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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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."
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."
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.
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.
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.