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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.
Jan 26 | A fan campaign to bring back Christopher Doohan for the next Star Trek film can be found here. Join the campaign !
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By GustavoLeao / 08:13, 18 September 2007 / Trek Books
Review by Jeff Ayers
On the heels of events chronicled in J.M. Dillard's Resistance (review)comes Keith R.A. DeCandido's Q&A. The daily life of the Federation's flagship continues as Picard waits to hear back from Starfleet about his defiance of orders and confrontation with the Borg. New characters are introduced and some struggle to fit in to the camaraderie of the command team. Meanwhile, the universe begins to unravel. Cameos from familiar people illustrate how dire the situation has become. While Picard and his crew try to solve the mystery of an enigmatic planet, Q pops in and the real havoc starts.
DeCandido successfully juggles all of Q's previous appearances and incorporates them into the novel, creating sort of a wonderful bookend to the character. John DeLancie playing the role rings throughout; the author truly nails the voice of Q. The new characters are intriguing and it will be interesting to see what transpires for them as the post-Nemesis novels continue.
Some nitpicks in an otherwise fun read: Q doesn't appear to Picard and the Enterprise crew until halfway through the novel. Everything that happens and its resolution creates more of a shrug than awe, and the cameos, while entertaining, have sort of a sameness to them. That aside, strictly on the Q-T, readers will thoroughly enjoy the book.
*** out of ****
Reviewer Jeff Ayers is the author of Voyages of Imagination: The Star Trek Fiction Companion trade paperback, and webmaster of VoyagesOfImagination.com,
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