The crew of the USS McGinley is back for Season 4! And I caught a pre-launch visit with four of them (video below) . Yes, if you’re in SoCal on a Saturday night anytime from March 3 through April 28, you’d better grab a ticket early. Otherwise, come 9:15 pm you might not have a seat for the next …
I know it’s a sold-out convention — always is. Gallifrey One near LAX in LA is a mini-version of San Diego Comic-Con, selling out minutes after tickets open each fall. But poobah Shaun Lyon always has me and other Trek events on hand, because “Who fans have more than one fandom!” And they do! The 29th annual Gallifrey One has …
All right— I admit it. I’ve been doing so much talking lately out loud that my blogging and word-bits have fallen off. And that little Discovery finale hoopla kinda took up a lot of bandwidth this week to start. But I really, really hope you ALL get a load of what we found in Gene’s archives for the fourth episode …
We announced it at SDCC, I’ve been teasing it all over the place.. and today it’s finally here: THE TREK FILES! (Don’t miss the “launch party invitation,” below) Maybe you have seen or heard the news all over the global Trekverse already, but The Trek Files is my new 15-minute downloadable podcast each Tuesday, right from Roddenberry Podcast Network, as …
Happy birthday, De! As I have done ever since I started Trekland: The Blog, I don’t allow January 20 to pass without a remembrance for my first real Star Trek “favorite” every year on his birthday: Jackson DeForest Kelley, BTD in 1920. Which mean, I guess, this is my TENTH nod to DFK on his day. Wow. I’ve said and …
No amount of either lying or birthday cake will ever change this for me, on this day. Just as when I first realized it….five years ago. And I’ve never even set foot at Pomona College.
In the midst of anniversary season, I want to make sure to add this: Five years ago today —on three weeks’ notice, then after a fog-delayed plane and an unplanned three-hour rental car ride— THIS happened (above). Cameras rolled on Day 1 on “Pilgrim of Eternity,” and I was plunged into a completely new “family” and experience that simply blew …
Portland music fans and friends are reeling from the unexpected death Jan. 1 of rocker-restarateur Jon Steuer, 33, known to Trekland as the young actor who at age 6 first played Worf’s son Alexander Rozhenko, in TNG‘s “Reunion.” After his appearance, TNG‘s producers wanted a slightly older actor to handle the role a year later in a more ongoing basis, …
Break out the silver-pressed latinum! It’s the 25th anniversary of Deep Space Nine—the original “darker and grittier” Star Trek. You’ll all be wading through accolades all day and all week about this time from 1993, I know. And as always, I might even point out its anniversary as June 29, 1992, the date of its first writer’s guide, or even …
Just a short video note, as you scamper off to your New Year’s Eve shenanigans, in case you missed it on Trekland Facebook. (UPDATE: For busy regular Trekland viewers and readers just back on the grid, the Portal 47 offer I mentioned has been pushed back to midnight FRIDAY, Jan. 5.) It’s exciting times in Trek again, a crossroads of …
So, it’s been 50 years since “The Trouble With Tribbles” first purred and multiplied their way across a TV screen—and no, I was not there to see it.* I was a rerun baby, remember? It’s remarkable as an outing of original Trek, or any entry of the successors, to show how Star Trek’s classic crew-and-mission format could do comedy (as …
I almost forgot to spread the word to get this up in time! Tuesday, Dec. 19 IS the mail deadline for Christmas delivery— if you care about that—for the Beam-In Bonus for Portal 47. If you missed the Cyber Monday special, no worries— this is sweeter with a piece from Gene, and a chance at a DVD set! Apart from …
So, my emergency computer reshuffle over Thanksgiving (how was your holiday?) delayed all the grand plans I had for Cyber Monday this year in Portal 47. I mean, what better day for offering extras to join something like our high-tech Trek mini-con all year long? In truth, I only have a big enrollment push around our Anniversary Open House tie …
And no, I don’t mean the Great Bird of the Galaxy—though I don’t blame you for going there first. I’m talking about this funky little number I whipped up especially for today… here in Trekland, remembering how Star Trek originally was glimpsed to NBC viewers … because I too am thankful for all we have, what a growing year of …
SoCal Treklanders, I almost forgot to let you know: This weekend is Stan Lee’s LA Comic Con (formerly Comikazee) downtown, already in progress! I won’t be paneling or guesting per se, but I will be there at 3 pm Sunday to be a part of history with my peeps: A sneak peek and panel for the FINAL episode of a …
Drama, pathos, sister ships, most visual effects ever, a bittersweet tragic hero of such gravitas in a bravura ballsy performance rivaled only by Ricardo Montalban’s Khan, a Top Five (Top Two?) Best McCoy Scene Ever in the series, and best score ever and Jaws’ ripoff, er, inspiration. And THAT is why “The Doomsday Machine” by Norman Spinrad, guest starring William …
I’ve known David Mack for years long-distance until we can meet-up at cons and such, but what an honor for him to be chosen the first author of a new Trek series’ original novel, Desperate Hours, which went on sale two days after Discovery‘s US premiere. Especially this time, since Discovery is pioneering a closer connection than ever before between …
It’s officially The Next Generation‘s 30th birthday today, counting its on-air premiere—even as, we always say, it actually “premiered” across a whole week until Oct. 4, Monday through Sunday, in various markets. And later to the rest of the world, of course. I said as much on TNG‘s 25th anniversary —and wow, look: we’ve been in the Blog Era that …
It hit me last night: the irony imagery is amazing—intentional or not. Those of you who’ve read or listened in Trekland lo these many years since 2005 have often heard me talk about The Fallow Times of no Trek since Enterprise‘s demise. (Yeah, yeah the JJ movies—but I mean real Trek: that is, episodic TV Trek.) On many podcasts or …
Salt Lake Comic Con has become one of my favorites the past few years— laid-back, accessible, and very friendly to me and all things Trekland, as well as Trek! The Trek fan community via all the ship crews of the Seventh Fleet is so huge and welcoming —and this year is no exception. I’m exciting to both be bringing the …
Yes, just as we always do: Happy birthday, Star Trek— you look great for 51! We wondered about topping the Big 5-0 last year, and nothing will ever compare—but what just hit me today, after a bit of reflection, really hit home. And it deserves more than a Facebook post. CBS released a new video of many of the Discovery …
You may have noticed a lot fewer blog posts here recently—but no, I’m hardly giving it up. The blog is still a good way to keep you up on what Star Trek projects I’m doing or where I’ll be… even though other events do get intrusive, and distractions pull me away. But to fight that time crunch more efficiently and …
Save the date, SoCal Trekland: I am so excited for our first Trekland/Portal 47 production! THIS SUNDAY at 6 pm in Los Feliz, I get to present an unheralded witness to little-known Desilu Trek and ’60s history— live, and partnered with an incredibly talented pro Trek improv troupe… with hosted after-show meet-n-greet photo opps! But hurry—it’s only 45 seats (see …
Things have been so busy in Trekland I have neglected to let our Michigan friends know I was in their backyard this week—at cozy, nearby and free public libraries, just like last summer. Trek2Michigan II is going on tonight and tomorrow night, Aug. 15 and 16, at two of Greater Detroit’s fine public libraries. If you are in the lower …
Yes, it’s Trek Vegas time baby — #STLV is here. Here FINALLY is my schedule and events —in many ways, it’s an evolving vibe for me! (Amd LONG!) And to be honest, I’d been concerned about that “hangover” after last year’s Five-O Fever … but the past few weeks my spirits have way picked up because: — WHAM, the big-time …
Finally— here’s most of my 20 minutes on video with the Discovery folks we were able to grab in the red-carpet rope line at DSC’s post-panel press events. We had no clue what had been said in the Ballroom 20 mass panel, but I wanted to get at my subjects with typically Trekland angles—or so I hoped. Enjoy! And just …
Can’t believe I haven’t posted here yet about my newest “little” channel, Trekland Tuesdays LIVE. Each week at 1 pm Pacific/4 pm Eastern / 9 pm UK time at Larry Nemecek’s Trekland on Facebook, I’m now bringing out a little more “face to face” commentary, as it were. This week’s piece was my angle on the echoes of recent Trek …
For all those (weirdly and wrongly) claiming “CBS botched the 50th”… as I debunked on my very first Trekland Tuesday LIVE, and elsewhere… comes exciting news today that, though late, CBS is really on its game in the San Diego Comic-Con arena for getting fans (and maybe fans-to-be!) excited for the Sept. 24 debut. We knew about the big Ballroom …
UPDATE! Now with SDCC app links… NEWS ANNOUNCEMENT coming… CBS #DSC events update … a new Facebook fan page for Trekkers bound for SDCC … AND BONUS club meetup for new Portal 47 signees! Hey! Here’s my San Diego Comic-Con plans! Can it be a year since the biggest Trek footprint at SDCC in history? Wow. Well, CBS has …
NOW look what just popped up on Amazon today… Just a couple months after it went on seemingly permanent markdown, to which many of you were alerted and responded … today my “Star Trek: Stellar Cartography” from 47 North/Amazon turned up like a Gutenberg Bible knockoff. Under USED prices: The “New” listing” is all over the place, but apparently not …
I have been a Callie for over 20 years, so shame on me for not having visited the Central Valley more than once or twice. And thus a big thanks for Modesto Con for having me as a Token Trek guest, July 7-9*! This growing fanglomeration with heavy cosplay and artists repped also has both Starfleet’s new local USS Balthsar …
SoonerCon is just around the corner, fans—and if you’ve never been before, this is the year, anime or Star Trek Continues peeps: buddy Todd Haberkorn brightens my June 23-25 weekend among the homies this year, and I can’t wait. Yep, Tood was Spock to my onetime McCoy from early STCs, and this blue-shirt reunion in red dirt land is part …
