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 James Callis
Star
Trek vs. the New Battlestar Galactica
James
grew up in London where he attended Harrow School in North West London.
In 1990, he went on to study for a BA in English and Related
Literature at the University of York, where he was a member of Derwent
College. After graduating from York in 1993, James gained a
place at the renowned London Academy of Music & Dramatic Arts,
from where he graduated in 1996.
James made his West End
debut in Old Wicked Songs alongside Bob Hoskins in 1996, earning
him the London Critics' Circle's Jack Tinker Award for Most Promising
Newcomer. He appeared at the Almeida Theatre in George Bernard
Shaw's The Doctor's Dilemma in 1998, and at the Soho Theatre
in London in 2002, in Peter Ackerman's Things You Shouldn't Say
Past Midnight. He broke into television in 1996 with a guest
role on the British series Murder Most Horrid and with a recurring
role in the ensemble of the long-running U.K. drama Soldier Soldier.
James went on to appear in a number of telefilms and miniseries,
including The Scarlet Pimpernel (1999) and Jason and the
Argonauts (2000), and played Bridget's pal Tom in the hit movie
Bridget Jones's Diary (2001). He co-wrote and co-directed
the film Beginner's Luck (2001), in which he starred against
Julie Delpy, Steven Berkoff and Fenella Fielding. His more recent
work includes the USA Network miniseries Helen of Troy.
Currently, James plays
the role of Dr. Gaius Baltar, President of the Twelve Colonies, on
the newly "reimagined" Battlestar Galactica on The
Sci-Fi Channel.
James has two sisters and
lives in London with his wife Neha and their son Josh, who was born
in 2003. Apart from acting, directing and writing, the multitalented
man also plays piano and guitar to performance level.
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Star Trek
vs. Star Trek
The Missing Minority
Melissa
is part of "The Bert Show" mornings on radio station Q100
in Atlanta and is the only full-time out gay DJ in the city. She
served as Grand Marshal for the 2002 Atlanta Gay Pride parade and
was featured in the national lesbian magazine Curve in 2003.
In September 2003, Melissa appeared in an episode of the Fox
Television drama The O.C.
Some of her early influences
include Lt. Uhura, Dr. Beverly Crusher and Deanna Troi. Kira
Nerys, Seven of Nine and Captain Janeway continued to mold Carter
well into her 20s. Melissa has attended Dragon*Con for several
years and has been spotted at other Trek conventions in St.
Louis, Indianapolis, and New Jersey.
This is Melissa's fourth
appearance on TrekTrak!
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 James Cawley
"Amateur" Star Trek
Professional
Star Trek Costume-Building
Star Trek:
New Voyages
James had the idea to create a new series based on the original Star
Trek in 1997, and over the years, amassed a huge collection of
set pieces, props and costumes with one goal in mind: to reclaim the
spirit of Trek. He worked with original series and Next
Generation costume designer William Ware Theiss, co-executive
producer Max Rem and co-producers James Lowe, John Muenchrath, Amanda
Stryker and Jeff Quinn to put together a team that has brought the
Roddenberry spirit, ideals and philosophy of Star Trek to an
all-new production of episodes set in the fourth year of the original
series' five-year mission. James plays Captain James T. Kirk
in this fan-produced series, called Star Trek: New Voyages.
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 Yvonne
Craig
Star Trek
Guest Stars
Yvonne Joyce Craig is an American actress best known as Batgirl from
the 1960s TV series Batman. She originally trained to
be a ballet dancer, but gradually moved into acting. Yvonne
has appeared in several films, including roles with Elvis Presley
and Dennis Hopper. She appeared in the sequel to Our Man
Flint, In Like Flint, as a Russian ballet dancer opposite
James Coburn. She steadily appeared in television shows of the
1960s, most notably as the green-skinned Orion slave girl Marta in
the 1969 Star Trek episode "Whom Gods Destroy," until
she gained the role of Batgirl on the 1960s Batman TV series.
Although the Batman TV show has been criticized as "campy,"
many have praised Yvonne's portrayal of Batgirl as paving the way
for many other television heroines in the years that followed. Yvonne
appeared in the last season of the series and was often put in "peril"
situations as Batman and Robin previously had been. She was
rescued many times by the Caped Crusaders.
After Batman,
Yvonne continued to act in movies and television shows, but eventually
moved into private business. She maintains her own web site
and is commonly regarded as courteous to her fans.
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 Ann C. Crispin
Star Trek
Authors' Cavalcade II
Ann is the author
of the bestselling Star Wars novels The Paradise Snare,
The Hutt Gambit and Rebel Dawn. She's also written
four top-selling Star Trek novels: Yesterday's Son,
Time for Yesterday, The Eyes of the Beholders and Sarek.
Ann's most famous genre
work was writing the 1984 novelization of the television miniseries
V. She went on to collaborate on two more books in the
V series, East Coast Crisis with Howard Weinstein and
Death Tide with Deborah Marshall.
Ann and noted fantasy author
Andre Norton wrote two Witch World novels together. Both
Gryphon's Eyrie and Songsmith are still in print from
Tor Books. Andre Norton's recent passing has brought increasing
demand for her works. Ann and Andre were friends for nearly
30 years. Andre Norton was the first woman to be declared a
Grand Master in the field of science fiction and fantasy by Science
Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America (SFWA).
Ann has been active in
SFWA since soon after joining the organization in 1983. She
served as Eastern Regional Director for almost 10 years and then served
as Vice President for two terms. Ann and Victoria Strauss created
SFWA's "scam watchdog" committee, Writer Beware, in 1998.
Ann still serves as the Chair. Writer Beware is the only
professionally sponsored group that warns aspiring writers about the
numerous scam agents and publishers that infest the Internet these
days. Ann and Victoria have assisted law enforcement in bringing
several infamous con artists to justice.
Ann has not confined herself
to writing media-related fiction. Half her work is in her own
original universes. Her major science fiction undertaking was
the StarBridge series for Berkley/Putnam. These books,
written solo or in collaboration with gifted new talents, centered
around a school for young diplomats, translators and explorers, both
alien and human, located on an asteroid far from Earth. Series
titles are StarBridge, Silent Dances, Shadow World,
Serpent's Gift, Silent Songs, Voices of Chaos
and Ancestor's World.
StarBridge Book
One was placed on the American
Library Association's Young Adult Services Division's list of
Best Books of 1991, and Silent Dances (Book Two, co-authored
with Kathleen O'Malley) made the 1991 Preliminary ballot for the Nebula,
the award given by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America.
Serpent's Gift (Book Four, with Deborah A. Marshall)
was placed on the 1993 Recommended Books for the Teen Age by the New
York Public Library. Book Five, Silent Songs (also written
with Kathleen O'Malley) was nominated for the A.L.A. Young Adults
"Best Books" list.
Ann's newest work is an
original fantasy trilogy for Harper/Eos, The Exiles of Boq'urain.
Storms of Destiny was released in 2005, and she is hard
at work on Book 2, Winds of Vengeance. Book 3, Flames
of Chaos, will be her next project.
Ann has taught many writing
workshops since becoming a full-time professional in 1983. Her
teaching credits include a semester-long "Writing for Profit"
course at Charles County Community College, two two-day writing workshops
for Harrisburg Area Community College, a two-day writing seminar at
Towson State University and numerous mini-workshops at science fiction
and Star Trek conventions, where she is a frequent guest. She
currently teaches writing workshops at Anne Arundel Community College
and Dragon*Con in Atlanta.
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 Denise Crosby
Star Trek
vs. Stargate
The TrekTrak
Show
The 2006
Miss Klingon Empire Beauty Pageant
TrekTrak
Presents: Denise Crosby
Denise Michelle
Crosby was born in 1957 in Hollywood, California, the daughter of
Dennis Crosby and the granddaughter of the legendary singer Bing Crosby.
She is best known for her brief appearance as Security Chief
Tasha Yar on the first season of Star Trek: The Next Generation.
Although she has enjoyed an extensive film and television career
from the 1980s through 2003, her Star Trek appearance of only
22 episodes, plus several guest appearances in later seasons, remains
her most widely recognized role. Following her appearance on
Star Trek, she posed for the May 1988 issue of Playboy
magazine.
She produced and narrated
the 1997 documentary Trekkies and its 2004 sequel, Trekkies
2. She has also appeared in movies such as Red Shoe Diaries,
Pet Sematary, 48 Hours, Deep Impact and the television
series Days of Our Lives. She most recently completed
work in the role of Leslie in the upcoming film Mortuary, due
for release in 2005.
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 Joe Crowe
Star Trek
vs. Star Trek
Star Trek vs. the New Battlestar Galactica
The TrekTrak Trivia Challenge
Joe is a science
fiction writer, reviewer and stand-up comedian. He is the senior
editor of RevolutionSF.com,
an online magazine dedicated to commentary, insight and humor in science
fiction and other genre entertainment.
For over seven years, Joe
has written RevolutionSF News, which looks at happenings in
the worlds of science fiction in a comedic style similar to Comedy
Central's The Daily Show.
He 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."
Other writings include
"Open Letter to Sci-Fi TV Executives," "Who Mourns
for Enterprise?" and "Hall of Lame: Best of the Worst
Characters in Sci-Fi."
Joe co-hosts RevolutionSF
Radio, which features RevolutionSF News and comedy sketches
like "Live Action Fanfic Theater."
Joe lives in Fultondale,
Alabama, with his wife Stefanie and daughter Quin.
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 Jon Cunningham
"Amateur" Star Trek
Jon
is a graduate of the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania,
in film and animation. His student film, Waterfall, won
a Director's Citation at the Black Mariah Film Festival. In
Los Angeles, Jon co-wrote and produced the pilot presentation for
The Privateers. He also designed space ships and sets
for that presentation. Jon also directed and produced a short
for that project called Beach Blanket Buccaneers. For
his first feature, Demon Under Glass, Jon wore many hats. In
addition to co-writing the script, Jon directed and designed many
of the sets and major props. His last Star Trek-related
gig was editing Gabriel Koerner's Really Bad Star Trek short
for the Trekkies 2 DVD and designing the man-eating pineapples
for it.
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 Peter David
Star Trek Authors'
Cavalcade I
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 thirteenth
year on TrekTrak!
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 Don S. Davis
Star Trek
vs. Stargate
Don is a respected
character actor, a nationally exhibited painter, a woodcarver, a designer,
a former theater professor and a captain in the U.S. Army. He
began working in the film industry while teaching at the University
of British Columbia in Vancouver in the early 1980s, but left teaching
to pursue acting full-time in 1987.
Aside from his seven seasons
as Major General/Lieutenant General George Hammond on Stargate
SG-1, Don is perhaps best known for his recurring roles as the
father of Gillian Anderson's Special Agent Dana Scully on The X-Files
and as Major Garland Briggs on Twin Peaks.
Don has appeared in numerous
feature films, including The Fan, Alaska, A League
of Their Own, Hook, Cadence, Needful Things,
Mystery Date, Look Who's Talking, Con Air, Best
in Show and The 6th Day. He was a recurring player
in the Stephen J. Cannell CBS series Broken Badges and has
guest-starred on a multitude of shows, including Northern Exposure,
L.A. Law, Knots Landing, Wiseguy, 21 Jump
Street, Nightmare Cafe, M.A.N.T.I.S., The Outer
Limits (episodes "Living Hell" and "Voice of Reason"),
Poltergeist: The Legacy, The Sentinel, MacGyver
and UPN's The Twilight Zone. Don recently guest-starred
on the Stargate Atlantis episode "Home."
Don has had featured roles
in the television movies Fire on the Mountain, Stepsister,
Tricks, Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue, In Cold Blood,
Showtime's The Prisoner of Zenda, A Dream Is a Wish the
Heart Makes: The Annette Funicello Story, One More Mountain,
Columbo: A Bird in Hand, Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster,
Omen IV: The Awakening, Posing, Kurt Vonnegut's Theatre:
All the King's Horses and The Ranger, the Cook and the Hole
in the Sky, as well as the miniseries Atomic Train.
Davis currently resides
with his wife just outside of Vancouver and spends his spare time
honing his artistic talents and trying to improve his golf game.
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 Keith R.A. DeCandido
Star
Trek Authors' Cavalcade I
What's Coming Soon to Trek in Print
Keith
is an author, editor, musician, book packager, critic, essayist, anthologist
and karate student. He probably does some other things, too, but
he can't remember them due to the lack of sleep. In the Star
Trek universe, he has written eleven novels---two Next Generation, two Deep
Space Nine, three IKS
Gorkon and four cross-series---ten Starfleet Corps of Engineers eBooks,
five short stories, one novella and a comic book miniseries. Coming
in 2007 are two more Trek
novels: The Mirror-Scaled Serpent, the Voyager portion of the Star Trek: Mirror Universe event in the
spring; and Q&A, which
is one of the post-Nemesis
novels being released to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of The Next Generation (and yes, it guest stars who you think). In
addition to all this writing, Keith is a freelance editor for the Trek line, having edited three anthologies,
several novels and is responsible for the monthly Star Trek eBook line. He has also
written in the universes of Buffy
the Vampire Slayer, World of Warcraft, StarCraft, Marvel Comics, Doctor
Who, Serenity, Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda,
Farscape and a whole lot more. In what he laughingly calls
his spare time, Keith is a professional percussionist, currently a member
of Dragon*Con musical guests the Boogie Knights, a practitioner of kenshikai karate, and devoted follower
of the New York Yankees.
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 Aaron Douglas
Star Trek vs. the New Battlestar Galactica
Aaron was born in 1971 in New Westminster, British Columbia, has a
reputation for being a prankster and is known for the uncanny ability
to turn any subject or conversation into a comedy routine. After
graduating from high school, Aaron studied at the William Davis Centre
for Actors in Vancouver and performed with the Okanagan Shakespeare
Company. He has appeared in such feature films as Man About
Town, White Noise, Catwoman, I, Robot, The
Chronicles of Riddick, Walking Tall, Saved!, Paycheck,
X-Men 2 and Final Destination 2. On television,
Aaron has appeared on such shows as The Dead Zone, Andromeda,
The L Word, The Chris Isaak Show, Jeremiah, Black
Sash, The Outer Limits, Stargate SG-1, Smallville
and Dark Angel, as well as The Sci-Fi Channel's miniseries
Steven Spielberg Presents Taken.
Currently, Aaron is portraying
Chief Galen Tyrol in The Sci-Fi Channel's hit series, Battlestar
Galactica.
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 Ken
Feinberg
Star Trek
Guest Stars
Atlanta native Ken Feinberg earned his degree in filmmaking, directing
and writing from the University of Georgia with minors in Drama and
Art. For more than 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.
In 2004, Ken was 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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 Esther Friesner
Star Trek Authors'
Cavalcade I
Esther is the author of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Warchild,
Star Trek: The Next Generation: To Storm Heaven, Star Trek:
Star Fleet Academy: Aftershock, Star Trek: The Next Generation:
Starfleet Academy: Crossfire, and the Young Adult novelization
of Star Trek: Insurrection.
Esther was educated
at Vassar College, where she completed B.A.s in both Spanish and Drama.
She went to on to Yale University, where within five years she
was awarded an M.A. and Ph.D. in Spanish. She taught Spanish
at Yale for a number of years before going on to become a full-time
author of fantasy and science fiction. She has published twenty-seven
novels so far. Her most recent titles include The Psalms
of Herod and The Sword of Mary from White Wolf and Child
of the Eagle from Baen Books.
Esther's short fiction
and poetry have appeared in Asimov's, Fantasy and Science
Fiction, Aboriginal SF, Pulphouse (The Hardback
Magazine), Amazing and Fantasy Book, as well as
in numerous anthologies. Her story, "Love's Eldritch Ichor,"
was featured in the 1990 World Fantasy Convention book.
Her first stint as an anthology
editor was Alien Pregnant by Elvis, a collection of truly gonzo
original tabloid SF for DAW Books. Wisely, she undertook this
project with the able collaboration of Martin H. Greenberg. Not
having learned their lesson, they have also co-edited Chicks in
Chainmail, an anthology of Amazon comedy for Baen Books; Blood
Muse, an anthology of vampire stories for Donald I. Fine, Inc.;
and are currently working on Did You Say "Chicks"?!,
the long-awaited sequel to Chicks in Chainmail.
Ask Auntie Esther
was her regular etiquette and advice to the SF-lorn in Pulphouse
magazine. Being paid for telling other people how to run their
lives sounds like a pretty good deal to her.
Esther won the Nebula Award
for Best Short Story of 1995 for her work "Death and the Librarian,"
and the Nebula for Best Short Story of 1996 for "A Birth Day."
(A Birth Day" was also a 1996 Hugo Award finalist.) Her
novelette, Jesus at the Bat, was on the final Nebula ballot
in the same year that "Death and the Librarian" won the
award. In addition, she has won the Romantic Times award for
Best New Fantasy Writer in 1986 and the Skylark Award in 1994. Her
short story, "All Vows," took second place in the Asimov's
SF Magazine Readers' Poll for 1993 and was a finalist for the
Nebula in 1994. Her Star Trek: Deep Space Nine novel,
Warchild, made the USA Today bestseller list.
She lives in Connecticut
with her husband, two children, two rambunctious cats and a fluctuating
population of hamsters.
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 Diana G. Gallagher
Star Trek
Authors' Cavalcade II
Diana has written
more than twenty-five Intermediate Reader and Young Adult novels in
several series, including The Secret World of Alex Mac, Are
You Afraid of the Dark, The Mystery Files of Shelby Woo,
Sabrina the Teenage Witch, and Star Trek. Her
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Young Adult novels include Arcade
and Day of Honor: Honor Bound, as well as the Starfleet Academy
Young Adult novel, The Chance Factor (with Martin R. Burke).
Diana lives in Florida
with her husband, Marty Burke, four dogs, seven cats and a cranky
parrot. Although she had always wanted to be a writer, she spent
several years teaching kids to ride horses and then spent a few more
as a professional folk musician. When she discovered science
fiction and Star Trek via Star Wars, she not only discovered
what she wanted to write, but also an outlet for expression in music
and art. While diligently pounding out a few million unsold
words, she gained a certain notoriety among science fiction fans and
space development advocated with her songs about humanity's future
in space. During the beginning stages of writing The Alien
Dark, her first published novel, Diana also tried her hand at
whimsical fantasy art. What began as a means of paying convention
expenses and having fun soon developed into a full-time artistic endeavor.
Best known for her hand-colored prints depicting the doglike
activities of Woof: The House Dragon, she won a Hugo for Best Fan
Artist, 1988. However, when The Alien Dark finally sold,
Diana decided she had to concentrate on writing. She has written
more then forty novels for all ages in several series, including Buffy
the Vampire Slayer, Charmed, Sabrina the Teenage Witch
and Star Trek.
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 Kevin R. Grazier
Star Trek
vs. the New Battlestar Galactica
Dr. Kevin R. Grazier is currently the Science Advisor for the PBS
animated series The Zula Patrol, as well as The Sci-Fi Channel
series Eureka and Battlestar Galactica. He also
writes the monthly Battlestar Galactica TECH Blog on www.hollywoodnorthreport.com. He has worked with Richard
Hatch on both Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming and Great
War of Magellan projects.
Kevin is a planetary scientist
at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California,
and holds the dual titles of Investigation Scientist and Science Planning
Engineer for the Cassini/Huygens Mission to Saturn and Titan. Kevin's
research involves long-term large-scale computer simulations of solar
system dynamics, evolution and chaos with collaborators at UCLA, Los
Alamos National Laboratory, the University of Auckland, Purdue University
and the Space Science Institute. At JPL, he has written mission
planning and analysis software that won both JPL- and NASA-wide awards.
Kevin has been featured
in several documentaries; he co-hosted the premier episode of Discovery
Channel's Science Live! Kid's Edition and even co-anchored
CNN's coverage of Cassini's Saturn orbit insertion with Miles O'Brien.
In what passes for his
spare time, Dr. Grazier teaches classes in basic astronomy, planetary
science, cosmology and the search for extraterrestrial life at both
UCLA and Santa Monica College. He is also a planetarium lecturer
at Los Angeles' famed Griffith Observatory, and is the interim director
of the Drescher Planetarium at Santa Monica College.
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 Richard Hatch
Star
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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Star Trek
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One of Canada's leading actors---and a familiar face internationally
through her roles in the TekWar franchise, the Academy Award-winning
movie The English Patient and the miniseries Stephen King's
Storm of the Century---Torri now brings to Stargate Atlantis,
as Dr. Elizabeth Weir, the same talent and intensity that earned her
a Gemini Award for Best Actress-Drama for the Canadian hit series The
City.
Born in Burlington, Ontario,
Torri created her own earliest screen role as the star and executive
producer of the 23-minute short The Photographer's Wife, made
through a Netherlands company created to encourage young filmmakers.
She broke into episodic TV with a 1992 episode of Forever Knight
and went on to appear in the telefilms The Women of Windsor and
Family Pictures before landing the role of beautiful scientist
Beth Kittridge in William Shatner's TekWar TV movies. She
reprised the role in the first several episodes of the subsequent series.
After co-starring in the
futuristic action film Jungleground (1995), she appeared in The
English Patient as Mary, the nurse who, as Torri puts it, "didn't
blow up." Torri went on to major roles in such action and science
fiction movies as Memory Run a.k.a. Synapse (1996), Airborne
(1998), Charles Bronson's Family of Cops III TV movie (1999)
and the miniseries Stephen King's Storm of the Century (1999). Then
came her breakthrough as lawyer and Toronto socialite Katharine Strachan
Berg in the gritty CTV telefilm and series The City (seen in
the U.S. as Deep in the City).
Other works include the films
Rats, Turning Paige, Irish Eyes and Crust,
the Stephen King short Autopsy Room Four and guest appearances
on series including Highlander: The Raven, The Outer Limits
(the episode "Haven"), the docudrama miniseries Canada: A People's
History and the women's erotica anthology Bliss.
Her theater work includes
Edward Albee's Pulitzer Prize-winning Three Tall Women, Zadie's
Shoes, The Mill on the Floss, Phyllis Nagy's Weldon Rising
and Steve Martin's Picasso at the Lapin Agile. The proud
owner of a dog named Addy Twiggy Chicken Legs Killer and a cat named
Shaka Zulu Gumbo Yaya, Torri counts among her avocations exotic travel---which
last year included a 7,500-foot climb up Mount Sinai in Egypt as well
as "an amazing and grueling 10-day hiking trek through mountainous Chiang
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 Brian Holloway
Professional Star
Trek Costume-Building
Star Trek vs. Star Trek
Brian began his theater career at the ripe old age of 7 when he appeared
in a regional theatrical production of Fiddler on the Roof
with his father. Since then, the acting bug has hit hard and
became a full-time commitment. Although he dabbled in the medical
field for a short time, he could not be kept long from the bright
lights and appeal of the stage. After receiving his BFA in Performance
Arts, he toured nationally with several theater organizations for
about seven years and could be seen headlining in productions ranging
from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Henry IV,
Parts I and II to musicals like Big River, Man of La
Mancha, Kiss Me, Kate and Jekyll & Hyde, to
name a few.
Brian got into science
fiction when he was still in high school in Utah and has been and
avid and regular convention attendee since he was 15. He has
also received theater degrees in costume and makeup design and has
won national and regional awards for his design work. He even
had costume designs for an original theatrical piece, HOTLINE!,
displayed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. While
in Utah, he was fortunate to befriend Paula Crist, an actress and
stuntwoman for productions like Star Trek: The Motion Picture,
Battlestar Galactica and the TV series Planet of the Apes.
Paula got him connected to the film industry and he has been
fortunate enough to land limited work in such productions as The
Patriot, Last of the Mohicans, Domestic Disturbance,
Doctor Who: The Movie, Highlander: The Series, Shallow
Hal and Star Trek (an extra in the background in The
Motion Picture and in the Voyager episode "Nemesis").
Brian now lives in Charlotte,
North Carolina, and has had the great fortune to meet such wonderful
people here and has learned much from local celebrities and fellow
con-goers such as Cheralyn Lambeth, the 501st Squadron and the SCA
Wardrobe Guild.
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 Chris Jones
Star Trek
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Star Trek vs. Star Trek
Chris has been a Star Trek and science fiction fan in one capacity
or another for most of his life. He cut his teeth on shows such
as Lost in Space, Johnny Quest and the original Star
Trek in the 1960s, and has continued his involvement in Trek
and science fiction shows, stories and activities to the present day.
Chris has participated in sci-fi and fantasy gaming as far back
as the mid-'70s, including board strategy games, role play games and
miniature games, including running game demos.
Though his primary occupation
is as a computer technician, he has served many years in the military
under multiple occupations, including deployment to Operation Enduring
Freedon / Iraqi Freedom III. He has been an extra in TV and
movies, and has been involved in running Sci Fi Summer Con Atlanta
for the last four years. Chris is currently a member of the
Klingon Assault Group in the ship IKAV Nemesis, for whom he
helps coordinate public events such as Toys for Tots. He also
designs insignia and accessories for Klingon costumes.
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 Keela & Katkith
Keela & 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.
Keela & Katkith
debuted their Klingon Karaoke at TrekTrak in 2005 to an enormously
enthusiastic audience and are delighted to return in 2006 for their
second year. 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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 John Kelly
"Amateur"
Star Trek
Star Trek:
New Voyages
John has acted since high school and through college in productions
such as Come Back, Little Sheba, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's
Nest and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof. He has been involved
with Star Trek: New Voyages almost since the beginning, as
a producer and actor. He auditioned for and won the role of
the irascible Dr. Leonard McCoy. John has earned many fans for
his portrayal of the lovable doctor. Ironically, in real life,
he is a doctor in Oregon!
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 Cheralyn L. Lambeth
Professional 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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 Rachel Luttrell
Star Trek
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Canadian actress Rachel Luttrell played the recurring role of Veronica
Buck in the CBC young attorneys series Street Legal in the
early 1990s, and has appeared in episodes of E.R., Touched
by an Angel, Charmed, In the House, Maniac Mansion
and Forever Knight. Her films include Imposter,
opposite Gary Sinise and Madeleine Stowe; Joe's So Mean to Josephine,
with Sarah Polley; the half-hour short Personal Effects; and
the miniseries Anne Rice's The Feast of All Saints. Her
wide range of performance credits include the CBC's supernatural radio
play The Famished Road, the stage play Goblin Market
and the AIDS research benefit CD, Voices of Broadway: Songs of
Conscience and Hope. Rachel currently costars as Teyla Emmagan
in the Sci-Fi Channel series Stargate Atlantis.
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 Lee Meriwether
Star Trek
Guest Stars
Most know
Lee as "Betty" in the highly successful CBS series Barnaby
Jones, where she costarred with Buddy Ebsen for eight years, and
of course The Time Tunnel, the Irwin Allen classic, in which
she appeared with Bob Colbert and James Darren. Star
Trek fans will remember Lee as Losira in the classic Star Trek
third-season episode "That Which Survives."
Her noteworthy film roles
include Andy Griffith's pregnant wife in Angel In My Pocket,
Rock Hudson's southern belle wife in The Undefeated, the swimming
partner of Namu, The Killer Whale, the "man" killed
by Kim Novak in The Legend of Lylah Clare and she played Catwoman
in the original Batman movie.
She is preparing a one-woman
show, Women's Voices of Spoon River, where she will be playing
25 women, ages 8 to 96, with accents for most of them and she never
leaves the stage! She recently sang and danced her way across
country while she appeared on stage for six months in the all-star
national tour of the 20th century production of Dan Goggin's musical
Nunsense.
She starred with her husband,
Marshall Borden, in A Little Night of Music, Love Letters and
four national tours of Neil Simon's Plaza Suite. She
also sang the leading roles in I Do I Do, Mame, Hello,
Dolly! and with George Chakiris in The King and I.
But theatre is Lee's
first love and she just finished working with dear friends in yet
another version of the musical Nunsense at Theatre West, her
actors workshop in Hollywood. Lee's family? Husband Marshall
Borden's adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo just concluded
the season with rave reviews for the national theatre of Canada. And
her daughters are in "the biz" as well. Lesley is
an active stunt woman and Kyle, an actress, is equally busy raising
Ryan, Lee's 12-year-old granddaughter.
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Star Trek
Authors' Cavalcade I
Terri made her professional fiction writing debut in 2003 with the
critically acclaimed "Three Sides to Every Story," the Jake
Sisko and Tora Ziyal story in the Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
tenth anniversary anthology Prophecy and Change. Other short
fiction includes "'Q'uandary," the Selar story in the Star
Trek: New Frontier anthology No Limits, and "Eighteen
Minutes," a story featuring The Doctor in the Star Trek: Voyager
tenth anniversary anthology Distant Shores. Her eBook
Malefictorum, the landmark 50th installment in the monthly
Star Trek: S.C.E. series and a 24th century locked-room murder
mystery, was released in March, reaching #7 on ereader.com's overall
bestseller list. She landed eBook number 61 in the Star Trek:
S.C.E. series, entitled Progress, in which we'll revisit
the people of Drema IV and catch up with a young woman named Sarjenka.
Beyond that, she is hard at work at more fiction, both in and
out of the Star Trek universe, including an original dark fantasy
novel. Visit Terri's web site at www.terriosborne.com.
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Star Trek
vs. Star Trek
Star Trek
XI: A New Hope?
James is a freelance writer, columnist, journalist and reviewer who
has written articles, columns, interviews, fiction and poetry for
the defunct SciFiNow, as well as RevolutionSF.com,
the Hugo-nominated webzine Strange Horizons, Singu1arity,
the poetry magazine Scifaikuest, The Internet Review of
Science Fiction, Surreal and Worlds Apart. He
also writes a movie review column entitled "Barium Cinema"
for the magazine Continuum Science Fiction, and has written
non-sport trading 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 David Brin, Stephen Baxter,
Robert J. Sawyer, 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.
James is also a freelance
business journalist and copywriter who writes mainstream magazine
articles for such publications as Address Macon and Gwinnett
Business Journal, as well as press releases, web copy and sales
letters for a broad range of clients. He also created the media
kit for the horror film Hell's End for Southlan Films, a Georgia-based
independent film company, and is on the PR committee of Mythic Journeys,
an annual multi-disciplinary conference on the importance of myth
and imagination in modern life.
A Georgia native, James
holds a Bachelor's degree in English. He lives in Flowery Branch,
Georgia, with his wife Kelley 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, listening
to podcasts and plotting to replace the world's leaders with robot
duplicates. For examples of his work, please visit his web site
at www.jamesmpalmer.com/sf.
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Star Trek vs. Stargate
Kevin has been a Star Trek enthusiast for over twenty years.
With his first convention right here in Georgia---Dixie Trek
in 1986---he has been an avid participant in the science fiction genre
ever since. He joined the Klingon Assault Group (KAG) in 1989
and is currently the Captain of the IKAV Nemesis in Lawrenceville,
Georgia. Kevin appeared in the films Robocop 3 and Days
of Thunder. You can see him during the Halloween season
as the monster of your choice at Netherworld and in commercials for
The Next Generation on Spike TV as "the Bad Boy of Star
Trek."
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"Amateur"
Star Trek
Star Trek vs. Star Trek
Star Trek vs. the New Battlestar Galactica
Star Trek XI: A New Hope?
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