Watch Trek faves, help out a good cause: Trek*Talks 2 is back Saturday, Jan. 14

It’s back! And channeling the best spirit of Star Trek and its fans for a good cause: fighting food and wellness insecurity. ***Trek*Talks 2*** is back as a online 8-hour telethon, founded in 2022 by Trek Geeks & Roddenberry Podcasts (including The Trek Files!) to benefit Hollywood Food Coalition —as championed in Trekworld by  John “Dr. Phil Phlox” Billingsley. It’s …

2023: When two-faced is good 😄

Janus is that two-faced “looks ahead/looks back” legend that’s the symbol of New Year’s for everyone, right? I wonder why he mostly only comes to mind for me… over Star Trek!? 😎 Especially this year. I echoed this theme in the last Trekland Tuesday LIVE before the holiday break: How  2022 has been not just awesome but game-changing for Star Trek. And …

It’s Trek Vegas time!

Here we go! We have to put up with the bi-level stages and elevators of Bally’s…but can we get back to almost-normal STLV now? What a big year for everything Trekland! Look at all that. Check it out:

I’ll see you back at SoonerCon, finally— and not just for an award

It’s so exciting to have SoonerCon back after two years of COVID cancellations—this June 24-26 at the Embassy Suites Conference Center in Norman, OK. They’re calling this SoonerCon 30, after #29 was saved for the virtual masquerade contests and events that stood in during the second year of COVID shutdown. And the comeback edition of the con I helped to …

After 6 years (!), I’m headed back to Phoenix Fan Fusion—finally!

I can’t believe it’s been that long — since 2016? And you can’t even blame it on the pandemic. But hello again, finally,  Phoenix Fan Fusion (formerly Comic-Con) this weekend. PFF was knocked out by COVID since 2020… and even before that, there were hiccups before that kept me away, after five straight guestings. But no longer! (PFF was the …

It’s back! “Gallifrey One” is WHO-ing again, and I’ll be Trek-ing there too

Full circle:  This weekend, at long last, is Gallifrey One here in L.A. at the LAX Marriott … …the last con I remember attending LIVE in The Before Times, live and in-person. It’s in half-scale as we creep back to normality, whatever that is… and with full COVID local protocols in place. But “it’s back” nonetheless.  (And slow to sell …

Join me & 60 Trek family for Trek*Talks webathon to aid Hollywood Food Coalition

Surely you’ve seen all the buzz about this special event for a good cause — available globally! — but just in case: A quick charity shoutout for THIS Saturday,  Jan. 15  for  “Trek*Talks“ — an EIGHT-hour “webathon” to benefit the Hollywood Food Coalition : SIXTEEN  half-hour panels of various Star Trek actors and creatives! Jeri Ryan and Jonathan Frakes are …

See you in San Diego this weekend? I’m actually at “Special Edition” Comic-Con

Who’s going to Comic-Con? Yes, in San Diego — and yes, a replacement con squeezed after the second consecutive COVID-cancellation… over this post-Thanksgiving weekend. in It’s an odd time — a make-up time after two years without a live con — but yes, I have a panel at the San Diego Comic-Con Special Edition over post-Thanksgiving Day weekend— I’m down …

Utah! Come say hi at FanX Salt Lake

As live events creak back into our comfort zone, how great is it to be back at FanX Salt Lake this weekend — Thursday through Saturday. Four panels (see below) — one sharing with the great John Eaves, can’t wait to catch up. And of course, a special Briefing Party for all things Trekland Saturday, with doorprizes, signup bonuses and …

Happy 100! Join the Gene Roddenberry Centennial birthday bash now—and later

  Well, here it is at last:  COVID couldn’t dim it and revisionists couldn’t dent it. It’s the day, and the kickoff of reflections and celebrations, to mark the birth centennial of The Great Bird of the Galaxy, Gene Roddenberry: Aug. 19, 1921, one hundred years ago. For all you lurker mundanes out there, Gene is of course — quite …

Join us July 23: Space law from sci-fi to sci-fact— at Comic-Con @Home July 23

Hopefully this is the last summer that San Diego Comic-Con has to go all-virtual “@Home” in the COVID-19 era — but hey, I’m still thrilled to bring another thought-provoking panel into the mix. This Friday July 23 —after you enjoy the Star Trek Prodigy/Lower Decks all-animation preview peeks from Paramount+ — just stay close to your wi-fi all day for …

“But Is It Trek?”: Join me in a LIVE virtual panel at LockDownCon II this Saturday

As we hopefully, slowly, cautiously emerge back into a world of live events and cons again… a few last virtual events remain. But unlike SDCC…  this one is LIVE: LockDownCon II! For TWO days, this Saturday and Sunday. This year’s “token Trek” panel has an AWESOME line-up I’m part of— check out that billboard! Author and ST: Prodigy consultant David …

ENCORE: Another S1 LOWER DECKS Blu-ray free drawing THIS Saturday—Live!

Yes, but HURRY: You have a third shot from Trekland at a Season 1 Bluray copy of Lower Decks. Hurry because it’s tomorrow— Saturday, May 22 (I warned you Tuesday, right?) during our regular Life Support LIVE show with Dr. Ali—right before we open up for  “Hailing Frequencies.” Same entry path:  Go RIGHT NOW and enter —the drawing is THIS …