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Here's some news for all you Babylon 5 fans out there. Claudia Christian is going to be staring in a new Brittish Sci-Fi show called 'First Frontier'. The character she plays is named Ilonah Jones. Ilonah is a single mother who is a Freelance Marshall, working for the Nomad cities of Mars. Forced to quit the Peace Corps, she now faces the daunting task of making up for her past misdeeds as a bad mother and learning to be a friend to her 19 year old daughter.

First Frontier will also star Joe McGann as Noel Kennard, a man with a lot of bad history, Michael Sheard as Joseph Makian, Kennard's former boss, Jeremy Bulloch as Abelard, Simon Lewis as Quace, Corinne Britton as Mercury and Sue Witheridge as the voice of the computer Mata Hari. The role of Juno, Ilonah's daughter, is still as yet uncast. This project is still in the works, but so far it looks pretty good. The plot may air sometime in late 1999. For more on the show go to "http://www.fortunecity.com/tattooine/wil..." and come back here to Sci-Fi TV. I'll keep you posted on this new show.

Raven Software is working on an idea for a Star Trek: Voyager PC game. It's rumored that the game will combine first person action and team combat. This is according to Gamespot News.

The Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy and Horror Films have announced the nominees for the 25th annual Saturn Awards. The Awards will be presented at a ceremony held sometime in early June. Here are some of the nominees:

Best Sci-Fi Film
Armageddon
Dark City
Deep Impact
Lost in Space
Star Trek: Insurection
The X-Files: Fight the Future

Best Actor
Jim Carrey (The Truman Show)
David Duchovny (Fight the Future)
Anthony Hopkins (Meet Joe Black)
Edward Norton (American History X)
Bruce Willis (Armageddon)
James Woods (Vampires)

Best Actress
Gillian Anderson (Fight the Future)
Drew Barrymore (Ever After)
Jamie Lee Curtis (Halloween: H2O)
Meg Ryan (City of Angels)
Jennifer Tilly (Bride of Chucky)
Catherine Zeta-Jones (The Mask of Zorro)

Best Series on Network TV
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Charmed
Seven Days
The Simpsons
Star Trek: Voyager
The X-Files

Best Series on Syndicated TV
Babylon 5
The Outer Limits
PSI Factor
Sliders
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
Stargate SG-1

Best Actor in a TV Series
Richard Dean Anderson (Stargate SG-1)
Nicholas Brendon (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Bruce Boxleitner (Babylon 5)
David Duchovny (X-Files)
Lance Henriksen (Millennium)
Jonathan LaPaglia (Seven Days)

Best Actress in a TV Series
Gillian Anderson (X-Files)
Claudia Christian (Babylon 5)
Shannen Doherty (Charmed)
Sarah Michelle Gellar (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Kate Mulgrew (Voyager)
Jerri Ryan (Voyager)

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