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· DeCandido · Ebeling
· Feinberg · Hatch
· Helfer · Grodénchik
· Keela & Katkith Lambeth · Nowell · Palmer · Pedraza · Roddenberry · Seward · Sherman · Sirtis · Snider · Spanks · Trinneer · Voltaire · Watts |
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BurtonThe TrekTrak Show with Marina Sirtis and LeVar Burton TrekTrak Presents: A Star Trek Cavalcade! TrekTrak Presents: LeVar Burton Levardis Robert Martyn Burton, Jr., born February 16, 1957 in Landstuhl, Germany, is an African-American actor, director and producer who first came to prominence playing Kunta Kinte in the 1977 award-winning television miniseries Roots, based on the novel by Alex Haley. Roots became one of the top-rated TV events ever, and LeVar won raves for his portrayal of the young African tribesman captured and sold into slavery in America. A graduate of University of Southern California's School of Theatre, LeVar later played the role of Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge in the Star Trek: The Next Generation television series and the series' movies. He has directed numerous episodes of the series, as well as episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise. He is also the host of the long-running children's television show Reading Rainbow on PBS, which extols the virtues of literacy. He also played the voice of a character named Kwame in the cartoon series Captain Planet and the Planeteers and The New Adventures of Captain Planet. At one point in his career before Star Trek, he appeared in a music video called "Word Up" by Cameo. LeVar got his start in television from 1976-1979 as the host of Rebop. In the 2001 film Ali, he played Martin Luther King, Jr.. LeVar and his wife live in California and have worked to raise awareness on infertility. |
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CroweStar Trek: Enterprise: The Final Verdict The Future of the Star Trek Franchise Joe is a writer and editor for RevolutionSF.com, an online entertainment magazine dedicated to science fiction and its related genres. For over six years, Joe has written the RevolutionSF News, in which he looks at science fiction-related news of the day in a comedic style similar to The Daily Show or Saturday Night Live's "Weekend Update." Joe is the writer of the parody Lord of the Rings: The Novelization, which has been called "Swiftean in its satiric eloquence" and "the worst piece of garbage I have ever read." RevolutionSF has a humorous tone, but maintains a critical viewpoint. Its writers never forget that SF is supposed to be fun. The site contains fiction by Michael Moorcock, Don Webb, Joe R. Lansdale, Zoran Zivkovic, Steve Aylett, Jeff VanderMeer and classic online reprints of stories by H.G. Wells, Mark Twain and Arthur Conan Doyle. Joe is also a stand-up comedian. He lives in Fultondale, Alabama, with wife Stefanie and daughter Quinlan. |
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CurtisTrekTrak Presents: Robin Curtis TrekTrak Presents: A Star Trek Cavalcade! The 2005 Miss Klingon Empire Beauty Pageant Robin came to the Star Trek fold with a difficult task: to pick up the mantle of Lieutenant Saavik after it had been dropped by Kirstie Alley. This she did with considerable skill, bringing a grace and understanding to the character, as she joined with David Marcus (the late Merritt Buttrick) in Star Trek: The Search for Spock. Robin reprised the role briefly in Star Trek: The Voyage Home. During The Next Generation's final season, Robin once more joined the Federation universe, this time as a renegade Romulan, Tallera, in the two-part episode "The Gambit." More recently, her association with television science fiction has continued with an appearance in the first season of Babylon 5 as Kalika, the representative of the League of Non-Aligned Worlds, and in 20th Century Fox's Space: Above and Beyond. Away from science fiction, Robin has appeared in numerous television series, including Dream On, Herman's Head, Night Court, Macgyver and Johnny Bago. She also appeared in General Hospital as Carol Pulaski. Her film credits include Dark Breed, Ghost Story, Ground Zero, No Man's Land, Unborn II and Hexxed. She also co-starred in the television films LBJ, Showdown and In Love with an Older Woman. In addition to acting, Robin has done over 75 commercials, including campaigns for American Express, PaineWebber and International Coffees. Away from the cameras, she enjoys wide-ranging hobbies which include cooking, gardening, pottery, computer games, travelling, romance, women's issues and her family. |
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DavidStar Trek Authors' Cavalcade TrekTrak Presents: Peter David Peter David is a prolific author whose career, and continued popularity, spans nearly two decades. He has worked in every conceivable media: television, film, books (fiction, non-fiction and audio), short stories and comic books, and acquired followings in all of them. In the literary field, Peter has had over fifty novels published, including numerous appearances on the New York Times Bestsellers List. Publishers Weekly described him as "a genuine and veteran master." His novels include Sir Apropos of Nothing (A "fast, fun, heroic fantasy satire"--Publishers Weekly) and the sequel The Woad to Wuin, Knight Life, Howling Mad and the Psi-Man adventure series. Probably his greatest fame comes from the high-profile realm of Star Trek novels, where he is the most popular writer of the series, with his title Imzadi being one of the best-selling Star Trek novels of all time. Peter is also co-creator and author of the bestselling Star Trek: New Frontier series for Pocket Books. A partial list of his titles include Q-Squared, The Siege, Q-in-Law, Vendetta, A Rock and a Hard Place and, with John deLancie, I, Q. He produced the three Babylon 5 Centauri Prime novels and has also had short stories appear in such collections as Shock Rock, Shock Rock II and Otherwere, as well as Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Peter has written more comics than can possibly be listed here, remaining consistently one of the most acclaimed writers in the field. His resume includes an award-winning twelve-year run on The Incredible Hulk, and he has also worked on such varied and popular titles as Supergirl, Young Justice, Soulsearchers and Company, Aquaman, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2099, X-Factor, Star Trek, Wolverine, The Phantom, Sachs & Violens and many others. He has also written comic book-related novels, such as The Incredible Hulk: What Savage Beast, and co-edited the Ultimate Hulk short story collection. Furthermore, his opinion column "But I Digress" has been running in the industry trade newspaper The Comic Buyers Guide for nearly a decade, and in that time has been the paper's consistently most popular feature and was also collected into a trade paperback edition. Peter is the co-creator, with popular science fiction icon Bill Mumy (of Lost in Space and Babylon 5 fame) of the Cable Ace Award-nominated science fiction series Space Cases, which ran for two seasons on Nickelodeon. He has also written several scripts for the Hugo Award-winning TV series Babylon 5, and the sequel series Crusade, as well as the animated series Roswell. He has also written several films for Full Moon Entertainment and co-produced two of them, including two installments in the popular Trancers series, Trancers 4: Jack of Swords and Trancers 5: Sudden Death, as well as the science fiction western spoof Oblivion, which won the Gold Award at the 1994 Houston International Film Festival for Best Theatrical Feature Film, Fantasy/Horror category, and the sequel, Backlash: Oblivion 2. Peter's awards and citations span not only an assortment of fields, but the globe. They include: the Haxtur Award 1996 (Spain), Best Comic script; OZCon 1995 award (Australia), Favorite International Writer; Comic Buyers Guide 1995 Fan Awards, Favorite writer; Wizard Fan Award Winner 1993; Golden Duck Award for Young Adult Series ( Starfleet Academy #1: Worf's First Adventure) 1994; UK Comic Art Award, 1993; Will Eisner Comic Industry Award, 1993. Recently his work was again nominated in two categories for the Eisners, and in the recent SFX Readers Awards he was the sixth most popular author in the field, with four of his books finishing in the top ten in their category. Peter lives in New York with his wife, Kathleen, and his children, Shana, Gwen, Ariel, and a player to be named later. And even though this may not be the best year to admit it, he's a Mets fan. For more information about Peter, visit his web site, www.PeterDavid.net. This is Peter's twelfth year on TrekTrak! |
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EbelingStarfleet Kitchen Matt is the current Commanding Officer of the USS Republic, a chapter of Starfleet International, "the international fan club of Star Trek." He has been a fan of Star Trek since his father took him aboard the naval aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65) and he informed Captain (soon to be promoted to Admiral) Kelly that it was his dad's ship. When Star Trek: The Next Generation aired, it was the only thing that got him through the week at school---well, that and the show Tour of Duty. Upon moving to the Georgia area, he attended his first convention at the Castlegate Hotel (way back in 1993) and met a group of Trek fans that didn't have a mental breakdown when they were referred to as "Trekkies." He ended up begging his father to front him the money to join the group. This was the aforementioned USS Republic. Matt has, among other things, worked as a police officer, an EMT, a soldier and a "professional student." During the spring months, he partakes in Ren season here in Georgia with a group known as the "Georgia Musketeers," a division of the French Musketeers, including such notables as Aramis, Athos and Porthos, to name a few. A student of history, he also enjoys the occasional Civil War re-enactment as a member of the 45th Alabama (or 23rd Kentucky, when forced to be on the Union side of things). Matt has an Associate degree in Emergency Medicine and is working on his Bachelor degree in Nursing at Kennesaw State University. He also is currently studying his fifth form of martial arts, Aikido. |
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FeinbergStar Trek: Enterprise: The Final Verdict The Future of the Star Trek Franchise Atlanta native Ken Feinberg earned his degree in filmmaking, directing and writing from the University of Georgia with minors in Drama and Art. For the last ten years, he has directed, written, acted in and produced acclaimed major plays, videos and short films in Los Angeles, New York, Orlando and Atlanta. After working on both stage and screen in New York, Ken relocated to Los Angeles in the early '90s, where he continued performing and writing as a member of the prestigious Hollywood Repertory Company, Theater Geo and others. It was in the Hollywood Repertory Company that Ken coauthored and produced the play Real Life Photographs, nominated for a Los Angeles Drama Critics Award. In 1994, Ken returned to Atlanta, directing the Southeast premieres of major Broadway award-winning shows: Eric Bogosian's Talk Radio and Ariel Dorfman's Death and the Maiden. Ken directed other acclaimed plays, including the world premieres of many original shows. In 1996, Ken became the Artistic Director of New Leaf Productions, where he wrote and directed two popular shows: Schampagne and Shtik, a gala toast to Vaudeville, and the musical Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, now being considered for a Broadway run. Last year, Ken one named one of 50 Most Beautiful Atlantans, along with Julia Roberts, by Jezebel magazine, Atlanta's version of Los Angeles Magazine, and he was interviewed by People magazine for their most eligible bachelor issue in 2001. Ken continues to write, having had a play published by Yale University Press: Peter and Wendy in Neverland, and the recent completion of his first novel, Basketball and Past Lives, which he's developing into a screenplay. Since returning to Los Angeles in 2001, Ken has directed two other short films and three original theater shows. In 2002, he completed shooting Coming Clean, a twelve-character ensemble romantic comedy which he developed, cowrote and directed. He has appeared in episodes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, Alias and The District, and as the Alien Captain in the second-season Star Trek: Enterprise episode "Horizon." Ken continues his love of developing original works that not only entertain, but also enlighten and educate. |
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HatchStar Trek vs. the New Battlestar Galactica Richard has enjoyed international recognition for more than two decades. He has starred in such series as The Streets of San Francisco, for which he won Germany's Bravo Award, the equivalent of an Emmy Award, and the original Battlestar Galactica, for which he was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. These two series continue to play throughout the world today. In addition, Richard originated the role of Philip Brent on ABC's All My Children. Richard began his theatrical career with the Los Angeles Repertory Theater. He starred Off-Broadway in several plays and musicals, including the Obie Award-winning play, P.S. Your Cat Is Dead, in Chicago. More recently, Richard starred in the musical Pepper Street and The Name Game in Los Angeles. In addition, Richard has starred in such movies for television as The Hatfields and the McCoys with Jack Palance, Addie and the Kings of Hearts with Jason Robards, Last of the Belles with Susan Sarandon, The Class of '65, The Hustler of Muscle Beach and the cult classic, Deadman's Curve, in which he portrayed Jan Berry of the musical group Jan and Dean. He has also guest-starred in numerous television series, including Dynasty; T. J. Hooker; MacGyver; Murder, She Wrote and Jake and the Fatman. His feature film credits include Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen with Michelle Pfeiffer, The Jungle, Prisoners of the Lost Universe, African Fever and Party Line. Furthermore, Richard starred in The Hitchhikers, an adaptation of the Eudora Welty short story, with Patty Duke; Second Chance with Arte Johnson; and Renaissance, in which he starred and associate-produced. Most recently, Richard completed filming The Battle for Mono Lake, a documentary which he hosted and narrated; the feature films Iron Thunder and Unseen, both genre films; and The Ghost, in which he stars with Michael Madsen and Brad Dourif. Richard can currently be heard on Quaker Oat Meal television commercials in addition to other voiceover work. Richard has also written a series of Battlestar Galactica novels. The first book, Armageddon, was released in July 1997, and the first edition sold out in only three weeks. The sequel, Warhawk, was released in September 1998, followed in May 2001 by the third book of the series, Resurrection. The epic odyssey continues in Rebellion, released in July 2002. He has also been writing Battlestar Galactica stories for Extreme Comics and Realm Press. In 1999, Richard wrote, co-directed and executive-produced a four-minute Battlestar Galactica trailer which not only won acclaims at science fiction conventions, but also in the worldwide press. Richard also created, wrote and directed a 17-minute trailer for The Great War of Magellan, released in 2005, and he is in discussions to create a series and/or video game based on the story. Currently, Richard plays the recurring role of Tom Zarek, a political terrorist and member of the Quorum of Twelve, on the newly "reimagined" Battlestar Galactica on The Sci-Fi Channel. When not acting, Richard lectures and conducts workshops on acting, self-expression and communication throughout the world. He has taught and lectured at the Learning Annex, the Learning Tree University, UCLA Extension, Orange Coast College, Maui Community College, the Whole Life Expo, Windstar, AMGEN, Rocketdyne, Mensa and Synergy One, as well as privately for groups and individuals. |
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& KatkithKeela & Katkith's Klingon Karaoke Keela and Katkith, who both love to sing, debuted their version of Klingon Karaoke at Spartacon in November 2002. It was well received and they were very excited. The next stop was ConCarolinas in 2003, where it was also enjoyed. Writer Stephen Euin Cobb had this to say about his experience to convention planners: "I also had a startlingly good time at the 'Klingon Karaoke' and the live performance of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, but that's a different story." Since then, Klingon Karaoke has been a regular part of the ConCarolinas' programming and this year was no exception with a Friday night performance and, thanks to a fan petition, Saturday night as well! Klingon Karaoke has also been performed at Beach Bash 2003, Stellarcon 2005 and Starfleet's Region 1 Summit 2005. Keela and Katkith are scheduled to return in 2006 for both Stellarcon and ConCarolinas. It is with great excitement and anticipation that they look forward to sharing Klingon Karaoke with TrekTrak attendees at Dragon*Con. It is hoped that everyone has at least as much fun as they do! All the songs are in the huMan tongue, as normal Karaoke is; it's just that the venue is Karaoke with a Klingon twist. TODAY is a GOOD day to SING! |
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L. LambethProfessional Star Trek Costume-Building Cheralyn began creating her own costumes and creatures at an early age, when her mother finally refused to make any more odd costumes for her at Halloween. She carried this obsession with her into college at UNC-Chapel Hill where, after having failed miserably as an Air Force Reservist, she decided to major in something much more useful such as Dramatic Arts and Radio/TV/Motion Pictures. Shortly after graduation, Cheralyn relocated to New York to study costumes, wigs and make-up at the Juilliard School, and earned her first fifteen minutes of fame performing Off-Broadway with John Leguizamo in Mambo Mouth. She then moved to Minneapolis to help create Muppet costumes for Sesame Street Live! (as well as a large purple bunny for the film The Net), and returned to New York a year later to work with Jim Henson Productions on the TV series Dinosaurs! and the film The Muppet Christmas Carol. After her time at Henson, Cheralyn worked with Paramount Production Services, creating costumes and props for Paramount properties such as The Star Trek Earth Tour, Titanic: The Movie on Tour, and Star Trek: The Experience at the Las Vegas Hiilton. Some of her other credits include work (both in front of and behind the camera) on Mel Gibson's The Patriot, and costuming work on the Park Service historical film Manassas: End of Innocence, directed by Star Wars sound specialist Ben Burtt. In addition to her costume work, Cheralyn has served as playtester for the Star Wars RPG Mission to Lianna, and has written articles for such genre-related periodicals as Bjo Trimble's Sci-Fi Spotlight and Con-Tour Magazine. Most recently, Cheralyn completed work on the New Line Cinema feature film The New World, starring Colin Farrell, which is scheduled for release this November. She also appeared in the History Channel docudrama Isaac's Storm, and can occasionally be seen in various commercials. Currently, Cheralyn works as a freelance puppet builder/performer in Charlotte NC, and is putting the finishing touches on her first book, The Well-Dressed Puppet, scheduled for release by Grey Seal Puppets later this year. |
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 Darren
NowellThe Missing Minority Darren has been around Atlanta fandom since 1985. After doing several tours of duty with Dixie-Trek and Starfleet Atlanta, he took a break to do something called college. He studied theatre and philosophy and is now a devil's advocate for everyone but Pat Robertson, Jerry Falwell and Fred Phelps. His greatest Star Trek moment was being both slapped and kissed by Marina Sirtis at MOC #3 (or was it #2?) after asking her to take off her jacket to reveal her skimpy top. (Little did she know she had nothing to fear but a fashion critique.) He is also a founding member of the Save a Sweater...Kill Wesley Crusher fan club and a member of the Atlanta Outworlders, which espouses more gay/lesbian/trans/bi content in science fiction and fantasy. Not surprisingly, he is currently single and has a super hero fetish. This is Darren's fourth appearance on TrekTrak! |
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 James
PalmerThe Future of the Star Trek Franchise James is a freelance writer, critic, blogger, Drew Carey look-a-like and raconteur. His work has been published in the defunct SciFiNow, as well as RevolutionSF.com, the Hugo-nominated webzine Strange Horizons, Every Writer, Vision: A Resource for Writers, Singu1arity and the poetry magazine Scifaikuest. He also writes a movie review column entitled "Barium Cinema" for the magazine Continuum Science Fiction, and writes non-sport card reviews for Trading Card News. In addition, James reviews short fiction for the four-time Hugo-nominee Tangent. His work has even been translated into Greek. James has interviewed the likes of Stephen Baxter, David Brin, Hugo nominee and Campbell Award winner Jay Lake, and Georgia authors Michael Bishop and Brad Strickland. He is also a member of the Critters Writers' Workshop. A Georgia native, James holds a bachelor's degree in English with a minor in professional writing and mass communications. He lives in Flowery Branch, Georgia, with his wife Kelley, their Chihuahua Maggie, red-eared slider Gamera and an ever-increasing collection of books, plastic dinosaurs and related fanboy ephemera. In his spare time, James enjoys reading more than is good for him and breeding carnivorous plants for sentience and mobility. For examples of his work, please visit his web site at: jamesmpalmer.tripod.com. |
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 Carlos
PedrazaStar Trek: Hidden Frontier The Missing Minority Star Trek: Enterprise: The Final Verdict Star Trek vs. the New Battlestar Galactica The Future of the Star Trek Franchise Carlos is the staff writer for and one of the producers of Star Trek: Hidden Frontier. He joined the staff in 2003 after submitting the script for "Grave Matters" as a fan and writing the screenplays for "Security Counsel" and "Epitaph" from first-draft treatments written by Executive Producer Rob Caves. He was named producer in 2005 and has so far authored ten of the series' 39 episodes. Carlos is a former Associated Press writer, deputy press secretary for the Governor of Washington, teacher, consultant and trainer for nonprofit organizations throughout the United States. |
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("Rod") Roddenberry, Jr.Star Trek: Enterprise: The Final Verdict Visions of distant stars and bizarre planets are his family's business. Eugene Wesley Roddenberry, Jr., also known as "Rod," was born into a family empire that is adored by legions of devoted fans worldwide. He is the son of legendary science fiction creator Gene Roddenberry, whose television series Star Trek changed the face of television. His father created television series that went beyond just science fiction entertainment---they were conduits for the transfer of information and playgrounds for intellectual thought. Gene Roddenberry not only used the television medium to tell stories of exploration, but also to convey his views on humanity. Rod Roddenberry is definitely his father's son---he shares his father's passionate views on the world and humanity. He is a down-to-earth person who truly believes that one day, everyone will peacefully coexist regardless of race, creed, culture or even planet. Rod was born in 1974 in the television mecca of Los Angeles, California, to Gene and Majel Barrett Roddenberry. Rod's parents made a conscious effort to keep their son out of the limelight and he was able to have a relatively normal yet priveleged childhood without the glare of Hollywood. He attended Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, but his college career was interrupted towards his final semester because he couldn't resist the pull of the family business when he was offered the opportunity to work on a new series, Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict, to be shot in Toronto, Canada. He jumped at the chance to learn about the entertainment industry and to develop his creative juices with some of the most successful producers in the industry. As the technical advisor for Gene Roddenberry's Earth: Final Conflict, Rod's job was to provide advice on how to better merge the "Gene Roddenberry philosophy" into each story. He was also there to provide useful commentary and suggestions on continuity and story matter on each and every outline, script and revision generated by the creative writing team. The position offered him the opportunity to work with his mother, Majel, who was one of the executive producers on the show and who also played the role of Dr. Julianne Belman. Earth: Final Conflict was Rod's first serious foray into the entertainment industry and qualifies as his both worst and most exciting job. In 1987, Rod was given his first official job as a production assistant on Star Trek: The Next Generation by none other than his father. He continued to work as a production assistant over the course of five summers and a school semester on the set of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. "At age thirteen, I didn't realize the opportunity that I had been given and was unappreciative," he says. In the future, Rod hopes to aid in the struggle for a better humanity through the medium of film. He has the dreams and visions of a better world his father had and it is his wish to share his father's philosophy with the world. "In many ways, I feel humanity has moved ahead one more step in a positive direction because of my father's vision." The death of his father was a definite turning point in Rod's life. Many years later, it has indirectly coincided with his move into the entertainment industry. He has used this opportunity to speak to not only his friends and family, but also to the fans of Star Trek to learn more about his father and come to terms with the Roddenberry legacy. It has allowed him to gain a better understanding of who his father was and why he did the things he did. Rod puts it best: "I would not say that at this point in my life I have gained a complete understanding of my father; however, I don't think I'll ever be able to say that." In the small amount of spare time that Rod has for himself, he enjoys being at one with nature, both on land and in the water. He is an avid mountain biker and scuba diver. He also has a passion for the martial arts, particularly Ju-Jitsu, and all its variety of life's teachings. Rod's best friend is Orion, a German Shepherd/Rottweiler mix, and the two are almost inseparable. Rod is out to continue to convey the dream he now shares with his father. He hopes that someday, all differences can be set aside and all the creatures on earth and even in the universe can be united as one. "I'd like to know that when I pass on, humanity is progressing in a more positive direction. Humanity is at its best when it works together for a single goal." |
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Seward The Future of the Star Trek Franchise Jerry is an avid fan of science fiction. He founded and co-edited the long-running fanzine Power Star (online archives at www.geocities.com/Area51/Lair/7277). He has submitted spec scripts to Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and is presently developing a number of comic book projects for fledgling new company Dark Elf Designs (www.darkelfdesigns.com). He's also hard at work on a novel, The Cyber Strain (as well as producing an independent film version of the book). He currently lives in Michigan, where he works as a freelance newspaper journalist and is the president of the independent Star Trek fan club, the USS Solar Wind. |
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ShermanKlingons... Alive in America! Star Trek Authors' Cavalcade Josepha is a fantasy novelist, folklorist and editor who has written everything from Star Trek novels to biographies of Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos (founder of Amazon.com) to titles such as Mythology for Storytellers and Trickster Tales. She is a winner of the prestigious Compton Crook Award for best fantasy novel and has had many titles on the New York Public Library Books for the Teen Reader list. Josepha's Star Trek novels include Vulcan's Forge, Vulcan's Heart and Vulcan's Soul, Book I, all coauthored with Susan Shwartz. Her other current titles include the reprint of the Unicorn Queen books from Del Rey, the forthcoming Stoned Souls with Mercedes Lackey and Mythology for Storytellers. She is also editing The Encyclopedia of Storytelling. When she isn't busy writing, editing or gathering folklore, Josepha loves to travel, knows how to do horse whispering and has had a newborn foal fall asleep on her foot. Visit her web site at www.JosephaSherman.com. |
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 Marina
SirtisThe TrekTrak Show with Marina Sirtis and LeVar Burton TrekTrak Presents: Marina Sirtis TrekTrak Presents: A Star Trek Cavalcade! Born in London to Greek parents, Marina began her passion for acting at the Royal Shakespeare Company-affiliated Guild Hall of Music and Drama School. The Worthington Repertory Theatre Company's production of Hamlet was Marina's entrance into the theatre world. She went on to appear with a variety of European companies such as Coventry Rep's production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame in the role of Esmerelda and in The Rocky Horror Picture Show as Magenta. Once Marina distinguished herself in theatre, she began to expand her acting career into television. She appeared in several popular British television series such as Minder & Hazel and starred in the critically acclaimed made for British television film One Last Chance. Marina also appeared in feature films produced on both sides of the Atlantic, including The Wicked Lady with Faye Dunaway; Death Wish III opposite Charles Bronson; Blind Date with Bruce Willis and Richard Donner's The Thief of Baghdad. But it was Marina's riveting portrayal of Deanna Troi, the psychic counselor, for seven years on the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation, as well as her co-starring role with Patrick Stewart in the feature films Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection and Star Trek: Nemesis that has brought her legions of fans throughout the galaxy. Ms. Sirtis made her American theatre debut in Hartford Stage's production of Loot and then starred in the world premiere of Neil Simon's Hotel Suite at the Walnut Street Theatre in Philadelphia, both of which won her exceptional praise for her performances. |
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 Tonya
SpanksStarfleet Kitchen Tonya is a member of the USS Republic. She has perfected the recipes for Romulan Ale, Klingon Bloodwine, Ferengi Bug Juice and her latest concoction, Nelix's Super Nova. Tonya led the very popular Starfleet Kitchen panel at TrekTrak for the last two years and is pleased to bring it back to Dragon*Con for its third consecutive year. Born two months before the airing of the very first Star Trek episode 39 years ago, Tonya has been a resident of Atlanta all her life and has enjoyed Dragon*Con for the last ten years. |
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TrinneerStar Trek: Enterprise: The Final Verdict TrekTrak Presents: A Star Trek Cavalcade! TrekTrak Presents: Connor Trinneer The 2005 Miss Klingon Empire Beauty Pageant Born in Walla Walla, Washington, Connor Trinneer attended Pacific Lutheran University in Washington, where he played college football and ultimately discovered the theatre. He graduated with a B.F.A. in Acting and then went on to receive an M.F.A. in Acting and Directing from the University of Missouri in Kansas City. Connor starred as Commander Charles "Trip" Tucker III in Star Trek: Enterprise for four seasons. His other television credits include guest-starring roles on several series such as Freaky Links, Gideon's Crossing, Melrose Place, Touched by an Angel, Pensacola and ER, as well as a recurring part on One Life to Live. He also played in the independent films Duncan's Shadow and Raindogs, in which he was the lead. Connor also appeared in the PBS film Far East and in the HBO film *61. Connor's theatre background includes several off-Broadway and regional productions including Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, Far East, The Rover, The Tempest, Picnic, Julius Caesar and Arcadia. Connor currently resides in Los Angeles. In his spare time, he enjoys hiking, working out, surfing, snowboarding, reading and traveling, and is a novice coin collector. |
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 VoltaireThe TrekTrak Filk Concert Voltaire was born in Havana, Cuba in 1967. He emigrated with his family to the U.S. as a child and settled in New Jersey (a fact he never stops complaining about!). Voltaire is a singer/songwriter whose music has its roots deeply imbedded in European folk music. His songs speak of love and, most often, the loss thereof with the added twist of how best to seek revenge on the ones who have hurt you. Lyrically, he explores and reveals those moments of vulnerability most would rather not discuss and exploits with childish abandon those fleeting streaks of cruelty we all feel but choose not to act upon or even mention. Voltaire's live shows, whether solo or with his skeletal orchestra, are highly theatrical---full of props and stories. The visual quality of his performances is not surprising; Voltaire has been directing commercials and animating short films for the last ten years. He's best known for his Hieronymous Bosch-inspired station IDs for MTV. Inspired by the films of Ray Harryhausen (Jason and the Argonauts, The 7th Voyage of Sinbad), Voltaire began animating at the age of ten on a Super8 camera. At that time, he says, "no three-dimensional object was safe. My brother's action figures, my sister's dolls, silverware, etc... If it was missing, chances were that it was in the basement in front of my camera." Eventually, piecing together snippets of information from fanzines, he was able to teach himself how to make foam rubber animation models and animate them with fluidity and realism. The films of his childhood landed him his first directing job in 1988. That project was the classic MTV ID called "MTV-Bosch." The stop-motion tour of the hellish "Garden of Earthly Delights" went on to win several awards, including a Broadcast Design Award, and helped to establish Voltaire's style of animation. His strange stew of Gothic darkness, baroque lushness and whimsical surrealism has been seen in a score of television commercials for clients such as Cartoon Network, USA and The Sci-Fi Channel. His short films, which he describes as being "an opportunity for me to be as strange and demented as I care to be," have been seen at animation festivals around the world, including the sinister "Rakthavira," which toured as part of Expanded Entertainment's "Too Outrageous Animation." These days, Voltaire continues writing, recording and performing music, directing and animating commercials and projects for television and working on the occasional comic book. Somewhere in there, he also teaches stop-motion animation at the School of Visual Arts in New York City. When not writing songs about hacking up his ex-lover's lovers or offing the man upstairs, Voltaire spends a lot of time at science fiction conventions. Usually, he is promoting his comic books and Chi-Chian animated series, but we all know he really just goes to them in the hopes of picking up a new Starfleet uniform or that hard-to-get, limited edition Tribble! Voltaire, you see, is an avid Star Trek fan (even stating in an interview on The Sci Fi Channel show Exposure that his dream in life is to play a Vulcan!). One night after one of his shows at Dragon*Con in Atlanta, he was invited to sit in on a "filk" session. Filk apparently is a convention phenomenon where musicians sing songs that have science fiction lyrics transplanted over recognizable folk melodies. He says, "There I was, hearing these songs about Star Trek, and I thought, damn! Now, why didn't I think of this?! My love for music and obsession with Star Trek collided, and I started to write Star Trek parody songs." At first, he would play them in his solo acoustic shows at conventions and later recorded them and posted them on MP3.com, where they quickly rose up the comedy charts. Voltaire's CD Banned on Vulcan contains solo acoustic versions of four Star Trek parody songs, including the hysterical "Worf's Revenge: A Klingon Rap," which explains once and for all why Worf is the Mac Dad of the Klingon Empire. "The USS Make Sh*t Up" is about that pivotal moment in every episode of every Star Trek series where, when finding themselves up against insurmountable odds, the crew starts "making sh*t up!" ("Bounce a graviton particle beam off the main deflector dish...!" etc.) "The Sexy Data Tango" really crosses the line, describing what it's like having sex with Data! (And it's written in Star Trek jargon! Lower your shields and spread your nacelles to make room for his craft, while he thrusts his Delta Flyer into your big, fat, juicy aft!) "Screw the Okampa (I Want to Go Home)" serves as a campfire song for disgruntled crew members on Voyager who hate Janeway for stranding them in the Delta Quadrant. If you are fan of Star Trek and love raunchy humor, then this is the filk performance for you! |
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