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Travis Mayweather
image:Anthony Montgomery in 2007.jpg, upAnthony Montgomery was cast as Travis Mayweather Travis Mayweather is a fictional character, portrayed by Anthony Montgomery, in the television series ''Star Trek: Enterprise'', serving as a navigator and helm officer aboard the starship ''Enterprise (NX-01), Enterprise''. He holds the rank of Ensign (Star Trek), ensign, and is in the command division. Mayweather is one of the main characters throughout the show's entire four-season run. Character overview Television series Mayweather was born in 2126 aboard the ECS ''Horizon'', a human J-class cargo ship, and has visited the fictional planets Trillius Prime, Draylax, Vega Colony, and both Tenebian moons. He is a "boomer", meaning he grew up aboard cargo ships, and that he has more experience in space than even his commanding officer, Captain (Star Trek), Captain Jonathan Archer. Mayweather is a quiet and enthusiastic young man who is a highly skilled pilot and has some spelunking experi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Star Trek
''Star Trek'' is an American science fiction media franchise created by Gene Roddenberry, which began with the Star Trek: The Original Series, series of the same name and became a worldwide Popular culture, pop-culture Cultural influence of Star Trek, phenomenon. Since its creation, the franchise has expanded into List of Star Trek films, various films, List of Star Trek television series, television series, List of Star Trek games, video games, List of Star Trek novels, novels, and Star Trek (comics), comic books, and it has become one of the most recognizable and List of highest-grossing media franchises, highest-grossing media franchises of all time. The franchise began with ''Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek'' (''The Original Series''), which premiered on September 6, 1966, on Canada's CTV Television Network, CTV network. In the US it debuted on September 8, 1966, on NBC. The series followed the voyages of the crew of the Starship Enterprise, starship USS ''Ent ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Spelunking
Caving, also known as spelunking (United States and Canada) and potholing (United Kingdom and Ireland), is the recreational pastime of exploring wild cave systems (as distinguished from show caves). In contrast, speleology is the scientific study of caves and the cave environment.Caving in New Zealand (from Te Ara: The Encyclopedia of New Zealand, Accessed 2012-11.) The challenges involved in caving vary according to the cave being visited; in addition to the total absence of light beyond the entrance, negotiating Pitch (ascent/descent), pitches, squeezes, and water hazards can be difficult. Cave diving is a distinct, and more hazardous, sub-speciality undertaken by a small minority of technically proficient cavers. In an area of overlap between recreational pur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wired Magazine
''Wired'' is a bi-monthly American magazine that focuses on how emerging technologies affect culture, the economy, and politics. It is published in both print and Online magazine, online editions by Condé Nast. The magazine has been in publication since its launch in January 1993. Its editorial office is based in San Francisco, California, with its business headquarters located in New York City. ''Wired'' quickly became recognized as the voice of the emerging digital economy and culture and a pace setter in print design and web design. From 1998 until 2006, the magazine and its website, ''Wired.com'', experienced separate ownership before being fully consolidated under Condé Nast in 2006. It has won multiple National Magazine Awards and has been credited with shaping discourse around the digital revolution. The magazine also coined the term Crowdsourcing, ''crowdsourcing'', as well as its annual tradition of handing out Vaporware Awards. ''Wired'' has launched several in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Original Series
''Star Trek'' is an American science fiction television series created by Gene Roddenberry that follows the adventures of the starship and its crew. It acquired the retronym of ''Star Trek: The Original Series'' (''TOS'' to distinguish the show within the media franchise that it began. The show is set in the Milky Way galaxy, 2266–2269. The ship and crew are led by Captain James T. Kirk (William Shatner), First Officer and Science Officer Spock (Leonard Nimoy) and Chief Medical Officer Leonard H. "Bones" McCoy (DeForest Kelley). Shatner's voice-over introduction during each episode's opening credits stated the starship's purpose: Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship ''Enterprise''. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before. Norway Productions and Desilu Productions produced the series from September 1966 to December 1967. Paramount Television p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Uhura
Nyota Uhura (), or simply Uhura, is a fictional character in the ''Star Trek'' franchise. In the Star Trek: The Original Series, original television series, the character was portrayed by Nichelle Nichols, who reprised the role for the first six List of Star Trek films, ''Star Trek'' feature films. A younger Uhura is portrayed by Celia Rose Gooding in the 2022 prequel series ''Star Trek: Strange New Worlds'', while an alternate timeline version of Uhura has been portrayed by actress Zoe Saldaña in the feature films ''Star Trek (2009 film), Star Trek'' (2009), ''Star Trek Into Darkness'' (2013), and ''Star Trek Beyond'' (2016). Uhura is a polyglot, translator and communications officer who specializes in linguistics, cryptography, and philology. She was an important part of the original series' multiculturalism, multicultural crew and one of the first Black people, black characters to be portrayed in a non-menial role on an American television series. Name Gene Roddenberry had int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nichelle Nichols
Nichelle Nichols ( ; born Grace Dell Nichols; December 28, 1932 – July 30, 2022) was an American actress, singer and dancer whose portrayal of Uhura in ''Star Trek'' and its film sequels was groundbreaking for African American actresses on American television. From 1977 to 2015, she volunteered her time to promote NASA's programs and recruit diverse astronauts, including some of the first female and ethnic minority astronauts. Born in the Chicago suburb of Robbins, she trained in dance, and began her career as a dancer, singer and model in Chicago. As an actor, she appeared on stage, in television and in film. Early life Grace Dell "Nichelle" Nichols was born the third of six children on December 28, 1932, in Robbins, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, to Samuel Earl Nichols, a factory worker who was elected both town mayor of Robbins in 1929 and its chief magistrate, and his wife, Lishia (Parks) Nichols, a homemaker. Disliking her name, Nichols asked her parents for a new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Terran Empire
The Mirror Universe is the setting of several narratives in the ''Star Trek'' science fiction franchise, a parallel universe existing alongside, but separate from, the fictional universe that is the main setting of ''Star Trek''. It resembles the main ''Star Trek'' universe, but is populated by more violent and opportunistic doubles of its people. The Mirror Universe has been visited in one episode of '' Star Trek: The Original Series'', five episodes of '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'', a two-part episode of '' Star Trek: Enterprise,'' a storyline woven through the first season of '' Star Trek: Discovery'' (continuing with a Mirror Universe character in the main cast of seasons 2 and 3), and several non-canon ''Star Trek'' tie-in works. It is named after " Mirror, Mirror", the ''Original Series'' episode in which it first appeared. Characteristics The characters in the Mirror Universe are aggressive, mistrustful and opportunistic in personality. Whereas the ''Star Trek'' univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hoshi Sato
Hoshi Sato , played by Korean American actress Linda Park, is a fictional character in the science fiction on television, science fiction television series ''Star Trek: Enterprise''. In the show Sato, born in Kyoto, Japan on July 9, 2129, is the communications officer aboard the starship ''Enterprise (NX-01)'', and a linguistics, linguist who can speak more than forty languages (polyglotism), including Klingon language, Klingon. She is an acknowledged linguistic genius and expert at operating the universal translator, a key instrument in allowing the crew to communicate with alien cultures. Biography Relatively little of Sato's background was explored in the series. She briefly suffered from space sickness and claustrophobia. The fourth season episode "Observer Effect (Star Trek: Enterprise), Observer Effect" revealed that she was once dishonourably discharged from Starfleet for running a floating poker game and breaking the arm of a Starfleet instructor who tried to break it up ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sergeant
Sergeant (Sgt) is a Military rank, rank in use by the armed forces of many countries. It is also a police rank in some police services. The alternative spelling, ''serjeant'', is used in The Rifles and in other units that draw their heritage from the British light infantry. The word "sergeant" derives from the Latin , 'one who serves', through the Old French term . In modern hierarchies the term ''sergeant'' refers to a non-commissioned officer positioned above the rank of a corporal, and to a police officer immediately below a lieutenant in the US, and below an inspector in the UK. In most armies, the rank of sergeant corresponds to command of a team/section (military unit), section, or squad. In Commonwealth of Nations, Commonwealth armies, it is a more senior rank, corresponding roughly to a platoon second-in-command. In the United States Army, sergeant is a more junior rank corresponding to a fireteam leader or assistant squad-leader; while in the United States Marine Corps ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mirror Universe
The Mirror Universe is the setting of several narratives in the ''Star Trek'' science fiction franchise, a parallel universe existing alongside, but separate from, the fictional universe that is the main setting of ''Star Trek''. It resembles the main ''Star Trek'' universe, but is populated by more violent and opportunistic doubles of its people. The Mirror Universe has been visited in one episode of '' Star Trek: The Original Series'', five episodes of '' Star Trek: Deep Space Nine'', a two-part episode of '' Star Trek: Enterprise,'' a storyline woven through the first season of '' Star Trek: Discovery'' (continuing with a Mirror Universe character in the main cast of seasons 2 and 3), and several non-canon ''Star Trek'' tie-in works. It is named after " Mirror, Mirror", the ''Original Series'' episode in which it first appeared. Characteristics The characters in the Mirror Universe are aggressive, mistrustful and opportunistic in personality. Whereas the ''Star Trek'' unive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In A Mirror, Darkly
"In a Mirror, Darkly" is the eighteenth and nineteenth episodes of the Star Trek: Enterprise season 4, fourth season of the American science fiction television series ''Star Trek: Enterprise'', and originally aired on UPN on April 22 and 29, 2005. This installment was developed to be a sequel to ''Star Trek: The Original Series, The Original Series'' episode "The Tholian Web" and a prequel to "Mirror, Mirror (Star Trek: The Original Series), Mirror, Mirror". The decision to set an ''Enterprise'' episode in the mirror universe originated with a pitch to enable William Shatner to appear in the series. The teleplays for both parts of the episode were written by Mike Sussman (TV series writer/producer), Mike Sussman, with Manny Coto contributing the story for the second part. Set in the 22nd century, the series normally follows the adventures of the first Starfleet starship ''Enterprise (NX-01), Enterprise'', registration NX-01. However, these installments feature a Mirror ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USS Pioneer
USS ''Pioneer'' may refer to: * , a nineteenth-century barque. * USS ''Pioneer'' (1862), may refer to a scuttled Confederate States Navy submarine raised by Union troops or may refer to the Bayou St. John submarine which was for decades misidentified as the Pioneer. * , a World War II minesweeper commissioned in 1942 and sold to Mexico Mexico, officially the United Mexican States, is a country in North America. It is the northernmost country in Latin America, and borders the United States to the north, and Guatemala and Belize to the southeast; while having maritime boundar ... in 1973 as '' Leandro Valle'' * , is an currently in service. See also * , the name of more than one ship of the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey. {{DEFAULTSORT:Pioneer United States Navy ship names ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
