Free Comic Book Day (FCBD) takes place on Saturday, May 6, 2023 when participating comic book shops worldwide give away free selected comic books. 43 titles were selected covering a broad range of ages and interests including Marvel, DC, Manga, Graphic Novels, Star Trek, Star Wars, TMNT and more!
See the complete list of titles at Full Line-Up of FCBD 2023 Comics and find a participating store near you at FCBD 2023 Store Locator.
According to “Variety”, “‘Star Trek: Discovery’ will end with the upcoming Season 5 at Paramount+…the fifth and final season will now debut in early 2024 as opposed to this year as originally thought.
Filming is mostly complete on Season 5, but according to an individual with knowledge of the situation, there will be some additional filming that has yet to take place. In addition, Paramount is planning to send the show off in style, with events planned in certain key markets throughout the year leading up to the final season’s release. Further details will be released at a later date.”
Award-winning writer/director/actor Jon Favreau was honored by the Hollywood Chamber of Commerce on February 13, 2023 with the 2,746th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the category of Television. Favreau is currently showrunner and executive producer of the “Star Wars” series “The Mandalorian” and has served as executive producer and showrunner for “The Book of Boba Fett”, as well as executive producing the upcoming “Star Wars” series “Ahsoka” and “Skeleton Crew”. He has been involved with 10 of the “Marvel Cinematic Universe” films as either director, executive producer and/or actor.
“Influenced and inspired by the profound impact of Nichelle Nichols on the world and future of spaceflight, the Nichelle Nichols Foundation seeks to continue that legacy and serve women and BIPOC (Blacks, Indigenous, People of Color) communities in their educational path to fields within STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Math).”
Peter David, one of our favorite authors, is experiencing ongoing health issues that are causing financial strain.
Go to the Peter David Fund on GoFundMe if you’d like to help.
It’s 30 years ago to the day that the Hubble telescope was launched – and to celebrate its birthday, the veteran observatory has produced another astonishing image of the cosmos.
This one is of a star-forming region close to our Milky Way Galaxy, about 163,000 light-years from Earth.
The larger object is the nebula NGC 2014; its companion is called NGC 2020.
But astronomers have nicknamed the scene the “Cosmic Reef” because it resembles an undersea world.
Famously blighted by blurred vision at the outset of its mission in 1990, Hubble was eventually repaired and upgraded.
The remarkable pictures it has taken of planets, stars, and galaxies have transformed our view of the cosmos.
It’s still far from retirement.
The US space agency (Nasa), which runs the observatory in partnership with the European Space Agency (Esa), says operations will be funded for as long as they remain productive.
Last year, its data resulted in almost 1,000 scientific papers being published – so it continues to stand at the forefront of discovery.
Star Trek of Towson would like to invite all to virtually watch “Star Trek First Contact” together on Sunday, April 5 at 6:00 pm EDT.
The link for the event is:
https://www.facebook.com/events/585360872326539/
Happy First Contact Day!
Dr. Mae Jemison is visiting the Weinberg Center for the Arts on Thursday, February 20, 2020 at 7:30 pm.
Blasting into orbit aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavour is just one of many accomplishments for the dynamic Dr. Mae Jemison, the first woman of color in space. A fierce advocate of a liberal arts education with a natural aptitude toward the sciences, Dr. Jemison addresses a myriad of topics from general motivation to science literacy, to technological and medical innovations, always inserting her sense of humor in each story she tells.
We’re saddened to share news of the passing of René Auberjoinois. Auberjoinois was a prolific actor with more than 200 credits to his name, but was perhaps best known as Benson’s Clayton Endicott III and Deep Space Nine’s Constable Odo. In 1993 he was a guest at #ShoreLeave15 and again in 1996 at #ShoreLeave18.
René Auberjoinois passed away on December 8 at the age of 79.
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Michael Lamper, musician and husband of Star Trek’s Marina Sirtis, dead at 61
Marina Writes: My beloved husband passed away peacefully in his sleep last night.
Lamper was both a guitarist and an Acamarian Gatherer on the episode “The Vengeance Factor”of The Next Generation in the third season.
By JAMIE LOVETT – December 3, 2019 01:31 pm EST
Born: March 25, 1939, Sussex, NJ
Died: December 2, 2019
Founding Star Trek writer Dorothy Catherine “D.C.” Fontana has died. She was 80 years old and died after a brief illness. Fontana was one of the key writers who worked on Star Trek: The Original Series in the 1960s, helping to bring Gene Roddenberry’s vision to life. She wrote or co-wrote 10 episodes of The Original Series, including “Charlie X,” “Tomorrow is Yesterday,” “The Side of Paradise,” “Friday’s Child,” “Journey to Babel,” “By Any Other Name,” “The Ultimate Computer,” “The Enterprise Incident,” “That Which Survives,” and “The Way to Eden.” She also wrote the episode “Yesteryear” of Star Trek: The Animated Series, worked on five episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation including its pilot, “Encounter at Farpoint,” as well as “The Naked Now,” “Lonely Among Us,” “Too Short a Season,” and “Heart of Glory,” and co-wrote the teleplay for the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode “Dax.”
As a woman working in television in the 1960s, especially in science fiction, Fontana was a trailblazer. She both wrote for and produced Star Trek while being credited as “D.C. Fontana,” keeping her gender a secret until her photograph appeared in Stephen Whitfield’s book The Making of Star Trek in 1968.
Caroll Edwin Spinney was an American puppeteer, cartoonist, author and speaker most famous for playing Big Bird and Oscar the Grouch on Sesame Street from its inception in 1969 until 2018. Wikipedia
Born: December 26, 1933, Waltham, MA
Died: December 8, 2019, Woodstock, CT
Manhattan, New York City, U.S. Ronald Leibman (October 11, 1937 – December 6, 2019) was an American actor. He won both the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play and the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play in 1993 for his performance as Roy Cohn in Angels in America.
Born: October 11, 1937, New York
Parents: Grace, Marks, Murray Leibman
Film: Norma Rae, Phar Lap
TV show: Kaz, Archer
Please join fellow STAT members to watch STAR WARS: The Rise of Skywalker at the Senator Theater in Baltimore on Saturday, Dec 21, 12 noon – 5 pm. We are going to have a table promoting STAT and Shore-Leave. Please wear either a STAT or SL shirt to support this effort.
Show times: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker 1:15pm 5:00pm 8:50pm
Senator Theater: 5904 York Rd, Baltimore, MD 21212 http://thesenatortheatre.com/
