David Livingston Movies

This made-for-TV remake of the classic movie chiller Carrie is slightly more faithful to the original Stephen King novel--and slightly less profane and violent. Following in the bloody footsteps of Sissy Spacek, Angela Bettis stars as woebegone high school girl Carrie White, whose shy and awkward demeanor obscures the fact that she is "gifted" with awesome telekinetic powers. As part of a cruel and vicious student prank, Carrie's better-looking and more socially savvy classmates arrange for the hapless heroine to be elected prom queen--and one does not have to have seen the original film to know the terror that is unleashed once Carrie is crowned (in more ways than one). The climax is infinitely more "high tech" than in the 1976 film, but whether it is equally as frightening is a matter of taste; additionally, the 2002 version boasts a radically different ending, one that could very well accommodate a sequel or two...or three... Patricia Clarkson reprises the old Piper Laurie role as Carrie's abusive religious-fanatic mother. Carrie first aired November 4, 2002, on NBC. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

The fifth weekly TV series in the indefatigable Star Trek franchise, Enterprise took the viewer "back to where it all began" (or so read the promotional copy). Set 100 years in the future -- yet still 150 years before the "original" Star Trek series -- the new show charted the origins of the starship Enterprise, beginning with the first close encounter between humans and Klingons. Brought to Starfleet Medical after crash-landing in a rural area, the injured Klingon Klaang is treated with hostility by the attending Vulcan physicians, something that the earthling staffer cannot understand. Pioneering Starfleet pilot Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula), skipper of the recently constructed Enterprise starship, volunteers to take Klaang back to his home planet of Kronos. The continuity proper begins when Klaang is kidnapped en route by the genetically enhanced Sulibans, prompting Archer and his crew to embark upon the first of many bold forays into "where no man has gone before." Much of the series' entertainment value was engendered by displays of "primitive" pre-Federation equipment and paraphernalia, with new technology being introduced with each passing week -- new, that is, to those three or four people who have never seen any of the various Star Trek incarnations. Featured in the cast were Jolene Blalock as Archer's somewhat condescending Vulcanian first officer, T'Pol; John Billingsley as brilliant Vulcan medical doctor Phlox; Linda Park as hyper-kinetic linguistics expert Ensign Hoshi Sato; Connor Trinnear as wisecracking good-ol'-boy engineer Trip Tucker ; Dominic Keating as weapons expert Malcolm Reed; and Anthony Montgomery as navigator Travis Mayweather. Making its much-anticipated UPN premiere as a two-hour special on September 26, 2001, Enterprise settled into its standard 60-minute weekly length thereafter. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

During a nebula blackout, Neelix (Ethan Phillips) is put in charge of the Borg children. To get the kids' minds off the current crisis, Neelix weaves a fantastic ghost story that supposedly occurred during an earlier Voyager mission. Fantasy threatens to become fact when a bona fide alien life form invades the ship. Written by Mike Sussman, Kenneth Biller, and Bryan Fuller from a story by Sussman, "The Haunting of Deck Twelve" originally aired on May 17, 2000. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

In the conclusion of the two-part adventure "Flesh and Blood," the renegade holograms, originally created as an instructional tool for the Hirogens by Capt. Janeway (Kate Mulgrew), have disabled the Voyager and escaped with Torres (Roxann Dawson) as hostage. If she wants to live, Torres will have to help the rebels upgrade their technology so that they can overthrow the Hirogens. Meanwhile, Janeway tries to deal with the fact that her longtime colleague, the Doctor (Robert Picardo), has cast his lot with the hologram insurgents, who worship him as a God! "Flesh and Blood, Part II" first aired on November 29, 2000, in a two-hour block along with Part I. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Having at last scored a victory against the Dominion, Sisko and his crew prepare to celebrate at the long-awaited wedding of Worf and Dax. But before the couple can enjoy connubial bliss, they must endure a few "inconveniences," including Worf's painful, ritualistic Klingon bachelor party, and the efforts by Worf's surrogate mother Sirella (Shannon Cochran) to kill the bride-to-be. Even so, Bashir is able to survey the situation and comment happily "There's nothing more romantic than a DS9 wedding in the springtime." Coming as it does in the middle of one of the series' grimmest story arcs, "You Are Cordially Invited. . ." was a welcome and refreshingly amusing change of pace. First telecast November 10, 1997, the episode was written by Ronald D. Moore. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi

Dr. Bashir is selected as the model for Starfleet's holographic doctor program. As part of the process, program head Dr. Zimmerman (Robert Picardo) must learn everything about Bashir, warts and all. In the course of his investigation, Zimmerman uncovers a dark family secret that threatens to ruin Bashir's future career. First telecast February 24, 1997, "Doctor Bashir, I Presume" was scripted by Ronald D. Moore, from a story by Jimmy Diggs. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi