'Trek' cast to reunite on 'Family Guy'

The cast of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" is reuniting for an episode of "Family Guy," a mash-up made in geek heaven that Fox will air next month.

In the episode titled “Not All Dogs Go to Heaven,” the "Next Gen" crew (Patrick Stewart, Levar Burton, Gates McFadden, Michael Dorn, Wil Wheaton, Denise Crosby, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner and Jonathan Frakes) will provide guest voices as the Griffin family heads to the annual Quahog “Trek” convention.

"Stewie blows a fuse when he doesn’t get a chance to ask his favorite 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' cast members any questions," reads the logline. "He devises a plan, builds a transporter and beams the entire cast to his bedroom so they can spend a fun-filled day together in Quahog."

A member of the "Trek" cast let some of this news slip into the blogsphere awhile back, but Fox has now confirmed, announced the cast and set a March 29 airdate. The planned "Empire Strikes Back" parody episode is also on schedule to premiere next season, and the cast is about to do a table read of a "Return of the Jedi" spoof.

In other Fox-fanboy news, the network is hinting that a two-part episode of "Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles" will be a "game-changing" episode, which is often (but not always) shorthand for "somebody dies."

The description:

“Today is the Day, Part 1 of 2”:  In the first part of a game-changing two-part installment, Jesse (guest star Stephanie Jacobsen) flashes back to a life-altering mission aboard her submarine, the Jimmy Carter. Meanwhile, Sarah (Lena Headey) and John (Thomas Dekker) decide they can’t continue living in their house and make plans to leave.

Okay, so a flashback while making plans to leave a house doesn't exactly sound like riveting drama. But here's part two:

“Last Voyage of the Jimmy Carter, Part 2 of 2”
The exciting two-parter continues as Jesse’s submarine mission in the future takes a fatal turn that has unforeseen consequences for John, Sarah and Derek (Brian Austin Green) in the present. Also, Sarah deals with Cameron, who has become a liability, and John steps up and makes a life-or-death choice.

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Comments

[Kiala]

And the nerderatti collectively nergasm.

[Tammi]

I think you're talking about this podcast with Jonathan Frakes. Nice to get more info!

[Ian]

Anybody got a towel?

[Carol Elaine]

I think I need a cigarette. Got a light?

[barryS]

This seems oddly reminiscent of a Futurama episode that included the still-living cast of the original Star Trek series.

I predict the cast of Star Trek: Voyager will soon appear in an episode of Spongebob Squarepants.

[JT]

God I hope not.

[Jason Wilder]

Oh wow, I can hardly wait!

RT
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[barrydillerisanalien]

Ahh...Gates McFadden and Marina Sirtis. How many nights did I imagine myself in a middle of a perverse, hot, sweaty threesome with those two growing up.

[TommyBoy]

Star Trek: Voyager? What is that?????

[schmoe]

Thanks for that disgusting image.

[Ronatola]

Don't Panic!
...I need to wash my towel.

[I am correct]

Wil Wheaton sure spends a lot of time with Star Trek for a guy that supposedly tries to distance himself from it.

[david smith]

It's called paying the bills.

[WHOLETRUTHY]

to boldly go to the most left wing gay quadrant of the galaxy

[Data]

I am fully functional...programmed in multiple techniques.

[binar hunter]

he made the same mistake that Sarah Michelle G made with Buffy the vampire slayer. that show ended prematurely because of her desire to separate herself from that and look where that got her. a couple of crappy horror movies and that's about it.

[Chris]

Seriously, Buffy ran for SEVEN years. That's not a premature end.

Go watch Dollhouse for the fourteenth time.

[STARTREKROX]

GOD what does BUFFY have to do with STAR TREK!?!?!?!?!!?

[triplenerd]

Stop being such a vulcan

[triplenerd]

What does BUFFY have to do with STAR TREK!?!?!?!?!?

[star trek rox]

buffy is gay as

[deltaQUADRANT]

I think buffy's part Klingon

[WEIRD]

The voyage home iz a cool movie. I don't understand why they needed nuclear energy to power the warp core though.

[lollie]

duh thats coz there was no warp core they had these crystal things instead. the warp core wasnt invented until the next generation era.

[choccie!!!!!]

it sucks that data got blown up! he woz so funny!!!!

[gangsta]

There's still the other data though, u no the 1 that data put together. and data saved johnluke by doing that.

[hotchocolate]

will weaton is soooooooo cute!!!!!!

[: )]

exept now he's like, 30

[hotchocolate]

true, but that dosent mean he wosnt cute though. omg guess wot i got u 4 easter

[: )]

if u got me that giant what a pig easter egg.....

omg no u di'ent

[hotchocolate]

im not telling wot i got u

[: )]

thats wot u say weneva ur busted.

u r the best friend eva girl!!!!

[hotchocolate]

k g2g my boifriends here!!!!!
omg i am freakin!!!!

[: )]

OMG!!!! u have 2 tell me all about it 2night....
tho u may b busy.......

[hotchocolate]

mmmmmmmmmmmmm.......
i think i will!
he is sooo hot oh no here he is!

HEY ITS MATT gotta go now me and ur best friend here have to go now______________she'll b busy 2night______________bye.

haha! so i will b busy 2nite c u 2moro byeeee!!!!!

[trekfan]

BUFFY IS NOT GAY.
and she was on for 8 years, not seven.
though she may be part klingon.

[star trek rox]

her we go again.

[star trek rox]

i meant here we go again.
why the f*** is BUFFY so popular among star trek fans?

[triplenerd]

because we are not all vulcans, like you.

[star trek rox]

no, you're just a ferengi.