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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 / 05:57, 28 July 2010 / General Genre/SciFi
The A.V. Club posted a new interview with Star Trek star Leonard Nimoy in which he talks about his love of photography. Nimoy's first major museum showing, "Secret Selves," begins July 31 at the Massachusetts Museum Of Contemporary Art. Here are few excerpts of the interview.
AVC: Have you been happy, generally, with the transition to digital from film camera?
LN: Yeah, I'm very pleased with it. I think I've gotten some great images, and that the choice was right to do it with that camera. The major difference for me between this and my other projects is that I'm out of the darkroom. All my other work, I was doing my own printing in black and white, so it was hours, days in that darkroom to get those prints out. In this case, we turned the files over to a very good printer here in Los Angeles, and my task was to go and visit the printer, see what the proofs were looking like, and make some comments, and then the prints were done. So I was out of the darkroom, and into the light. Into the light! [Laughs.]
AVC: One of the major themes in your work-not only your photography, but your writing and poetry-has been perception, and the way one's image is often controlled by other people. Do you think a lot of that stems from having played an iconic character for so long?
LN: Yes. Obviously, I'm very curious about psychology and the makeup of human nature. I have been involved with acting ever since I was a teenager-even earlier than that in children's theater, but in serious roles and character studies from the time I was 17 or 18 years old-and I taught acting classes for several years just before the whole Star Trek experience hit me. I've actually thought that if I had not acted, I would have gone into some kind of psychological work. So that's a very much part of my thinking about what makes people tick. I've acted out so many various kinds of personas that I feel like I've acted out all of my secret selves. George Orwell had this wonderful statement: he said, "He wears a mask, and his face grows to fit it." I find that such an interesting idea, that we make a decision about what we want to present to the world in the way of a persona. This is how we want the world to see us, to perceive us and to know us. It doesn't necessarily mean that's what we are. There's some whole other life going on with us that we don't necessarily choose to present to the world. And that's so much of what this is all about for me.
The full interview is here.
Plus, according to DigitalSpy, Fringe executive producer Jeff Pinkner told a panel audience at Comic Con that he wants Nimoy to return to the series. Here is an excerpt of the article.
"Should we be able to convince him to come out of retirement again, we have another story in mind [for William Bell]." he said
More on the original article here.
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