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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.
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By GustavoLeao / 09:16, 18 November 2007 / General Genre/SciFi
Blockbuster.co.uk posted an interview with TNG actor Brent Spiner. Here are few excerpts.
When asked about his favourite episodes, as a viewer and as an actor, Brent makes a startling admission. "I actually didn't see most of them. I mean, I watched maybe the first 20 or so, and then I felt I'd spent enough time doing that. I'd read them all and acted in them all and really didn't need to watch them too. There was nothing to be gained. So I don't remember them! It was like one big, long episode to me!"
Brent at least concedes that one day, eventually, he might possibly get around to watching his famous show. "Maybe when I'm very, very, very old, if I'm on an island and I've got a DVD player and the Next Gen DVDs..." Clearly, he can't wait. "Yeah, really, I'm dying to see them... They're not for me though. Why do I need to see them? I've done movies I've never seen too. I don't particularly enjoy watching myself, and I'm also not interested. I've done that. It's over. Let's move on..."
Brent adds he'd be happy to return to the role, under the right circumstances. "If I liked the script, if I thought it was good, sure. When Rick [Berman] asked me to go on Enterprise for three episodes, I was happy to do it. They were good. It was fun."
"We had a really great time. It was a wonderful group to be with, and we all enjoyed being around one another. Patrick [Stewart] once said, 'How many jobs can you go to where you laugh every day?' And that's what we did. Every day we had a laugh."
The full interview is here.
Close-Up Film also interviewed Spiner, in which he talks about the four TNG movies - Star Trek Generations (1994), Star Trek First Contact (1996), Star Trek Insurrection (1998) and Star Trek Nemesis (2002), which he co-wrote with John Logan. Here are excerpts.
And how did you feel about the subsequent films? There were
three....
There were four.
Of course, I forgot about the third one.
I wish I could forget about the third one.
There was Generations, and then there was First Contact, then Insurrection and then Nemesis, which you were involved in writing.
How do you feel about them?
Generations, I thought was rushed. There were things that I liked about it but we started shooting about two weeks after we wrapped the series and the same writers that were writing the series wrote the film. It had some nice things about it but oddly what I think worked the least in Generations was the coming together of the two captains, which should have been the best part of it. Although they really became friends, they worked well together and they liked being around each other, something about that story just didn't blend correctly. Generations was OK. It wasn't horrible.
First Contact was probably our best film just because we had a better script. It was a great idea. You could hardly beat the Borg who were always good even in the series but the creation of the Borg Queen was what really brought it together. Plus we had a great cast with James Cromwell, Alfre Woodard and Alice Krige, who was fantastic as the Borg Queen. We were all at the top of our game by then because we'd had some time off and we'd come back with a sense of reunion that really made it work.
The third one was Insurrection. What can you say about Insurrection? Some people like it. It got some good reviews but I think that it was our weakest film because it was just too light. The stakes were too small and I didn't understand it quite frankly. We went to this planet to save these people who ultimately when you analyse the story were not really particularly worth saving. [Laughs] They were just these really banal people and their world was like a Renaissance festival. They made bread and that's all that you could tell that they did. They had the secret of life but did they offer to share it with anyone? We risked everything for them. We broke the prime directive for them and they never said to us, ‘look, you must have some people who are old and sick, why don't you bring them here?' Never. It was just, ‘thanks a lot, we'll see you later.' We left and I would have liked to have stayed with those people after we left and have them look at each other and say, ‘what shall we do now? I know, let's bake some bread' because that's all they did. I think that the story was misguided.
And then there was Nemesis, which could have been our best film. I actually think Nemesis is pretty good. I think it's perhaps our second best film. There were some problems with it - I'm not sure where exactly - but I don't think they were in the story. I thought the story was good. There was an interesting examination of what the nature of family is, what friendship is and what sacrifice is. I liked it. [Laughs] I mean I don't want to see it again. It's not The Searchers for God's sake.
The full interview is here.
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