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Captain Edward Jellico (Ronny Cox) first appeared in the brutal Star Trek: The Next Generation two-parter, Chain of Command, and he later returned as an admiral in Star Trek: Prodigy. Throughout TNGs run, visiting Starfleet captains and admirals were often used to create conflict and Captain Jellico filled this role in "Chain of Command." In the first half of the Tng two-parter, Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart), Lt. Worf (Michael Dorn), and Dr. Beverly Crusher (Gates McFadden) go on a covert mission on a planet along the Cardassian border.

In Captain Picards absence, Starfleet sends Captain Jellico to take command of the Enterprise. Jellico had previously helped establish an armistice between the United Federation of the Planets and the Cardassian Union. As Jellico holds current negotiations with the Cardassians, Captain Picard is captured and taken to Gul Madred (David Warner). Madred proceeds to use various methods of torture as he...

Allen Plone is the director of the 1988 slasher Night Screams featuring Ron Thomas of The Karate Kid fame and Janette Coldwell. Night Screams was notorious for having footage of vintage porn featuring Seka and John Holmes spliced into the proceedings. There was also footage of the Herb Freed slasher Graduation Day that featured Linnea Quigley and Christopher George spliced into Night Screams. Still, flaws and all, Night Screams was a corny good time that featured a body count of over 20 on screen death sequences making that one of the highest of any slasher to come out around that period. Night Screams deals with teenagers holding a party after the big football party to celebrate, but unbeknowest to them some escaped psycho killers are lurking in the basement possibly dispatching all the party goers. Director Allen Plone reminisced with me on what it was like making this movie. Here is what he had to say.