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What legal problems prevented T’Pau from being used in “Star Trek: Enterprise?”
While wandering through a Star Trek rabbit hole, I came across this tidbit on the Wikipedia page for T'Pol; bold emphasis is mine:
“Series producer Rick Berman said they originally intended that a ...
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Salaries of Star Trek Guest Stars
What was the salary range of the guest stars on the original Star Trek series?
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Was the pipe-weed on the set of the Lord of the Rings films real or fake?
Hollywood has been wrestling with the thorny problem of smoking-depiction in films ever since tobacco went out of fashion in the 1990s, replacing on-set smoking with herbal cigarettes, e-cigs and CGI.
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How were the scenes featuring Princess Leia in The Rise of Skywalker filmed?
As we know, our beloved princess, Carrie Fisher, died before the script for The Rise of Skywalker was even finished. According to this answer, digitally recreating her image was out of the question.
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Why did George Lucas set Star Wars in the past instead of the future?
I always found it interesting that Star Wars is set in the distant past instead of the (more obvious) future.
Has George Lucas ever commented why he chose to do that?
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Why was Poe Dameron re-written to survive in The Force Awakens?
The Episode VII crawl sets up POE DAMERON as a key character:
Leia has sent her most daring pilot on a secret mission to Jakku, where an old ally has discovered a clue to Luke’s whereabouts….
But ...
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How is the Game of Thrones series being made when there are no new books by Martin to base it on?
How is the Game of Thrones TV series made, when there are no books written by Martin yet to base it on?
I've read all of the books and watched all of the episodes, but I don't get it. Season 7 is ...
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How many times has the in-production Robotech live action movie changed director already?
A Robotech live action movie was first announced in 2007. Since then, they changed company, and a different director was announced more than once. Yesterday, I saw the new of an Argentine "Andrés ...
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Which episodes of Star Trek TNG led to their writers becoming regular staff?
Most TV episodes, and it seems so for TNG too, are written by existing writing staff, or come from freelance screenplays whose writers rarely, if ever contribute to the show again. Occasionally an ...
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Why were Series 6 and 7 split into two parts?
Nearly every series of new (post-2005) Doctor Who, excluding specials, has comprised a sequence of weekly episodes:
Series 1: weekly from 26 March 2005 to 18 June 2005
Series 2: weekly from 15 April ...
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Working titles of Star Wars films?
I learned from this question that Blue Harvest was the working title of Star Wars Episode VI (Return of the Jedi), and it made me wonder: did any of the other Star Wars films have similarly surprising ...
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Did The Force Awakens use any screen wipes to transition from scene to scene?
When Episode VII was announced, I remember hearing fans wonder whether Abrams would use to the screen wipes to transition from scene to scene the way other Star Wars films did.
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Is barring Holy O's in "Irredeemable" a Mark Waid thing, Boom Studios thing, or something else?
Reading Irredeemable, my first Boom Studios comic, and I've noticed in a few issues that when divine words are used — God, Lord, etc. — the O is barred. Take a look at page 1 of issue 17, first panel:
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On what kind of media are the lost (and now recovered!) Doctor Who episodes stored?
According to this article and several others like it on the web, the missing Doctor Who episodes (mostly Hartnell & Troughton) were located in Ethopia and will be released "soon."
I'm curious, ...
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