01 - Robert Foxworth ( Admiral Leyton ST:DS9)
05 - Armin Shimerman (Quark, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
08 - Alfre Woodard (Lily Sloane, “Star Trek: First Contact”)
09 - Robert Duncan McNeill (Tom Paris, Star Trek: Voyager)
11 - Eric Menyuk (The Traveller ST:TNG)
12 - Max Grodénchik (Rom, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
13 - Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan, Star Trek: The Next Generation)
19 - Terry Farrell (Jadzia Dax, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
19 - Robert Beltran (Chakotay, Star Trek: Voyager)
21 - Alexander Siddig (Dr. Julian Bashir, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine)
24 - Denise Crosby (Tasha Yar, Star Trek: The Next Generation)
25 - Ricardo Montalban (Khan Noonien Singh, Star Trek)
28 - Menina Fortunato (Maras, Star Trek: Enterprise)

The UK Telegraph is reporting that, due to the popularity of Buffy, Lara Croft, and Xena, female sci-fi viewers now outnumber males, at 51% - 49%.

We’ve covered a lot of the R2-D2 droid building, in MAKE and Makezine.com - so, here’s a wonderful site with all you need to make your own Dalek.

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Wil Wheaton is best known for his role as brainy prodigy Wesley Crusher on Star Trek: The Next Generation, but over the last few years, he’s found an unlikely niche as a celebrity blogger par excellence.

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Yesterday, I went to an Egyptian exhibit at the Art Institute. […] It also was quite cool in its reference to Egyptian gods such as Apophis, Hathor, Re, and Anubis who all have made appearances on Stargate SG-1.

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The first Finnish full-length scifi parody is made from astounding special effects, action and loads of dark humour. It is the product of a core group of five Finns and many people who’ve helped us during the seven years it has been in the making.

visit: Star Wreck

“Use the Force Luke to give me some candy!” Lots of handmade crafts ideas going round this halloween, especially with the Star Wars theme. Check out these crochet baby yoda ears. Not only is he instantly wise to the jedi ways, his ears stay warm to boot!

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Stargate SG1 has been renewed for a 10th season, and Stargate Atlantis has been renewed for a 3rd Seasond. Good news for good times….

We are going to be […] busy… Yes we just got picked up - both shows. Season 10 (of SG-1) and season 3 (of Atlantis). [Martin Wood]

source: Stargate Project

Paramount Home Entertainment is launching a new DVD Premiere division to produce direct-to-DVD features from franchises the studio believes are underperforming at the box office but have devoted fan bases

Which begs the question: might Star Trek features be produced by Paramount directly for the home DVD market, which would bypass the expense of a theatrical release and the limitations of a weekly serial?

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Several months ago while at a local gas station, I saw that the owners were throwing away one of those R2-D2 Pepsi coolers. It had been badly abused and was split down one end. Right then and there I knew I wanted to have one just like it, but this one was far too beat up. I knew if I wanted it done right I’d have to make my own

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