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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 / 15:34, 22 April 2009 / Star Trek: Nemesis
The National posted a new interview with Star Trek star Chris Pine and here are few excerpts.
"To get a chance to work with J.J. Abrams, who is on such a brilliant run, was impossible to pass up," he says. "I was not a big Star Trek fan before getting involved in the project. I didn't know too much about the mythology so working with JJ was the most pivotal part of the equation for me. Within five minutes of meeting him I knew that this was the type of director that I wanted to work with."
"At the beginning of the process I expressed my feelings of concern as I'd never done a film like this before. Here is a big tent-pole film, $150 million special effects, green screen, etc, etc, and I said, ‘All I want you to promise me is that if I have a question about a scene and a question about any moment, then you will give me that time so that I don't feel like I'm being overwhelmed by the epic nature of the project'. He was totally true to his word. Any time, even in a scene where there is so much going on, he always had time to talk about the characters in the scene. This is why JJ is such a good person for a movie like this. It might be an action film but at the end of the day it is really character driven and because you care about the characters you care about the explosions."
The actor admits that if there is a figure he modelled his Kirk on, it was, "definitely Harrison Ford, from both Indiana Jones and the Star Wars movies".
He adds: "What Harrison Ford is so great at doing is bringing this quality that if he could be anywhere else at a moment of trouble he would be there... but he isn't, he's there and he has to figure out a way of dealing with it. I always loved that quality about him in Star Wars. The accidental hero, that is a good description. That's not to say that I modelled my version of Kirk on anything he did in particular, but I wanted to bring that kind of humour to the character."
The full article (beware of spoilers) is here.
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