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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 GustavoLeao / 20:16, 7 March 2008 / General Star Trek
Written by Earl Green
Synopsis: Faced with a critical shortage of antimatter to power the ship, Lt. Commander Ro orders the Odyssey to double back to a planet that has an apparently unmanned outpost with stores of antimatter there for the taking. But when Ro leads an away team - including the feuding Lt. Stadi and Subcommander T’Lorra - to the planet, the first casualty happens all too quickly and no antimatter is obtained. By the time Ro and his team are beamed back to the Odyssey, the Archein are in orbit. The Starfleet ship escapes the trap, but is still short on supplies. Ro begins to come up with a daring new plan to resupply the ship, but before he can commit to it, he must deal with the fact that no two members of his crew seem to be able to agree on how best to execute his plan.
Review: In this second installment of Star Trek Odyssey, Brandon McConnell takes over the role of Ro Nevin from the departing Bobby Rice, who had made the role his own on the fan series Star Trek: Hidden Frontier. I can’t tell if it’s the performance or the script, but the “new” Ro comes across as almost noncommittal as his crew bickers all around him. The story is standard “new captain has to visibly take charge” fare, but the problem is: McConnell as Ro never does take charge. In one early scene he asks, “Do I need to be here for this?” as two of his senior officers argue. Intentionally or not, that line points up pefectly the episode’s buggest structural weakness.
The Wine Dark Sea does have some interesting stuff going on with the bad guys, with hints of longer-range story arcs being set up between the blue-skinned space dominatrix who has seized control of the Archein, and her cabin boy. In this installment at least, the court intrigue among the Archein is more interesting than the Odyssey crew’s personality conflicts in the workplace.
Oddball tiny-detail that bugged me: why would a star chart on the main viewscreen display things in the same faux-ancient font as the show’s logo rather than the standard super-condensed Helvetica as the rest of the ship’s screens and instruments? I mean, I know we’re boldly going into fresh new territory here, but I’m a bit of a stickler for the “LCARS look” of the Federation’s computer systems. The computer-generated backgrounds demonstrate that a lot of attention was paid to getting that look right elsewhere, so I wonder why the exception here? Let’s not get into the away team not getting drenched by superimposed rain - hit ‘em with spray bottles of water between scenes, guys!
The Wine Dark Sea is a bit of a mixed bag, but it’s also not a long one, not even reaching the 40 minute mark. I’m still looking forward to the next installment - and an opportunity for McConnell to zing us with a brave new Ro Nevin.
The review for the next Star Trek Odyssey episode titled "The Lotus Eaters" can be found here.
Earl Green is the editor-in-chief of theLogBook.com This review was posted at their Fan Film Section
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