I've been positively up to my neck in Star Trek viewing of late alternating heavily between Star Trek: The Next Generation and Stargate Universe.
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I missed this story originally, but sadly, director Cliff Bole (1937-2014) passed away several days before the great Harold Ramis (1944-2014).
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Bole is notable as a major directing force behind many of our genre favorites. He directed for The Six Million Dollar Man (12 episodes; 1974-1978), V (3 episodes), Star Trek: The Next Generation (25 episodes; 1987-1994), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (7 episodes; 1993-1999), Star Trek: Voyager (10 episodes; 1995-2001) and The X-Files (4 episodes; 1993-2002) not to mention my other childhood favorites like Charlie's Angels (6 episodes; 1976-1981) and Fantasy Island (20 episodes; 1977-1984) and a whole lot more.
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He directed ST:TNG, Season One, Episode 25, Conspiracy which featured a race called the Bolians named after Bole. We'll be looking at that very episode sometime here in 2014.
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Bole also had the reins on perhaps one of the best remembered and beloved of the ST:TNG franchise, often cited as the very best of the series, in Best Of Both Worlds (both parts). Bole even handled the second part of ST:TNG episode Unification starring a returning Leonard Nimoy.
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Bole's input behind the camera and his influence on shaping the look of Star Trek: The Next Generation was certainly significant. His contributions to these wonderful series were indeed mighty.
Here at Musings Of A Sci-Fi Fanatic we say thanks for all of his influence and we are sorry to see him go.