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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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By TRexx / 05:30, 27 June 2005 / General Genre/SciFi
As Vancouver hosts the production of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA season two, Canada's SPACE channel went on-set to chat with some of the cast.
"BATTLESTAR GALACTICA is a show about politics and survival and terrorism and, uh, love and faith," says Grace Park, who plays Lieutenant Sharon 'Boomer' Valerii. "I think that the battle between two different ways of thinking, and what happens when there's been decades of bloodshed and turmoil and rage between these two sets of people -- and then there's, like, a dark, deep chasm between the two; and, like, are we ever going to cross it? And what's starting to happen in the second season is, like, Helo and Sharon fall in love, and it's almost like they're bridging the gap but they're both in the void. And they could fall forever. Or it could be like the beginning of something."
Tahmoh Penikett (Lieutenant Karl 'Helo' Agathon) took SPACE viewers on a behind the scenes walkabout, including the hangar bay in Studio G where Raptor and Viper ships are stored. Along the way, Penikett encountered Park, resulting in a playful jig (video at VRRRM.)
Cinemax will premiere BATTLESTAR GALACTICA next month in the Philippines, Malaysia, Thailand, Hong Kong, and Singapore, where executive producer Ronald D. Moore recently spoke by phone to the Manila Bulletin.
"Coming from STAR TREK was very useful," said Moore. "From the very beginning I wanted to do everything that STAR TREK was not. We made a very conscious effort from the very beginning that we will make this show as different from STAR TREK as we possibly can.
"Concentrating more on the characters is one of the reasons I took the project. I really wanted to try a different style of storytelling in science fiction. I felt that there was room in science fiction to do a show that was really about the characters first and foremost, and do away with the sort of sci-fi trappings like the silly hair and the spandex outfits. We got rid of all of that and we made it more of a character story about people that happened to be inside a science fiction universe, that you have an interesting and dynamic show!"
So, why do Moore's Cylons appear human? Budget. "We were dealing with a practical type of production. If we were to have guys in suits again, like they wore in the original series, how are we going to do that? A lot of the audience would want the suit to be faster moving, cooler looking and more dangerous, in a practical reality we won't be able to build that. The second option was to make them CGI, but that's expensive too. So, the suggestion came, what if they looked like us. So, since in the story humans created the Cylons, these machines evolved to look like us. They considered themselves the children of mankind, and they have their own faith and their own religion and their own belief systems. I began to realize that was the heart and soul of what the show was... I committed to the vision of this show and I just sort of believe in my heart that this was the right way to go; so we just soldiered on and take a gamble and do the show we thought was best, and make it the best show we possibly could and hope that the audience would respond."
What do GALACTICA's producers expect from the Asian audience? "I hope they embrace it like the American audience," Moore states. "I hope that they see a lot of themselves in the show and the world around them. The show is interesting because it talks a lot about contemporary times, a lot of morality and politics and social dynamics that's happening around us. And I think it is as relevant in Asia as it is in North America, and I'm hoping that they see a lot of truth in the show and respond to it as well."
Read more of Moore's interview at The Manila Bulletin Online.
Edward James Olmos (Commander William Adama) told the Chicago Tribune this week that the second season of BATTLESTAR GALACTICA is "better than the first one -- it's more complex." However, he adds, "I'd hate to be a person who saw Season 2 without having seen Season 1."
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