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Star Trek's William Shatner is set to return to as host of the new television series "William Shatner's Full Moon Frightshow". The production company behind "Frightshow" is Full Moon Universe, best know for producing direct-to-video films. The company will reportedly be tapping into its over 150 strong library of horror and science fiction films for the show.

Among the catalog of films expected to be seen on the series are "Puppetmaster", "Trancers" and "Subspecies". Full Moon Universe is also the company behind Shatner's upcoming Sci-Fi thriller "Groom Lake", which Shatner both acts and directs in.

The cast of "Thirteen Days", Kevin Costner's new thriller about the Cuban Missile Crisis which happened during the Kennedy Administration includes, thirteen members of the Star Trek alumni. Among the cast is the man who portrayed Star Trek: Voyager's Captain Janeway's father in "Coda", Len Cariou (Dean Anderson in the film) and Star Trek: Voyager's Admiral Patterson in "Relativity", Dakin Matthews (Arthur Lundhal in the film).

Also appearing in "Thirteen Days" are Star Trek: DS9's Sharat from "Armageddon Game", Peter White (John McCone in the film), Star Trek: Voyager's Sklar from "Rises", Kelly Connell (Pierre Salinger in the film), Star Trek: DS9's Agent Dulmer from the episode "Trials and Tribble-ations", Jack Blessing (Agent Dulmer in the DS9 episode "Trials and Tribble-ations" (as John Scali in the film). As well as, Tim Kelleher, Kevin Conway, Bill Smitrovich, Ed Lauter, Charles Esten, Boris Lee Krutonog and others. "Thirteen Days" opened January 12th in theaters across the US.

Earlier this month William Shatner cut the ribbon on a new facility, named after his late wife, to help women battle substance abuse. The Nerine Shatner Friendly House will "provide room, board and emotional support" for women who are recovering from alcoholism and drug addiction. Shatner, whose wife Nerine died in August of 1999 in a drowning accident after an unsuccessful battle with alcoholism, spearheaded the funding for the project. Friendly House, a non-profit organization, has been operating in Los Angeles for some fifty years.

According to the SFX Network site there's a rumor going around that the fifth Star Trek series may be on hold for a while due, in part, to an apparent dispute over the amount of episodes that were initially requested. The site also reported that ABC is interested in the upcoming series, not UPN or NBC. But ABC reportedly only wants 13 episodes to start, not the full 22.

And former Trek writer and producer Ronald D. Moore reportedly had told Sci-Fi Wire that the new Trek series might have to be put on hold because of uncertainty concerning the possible actors' and writers strikes that may happen sometime this year and the uncertain future of UPN.

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