Manny Coto
Manuel Hector "Manny" Coto (born June 10, 1961) is an American writer, director and producer of films and television programs. Coto was the executive producer and showrunner of '' Star Trek: Enterprise'' in its final season, and executive producer of four seasons of '' 24''. He was an executive producer and writer for the fifth season of the Showtime TV series ''Dexter''. Career Coto graduated from the American Film Institute and has experience in the sci-fi and fantasy genres. In 1990, Brian Helgeland and Coto sold a script, ''The Ticking Man'', for $1 million, but the film was never made. He wrote and directed an episode of '' Tales from the Crypt'' and also wrote an episode for and produced ''The Outer Limits'' when it was revived on Showtime in 1995. He was given the chance to create and write a series for Showtime after ''The Outer Limits'' was cancelled. The resulting series was ''Odyssey 5'' and starred Peter Weller (Coto would later cast Weller in roles on ''Enterprise ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of speculative fiction involving magical elements, typically set in a fictional universe and sometimes inspired by mythology and folklore. Its roots are in oral traditions, which then became fantasy literature and drama. From the twentieth century, it has expanded further into various media, including film, television, graphic novels, manga, animations and video games. Fantasy is distinguished from the genres of science fiction and horror fiction, horror by the respective absence of scientific or macabre themes, although these genres overlap. In popular culture, the fantasy genre predominantly features settings that emulate Earth, but with a sense of otherness. In its broadest sense, however, fantasy consists of works by many writers, artists, filmmakers, and musicians from ancient mythology, myths and legends to many recent and popular works. Traits Most fantasy uses magic (paranormal), magic or other supernatural elements as a main Plot (narrative), ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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24 (season 5)
The fifth season of the American drama television series '' 24'', also known as Day 5, premiered on January 15, 2006, on Fox and aired its season finale on May 22, 2006. The season five storyline starts and ends at 7:00 a.m. – the same time frame as the previous season. The season received overwhelming critical acclaim and is widely regarded as the show's best season. It received twelve Primetime Emmy Award nominations with five wins, including Outstanding Drama Series. Season overview The fifth season is set 18 months after season four. Former Counter Terrorist Unit agent Jack Bauer begins the season, working as a day-to-day laborer at an oil refinery under the alias "Frank Flynn" in Mojave, California. On a monumental day in Charles Logan's presidency, an anti-terrorism treaty with Russian President Yuri Suvarov is about to be signed when events take a tragic turn. Season 5 is one of the ''24'' seasons that can be divided into three main acts: # In the first act, t ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Comic Book
A comic book, also called comicbook, comic magazine or (in the United Kingdom and Ireland) simply comic, is a publication that consists of comics art in the form of sequential juxtaposed panel (comics), panels that represent individual scenes. Panels are often accompanied by descriptive prose and written narrative, usually, dialogue contained in word balloons emblematic of the comics art form. "Comic Cuts" was a British comic published from 1890 to 1953. It was preceded by "Ally Sloper's Half Holiday" (1884) which is notable for its use of sequential cartoons to unfold narrative. These British comics existed alongside of the popular lurid "Penny dreadfuls" (such as "Spring-heeled Jack"), boys' "Story papers" and the humorous Punch (magazine) which was the first to use the term "cartoon" in its modern sense of a humorous drawing. The interweaving of drawings and the written word had been pioneered by, among others, William Blake (1757 - 1857) in works such as Blake's "The Desce ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Star Trek
''Star Trek'' is an American science fiction media franchise created by Gene Roddenberry, which began with the eponymous 1960s television series and quickly became a worldwide pop-culture phenomenon. The franchise has expanded into various films, television series, video games, novels, and comic books. With an estimated $10.6 billion in revenue, it is one of the most recognizable and highest-grossing media franchises of all time. The franchise began with '' Star Trek: The Original Series'', which debuted in the US on September 8, 1966 and aired for three seasons on NBC. It was first broadcast on September 6, 1966 on Canada's CTV network. It followed the voyages of the crew of the starship USS ''Enterprise'', a space exploration vessel built by the United Federation of Planets in the 23rd century, on a mission "to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before". In creating ''Star Trek'', Roddenberry ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Brannon Braga
Brannon Braga (; born August 14, 1965) is an American television producer, director and screenwriter. Best known for his work in the ''Star Trek'' franchise, Braga was a key creative force behind three of the franchise's live action series. He later became an executive producer and writer on several Fox shows including '' 24'', '' Terra Nova'', and ''The Orville''. His film credits include '' Mission: Impossible 2'', ''Star Trek Generations'' and '' Star Trek: First Contact''. He served as an executive producer on the Fox primetime series, '' Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey'', a re-launch of the 1980 miniseries hosted by Carl Sagan for which Braga won a Peabody Award, Critics Choice Award, and Producers Guild Award. In addition, Braga has been nominated for three Emmy Awards. Braga also served as writer, executive producer, and co-creator of the drama series ''Salem'', WGN America's first original series. Career Braga started out as an intern on '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'' ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Rick Berman
Richard Keith Berman (born December 25, 1945) is an American television producer and screenwriter. He is best known for his work as the executive producer of several of the ''Star Trek'' television series: '' Star Trek: The Next Generation'', ''Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'', '' Star Trek: Voyager'' and '' Star Trek: Enterprise'', as well as several of the ''Star Trek'' films, and for ultimately succeeding Gene Roddenberry as head of the ''Star Trek'' franchise until the cancellation of ''Star Trek: Enterprise'' in 2005. Early life and work Berman was born to a Jewish family and raised in New York City. He attended college at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, receiving a degree in English and film production in 1967. He first considered acting as a career, but decided not to pursue it because of the high degree of difficulty in gaining success. Starting a career as an independent film producer, director, and writer, he made documentaries and industrial films. Among his client ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Azati Prime
"Azati Prime" is the eighteenth episode of the third season of the American science fiction television series ''Star Trek: Enterprise'', the 70th overall. The episode was written by Manny Coto from a story developed by Coto, Rick Berman and Brannon Braga. It was directed by Allan Kroeker, his second of the season. The episode featured several guest actors, including those playing members of the Xindi Council, as well as Matt Winston who reprised his role of Temporal Agent Daniels for the second time this season. Set in the 22nd century, the series follows the adventures of the first Starfleet starship ''Enterprise'', registration NX-01. Season three of ''Enterprise'' features an ongoing story following an attack on Earth by previously unknown aliens called the Xindi. In this episode, the crew track a Xindi superweapon down to a planet and Captain Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) seeks to destroy the weapon in a suicide attack. He is captured, and the ''Enterprise'' is seriously d ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Chosen Realm
"Chosen Realm" is the 12th episode from the third season of the science fiction television series '' Star Trek: Enterprise''. The series's 64th episode, it first aired on January 14, 2004. ''Enterprise'' is taken over by a group of religious zealots called Triannons and Archer must re-take it before it's too late. Plot Commander Tucker and Ensign Mayweather are gathering readings on a third sphere in the Delphic Expanse. ''Enterprise'' receives a distress call from a Triannon ship which reports they have been damaged by a spatial anomaly. ''Enterprise'' takes them aboard, and D'Jamat, the leader of the group, has dinner with Captain Archer where he explains they have been on a year-long pilgrimage to a sphere. They believe deities, called the " Makers," constructed the spheres to transform the expanse, their “Chosen Realm,” into a paradise. D'Jamat then rejects T'Pol's scientific logic that there are only 59 known spheres. Later, D'Jamat demands Archer turn over control of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Peter Weller
Peter Weller (born June 24, 1947) is an American film and stage actor, television director, and art historian. He has appeared in more than 70 films and television series, including '' RoboCop'' (1987) and its sequel '' RoboCop 2'' (1990), in which he played the title character; '' The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension'' (1984); and '' Star Trek Into Darkness'' (2013). He also appeared in such films as Woody Allen's '' Mighty Aphrodite'' (1995), the Oliver Stone-produced ''The New Age'' (1994), and David Cronenberg's adaptation of William Burroughs's novel '' Naked Lunch'' (1991). In addition to a Saturn Award nomination for his ''RoboCop'' role, he received an Academy Award nomination for his 1993 short ''Partners'', in which he also acted. In television, he hosted the program '' Engineering an Empire'' on the History Channel from 2005 to 2007. He played Christopher Henderson in the fifth season of '' 24'', Stan Liddy in the fifth season of the S ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Odyssey 5
''Odyssey 5'' is a Canadian science fiction series, which was shown in 2002 on Space in Canada and on Showtime in the United States. The premise involves five space travelers who witness the destruction of the Earth; they are given the opportunity to travel to the past to identify and prevent the cataclysm. ''Odyssey 5'' was created by Manny Coto, who was a scriptwriter and executive producer during the series run. Through his website and in interviews, Coto has expressed his interest in returning to the series at some point, either continuing it or giving it a conclusion. The series was produced in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Plot The story follows six people, four astronauts, a scientist and a television news reporter, on a routine flight of the space shuttle ''Odyssey'' on 7 August 2007. During the flight, the Earth rapidly dissolves into a fiery ball and implodes. Control of the ''Odyssey'' is momentarily lost and one astronaut is killed. The remaining five crew members r ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |