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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 / 08:00, 12 June 2008 / Trek Books
Star Trek Deep Space Nine Fearful Symmetry by Olivia Woods
Review by Jeff Ayers
After a two-year wait for the next installment in the saga of Deep Space Nine, Olivia Woods delivers a two-sided book. I'll explain why in a minute. The path to publication has been fraught with mystery: the original author and publication date vanished into the alternate universe and then a new author and date were announced. Now it's finally here and no, it's not going to disappear.
Side One of the book takes off as a healed Kira berates herself for trusting Taran'atar. Ro refuses therapy to repair her healing body so she can use her resources to track him down. Commander Vaughn must try to fix his damaged relationship with Kira. The main problem everyone faces is Iliana Ghemor, a Cardassian woman who claims to be from the alternate universe and brings the terrifying plot that has been brewing for some time in our realm. There is more at stake than just our universe.
After only 137 pages, flip it over for Side Two and the following 161 pages tell the tragic tale of Iliana Ghemor, who grows up watching the occupation of Bajor destroy everything important in her life. Angry, she decides to join the Obsidian Order and a plan begins to unfold that will change her life forever.
After finishing this, the first question I asked myself was, "That's it? Two years for this?" Let me say right now that the book is well written and I enjoyed it. The problem is that the saga and characters we want to read about and have been heavily anticipating only last for 137 pages, so nothing much happens. While Iliana Ghemor's story is interesting and vital to what I predict is coming next, her story has bad timing. If we didn't have two years between tales, it would have carried more resonance. Readers will finish this book faster than expected. Let the deafening roar for the next one begin!
7 out of 10
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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