Connecting threads; Star Trek

Malachi Throne

The man behind the mask of Space Precinct’s Officer Orrin once played a Klingon in a Pizza Hut advert that was itself delivered entirely in Klingon. Sadly the advert was very quickly pulled - who knew you're not allowed to advertise in a fictional language? - but we’d be cruel not to share that with you right now. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgxWqLoafBo

Behind the scenes;

Fred Freiberger was the producer of the third and final season of the original Star Trek and later produced the second and final season of Space:1999, for which he also wrote three episodes under the pseudonym of Charles Woodgrove. Art Wallace wrote two episodes of the original Star Trek (Obsession and Assignment:Earth) before being asked to write a script for Space:1999. The result, Siren Planet, was reworked into Matter of Life and Death. Marc Scott Zicree, writer of the Space Precinct episodes Enforcer, Body and Soul and Illegal, also contributed story ideas for two Star Trek episodes; TNG’s First Contact, and DS9’s Far Beyond the Stars. Nick Sagan, writer of the Space Precinct episode Predator and Prey, also wrote two episodes of The Next Generation (Attached and Bloodlines) and was the story editor on the fifth season of Star Trek Voyager, where he also wrote the episodes In the Flesh, Gravity, Course:Oblivion, Juggernaut and Relativity. Hans Beimler and Richard Manning, co-writers of the Space Precinct episode Time to Kill, also shared joint writing credits on ten episodes from The Next Generation’s first three seasons. Beimler was made co-producer of TNG during its third season and later returned to Star Trek for twenty-six episodes of Deep Space Nine from season four onwards. Manning’s final Star Trek contribution was to co-write the DS9 season two episode Paradise, again with Beimler. David Bennett Carren and J. Larry Carroll co-wrote the Space Precinct episodes Double Duty, The Snake, Deadline, Seek and Destroy, and Takeover. The pair had previously written The Next Generation episode Future Imperfect, and afterwards story-edited the final eighteen episodes of the show’s fourth season. David Bischoff, writer of the three Space Precinct novels, also wrote The Next Generation episodes Tin Man and First Contact. Paul Robert Coyle, writer of the Space Precinct episode Two Against the Rock, also wrote the Deep Space Nine episode Whispers and contributed the idea for the Voyager episode State of Flux. Ron Thornton worked on CGI visual effects for seventeen episodes of Star Trek Voyager and seven of Enterprise (plus the final Next Generation movie Nemesis) before becoming the line producer of New Captain Scarlet. Finally Jonathan Frakes, director of the 2004 live-action Thunderbirds movie, is easily best known for his role as Commander Riker on Star Trek The Next Generation and directing multiple episodes of the franchise.