Happy birthday, Martin Sheen: Celebrate with these 5 (free) movies
By Allison Shoemaker article
NOVEMBER 12: In this screengrab, Martin Sheen speaks during the GCAPP EmPOWER Party & 25th Anniversary Virtual Event on November 12, 2020. (Photo by Getty Images/Getty Images for GCAPP)
CHICAGO - It’s time to wish a happy birthday to the driving force behind one of America’s most notable fictional presidents. Martin Sheen, perhaps best known for playing President Josiah Bartlet on Aaron Sorkin’s long-running drama The West Wing, turns 81 on Aug. 3. Why not celebrate with a free flick?
Martin Sheen’s backstory
Born Ramón Antonio Gerardo Estévez in Dayton, Ohio, Sheen has enjoyed a long and celebrated career on stage he made his Broadway debut in the short-lived play Never Live Over a Pretzel Factory in 1964 as well as on both the large and small screens.
Stardate: 53167.9
Captain’s log. On the Vaadwaur homeworld, orbital bombardment is destroying their capital city. In an underground cavern, Gedrin and his wife Jisa have put hundreds of their fellow Vaadwaur into stasis pods, though some pods have failed. Their plan is to wake up in five years and rebuild their civilization.
Nine hundred years later,
Voyager finds itself accidentally sucked into a subspace corridor, where they’re dodging debris. Paris tries to find a way out when they’re hailed by another ship in the corridor. A member of the Turei claims ownership of the “under-space” they’re in, and views
The Kid Detective) as Dara, a woman who returns home to reconnect with her husband and her young daughter, both of whom she left abruptly left two years earlier following a breakdown, first just disappearing and then checking herself into a hospital. When she arrives home, she discovers that a woman who is seven months pregnant has taken her place and that her daughter no longer recognizes her. But the biggest obstacle she faces is her estranged husband, Dan, played by
Jared Abrahamson, who is not at all certain that he wants Dara back in his life, or their daughter’s life.
Stardate: unknown
Captain’s log. For the fourth night in a row, Kim is in charge of gamma shift. He and the conn officer, Ensign Jenkins, banter for a bit on the subject of how seriously one should take the overnight shift, when they receive a distress call. Kim orders a course change toward the call to discover that the planet it comes from has no lifesigns.
Kim wakes Chakotay, who assures him that he did the right thing, and then offers to let Kim lead the away team. An eager Kim beams down with a security guard, Lang, and the EMH. They discover no life, but they do find a device that communicates in a language that the EMH’s translator matrix can translate, but the universal translators in everyone else’s combadges can’t for reasons the script never bothers to explain.
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