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René Auberjonois in 2013

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The actor René Auberjonois passed away yesterday, December 8, 2019, due to lung cancer. René Murat Auberjonois was born on June 1, 1940 in New York, USA, to a family with a complex family tree whose ancestors included the royals of Naples Gioacchino Murat and Carolina Bonaparte, Napoleon’s younger sister.

René Auberjonois’ cinema career began with a couple of roles as an extra artist and then got his first major role in the 1970 movie “M*A*S*H” and work again with director Robert Altman in the movies “Brewster McCloud” (1970) and “McCabe & Mrs. Miller” (1971). On television he was a guest star on several TV shows during the 1970s but his first major role came when he joined the cast of the TV show “Benson” in its second season to stay there until its seventh and last season.

René Auberjonois joined the universe of Star Trek with a little role in the 1991 movie “Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country” but is really known for the role of shapeshifter Odo in the TV show “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine”.

In the last decade René Auberjonois played a regular character in the TV show “Boston Legal” and kept on being very active in productions of different types, also working as a narrator of documentaries. These activities continued into this decade as well, showing how eclectic he was.

D.C. Fontana in 2016

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Dorothy Catherine Fontana, passed away on Monday December 2. She was a writer, screenwriter and producer whose name is linked in various ways to the Star Trek saga since the original series. Known as D.C. Fontana, she was one of the most important people in the development of the Star Trek saga, a task that began at a time when it was difficult for women to write scripts for shows that weren’t soap operas or variety shows. The recollection by people who collaborated with her stresses the importance of her work.

Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) in Such Sweet Sorrow Part 2 (Image courtesy CBS / Netflix. All rights reserved)

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“Such Sweet Sorrow Part 2” is the 14th and last episode of the 2nd season of the TV show “Star Trek: Discovery” and follows “Such Sweet Sorrow”.

The USS Discovery and the USS Enterprise can only count on their crews and the firepower of shuttles modified at the last moment for the battle against the fleet leed by Control. The hope is to gain enough time for the new Red Angel to be ready to accomplish her mission.

Ensign Sylvia Tilly (Mary Wiseman), Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) in Such Sweet Sorrow (Image courtesy CBS / Netflix. All rights reserved)

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“Such Sweet Sorrow” is the 13th episode of the 2nd season of the TV show “Star Trek: Discovery” and follows “Through the Valley of Shadows”.

The crew of the USS Discovery is abandoning the starship, which must be destroyed to prevent Control from seizing information that would allow it to become fully sentient but the database has a form of self-protection and prevents destruction.

Spock (Ethan Peck) and Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) in Through the Valley of Shadows (Image courtesy CBS / Netflix. All rights reserved)

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“Through the Valley of Shadows” is the 12th episode of the 2nd season of the TV show “Star Trek: Discovery” and follows “Perpetual Infinity”.

A new cosmic signal is detected and even if its origin is unknown it’s a trace that can’t be ignored. It brings to Boreth, the Klingon planet that hosts a monastery that among other things keeps time crystals. While Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount) goes to the monastery, Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Spock (Ethan Peck) investigate an anomaly linked to the activity of a Section 31 starship.