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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 / 15:03, 15 July 2008 / General Star Trek
ComicMix posted the first part of an extesive interview with Star Trek The Next Generation actor Wil Wheaton. Here are few excerpts.
CMix: You wrote some Star Trek Manga. Are you going to write more?
WW: No. I'm done. It was really fun. Star Trek manga was really, really fun. It was scary. It was hard. But it was ultimately really fun. The whole experience was like writing a script in the late '60s for the original series.
And I felt like a real writer when I was doing that. I was making characters do things and I had to follow an internal logic. I had to follow the rules of the universe and I had to do things like that. When I wrote the second one, I was less self-conscious. I felt like I had done one already, received good reviews and audience feedback.
But what a difference between something being enjoyed by the audience and your friends and actually getting good reviews. I got real lucky with that one and I received good notices all around. So with the second one, which comes out next month, I think, I just wanted to challenge myself.
I pitched this idea to my editor and he said, "Great, do that." And then I had to live up to the challenge I made for myself. It was the first time I had the experience that I understand real writers have, where I had Captain Kirk and this other character talking to each other and I was just listening to them and transcribing them.
It was really cool. They asked me if I would write a Next Generation Manga, and would I write a Wesley Crusher story, and I didn't want to do it because it felt to me like there was no way in that equation that I could return a positive result.
Ultimately, I'm just not interested in Wesley Crusher anymore. It's been a long time and he's sort of frozen in amber in a certain state. I don't have anything to add to that. I don't have anything new to bring to it at all.
CMix: No thoughts about killing him off?
WW: No. I'm way more interested in working on my own original stuff. And there's a finite number of time/energy/creative units that I can gather on my "collect resources" turn. I would rather put those into building my own story than into repairing the Wesley Crusher building.
The full interview, in which Wheaton talks more about Star Trek, his career, his writing and the press, can be found here.
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