2-28 Happy anniversary to the Star Trek episode “The Cloud Minders”.

02-28 Happy anniversary to the Star Trek episode “The Cloud Minders” which first aired on February 28, 1969.

 

Synopsis: Kirk and Spock are caught up in a revolution on a planet where intellectuals and artists live on a utopian city in the sky while the rest of the population toils in mines on the barren surface below.

 

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2-28 Happy birthday to Ali Larter.

02-28 Happy birthday to Ali Larter, Born: February 28, 1976.

Alison Elizabeth “Ali” Larter is an American actress. She is best known for playing the dual roles of Niki Sanders and Tracy Strauss on the NBC science fiction drama Heroes as well as her guest roles on several television shows in the 1990s.
Larter’s screen debut came in the 1999 film Varsity Blues, followed by the horror films House on Haunted Hill and Final Destination as Clear Rivers. Major supporting roles in the comedy Legally Blonde and the romantic comedy A Lot Like Love led her to lead roles as the titular character in Marigold and in the 2009 thriller Obsessed. Larter achieved wider fame after her portrayal of video game heroine Claire Redfield in Resident Evil: Extinction and Resident Evil: Afterlife.

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2-28 Happy birthday to Stephanie Beacham.

02-28 Happy birthday to Stephanie Beacham, Born: February 28, 1947.

Stephanie Beacham age is the British actress who played Countess Regina Bartholomew in the Star Trek: The Next Generation sixth season episode “Ship in a Bottle” in 1992.
Between 1985 and 1989, Beacham played Sabella “Sable” Scott Colby on the television drama series Dynasty on which she worked with Joan Collins and Tracy Scoggins. She also played this part on the spin-off series The Colbys (1985-1987) on which she worked again with Tracy Scoggins and with Ricardo Montalban. For her work on Dynasty and The Colbys, Beacham received three Soap Opera Digest Award nominations in 1986, 1988, and 1990. Between 1989 and 1990 she played the lead role in the television comedy Sister Kate, Golden Globe award nominated in the category Best Performance by an Actress in a TV-Series – Comedy/Musical in 1990. In the 1990s she played Dr. Kristin Westphalen in the first season of the science fiction series SeaQuest DSV, with fellow regular Marco Sanchez and recurring actors William Morgan Sheppard, Frank Welker, and Richard Herd and Iris McKay, mother to Luke Perry’s character in eight episodes of the drama series Beverly Hills, 90210 (1991-1994, with Michael Durrell and Ann Gillespie).
More recently, Beacham had a recurring role as Martha Fraser in the British long running drama series Coronation Street (2009) and guest roles in episodes of Material Girl (2010), Casualty (2010), and Mount Pleasant (2011). In 2010 she also took part in the seventh season of Celebrity Big Brother UK. Most recently she portrayed Maria Callas in the stage play “Master Class” in the UK and published her autobiography.

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2-27 Happy birthday to the late Dick Crockett.

02-27 Happy birthday to the late Dick Crockett, Born: February 27, 1915 and passed away on January 25, 1979.

Richard DeHart “Dick” Crockett was a stunt coordinator and stuntman on who worked on Star Trek: The Original Series. He was William Shatner’s stunt double in the second pilot “Where No Man Has Gone Before”.
Crockett filmed his scenes for “Where No Man Has Gone Before” on Wednesday 28 July 1965 at Desilu Culver Stage 16. He filmed his scenes for “The Trouble with Tribbles” on Wednesday 30 August 1967 and his scenes for “The Gamesters of Triskelion” on Monday 23 October 1967, both at Desilu Stage 10.
Among his other television guest appearances was a 1966 episode of The Man From U.N.C.L.E. (“The Off-Broadway Affair”). He was a frequent collaborator with director Blake Edwards, with their shared credits including Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961), Days of Wine and Roses (1962) The Pink Panther (1963), The Great Race (1965) The Party (1968), Return of the Pink Panther (1975, with), The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976) and Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978).

Crockett’s last movie job was as stunt coordinator for the movie 10. He died during production – the film is dedicated to him.

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2-27 Happy birthday to Barbara Babcock.

02-27 Happy birthday to Barbara Babcock, Born: February 27, 1937.

Actress Barbara Babcock has enjoyed a long Hollywood career that includes roles in nearly thirty movies, regular roles in a half-dozen or so television series, about sixty guest appearances, a number of which were repeat appearances for her character, and a number of stage appearances. She filmed her scenes for “A Taste of Armageddon” between Wednesday 28 December 1966 and Wednesday 4 January 1967 at Desilu Stage 10, and her scenes for “Plato’s Stepchildren” between Monday 9 September 1968 and Thursday 12 September 1968, and on Tuesday 17 September 1968, also at Stage 10.

Babcock had a recurring role on the hit television series Dallas from 1978 through 1982. She won an Emmy Award for her role as Grace Gardner in the television series Hill Street Blues. Babcock is also known to television viewers for the series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, for which she also received an Emmy nomination. She also co-starred with Jerry Orbach in the 1987-88 series The Law & Harry McGraw.

Her feature film credits include Bang the Drum Slowly (1973), The Lords of Discipline (1983), Salem’s Lot (1979), Far and Away (1992), and Space Cowboys (2000).

 

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2-27 Happy birthday to Adam Baldwin.

02-27 Happy birthday to Adam Baldwin, Born: February 27, 1962.

He is known for starring in Full Metal Jacket (1987) as Animal Mother, as well as in the television series Firefly and its continuation film Serenity as Jayne Cobb. His roles include Colonel John Casey in Chuck and Mike Slattery in The Last Ship.

Appearing in a large number of films since 1980, Baldwin rose to prominence as the troubled outcast Ricky Linderman in My Bodyguard (1980) and moved on to bigger roles in D.C. Cab (1983), Full Metal Jacket (1987), Predator 2 (1990), Independence Day (1996), The Patriot (2000), and Serenity (2005).

His other work includes Radio Flyer (1992), From the Earth to the Moon (1998), The X-Files (Knowle Rohrer), The Cape, Men in Black: The Series, Stargate SG-1, Angel, The Inside, NCIS, and the 2005 remake of The Poseidon Adventure. He also starred in the ABC series Day Break as Chad Shelten in 2006.

Baldwin parodied the Ricky Linderman character in the 2008 film Drillbit Taylor.

In season four of Castle, Baldwin was reunited with former Firefly castmate Nathan Fillion. He played Detective Ethan Slaughter in the 21st episode called “Headhunters” which aired April 16, 2012. He returned to Castle in season eight, episode six “Cool Boys”.

Baldwin won a SyFy Genre Award in 2006 for Best Supporting Actor/Television for his role as Jayne Cobb in the television series Firefly.

Baldwin was cast as Kal-El/Clark Kent/Superman in Superman: Doomsday, which is based on DC Comics’ The Death of Superman. He also voices the character in the massively multiplayer online game DC Universe Online.

Baldwin has a role as a voice actor in the Xbox 360 games Halo 3 and Halo 3: ODST, the latter putting him in the role of Corporal Taylor “Dutch” Miles. Baldwin also appears as a voice actor in Half Life 2: Episode 2 for various resistance soldiers and citizens. Along with his Chuck co-star, Yvonne Strahovski, he also appeared in Mass Effect 2, playing the role of Quarian marine squad leader Kal’Reegar.

He has been in many more TV shows and movies.

 

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2-27 Happy birthday to James Worthy.

02-27 Happy birthday to James Worthy, Born: February 27, 1961.

James Ager Worthy is a former professional basketball player who appeared as the Klingon Koral in the Star Trek: The Next Generation seventh season episode “Gambit, Part II” in 1993. Standing at six feet, nine inches (206 cm) tall, Worthy is the tallest-ever Klingon seen onscreen. Worthy met Robert O’Reilly on a plane flight and it was O’Reilly who persuaded him to talk to the producers to appear on The Next Generation.
Worthy played basketball at the University of North Carolina from 1979-82. He led the Tar Heels to the NCAA Championship in 1982, along with fellow teammate Michael Jordan. Selected first in the 1983 NBA Draft by the LA Lakers, he went on to win three championships with that team in 1984-85, 1986-87 and 1987-88. After retiring as a player in 1994, he was named one of the NBA’s 50 Greatest Players in 1996, and was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2003.
Worthy’s also appeared in the biopic Run for the Dream:The Gail Devers Story (1996) and the In the House episode “Hoop Screams” (1996). Beside his acting work, Worthy appeared as himself in television series such as Webster (1987), In Living Color (1994), Everybody Loves Raymond (1997), Arli$$ (2001), and Men of a Certain Age (2010).

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