Feb 05 | Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, Marina Sirtis, Brent Spiner, Michael Dorn, LeVar Burton, Gates McFadden, Wil Wheaton and Denise Crosby will be part of Star Trek® TNG EXPOsed – a full-cast reunion of Star Trek: The Next Generation® to be held at the Calgary Expo April 27-29, 2012. The special reunion event will be held at Calgary Stampede Corral on the evening of Saturday, April 28, 2012. This auspicious occasion marks the 25th anniversary of Star Trek: The Next Generation® and will be the first time in over twenty years that the cast has participated in an event such as this. Included in the evening’s program is a 90 minute panel discussion, a Q&A session, and a video presentation in honour of the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation®. A commemorative guide will produced solely for this event along with exclusive merchandise. This is a separate ticketed event with tickets going on sale through Ticketmaster on February 18, 2012 at 10 AM MST. Although the cast will be participating in various panels throughout the course of the weekend, Star Trek® TNG EXPOsed will be the only opportunity to see all nine of the cast members in one incredible panel. Tickets will be available at www.ticketmaster.com and range from $40-$125 CDN.
Jan 30 | A large, heavy pewter sculpture that Paramount
commissioned, commemorating the series finale of DS9 in 1999 is available on eBay.
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Comic-Con 2011. What do you think (or wish) J.J. Abrams will reveal at next year's Comic-Con?
By Steve Krutzler / 12:13, 13 August 2004 / People
William Shatner continues his foray into multiple media this fall when he will not just appear on ABC's new BOSTON LEGAL, but croon on a new CD produced by Ben Folds entitled HAS BEEN. The record contains songs written by the actor and performed by him and several guest vocalists. The new web site ShatnerHasBeen.com has launched, providing audio clips from the CD and audio interview bits with Shatner about each song.
HAS BEEN includes guest appearances by a range of artists such as Adrian Belew, Joe Jackson, Lemon Jelly, Aimee Mann, Brad Paisley, Henry Rollins, as well as Folds. Shatner's riffs -- something like a dramatic (or comedic?) reading -- are mixed with the singers' performances to create an interesting musical experience.
Shatner describes the creative process in one of the clips:
"I didn't want to be conventionally hidebound," he says. "I didn't want to go to Frank Sinatra, as much as I admire him. I wanted to go somewhere that was us -- Ben and me -- as Ben did. Now, Ben is the epitome of going somewhere else. But I didn't know that. When he said 'look, you write the material and let me fashion the song, that's my job, you write what you want to say, let me make the song'... what an open door that is, and that's what happened."
HAS BEEN includes a range of topics for Shatner, who writes about his relationship with his daughters in "That's Me Trying," talks of his wife in "Together," and his own press in "Has Been." He says the term shouldn't be used pejoratively, and the song pokes fun at the stabs he's often taken.
"I was reading a tabloid on the way to Nashville and I'm reading something that someone said about me the 'has been'," he explains. "I thought, what a weird term to apply to anybody, but especially to me because I don't feel like a 'has been'. I thought, these people who write things like that don't have any idea--'has been' should really be a term that's salutory. 'Hey, he has been... something. He has been a great chef, he has been a great driver, he has been a great father'. Now, the child's gone, the restaurant burned down, the horse has died, you know, so 'he has been a great rider, but no longer because he doesn't have the horse, but he has been'. So when I said that 'has been' is history, 'has been' was... and 'has been' might again."
HAS BEEN will be, in fact, on October 5th. You can pre-order now to support TrekWeb.
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BTW Steve, the link should be http://www.shatnerhasbeen.com/
This man "has been" and always shall be, a trip! 
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Outer Space. The last frontier.
These are the trips of the Star Trek Enterprise.
Its 5-year plan...
Calls for us to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations.
To boldly fly where no man has gone in space.
Patrick Stewart on SNL 2/5/94
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