Armstrong · Balder · Berman · Carter · Crispin · David · Dourif · Fitts · Hertzler · Jones · Kilpatrick · Koenig · Lambeth · Lumsden · Masterson · Nemecek J. · Nemecek L. · Nowell · Sackett · Starr · Strickland · Spanks · Sussman · Takei · Ulbrich · Watts |
Vaughn
Armstrong Meet Admiral Forrest: An Hour with Vaughn Armstrong TrekTrak Presents: J. G. Hertzler and Vaughn Armstrong Enterprise: The Verdict The 2003 Miss Klingon Empire Beauty Pageant Vaughn has appeared as more major characters in the various Star Trek series than any other actor. In The Next Generation, he played Korris, the first modern-day Klingon besides Worf, in "Heart of Glory," and in Deep Space Nine, he played Gul Dunar in "Past Prologue." In Voyager, he played Telek Ramor in "Eye of the Needle," Two of Nine in "Survival Instinct," the Vidiian captain in "Fury," Alpha-Hirogen in "Flesh and Blood, Part I," and Korath in "Endgame, Part I." In spite of those seven guest roles over the course of 13 years, Vaughn is now best known to Star Trek fans as Starfleet's Admiral Forrest, a role he has played, so far, in 15 episodes during Enterprise's first two seasons. His other television appearances include guest and recurring roles on Babylon 5, 7 Days, ER, West Wing, NYPD Blue, Seinfeld, The Beast, Frasier, Moesha and a hundred more. His film credits include Clear and Present Danger, The Net, Philadelphia Experiment, and Triumphs of a Man Called Horse, to name a few. On stage, Vaughn has portrayed Brutus in Julius Caesar, Macduff, Cassio in Othello, ad infinitum. His 32-year career has included producing, directing and stage design, as well as acting. This is Vaughn's second appearance on TrekTrak. |
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Rob
Balder The TrekTrak Filksing Rob is the creator of the clip-art comic strip PartiallyClips, which runs weekly in 12 US newspapers and can be found on the web at www.partiallyclips.com. He also regularly contributes fiction, poetry, comics and filks to the pages of Nth Degree (www.nthzine.com). The first PartiallyClips book is expected to be available in November 2003. |
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Steve
Berman The Missing Minority Steve is the author of the new collection of GBLTI short stories called Trysts. On a trip to Los Angeles to seal a deal to ghost-write the autobiography of a gay porn star (which fell through), he had the most amazing romp with a little goth boy and he began work on Vintage as an ode to that lost boy. It was immediately picked up by the Gay Goth Network and chapters were serialized every two months. Since then, the story has changed a little and now awaits publication. In between work on that book, he began to think of selling a collection of his short stories, which he had written and published over the years. A few of his creative (and wealthier) friends had decided to create a publishing company that would release books of gothic interest and during an afternoon of alcohol-laced hot choc in the city, it was decided that Lethe Press would publish his newest book, Trysts. |
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Melissa
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Ann
C. Crispin |
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Peter
David TrekTrak Presents: An Hour with Peter David Peter David is a prolific author whose career, and continued popularity, spans nearly two decades. He has worked in every conceivable media: television, film, books (fiction, non-fiction and audio), short stories and comic books, and acquired followings in all of them. In the literary field, Peter has had over forty novels published, including numerous appearances on the New York Times Bestsellers List. Publishers Weekly described him as "a genuine and veteran master." Probably his greatest fame comes from the high-profile realm of Star Trek novels, where he is the most popular writer of the series, with his title Imzadi being one of the best-selling Star Trek novels of all time. He is also co-creator and author of the bestselling New Frontier series for Pocket Books. A partial list of his titles include Q-Squared, The Siege, Q-in-Law, Vendetta and A Rock and a Hard Place, plus such original science fiction and fantasy works as Knight Life, Howling Mad, and the Psi-Man adventure novels. He has also had short stories appear in such collections as Shock Rock, Shock Rock II and Otherwere, as well as Isaac Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine and the Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction. Peter has written more comics than can possibly be listed here, remaining consistently one of the most acclaimed writers in the field. His resume includes an award-winning twelve-year run on The Incredible Hulk, and he has also worked on such varied and popular titles as Supergirl, Young Justice, Soulsearchers and Company, Aquaman, Spider-Man, Spider-Man 2099, X-Factor, Star Trek, Wolverine, The Phantom, Sachs & Violens and many others. He has also written comic book-related novels, such as The Hulk: What Savage Beast, and co-edited the Ultimate Hulk short story collection. Furthermore, his opinion column "But I Digress" has been running in the industry trade newspaper The Comic Buyers Guide for nearly a decade, and in that time has been the paper's consistently most popular feature and was also collected into a trade paperback edition. Peter is the co-creator, with popular science fiction icon Bill Mumy (of Lost in Space and Babylon 5 fame) of the Cable Ace Award-nominated science fiction series Space Cases, which ran for two seasons on Nickelodeon. He has also written several scripts for the Hugo Award-winning TV series Babylon 5, and the sequel series Crusade, as well as the animated series Roswell. He has also written several films for Full Moon Entertainment and co-produced two of them, including two installments in the popular Trancers series as well as the science fiction western spoof Oblivion, which won the Gold Award at the 1994 Houston International Film Festival for best Theatrical Feature Film, Fantasy/Horror category. Peter's awards and citations span not only an assortment of fields, but the globe. They include: the Haxtur Award 1996 (Spain), Best Comic script; OZCon 1995 award (Australia), Favorite International Writer; Comic Buyers Guide 1995 Fan Awards, Favorite writer; Wizard Fan Award Winner 1993; Golden Duck Award for Young Adult Series (Starfleet Academy), 1994; UK Comic Art Award, 1993; Will Eisner Comic Industry Award, 1993. Recently his work was again nominated in two categories for the Eisners, and in the recent SFX Readers Awards he was the sixth most popular author in the field, with four of his books finishing in the top ten in their category. This is Peter's tenth year on TrekTrak. |
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Brad
Dourif Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine and Voyager Guest Stars 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. |
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J.
G. Hertzler Meet General Martok: An Hour with J. G. Hertzler TrekTrak Presents: J. G. Hertzler and Vaughn Armstrong Enterprise: The Verdict The 2003 Miss Klingon Empire Beauty Pageant 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," as well as the Klingon Kolos in the Enterprise episode "Judgment" this past season. Previous to this, J. G.'s career included some 40 episodes of The New Zorro for the Family Channel, where he starred as Zorro's evil nemesis, Alcalde Ignacio DeSoto. Other television and film appearances include episodes of Quantum Leap, Seinfeld, Dr. Quinn, Diagnosis Murder, Lois & Clark, General Hospital and One Life to Live. Movies include Ashtown: Prophecy 2 and his most recent television movie, Pirates of Silicon Valley, where J. G. plays director Ridley Scott. On the legitimate stage, J. G.'s career has spanned the United States from Broadway to Los Angeles, appearing in over 50 Shakespearean productions at the Guthrie, ACT in San Francisco, the Folger Theatre and festivals from Maine to New Jersey to California. He has worked as a stage director and Artistic Director for many classical productions. J. G. recently directed and starred in Prospero's Forest, an evening in the Hollywood Hills dedicated to increasing the awareness of continuing deforestation of the ancient giant redwoods of North America. Currently living in the Los Angeles area, J. G. is writing in every spare minute, including those between the scenes on the bridge of his Bird of Prey, the I.K.S. Rotarran. |
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Chris
Jones Enterprise: The Verdict Chris has been a Star Trek and science fiction fan in one capacity or another for most of his life. He cut his teeth on shows such as Lost in Space,Johnny Quest and the original Star Trek in the 1960s and has continued his involvement in Trek and SF shows, stories and activities to the present day. Chris has participated in gaming as far back as the mid-'70s, starting with some of the board strategy games, then into RPGs such as D&D, Traveler, Aftermath and Fading Suns. Though his primary occupation is as a computer technician, he has served many years in the military under multiple occupations, been an extra in TV and movies and works part-time for Holistic Design, running game demos. Chris is currently a member of the Klingon Assault Group, for whom he helps coordinate public events such as Toys for Tots. He also designs insignia and accessories for Klingon costumes. |
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Patrick
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Walter
Koenig |
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Cheralyn
Lambeth |
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Mary-Tabitha
Lumsden Star Trek Nemesis: The Verdict Mary-Tabitha is a college junior majoring in biotechnology with ambitions to work in an animal-centered facility (i.e., veterinarian) or as a forensic investigator for the FBI. A long time Trekker, she discovered the universe of Star Trek through the Original Series logbooks at the tender age of 10 and has since developed the same fascination for all five series and books. Vulcans are her favorite species and she has dearly wished that she could get Scotty to cause a cross-universe transport of a sehlat cub for her very own. When not involved with reading Star Trek books or debating with her brother (self-appointed Klingon expert of the house), she can be seen with her cat Pippin engrossed in the Lord of the Rings and Redwall series and listening to Anne McCaffrey's Masterharper of Pern CD. |
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Chase
Masterson Beyond the Dabo Girl: An Hour with Chase Masterson Chase Masterson is best known for her breakout role on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, one of the highest-rated internationally syndicated shows of all time. Chase's huge international fan base saw her rise from a four-line role as Leeta, the Dabo Girl in one episode to a five-year, 17-episode story arc, at which point USA Networks brought Chase on to host her own newsmagazine talk show on the Sci-Fi Channel. TV Guide Online Readers' Poll voted Chase the #1 favorite science fiction actress on television, and Sci-Fi Universe Magazine honored Chase as one of the top 20 people to watch in Hollywood. In the Sci-Fi Channel's upcoming feature, Terminal Invasion, Chase stars opposite Bruce Campbell as "alpha female" pilot Catherine Garrett. Other upcoming feature work includes Inhuman, a dark, Hitchcockian thriller in which Chase stars as ex-Dr. Kat McKenna. And catch Chase currently hosting Sci-Fi Digital, the teasing, irreverent, but always in-the-know Internet genre newsmagazine. Sci-Fi Digital. You've been warned. Chase is often recognized from her recurring work on General Hospital and as the featured guest star in the Emmy Award-winning episode of ER. In other television work, Chase caught UPN's eye with her recurring role on Live Shot, and entertained Saturday night viewers with comedic banter as the host of Showtime Nighttime. Guest star credits include Sliders, a recurring guest role on Sci-Fi Vortex, and others, including co-host of NBC Saturday Night at the Movies. On the big screen, Chase starred as Commanding Officer Callie O'Grady in Stephen King's thriller, Frozen, with Faith Ford, and as the title role of Marina, with Bridget Wilson. Chase made her feature film debut opposite Maxwell Caulfield in In a Moment of Passion, and was also the lead in Married People, Single Sex, as well as a brief role as Richard Lewis' girlfriend in Mel Brooks' Robin Hood, Men in Tights. Chase did a supporting turn with her lighthearted portrayal of a woman in labor in Porchlight's Lightning, and had a cameo in the upcoming British feature, Advanced Warrior, the first fully interactive film. Other feature film credits include leads in Digital Man and Sammyville, a reality-based thriller in which Chase stars as a driven child protective services worker, and which was featured on 60 Minutes II. Best of all, "Chase Masterson" was recently the answer to a question on Jeopardy! ChaseMasterson.com currently gets about 10,000 hits per day. Chase Masterson's current and future projects have been publicized in international print, as well as on worldwide, national and local TV and radio networks, including E!, Bravo, Good Morning America, Montel, CNN, CNBC, Starz, The Sundance Channel, Canada's Space: The Imagination Station and Britain's Sky1. This is Chase's third appearance on TrekTrak. |
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Janet
Nemecek Star Trek: Voyager's "Prophecy": What Didn't Happen Life has been many things for Janet, but after a break from being a Star Trek "pro," she is once again a fan -- and still enjoys sharing her thoughts on writing and what's up the Trek behemoth. The native of Shawnee, Oklahoma, worked as a mom and housekeeper before becoming a business graduate and executive assistant by the early '90s -- and then came her long run as the assistant script coordinator on Star Trek: Voyager. After she and her husband Larry moved from central Oklahoma to the Los Angeles area in 1994, she landed the temp job for seven weeks in the Voyager family and won the job outright when it became open. Soon after several workshops, seminars and classes in writing, she and Larry sold a story to Voyager which was finally produced and updated in the series' final season, "Prophecy." After working as an executive assistant in downtown Los Angeles, Janet is now taking a break to update the household and see the kids through their last years of school. She also enjoys cooking, gardening, woodworking, remodeling and travel (especially passenger trains!). |
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Susan
Sackett Inside Star Trek with Susan Sackett Susan Sackett grew up in Connecticut and Florida and received both her Bachelor of Arts and Master of Education degrees from the University of Florida in Gainesville (1964; 1965). After teaching elementary school in Miami for two years, she moved to Los Angeles, where she taught for a short time. But her lifelong dream of working in Hollywood persisted, and she quit her teaching job to work in the entertainment industry. She spent the next four years with the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) as a publicity assistant and commercial coordinator. In August 1974, she began an association with Gene Roddenberry, creator of the television legend Star Trek, serving as his personal executive assistant for over 17 years until his death in October 1991. She also served as his production assistant on the first Star Trek film and worked closely with him on the next five Star Trek movies. In addition, she served as Production Associate during the first five seasons of the television series, Star Trek: The Next Generation. Susan and her writing partner, Fred Bronson, sold several stories and a teleplay to that series, including the popular episodes "Ménage à Troi" and "The Game." Susan and Fred have also sold stories to the series, Sliders, and continue to work together as television writing partners. While working full-time as Roddenberry's assistant, Susan managed to write three books about Star Trek: Letters to "Star Trek" (Ballantine Books, 1977); "Star Trek" Speaks! (with co-authors Fred and Stan Goldstein, Pocket Books, 1979), and The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, with co-author Gene Roddenberry, Pocket Books, 1980). In 1982, she published her fourth book relating to the film and television industry, with co-author Cheryl Blythe: You Can Be a Game Show Contestant and Win! (Dell Books). (And following her own advice, in 1986 Susan went on Jeopardy! and won $10,000 in cash and prizes.) Another book co-authored with Cheryl Blythe was Say Goodnight, Gracie! -- The Story of Burns and Allen (E. P. Dutton, 1986; paperback edition, Prima Publishing, 1989). Following that came The Hollywood Reporter Book of Box Office Hits (Billboard Publications, 1990). Another book, "Star Trek": The First 25 Years, co-authored with Gene Roddenberry, was purchased by Pocket Books, although not published due to the publisher's legal entanglements. Instead, it became the basis of the 1994 book, "Star Trek": 'Where No One Has Gone Before': A History in Pictures, by J. M. Dillard. In the Fall of 1993, Billboard Books published Prime-Time Hits; a third Billboard book (and Susan's ninth), Hollywood Sings!, was released in 1995. In 1996, the revised second edition of The Hollywood Reporter Book of Box Office Hits was published. Inside Trek: My Secret Life with Star Trek Creator Gene Roddenberry (Hawk Publishing Group, 2002) brings her total to eleven published books. When not writing, Susan's other interests include Humanist activism; wildlife conservation and animal rights; traveling; hiking; showing dogs; SCUBA diving, and photography. She is a member of MENSA (the high IQ society), ATAS (Academy of Television Arts and Sciences), NWU (the National Writers Union) and WGA (Writers Guild of America, West, Inc.). In 1994, after 26 years as a Californian, she moved to Arizona, where she enjoys the "dry heat." She shares her home with her two dogs, a Shiloh Shepherd and a Golden Retriever. |
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Tonya
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Arne
Starr |
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Brad
Strickland |
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Brian
Sussman Enterprise: The Verdict Starfleet Kitchen Brian is currently the head of the Atlanta Starfleet International chapter USS Republic NCC-1371. Brian has been a Star Trek fan since the original series and attended one of the first Star Trek conventions in New York in the Seventies. Brian and his friends would make 8mm movies continuing the adventures of Kirk and Spock during his youth. Later in life, Brian joined the USS Integrity out of New Jersey and was their Chief of Engineering. Later, he performed the same duties for the USS Tempest. He has attended and chaired panels for several conventions in New Jersey. Star Trek is one of Brian's favorite series, although he considers himself a well-rounded science fiction enthusiast, enjoying such fare as Babylon 5, Dr. Who (he was also a member of the Prydonians of Princeton), Firefly, Andromeda, etc. However, being that he spent 48 hours to get to the 30th anniversary convention for Star Trek in Huntsville, Alabama, we know what is closest to his heart. |
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Carla
Ulbrich The TrekTrak Filksing A fan favorite on the long-running, nationally syndicated Dr. Demento Show, award-winning songwriter and Professional Smart Aleck Carla Ulbrich has been compared to the likes of Ray Stevens, Christine Lavin, Jerry Seinfeld, Chet Atkins and Jewel. As for the guy who compared Carla to Jewel... he had been drinking heavily. Originally from South Carolina, Carla is currently based in South Florida (although she spends more time in the van than anywhere else). Carla brings a mix of humor, poignancy and nifty guitar playing to the stage. She began playing guitar at the age of nine, joined the school band at 12 and played a different instrument every year in band: flute, clarinet, piccolo, xylophone and sousaphone -- a marching tuba. Once in a while an obliging friend lets her sit in on a song or two with her tuba during a concert. Carla started playing the piano and writing songs in high school, eventually finding her way back to the guitar in college, where she earned a BA in Music (classical guitar). She made her singing debut at a pig pickin' on Spring Break in college and has so far released two CDs on her own label: Her Fabulous Debut (1999) and Professional Smart Aleck (2003). Carla's live shows and CDs have earned her amazing reviews and spiffy songwriting awards: Best Upbeat and Best Overall; 1999 South Florida Folk Fest's Song Competition; first place, 2000 and 1998, Mid-Atlantic Song Contest; second place, 1998, Chris Austin Songwriting Contest; second place, Gamble Rogers Folk Fest's Fingerpicking contest; grants from the SC Arts Commission and Jim Beam to help fund recordings; and endorsements from Takamine and John Pearse Strings. Carla has taught guitar at several colleges, Hummingbird Music Camp, and the National Guitar Workshop. After a year of fighting back from a health crisis, she is back to touring relentlessly all over the country. She has appeared on numerous radio stations as well as USA's Up All Night, and has shared the bill with such luminaries as Cheryl Wheeler and Twiggy the Water Skiing Squirrel. Carla Ulbrich is a member of ASCAP and President of the Difficult Last Name Club, likes cheese, and collects bottlecaps. |
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Eric
L. Watts The 2003 Miss Klingon Empire Beauty Pageant 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 is a charter member of Southern Bears and was the Editor & Publisher of The New Moon Directory, an annual index to amateur press associations from 1988 to 1997. He has been a member of the amateur press association Imaginapa (currently on publication hiatus) since 1980 and was its elected Central Mailer for 14 of the past 23 years. He is a former member of the amateur press associations Apa Enterprise, Talking of Trek, GAPS, Atlapa and Dragon*Citings. Professionally, Eric holds Associate in Arts degrees in Visual Communications (1990) and Web Site Administration (1999) from the Art Institute of Atlanta and owns his own graphic and web site design business, ELW Graphix. He is the technical designer for Soundly Speaking, the monthly online newsletter of NSA Georgia (the Georgia chapter of the National Speakers Association), and also the Editor of Survival News, the monthly newsletter of AIDS Survival Project, headquartered in Atlanta. Eric started performing stand-up comedy in 2000 and has performed at The Comedy House in Kennesaw, Eddie's Attic in Decatur and The Kudzoo Cantina in Bowdon. In May 2000, he placed as a finalist in WB36's Late Nite Laff-Off competition at Dave & Buster's in Duluth, and was a featured performer at Eddie's Attic's Third Annual Gay Comedy Festival in June 2001. |
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