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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 / 19:40, 2 December 2009 / Trek Books
Comicgate posted a new interview with Star Trek comic book writer Scott Tipton and artist David Messina and here are few excerpts.
CG: When you did Star Trek: Countdown, the prequel to the new movie, there was probably a lot of pressure on you because of all the hype the film was surrounded by.
ST: There was no pressure on me because I wasn't allowed to write it. (laughs)
DM: It was written by Tim Jones and Mike Johnson.
CG: Were they on the film's production team?
DM: Yes, they work for Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman, who wrote the script for the new Star Trek movie. The script for Countdown was based on a plot by Orci and Kurtzman. Working on it was a lot of pressure for me because everything was absolutely secret when I started. I saw the movie three months after I had done the last issue. It wasn't a problem to draw the good guys in Countdown because they were characters from Star Trek: The Next Generation plus Spock, but the bad guy, Nero, was a new character from the movie. So I didn't know how the actor [Eric Bana] would appear in the movie and how his ship, the Narada, was shown. I had some pictures of the Narada and some stuff about the environment, but I never saw how the ship appeared on screen. When I saw the movie the first time I was surprised because I had never imagined that the Narada would seem so alive.
CG: But are you nevertheless satisfied with the finished comic book? From what I've read so far the fans' reactions were pretty positive.
ST: The reactions have been great. It was the first time in years I got to enjoy David's work strictly as a reader. I thought it was great, and the writers did a great job with it. Sales in the US were really good, and the readers' reactions were almost unanimously positive.
CG: The two of you collaborated on Star Trek: Mirror Images and there is another book that is supposed to come out in Germany soon: Intelligence Gathering [German release in December 2009 as Tor zur Apokalypse].
ST: Intelligence Gathering - that's a Next Generation series. We've also done a Klingon series, Blood Will Tell, and that is also slated for a German release. And we did Spock: Reflections, which is kind of a pre-prequel to the movie. There we find out what Spock has been doing between the last movies with the old crew and Countdown.
CG: How much freedom do you have when writing stories for Star Trek comics?
ST: Pretty much. Overall, they are pretty good to me. I have to make a first pitch about what I want to do, and once it got approved they pretty much trust me.
CG: I imagined there must be strict rules if you wrote for a franchise like Star Trek.
ST: It's strict, but not if you are doing it as long as we do [Scott's brother David acts a as co-writer on the Star Trek comics]. We crossed every team, we researched everything ... Once we make our pitch to CBS everything is good to go.
The full interview is here.
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