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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 / 08:51, 15 April 2008 / Feature Films
The Deadbolt posted an exclusive interview with Pakistani actor Faran Tahir, who talks about his roles in Iron Man and the upcoming Star Trek prequel movie. Here are excerpts from the interview. Beware of minor spoilers.
THE DEADBOLT: It's turning out to be an awesome year for you since you're also appearing in the new Star Trek movie, too. What can you tell me about your character, Captain Rabu?
TAHIR: Rabu is a new character. He has never been seen in this saga. Of course they're keeping Star Trek very, very secret and I have to respect that. I think the idea is this - that it's such a known storyline that if we can reintroduce it with a fresher look, with a fresher approach, a lot of it is going to depend on how much surprise is in the actual movie. So, all that I can say about it is that my character is the captain of a ship.
THE DEADBOLT: So, with the Captain title, I take it you're a good guy?
TAHIR: I'm a good guy. I'm one of the Federation captains, which is great for me because it came on the heels of doing Iron Man, playing a bad guy. So I'm not getting typecast as the bad guy, which can be an issue. He's a good guy and it's a nice heroic storyline of this character. He commands a ship, which has not been seen in the saga before.
THE DEADBOLT: So that marks a couple of firsts for you in this film. How does it feel to play the first character of Middle Eastern decent?
TAHIR: You know, that's funny that you say that because just a couple of days ago a friend of mine - I'm kind of a Trekkie, but some of my friends are like real Trekkies so of course they go to all of these blogs - sent me this link to a blog that has like 500 blogs on it just on that fact. It's an actor of Middle Eastern decent playing a captain, which hasn't happened before. There have been other characters of Middle Eastern decent, but there has never been a captain. And a lot of the discussion on the blogs was about the fact. At least for me, personally, it's great because it is a context in which my ethnicity is not being discussed as an issue. To me, that's great - about a character in a story who's trying to get Task A, Task B, Task C done. And you're not dealing with the color of his skin or whatever, we're not dealing with all of that. We're working on a very even playing field and the blogs were also about that. It gives us hope, in a way, if you look at it as the realities of today hopefully will not be the realities of tomorrow.
THE DEADBOLT: How faithful is this Star Trek to the original series?
TAHIR: It's very faithful, all of the characters are there. You do get new insights into them and you get things that so far people have probably pulled together from their own research. Some of those questions might be answered and some of them might be challenged, where people thought up certain histories they created. Some of those might be challenged; some might be corroborated. It's a nice mix. The feel of the movie is great, at least the part that I had. It has a very robust feel to it. It's very tangible. The ship that I command has a lot of muscle to it. It looks like a capable thing, you know. So yeah, I think J.J. knows what he's doing. He has a really great vision and a really great way of executing his vision. I think a lot of people will be very pleasantly surprised.
It also reintroduces the franchise to a generation lost and I think he kept that in mind. How can we bring in this generation that hasn't grown up with it? How can we make it and not just reintroduce it, but let them own it a little bit so that they feel they're not looking at this story, which was so big with their older brothers or their uncles and fathers? How can this age group also go, "Yeah, we're a part of this. We understand it."
The full interview is here.
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