Enterprise Notches Two Hugo Noms

[shrek man]

04.18.03 Enterprise Notches Two Hugo Noms

Keeping in line with its venerable predecessors, the fifth Star Trek incarnation has earned two spots among the 2002 nominees for the 50th annual Hugo Awards.

The second-season Enterprise episodes "Carbon Creek" and "A Night in Sickbay" are competing against each other in the category "Best Dramatic Presentation, Short Form."

The other contenders in that group are all Joss Whedon skeins � Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel and Firefly.

Also known as the Science Fiction Achievement Award, the Hugo is given annually by the World Science Fiction Society, and will be presented this year in Toronto, Ontario, on Saturday, August 30, during Torcon 3, the 61st World Science Fiction Convention. The award is nicknamed after Hugo Gernsback, who is considered "the father of magazine science fiction." This year marks the 50th anniversary of the first Hugo Awards presentation in 1953.

Star Trek has a long history with the Hugos, dating back to when "The Menagerie" and "The City on the Edge of Forever" won back-to-back awards for Best Dramatic Presentation in 1967 and 1968. In '68 a special award was also bestowed upon series creator Gene Roddenberry.

Among numerous nominations by Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, other winners have been "The Inner Light" in 1993 and "All Good Things..." in 1995.

Last year the movie "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring" won for Best Dramatic Presentation. This year, however, that category has been split in two, "Short Form" and "Long Form," so that movies and TV shows won't be competing against each other.


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[Lindley]

Saw this at TrekToday.

Man.....I'm sorry, but they don't deserve them. Carbon Creek, *maybe*. But "A Night in Sickbay" was the worst episode ENT has put out yet.

There's a notable lack of Stargate episodes in that list, not to mention Dead Zone or Farscape. Good to see the Firefly pilot on there, though---that is definately deserving. (If Fox had shown that first rather than last, I suspect the series would still be on.)

Notice that this year introduced a new catagory that differentiates movies from TV shows. According to Kieth RA Decandido (noted Trek novelist), the only TV episodes ever to *win* a Hugo prior to that split were:

TOS: "The Menagerie", "City on the Edge of Forever"
TNG: "The Inner Light", "All Good Things"
Babylon 5: "The Coming of Shadows", "Severed Dreams"

Prior nominees include:

Buffy the Vampire Slayer: "Once More, with Feeling" (2002)
Babylon 5: "The Gathering" (1994), "Sleeping in Light" (1999)
The Questor Tapes (1975)
The Name of the Game: "LA 2017" (1972)
The Prisoner: "Fall Out" (1969)
TNG: "Encounter at Farpoint"
DS9: "The Visitor", "Trials and Tribble-ations"