_gmt":"2009-04-02T20:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.slipserver.com\/wordpress\/2009\/04\/star-trek-actor-castings-and-happenings\/"},"modified":"2009-08-22T08:13:48","modified_gmt":"2009-08-22T15:13:48","slug":"star-trek-actor-castings-and-happenings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2009\/04\/star-trek-actor-castings-and-happenings\/","title":{"rendered":"Star Trek Actor Castings And Happenings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Actors from several <i>Star Trek<\/i> series and movies have been cast in new roles or are appearing in shows, movies or at conventions.<\/p>\n<p>As reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joblo.com\/\">JoBlo<\/a>, <b>Zoe Saldana<\/b> (<i>Star Trek XI<\/i>&#8216;s Uhura) has joined the cast of <i>The Losers<\/i>, where she will play the sole female &#8220;loser,&#8221; the cold-blooded killer Aisha. <i>The Losers<\/i> is about a Special Forces team, who have been set up and betrayed by their handler Max, and are out for revenge and to get their names off of a CIA death list. <i>The Losers<\/i> is based on the DC\/Vertigo comic series which ran from 2003-2006. <\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><!--more-->As reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.co.uk\/\">The Huddersfield Daily Examiner<\/a>, <i>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/i>&#8216;s <b>Patrick Stewart<\/b> will be the voice of God in a mystery play set to debut this summer. <i>The English Mystery Plays<\/i> will be performed in the Monk Bretton Priory in Barnsley and will run from June 29 through July 11.<\/p>\n<p><b>Gary Graham<\/b> (<i>Star Trek: Enterprise<\/i>&#8216;s Ambassador Soval, <i>Alien Nation<\/i>) was heard on the <i>Price of Business<\/i> radio show today, as reported by <a href=\"http:\/\/houston.dbusinessnews.com\/\">dBusinessNews<\/a>. Graham is an advocate of the need to challenge the Obama administration and has been taking his message to media audiences. The show should be in the <a href=\"http:\/\/priceofbusiness.com\/audio\/\">show archives<\/a> within the next day or so for those who wish to hear what Graham had to say on the show.<\/p>\n<p>Those in and near Riverside, Iowa, the self-proclaimed &#8220;Future Birthplace of James T. Kirk,&#8221; will be interested to hear that three original series stars will be appearing at this summer&#8217;s TrekFest. <b>George Takei<\/b> (Sulu,) <b>Nichelle Nichols<\/b> (Uhura,) and <b>Walter Koenig<\/b> (Chekov,) will be participating in TrekFest events. TrekFest runs from Friday, June 26 through Saturday, June 27. <\/p>\n<p>To read more, head to the articles located <a href=\"http:\/\/www.joblo.com\/index.php?id=25820\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/splashpage.mtv.com\/tag\/the-losers\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.co.uk\/news\/local-west-yorkshire-news\/2009\/04\/02\/star-trek-actor-patrick-stewart-plays-god-86081-23292027\/\">here<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/houston.dbusinessnews.com\/shownews.php?newsid=180562&#038;type_news=latest\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tradingmarkets.com\/.site\/news\/Stock%20News\/2253707\/\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actors from several Star Trek series and movies have been cast in new roles or&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2421],"tags":[2587,2588,2589,2408,2590,2410,2440,2415,2591,2485],"class_list":["post-5512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-star-trek-tos","tag-graham","tag-iowa","tag-koenig","tag-nichols","tag-riverside","tag-saldana","tag-stewart","tag-takei","tag-the-losers","tag-theater"],"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\/star-trek-tos\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TOS<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TOS","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512","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=5512"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7029,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5512\/revisions\/7029"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}