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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 / 14:54, 1 February 2010 / Star Trek: Nemesis
ScreenStar posted a new interview with Star Trek actor Walter Koenig, in which he talks about a sci-fi movie he wrote and produced titled InAlienable, now out on DVD. Here are excerpts from the interview.
Switching to other topics, you were obviously well aware of the Star Trek spin-off and prequel television shows over the years, but did you ever imagine they'd actually go and remake the original Star Trek?
Yes, I did. I had been saying since Star Trek: Enterprise went off the air that the next incarnation would be a return to the original Star Trek with younger actors playing Kirk, Spock, et al. I just thought it would be another series, not a motion picture.
What did you make of the Star Trek reboot movie?
I thought it was excellent. I thoroughly enjoyed it.
How strange was it to see another actor portraying Chekov? And what kinds of conversations did you have with Anton Yelchin either during the shoot or at the premiere?
I was surprised that I could watch the film without proprietary feelings. I didn't imagine that I could be so detached from my own history with the Star Trek franchise and enjoy it so unconditionally. The first thing Anton said to me at the celebration following the screening was "I got my own Chekov doll!" How ingenuous is that?
You've always usually got something in the hopper. So what else are you working on these days?
I've conceived a story about the real origins of vampires. It's very different, I think, from what has been done before. I'm working on the script now. However, it's a long process and by the time I'm satisfied with the results I'll probably have to wait for the next cycle when vampire stories are popular again. A novel I wrote, Buck Alice and the Actor-Robot, has been adapted into an audio drama for 45 actors. I directed the ensemble. The work was produced by Jerry Robbins and the Colonial Radio Theatre of the Air, and will be released this summer at major bookstore chains. Among the actors were Jerry Robbins, Deniz Cordell, Amy Stack, Jerry Rudisell, Judson Pierce, Jonathan Zugre, my wife, Judy Levitt, and myself. It will be available at the same time through Amazon on the Internet. In the fall, Sirius XM will be running the show in 30-minute installments.
The full interview, in which he talks about the InAlienable DVD, can be found here.
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