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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 / 12:54, 22 July 2008 / Feature Films
More excerpts of the interview conducted at last weeks TCA press tour in Los Angeles with Star Trek movie director J.J. Abrams are online at IGN. Here are few excerpts of their report.
Q: What was the biggest challenge of taking that franchise on?
Abrams: I think the biggest challenge was trying to make it relevant to now. Like to do it despite it being Star Trek. I don't think it's enough to say, "Oh, it's Star Trek, let's just...." I think it's a question of: How do you make it something that would be what it wants to be, even if it hadn't been a series before.
Q: How do you?
Abrams: Well, you invest completely in the characters. And you tell a story that is good, regardless of the setting, in a weird way. And I think that what we found -- with Alex [Kurtzman] and Bob [Orci]'s script and with the cast, who are so good -- is you love these people and so you go with them anywhere.
Q: In what areas do you want to maintain the spirit of the show, but also update it for today's audiences?
Abrams: Well, I think that... what's so funny is that these devices that everyone's holding [referring to recording devices] -- in the show would have been insane fantasy, you know? And now everyone's got them. We all have the iPhone that does more than the communicator. I feel like there's a certain thing that you can't really hold onto, which is the kind of, there's a kind of kitschy quality that must go if it's going to be something you believe is real. You know, our Star Trek is not parody. And so the idea of maintaining character relationships, the dynamic between the characters... I never saw how Kirk and Spock became so connected and that's what this movie does. It does it with the entire family of the Enterprise.
More from Abrams on Star Trek movie can be found at IGN.
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