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Yahoo
22-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
William Shatner, 94, Issues Another Stern Warning & Fans Have Mixed Reactions
William Shatner, 94, Issues Another Stern Warning & Fans Have Mixed Reactions originally appeared on Parade. Actor William Shatner, best known for his role as Captain James T. Kirk on Star Trek: The Original Series, recently warned his social media followers. On July 17, Shatner took to his Instagram account to tell his followers he found "another scammer account pretending to be associated with [him]." Shatner also shared a screenshot of said account. "So if the account follows you; I advise you to block or at least restrict the account so they cannot contact you. I've reported the account but as it's not pretending to be me (just pretending to represent me) support may not remove the account. My best, Bill #bettertobesafethansorry," read a portion of the caption. Several fans thanked Shatner for the warning. "Thank you sir. Be well," wrote a commenter. "Thank you for the heads up. I guess those are the perks of being a famous actor," added another. "Thanks for keeping us updated very thoughtful of you mr shatner," shared a different person. Quite a few commenters, however, pointed out that the Instagram account seems to be a fan page for Shatner. "I think that's just a fan page sir," commented an Instagram user. "Just saying it does say 'fan page,'" added another. "I am pretty sure that is a fan page. It says in the title and having an avatar who is most definitely not even Mr Shatner...I highly doubt this is a 'fake' account," wrote a commenter. "Ok maybe this is just me but that's a fan account I don't think it's pretending to be you," shared a social media user. This is not the first time Shatner has warned his fans about potential scammers using his identity. For instance, on July 12, the 94-year-old actor highlighted a different Instagram account with the name " "Latest scam account pretending to be me. 🙄 Be aware!" wrote Shatner in the caption of the Instagram upload. William Shatner, 94, Issues Another Stern Warning & Fans Have Mixed Reactions first appeared on Parade on Jul 18, 2025 This story was originally reported by Parade on Jul 18, 2025, where it first appeared. Solve the daily Crossword
Telegraph
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Telegraph
This camp prequel remains the last shining star in the Star Trek universe
Set phasers to fun: the third season of Star Trek spin-off Strange New Worlds (Paramount +) is a romping return to the interstellar camp of the original Captain Kirk-Mr Spock space opera. It has everything the discerning Trekkie could want. Epic interstellar battles, dodgy yellow knitwear and alien races with pointy plastic ears that look like they might go warp factor nine near an open flame. Nerds across the galaxy will emit a collective sigh of relief. These, after all, are challenging times for science fiction's heaviest hitters. In recent years, the great black hole of audience indifference has swallowed Doctor Who and Star Wars – once untouchable franchises sent spinning into the void as viewers go cold on wide-screen sci-fi. That same curse seemed to have befallen Star Trek of late. After limping along for decades, it hit rock bottom this January with the dreadful Michelle Yeoh movie, Star Trek: Section 31. Not only was it the sorriest Star Trek ever – it was also some of the most horrific TV content ever sprung on an unsuspecting planet. And this in the same 12 months as Noel Edmonds' Kiwi Adventure. But just when it appeared Star Trek was clinging on for dear life, Paramount + has beamed in with another helping of Strange New Worlds, a prequel set immediately before the original 1966-1969 Trek. Series three arrives amid confirmation that Paramount is to end the show after a shortened fifth season – and amid considerable slashing and burning across its stuttering streaming service. However, that's all in the future. As is the unpleasant fate awaiting Anson Mount's dashing Captain Christopher Pike – whom fans of the original Sixties Star Trek will remember as a burned-out husk who communicates via a beeping red light. The tragedy that reduced him to such a condition is still some time away. In the meantime, he is merrily commanding the Starship Enterprise – the very same bucket of bolts James T Kirk will later manhandle across the cosmos. Strange New Worlds series three gets straight into the action as Pike and his crew resume their climactic battle with the gruesome Gorn – a warlike race that owes a lot to HR Giger's slithering Xenomorph from Alien. Among those staffing the Enterprise are future Federation icons Mr Spock (Ethan Peck), Nyota Uhura (Celia Rose Gooding), Montgomery Scott (Martin Quinn) and nurse Christine Chapel (Jess Bush). All are elegantly played as homages to the original characters rather than broad impersonations. There are further nods to Trek's back catalogue as New Zealand comedian Rhys Darby cameos as a dandy-ish anti-hero who originally featured in a favourite Star Trek story from 1967. The same episode introduces Cork actor Cillian O'Sullivan, portraying a love interest who owes a lot to Paul Mescal in Normal People. It is a surprise sprinkling of Sally Rooney in zero-g and one of several intergalactic cherries atop a space saga that has defied television gravity and continues to soar.
Vancouver Sun
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Vancouver Sun
Adventures in Streaming: Outer Limits is your next favourite binge
If one measures the success of a TV series by its spinoffs, Star Trek (Paramount+), must stand alone, with an astonishing 13 different television iterations — that's not even counting the dozen or so movies. Surely, though, the original series –Trekkers call it TOS for short — was the fountainhead that inspired all those offshoots. Has it aged well since its 1966-69 run? Well, developments in everything from visual effects to fight choreography have rendered the show somewhat quaint, at least through the jaded eyes of contemporary media consumers with the ability to pinpoint slipshod digital alterations while standing 20 paces from a 4K flatscreen. But in these divisive times, it remains a series that made one hopeful about the future in its depiction of earthlings from different backgrounds and ethnicities who put aside their differences to co-operate on a noble, non-colonizing interstellar mission: 'To boldly go where no man has gone before.' Get top headlines and gossip from the world of celebrity and entertainment. By signing up you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc. A welcome email is on its way. If you don't see it, please check your junk folder. The next issue of Sun Spots will soon be in your inbox. Please try again Interested in more newsletters? Browse here. And yet the show's reputation as the alpha and omega of television science fiction is as persistently tight as a Vulcan Nerve Pinch. Star Trek's mission was, in a way, forecast in a series that developed years before Captain Kirk was but a glimmer in the eye of a CBS network programmer. The Outer Limits (1963-65, new on Tubi), is delightful old-school science fiction that anticipated TOS, even if its format went with a different story and cast every week. If Star Trek looked forward, Outer Limits was very much formed by its immediate past, the geopolitical aftershocks of the Second World War, with the threat of nuclear annihilation at the forefront. Also, it was shot in newsreel black and white, which gives it more gravitas than Star Trek's '60s sickly-psychedelic colour palette. Even with its primitive effects, it could induce nightmares. The episode The Zanti Misfits is about powerful aliens who negotiate a deal with earth to harbour a Botany Bay-like ship filled with prisoners. Once revealed, the creatures are merely large bugs with human faces, animated with stop motion. And yet, these crawlies still have the power to creep you out. Go for the bugs. Stay for the hair-raising sado-masochistic sparks between earthly criminal Bruce Dern and his girlfriend (Olive Deering), a runaway wife, who unwittingly facilitate the misfits' escape. (The series' main writer Joseph Stefano wrote the screenplay for Psycho, and presumably knew a little something about, psychosexual subtext.) The most celebrated episode, Demon with a Glass Hand, was written by sci-fi gadfly Harlan Ellison, and stars Robert Culp as a man with no memory, dropped into Los Angeles, vaguely aware of a mission to foil an aggressive alien race that will defeat earthlings hundreds of years in the future. (In 2009, TV Guide ranked the episode as #73 on an all-time list of great TV episodes.) Infamously, Ellison sued the makers of James Cameron's 1984 film The Terminator because it lifted the premise of a man from the future time-travelling to the past on an assignment to save mankind from a menace yet to come. The film company Hemdale settled with Ellison to the chagrin of Cameron, who quite justifiably felt no one author owned the concept of time travel. (Look at it now and the episode more closely resembles Blade Runner (1982), given that it features a proto-replicant engaged in a violent battle to the death in the iron-wrought confines of the Bradbury Building, a real-life location utilized in both properties.) Perhaps the most significant feature of the show is that Star Trek actors — including Leonard Nimoy and James 'Scotty' Doohan — keep showing up. William Shatner seems to be doing a trial run as Captain Kirk playing a cocky astronaut who finds himself transformed when he encounters an alien on Venus in the episode Cold Hands, Warm Heart. Taken on its own, The Outer Limits was so much more than a warm-up act. Binge accordingly.
Calgary Herald
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Calgary Herald
Adventures in Streaming: Outer Limits is your next favourite binge
Article content If one measures the success of a TV series by its spinoffs, Star Trek (Paramount+), must stand alone, with an astonishing 13 different television iterations — that's not even counting the dozen or so movies. Article content Surely, though, the original series –Trekkers call it TOS for short — was the fountainhead that inspired all those offshoots. Article content Has it aged well since its 1966-69 run? Well, developments in everything from visual effects to fight choreography have rendered the show somewhat quaint, at least through the jaded eyes of contemporary media consumers with the ability to pinpoint slipshod digital alterations while standing 20 paces from a 4K flatscreen. Article content Article content Article content But in these divisive times, it remains a series that made one hopeful about the future in its depiction of earthlings from different backgrounds and ethnicities who put aside their differences to co-operate on a noble, non-colonizing interstellar mission: 'To boldly go where no man has gone before.' Article content Article content And yet the show's reputation as the alpha and omega of television science fiction is as persistently tight as a Vulcan Nerve Pinch. Article content Star Trek's mission was, in a way, forecast in a series that developed years before Captain Kirk was but a glimmer in the eye of a CBS network programmer. Article content The Outer Limits (1963-65, new on Tubi), is delightful old-school science fiction that anticipated TOS, even if its format went with a different story and cast every week. If Star Trek looked forward, Outer Limits was very much formed by its immediate past, the geopolitical aftershocks of the Second World War, with the threat of nuclear annihilation at the forefront. Also, it was shot in newsreel black and white, which gives it more gravitas than Star Trek's '60s sickly-psychedelic colour palette. Article content Article content Even with its primitive effects, it could induce nightmares. The episode The Zanti Misfits is about powerful aliens who negotiate a deal with earth to harbour a Botany Bay-like ship filled with prisoners. Once revealed, the creatures are merely large bugs with human faces, animated with stop motion. And yet, these crawlies still have the power to creep you out. Article content Go for the bugs. Stay for the hair-raising sado-masochistic sparks between earthly criminal Bruce Dern and his girlfriend (Olive Deering), a runaway wife, who unwittingly facilitate the misfits' escape. (The series' main writer Joseph Stefano wrote the screenplay for Psycho, and presumably knew a little something about, psychosexual subtext.) Article content The most celebrated episode, Demon with a Glass Hand, was written by sci-fi gadfly Harlan Ellison, and stars Robert Culp as a man with no memory, dropped into Los Angeles, vaguely aware of a mission to foil an aggressive alien race that will defeat earthlings hundreds of years in the future. (In 2009, TV Guide ranked the episode as #73 on an all-time list of great TV episodes.)
National Post
10-07-2025
- Entertainment
- National Post
Adventures in Streaming: Outer Limits is your next favourite binge
Article content If one measures the success of a TV series by its spinoffs, Star Trek (Paramount+), must stand alone, with an astonishing 13 different television iterations — that's not even counting the dozen or so movies. Article content Surely, though, the original series –Trekkers call it TOS for short — was the fountainhead that inspired all those offshoots. Article content Has it aged well since its 1966-69 run? Well, developments in everything from visual effects to fight choreography have rendered the show somewhat quaint, at least through the jaded eyes of contemporary media consumers with the ability to pinpoint slipshod digital alterations while standing 20 paces from a 4K flatscreen. Article content Article content But in these divisive times, it remains a series that made one hopeful about the future in its depiction of earthlings from different backgrounds and ethnicities who put aside their differences to co-operate on a noble, non-colonizing interstellar mission: 'To boldly go where no man has gone before.' Article content And yet the show's reputation as the alpha and omega of television science fiction is as persistently tight as a Vulcan Nerve Pinch. Article content Star Trek's mission was, in a way, forecast in a series that developed years before Captain Kirk was but a glimmer in the eye of a CBS network programmer. Article content The Outer Limits (1963-65, new on Tubi), is delightful old-school science fiction that anticipated TOS, even if its format went with a different story and cast every week. If Star Trek looked forward, Outer Limits was very much formed by its immediate past, the geopolitical aftershocks of the Second World War, with the threat of nuclear annihilation at the forefront. Also, it was shot in newsreel black and white, which gives it more gravitas than Star Trek's '60s sickly-psychedelic colour palette. Article content Article content Even with its primitive effects, it could induce nightmares. The episode The Zanti Misfits is about powerful aliens who negotiate a deal with earth to harbour a Botany Bay-like ship filled with prisoners. Once revealed, the creatures are merely large bugs with human faces, animated with stop motion. And yet, these crawlies still have the power to creep you out. Article content Go for the bugs. Stay for the hair-raising sado-masochistic sparks between earthly criminal Bruce Dern and his girlfriend (Olive Deering), a runaway wife, who unwittingly facilitate the misfits' escape. (The series' main writer Joseph Stefano wrote the screenplay for Psycho, and presumably knew a little something about, psychosexual subtext.) Article content The most celebrated episode, Demon with a Glass Hand, was written by sci-fi gadfly Harlan Ellison, and stars Robert Culp as a man with no memory, dropped into Los Angeles, vaguely aware of a mission to foil an aggressive alien race that will defeat earthlings hundreds of years in the future. (In 2009, TV Guide ranked the episode as #73 on an all-time list of great TV episodes.)
