 John
has been a Star Trek fan since the Original Series was first broadcast
in Britain almost thirty years ago. At University, he was part of
a group who produced Cult TV Magazine -- a well-received fan
publication. Since then, he's been active in British fandom and
broadcast and written on the subject. He's currently a member of
the USS Cromwell -- a Trek club based in the English midlands.
John works as a broadcaster and newsreader for BBC Radio. Previously,
he held every role from drive-time presenter to News Editor, Programme
Controller and Station Manager at a number of commercial radio stations.
An experienced journalist, John has reported from Bosnia and covered a
number of high-profile court cases. He now lives in a 250-year old
cottage in the Forest of Bowland in Lancashire in northwest England.
In his remaining spare time, he enjoys historical re-enactment (English
Civil War and Napoleonic), Morris Dancing and playing the bagpipes. |
Brett
was born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1971 and began accumulating Star Wars
memorabilia at age six when Santa Claus brought him a couple of action figures.
His collection has grown to roughly 20,000 items since then, and he estimates
he now has one of the largest collections in Tennessee, if not in the entire southeast.
Brett and his collection have been featured in various magazines and newspapers,
both regionally and nationally. His interests in collectibles include promotional
and foreign items, theatrical release posters and other rare and unusual pieces.
Brett's love of collecting and of science fiction includes Star Trek and
Battlestar Galactica, and his collection includes numerous items of each
of these, as well. 
Ann
is the author of the bestselling Star Trek novels Yesterday's Son,
Time for Yesterday and The Eyes of the Beholders. Her hardcover
Star Trek novel, Sarek, spent five weeks on the New York Times
hardcover bestseller list. In 1984, Ann wrote the novelization of V,
the million-copy bestseller based on NBC's much-remembered but ill-fated science-fiction
TV miniseries. | Keith
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Brad
began his acting career at Columbia University in New York City. He performed
with the Circle Repertory Company for three years. Though he had been appearing
in numerous play productions such as The Ghost Sonata and The Doctor
in Spite of Himself, he got his first break when he was discovered by director
Milos Forman while doing the off-broadway play, When You Comin' Back, Red Rider?
Milos cast him opposite Jack Nicholson in One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.
The role of Billy Bibbit ultimately landed him nominations for an Academy Award,
a British Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. He has since starred in
Dune, Blue Velvet, Wild Palms, Graveyard Shift, Body
Parts, Escape to Witch Mountain, The Eyes of Laura Mars, Urban
Legend, Alien Resurrection and all five Child's Play films (as
Chucky). His most recent role is that of Grima Wormtongue in all three of
the forthcoming Lord of the Rings films. His numerous television
appearances have included roles on The Norm Show, The Magnificent Seven,
Millennium, Babylon 5, The X Files, Tales from the Crypt,
The Hitchhiker, The Equalizer and as Crewman Lon Suder in the Star
Trek: Voyager episodes "Meld" and "Basics," Parts I and II.. You can
find out more about Brad at www.dourif.com.
Chris
was rocketed as an infant from the doomed state of Ohio, and only recently crash-landed
in the wilds of Kennesaw, Georgia. A consummate computer geek and toy enthusiast,
he has one of the most extensive collections of Playmates Star Trek around,
specializing in odd variations, promotional items and international editions.
His collection covers the walls of his computer room, fills the walk-in closets
of two more and is about to take over the living room. 
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 on up to contemporary fantasy writers. 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 worked as
everything from a gun-runner to a dominatrix. This is Leslie's fourth appearance
on TrekTrak, having performed in the TrekFilk in 1995, 1997 and
1998.
| Michael
Forest Classic Trek Guest Stars  Best
known to Star Trek fans as Apollo in the Original Series episode
"Who Mourns for Adonais," Michael was a rugged-looking addition to Roger
and Gene Corman's list of leading men during their 1950s heyday.
Between Corman films, he was a stage actor who worked in Shakespearean
plays and other legitimate productions as classy as his real name (Gerald
Michael Charlebois). Born in Harvey, North Dakota, he moved with
his family at a very early age to Seattle, attended the University of
Washington for a year and then made his way south to the sunnier campuses
of San Jose State. Graduating with a B.A. in English and drama,
Michael came to Hollywood in 1955 and started acting on TV and on stage
at the Players Ring. In 1957, he began to study with veteran actor/acting
teacher Jeff Corey, in whose classes Michael first encountered Roger Corman.
Michael has also worked extensively on TV and European films.
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Prior
to his incarnation as the Klingon General Martok in 26 episodes of Star Trek:
Deep Space Nine, J. G. Hertzler appeared as the Vulcan captain of the starship
Saratoga in the pilot episode "Emissary" and has since appeared as the
Hirogen Hunter in the Star Trek: Voyager episode, "Tsunkatse." 
Walter
Koenig -- actor, director, screenwriter, novelist, acting professor and comic book
creator -- was born in Manhattan in 1936 to Lithuanian Russian Jewish parents.
Cheralyn
began creating her own costumes and creatures at the tender age of ten, 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
really useful such as Dramatic Arts and Radio/Television/Motion Pictures.
Shortly after graduation, Cheralyn travelled to New York to study costumes, wigs
and make-up at the Juilliard School, and achieved her first fifteen minutes of
fame by making her Off Broadway acting debut appearing with John Leguizamo in
Mambo Mouth. From there, she moved to Minneapolis to create Muppet
costumes for Sesame Street Live! (acquiring a very up-close and personal
relationship with Big Bird!), and returned to New York a year later to work with
Jim Henson Productions on Dinosaurs! and The Muppet Christmas Carol.
In between work and more work, Cheralyn managed to help play-test the Star
Wars role-playing game Mission to Lianna, and has written articles
for such genre-related periodicals as Con-Tour Magazine and Bjo Trimble's
Sci-Fi Spotlight. | Chase
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| Dave
McConnell Star Trek FilkSing VII  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 fifth filk performance on TrekTrak, having performed
with Timelines at the very first TrekFilk in 1994, with Leslie
Fish in 1997 and 1998 and headlining the TrekFilk solo in 1999. |
| Robert
O'Reilly TrekTrak Presents: An Hour with Robert O'Reilly TrekTrak Theatre The 2000 Miss Klingon Empire Beauty Pageant The Deep Space Nine Reunion Tour  Robert's
introduction to Star Trek was in the Next Generation episode
entitled "Manhunt" in which he portrayed a gangster. He then successfully
auditioned for the part of the Machiavellian Klingon leader Gowron for
the episode "Reunion." Besides his many appearances on Star Trek:
The Next Generation and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine as Gowron,
Robert has participated in many Star Trek-related extracurricular
activities, including a Decipher VCR Interactive Board game, lithographs
sold nationwide on QVC, a sci-fi fantasy model, three action figures,
a life-sized stand-up Gowron poster and most recently, starring in the
CD-ROM Star Trek: Klingon, for which Robert won the Sci-Fi Universe
Reader's Choice Universe Award for Best Achievement in Genre Multimedia.
In this game, not only will Robert teach you how to be a Klingon, he also
will teach you how to speak like one. Robert's stage work has spanned a broad spectrum, from Shakespeare (King Lear and Hamlet) and Sam Shepard (True West) to original plays (When the Bough Breaks) and the original production of The Grapes of Wrath. He is proud to have starred in the original productions of The Martian Chronicles and Fahrenheit 451 (plays written by and based on the books by Ray Bradbury, who has since become a friend). Robert directed his play, Marsha Norman's Getting Out, in 1981 and was promptly nominated by the Los Angeles Drama Circle for Best Director of the Year, the most prestigious award given to a Los Angeles theater director. (Harold Pinter won for Sweeny Todd -- what the heck!) Since then, he has won or been nominated for every other major directing award the Los Angeles area has to offer. His original production of Generations by Dennis Clontz received National Honors as a runner-up to August Wilson's Piano Lesson for the best play produced outside of New York City. In spite of his busy schedule, Robert continues each year to direct one play and act in at least one theater production. He is a member and Artistic Advisor at the Colony Studio Theater Playhouse, a repertory company in Los Angeles that boasts a 90% subscription rate. Recently, he directed Mornings at Seven and acted in Fool for Love by Sam Shepard. Robert has appeared in over 100 films, made-for-TV movies and television episodes. His most recent projects include the soon-to-be released films Moonbase, in which he stars as the evil convict Stark, and Good Luck, starring Gregory Hines. He has also appeared in the The Mask, starring Jim Carrey, as well as ten other feature films. Mini-series and movie-of-the-week appearances include Desperado: Badlands Justice, World War III, From Here to Eternity and By the Dawn's Early Light. Television series include NYPD Blue and two seasons on In the Heat of the Night and Dark Justice. Other episodic television credits include such series as Murder, She Wrote (two appearances), Dallas (two appearances), Hunter, Falcon Crest, The Flash, Hill Street Blues, Max Headroom, The Equalizer, Sledgehammer, Paradise, Jake and the Fatman, MacGuyver and many more. Robert generally portrays villains or antagonists and is particularly expert in the use of a variety of dialects and accents. Robert resides with his wife in Los Angeles. During his infrequent times of rest and recreation, you may find him playing a round of golf, attending an enjoyable game of baseball or watching a good film or television show, particularly if it's set in the Trek universe. But perhaps you've heard the most recent rumor -- Robert's wife gave birth on January 1st at 12:01 a.m., 12:03 a.m. and 12:04 a.m. to Jack, Joseph and Michael, their sons. The rumor is true -- scratch the golf games for awhile! |
An
accomplished artist best known as the ever-silent "Morn" on Deep Space Nine,
Mark's numerous abstract impressionist paintings, mixed media works and photo
mosaics have been used on the DS9 sets, as well as other television, films
and commercials. 
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 New 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.
Donny
is an avid Star Trek fan who has been involved with the world of fandom
for ten years. This is his third year as a TrekTrak panelist and
the seventh Dragon*Con he's attended. In addition to being a Trek
fan, he has written columns for assorted web sites and newsletters, reviewing
everything from Star Trek: Voyager to pro wrestling. When not writing
or talking about these things with friends from Atlanta as well as the Internet,
he's planning his wedding with his fiancée Nichole, the only woman in the
known universe who not only tolerates his hobbies, but also occassionally joins
in.
| Wayne
Walls Ultimate Trek... or Ultimate Drek?  Wayne
has written for Vault magazine and contributed pieces to The
Wild Hunt amateur press association. His past illustrious "Fan
Boy" highlights include stomping John de Lancie in a Star Trek
trivia contest, a costume contest as the Terminator in an ad campaign
for WD-40 which he described as "less filling but tastes great," and,
in more personal circles, his wedding, where he treated the guests to
a showing of Return of the Jedi with his blushing bride in tow,
still in the white dress. This is Wayne's third year on TrekTrak.
Deborah Warner So You Want to Write a Star Trek Story? Star Trek: Voyager: The Verdict  Deborah
is the webmistress of NovaD.org, home
of the Secret Logs of Mistress Janeway, a fanfiction web site featuring
the erotic adventures of a certain starship captain who is a long way
from home. Deborah appeared in Denise Crosby's 1999 documentary
Trekkies
and is the producer of a new series called The
Privateers whose stars include Karl Urban (Caesar in Xena:Warrior
Princess). |
| Eric
L. Watts Court-Martial!  Eric
has been an avid Star Trek fan since 1977. He founded and
was President of the United Federation of Trekkers, South Carolina's largest
Star Trek fan club, from 1980 to 1988 and has been Dragon*Con's
Director of Star Trek Programming since 1992. Eric has been
a member of the amateur press association Imaginapa
since 1980, including 11 years as its Central Mailer, from 1983-1988 and
1991-1997, and is a former member of the amateur press associations Apa
Enterprise, Talking of Trek, GAPS, Atlapa and
Dragon*Citings. He is also the Editor & Publisher of
The New Moon Directory,
an annual index to amateur press associations, and a member of both the
Southern Bears and the Atlanta
Gay Men's Chorus (for which he is also web site administrator).
Professionally, Eric holds Associate in Arts degrees in Visual Communications
(1990) and Web Site Administration (1999) from the Art
Institute of Atlanta and is a member of the Atlanta chapters of the
Graphic Artists Guild and the
American Institute of Graphic Arts,
as well as the Creative Club of
Atlanta and the HTML Writers Guild.
Eric recently launched a secondary career in stand-up comedy, first performing
in April at The Comedy House in Kennesaw, more recently at Eddie's Attic
in Decatur and placing as a finalist in WB36's Late Nite Laff Off competition
in May. |
| Robert
Hewitt Wolfe An Hour with Robert Hewitt Wolfe The Deep Space Nine Reunion Tour Robert is a veteran of five years writing and producing Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He is currently developing, writing and producing Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda for Tribune Entertainment and Fireworks Productions. Starring Kevin Sorbo, Andromeda began shooting in Vancouver in May and will premiere nationwide this fall. Robert is also writing the high tech thriller Zero Gee, in development at Sony for John Woo and Terrance Chang's production company, Lion Rock. Robert wrote the episode "A Fistful of Datas" for The Next Generation and, for Deep Space Nine, wrote or co-wrote the story and/or teleplay for "Q-Less," "The Passenger," "In the Hands of the Prophets," "Invasive Procedures," "Second Sight," "Shadowplay," "The Wire," "The Collaborator," "The Search, Part I," "The Search, Part II," "Second Skin," "Past Tense, Part I," "Past Tense, Part II," "Heart of Stone," "Prophet Motive," "Distant Voices," "Through the Looking Glass," "Family Business," "The Adversary," "The Way of the Warrior, Part I," "The Way of the Warrior, Part II," "Little Green Men," "Homefront," "Paradise Lost," "Bar Association," "Hard Time," "To the Death," "Broken Link," "Apocalypse Rising," "Trials and Tribble-ations," "Let He Who Is Without Sin...," "The Ascent," "In Purgatory's Shadow," "By Inferno's Light," "Ties of Blood and Water," "Blaze of Glory," "Call to Arms" and "Field of Fire." |
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TrekTrak
is pleased to once again welcome Chase Masterson to Dragon*Con.
Chase played Leeta, the Dabo Girl, on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
and last appeared at Dragon*Con in 1997. 