Manny Coto, writer/producer for Star Trek: Enterprise and showrunner during its fourth season, was among the recipients of the final award of the evening last night at the 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards. After Enterprise was cancelled, Coto joined 24 in its fifth season as writer and co-executive producer, and his contributions helped propel the show to its first Emmy win in the top category it qualifies for, Outstanding Drama Series.

Coto was among the several producers of the show who took the stage at the Shrine Auditorium to accept the award, along with several cast members including Gregory Itzin ("Admiral Black" and various other Trek characters), who played President Logan. (Peter Weller, "Paxton" in Enterprise, was also part of the 24 cast last season, but he was not present at the ceremony.) Congratulations to them all.

Alas, no other Star Trek alumni took home Emmys last night, and most disappointingly, there was no Shat-Trick. William Shatner could not turn his two consecutive wins as "Denny Crane" into a three-peat, as he and competitor Itzin lost the Dramatic Supporting Actor award to Alan Alda, for playing a character of opposite political orientation to himself in The West Wing. Alfre Woodard ("Lily Sloane"), nominated in two categories, and Joanna Cassidy ("T'Les") also failed to pick up statues. And Patrick Stewart, nominated as a Guest Actor for playing himself in Extras, lost at the Creative Arts Emmy ceremony the previous weekend.

During the Emmy broadcast an "In Memoriam" montage of recently deceased Television Academy members recognized Michael Piller, writer/executive producer of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Star Trek: Voyager who died last November. The tribute also acknowledged Robert Wise, director of "Star Trek: The Motion Picture" who passed away last September.

In other awards news over the weekend, Peter S. Beagle — writer of the Next Generation episode "Sarek" — won his first Hugo Award on Saturday during the World Science Fiction Convention (Worldcon) in Anaheim. Beagle won in the category Best Novelette for his story "Two Hearts," a follow-up to his most famous work, "The Last Unicorn."

In addition, previous Hugo Award winner Harlan Ellison — writer of "The City on the Edge of Forever" (and author of a book detailing his side of the controversy surrounding that script) — was surprised with a special recognition during the Hugo ceremony right after his presentation of the Best Short Story award.

Master of ceremonies Connie Willis presented a plaque to him reading, "This award is to Harlan Ellison in celebration of 50 years as a professional author with thanks from the committee and members, 2006."

In his impromptu acceptance speech, Ellison mentioned that this would probably be his last convention, after decades of being a fixture at Worldcon. He also revealed that he will make a cameo appearance in his episode of Masters of Science Fiction which completed filming earlier this month in Vancouver under the direction of Jonathan Frakes (related story). Ellison's installment of the anthology series is called "The Discarded," based on his 1959 story and adapted for TV by himself and Academy Award nominee Josh Olsen. The series is expected to premiere in January 2007 on ABC.

Our full report on Worldcon is coming in a few days (we have lots of convention coverage to catch up on!).