1997 Program Participants
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Bill Bevil
The (Klingon) Empire Strikes Back
Bill has been a fan and follower of Star Trek since first viewing syndicated reruns as a kid, and has been active in the Atlanta science fiction community for about five years.  He is a former member of Starfleet International, the Klingon Legion of Assault Warriors and the Star Wars club Rebel Alliance Fleet.  Bill is presently Co-Chairman for JurassiCon, the Southeastern Dinosaur Convention of 1998.  This is Bill's third year as a TrekTrak panelist.
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"Charles"
The Fat-Free Federation
Charles appears on this panel as a representative from Overeaters Anonymous (OA).  OA welcomes everyone who wants to stop eating compulsively and follows the same 12 Steps and 12 Traditions used in AA by recovering alcoholics, modified for food addiction.  OA does not charge any fees, but is self-supporting through member contributions, neither soliciting nor accepting outside donations.  In accordance with the 11th Tradition regarding personal anonymity, Charles has asked to be identifed only by his first name.  Charles has maintained a 100-pound weight loss for ten years thanks to the OA program, and says that recovery in OA has resulted in spiritual and emotional changes in him as well as the more obvious physical change.  As a recovering compulsive overeater, Charles is here to share his personal experience, strength and hope in recovering from compulsive eating.
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Peter David
An Hour with Peter David
Peter has written nearly two dozen novels and hundreds of comic books, including The Incredible Hulk, Spider-Man, Aquaman,X-Factor, Sachs & Violins, Soulsearchers & Company, The Atlantis Chronicles, Dreadstar, Wolverine, The Phantom and both Marvel's and DC's Star Trek.  He is the author of the Star Trek novels Q-Squared, Q-in-Law, Vendetta, A Rock and A Hard Place, The Rift, Imzadi and The Siege, which have spent more than six months on the New York Times Bestseller List.  Peter's other novels include Knight Life, Howling Mad, the Pai-Man and the Photon adventure series, and novelizations of Batman Forever, The Return of the Swamp Thing and The Rocketeer.  He has written several episodes of Babylon 5 and is the screenwriter of the award-winning science fiction film spoof Oblivion.  His new television series Space Cases, co-written with Bill Mumy, debuted last year.  Peter also writes a weekly column, But I Digress..., for the Comics Buyer's Guide and is considered to be one of the most active and friendliest writers in the field.  This is Peter's fourth year as a TrekTrak program participant.
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Aaron Dunne
The Missing Minority III
Deep Space Nine: The Verdict
Aaron is that rarest of creatures: an Irishman who prefers science fiction and women to Guinness.  Raised on Doctor Who, Blake's 7 and classic Trek, he became a fan of The Next Generation after watching bootleg videos, which were all that were available to British fans in the late '80s.  Arriving in Atlanta in 1990, he discovered the concept of the science fiction convention and his bank account has never been the same since.  Aaron is a longtime member of the Middle Earth Rocketry Club and a former member of The Rebel Alliance Fleet.
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Leslie Fish
Star Trek FilkSing
If there's one name that's practically synonymous with filk (fandom's own folk music), it's Leslie Fish.  Leslie has written literally hundreds of songs covering almost every subject, from the space program ("Hope Eyrie"), to Star Trek ("Banned From Argo") to urban life, history and space fantasy ("Carmen Miranda's Ghost"), as well as writing music for poems by authors from Rudyard Kipling to Mercedes Lackey.  Leslie is also a fine performer, guitarist, and storyteller.  Her professional writing credits include the novel A Dirge for Sabis with C.J. Cherryh, a number of stories in Cherryh's Merovingen Nights anthology and a story in an anthology inspired by one of her songs ("Carmen Miranda's Ghost Is Haunting Space Station Three").  In addition to being a bard, Leslie is an anarchist (really) and has also worked as everything from a gun-runner to a dominatrix.  This is Leslie's second performance in the TrekTrak TrekFilk.
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Daniel Greenberg
Star Trek: Voyager: The Verdict
Star Trek Interactive Gaming
Deep Space Nine: The Verdict
Star Trek: First Contact: The Verdict
Daniel is a Washington DC-based multimedia producer, video director, writer and game designer who specializes in covert infusions of entertainment into educational products and educational material into entertainment products.  His next computer game is Star Trek: Starfleet Academy from Interplay.  His most recent computer games include Star Control 3 from Accolade, the Advanced Dungeons & Dragons computer game Al Qadim: The Genie's Curse and Entomorph: Plague of the Darkfall, both from SSI.  His educational multimedia design work can be seen in Earth Explorer: The Multimedia Encyclopedia of the Environment from Apple Computer and he produced and designed educational games for Cousteau's World: Cities Under the Sea: Coral Reefs from Enteractive.
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George Johnsen
DS9 vs. Babylon 5: Sibling Rivalry?
George is a co-producer of Babylon 5.
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Scott Lembke
Star Trek: Voyager: The Verdict
The Missing Minority III
Scott has been a resident of Atlanta for 16 years.  His first convention was the Atlanta Fantasy Fair in 1981.  A year later, he was working on staff in security for the same convention.  He has volunteered for DixieTrek and is currently on staff for Dragon*Con, volunteering for Handicapped Access.  Scott is very much a fan of science fiction, fantasy and comic books and has a very extensive video, comic and toy collection.  He's currently single but looking for that special someone to share his interests and life with.
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Chase Masterson
Meet Chase Masterson: Dabo Girl
Deep Space Nine: The Verdict
DS9 vs. Babylon 5: Sibling Rivalry?
Chase plays Leeta, the Dabo Girl, on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
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Dave McConnell
Star Trek FilkSing
Dave has been active in fandom since 1968 and is Dragon*Con's Director of Filk Programming.  He co-authored with Ken Kessler his first filksong, "What Do You Do with a Drunken Hobbit?," in 1972.  Dave was the rhythm guitar player for the all-filk band Timelines, which he founded in 1993 and who released an album, Timelines Takes Flight, in 1994.  This is Dave's second performance on TrekTrak, having performed with Timelines at the very first TrekFilk three years ago.
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Tim McKenny
Star Trek: Voyager: The Verdict
The (Klingon) Empire Strikes Back
Deep Space Nine: The Verdict
Star Trek: First Contact: The Verdict
A frequent convention attendee, Tim has appeared on TrekTrak panels for the past four years.  He is currently the commanding officer of the IKV Nemesis chapter of the Klingon Assault Group and is the longest-serving member of that organization in Atlanta.  Tim is also a member of the infamous "Nitpickers' Guild" and a contributor to The Nitpickers' Guide for Next Generation Trekkers, Volume 2.  As an actor, Tim has appeared on stage in productions ranging from Romeo & Juliet to Sweet Bird of Youth.  He has also been a member of the UGA dramatic improv troupe "Brief Encounters."
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Lewis Murphy
DS9 vs. Babylon 5: Sibling Rivalry?
Lewis has been a Star Trek fan for over twenty years and active in fandom for the last ten years.  He has been a member of the Klingon League of Assault Warriors and Starfleet International and is currently a member of the Klingon Assault Group.  Lewis has been a science fiction book reviewer for Creative Loafing and is currently co-chair of JurassiCon: The Southeastern Dinosaur SF Convention.
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Michael O'Hare
DS9 vs. Babylon 5: Sibling Rivalry?
Perhaps best known as Commander Sinclair on the science fiction series Babylon 5, Michael has appeared in lead roles on Broadway three times: as Lt. Col. Nathan Roy Jessup in A Few Good Men (played by Jack Nicholson in the film), as Geoff opposite Fred Gwynne in David Williamson's Players and as Hector with George Grizzard and Philip Bosco in George Bernard Shaw's Man and Superman.  Michael's off-Broadway credits include Brecht's Galileo, chosen by Time magazine as one of the ten best productions in New York that year.  He is proud and grateful to have been the first white actor nominated by the Black Theater Community of New York for their Audelco Award for Best Actor for his performance in the play Shades of Brown, which examined the saddening effects of apartheid in South Africa.
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Ken Poskey
Star Trek: Voyager: The Verdict
Deep Space Nine: The Verdict
Ken has been a science fiction fan for 26 years and active in fandom for the past eight years, including modelmaking, costume design, building sets and props and costume contests.  He is a member of the Klingon Legion of Assault Warriors, the Klingon Assault Group, Star Wars Rebel Alliance Fleet Headquarters, The Secret Order and is a Deacon of The First Amalgamated Church of Joe.  Ken is a published writer in several fanzine newsletters and is currently devoting his talents to the upcoming JurassiCon in June 1998 as their Facilities Manager.
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Lewis F. Schiffman
The Fat-Free Federation
Lewis is a health and performance consultant, trainer, mediator and personal coach.  He assists large and small companies in reducing health care costs by consulting with management, training and coaching employees in health and performance technologies.  During the past 15 years, he has consulted with more than 400 corporations, fitness centers, government agencies and professional associations.  Lewis holds a masters degree in counseling and psychotherapy with an undergraduate degree in speech communication.  He has also been licensed as a Marriage and Family Counselor and is a Certified Mediator.  Lewis is a frequent speaker at national and regional conferences and is the author of numerous articles on health and performance in publications such as the Atlanta Business Chronicle.  The President of Atlanta Health Systems, this is his first appearance at a Star Trek convention.
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Josepha Sherman
An Hour with Josepha Sherman & Susan Shwartz
Josepha is a fantasy and science fiction writer, folklorist and storyteller.  Her fantasy novels include The Shining Falcon (Avon, 1989), winner of the Compton Crook Award; Child of Faerie, Child of Earth (Walker, 1992), an ALA Best Book and a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age; the national bestseller Castle of Deception (with Mercedes Lackey, Baen Books, 1992); A Strange and Ancient Name (Baen Books, 1993), a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age; Windleaf (Walker, 1993), an ABA Pick of the List, a Junior Library Guild Selection and a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age; the national bestseller A Cast of Corbies (with Mercedes Lackey, Baen Books, 1994); Gleaming Bright (Walker, 1994), a Junior Library Guild Selection; the national bestseller The Chaos Gate (Baen Books, 1994); King's Son, Magic's Son (Baen Books, 1994), a New York Public Library Book for the Teen Age; The Shattered Oath (Baen Books, 1995), a Nw York Public Library Book for the Teen Age; Forging the Runes, the sequel to The Shattered Oath (Baen Books, 1996); a dark urban fantasy novel, Son of Darkness (Roc Books, 1998); a Xena book, Everything I Needed to Know in Life I Learned from Xena, by Gabrielle, "translated from the Athenian Times" (Pocket Books, 1998); and a Highlander novel, The Captive Soul (Warner Aspect, 1998).  In addition, she co-authored with Susan Shwartz the national bestselling Star Trek novel, Vulcan's Forge, together with the audio script for the novel, read by Leonard Nimoy.  Josepha's folklore titles are all from August House:  A Sampler of Jewish-American Folklore (1992), Rachel the Clever and Other Jewish Folktales (1993), Once Upon a Galaxy (1994), Greasy Grimy Gopher Guts: The Subversive Folklore of Children (with T. K. F. Weisskopf, 1995), Trickster Tales (1996), and Merlin's Kin: Tales of the Hero Magicians (1998).  Nonfiction works include First Americans (Smithmark Publishers/Portland House, 1988), and Puerto Rico (Marshall Cavendish, 1999), as well as two articles on fantasy writing commissioned by The Writer.  Forthcoming in mid-1999 will be a new Star Trek title, Vulcan's Heart.  Josepha has sold over 125 short stories and articles to books and magazines, and has written for the animated television show Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers.  In addition, she's done storytelling for all ages and lectured on folklore, fantasy and science fiction across North America, including speaking engagements at the Library of Congress and American Folklore Society conferences.  She's an active member of The Authors Guild, SFWA, the American Folklore Society and the SCBWI, as well as a fan of all things SF, equine, computer-oriented, aviation and of the long-suffering ("wait till next year, or possibly this year!") New York Mets.
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Susan Shwartz
An Hour with Josepha Sherman & Susan Shwartz
Susan is the co-author of the Star Trek novel Vulcan's Forge.
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Tracy Tormé
An Hour with Tracy Tormé
DS9 vs. Babylon 5: Sibling Rivalry?
Tracy has a distinguished résumé that includes many credits in both the television and motion picture industries.  After attending the University of Southern California and Loyola Marymount University, he joined the Canadian television show SCTV as a comedy writer and a year later, moved to Saturday Night Live as a writer/filmmaker for three years.  Returning to California, he joined the staff of Star Trek: The Next Generation, first as Executive Story Editor, then as Creative Consultant, writing six of the most popular episodes: "Haven," "Conspiracy," "The Schizoid Man," "The Royale," "Manhunt" and "The Big Goodbye" (for which he won a Peabody Award).  Tracy wrote the original screenplay and was a producer for the MGM feature film Spellbinder and was also the writer/producer of the miniseries Intruders.  He wrote a screenplay based on the book The Walton Experience, which was released as the Paramount film Fire in the Sky, which he also co-produced.  Tracy created and was the Executive Producer of the television show Sliders, now in its third season on the Fox network.  He has also worked with Acclaim Comics and Berkley Books as additional outlets for Sliders stories, with a series of Sliders comic books and novelizations.  Tracy wrote the screenplay for Messengers of Deception for Universal Studios and is currently working on a screenplay for a two-hour HBO film called Storm Riders; Richard Matheson's novel I Am Legend for Warner Brothers; a four-hour Fox miniseries called The Black Whip; a biography of drummer Buddy Rich; and Dark City, a pilot for HBO.  Tracy's latest project is Kung Pow, for which he is co-creator and Executive Producer.  Kung Pow is MTV's first original comedy: a twisted, dark tale, which he describes "as a cross between Batman, Kung Fu and The Prisoner."
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Dean Tuck
The Fat-Free Federation
Also known as "Friar" Tuck, Dean is one of the biggest men in Atlanta fandom.  He has worked in southeast conventions for the last 15 years and has been with Dragon*Con from the first.  He has little to say about himself, other than being a science fiction fan in all its myriad forms, adding only, "no penguins."
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Ed Wasser
DS9 vs. Babylon 5: Sibling Rivalry?
Ed, who portrays the deliciously insidious Mr. Morden on Babylon 5, is a native New Yorker with a BFA from the SUNY Purchase Conservatory (State University of New York).  He continued his studies in New York City while accruing off-Broadway and New York regional theater credits.  Since his move to Hollywood, he's enjoyed several guest-starring roles on movies-of-the-week and TV series such as HBO, Showtime, NYPD Blue and others.  He is very thankful for the four years he spent on Babylon 5 in his recurring role as "Mr. Morden."  Ed is in negotiations with a production company in the United Kingdom that would have him play the lead role in a two-hour pilot called The Heretic, with six episodes to follow.  He's excited about the prospects of working in Europe; shooting would begin September 1997.  Of life in general he says, "Every person we meet along our journey is a teacher and a student... keep the channel open."
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Eric L. Watts
The Missing Minority III
Request Permission to Speak Freely, Sir!
Eric has been an avid Star Trek fan since 1977.  He founded and was President of the United Federation of Trekkers in Columbia, South Carolina, the state's largest Star Trek fan club, from 1980 to 1988 and has been Dragon*Con's Director of Star Trek Programming since 1992.  Eric is a former member of the amateur press associations Apa Enterprise, Talking of Trek, GAPS, Atlapa and Dragon*Citings.  He has been a member of the amateur press association Imaginapa for almost 17 years and is currently serving his eleventh annual term as its Central Mailer.  Eric is the Editor & Publisher of The New Moon Directory, an annual index to amateur press associations, is a member of Southern Bears and sings bass in the 120-voice Atlanta Gay Men's Chorus and its 16-voice ensemble, Panache.  In real life, he is the Graphics Coordinator for a major chemical company in Marietta.
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Archie Waugh
The Missing Minority III
TrekTrak Theatre
Mystery Star Trek 3000
Star Trek: First Contact: The Verdict
Request Permission to Speak Freely, Sir!
Archie has been with TrekTrak from the beginning four years ago.  Filmmaker, columnist, modeler, writer and actor, Archie's Trek obsession has finally paid off... he's currently working as a television director for MGA, a central Florida government access channel.  A two-time award winner in Dragon*Con's amateur video contest, he has just finished starring in the musical Chicago.
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Kathryn Webster
Deep Space Nine: The Verdict
Star Trek: First Contact: The Verdict
Commanding officer of the Starfleet chapter USS Macleod and a member of the KAG ship IKV Fek'lhr's Fury, Kathryn has been a Star Trek fan for more years than she cares to admit.  She has shown Star Trek artwork at the Dragon*Con Art Show several times in the past. 
Bevil · "Charles" · David · Dunne · Fish · Greenberg · Johnsen · Lembke · Masterson · McConnell · McKenny · Murphy · O'Hare · Poskey · Schiffman · Sherman · Shwartz · Tormé · Tuck · Wasser · Watts · Waugh · Webster
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