Remembering Leonard Nimoy, born March 26, 1931.

Remembering Leonard Nimoy, born March 26, 1931 and passed away on February 27, 2015.

Leonard Simon Nimoy was the actor who is best known for his Emmy Award-nominated portrayal of Spock, the half Human, half Vulcan first officer and science officer aboard the USS Enterprise. Originating the role on Star Trek: The Original Series, he went on to play him again on Star Trek: The Animated Series, the first six Star Trek motion pictures, and the Star Trek: The Next Generation episodes “Unification I” and “Unification II”. He also left his mark on the Star Trek franchise as a director, writer, and producer.

Footage of Nimoy’s role from the TOS episode “The Trouble with Tribbles” was reused for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Trials and Tribble-ations”. Nimoy also voiced Spock in the video games Star Trek: Strategic Operations Simulator, Star Trek: 25th Anniversary, Star Trek: Judgment Rites and Star Trek Online.

Nimoy returned to the role of Spock in Star Trek; it was the first time he played the character since 1991 and was his first live-action film role since Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. He made a further cameo appearance as Spock in the 2013 sequel Star Trek Into Darkness, making him the only principal cast member of any Star Trek series to appear in eight of the films and (technically) the longest-serving of all Star Trek cast members, having played the role on and off over a period of forty-nine years, from 1964 to 2013.

He had a minor role in the 1961 The Twilight Zone episode “A Quality of Mercy”.

Nimoy starred in Mission: Impossible for two seasons, hosted the documentary series In Search of…, narrated Civilization IV, and made several well-received stage appearances.

He also had a recurring role in the science fiction series Fringe.

On February 25, 2015, Nimoy fell into a coma,[98] and died of complications from COPD on February 27, at the age of 83.

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Happy birthday Brenda Strong, born March 25, 1960.

Brenda Lee Strong from Oregon, is the actress who played the role of Rashella in the Star Trek: The Next Generation first season episode “When The Bough Breaks”.

Her first film role was a bit part as a nurse in the science fiction spoof Spaceballs, which also featured future Star Trek: Voyager star Tim Russ and Trek guest stars Dey Young and Leslie Bevis. She also appeared uncredited in the 1989 Blake Edwards comedy Skin Deep, co-starring Denise Crosby.

She has since had roles in various films, including Malice (1993), The Craft (1996), Black Dog (1998), The Deep End of the Ocean (1999, starring Whoopi Goldberg), and Red Dragon (2002). She also had roles in the hit 1997 science fiction film Starship Troopers (co-starring Star Trek Nemesis actress Dina Meyer and Trek guest actor Clancy Brown) and its 2004 direct-to-video sequel, Starship Troopers 2: Hero of the Federation (with Ed Lauter, Bobby C. King, Lawrence Monoson, and Nemesis stuntman Oliver Keller). She recently wrapped production on the independent drama You, co-starring John de Lancie and Jerry Hardin.

Strong, however, has enjoyed far more success on the small screen with recurring roles on several successful television series, including Party of Five, Seinfeld (starring Jason Alexander and with Armin Shimerman), Sports Night, 7th Heaven (starring Stephen Collins and Catherine Hicks, including one episode with TNG star Michael Dorn), and Everwood. She has also made guest appearances on such shows as St. Elsewhere, Cheers, Murphy Brown, Picket Fences, ER, The John Larroquette Show, 3rd Rock From the Sun, Ally McBeal, CSI (with Glenn Morshower), Nip/Tuck, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Shark (starring Jeri Ryan, in an episode with Titus Welliver).

Her most famous television role, however, is one in which she is rarely seen, as Mary Alice Young, the deceased narrator on Desperate Housewives, the highly acclaimed drama series on which she worked since 2004. A number of other Trek actors have appeared on the show as regulars and semi-regulars including Teri Hatcher, Steven Culp, Mark Moses, Alfre Woodard, Bob Gunton, Paul Dooley, and Scott Bakula.

In 2011, Strong received a Primetime Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance for the Desperate Housewives episode “Come On Over For Dinner” on which she worked with Teri Hatcher, Vanessa Williams, Kevin Rahm, and Tony Plana.

More recent appearances include guest roles in episodes of Scoundrels (2010, with Virginia Madsen, Jessica Collins, and Dina Meyer) and Rizzoli & Isles (2010, with Bruce McGill). She also portrayed Ann Ewing in the television remake of the soap opera Dallas (2013, with Marlene Forte).

In 2016, she undertook a recurring role as Lillian Luthor on Supergirl.

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Happy birthday Jennifer Edwards, born March 25, 1957.

Jennifer Edwards is the Los Angeles-born actress who played Miss Kyle in the Star Trek: The Next Generation fifth season episode “New Ground” in 1991. She is the daughter of Hollywood writer/director/producer Blake Edwards and actress Patricia Walker. Her brother Geoffrey Edwards was married to Trek actress Denise Crosby between 1983 and 1990.

She is best known as the little girl who played the title role in the NBC made-for-television movie Heidi which infamously aired on November 17, 1968 and interrupted a broadcast of a regular-season professional football game between the Oakland Raiders and New York Jets. The Jets had just gone ahead, 32-29, when the telecast was stopped and the movie played. The Raiders scored two touchdowns in the final two minutes to win the game. Irate football fans had to make do with a scrolling update of the final score during the broadcast of Heidi. Since then, all nationally-televised professional football games are shown in their entirety.

Edwards appeared with Jean Simmons in Heidi and with William Shatner in the movie Go ask Alice in 1973. She was also the writer of and starred in the television movie Justin Case in 1988. One of her co-stars in that film was Richard McGonagle who was also a co-star in the Next Generation episode “New Ground”. In 1986, she appeared in That’s Life! with Sally Kellerman, Dana Sparks, Biff Elliot, and Rob Knepper.

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Happy birthday John Copage, born March 25, 1925.

John Copage is an actor who portrayed USS Enterprise engineering technician Elliott in the Star Trek: The Original Series episode “The Doomsday Machine”.

Twenty-five years after his work on The Original Series he returned to the Trek franchise and appeared as a background actor in several episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation. In 1994 he joined the fourth Star Trek series Star Trek: Voyager and appeared as a regular background actor throughout the first four seasons of the show.

Copage, whose career spanned nearly thirty years, began with an appearance in the 1964 Ernest Hemingway film The Killers, starring such noted actors as Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson and Ronald Reagan. Also appearing in the film were Star Trek alumni Robert Phillips, Davis Roberts, Carey Loftin, and future Next Generation co-star Seymour Cassel.

Following his appearance in The Killers, Copage made several television appearances during the 1960’s, including Bewitched (1964), The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (1965; with Warren Stevens, series theme composed by Jerry Goldsmith), Mission: Impossible (1967; with Martin Landau, Brock Peters, Davis Roberts, Bob Johnson, and stuntman Dick Dial), two appearances on The Ghost & Mrs. Muir (1968 and 1969; featuring Kellie Flanagan), Bracken’s World (1969; starring Warren Stevens and Madlyn Rhue, with Alan Bergmann and Booker Bradshaw). Copage also appeared in the 1968 film With Six You Get Eggroll, with former Star Trek alumni Vic Tayback and stunts by Carol Daniels and Charlie Picerni, along with future Deep Space Nine alum, Brian Keith.

Over the next three decades, Copage had three additional acting credits to his name, one in each decade. During the 1970’s, it was the 1971 horror film Simon, King of the Witches, with such future Trek actors as Next Generation and Deep Space Nine alum Andrew Prine and Next Generation and Voyager alum Frank Corsentino. During the 1980’s, it was an appearance in a 1987 episode of Mr. Belvedere with Mario Roccuzzo, and during the 1990’s, he made his final film appearance in the 1990 comedy horror spoof Repossessed, which featured a plethora of Trek actors and stuntmen, including, Willie Garson, Barbara Alyn Woods, Norman Large, Ian Abercrombie, Tom Morga, Jim Palmer, Paul Stader, George P. Wilbur, and Brian J. Williams.

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Happy birthday Dorothy Fontana, born March 25, 1939.

Dorothy Catherine Fontana is a writer and script editor who has the distinction of being one of the few people to have worked on Star Trek: The Original Series, as well as Star Trek: The Animated Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

Deep Space Nine is her favorite Star Trek spinoff. She especially liked the show’s strong characters. When writing, Fontana has used pseudonyms, including Michael Richards and J. Michael Bingham.

Fontana worked as a writer for a few television series before Star Trek, then briefly worked as Gene Roddenberry’s secretary, before she became a writer on the show. The first episode she penned was “Charlie X”, based on a premise by Roddenberry entitled “The Day Charlie Became God”. Fontana wrote several notable Original Series episodes, including “Tomorrow is Yesterday” and “Journey to Babel”. Also, after the departure of Steven W. Carabatsos, she was promoted to story editor (after successfully re-writing “This Side of Paradise”). At the age of 27, Fontana became the youngest story editor in Hollywood at the time, and also one of the few female staff writers. (Star Trek: The Original Series 365, introduction) She remained in this capacity until the end of the second season.

Four years after the end of the Original Series, she became the associate producer and story editor of Star Trek: The Animated Series, for which she also wrote the episode “Yesteryear”.

She later co-wrote the Next Generation’s “Encounter at Farpoint”, earning a Hugo Award nomination, where she invented the “LCARS” concept, and four other episodes of TNG’s first season beside being credited as Associate Producer on thirteen episodes of the first season. She also penned DS9: “Dax”, her last involvement with Star Trek, in which a great deal of Jadzia Dax’ backstory was fleshed out.

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Remembering Patrick Troughton, born March 25, 1920.

Remembering Patrick Troughton, born March 25, 1920 and passed away on March 28, 1987.

Patrick George Troughton was an English actor most widely known for his roles in fantasy, science fiction, and horror films, particularly in his role as the second incarnation of the Doctor in the long-running British science-fiction television series Doctor Who, which he played from 1966 to 1969; he reprised the role in 1973, 1983, and 1985.

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Happy birthday Robert O’Reilly, born March 25, 1950.

Robert O’Reilly is an actor best known for his portrayal of Klingon Chancellor Gowron on Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.

His first Star Trek appearance was in 1989 and his last was in 2003. He played Gowron for nine years. When he first auditioned for the role, he attempted to portray him as cold and calculating, but feeling this was not as successful, at his next audition, he flared his eyes aggressively (which Gowron has now come to be known for) and successfully obtained the role.

In addition, O’Reilly appeared as Kavok, the antagonist of the Star Trek: The Next Generation – A Klingon Challenge interactive board game.

At DS9’s wrap party, O’Reilly said DS9: “Badda-Bing, Badda-Bang” was his favorite DS9 episode.

O’Reilly is a close friend of J.G. Hertzler. The two appeared in Douglas: The Christmas Movie, and often attend conventions dressed up as Gowron and Martok.

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