Mark your calendars: Saturday, September 14, SCI-FI Channel, 9:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific. Chase Masterson (Leeta from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine) stars in "Terminal Invasion," the first of a series of original action/sci-fi films that will air on the cable network Saturday nights.

Masterson plays a spunky female pilot who joins forces with a convicted murderer (played by popular genre actor Bruce Campbell of "The Evil Dead" fame) to battle aliens, who have infiltrated an isolated airport on a mission to enslave the human race. "Time grows short as the aliens begin to take over the stranded passengers one by one. Can the mismatched pair stop the extraterrestrial takeover, or will they fall prey to the visitors?" teases the film's press release.

In more show business news, "The bitch is back — and she's coming to daytime," announced Daily Variety today. Joan Collins, a prominent Star Trek guest star who is most famous for her prima donna turn in Dynasty, is joining the cast of the CBS soap opera Guiding Light. She will play Alexandra Spaulding, a character quite similar to Alexis Carrington, and is expected to make her daytime debut as early as September. Collins, who played the tragic Edith Keeler in "The City on the Edge of Forever," has recently joined the Star Trek convention circuit as a popular celebrity guest (see related story).

Whoopi Goldberg (Guinan in Star Trek: The Next Generation) is teaming with Danny Glover to produce and star in a TV movie called "Good Fences" for Showtime, Daily Variety reports. Based on Erika Ellis' novel of the same name, the telefilm is about an upwardly mobile black family in the 1970's. Goldberg plays the wife of an attorney (Glover) who wins a high-profile case that thrusts him into the limelight, and decides to move his family out of their mixed lower-middle-class town and into the posh enclave of Greenwich, Connecticut, where their American dream becomes a nightmare. Spike Lee is the executive producer. Filming is slated to begin in August.

There's yet more casting news regarding the Rock aka Dwayne Johnson ("The Champion" in Star Trek: Voyager's "Tsunkatse"), according to The Hollywood Reporter. The pro wrestler will star with Christopher Walken in an untitled action-adventure film for Universal Pictures. The Rock plays a modern bounty hunter who travels to a town named "Helldorado" (which is the film's working title) in the Amazon jungle to settle a debt. But when he realizes his target (played by Seann William Scott of "American Pie" fame) isn't the bad guy he thought he was, the two join forces to search for hidden riches in the area. Walken will play Helldorado's evil kingpin Bloomocks. The project starts shooting in September. This is another notch in the scorpion king's movie-star belt, as he is also slated to play King Kamehameha and topline a buddy action movie for Columbia (see related story).

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