Venables: Your directing credits include Star Trek: Insurrection, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager in addition to several successful primetime series running now and even a video game.

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Then he stumbled upon Deep Space Nine on video and memories flooded back of how much he loved science fiction as a kid, in particular the original Star Trek series (which was shown in his native France only in the 1980s, when Halter was in his twenties).

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This one-minute trailer is light on the fantasy, but we get a hint of it in the form of Alexander Siddig (known to many of us for his role as Dr. Bashir in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), whose character offers to teach Leonardo about what seems like the mystery of life and death.

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