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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.
Jan 26 | A fan campaign to bring back Christopher Doohan for the next Star Trek film can be found here. Join the campaign !
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By GustavoLeao / 06:37, 15 May 2009 / Star Trek: Nemesis
Journalist Matthew Pejkovic (who reviewed the new Star Trek movie for TrekWeb) posted in his site, Matt Movie Reviews, new interviews with director J.J. Abrams, and stars Chris Pine (Kirk), Zachary Quinto (Spock) and Karl Urban (McCoy). Here are excerpts of the Abrams interview.
"I approached it from the point of view of what's a good story, and what's a compelling movie", said Abrams. "Not necessarily what's a compelling Star Trek move, because the priority for me needed to be: How do I write a story that will work for me?"
"We were working on the script for about a year, and I found myself really intrigued by it, and excited by what it could be, and literally planning on thinking on who the director would be to come in and do it. And I had this sort of sense of where it could go, and then I read the script, and I was like: Hell if I'm gonna give this to someone else! I was so excited by it, and I thought that I would be an idiot...I just know that I would be jealous of whoever it was that would get to yell action or cut on the movie. If I didn't do it myself -or at least try- then I would regret it always."
"I was not a huge fan of Trek, and because of that, I didn't have that sense of terror, or reverence that I needed to necessarily adhere to what come before," stated Abrams. "My goal was trying to make this thing believable. Despite it being Star Trek, despite its province, despite its science fiction and fantasy, how do you believe it? And that was really all about casting actors who have been terrific."
"I wrote this script for Superman years ago, and it ended up being reviewed online, and it was a work in progress, not a completed script, and it was decimated!" revealed Abrams. "And the reaction was a really interesting thing, since it was one of things that it happened in a way that on the one hand I was, like, horrified. But on the other hand it was very educational."
AAccording to Abrams, all praise for anything Trek should go to its creator: "What was fascinating with what Roddenberry was able to do was...yes he wrote the show and crated the show, but it was fascinating even looking at things like...I got my hands on as much stuff as I could. I even got my hands on notes that he wrote to the producers of the third Star Trek film. And at that point I think he was almost relegated to the sidelines, and yet he was still voicing his opinion, writing about the vision of the future, how essentially war had been rendered obsolete. His view was not just a surface view. He really had this deep sense of what society would be like, and how it functioned. And I was just stunned by that, because it was wonderful to see how thought out it was. He just knew it and felt it. So I was really incredibly humbled by his talent and vision, and fee lucky to be able to visit this world he created."
The interviews with Pine, Quinto and Urban can be found here.
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