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Aron Eisenberg

Aron Scott Eisenberg (born 6 January 1969; age 49) is the actor who is best known for portraying Nog on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. Born in Hollywood, California, USA, Eisenberg underwent a kidney transplant when he was a teenager, which stunted his growth at 5 feet. Eisenberg's oldest son Nicholas Lawrence Eisenberg was born 25 April 1997. He has another son, Christopher Eisenberg. Eisenberg worked with Mark Paniccia on the Malibu celebrity comic "The Rules of Diplomacy". Alongside fellow Deep Space Nine performers Max Grodénchik, Chase Masterson, and Cecily Adams he performed sketches as the "Ferengi Family Hour" on several Star Trek conventions. Eisenberg has also performed in several stage plays, received awards for these appearances, and directed a few stage plays. Eisenberg made his first acting appearance in the 1989 movie Beverly Hills Brats, in which Whoopi Goldberg made a cameo appearance and Star Trek stunt coordinator Dennis Madalone played a store clerk. Also in that year, he starred with Lawrence Tierney in The Horror Show. His last movie of that year was Amityville 4: The Evil Escapes, also starring Warren Munson. He appeared in the 1990 movie Playroom, directed by future Star Trek: Enterprise writer Manny Coto. He also starred in Streets that year. In 1991 he starred in Prayer of the Rollerboys and Puppet Master III: Toulon's Revenge with future DS9 guest stars Ian Abercrombie and Matthew Faison. In 1993 he played alongside Wil Wheaton in The Liars' Club. A year later, he starred in Pterodactyl Woman from Beverly Hills and in 1998 with Leonard Nimoy, Miguel Ferrer and Daniel Dae Kim in the television adaptation of Brave New World.

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Athena Massey

Athena Massey continues to show her range and versatility as an actress through her many roles in both film and television. Proving that she is not just a "pretty face", Massey has played roles ranging from a secret agent in the film "Termination Man" to a clairvoyant alien in the highly-acclaimed television series "Star Trek: Voyager." She made her film debut opposite Don "The Dragon" Wilson in "Virtual Combat." Massey's physically demanding role garnered a lot of attention and respect. Skilled in Martial Arts and Krav Maga, Massey performed her own stunts in the film. She continued to impress audiences and critics with her kickboxing skills in "Cybertracker 2." Massey also played a Southern soap opera star in MGM's "Molly" and a detective in "Shadow of a Scream" -- once again proving her diversity as an actress. Her other film credits include "Harold Robbins' Body Parts" starring opposite Richard Grieco, and "Poison Ivy: The New Seduction." Massey demonstrated her comedic skills in Universal Pictures' hilarious comedy, "The Nutty Professor" starring Eddie Murphy. She has also had guest-starring appearances on the Emmy Award-winning television shows "Seinfeld" and "The Larry Sanders Show." Massey also had recurring roles on the Sci-Fi Channel series "Black Scorpion" and on the CBS series "Nash Bridges." Other television credits include: "Murder One", "LA Heat", "Young and the Restless" and "Red Shoe Diaries." Massey has also successfully crossed over into the CD Rom interactive world. She portrayed a GDI Pilot in "Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun" and played Lieutenant Eva Lee in "Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2" and "Red Alert 2: Yuri's Revenge." She is currently producing a self-titled comic book with her writing partner, Brooks Wachtel. "Athena: Warrior Eternal" is a story of a warrior goddess who comes to present-day Earth and takes over the body of a mortal woman to stop Ares, God of War, from destroying the planet. Massey promoted her comic book at the famous International Comic Book Convention held in San Diego. Massey also launched her own official website, athenamassey.com, which highlights interviews, upcoming television appearances, film roles, photo shoots and fan mail. It is part of the official celebrity website, safesearching.com. Massey was a presenter at the 32nd Annual Academy of Magical Arts Awards held at the Wilshire Ebel Theatre. She was also among a select group of actors featured in the "Costume & Couture: Dressing TV's Hottest Stars" fashion spread in the 2000 issue of Emmy magazine. Massey resides in Los Angeles where she enjoys her other passions: cycling, flying trapeze, Krav Maga, kickboxing, meditation and interior design.

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Ayana Haviv

Ayana is a member and has been a soloist in Los Angeles Opera Chorus and Los Angeles Master Chorale, where she has sung everything from atonal 21st-century music to Anglican chant. Originally from Israel, she grew up singing Jewish music of all kinds, from klezmer to Middle Eastern. Ayana's voice can be heard on the film and TV soundtracks AVATAR, THE NEXT THREE DAYS, COWBOYS AND ALIENS, THE GREEN LANTERN ANIMATED SERIES, HOP, THE RITE, 2012, CATS & DOGS 2, CIRQUE DU FREAK: THE VAMPIRE'S ASSISTANT, THE PHILANTHROPIST, SUPERNATURAL, LEAVE, DOROTHY OF OZ, WEST BANK STORY, ALPHA DOG, and many others. Ayana has recorded as both a soloist and ensemble singer on film & TV soundtracks by Danny Elfman, Aaron Zigman, James Horner, Stephen Trask, Harald Kloser, Christopher Lennertz, Sharon Farber, Penka Kouneva, Austin Wintory, Harry Gregson-Williams, Frederik Wiedmann, Yuval Ron, and others, as well as the video games THE PUNISHER, FIGHT NIGHT and JAMES BOND: QUANTUM OF SOLACE by Christopher Lennertz and Timothy Michael Wynn, pop solos for various songwriters, and numerous albums including ADAM LAMBERT: FOR YOUR ENTERTAINMENT and the Los Angeles Master Chorale's latest recording with Nico Muhly, A GOOD UNDERSTANDING. Ayana has been a member of choruses specializing in vocal jazz, South African folk music, college a cappella, Baroque and Renaissance music, and Bulgarian women's folk singing. In 2007 she won a Grammy as part of the chamber chorus Cappella, which recorded a baroque choral album, PADILLA: SUN OF JUSTICE, which won for Best Small Ensemble Performance. Ayana is an excellent sightreader and is equally proficient and rapid in learning music by ear. She can blend like butter or provide a unique and beautiful lead spot. She can match tone and style, take musical direction well, speak both "composer" and "producer", and change styles at a moment's notice. She is also a charismatic live performer, and brings that energy with her into the studio.

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Ben Robinson

Ben Robinson (born 14 June 1969; age 49) is the English writer and editor of several Star Trek-related reference works and projects. Robinson is the grandson of Bernard Robinson, most notably known as the production designer of most Hammer films made from 1957 until 1968. [1] [2] A 1991 University of York graduate holding a Master's degree in English and Related Literature, Robinson was a Star Trek: The Original Series fan from an early age. He remarked, "I can't even remember the first episode of Star Trek I saw. I've literally been watching since before I can remember. I must’ve been watching re-runs in the 70s when I was a toddler." [3] In 1996, Robinson's first two years of working for GE Fabbri saw him serve as one of the initiators, editors and writers of the exhaustively comprehensive Star Trek Fact Files partwork magazine. He worked alongside Judith and Garfield Reeves-Stevens, Marcus Riley, Penny L. Juday, Larry Nemecek, Guy Vardaman, and Tim Gaskill on this project. Following the tremendous success of the Fact Files which sold over 50 million copies, Robinson was reassigned to edit its derivative US counterpart called Star Trek: The Magazine in 1998. One of Robinson's most notable contributions to this publication was his extensive interview with TOS' Art Director, Matt Jefferies. It was published over five issues during the 2000-2002 run of the magazine and was the most comprehensive account that the legendary designer had ever given about his work on the USS Enterprise and Star Trek. Later, Robinson followed this up with an interview featuring Andrew Probert, Jefferies' successor for the next television incarnation of the franchise, likewise spread over several issues. [4] Over this period, he conducted interviews with many of the actors, designers, directors, writers, and effects artists involved with the franchise. Robinson has stated that Nicholas Meyer, Leonard Nimoy and Robert Wise were among his favorite interviewees. Robinson was the first Star Trek publication editor to fully realize that the computer generated imagery produced for live-action Star Trek projects, especially imagery of studio models, was singularly well-suited for illustrative purposes in licensed print publications. Foundation Imaging's Robert Bonchune became an enthusiastic and willing confederate as Robinson pursued this approach. In 1998, production-used CG imagery premiered in issue 69 of The Fact Files and was seen in all subsequent issues and in its US magazine derivative. [5] In turn, Bonchune, together with his supervisor Adam "Mojo" Lebowitz, garnered the inspiration to produce the Star Trek: Ships of the Line calendar series using similar illustrations.

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Bertila Damas

Bertila Damas is a Cuban-born, American-raised actress. Damas began her career in Miami, where she worked in Spanish-language theater while in college. She was later accepted at the Circle in the Square Theater School in New York City. There, she met Terry Hayden, who got her interested in The Actors Studio, where she resided until Lee Strasberg's death. Afterward, she studied with Stella Adler. Bertila has worked on Broadway, Off-Broadway, and the regional theater scene, including her Broadway debut playing Juliet in Romeo and Juliet for Joseph Papp on Broadway, directed by Estelle Parsons; Yerma in Yerma at the Arena Stage; Clemencia in Electricidad at the Mark Taper Forum; and Marta in Eduardo Machado's Fabiola at Theatre for the New City in NYC. She is a Garland Awards recipient. Her films include Nothing but Trouble, Mi Vida Loca, and Fires Within. Her TV credits include The John Larroquette Show, King of the Hill, NYPD Blue, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager, and Grimm. On international Spanish television, Bertila is known for her role as the villainous Marta on Angelica, mi vida for Telemundo. She has been seen and heard in dozens of commercials and voice-overs in both Spanish and English. She has served on the SAG board of directors (2010–2012) and on the SAG-AFTRA board (2012–2015). She is the current SAG AFTRA national chair of the Ethnic Employment Opportunities Committee (2010–present).

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Brannon Braga

Brannon Braga is an American television producer, director and screenwriter. 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 he won a Peabody Award, Critics Choice Award, and Producers Guild Award. In addition, he has been nominated for three Emmy Awards. He also served as writer, executive producer, and co-creator of the drama series Salem, WGN America's first original series. Best known for his work in the Star Trek franchise, he was a key creative force behind three of the franchise's five modern 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 started out as an intern on Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1990, eventually becoming an executive producer. He was part of the creative team nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award in 1994 for Outstanding Drama Series, and won the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation in 1995 for his work on the series finale, "All Good Things..." along with longtime collaborator Ronald D. Moore. He then joined Star Trek: Voyager as a producer and was tapped to serve as executive producer the following year. He served as showrunner for Voyager until the end of the sixth season when he moved to Star Trek: Enterprise. He teamed up with Moore to write two Star Trek feature films – Star Trek Generations and Star Trek: First Contact. They would also later develop the Mission: Impossible 2 screenplay. He went on to co-create Star Trek: Enterprise and led that series as executive producer until its fourth and final season. Before the cancellation of Star Trek: Enterprise he co-created the CBS science fiction drama series Threshold, he was brought on as an executive producer and writer on the Fox series, 24, penning episodes in the seventh and eight seasons. He was also an executive producer and writer on the 2009 ABC science fiction series FlashForward. While at the helm of Terra Nova, he was approached to co-write a four-part comic book series Star Trek: The Next Generation: Hive for IDW, which made its debut in 2012. He was the producer and one of the directors of the 2014 science education series Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, a sequel to the 1980 series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage that was hosted by Carl Sagan. The project saw him collaborating with the original series' writer and Sagan's widow, Ann Druyan, executive producer Seth MacFarlane and host Neil DeGrasse Tyson. He was nominated for an Emmy for his work on the show. The following month saw the premiere of the historical fantasy drama television series Salem, which he co-created with Adam Simon, and on which he serves as one of the executive producers. Braga is one of the producers of The Orville, a 2017 science fiction comedy-drama inspired by Star Trek.

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Brent Spiner

Brent Spiner, whose primary claim to fame is his portrayal of the beloved android Data on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), was born and raised in Houston, Texas. Spiner first began pursuing his interest in acting while in high school. There his inspirational drama teacher, Cecil Pickett, gave a great start to the careers of a remarkable group of aspiring young actors (and directors), including Spiner, Cindy Pickett (Cecil's daughter), Randy Quaid, Dennis Quaid, Trey Wilson, Robert Wuhl and Thomas Schlamme, all of whom later attained success in Hollywood. After graduation, Spiner followed his mentor to the University of Houston and other local colleges, while also launching his professional acting career in theater (The Houston Music Theater and other regional theater) and in film (My Sweet Charlie (1970), which was shot on location in Texas). After a couple of false starts in New York and Hollywood, Spiner eventually established himself as a stage actor in New York, appearing in a number of off-Broadway and Broadway plays, such as "A History of the American Film" (1978), "Leave It to Beaver is Dead" (1979), "Sunday in the Park with George" (1984), and "Big River: The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn" (1985). While in New York, he had a bit part in Woody Allen's Stardust Memories (1980) and starred in an independent film called Rent Control (1984). The play "Little Shop of Horrors "brought Spiner to Los Angeles in 1984, where he eventually took up permanent residence. In 1986, after a number of character parts in television series and movies, such as Robert Kennedy and His Times (1985), Crime of Innocence (1985), Manhunt for Claude Dallas (1986), and Family Sins (1987), Spiner snagged the role that would bring him international fame: Data, the endearing android, whom Spiner played "by tapping into his inner child." Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987), the sequel to the original television series Star Trek (1966), became hugely popular, moving to the big screen for four films (so far) after its 7-year run on television. Aside from these films, Spiner has made cameo appearances in a number of films directed by his friend and old schoolmate Thomas Schlamme, such as Miss Firecracker (1989), Crazy from the Heart (1991), and Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long (1995), and has appeared in small roles in more recent films, such as Dude, Where's My Car? (2000) and The Master of Disguise (2002). Arguably his most popular film portrayal was Dr. Brakish Okun in Independence Day (1996), a role that elicited his unique eccentricity and sense of humor. He reprised the character in the sequel, Independence Day: Resurgence (2016).

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