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2005 Interviews


September 2005 What Satellite Issue 228

July 2005 What Satellite Issue 228

June/July 2005 Star Trek Magazine (UK Edition) Issue 121

May 2005 TV Zone Issue 63

May 2005 Starburst Issue 69

February 2005 Starburst Issue 320

January 2005 Starlog Issue 330

2004 Interviews
2004 - October Cult Times Reed and Write
Dominic Keating talks about the dangers inherent in fighting around the universe as Lt. Malcolm Reed, the Enterprise's top security officer.

2004 - September SFX The Dominic Effect
Stuffy uptight Brit, camp convention queen or Eastend hardnut - who's the real Dominic Keating? Ian Berriman questions the Enterprise star.

2004 - July Starburst Special Issue # 64 GOOD LIEUTENANT
In his most up-to-the-minute interview, Dominic Keating, Enterprise's Lieutenant Malcolm Reed, talks about the show and its recent rescue from the brink of cancellation. Interview by Ian Spelling.

2004 - May Union Jack UK Astronaut’s Career In Our Hands
LIEUTENANT Malcolm Reed is the British astronaut with the most extensive experience in space. But unless we wage a successful letter-writing campaign on his behalf, his career may be terminated.

2004 - February Star Trek Magazine Issue 113 TRUE BRIT
It's not often you see Brits playing action heroes on US TV, but Englishman Dominic Keating not only gets to wave the Union Jack in Star Trek: Enterprise ,but he also gets to kick alien backside as the show's heroic tactical officer, Malcolm Reed. And with the current season featuring even more action and adventure, the actor reveals to Ian Spelling whether he's enjoying putting the right royal boot into the Xindi...

2003 Interviews
2003 - December Dreamwatch Reed Alert!
As the revamped third year of the newly re-titled STAR TREK: ENTERPRISE gets underway, DOMINIC KEATING offers his verdict on the season's opening episodes and tells Dreamwatch what it's like to be Lieutenant Malcolm Reed in the middle of a struggle between the Xindi and the Enterprise crew. Words: Ian Spelling

2003 - October Star Trek Explorer Weapons Overload
With a new complement of weapons at his disposal (including photon torpedoes!), the Enterprise NX-01’s armory officer and all-round tough guy is looking forward to entering the Delphic Expanse in the third season of Enterprise. Filming has just got underway on the Paramo8utn backlot as we went to press, but Reed’s alter-ego, British actor Dominic Keating, is already aremed, Dangerous and in the mood to kick some Xindi butt! Over the next few pages, he gives Nick Joy the low-down on what’s to come in Season Three.

2003 - September Star Burst Enterprising Future
Dominic Keating talks to David Waldon about the past, present and future of Enterprise. If the Star Trek empire truly is on the precipice of collapse after more than 35 years, you couldn't tell it form Dominic Keating. On a warm July evening in Hollywood, the British actor is at ease with his present and future. His cheery disposition belies his Enterprise character, the taciturn armoury officer Lt Malcolm Reed. And it definitely doesn't fit into the firestorm that has raged around this series as it enters its third season. In fact, asked bluntly whether Enterprise needed repairs, Keating gives an equally blunt answer.

2003 September Union Jack An interview with Dominic Keating
It never rains in Southern California, but the state has its advantages as well, including all the snack food one might want. So says actor Dominic Keating, who has lived primarily in the Los Angeles area for the past decade. Keating, remembered as "Tony" from the popular Channel Four programme Desmond's, is now a star of the current Star Trek franchise, Enterprise, which airs on Sky as well as on UPN in the United States, where it has begun its third series. The actor spoke about Desmond's and his work in America after a charity event in Monrovia, California.

2003 - May Star Trek Monthly (UK) Reed Alert
Some people are born to greatness, and it seems that Malcolm Reed is one of them. He's already created two pieces of Star Trek history -'shields' and 'ship's phasers' (albeit in their infant stages) - now, in Enterprise Season Two, it's the turn on the Red Alert siren! Abbie Bernstein catches up with Reed's alter ego, Dominic Keating, to discover what it's like playing a potential legend..

2003 - May TV Guide A WHOLE NEW ENTERPRISE
The execs at Enterprise want our attention – and to get it, they will kill more than seven million Earthlings in the opening moments of the show’s second-season finale. The two-year-old UPN series, the fifth in the Star Trek oeuvre, has floundered in the ratings and been roundly criticized by both fans and media for being cautious, predictable and dramatically limp. But it’s about to get a shot of intergalactic Viagra.

2003 - March Cult Times No. 90
As armoury office, Malcolm Reed is all that stands between the Human race and war! Well, kind of. Dominic Keating explains why he's so pleased with the lieutenant's progress on board Enterprise so far. HEADING INTO Enterprise nearly two years ago, Dominic Keating sat down with executive producers Rick Berman and Brannon Braga and expressed to them his concerns about playing Lt Malcolm Reed.

2002 Interviews

2002 - December TV Zone Special Issue #48
Keating the British End Up It's hard [not] to notice that Lt. Reed is the only British character in a strongly American series. Steven Eramo met with actor Dominic Keating to talk about Enterprise's old new frontier.

2002 - December Southwest Airlines Spirit Magazine Set Phasers on Stunned
Brit. actor Dominic Keating tells what it's like zooming at warp speed from failed cocktail waiter to playing weapons lieutenant Malcolm Reed on Enterprise, the latest incarnation of Star Trek. Just two years ago, a frustrated Dominic Keating, who had emigrated from England in the early 1990s with the single-minded goal of making it big as an actor, was on the verge of "throwing in the towel" -- like untold thousands before him.

2002 - August Star Trek Monthly (UK) Issue #95
Starship Trooper Usually they're the fix-it men, engineers or doctors, but in the latest series the Brit representative finally gets to dish out some action! As weapons specialist and tactical expert Lieutenant Malcolm Reed, Dominic Keating is flying the flag for the British Isles in Star Trek and then some. Abbie Bernstein asks the actor if he's enjoyed his first season on the show.

2002 - July Hello Magazine Interview with Dominic and Jilly
"Currently Embarked on the New Star Trek Series "Enterprise," British Actor Dominic Keating Shows Us Around His and His Girlfriend's Hollywood Dream Home." When British actor Dominic Keating made the decision to look to Hollywood for his lucky break, he didn't reckon that it would take him eight years to make it. But since the Leicester-born actor signed up for duty aboard Enterprise -- the fifth spin-off series from TV's Star Trek -- the years of auditioning and struggling for parts have finally paid off. In spades.

2002 - July Communicator Magazine Issue #135
No matter where you go in space, there's always some guy with an itchy trigger finger along for the ride. Not that Lt. Malcolm Reed is aboard the Enterprise Kist to pick a fight with the next group of knobby-headed or blue-skinned beings to wander within range of the ship's spatial torpedoes. But the person who knows Reed best, Dominic Keating, sometimes has to wonder.

2002 - May Starlog Magazine Issue #298
Enterprise's Dominic Keating makes sure his gun-crazy character stands & delivers. "I thought I was going to be the first gay character in space," Dominic Keating mock-complains. "I read all about it. I was in the supermarket and I saw it in TV Guide, so I rang up Brannon Braga and said, 'What's this all about?' He said, 'It's going to be fantastic, Dominic. You'll be outed in November. You'll be on the cover of TV Guide.' But he was jesting with me. We've just shot a couple of episodes that make it self-evident that he's not, in the end, gay."

2002 - May Star Trek Monthly Issue #91
Taking your first few tentative steps into the wilds of space is a daunting prospect, particularly when there are all sorts of nasties out there. So, there's no better person to have at your side than a first class tactical officer who knows all about the business end of a phaser.

2002 - May Star Trek The Magazine Vol. 3 Issue 01
"Being the tactical officer, I get to be an action man." As ENTERPRISE approaches the end of its opening season, we catch up with Dominic Keating to get his view of Lieutenant Malcolm Reed, weapons officer and action hero. After several months of ENTERPRISE's grueling weekly shooting schedule, Dominic Keating is as energetic as he was on day one. "I'm still cheery!" he says. "It's going well. It's been a hell of a ride, but I've really found my place, and I'm having a great time. And they're starting to look at Malcolm quite closely, and that's really fun."

2002 - April Star Trek Monthly Issue #90
After appearing in shows such as Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Poltergeist: The Legacy, Special Unit 2, The Immortals, and GvsE, Leicester-born Dominic Keating now serves about the good ship Enterprise, manning the ship's armory as Lieutenant Malcolm Reed. But which Carry On character does he think he most looks like?

2002 - February 60 Second Interview
DOMINIC KEATING FIRST came to fame in this country as Tony on Channel 4's first black sitcom, Desmond's, before flying to LA to seek stardom in Hollywood. Eight years and several dodgy series later, he landed the role of the token Brit, Lieutenant Malcolm Reed, on the new Star Trek spin-off, Enterprise.

2002 - January Times Picayune A New Orleans newspaper
"Enterprise” actor has beamed around I am enjoying the new Star Trek series “Enterprise” on UPN. I especially am impressed with the British actor who plays Lt. Malcolm Reed (Dominic Keating) on the show. I was wondering if you could possibly print a photo of him and any background info, such as TV or movie credits.

2002 - January Dominic Keating Interview with Cyndee Rowe
In her own words, Cyndee Rowe is "a freelance writer, who loves sci-fi, fantasy and a lot of really cool indie films. Okay, okay. I admit it I am a rental movie junkie! There, I said it. I have a very understanding husband, three high-spirited children, a greyhound, a siamese cat and two birds and we all live peacefully, in spite of the two year old yelling, 'mine! mine!' in our house in Texas."

2002 - January syfyportal.com Keating to try directing?
"It's been a long road" might be the opening line to the "Enterprise" theme, but it also could be applied to actor Dominic Keating. From his television bow as Tony in the British comedy series "Desmond's" in the late 1980s, to an unsuccessful attempt at a guest role for "Star Trek: Voyager," and finally as Lt. Malcolm Reed on the latest Star Trek series airing on UPN, Keating has traveled the road that many actors have tried to traverse.

2001 Interviews
2001 - December SciFi Wire Keating Praises Enterprise	Unknown

2001 - November Star Trek The Magazine Crew of ENTERPRISE NX-01
Enterprise's weapons officer is British, and a little stilted, naive, and shy. But he's also a professional, in charge of an array of high-tech weaponry aboard Jonathan Archer's new vessel. Described by Rick Berman as a person who "loves blowing things up," Lieutenant Malcolm Reed will be responsible for defending Enterprise as it embarks on its groundbreaking mission.

2001 - November Cult Times Issue #77
Enterprise star Dominic Keating unzips his flight suit and slips into something more comfortable to chat about his role as Lieutenant Malcolm Reed in Star Trek’s new, exciting fifth series!

2001 - October Entertainment Weekly Issue #621 Issue 621- p28, 6p, 5c
It's hot, it's sexy, it's kinda funny. Would you believe it's STAR TREK? Hop on board and we'll show you how ENTERPRISE is shaking up the sci-fi universe. "Before the spark hits the wall, you might want to take a few steps back so you don't get flying debris in your eyes."

2001 - August Leicester Mercury Page 3
Dominic Keating is to boldly go where no Leicester man has been before. For the Stoneygate actor has landed a part on Star Trek's new Enterprise series. He has signed up to Paramount Pictures for the next seven years. His contract could be worth a fortune, with talk of several Enterprise movie deals in the pipeline.

2001 - August TV Zone Issue 147 Englishman Abroad
It wouldn’t be Star Trek without a Brit on the ship, would it? TV Zone caught up with Dominic Keating recently to find out more about Enterprise’s weapons officer, Lt. Malcolm Reed… What a difference a year makes. One evening back in May 2000, Dominic Keating was sitting in a trailer parked on the Vancouver docklands. The Leicester-born actor was enthusiastically talking about his new role as Mallos, the evil antagonist spawned from Hell who was to do battle with The Immortal, played by Lorenzo Lamas.

2001 - July TCA Press Conference
Interviewer: What was your reaction when you got the part? Keating: Yes! [throws arms up in air] Pretty much that. I was surprised actually initially because it's the old actor thing, I didn't think I was particularly right for the part when I read the breakdown. But Rick said he saw something that, I think he said, I think he told me that he'd . . . I'd auditioned for him about two years ago and he remembered me and he was toying it around in his head for me for Reed for quite awhile.

2001 - July Trekgalaxy.com Interview
Lt. Malcolm Reed: British, male, late twenties. Armoury Officer. In the new age of humanity's enlightenment, Reed is a bit of a throwback. He's a 22nd century 'soldier', all spit and polish and by-the-book. He maintains a rigorous daily schedule; when he isn't on duty, he's working out on a futuristic exercise apparatus he keeps in his quarters, or toiling in the munitions lab, perfecting some new kind of torpedo.

2001 - July Star Trek Communicator Issue #135	Unknown

2001 - July Teletext.co.uk Interview
Dominic Keating is about to become a multi-millionaire TV star - but you have probably never heard of him. Keating, from Leicester, has landed the lead role of Lt Malcolm Reed in the new Star Trek prequel - Enterprise. He started filming 26 episodes last April and the series is certain to be re-commissioned by Paramount.

2000 Interviews
2000 TV Zone Issue-132- Page 48
Night has fallen on the city of Vancouver, British Columbia. Its docklands, normally quiet at this time, are a-buzz with activity. The cast and crew of the new Action/Fantasy television series The Immortal are settling in for a long night shoot. The sound of a car engine gets closer and a sleek, deep purple Prowler stops in front of one of the trailers. The driver, actress Kira Clavell, and a crew member exit the vehicle. Dominic Keating sticks his head out of the open trailer and playfully shakes a finger at his co-star. "Ah, ha, where have you been? We've been waiting for you," he teases.

1991 Interviews
1991 - Review "Four Door Saloon" Opened on July 11, 1991
Dominic Keating was educated at Uppingham School and University College, London. His theatre credits include 'Life Class' and 'Rosencrantz and Gildenstern Are Dead' at the Bloomsbury Theatre. The Best Years Of Your Life (Man in the Moon), Screamers (Playhouse, Edinburgh), Amongst Barbarians (Royal Exchange, Manchester and Hampstead), Private Times (Library Theatre, Manchester) and The Pitchfork Disney (Bush Theatre).