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Denise Adelman
Star Trek vs. Stargate
Denise was born and raised in Atlanta and has a B.A. in Communication and a minor in Theater.  Since college, she has worked in radio, theatre and television production, including Knuckle Sandwich and Limousine Ride.  Currently, she is the Director of Film Forum on People TV, and manages e-commerce for her family's business.  For a hobby, Denise interviews celebrities, including Tony Amendola (Bra'tac from Stargate SG-1).  She is the executive officer of Stargate Atlanta, one of the most active Stargate fan clubs in the U.S., and on the Programming Committee for TimeGate, a Stargate and Doctor Who convention in Atlanta.
        Denise has a Sheltie dog, named Sebastian, who we all know and love as Daniel Jackson of the four-legged kind.  Beyond the theater and movies, Denise enjoys poetry and is a "Techno-Geek."  You rarely see her without her laptop, PDA, Stargate Atlanta Bluetooth, digital cameras and digital projector.  Sam Carter is her favorite character along with Daniel Jackson, her ultimate nerd.
 

 
Jamie Bamber
Star Trek vs. the New Battlestar Galactica
Jamie stars as Major Lee "Apollo" Adama on the Sci-Fi Channel television program Battlestar Galactica.
        Jamie St. John Bamber Griffith was born in London to an American father, Ralph, and a Northern Irish mother, Liz.  He spent his early school years in Paris, where his father worked as a management consultant.  His mother had trained and worked as an actress in London before starting a family and moving to France.  Jamie is one of seven siblings, having a younger brother and a younger sister as well as four older half-brothers from his father's first marriage, all of whom were raised as a single family.  It was Jamie's mother who first awakened his love of drama while she ran a children's theater group at the American Cathedral in Paris; his first role was as the Wicked Witch of the West in The Wizard of Oz, cast by his mother, who as yet lacked a daughter.
        It was as a child that Jamie did his first paid acting work, dubbing a French film into English while in Paris and then doing the odd TV commercial after moving back to the U.K. at the age of 7.  At St. Paul's School in London, he developed his love for the theater and for all things athletic.  He became School Captain in his final year, before going to Cambridge University to study French and Italian literature.  While there, he played university rugby and performed in many theatrical productions.  He also spent a study year in Pavia, Italy, before graduating with first-class honors.
        While Jamie has always wanted to act, his acceptance to the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art marked the decision to make it his career.  Still at LAMDA, he was cast in his first professional role, as Archie Kennedy in TV's Horatio Hornblower miniseries.  His recent credits include Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks' HBO miniseries, Band of Brothers, as well as Daniel Deronda for the BBC.  Jamie was a series regular on the ITV shows Peak Practice and Ultimate Force, and most recently portrayed the role of Price Hal in Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2, at the Bristol Old Vic.
        Jamie has since worked steadily in TV, film and radio in Europe and the United States.
 

 
Joel Bellucci
Star Trek: New Voyages
TrekTrak Presents: "World Enough and Time"
The Missing Minority: Here at Last?
Joel is a marine scientist, web designer and visual effects artist.  His marine experiences range from photo-ID studies of bottlenosed dolphins to diving under the Antarctic ice sheet.  He's been a contributor to 3D Artist Magazine as well as to numerous local newspapers and magazines.  He's also active in Florida's Tampa/St. Pete GLBT community through the Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, for which he's done film trafficking for the last four years.  He is single-handedly responsible for converting innumerable individuals (15, actually) to the joys of The Next Generation and would like to think that he is somehow responsible for the success of Patrick Stewart's career.
        Joel is also a cast member on---and visual effects artist for---Star Trek: New Voyages and its spinoff, Star Trek: First Voyages.
 

 
Autumn-Skye Boothe
The 2007 Miss Klingon Empire Beauty Pageant
Autumn-Skye is the owner of Majestic Productions USA, producers of the Miss Virginia Galaxy, Miss Atlantic Shores and Miss American Majesty beauty pageants.  She has over 18 years of pageant experience, spanning from her first title as Miss Columbia National Teenager in 1987 to her most recent crowning as Ms. Maryland East Coast USA 2005, and is a certified judge in the Maryland MAO (Miss America Organization).  A former Miss Virginia Galaxy and Miss US Galaxy queen, she graduated Columbia College with honors at age 15.  Since then, she has helped coach five national queens and numerous runners-up as the owner of Queen's Court Coaching.  Autumn-Skye has since completed a post-baccalaureate degree and also does consulting work with a major insurance company in addition to directing pageants.
        Recently married, Autumn-Skye has two children: daughter Audrey, age 11, and stepson Stephen, age 12.  Her husband Carl is a sales manager who helps the family business as co-director of their three pageant systems.  Autumn-Skye loves collecting Titanic items, antique Good Housekeeping magazines and Depression glass.  She enjoys taking Carl and the family to Riverdogs hockey games whenever possible, as well as watching Desperate Housewives and of course, keeping Starbucks in business through a healthy addiction to their Iced Chai Latte.
       Autumn-Skye has served as a judge for the Miss Klingon Empire Beauty Pageant for the last six years, and TrekTrak is pleased to welcome her to the 2007 pageant!
 

 
Melissa Carter
The Missing Minority: Here at Last?
Melissa is co-host of "The Bert Show" on All The Hits Q100 radio in Atlanta.  She is also co-host of Twist radio, a nationally syndicated show broadcast in 14 major cities, including New York, Los Angeles, Washington, D.C. and Las Vegas.
        Having received a life-saving kidney transplant in 2002, Melissa also participates in the U.S. Transplant Games, an Olympic-style event where all the athletes are organ transplant recipients.
        Melissa has served as Grand Marshal in both Atlanta's Gay Pride Parade and in Provincetown's Carnival Parade, has been honored as Best Radio DJ by Atlanta's Creative Loafing two years in a row, and has appeared as a guest performer in Atlanta productions of The Vagina Monologues, Shear Madness and The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee.
       This is Melissa's fifth appearance on TrekTrak!
 

 
Larry Chalkley
The Music of Star Trek
Loading the Canon: What Is "Real" Star Trek?
Larry has been a fan of Star Trek for as long as he can remember.  Over the past twenty years, he has spoken on the topic of Trek and its impact on society to various groups and organizations, including the Science Museum of Virginia, the Richmond First Club and the University of Richmond.
        As an avid collector of Trek, Larry created memorabilia displays for the Science Museum of Virginia, Barnes and Noble and local libraries during Star Trek’s 25th anniversary.  Additionally, his comprehensive Trek card collection was featured in the magazine Tuff Stuff’s Collect.
        Most recently, Larry served as an advisor to a local video production company making a Trek parody for a corporate client.
 

 
Robert J. Christensen
Star Trek: The Animated Series: The Verdict
An honors graduate of the Art Institute of Atlanta, R. J. is a freelance animator and video editor for Sanctified Crack Gorilla Productions (or SCG when they answer the phone).  He is also a writer for Chaosium Publishing with such titles as Terror at Erne Rock, Return to Camelot, War of the Spectres and The Casting Call of Cthulhu, as well being featured in the upcoming publication Arkham Now.  He admittedly got the bejeezus scared out of him after watching "The Devil in the Dark" at age 5, but eventually recovered.
 

 
David Churvis
The Music of Star Trek
Dave has been watching Star Trek in its various incarnations since he was four years old and a show called Star Trek: The Next Generation debuted and changed his view on the world forever.  Since then, he has become an expert in all things Trek, as well as an accomplished software engineer and musician.  He currently lives in Norcross, Georgia, with his partner Matt, his musical instruments and about a billion DVDs.
 

 
Ann C. Crispin
Star Trek Authors Cavalcade: The Ladies
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.
 

 

Joe Crowe
Star Trek XI: The Search for (A New) Spock?
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.

 

 

Peter David
Star Trek Authors Cavalcade: The Gentlemen
TrekTrak Presents: Peter David
Peter 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 fourteenth year on TrekTrak!

 

 
John de Lancie
Star Trek Guest Stars
The 2007 Miss Klingon Empire Beauty Pageant
TrekTrak Presents: Data, The Doctor and Q

John de Lancie, whose portrayal of the mercurial character "Q" in Star Trek: The Next Generation has made him internationally (if not intergalactically) famous, was not always an omnipotent being descended from the Q Continuum.  In fact, he comes from Philadelphia.
        At 14, John played the part of Henry the Fifth in a school play.  To everyone's astonishment, he was good.  His father suggested to his son that he become an actor. John went on to Kent State University, where he immersed himself in the drama program.  After Kent came the Juilliard Drama School, and after Juilliard, John joined the American Shakespeare Festival at Stratford.  At the close of the season, he was offered a contract with Universal Studios in California.  For two years, he worked at Universal on over 35 shows, including the acclaimed miniseries Black Beauty, Little Women, The Thornbirds and The Captains and Kings.  In 1980, John went back to the theater as a member of the Seattle Repertory Company.  A year later, he returned to Los Angeles and created the very successful character of Eugene Bedford for the daytime series Days of Our Lives.  What ensued can only be described as a three-year "romp" that broke the mold of daytime TV and garnered John two People's Choice awards, as well as a reputation for creative eccentricity.
        John's unique twist on nearly all the characters he's played continued into his next major role as the omnipotent "Q" on Star Trek: The Next Generation.  The cult popularity of this character is so widespread that John's likeness has appeared in countless merchandising and promotional products.  He has been the subject of hundreds of articles in newspapers and magazines and has won, time after time, the popular votes for "Best Villain," "Best Recurring" and "Best Loved" character in this vastly popular franchise.  Independent television stations throughout North America, Australia and England have hosted "John 'Q' Week," airing all his episodes together.
        John's feature film roles include The Hand that Rocks the Cradle, The Fisher King, Bad Influence, The Onion Field, Taking Care of Business, Arcade, Deep Red, Fearless, Evolver and Multiplicity.  He has appeared in over a hundred television shows, including Legend, L.A. Law, Picket Fences, Civil Wars, Thornbirds, The Practice and Touched by an Angel.
        John's most memorable stage roles include Jack Tanner in Man and Superman and Humphrey in The Common Pursuit.  He has performed with Kurt Masur and the New York Philharmonic, Esa Peka Salonen Orchestra and Montreal Symphony, Charles Dutoit with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Montreal Symphony, Andreas Delps and the Milwaukee Symphony and David Zinman and Lawrence Foster and the Aspen Music Festival Orchestra.  He has also performed at the Kennedy Center.  His repertoire includes Peer Gynt, King David, The Bourgeois Gentleman, The Lincoln Portrait, St. Joan, A Midsummer Night's Dream, Young People's Guide to the Orchestra and of course, Peter and the Wolf.
        John held the position of Associate Artistic Director of L.A. Theater Works, the producing arm of KCRW-FM and National Public Radio, where the series The Play's the Thing originates.  He has directed such plays as Fallen Angel with Annette Bening, Judith Ivey and Joe Mantegna; The Waldorf Conference with Edward Asner, Ron Rifkin, Shelley Berman and John Randolph and the nationwide Halloween National Public Radio broadcast of Invasion from Mars with Leonard Nimoy.  John has performed in many radio shows, the most memorable being Cassius on the BBC Radio Production of Julius Caesar, co-starring Stacy Keach and Richard Dreyfuss.
        John is co-owner, with Leonard Nimoy, of Alien Voices, a production company devoted to the dramatization of classic science fiction.  Alien Voices has produced for Simon & Schuster Audio two-hour dramatizations of The Time Machine, Journey to the Center of the Earth, The Lost World, The Invisible Man and First Men in the Moon.  Alien Voices has also produced for The Sci-Fi Channel three one-hour live specials: The First Men in the Moon, The Lost World and a Halloween tribute to Poe, Wilde and Kipling.
        John is married to actress-singer Marnie Mosiman, with whom he has two sons.
 

 
Keith R.A. DeCandido
Star Trek: The Comic Books
Star Trek Authors Cavalcade: The Gentlemen
Loading the Canon: What Is "Real" Star Trek?
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 thirteen novels---three Next Generation, two Deep Space Nine, one Voyager, three I.K.S. Gorkon and four cross-series---ten Starfleet Corps of Engineers eBooks, five short stories, one novella and a comic book miniseries.  His most recent entry is Q&A, one of the three post-Nemesis novels celebrating 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, including the Corps of Engineers as well as the two anniversary miniseries Mere Anarchy and Slings and Arrows.  Keith 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.  Find out less about Keith at www.DeCandido.net.
 

 
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.
 

 
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.
 

 
Jonathan Frakes
Star Trek vs. the New Battlestar Galactica
The TrekTrak Show
Star Trek: The Next Generation Cast Reunion

Jonathan is best known for his portrayal of Commander William T. Riker in 177 episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation from 1987 to 1994, as well as the four Next Generation feature films, Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection and Star Trek: Nemesis.  He also played the character in one episode each of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise.  A respected director, he also directed eight episodes of The Next Generation, three episodes of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, three episodes of Star Trek: Voyager, as well as the feature films Star Trek: First Contact and Star Trek: Insurrection.
        Jonathan grew up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, in the Lehigh Valley region of the state, and is a 1969 graduate of Bethlehem's Liberty High School.  He received a Bachelors of Fine Arts in Theater Arts at Penn State University in the early 1970s, where he was also a member of the Thespians.  He continued his studies at Harvard and spent several seasons performing at the Loeb Drama Center.
       He moved to New York City and became a member of The Impossible Ragtime Theater.  In that company, Jonathan did his first off-Broadway acting in Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape.  His first Broadway appearance was in Shenandoah.  At the same time, he landed a role in the NBC soap opera The Doctors.  When his character was dismissed from the soap, Jonathan moved to Los Angeles and played guest spots in many of the top television shows of the 1970s and 1980s, including The Waltons, Matlock and Steven Bochco's Hill Street Blues.  Jonathan also played the part of Charles Lindbergh in a 1983 episode of Voyagers! titled "An Arrow Pointing East."  Before signing for the role of Riker on Star Trek: The Next Generation, he had recurring roles in Falcon Crest and North and South, in which he played Stanley Hazard of Hazard Iron, a weak man easily manipulated by his mother and wife, a character in stark contrast to the strong Commander Riker.
        He has done animation voice acting, most notably voicing the recurring role of David Xanatos in the animated series Gargoyles, and he provided the voice of his own head in a jar in the Futurama episode "Where No Fan Has Gone Before."  He hosted Beyond Belief: Fact or Fiction and had a small, uncredited role in the 1994 movie Camp Nowhere.
        Jonathan is also the only Star Trek regular besides Majel Barrett to appear on four different Star Trek series (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise).  He has directed episodes in three of them (TNG, DS9 and VOY) and was a popular and innovative director on the Star Trek set, often finding completely new ways to shoot the show's familiar sets.
        His talents are not limited to the acting arts.  Jonathan appears on the Phish album Hoist, playing trombone on the track titled "Riker's Mailbox."  Indeed, Jonathan would occasionally perform on the trombone during his tenure as Commander Riker.
        Jonathan married soap opera actress Genie Francis on May 28, 1988.  They live in Maine with their son, Jameson Ivor, born in 1994, and daughter, Elizabeth Francis, born in 1997.  Jonathan, an avid dog lover, prides himself on the daily upkeep of his purebred sheepdog Carlo.  Jonathan works with The Workshops, The Waterfall Arts Center and The Saltwater Film Society, all located in Maine, where he teaches classes on film direction.  He co-owns a home furnishings store with his wife Genie Francis in Belfast, Maine called The Cherished Home.
 

 
Diana G. Gallagher
Star Trek Authors Cavalcade: The Ladies

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.
 

 
Kevin R. Grazier
Star Trek vs. the New Battlestar Galactica
Dr. Kevin R. Grazier is the Science Advisor for The Sci-Fi Channel series Battlestar Galactica, Eureka and the PBS animated series The Zula Patrol.  He worked with Richard Hatch on both Battlestar Galactica: The Second Coming and Great War of Magellan projects, writes the (more or less) monthly Battlestar Galactica TECH Blog on www.hollywoodnorthreport.com and is currently serving as the editor for two books in the BenBella SmartPop series: The Science of "Dune" and The Science of Michael Crichton.
        Kevin received his Ph.D. in planetary physics from UCLA and is a planetary scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California.  He 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.  He has also written mission planning and analysis software that won both JPL- and NASA-wide awards.
        Kevin has been featured in several documentaries, 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 (the CNN guy, not the DS9 guy).
        In what passes for his spare time, Dr. Grazier teaches classes in basic astronomy, planetary science, cosmology and the search for extraterrestrial life at UCLA, Glendale College and Santa Monica College.  He is also a planetarium lecturer at Los Angeles' famed, and recently re-opened, Griffith Observatory.
 

 
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.
 

 
Brian Holloway
Star Trek: New Voyages
TrekTrak Presents: "World Enough and Time"
Professional Star Trek Costume-Building
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.
 

 
Chris Jones
Star Trek: The Animated Series: The Verdict
Star Trek vs. Stargate
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 five 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.
 

 
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!
 

 
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.
 

 
BarBara Luna
Star Trek Guest Stars
BarBara Luna was born in Manhattan and virtually grew up on Broadway.  Rodgers & Hammerstein cast her in the Broadway hit musical South Pacific to create the role of Ezio Pinza’s daughter Ngana.  When she outgrew her sarong, Luna, as she prefers to be called, was cast again by Rodgers & Hammerstein to appear in The King & I as one of the Siamese children.  By the time the show was closing, she had advanced to “swing girl” of the company.  With only several months left before graduating high school and not wanting to go on tour with the show, Luna decided to audition for the understudy role of Lotus Blossom in Teahouse of the August Moon.  Not only was she hired, eight months later, Luna was given the starring role in the first national touring company for three years.  This role was spoken entirely in Japanese.
        While she was appearing with Teahouse in Los Angeles, Luna was discovered by director Mervyn Leroy to portray the blind girl, Camille, and love interest to Frank Sinatra in The Devil at 4 O'Clock, also starring Spencer Tracy.  This led to other films such as Firecreek with James Stewart and Henry Fonda.  Working under the direction of Stanley Kramer in Ship of Fools with international legends Vivian Leigh, Simone Signoret, Oskar Werner and Lee Marvin was not only challenging, but one of the highlights in Luna’s career.  Portraying Cat, queen bee of the prison in The Concrete Jungle, which is now considered a cult film, was an even greater challenge.  After all, how often does one get to portray a drug-pushing lesbian killer?  Irwin Allen’s Five Weeks in a Balloon, starring Red Buttons, Fabian and Barbara Eden, gave Luna another chance to work with several other film legends: Peter Lorre, Sir Cedric Hardwicke and Herbert Marshall.
        Her versatile and timeless look, along with her talent, has afforded Luna the opportunity to have a lengthy television career as well.  Luna feels honored to be so well remembered for her portrayal of Marlena Moreau in the classic episode “Mirror, Mirror” from the original Star Trek series.  She has guest-starred on nearly five hundred television shows.  Some of her favorites are Walt Disney’s Zorro, The Big Valley, Hawaii Five-O, Buck Rogers in the 25th Century and The Outer Limits.
        Luna continued to keep one foot on Broadway.  In-between film commitments, she appeared in five companies of West Side Story in the role of Anita, including a revival at Lincoln Center in New York City.  Her last Broadway show was A Chorus Line in the role of Morales, in which she sang the beautiful Marvin Hamlish tune “What I Did for Love."  This inspired the multitalented Luna to meet with Hairspray Tony award winners Marc Shaiman and Scott Whitman to prepare a nightclub act for her... and that they did: “An Evening with BarBara Luna.”  A review was noticed by an agent at the William Morris office, who booked Luna to open for Bill Cosby at Caesars Palace in Atlantic City.
        Luna was offered the world of soap opera.  After a six-month stint of creating the role of Anna Ryder on Search for Tomorrow, she was then given a two-year contract to portray Maria Roberts on One Life to Live.  This character very quickly became notorious and extremely popular as “The bitch everyone loved to hate."
        Traveling around the world to attend Star Trek conventions and sometimes performing her club act has been very rewarding.  Meeting the fans has been heart-warming, informative and loads of fun, and for this she is grateful.
 

 
Gates McFadden
Star Trek vs. the New Battlestar Galactica
The TrekTrak Show
Star Trek: The Next Generation Cast Reunion
Prior to joining the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation in 1987, Gates worked extensively on the New York stage, both acting and directing.  Her roles include leads in the New York productions of To Gillian on Her 37th Birthday, How to Say Goodbye, Cloud 9 and Emerald City.
        During the third season of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Gates was seen in Beyond the Groove, a British television production, written and starring the late actor David Rappaport.  Other roles included the lead in the world premiere stage production of Derek Walcott's Viva Detroit in Los Angeles, the one-hour drama Marker during UPN's debut season, and the feature films Taking Care of Business and The Hunt for Red October.  Gates also appeared in The Muppets Take Manhattan.  After that, she continued to work with Jim Henson for several years, serving as director of choreography and puppet movement on the film Labyrinth.
        Raised in Ohio, Gates served on the faculties of several theater arts training programs around the country including New York University Graduate School of the Arts, Brandeis University and the University of Pittsburgh.  She earned her B.A. cum laude in Theater Arts from Brandeis University and studied with Jacques LeCoq in Paris for several years.  In 1991, prior to filming the fifth season of TNG, Gates gave birth to a next generation of her own, James Cleveland Gates-Talbot.
 

 
Jack Moore
Star Trek vs. Stargate
Jack was once asked what his earliest memories of science fiction were, and he refused to answer on the grounds of self-incrimination.  He was once noted as saying about his favorite celebrity, "the guy made a lot of money in television, film and theater.  I was right there with him, sitting on my butt, watching him make it the whole way."  Such qualifies Jack as a member of the unique subculture known as fandom.
        If only he had stopped there, he might not be what he is today: the Commander of Stargate Atlanta, the largest Stargate fan group in the city, if not the southeast.  He is also a director of the up-and-coming convention known as Timegate.  When not engrossed in the world of fantasy, he sidelines as an officer of the law---so well, that he has been paid to do it fulltime for the past twenty years.  He even still finds time to write and draw on occasion while fulfilling his lifelong dream of committing slow and painful suicide by raising a teenager on his own.
 

 

Larry Nemececk
Loading the Canon: What Is "Real" Star Trek?
Star Trek XI: The Search for (A New) Spock?
From the wilds of untamed Oklahoma, there is fandom among the football. Larry enjoyed both, and with his theatre degree in a back pocket as well, he found himself in Los Angeles to write 1992's Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion thanks to his own reference zines.
        Now editor of the once and future glossy licensed Communicator magazine and a contributor producer to CBS' startrek.com, the longtime columnist for Titan's UK-turned-US magazine was art coordinator and advisor on Trek's UK Fact Files, project consultant for everything from the World Tour to Star Trek: The Experience in Las Vegas, coauthor of The Making of First Contact (Titan) and contributor to the Star Trek Star Maps (Pocket)---and with wife Janet, sold the initial story for Star Trek: Voyager's "Prophecy."
        But his roots predate those cameos in the Star Trek: New Voyages fan films: the fan skeletons go back to OKC's old SoonerCon and his own ThunderCon, along with two theatre degrees and 10+ years in newsprint.  Now in SoCal, "get a life" also means docent time at hero Will Rogers' Historic Ranch State Park and helping found the Burbank Democratic Club.  And oh, yeah, being a dad.

 

 

Terri Osborne
Star Trek Authors Cavalcade: The Ladies
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.

 

 
James Palmer
Star Trek XI: The Search for (A New) Spock?
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.
 

 

Kevin Parker
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."

 

 
Carlos Pedraza
Star Trek vs. the New Battlestar Galactica
Star Trek: New Voyages
TrekTrak Presents: "World Enough and Time"

Star Trek XI: The Search for (A New) Spock?
The Missing Minority: Here at Last?
Carlos is a writer for Star Trek: New Voyages and is one of the creators of the forthcoming series Star Trek: First Voyages.  Before joining the New Voyages crew as an associate producer in 2005, Carlos was the staff writer and one of the producers of Star Trek: Hidden Frontier, the longest-running fan-produced science fiction series on the Internet.  Over the course of three seasons, he wrote 13 of that series' 43 episodes.  David Gerrold, writer of "The Trouble with Tribbles," authorized Carlos to rewrite his famous unproduced script for Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Blood and Fire," for production by New Voyages.  Carlos' work has been featured in Daily Variety, The Today Show on NBC, Countdown on MSNBC, ABC News, the Columbia News Service and The New York Times.  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.
        Carlos has previously appeared as a guest at Arisia, Gaylaxicon, the Starfleet Ball in the U.K., and at Dragon*Con last year, where he sat on these panels: "The Missing Minority," "Star Trek: Enterprise: The Final Verdict," "Star Trek vs. the New Battlestar Galactica" and "The Future of the Star Trek Franchise," and alongside the producers of Star Wars: Revelations on a fan film panel.
 

 
Brooke Perry
The Music of Star Trek
This year marks Brooke's 30th anniversary of convention-hopping, having met Gene Roddenberry at the age of 8.  Residing in Alabama, Brooke is a proud Ensign aboard Atlanta's own USS Republic NCC-1371 and is a contributor to their chapter newsletter, The Sovereign Star.  An avid soundtrack fanatic, Brooke is thrilled to be moderating this year's panel on one of his greatest passions, The Music of Star Trek.  He also devoutly worships the Holy Trinity: Jerry Goldsmith, Bernard Herrmann & Ennio Morricone.
 

 

Susan Rey
Star Trek vs. Stargate
A local Atlanta girl with a degree in Business Administration, Susan is an Operations Analyst for The Coca-Cola Company.  She is an avid fan of all sci-fi, growing up with Lost In Space, Buck Rogers, Johnny Quest and Star Trek.  Susan joined the world of fandom four years ago and helped found Stargate Atlanta, one of the most active fan clubs in Atlanta, and is currently a member of the local chapter of STARFLEET International, the USS Republic.  After being executive officer and commanding officer of Stargate Atlanta for three years, she is taking TimeGate from a one-day social event to a full-fledged convention for Stargate and Doctor Who on Memorial Day weekend in 2008.

 

 
Charles Root
Star Trek vs. the New Battlestar Galactica
Star Trek: New Voyages

TrekTrak Presents: "World Enough and Time"
The Missing Minority: Here at Last?

The 2007 Miss Klingon Empire Beauty Pageant
Star Trek vs. Stargate
Charles plays Lt. Cmdr Montgomery Scott in the fan-produced series Star Trek: New Voyages, set in the fourth year of the original series' five-year mission.
        Charles was born in 1970 in Burlington, Vermont, and graduated from Milton Jr. Sr. High School in 1988.  He studied computers, political science and theater at the University of Vermont and earned a Masters of Management of Information Systems from Columbus University, where he graduated summa cum laude.  He has also earned multiple belts in various martial arts, has run for political office and owned a couple of businesses.  In 2002, Charles rekindled a friendship with James Cawley and eventually joined Star Trek: New Voyages as a production assistant, where he eventually landed the role of Montgomery Scott.  More recently, Charles played a General in the upcoming zombie film Operation Dead 1, shot entirely in the Atlanta area.
        In October 2005, Charles married Amanda Shepard, who is related to Alan Shepard, the first American in space.  Visit Charles' web site at www.charlesroot.com.
 

 
Mark A. Sheppard
Star Trek vs. the New Battlestar Galactica
Star Trek Guest Stars

Mark is a British actor known for playing Leucon, the father of Icheb, in the Star Trek: Voyager sixth-season episode "Child's Play," and Romo Lampkin, the attorney appointed to represent Dr. Gaius Baltar, in the two-part third-season episode "Crossroads" in the Sci-Fi Channel's Battlestar Galactica.
        Mark also played Badger in Joss Whedon's series Firefly, the villainous Ivan Erwich in the hit series 24, Dr. Charles Walker in three episodes of Medium, and Christopher "C. J." Yates in 20 episodes of Soldier of Fortune, Inc.  He has also appeared in episodes of The X-Files, Charmed and Jake 2.0.  Mark will also appear in the pilot episode of the new series, Bionic Woman.
 

 
Josepha Sherman
Star Trek Authors Cavalcade: The Ladies
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, Books I, II, and III, all coauthored with Susan Shwartz.  Her other current titles include the reprint of the Unicorn Queen books from Del Rey and the almost-finished The Encyclopedia of Storytelling, due out early next year.  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.  She also is the owner of Sherman Editorial Services.
 

 
Michael Shermer
Gene Roddenberry: The Hero on the Edge of Forever
Dr. Michael Shermer is the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine (www.skeptic.com), the executive director of the Skeptics Society, a monthly columnist for Scientific American, the host of the Skeptics Distinguished Science Lecture Series at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), and the co-host and producer of the 13-hour Family Channel television series Exploring the Unknown.
       
Dr. Shermer is the author of Why Darwin Matters: Evolution and the Case Against Intelligent Design, as well as the recently published Science Friction: Where the Known Meets the Unknown, about how the mind works and how thinking goes wrong.  His book The Science of Good and Evil: Why People Cheat, Gossip, Share Care, and Follow the Golden Rule, is on the evolutionary origins of morality and how to be good without God.  He wrote a biography, In Darwin’s Shadow, about the life and science of the co-discoverer of natural selection, Alfred Russel Wallace.  He also wrote The Borderlands of Science, about the fuzzy land between science and pseudoscience, and Denying History, on Holocaust denial and other forms of pseudohistory.  His book How We Believe: Science, Skepticism, and the Search for God, presents his theory on the origins of religion and why people believe in God.  He is also the author of Why People Believe Weird Things on pseudoscience, superstitions and other confusions of our time.
       
According to the late Stephen Jay Gould (from his foreword to Why People Believe Weird Things): “Michael Shermer, as head of one of America’s leading skeptic organizations and as a powerful activist and essayist in the service of this operational form of reason, is an important figure in American public life.”
       
Dr. Shermer received his B.A. in psychology from Pepperdine University, M.A. in experimental psychology from California State University, Fullerton, and his Ph.D. in the history of science from Claremont Graduate University (1991).  He was a college professor for 20 years (1979-1998), teaching psychology, evolution and the history of science at Occidental College (1989-1998), California State University Los Angeles and Glendale College.  Since his creation of the Skeptics Society, Skeptic magazine, and the Skeptics Distinguished Science Lecture Series at Caltech, he has appeared on such shows as 20/20, Dateline, Charlie Rose, Larry King Live, Tom Snyder, The Phil Donahue Show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Leeza, Unsolved Mysteries and other shows as a skeptic of weird and extraordinary claims, as well as interviews in countless documentaries aired on PBS, A&E, Discovery, The History Channel, The Science Channel and The Learning Channel.
 

 
John C. Snider
Star Trek XI: The Search for (A New) Spock?
John is the editor of the online science fiction magazine scifidimensions.com, published monthly since February 2000.  He's also the founder and administrator of the Southeastern Science Fiction Achievement Award (the SESFA), designed to honor accomplishments in science fiction, fantasy and horror by individuals born or living in the Southern U.S.  His freelance writing has appeared in such diverse publications as Skeptic, Philosophy Now and Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest.  He lives in Roswell, Georgia (not New Mexico) with his lovely and intelligent wife.
 

 
Brent Spiner
Star Trek vs. the New Battlestar Galactica
The TrekTrak Show
Star Trek: The Next Generation Cast Reunion

TrekTrak Presents: Data, The Doctor and Q
Brent played the android Lieutenant Commander Data in 177 episodes of Star Trek: The Next Generation from 1987 to 1994, as well as the four Next Generation feature films, Star Trek: Generations, Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection and Star Trek: Nemesis.  He also played Data's "brother" Lore and Data's "father" Dr. Noonien Soong in several episodes of The Next Generation, as well as five additional characters in the 1992 episode "A Fistful of Datas."  In 2004, Brent also played Dr. Arik Soong, Data's "great-grandfather," in three episodes of Star Trek: Enterprise.
        Born and raised in Houston, Texas, Brent moved to New York after college, where he performed in numerous off-Broadway plays.  "The play that finally pushed me over into the serious-actor category was a public theater production of The Seagull [Anton Chekhov] for Joseph Papp," he says.  Brent eventually won roles in the Broadway musical productions of Sunday in the Park with George, The Three Musketeers and Big River, which was based on the story of Huckleberry Finn.
        After moving to Los Angeles in 1984, Brent appeared in the Westwood Playhouse production of Little Shop of Horrors.  His other credits include the Woody Allen film Stardust Memories, a cameo in the movie The Miss Firecracker Contest and guest-starring roles in such television series as Cheers, The Twilight Zone, Night Court and Hill Street Blues.  Brent has also been featured in the films Phenomenon, Independence Day, Out to Sea and the Oscar-nominated, Martin Scorcese-directed The Aviator.  He also appeared in the 2006 Hilary and Haylie Duff movie Material Girls.
        During the fourth-season hiatus of Star Trek: The Next Generation, Brent co-produced and released his first album, entitled Ol' Yellow Eyes Is Back, featuring some of the most popular classic standards ever recorded.  Included on the album is the single "It's a Sin to Tell a Lie," which has background vocals provided by the "The Sunspots," more familiar to Star Trek: The Next Generation fans as Patrick Stewart, Jonathan Frakes, LeVar Burton and Michael Dorn.
        Following on from his Star Trek duties, Brent has performed in a variety of capacities.  His vocal talents can be heard impersonating late-night talk show host Conan O'Brien in the feature-length animated movie South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut.  He also appeared in Introducing Dorothy Dandridge, the movie based on the tragic life of the first African-American woman to be nominated for an Oscar (Carmen Jones, 1954), as her faithful manager, Earl Mills.  In 2000, Brent portrayed Stromboli in Disney's musical live-action version of Geppetto.  He also appeared in the 2000 mini-series A Girl Thing.  Most recently, Brent played Dr. Nigel Fenway in all 13 episodes of Brannon Braga's science fiction series, Threshold.
        Brent is allegedly married to Loree McBride, with whom he has a son, Jackson, born in June 2002.
 

 
Sandy Stone
Star Trek: The Animated Series: The Verdict
Loading the Canon: What Is "Real" Star Trek?
Sandy is a Content Producer (translation: writer, photographer, videographer, blah blah) for STARTREK.COM, the official web site of the Star Trek franchise under the aegis of CBS (formerly Paramount).  Still there after seven years and several corporate restructurings, Sandy is responsible for much of what you read or see on the site, including news articles, library articles, production reports, editorials, event coverage (like the recent James Doohan Memorial Spaceflight), video documentaries (like "The Borg" and "The Occupation of Bajor"), and countless other features.  You may have seen him at Trek and sci-fi conventions obnoxiously stumbling over people in the high-priced front-row seats trying to get a better shot of the celebrities than you.  Or stalking said celebrities at other events.  Except where restraining orders are in effect.  He has also contributed to Titan Publishing's Star Trek Magazine and Lost Magazine, and occasionally displays his pithy wit on panels at conventions.
        Originally from Amarillo, Texas, Sandy got his undergraduate degree in Journalism from Texas Tech University, then went to film school at USC and took Hollywood by storm, working under various pseudonyms.  Soon fed up with the party scene (Lindsay, you know what you did), he settled into a "real" job that combined his journalism experience, his film school training, and all those years spent in front of the TV, and is now certain he is on the path to world domination.  In his spare time, he enjoys reading, collecting quarters for laundry, laughing at jokes he heard once, and yoga.
 

 
Lee Stringer
Star Trek vs. the New Battlestar Galactica
Having just finished working on the New Captain Scarlet series being produced at Pinewood Studios in England, Lee is currently taking a break from the fast lane and is working as an instructor at the Digital Animation and Visual Effects School in Orlando, Florida.
        Previously, he was a CG Supervisor at Zoic Studios working on the Sci-Fi Channel's miniseries and first season of Battlestar Galactica.  The miniseries was nominated for an Emmy award and won a Visual Effects Society award in 2004.  The first-season episode "33" was also nominated for a 2005 Emmy.  His other projects for Zoic have included work as a Visual Effects Artist on Firefly, which won the 2003 Emmy for special visual effects, the pilot for a new Lost in Space series, Steven Bochco's pilot for NYPD 2069, and the "Sketchernauts" commercial for Sketchers shoes.
        Lee has a broad visual effects background and his experience includes work on feature films, music videos, theme park attractions, fully animated episodic television and video games.  While at Foundation Imaging, he worked on the Robert Wise Director's Edition of Star Trek: The Motion Picture and spent several seasons on Star Trek: Voyager.  Additionally, he worked on Roughnecks: The Starship Trooper Chronicles and Dan Dare: Pilot of the Future.  Lee was first nominated for an Emmy in 2002 for his work on the ABC made-for-television movie Superfire.
        Prior to his career in the world of visual effects, Lee worked in IT operations and support for JP Morgan Bank in London.  He created his own company, ModelEFX, where he specialized in visual effects and web site design, and he sold television and film-related merchandise.  Lee is also a modelmaker and has created miniatures for film and television productions, including the Cartoon Network's Space Ghost Coast to Coast.
        Lee's interest in filmmaking, miniatures and effects began at an early age watching the Gerry Anderson series Thunderbirds and Space: 1999 while growing up in Great Britain.
 

 

Angela Tebbe
Star Trek vs. Stargate
From Day One, Angela has been a sci-fi fan, cutting her teeth on reruns of Star Trek and The Twilight Zone with her parents and growing up on other adventures with Space: 1999, the original Battlestar Galactica and Buck Rogers, just to name a few.  She reads anything fantasy or science fiction-related and her enthusiasm for the genre continues to grow with each year.  Her first convention, while in college, was a Star Trek con featuring Marina Sirtis, and it was up, up and away from there.  Angela enjoys exploring new sci-fi genres, including Firefly and the expanding Stargate movies and shows, Stargate SG-1 and Stargate Atlantis.  To get a glimpse into "being there," Angela participates in roleplaying games based on these shows, which is as close as acting for most people.  Angela is affiliated with several sci-fi-related groups, including Stargate Atlanta (where she is an officer), STARFLEET, the Klingon Assault Group, Dead Pirates of Sci-Fi Fandom, SE Browncoats and Atlanta Gallifreyans.  She began attending Dragon*Con in 2000 and sees no end in sight.

 

 
Voltaire
The 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!
 

 
Eric L. Watts, Dragon*Con Director of Star Trek ProgrammingEric L. Watts
The TrekTrak Show
The 2007 Miss Klingon Empire Beauty Pageant

Eric first began watching the original Star Trek series in the afternoon after getting home from junior high school in the early 1970s.  As a high school sophomore, hoping to connect with other fans of the show, he bought a copy of All About Star Trek Fan Clubs in 1977 and was amazed to discover that one of the names on the magazine's pen-pal list was a fellow student in one of his very own classes!  He introduced himself to her, who then loaned him a copy of the fanzine Off the Beaten Trek, in which the lead story dealt with how Spock had to deal with the death of Captain Kirk on a landing party mission.  A lifelong friendship---and a brand new Trekkie---was born!  A year later, in 1978, he attended his very first Star Trek convention: Vul-Con, a one-day event at Greenville (S.C.) Technical College with no guests but an auditorium filled with fanzines, home-made costumes and enthusiastic fans buzzing with rumors about the possibility of Star Trek returning as a major motion picture!
       In the summer of 1980, Eric founded the United Federation of Trekkers in Columbia, S.C., of which he served as president for the next eight years.  Within three years, the UFT grew to become the largest Star Trek fan club in the state, with over one hundred dues-paying members.  As president, he was a featured guest on the daily radio talk shows on WIS-AM 56 and WSOC-FM 100, was interviewed on several occasions by The State, The Carolina Reporter and The (USC) Gamecock newspapers, and in 1983 was featured in a segment of Columbia's local edition of PM Magazine, on WIS-TV.  Eric also served as editor and publisher of the UFT's monthly newsletter, Captain's Quarters, which at one point was sold on local newsstands as a mini-fanzine, as well as the UFT's one-shot fanzine, Star Sector One.  Club activities included monthly meetings, viewings of original series episodes on 35mm film at the local planetarium, serving as costumed ushers for a science fiction-themed concert presented by the Columbia Philharmonic Orchestra, attending Star Trek motion picture premieres in costume and annual picnics and barbecues at a local park.  After eight glorious years, Eric resigned the presidency of the UFT and editorship of its newsletter in 1988 and relocated to Atlanta, Georgia, to attend the Art Institute of Atlanta.
        In 1990, Eric joined the Atlanta in '95 WorldCon Bid Committee, a group dedicated to bringing the 1995 WorldCon to Atlanta.  During the next two years, he served the bid committee as its Volunteer Coordinator and as Central Mailer of its internal amateur press association, Atlapa.  It was during this period that he met, worked with and became friends with Ed Kramer, a founder and then-chairman of Dragon*Con.  At the 1992 WorldCon in Orlando, following the announcement of Glasgow, Scotland's successful bid for the 1995 WorldCon, Ed asked Eric to join the Dragon*Con organization and develop a track of programming devoted to Star Trek.  Nine months later, in July 1993, Eric unleashed the very first TrekTrak... and Dragon*Con has never been the same!  Fourteen years, more than three hundred programming events and many dozens of programming participants later, TrekTrak, under Eric's singular direction, has become one of Dragon*Con's most popular, well-attended and highly respected tracks of programming.  In 2002, in recognition of TrekTrak's tenth year and its many contributions and achievements that helped make Dragon*Con the twelfth largest annual convention in Atlanta, Mayor Shirley Franklin proclaimed September 2, 2002 as "TrekTrak Day" in the City of Atlanta.  In 2005 and again in 2006, TrekTrak's most popular annual event, the Miss Klingon Empire Beauty Pageant, was recognized by America Online as one of the Top 11 Most Offbeat Beauty Pageants Across America.  The MKE pageant has also been featured in Discover magazine, Shock magazine, Spin magazine, Creative Loafing and on FoxNews.com.
        In 2003, Eric published Star Sector Two, a 72-page Star Trek fanzine set entirely in the Original Series universe.  In addition to his service aboard the USS Republic, he is also a member of the IKAV Nemesis, the IKV Blackfire and an honorary lifetime member of the Klingon Imperial Embassy.  Eric was honored to be selected as the Fan Guest of Honor at Sci-Fi Summer Con in Atlanta in June 2004.
        In September 2006, Eric served as a production assistant on the upstate New York set of Star Trek: New Voyages during the filming of the episode "World Enough and Time," featuring George Takei as Lt. Sulu.  In October 2006, Eric was interviewed by CNN's Hong Kong news anchor Hugh Riminton about Star Trek's 40th anniversary in a segment on CNN Today, broadcast live around the world on CNN International.  Later the same month, he appeared in Star Trek costume in an episode of CNN's Future Summit program featuring "iconic sci-fi forms of travel."
        
Eric joined the USS Republic NCC-1371, a chapter of STARFLEET International, in 2003 and was elected Commanding Officer in May 2006.  After establishing an all-new Internet presence for the chapter, creating a successful Member Benefits program for the membership, coordinating a busy schedule of chapter activities and nearly tripling the membership roster in his first six months, Commander Watts was promoted to Captain by STARFLEET International in December 2006.  In March 2007, Captain Watts received the STARFLEET Region 2 Commanding Officer of the Year Award at the 2007 Region 2 Summit in Columbus, Georgia, and in August 2007, he was awarded the STARFLEET International Commanding Officer of the Year at the STARFLEET International Conference in Denver, Colorado.
        Eric created and was the editor and publisher of The New Moon Directory, an annual index to amateur press associations, from 1988 to 1997.  He was a member of the amateur press association Imaginapa from 1980 to 2002 and served as its elected Central Mailer for 14 of its 23 years.  He is also a former member of several other amateur press associations, including Apa Enterprise, Talking of Trek, GAPS, Atlapa and Dragon*Citings.
        Eric is currently performing in his twelfth season as a member of the Atlanta Gay Men's Chorus.  Since 1993, he has served that organization at various times as newsletter editor, web site administrator, marketing committee chairman, office manager and a two-year term on its Board of Directors, and he currently serves on the archives and marketing committees.  He is also a member of Atlanta Prime Timers and Georgia Right to Life, and a former longtime member of Southern Bears, for whom he also served a one-year term on its Board of Directors and briefly as newsletter editor.
        Eric started performing stand-up comedy in 2000 and has performed at The Comedy House in Kennesaw, Eddie's Attic in Decatur and The Kudzoo Cantina in Bowdon.  In May 2000, he placed as a finalist in WB36's Late Nite Laff-Off competition at Dave & Buster's in Duluth, and was a featured performer at Eddie's Attic's Third Annual Gay Comedy Festival in June 2001.
        An avid karaoke fan, Eric took first place in a local karaoke competition associated with the Karaoke World Contest USA organization in February 2006.  He then advanced to the Georgia state finals, where he took third place in March 2006.  That led him to the Region 6 semifinals (GA, AL, TN, NC, SC, FL), held in Pell City, Alabama, in May 2006, where he competed against 26 excellent vocalists and where he says he "had fun."

        Eric is Dragon*Con's longest-tenured track director and is honored to serve this, his fifteenth year, as Dragon*Con's Director of Star Trek Programming.
 

 
Anthony Wynn
The Missing Minority: Here at Last?
Anthony
is a writer and playwright whose drama Bernard and Bosie: A Most Unlikely Friendship, based on the correspondence of George Bernard Shaw and Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas, has been performed in England and the United States.
        Anthony has been a fan of Star Trek for 35 years and in the '70s was involved in the early days of STARFLEET International, eventually becoming Chief of Fleet Communications and the editor of the Communiqué.  He has organized three dozen conventions and film screenings and produced An Evening of Song with Nichelle Nichols, and The Star Trek Anniversary Celebration featuring Robin Curtis, Gary Lockwood and Paul Carr.  He also produced two music albums for Grace Lee Whitney and is bringing out her first-ever compact disk, The Grace Lee Whitney Collection, in early 2008.
        He is co-author of Remember with Advantages, the theatrical memoir of actor Barry Morse, and his upcoming book, Talkin' Trek and Other Stories: Conversations with Performers, Professionals and Fans on a Science Fiction Phenomenon, will be released by BearManor Media in November 2007.  This book features career interviews with more than a dozen individuals associated with the various incarnations of Star Trek, including Robin Curtis, Nick Tate, Grace Lee Whitney, Paul Carr, Armin Shimerman, Bibi Besch, Susan Sackett, James Doohan, Eric A. Stillwell, George Takei and Gene Roddenberry.
 

 
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