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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 / 06:00, 2 February 2010 / Star Trek: Nemesis
USA TODAY posted a new interview with Star Trek star Leonard Nimoy and here are excerpts.
What were your thoughts about the franchise now? You must feel good about how the 2009 film turned out and your part in that.
It's extraordinary, just extraordinary. I would almost say unbelievable. We went on the air in 1966. 1966. That's 44 years ago. I think I was younger then. (Laughs.) I can't believe what has happened in this last year. But, on the other hand, if you really look at history of Star Trek, it has been resurrected several times, even in the very earliest years. The first pilot did not sell, so it needed to be resurrected. At the end of the second season, we were cancelled by NBC and needed to be resurrected for a third season. So there was a big outcry from a very intense group of loyal fans and NBC put us on for a third season in a deadly time slot, as if to prove that we were finished and couldn't survive, and of course we didn't. At the end of the third season, we were dead again.
Then seven or eight years later, George Lucas did us a favor when he made Star Wars and it was such an enormous success that Paramount decided to resurrect Star Trek. So we made the first Star Trek movie (released in 1979), and by the way, it wasn't called Star Trek 1. It was called Star Trek: The Motion Picture. So there was no intention or thought about doing any further sequels. Those kinds of movie franchises weren't really in vogue yet. So I thought, 'That takes care of that.'
But somebody got the idea to do a low-budget version of a Star Trek movie rather than the big ponderous thing that we had done and we did one with Ricardo Montalban (1982's Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan), a wonderful movie on a modest budget. It worked and then the whole thing started to come back to life. We did several of those and stopped after the sixth film. Then along came The Next Generation (in 1987). And then after several years of those series and those films, it seemed to peter out again up until this year when along came J.J. Abrams who said, 'I have an idea on what to do with this.' He reinvigorated the franchise again.
And there's the story about the Spock character. I really thought Spock died in (Wrath of Khan) and that was the end of it. We had made a good film and I had a glorious hero's exit and here I am all these years later still involved.
Is there something at the core of the Star Trek stories that people come back to?
I don't think there's a simple answer to that. Star Trek has always been a hopeful view of the future, as opposed to some of the doomsday stuff that we have seen. I think the collection of characters has always been intriguing, the chemistry between these various characters and where they come from and what they bring to the party, particularly the Kirk, Spock and McCoy characters, the triumvirate. I don't mean to diminish anybody, the whole cast made contributions. I think people enjoy watching this group of characters solve problems together. This film (the 2009 Star Trek), I think gives us a really wonderful look at how these people came together as a group and how this team was formed. It's just fun to watch. It's an exhilarating movie. So we are on track again. I say 'we,' I really think - I've said, 'I am done' several times -- I don't think they need me anymore. I think I was useful in this last film. I don't think they need more for the next one. There will be another one.
Did Zachary Quinto have any lines as Spock that stood out for you?
He was very good in this movie. I was really impressed in the scene where he rejects the entry into the Vulcan Science Academy, when they tell him that in spite of the flaw in his genetic makeup they are accepting him and he refuses the offer saying in effect, 'Go screw yourself.' But what he did with 'Live long and prosper' in that moment was very refreshing to me. ... I don't know whose choice it was, his or J.J. Abrams' but whatever. When I saw that I thought, 'Whoa, that's good.' Nobody ever said, 'Live long and prosper' with that subtext before.
The full extensive interview, in which Mr Nimoy talks about Star Trek Online game, is here.
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