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Terellians are a sapient spacefaring species.

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In the year 2370, Captain Jean-Luc Picard crashed on an uninhabited planet where he found the remains of a Terellian freighter and met a mysterious castaway who claimed to be the only survivor. It was clear to him that she was not Terellian, however, because she would be lacking two arms, implying that members of this species have four. However, a two-armed Terellian boxer is featured in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "The Fight", leading to the possibility of two different species with the same name. Another possibility is that only the females have four arms. This species is not to be confused with the similarly named Terrellians (a Delta Quadrant species) and Tarellians.

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Elaan of Troyius

• Episode aired Dec 20, 1968

While transporting an arrogant, demanding princess for a political marriage, Captain Kirk must cope both with her biochemical ability to force him to love her, as well as sabotage on his shi... Read all While transporting an arrogant, demanding princess for a political marriage, Captain Kirk must cope both with her biochemical ability to force him to love her, as well as sabotage on his ship. While transporting an arrogant, demanding princess for a political marriage, Captain Kirk must cope both with her biochemical ability to force him to love her, as well as sabotage on his ship.

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• Trivia France Nuyen is believed to be the first person of Vietnamese descent to appear on American television.
• Goofs Near the end of the scene as the Kingons are coming in for their final attack, as Capt Kirk says "Chekov, photon torpedoes, fire!" In the background behind and to the right of Kirk you can see Elaan sitting in a chair with Scotty standing next to her, and you see the camera caught France Nuyen breaking character looking at or towards Scotty to her right smiling, as if she was reacting to something funny being said just before the camera started filming and then, still smiling, looking towards her left.

Captain James T. Kirk : Mr. Spock, the women on your planet are logical. That's the only planet in this galaxy that can make that claim.

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Terellians were a humanoid species recognizable by their four arms. ( Star Trek: The Next Generation ; Star Trek: Deep Space Nine ; Star Trek: Voyager ; Star Trek: The Prospect Chronicles )

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Revisiting Star Trek TNG: Heart Of Glory

James' weekly look-back at Star Trek: TNG's first season comes to a Worf-centric episode that's worth a watch...

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1.20 Heart of Glory

The Enterprise enters The Neutral Zone where there are reports of a battle having recently taken place. Discovering an abandoned and heavily damaged freighter with weak life signs on board, Riker, Geordi and Data beam over for a poke around. Picard suggests they use Geordi’s “visual acuity transmitter” so that they can see what’s going on. Presumably because it’s quicker than the current protocol of having Riker give vague verbal reports about everything he can see.

Once on the ship, the bridge crew monitors what Geordi can see, and Picard insists he give very specific verbal reports about everything, particularly Riker and Data, two things he could see for himself. So that experiment fails. They do, however, discover three Klingons! They bring them back to the Enterprise just as the freighter explodes. There’s a moment of tension where it looks like the away team has been killed – not, you understand, the tension of whether they’ve died or not, but the tension of whether we’re about to watch an episode about their crew-mates thinking they’ve died. Dodged that bullet.

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In sickbay, the two Klingons who aren’t in critical condition tell some obvious lies about their situation. Worf shows them to their room and they make fun of him having gone soft, then it turns out the Klingon in sickbay is about to die so they go back and do the Klingon Death Howl, which will almost never appear in Star Trek outside this one episode.

After this, Worf goes off with the remaining Klingons (Korris and Konmel) and, presumably wary of the fact that their rebellion has just shrunk by 33%, they declare Worf their brother, admit they just told a huge sack of lies and invite him to join their fight against the Klingon-Federation alliance even though he’s currently working for the Federation and, by his own admission, hasn’t spent much time with any other Klingons. They’ll recruit anyone.

Rather than dob them in, Worf is apparently torn between loyalty to his people and Starfleet, so he continues to give them a guided tour. I say “apparently” because that’s what the script thinks is happening, but what’s really happening is Michael Dorn is straining to get every ounce of nuance from a script that requires him to listen to other people telling him how he feels. Subtle, it ain’t.

Meanwhile, a Klingon ship arrives and its captain, K’Nera, quickly brings Picard up to speed about what’s going on. Realising he’s now harbouring some Klingon terrorists, Picard sends Yar and a security team to arrest them. Cornered, they ask Worf to join them, and he looks at them, then at his Starfleet brothers, then at them, then at Starfleet, then them, then Starfleet, and then there’s an ad break, then he looks at them, then Starfleet and the audience screams OH COME ON SOMEONE DO OR SAY SOMETHING! At which point a small child runs out of a nearby turbolift and into Korris’ arms, which causes them to go peacefully.

With the prisoners in the brig, K’Nera explains that they’ll be tried and executed. Worf makes an impassioned plea for the lives of the only Klingons he’s ever known (who, unfortunately, are still terrorists) because their thirst for battle is genuine and understandable. K’Nera says he agrees, but his hands are tied. Luckily, in the Brig, Korris and Konmel manage to MacGuyver a slightly wobbly-looking disruptor out of parts of their uniform and get into a firefight (their phaser is set to green, with impact sparks).

Konmel is shot and killed after taking about three steps outside the brig door (apparently they forfeited their right to non-lethal settings the moment they escaped) but Korris, forgoing the Klingon Death Howl as he steps over his friend’s corpse, makes it to engineering and sticks his gun right up the ship’s Dilithium Chute. One shot could blow the Enterprise into smithereens! He declares that he will only negotiate with Worf.

Worf turns up and Korris suggests that they steal the Stardrive section of the Enterprise and incite a revolution. Worf tells him he’s being ridiculous and then shoots him over a balcony, through a pane of strategically-positioned (and strategically un-reinforced) glass, and eventually to his death. Worf quickly runs down the ladder and shows viewers the Klingon Death Howl for the second and basically final time ever (in fairness, it happens twice more in about the next twenty years of Star Trek episodes, but that’s only Worf doing it over his dead girlfriends.)

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On the Bridge, Picard explains to K’Nera that there’s been a slight problem with their captured criminals. K’Nera checks with Worf that they died in a manner befitting a Klingon Terrorist, and Worf explains that they did. K’Nera invites him to serve on his ship when he’s finished on the Enterprise, and Worf says he’d be honoured to. Everyone raises a whimsical eyebrow, and Worf explains he was just being polite, and Picard says he’s glad, because the bridge wouldn’t be the same without him. Just like it isn’t the same without Troi and Wesley, who are mysteriously absent throughout this entire episode.

TNG WTF: Ah, the Klingon Death Howl. Something that you do to Klingons who die to warn the afterlife that a Klingon Warrior is coming. But only if you’ve got time to do it without endangering your own life, apparently. Poor Konmel.

TNG LOL: “Cowards take hostages, Klingons do not!” sez Worf, who we now realise has almost never met another Klingon. Who made him the expert?!

Also, a very famous moment of hilarity: Korris refers to the Klingon homeworld as “Kling”. A name so ridiculous that it was later explained away and replaced with the much cooler-sounding Qo’noS (pronounced Kronos).

Mistakes & Minutiae:  During the final scenes in engineering, Picard accidentally calls the freighter “a Terrelian ship” rather than “a Talarian ship”, as established earlier in the episode. Whoops.

Time Until Meeting: No meetings! This is quite an action-packed episode, so that’s presumably why.

Captain’s Log: Now, this isn’t a bad episode, but one imagines it could have been much better if they’d realised it was supposed to be about Worf earlier on. Instead, the opening scenes barely feature him and are focused on showing the audience what Geordi sees as they attempt to find the survivors on a doomed ship. It’s a nice little set piece, but it makes absolutely no sense in the context of the episode that follows.

Still, once it gets going, it’s good. You can believe Worf might feel drawn to these Klingons and the spirit they possess, it’s just unfortunately they made them so unambiguously evil and neglected to give the audience any insight into Worf’s thought processes. When it originally aired, it was probably more effective because people presumably expected that a Klingon, Starfleet’s natural enemy, would turn on the crew eventually – but removed from that suspicion, it does a poor job of making the case.

Still, it’s a decent and nicely-paced episode, although it’s a rare instance of an early TNG story where the solution to the crew’s dilemma is just to kill the person causing the problem. Not exactly Star Trek , but it sort of works because the rest of the episode is about a Klingon’s violent urges, so there’s a certain aptness in Korris losing because Worf does exactly what Korris has been trying to make him do.

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Terrellian system

Terrellian was a star system , located somewhere in the space of the galaxy 's Alpha or Beta Quadrants .

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History and specifics [ ]

The Terrellian system's orbit was the location of a number of worlds , including second planet Terrellian II . ( TOS comic : " The Empire Man ")

System makeup [ ]

• Terrellian I
• Terrellian II

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Connections [ ], references [ ].

• TOS comic : " The Empire Man "
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• 3 Ferengi Rules of Acquisition

There should be more than enough letters in the alphabet to make up distinct names for alien species, but Star Trek writers have a clear fixation on the first letter "T", together with the ending "-ians", which has given us a myriad of names that are identical or extremely closely resemble each other. Create your own T-Race with a JavaScript generator (see below ).

Here we go. We have seen or heard of the following "T-Races", "T-Planets" or at least "T-Regions" after which some animal, illness or food is named:

Note The list only includes races beginning with "T" which sound very close to each other, as opposed to a few distinct names like "Trills" or "Tosk". In addition, there are many names beginning with other letters that would fit into the above scheme like "Ktarians - Takarians", "Retellians - Terellians", or "Circassian - Tarkassian - Cardassian", to name only a few.

Explanations

There is no conclusive explanation why the designations of so many alien races and planets were created following the "T****ians" pattern. We may suppose that most if not all of these names are the human versions, which would be a lot easier to pronounce than indigenous names, just like many countries, cities or other places on Earth have English transcriptions or transliterations that usually only imitate the original pronunciation. The same may apply to names of alien individuals . If, however, humans came up with their own names for aliens, why are they all so similar, more than any names of unrelated places on Earth resemble each other? Wouldn't they be subject to a lot of confusion?

The T-names themselves are not really a matter of exobiology or of geography. Nevertheless, the question arises if and how many of them may refer to the same planet or species, which could alleviate the matter at least a little bit. Perhaps some of them don't denote a planet or race at all. Several of the above listed names do not necessarily refer to a planet of race, although it may have been the original intention. As soon as we count in cities, provinces or individuals, it becomes much more plausible that their names may coincide. I'm thinking of the search term "Darmok", for instance, which yielded dozens of results from different cultures in the TNG episode of the same name.

Some of the phonetically identical names may denote the same race like one or two of the four "Ta(r)kar(i)ans", one or two of the four "Ter(r)el(l)ians" or some of the "Tel(l)ur(id)ians". The apparent differences between them may be simple misspellings. Many spellings we are accustomed to are not strictly canon anyway because the names only appear in spoken lines. But in some cases it is just necessary that there are different races with the same name like the Alpha-Takarians and the Delta-Takarians, the Alpha-Ter(r)ellians and the Delta-Terellians, or the humanoid Tarkannens as opposed to the Tarchannen creatures. The galaxy is a big place, but the fact that such a large number of considerably different species or even species in opposite quadrants have the same name, remains a mystery.

As for the real-world reason, I'm at a total loss explaining the bizarre frequency, to put it mildly, of names that all sound the same. Misspellings could have easily occurred when authors vaguely remembered names mentioned before in Star Trek and just didn't get them quite right. "Tarkalians" and "Tarkaleans", for instance, may have been supposed to be the same race. That's no big deal. But why should different individuals frequently come up with very similar or even phonetically identical names, where the script logic unconditionally calls for something or someone never seen or heard of before? Considering how seldom stories were harked back to in the time from TNG to Voyager, it is an eccentric habit to frequently re-use names of minor aliens for casual mentions regardless whether it makes sense or not.

On many occasions the writers obviously ignored the Star Trek Encyclopedia in which they could have easily looked up what they may re-use and what not. Even worse, they may have thought they could do attentive fans a "favor" by a completely arbitrary re-use of names they found in this book. But actually they often created anti-continuity with this misunderstood fan service. There is no excuse for a two-armed boxer in VOY: "The Fight" being called a Ter(r)ellian, for we know from TNG: "Liaisons" that Terellians have four arms. But this was obviously still not enough. The absurdity culminates in a race called "Terellians" (sp?) even in the Delta Quadrant (VOY: "Drive"), in addition to the abundance of "T*rel(l)ians" in the Alpha Quadrant. I can't help but calling this T-mania a collective obsession that goes along with inappropriate carelessness.

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Hit the button several times! The names are genuinely random-generated and they should have sufficed for the next 47 seasons of Enterprise.

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Did Wyatt ever cure the Tarellians?

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• Start date Jul 6, 2014

KaineMorrison

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• Jul 6, 2014

Do you think Wyatt Miller ever cured the Tarellians by now?  

Last Redshirt

Probably not. More likely he and the rest of them were killed by someone who saw their ship and immediately fired their torpedoes at the plague ship or they simply just all died due to the disease aboard.  

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Mih ssim, mih ssim, nam, daed si xim..

That chick's belly button was the only thing worth saving from this episode.  

Given the facts that those biological weapons wiped out most of the Tarellians and that those who had escaped invariably infected those worlds who let them settle there, I doubt that Dr. Miller's valiant efforts would have succeeded. He would probably have died with them, on that ship. But, he might have collected invaluable information about their plague that Starfleet Medical might have been able to use. Maybe someday there might be a cure, because of all these people's sacrifices.  

2takesfrakes

Rear admiral.

• Jul 11, 2014

The Old Mixer said: That chick's belly button was the only thing worth saving from this episode. Click to expand...

• Jul 12, 2014

2takesfrakes said: The guy with his face painted silver and emblazzened on the front of the Treasure Chest was an image I won't easily forget! Click to expand...

I like this episode. *Riker's jealousy of Troi and Wyatt. *The Mr. Homm and Data bit is hilarious.... *Tasha Yar and her new hairstyle during the dinner is nice... *Lwaxana Troi asking "Where is everybody?" when she first beams aboard the ENT thinking she's all alone, then suddenly composes herself with a smile when she sees her daughter...haha I should put this one on my list to watch...(I'm pretty much re-watching the episodes from Season 1 anyhow).  

LMFAOschwarz

Fleet captain.

Joel_Kirk said: *Tasha Yar and her new hairstyle during the dinner is nice... Click to expand...

LMFAOschwarz said: Joel_Kirk said: *Tasha Yar and her new hairstyle during the dinner is nice... Click to expand...

LMFAOschwarz said: Makes me remember how I dressed in those days, too. Click to expand...

Melakon said: LMFAOschwarz said: Makes me remember how I dressed in those days, too. Click to expand...

I think Wyatt was having too much fun with his new honey to cure any diseases.  

Melakon said: I think Wyatt was having too much fun with his new honey to cure any diseases. Click to expand...

Melakon said: 2takesfrakes said: The guy with his face painted silver and emblazzened on the front of the Treasure Chest was an image I won't easily forget! Click to expand...

I have no idea, and don't have a copy handy to check. I think it's his own voice. Remember that you're used to hearing him speak while wearing Ferengi teeth, so his natural voice would be a little different.  

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I want to see star trek beyond's jaylah on strange new worlds.

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• Jaylah from Star Trek Beyond should join Star Trek: Strange New Worlds for a new storyline.
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I want to see Star Trek Beyond 's Jaylah (Sofia Boutella) in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds . In Star Trek Beyond , the 3rd of J.J. Abrams' Kelvin Timeline Star Trek movies , Montgomery Scott (Simon Pegg) encounters Jaylah, a scavenger stranded on the planet Altamid, who is living in the downed husk of the USS Franklin. Jaylah defends Scotty and the rest of the stranded Enterprise crew members from Altamid's other scavengers, and she ultimately helps re-launch the Franklin and defeat Star Trek Beyond 's villain, Krall (Idris Elba). From there, it's implied that Jaylah joins Starfleet and becomes part of the USS Enterprise crew.

Canon-adjacent material like IDW's alternate-reality Star Trek: Boldly Go comic series has Jaylah as a Starfleet Academy cadet. Jaylah also appears in Star Trek: Fleet Command , where she is assimilated by the Borg before being liberated in-game. None of these supplemental Star Trek stories are official canon, however, leaving the doors wide open for Jaylah's official future in the Star Trek franchise. With Star Trek 4 in production limbo , the best way to see more Jaylah on-screen might actually be in the Prime Universe. Fortunately, there's one ongoing Star Trek show that can make that happen.

Sofia Boutella: Star Trek Beyond’s Jaylah Actor Explained

Star Trek Beyond introduced brand-new character named Jaylah, played by Rebel Moon actress Sofia Boutella.

I Want To See Star Trek Beyond's Jaylah On Strange New Worlds

Captain pike's enterprise could find jaylah earlier.

I want to see Jaylah in Star Trek: Strange New Worlds because we never really got to see what happened to Jaylah after Star Trek Beyond , and Jaylah was too cool of a character to waste. Sofia Boutella probably would have joined the cast of Star Trek 4 and become an interesting asset to the USS Enterprise crew, but as the years pass, Star Trek 4 actually happening looks less and less likely.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is not only the last remaining Star Trek show set in the 23rd century, but Strange New Worlds is also willing to take risks in pursuit of a good story. Jaylah could join the Prime Timeline without having to remake Star Trek Beyond.

Previous Kelvin Timeline movies have already shown significant differences between the two Star Trek timelines, like the USS Enterprise encountering Khan Noonien Singh (Benedict Cumberbatch) much earlier than expected in Star Trek Into Darkness.

Because of the differences in the two Star Trek timelines , Jaylah could meet the Prime Timeline Enterprise crew earlier than she did in the Kelvin Timeline. Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) in Strange New Worlds could meet Jaylah at any time , whether Jaylah has been stranded on Altamid, or another planet with a crashed Federation ship. As a character, Jaylah is fiercely independent but curious about the Federation from living in the USS Franklin, and willing to work with the Enterprise crew to achieve a common goal. As long as those traits are there, the details of Jaylah's past can change.

What Would Jaylah Bring To Star Trek: Strange New Worlds?

Non-starfleet perspectives have helped star trek before.

To tell more of Jaylah's story, she could stay on the USS Enterprise as an ancillary crew member with unique knowledge and skills, instead of enrolling at Starfleet Academy. Non-Starfleet characters have been a boon to Star Trek shows in the past, with different approaches to problems and different cultural values. Civilian characters like Cleveland Booker (David Ajala) in Star Trek: Discovery or Gwyndala (Ella Purnell) in Star Trek: Prodigy have circumvented direct orders to accomplish the crew's goals without breaking rules. Pike isn't much of a rule-breaker, but Jaylah could be this for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds .

Jaylah already navigates different tones as easily as Strange New Worlds does.

Jaylah was a fun character with a multifaceted nature that would fit right in on Strange New Worlds . I'd expect Jaylah to bring the same levity to Strange New Worlds that she did to Star Trek Beyond , while still being a formidable force to reckon with. From Jaylah's humorous first meeting with Scott to Jaylah's vengeful showdown with Krall, Jaylah already navigates different tones as easily as Strange New Worlds does. Whether Sofia Boutella returns or Jaylah is recast, I think Star Trek: Strange New Worlds is a great place to see Jaylah's story play out after Star Trek Beyond .

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Quentin Tarantino Has A Blunt Response About His R-Rated Star Trek Movie

In 2017, an unexpected bit of news arrived: Quentin Tarantino was going to make a "Star Trek" movie — an R-rated "Star Trek" movie, to boot! While Tarantino has always written his own scripts, his proposed "Star Trek" movie would change things up — Tarantino would pitch some ideas, and a different screenwriter would cobble them together into a screenplay. After consulting with a group of writers, studio Paramount tapped Mark L. Smith, who wrote "Overlord," "The Revenant," and this year's "Twisters," to tackle the script .

I got to speak with Tarantino in 2019 , when he was still working on "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood." During the course of the conversation, I asked him to confirm if he was going to make a "Star Trek" movie. "It's a very big possibility," Tarantino told me. "I haven't been dealing with those guys for a while cause I've been making my movie. But we've talked about a story and a script. The script has been written and when I emerge my head like Punxsutawney Phil, post-'Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,' we'll pick up talking about it again."

Things seemed to be moving along. Reports indicated there would be some sort of "gangster" element to the script, along with time travel. And the core "Trek" characters, like Kirk and Spock, would be part of the story. But the years ticked on, and the validity of the project remained somewhat in question. And then the project fell apart. Now, all these years later, Tarantino is speaking about the never-made film, and confirming it's definitely never going to happen.

Tarantino's Star Trek is 'never going to happen'

While appearing on Club Random with Bill Maher , Tarantino addressed his potential "Star Trek" movie, and in case you still thought it might happen someday, Tarantino is here to set the record straight. "It's never going to happen," the director said. "There's been so much misinformation about what it was going to be – nothing but misinformation. I live in a special zone and part of my zone is because I'm not on Instagram and Facebook, I'm not creating this constant dialogue with the world with what's going on with my life." Tarantino added: "My point being though, they write it in a show biz magazine and then that gets picked up in 140 pieces because I'm not shutting that down because I'm not connected."

All of this makes it sound like Tarantino is implying folks were just making up info about the project, or at the very least, were operating under inaccurate information. That said, Mark L. Smith has opened about the project in the past, spilling some details along the way. "I wrote a Star Trek with Tarantino, and that was a sci-fi script on which I could have fun and lean into some bigger, broader things," he said at one point .

As to why the movie never came to be, Smith implied ( via Collider ) it had to do with Tarantino's plan to retire after directing 10 movies. "I remember we were talking, and he goes, 'If I can just wrap my head around the idea that Star Trek could be my last movie, the last thing I ever do. Is this how I want to end it?' And I think that was the bump he could never get across, so the script is still sitting there on his desk." 

I suppose the only person who  really knows why the Tarantino "Star Trek" movie never happened is Tarantino himself. Meanwhile, we'll just have to wait and see what his next and potentially final movie may be. 

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Quentin Tarantino talks failed Star Trek movie and why he’ll never watch Toy Story 4

Quentin Tarantino is without a doubt in the upper echelon of podcast guests. The Oscar-winning filmmaker is opinionated, intelligent, and brutally honest. Tarantino’s authenticity is quite refreshing in a day and age where celebrities tread carefully with what they say.

On the latest episode of Club Random with Bill Maher , Tarantino’s appearance lived up to the hype as the Pulp Fiction  director riffed on several noteworthy topics, including  Star Trek . In 2017, Tarantino’s pitch for an R-rated  Star Trek   was accepted by producer J.J. Abrams. Tarantino partnered with The Revenant screenwriter Mark L. Smith for an edgier, earthbound installment of  Star Trek . Ultimately, the film fell through, and per Tarantino, it will never be made.

“It’s never going to happen,” Tarantino told Maher. “There’s been so much misinformation about what it was going to be — nothing but misinformation. I live in a special zone and part of my zone is because I’m not on Instagram and Facebook, I’m not creating this constant dialogue with the world with what’s going on with my life.”

Besides  Star Trek , Tarantino surprisingly shared his love and admiration for the Toy Story franchise.

“I don’t watch all the animated movies and stuff, but I’m a big fan of the Toy Story trilogy,” Tarantino said. “I think there’s only one trilogy that completely and utterly works to the nth degree and that’s A Fistful of Dollars,   For a Few Dollars More,  and  The Good, the Bad and the Ugly .”

Tarantino explained how the Dollars trilogy gets better with each film. The same can be said for Toy Stoy, Toy Story 2,  and  Toy Story 3 . However, that’s where Tarantino’s praise ends. The perfect ending to Toy Story 3 influences Tarantino’s disinterest in Toy Story 4 .

“In the case of  Toy Story , the third one is just magnificent,” Tarantino explained. “It’s one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. And if you’ve seen the other two, it’s just devastating. But the thing is, then three years later or something, they did a fourth, and I have no desire to see it. You literally ended the story as perfect as you could, so no, I don’t care if it’s good. I’m done.”

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When was the last time you read a book? And I mean really read one, without scrolling through your phone, sharing the latest viral meme on Twitter X, or watching that Netflix show everyone is talking about. Chances are, it's been a while, but you're not alone. According to a YouGov survey, only 54% of adult Americans read a book in 2023. And the numbers are worse for children. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress, only 43% of fourth graders scored at or above a proficient level of reading. Yikes!

So what's the solution? Henry Warren, a specialist in education technology and a concerned father of three, wants children to ... watch more TV? Well, sort of; he specifically wants children to watch any program or play video games with subtitles turned on. Together with entrepreneur Oli Barrett, he founded Turn on The Subtitles, a global initiative that aims to educate parents about the benefits of subtitles for improving children's literacy.

Rupert Sanders' The Crow, starring Bill Skarsgård, just premiered, and it'll certainly give audiences something to talk about. A reinterpretation of the 1989 comic book series, which in turn spawned the 1994 cult classic of the same name, The Crow follows Eric Draven, a man who returns from the dead to avenge the murder of his beloved girlfriend, Shelly (FKA Twigs), and rescue her soul from a dark and seemingly inescapable place.

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Tarellian starship

Tarellian starships (also referred to as Tarellian plague ships ) were vessels used as late as the 2360s to carry Tarellian refugees, following the Tarellian Civil War . These ships were equipped with warp drive and transporter technology.

Nearly every star system that the vessels entered either turned them away or destroyed them, through fear of spreading the Tarellian plague . By the early 2360s , there was only one of these ships known to still exist.

In 2364 , the USS Enterprise -D encountered the last surviving vessel, and its sparse crew. On board the Enterprise -D at the time, Wyatt Miller joined the last of the Tarellian crew, hoping that he would, some day , find a cure for their plague . ( TNG : " Haven ")

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According to the script, this vessel was described as " a ship of strange, unearthly design. Its center is a shiny globe. Dozens of spike-like structures jut out of it, tumbling end over end as the vessel moves along. Though clearly alien, there is a pleasing aesthetic quality to the ship, which gives off a soft, violet glow. " Furthermore, according to the script, this ship was built at a base located three miles below sea-level.

For more information on this design and history of this model, please see: Studio models .

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• 2 Unnamed Romulan military personnel (23rd century)

‘General Hospital' Casts Sawandi Wilson Of ‘Star Trek: Discovery'

EXCLUSIVE : A new player is coming to Port Charles to rock Lucky’s world.

General Hospital has cast Sawandi Wilson ( Star Trek: Discovery ) as Isaiah, who is only described for now as having a “connection” to Jonathan Jackson’s Lucky.

Wilson’s first airdate as a GH castmember is Aug. 26.

Wilson is best known for playing Capt. Leo in the final season of Star Trek: Discovery . He also played Marcus in Amazon’s Harlem and had a recurring role in Netflix’s The House of Flowers .

The Hofstra University grad began his artistic career as a breakdancer before going on to study acting with Marishka Phillips, Susan Batson, and Bob Krakower.

In June, Deadline exclusively revealed that Jackson was returning to GH after an eight-year absence. He’s expected to stick around Port Charles for a while.

Jackson originated the role of Lucky in 1993; he's the beloved son of super-couple Luke and Laura Spencer (Anthony Geary and Genie Francis). Jackson played the part on and off until 2011, when he left to star as Avery Barkley in ABC's  Nashville  for six seasons.

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