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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 / 11:11, 29 July 2010 / Trek Books
Star Trek: Movie Adaptation #5
Reviewed by Patrick Hayes aka PatBorg
The covers: Two covers. The Regular is by David Messina & Giovanna Niro. Spock has lost his cool and is showing Kirk the error of his ways, while behind them a computer viewscreen shows some of the tips of Nero's ship. Nicely done, capturing the emotional highlight of this issue. The Retailer Incentive Photo Cover is a nice Ingmar Bergman-like shot of Spock and Sarek. It, too, is an appropriate choice the foreshadows the same scene. I've not seen this photo before, so I say "More of these!" Overall grades for both: A
The story: This issue covers the 2009 film from Uhura and Spock's shocking -- and welcome -- revelation in the lift to Spock and Kirk's plan to assault Nero's ship. The credits read as "Based on the screenplay by Roberto Orci & Alex Kurtzman. Adaptation by Mike Johnson & Tim Jones." In previous issues I felt that there was too much story being crammed into 22 pages. This is not the case with this issue. Much is covered, but I didn't feel that the art was drowned by the dialogue/story. The issue has a good pace, and two sequences from the movie have been, thankfully, shortened (Pages 7 & 8 and 16). There are three "new" visuals, not in the film, but from previous IDW comics, all of which occur on Page 10 (and they made me goose pimply!). I was glad to see one of my favorite lines make it into this adaptation: the final dialogue on Page 16. This is as smooth as it gets in an adaptation. Overall grade: A+ (it gets the plus for those three images)
The art: David Messina and Claudia Balboni really click well in this comic. Messina is a fantastic artists, in pencils and in layout, and Balboni softens his "hard" angled characters wonderfully. If you don't like the look of Page 1 proceed no further, but why wouldn't you? Every character resembles the actor portraying them. And the backgrounds! They have the potential to take readers out of a book if rendered poorly -- especially in science fiction. Not here. The Enterprise interiors are spot on, and the cave (for heaven's sake, I'm focusing on a cave!) is great! Back to characters: If page 21 isn't pulling your heart out, then I congratulate you on your achieving Kolinahr. Messina's penultimate Trek. I'm tearing up already! Overall grade: A+
The inks: Gaetano Carlucci does as great a job as Messina and Balboni. Still, do I thank Carlucci or Balboni for the look? Doesn't matter -- I'd buy you all a drink to thank you! Overall grade: A+
The colors: Excuse my repetition in adjectives: gorgeous! Ilaria Traversi not only gets a diverse selection of locales to color, she creates the J.J. Abrams "backlit glow" in certain panels: Panels 2, 4, and 5 on Page 1, for example. I got tired of this in the new film and am, continually throughout this series, happy to see this directorial choice not being abused. It was not really noticeable until Page 5, panel two, simply because it's hitting Spock's head. I much preferred the technique in the bottom two panels. I loved the green halls of Outpost Hunter and the red flashback. Again, gorgeous. Overall grade: A
The letters: Dialogue, narration, monster growls, firesticks, footsteps, transporters, computers, punches, and yells must have kept Neil Uyetake busy. Overall grade: A
The final line: This issue was an overall better adaptation than the previous issue. Everyone involved should be thanked for this contribution to the Star Trek universe. Overall grade A+
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