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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 / 10:06, 25 July 2010 / Star Trek: Nemesis
SciFiNow posted a new interview with Battlestar Galactica and Caprica producer Ronald D. Moore and here is an excerpt.
Going back further in your career, you worked on Star Trek for years. What are your thoughts on the relaunched franchise?
Oh, I thought it was great. I thoroughly enjoyed watching the movie, and walked out of the theatre with a big smile on my face.
Would that have been the direction that you personally might have taken the franchise?
I said for years that I thought the best thing that the franchise could do was to go back to the beginning and start over, you know? By the time that I left the show, the continuity of all the different TV series and movies had just become so complex it was almost impenetrable. And it was very, very hard, I thought, for a new audience to come to Star Trek; it just didn't work, you had to learn so much to just enjoy it. It was becoming a problem to create it as well; you would sit in the writers' rooms and come up with the stories, but you would always have to stop and say, "Well, does this contradict something that might have been in the other shows? What about the history if the Romulans?" You'd get caught up in having to do all of this research on the series, just to pitch new ideas. I thought that was really kind of stultifying and restrictive. So to take the opportunity to go back to the beginning, to wipe it clean and just start again with the adventures of Kirk, Spock and McCoy with a fresh slate is exactly the right move.
The full interview is here.
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