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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 / 07:52, 26 August 2008 / General Genre/SciFi
The latest issue of Starlog magazine, out in the U.S., features a new interview with Star Trek actor Simon Pegg, the new Scotty. Here is an excerpt from the article.
Pegg has also been able to parlay his success as a newfound genre icon into appearances on the newly revived DOCTOR WHO and as Scotty in J.J. Abrams' upcoming STAR TREK film.
"I'm mopping up the geek touchstones!" he jokes. "Maybe if the [live-action] STAR WARS TV series goes ahead, I might try and wheedle my way back into the affections of Lucasfilm and write an episode."
"The weird thing--and I think this goes for both STAR TREK and DOCTOR WHO--is that neither of them are remakes. I often see STAR TREK being referred to as a remake, and it really isn't. It's another STAR TREK film; it's another movie in the series. It's the continuing mission."
"DOCTOR WHO is like that as well. And because of the nature of how DOCTOR WHO evolves, you become part of that tradition rather than a re-handling of it."
"Both of those are perfect examples of taking the spirit of the [original material] and entirely maintaining it."
More from Pegg can be found here.
Read Simon Pegg's complete interview in STARLOG #368, on sale now at newsstands and bookstores near you.
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Yesterday morning, August 26, HardCoreNerdity.com posted an exclusive audio interview with Simon Pegg, recorded at Toronto's Polaris 22 fan expo (July 11-13). Pegg mentions that he approached the Scotty character "from scratch."
None of the Trek sites have scoped this interview yet, so here's a transcribed excerpt from the 30-minute MP3 podcast (which also has segments with BSG's Edward James Olmos and Aaron Douglas)...
HardCoreNerdity.com: Star Trek's always been about hope for the future, and there's been some talk that the reasons Star Trek had been on the slide for the last few years is that maybe it's a little too quaint. Maybe, in the post-9/11 world, we're a little too cynical that this kind of world could possibly exist in the future. What do you think about that?
Pegg: I dunno -- I think it's a shame if that's the case, because I think that's what marked it out when it first started. Gene Roddenberry created this vision of an integrated universe, it was way ahead of its time; it had the first interracial kiss, on television, was on Star Trek. The very notion of -- I love the fact that the engineer was Scottish, because Scotland has a history of incredibly innovative engineers. And he [Roddenberry] did paint this really clever future-verse. I think that to suggest that we can't still get there is just kind of giving up. So, I hope that's not the case.
Obviously, JJ's Star Trek is going to be, you know, it's going to have JJ's stamp on it. It'll be like -- it'll be contemporary, and gritty, but it'll be -- it's very much Star Trek. The bridge was the bridge, it was incredible, but somehow it didn't look like it was built in the '60s. The production design was so cleverly pitched, in that it was completely credible, but still very much like you'd expect. It's very clever. I don't know if I should have said that!
HardCoreNerdity.com: Franchises have been benefiting a lot from reboots lately -- Batman Begins, Casino Royale -- do you think Star Trek will have that kind of feel, and do you think it's gonna reinvigorate it?
Pegg: I hope so. I think it's very much in that vein. It's very much about getting back to what made it good in the first place. That's what both those films have done -- in Casino Royale and Batman Begins -- they stripped it back down to the beginning and what appealed at the very conception. What happens with things that exist for a long time is they become augmented, and gimmicky, and things change, and they kind of -- they're added to and added to -- to try and make them better -- and it ends up just toppling over, under the weight of its own sort of self-parody -- whereas this is really getting back to it.
I know there's some consternation within the fanbase, but they're gonna see new Star Trek with the original cast. I don't know what's not to be fucking excited about! I am, and I'm in it. And it's in the hands of a person who really cares about it. We had advisors on-set the whole time. If we needed to know what happened on a -- if there was an away mission, and only a certain amount of people went, then who carried the tricorder -- we got it all from the people that really know. And JJ was absolutely at pains to make sure that it's totally and utterly -- and there's a lot in it for the fan. There's a lot of little ironies in there that you'll pick up on if you know the series, and you know the mythology. It's going to be crackin'!
HcN #16: Simon Pegg Talks New Star Trek!
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