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Alpi · Bellucci · Brooks · Chalkley
· Churvis · Crowe
· David · Dease
· DeCandido · Dorn
· Dourif · Fowler
· Greenberg ·
Hammer · Holloway ·
Keela & Katkith · Koenig
· Lofton · Mulgrew
· Pedraza · Perry
· Picardo · Rowles · Sherman · Snider · Takei
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AlpiStar Trek: Phase II The Missing Minority: "Blood and Fire" Ben was born and raised on the Canadian border in pastoral northern New York. As a director and visual effects artist, he has worked on a number of independent films in a variety of capacities. Most recently, he was second unit director for the feature-length documentary American General: Benedict Arnold. His directorial debut, Silver Lining, premiered in February 2008 alongside five other independently funded short films at the Madison Theater in Albany, New York. The weeklong “Indies at the Madison” event outperformed all six of the widely released films playing at the theater. Ben served as Second Unit Director for the Star Trek: Phase II (formerly Star Trek: New Voyages) episode "Blood and Fire" and as First Assistant Director: Second Unit and key grip (New York) for the New Voyages episode "World Enough and Time." Ben will direct his first episode of the award-winning online series in 2008. |
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 Joël BellucciStar Trek: Phase II Star Trek vs. the New Battlestar Galactica The Missing Minority: "Blood and Fire" Joël is a marine scientist, web designer and visual effects artist. His marine experiences range from photo-ID studies of bottlenosed dolphins to diving under the Antarctic ice sheet. He's been a contributor to 3D Artist Magazine as well as to numerous local newspapers and magazines. He's also active in Florida's Tampa/St. Pete GLBT community through the Tampa International Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, for which he's done film trafficking for the last five years. He is single-handedly responsible for converting innumerable individuals (15, actually) to the joys of The Next Generation and would like to think that he is somehow responsible for the success of Patrick Stewart's career. Joël is also a cast member on---and visual effects artist for---Star Trek: Phase II (formerly Star Trek: New Voyages), and its spinoff, Star Trek: First Voyages. |
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BrooksAvery is an accomplished stage, television and film actor best known for his role as Benjamin Sisko in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He is the only actor to appear in all 173 episodes of the series, and has also directed several episodes. In addition, he played Benny Russell in the episodes "Far Beyond the Stars" and "Shadows and Symbols." He also voiced Sisko in the games Star Trek: Deep Space Nine---Harbinger and Star Trek: Legacy. Hailing from Evansville, Indiana, Avery attended Theodore Roosevelt High School in Gary, Indiana. After graduating, he attended Oberlin College in Ohio as well as Indiana University. In 1973, he became the first African-American to receive an MFA in acting and directing from Rutgers University in New Jersey. He is currently a tenured professor of theater arts at Rutgers' Mason Gross School of the Arts, and in 1993, he was inducted into the Rutgers University Hall of Distinguished Alumni. That same year, he became the Artistic Director of the National Black Arts Festival, a biannual, ten-day festival celebrating the art and culture of the African Diaspora held in Atlanta, Georgia. He was the Artistic Director during the 1994 and 1996 festivals. Raised in a musical family, Avery has a passion for playing jazz piano as well as acting. In March 2006, he played the piano at the funeral for Gordon Parks, who gave Avery his first television acting experience when Parks directed him in Solomon Northrup's Odyssey in 1984. Avery also sang the theme from The Learning Tree, a film that Parks wrote and directed. Avery was also present at Ossie Davis' funeral in February 2005, at the end of which he read the epilogue from the 1961 play "Purlie Victorious," which Davis wrote. Avery was filming an interview on the Star Trek franchise when the 40 Years of Star Trek: The Collection auction was being held at Christies. He briefly entered the bidding room and described the experience as bringing back "great feelings of nostalgia." Avery has been married to Vicki Bowen since 1976. The couple have three children: Ayana, Asante and Cabral. Although he continues serving as a tenured professor at Rutgers, Avery had left his teaching job to play Benjamin Sisko on Deep Space Nine and has yet to return to full-time academic work. Avery has received high acclaim for his portrayal of Paul Robeson in the long-running one-man show of the same name. Avery has starred in this play since 1982, including two performances on Broadway (in 1988 and again in 1995). He actually first played Robeson in the 1978 off-Broadway show Are You Now or Have You Ever Been, which ended up on Broadway in early 1979. Avery' stage credits also include many Shakespeare characters, including Othello, Oberon, and King Lear. In addition, he originated the role of Malcolm X in Anthony Davis' opera X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, in 1985. He went on to perform in another Anthony Davis opera, Tania. While best known for playing Ben Sisko, Avery had his first episodic television starring role in Spenser: For Hire as the lead character's partner, Hawk. Avery went on to reprise the role of Hawk in the short-lived spinoff, A Man Called Hawk. Prior to this, he made his television acting debut playing the title role in the 1984 TV adaptation of Solomon Northup's Odyssey. In 1987, he again played the title role in a TV adaptation of a famous novel, this time Uncle Tom's Cabin, which co-starred fellow Star Trek performers Bill Bolender and Albert Hall. Aside from these, he made an appearance in 1985's Finnegan Begin Again (starring Bob Gunton and David Huddleston) and played the role of Cletus Moyer in 1988's Roots: The Gift. The latter also starred Star Trek: The Next Generation actor LeVar Burton in his famous role of Kunte Kinte and also featured future Star Trek: Voyager stars Kate Mulgrew and Tim Russ. Avery was cast as Benjamin Sisko, commander of space station Deep Space 9, in 1992. For his performance in this role, Avery received two Image Award nominations as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, one in 1996 and another in 1997. Also in 1997, he received a Saturn Award nomination from the Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films for his portrayal of Sisko. Avery remained with the series through all seven seasons, appearing in every single episode, while at the same time continuing his professorship in theater arts at Rutgers University––occasionally instructing classes in his character's costume. While Deep Space Nine was still in production, Avery continued to star in a number of Spencer telefilms. He also become one of many Star Trek performers to voice in the animated series Gargoyles. Avery made his feature film debut in 1998, playing a mafia kingpin in the action thriller The Big Hit. This was followed that same year with the critically-acclaimed drama American History X, which also starred Star Trek: Voyager's Jennifer Lien. Also in 1998, Avery' deep, commanding voice was employed to narrate various documentary programs, including Africans in America: America's Journey Through Slavery, Africa's Elephant Kingdom and The Greatest Places. After Deep Space Nine ended its run in 1999, Avery continued to act on stage and continued narrating documentaries such as Jesus: The Complete Story, The Ballad of Big Al, Land of the Mammoth and Walking with Dinosaurs. He also hosted the Discovery Channel show Unsolved History for a few years. In 2001, he had a supporting role as a police detective in the film 15 Minutes, which also featured Kim Cattrall, Kelsey Grammer and future Star Trek star Anton Yelchin. Avery has also participated in a number of Star Trek documentaries and specials, including The Science of Star Trek, Star Trek: 30 Years and Beyond and Star Trek: Beyond the Final Frontier. Footage of his performances on Deep Space Nine have been used in such documentaries as Ultimate Trek: Star Trek's Greatest Moments and How William Shatner Changed the World. Avery can be heard on the soundtrack for Anthony Davis's opera Tania, released in 2001. He sings the role of Cinque in this production. He recently completed work on a CD containing "a selection of ballads and love songs," in which he praises his father and artists he admires. Avery is currently working on an audio recording of Alex Haley's Roots. |
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ChalkleyDesigning the 23rd Century The Music of Star Trek Larry has been a fan of Star Trek for as long as he can remember. Over the past twenty or so years, he has spoken on the topic of Trek and its impact on society to various groups and organizations, including the Science Museum of Virginia, the Richmond First Club and the University of Richmond. As an avid collector of Trek, Larry created memorabilia displays for the Science Museum of Virginia, Barnes and Noble and local libraries during Star Trek’s 25th anniversary. Additionally, his comprehensive Trek card collection was featured in the magazine Tuff Stuff’s Collect. Most recently, Larry served as an advisor to a local video production company making a Trek parody for a corporate client. |
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ChurvisThe Music of Star Trek Dave has been watching Star Trek in its various incarnations since he was four years old and a show called Star Trek: The Next Generation debuted and changed his view on the world forever. Since then, he has become an expert in all things Trek, as well as an accomplished software engineer and musician. He currently lives in Norcross, Georgia, with his partner Matt, his musical instruments and about a billion DVDs. |
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 Joe CroweJoe is a science fiction writer, reviewer and stand-up comedian. For over eight years, he has been the senior editor of RevolutionSF.com, an online magazine dedicated to commentary, insight and humor in science fiction and other genre entertainment presented in a comedic style similar to Comedy Central's The Daily Show. Joe also co-hosts RevolutionSF Radio, which features RevolutionSF News and comedy sketches like "Live Action Fanfic Theater." He is the writer of the parody Lord of the Rings: The Novelization, which has been called "Swiftean in its satiric eloquence" and "the worst piece of garbage I have ever read." Other writings include "Open Letter to Sci-Fi TV Executives," "Who Mourns for Enterprise?" and "Hall of Lame: Best of the Worst Characters in Sci-Fi." Joe lives in Fultondale, Alabama, with his wife Stefanie and daughter Quin. |
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P. DeaseStar Trek Online Simming Star Trek vs. the New Battlestar Galactica A native of Columbia, South Carolina, Joshua has been working with film, television and theatre for over a decade. Having worked both in front of and behind the camera, he applies his experience to produce films that are intruging, stimulating and exciting for the audience. His career features work on American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance and Making the Band. He has also worked on various feature films starring Kevin Bacon, Julia Stiles, Adam Baldwin, Danny Glover and Angela Bassett. In 2007, Joshua signed on as the Senior Vice President of Movie Tao Productions and the South East Film Association (SEFA). Both organizations are devoted to bringing production work to the southeastern United States and showcasing the work of the many talented independent filmmakers of the region. In May 2008, principal photography will begin on 1.8 Days, the high-budget feature which Joshua will produce with his associates Bren Pettengill and Chuck Fallaw. Key to the development of his career was his admiration of Gene Roddenberry's vision of the future when he created Star Trek. Each series and film created as part of that franchise has been able to inspire and uplift in a way that crosses the barriers of race, sex, orientation, education and social class. It is his hope to develop films that contribute to the positive development of mankind, if only a fraction of what Star Trek has accomplished. Joshua has no problem stating that he is an avid fan of the series, and feels fortunate to be able to appreciate the series from that point of view, and of that as an industry professional. As part of his enjoyment of the series, he has participated in text-based online role-playing ("simming") since 1999. His group memberships have included the United Space Federation, and the newly created organization Verak Nor. |
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 Keith R.A. DeCandidoStar Trek Authors Cavalcade Star Trek Comic Books? What? Again? Star Trek: Phase II Keith is an author, editor, musician, book packager, critic, essayist, anthologist and karate student. He probably does some other things, too, but he can't remember them due to the lack of sleep. Since 1999, he has been contributing with alarming regularity to the Star Trek universe in prose and sequential art, with dozens of novels, eBooks, short stories, novellas and comic books to his credit, covering all five TV shows as well as several prose-only series such as Starfleet Corps of Engineers, I.K.S. Gorkon, New Frontier and The Lost Era. In 2008, his Trek work ranges from the Klingon Empire novel A Burning House to the Alien Spotlight: Klingons comic book to the final eBook in the Next Generation miniseries Slings and Arrows to the short novel A Gutted World in Myriad Universes: Echoes and Refractions. Keith has also written in the universes of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, CSI: NY, Supernatural, World of Warcraft, StarCraft, Marvel Comics, Doctor Who, Serenity, Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda, Farscape and a whole lot more. In what he laughingly calls his spare time, Keith is a professional percussionist, a brown belt in Kenshikai karate and devoted follower of the New York Yankees. Find out less about Keith at www.DeCandido.net. |
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 Michael
DornBorn in Texas and raised in Pasadena, California, Michael studied radio/television production at Pasadena City College and took his turn in front of the student cameras. When he left school, his interests settled in music and it was there that he pursued his early professional career as a performer. He moved to San Francisco in 1973, then back to Los Angeles in 1976, making his living during that time playing and singing in several rock bands. Then in 1977, Michael landed a small part on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and thought his moment had arrived. Actually, his moment was still a few years away, but it was certainly a start. Michael received much of his on-the-job training as a semi-regular on the daytime drama Days of Our Lives. In the prime-time hours, Michael was seen as Officer Turner during the final two seasons of the weekly cop series CHiPs and guest-starred on many more primetime series, including Knots Landing and Falcon Crest. He went on to a flurry of supporting cast activity in such theatrical features as The Jagged Edge. Then, in 1987, Michael donned mounds of facial makeup for what was to be his signature role: the USS Enterprise's Klingon officer Lt. Worf on Star Trek: The Next Generation. He reprised his role of Worf on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and contributed behind the scenes, directing several episodes of DS9. Since the end of DS9, Michael has continued to act in a variety of projects, and is quite in demand for his voice work — he's provided voices for a plethora of animated series, including Spider-Man, Kim Possible and Gargoyles (with fellow Trek thespian Marina Sirtis). He also wrote, directed and starred in a TV sitcom pilot, Through the Fire, and directed an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise, "Two Days and Two Nights." Besides the Star Trek films, Michael has been seen in theaters in such independent features as Timemaster and Shadow Hours. He played the Sandman in Disney's The Santa Clause 2 and The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause. On the smaller screen, he starred in the Showtime telefilm, Amanda and the Alien, and also did a star turn in the Showtime series The Outer Limits, and acted as host of the Discovery Channel's popular series The World of Wonder. In what free time he has, Michael enjoys flying in his single-seat military training jet, an F-86. He flies to air shows around the country and uses his plane as the ultimate private getaway. |
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DourifStar Trek Guest Stars Brad began his acting career at Columbia University in NewYork City and 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 an 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, 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 the 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 and The Equalizer. Star Trek fans will remember Brad's riveting portrayal of the sociopathic Betazoid crewman Lon Suder in three episodes of Star Trek: Voyager: "Meld," "Basics, Part I" and "Basics, Part II." |
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FowlerStar Trek Online Simming Dan is a twenty-six year old science fiction and fantasy geek that enjoys writing fictional works for the many characters he has penned over the years. He joined the United Space Federation (USF) online role-playing/simming group in late 1996. After five years of membership, he stopped actively role-playing in the USF and his independent group (USS Redemption). He reprised his original character in 2006, when he rejoined the USF, to role-play with his original sim. In 2007, Dan cocreated the independent Star Trek sim Verak Nor. This Deep Space Nine-style sim utilizes a concept known as "Simming 2.0," integrating heavy multimedia components such as graphics-laden mission briefs and real-time streaming audio for the chat room sim. With the help of his cofounder, Kelly Rowles, Verak Nor has become an award-winning Star Trek sim, having won awards for Best Crew and Best Star Trek Live Sim in the 2007 Tournament of Sims. Dan is a part of many different fandoms in the science fiction and fantasy genres; Star Trek, Battletech and World of Warcraft are his predominant interests. He also enjoys long walks on the beach. But not really, because sand in your toes isn't fun. |
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GreenbergBest known for designing computer games and roleplaying games, Andrew co-created the Fading Suns roleplaying and computer games and was the original developer of White Wolf’s Vampire: The Masquerade. He has credits on more than 50 White Wolf products and more than 20 HDI books. He has also worked on products with other roleplaying game companies, including Star Trek Next Generation and Deep Space Nine. His computer game credits include Dracula Unleashed, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, Emperor of the Fading Suns, Warhammer 40K: Final Liberation, Merchant Prince II, Mall Tycoon, Dungeon Lords, and more. His most recent computer game credit is Railroad Tycoon Mobile and he is currently working on the Global Agenda MMO. He began teaching game design at the Art Institute of Atlanta in 2006, and serves on the International Game Developers Association Curriculum Committee. He regularly writes for publications as diverse as Prick magazine and the Matthew Bender legal reference series. He is also the organizer of the Southeast Interactive Entertainment and Games Expo (SIEGE). |
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HammerStar Trek Online Simming Chas is a noted leader within the Star Trek online role-playing (simming) community. He founded and heads the Simming League, a hub for simming leaders. Through the Simming League, he organizes large-scale events for the simming community, including the SciWorld Online Convention and the Tournament of Simulations. Chas is the co-owner and chief editor of SimEnc.com, a wiki dedicated to the simming community. For five years, he ran his own sim club, Trek Online. In real life, Chas is a research scientist and lives in New York City. |
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 Brian HollowayStar Trek: Phase II The Missing Minority: "Blood and Fire" Brian began his theater career at the ripe old age of 7 when he appeared in a regional theatrical production of Fiddler on the Roof with his father. Since then, the acting bug has hit hard and became a full-time commitment. Although he dabbled in the medical field for a short time, he could not be kept long from the bright lights and appeal of the stage. After receiving his BFA in Performance Arts, he toured nationally with several theater organizations for about seven years and could be seen headlining in productions ranging from Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and Henry IV, Parts I and II to musicals like Big River, Man of La Mancha, Kiss Me, Kate and Jekyll & Hyde, to name a few. Brian got into science fiction when he was still in high school in Utah and has been and avid and regular convention attendee since he was 15. He has also received theater degrees in costume and makeup design and has won national and regional awards for his design work. He even had costume designs for an original theatrical piece, HOTLINE!, displayed at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. While in Utah, he was fortunate to befriend Paula Crist, an actress and stuntwoman for productions like Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Battlestar Galactica and the TV series Planet of the Apes. Paula got him connected to the film industry and he has been fortunate enough to land limited work in such productions as The Patriot, Last of the Mohicans, Domestic Disturbance, Doctor Who: The Movie, Highlander: The Series, Shallow Hal and Star Trek (an extra in the background in The Motion Picture and in the Voyager episode "Nemesis"). Brian now lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, and has had the great fortune to meet such wonderful people here and has learned much from local celebrities and fellow con-goers such as Cheralyn Lambeth, the 501st Squadron and the SCA Wardrobe Guild. |
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 Keela & KatkithKeela & Katkith's Klingon Karaoke Keela and Katkith, who both love to sing, debuted their version of Klingon Karaoke at Spartacon in Spartanburg, South Carolina, in November 2002. It was well-received and they were very excited by the response. The next stop was ConCarolinas in Charlotte, North Carolina, in 2003, where it was also enjoyed, and they have been invited back every year since with performances both Friday and Saturday nights. They have also been featured at StellarCon in the Winston-Salem/Greensboro/High Point (North Carolina) area in 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008. Klingon Karaoke has also been performed at Beach Bash 2003 and STARFLEET's Region 1 Summit 2005. Keela & Katkith debuted their Klingon Karaoke at TrekTrak in 2005 to an enormously enthusiastic audience and are excited to again return in 2008 for their fourth year. Audience members will be delighted to know that K'Blamm, the Klingon jester, also returns this year to assist. All the songs are in the huMan tongue, as normal Karaoke is; it's just that the venue is karaoke with a Klingon twist. TODAY is a GOOD day to SING! |
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 Walter
KoenigWalter played the navigator Pavel Chekov on the USS Enterprise in the original Star Trek television series and in the several movies that featured the original cast. He was cast as Chekov because of his resemblance to British actor/musician David Thomas "Davy" Jones of the Monkees to attract a younger audience, especially girls. (The studio's publicity department, however, ascribed the inclusion of Chekov to an article in Pravda complaining about the lack of Russians in Star Trek.) Walter wore a hair piece while playing the character of Chekov on the original Star Trek series. Gene Roddenberry asked him to "ham up" his Russian accent to add a note of comedy relief to the series. He is also credited for writing the Star Trek animated installment "The Infinite Vulcan," making him the first original cast member to write a Star Trek story for television. Interestingly, the character of Pavel Andreievich Chekov never appeared in the animated version of Star Trek. He received Saturn Award Nominations for Best Supporting Actor in a Film for both Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home. Walter reprised his role of Pavel Chekov for the fan webseries Star Trek: New Voyages episode "To Serve All My Days" and the independent Sky Conway/Tim Russ film Star Trek: Of Gods and Men, both in 2006. After Chekov, his best-known role is the Psi Cop Alfred Bester on the television series Babylon 5. Walter was the "Special Guest Star" in twelve episodes and, at the end of the third season, the production company applied for an Emmy nomination on his behalf. He was slated to play Bester on the spin-off series Crusade, but the series was cancelled before his episode was filmed. He also played "Oro" in two episodes of the Canadian science fiction television series The Starlost, which aired in 1973 on Canada's CTV television network. Walter's film, stage and TV roles span a fifty-year time span. He has played everything from a teenage gang leader (Alfred Hitchcock Presents) to a middle-aged Tom Sawyer (The Boys in Autumn). He returned to space with a starring role in Moontrap and played a computer hard drive in Maximum Surge. In addition to acting, he has written several films (Actor, I Wish I May, You're Never Alone When You're a Schizophrenic), one-act plays and a handful of episodes for TV shows: Land of the Lost, Family and The Powers of Matthew Star. Walter has also written several books, including Warped Factors: A Neurotic's Guide to the Universe (autobiography), Chekov's Enterprise (a journal kept during the filming of Star Trek: The Motion Picture) and Buck Alice and the Actor-Robot (a science fiction novel), which was rereleased in 2006. He also created his own comic book series called Raver, which was published by Malibu Comics in the early 1990s. Walter has taught classes in acting and directing at UCLA, the Sherwood Oaks Experiment Film College, the Actor's Alley Repertory Company in Los Angeles and the California School of Professional Psychology at Alliant International University. In 2002, Walter directed stage versions of two of the original Twilight Zone episodes for Letter Entertainment. In 2004, Walter costarred in Mad Cowgirl, an independent movie about a meat-packing health inspector dying from a brain disorder. Walter plays televangelist "Pastor Dylan," a character described as "a sleezy, slimy, sex-addict." The movie played the SF Indiefest and the Silverlake Film Festival, followed by a limited release in major cities such as New York and Seattle. Mad Cowgirl was released on DVD in 2006. |
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LoftonCirroc played the regular role of Jake Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine from 1993 to 1999. Although he watched the original Star Trek series and was a fan, Cirroc prefers The Twilight Zone. He made his first acting appearance in the 1992 hit film Beethoven and was cast as Jake Sisko later that year. Filming DS9 kept him busy, but he made his first guest appearance in an 1996 episode of Moesha. He later made two guest appearances in Smart Guy as two different characters. Soon after DS9 ended, he was a main cast member on The Hoop Life. Two years after DS9 ended, he guest-starred as Anthony Carter in the Soul Food episodes "Nice Work if You Can Get It" and "Come Back for the Comeback." The former episode was directed by LeVar Burton and starred James Avery as a relation of Cirroc's character. In 2003, he guest-starred in 7th Heaven, starring Star Trek film actors Catherine Hicks and Stephen Collins. In 2006, he appeared in the TV series Invasion alongside fellow DS9 star Armin Shimerman and Voyager guest star Ivar Brogger. The following year, he made an appearance on CSI: Miami. In 2004, he appeared in Trekkies 2 and in the motion picture Fronterz. He recently completed work on the independent feature The Inevitable Undoing of Jay Brooks, starring Star Trek: Enterprise's Anthony Montgomery in the title role. Cirroc will be seen in the web-based fan film mini-series Star Trek: Of Gods and Men. Directed by Tim Russ (who also appears in the series as Tuvok), the series also stars fellow Trek veterans Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig, Grace Lee Whitney, Garrett Wang, Alan Ruck, Gary Graham, Lawrence Montaigne, Arlene Martel, Celeste Yarnall, Jack Donner, Crystal Allen and Cirroc's DS9 co-stars J.G. Hertzler and Chase Masterson. |
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MulgrewKatherine Kiernan Mulgrew grew up in Dubuque, Iowa, being the oldest girl in an Irish Catholic family of eight. When Kate, as a 12-year-old, expressed an interest in acting, her mother brought home biographies of great actresses and sent Kate to summer acting schools. At the age of 17, she left home and traveled to New York City to study acting. At New York University, she was accepted into Stella Adler's Conservatory. At the end of her junior year, she left the university to commit herself full-time to her craft. Her early career included portraying "Mary Ryan" for two years on the ABC soap Ryan's Hope (1975) while also playing the role of "Emily" in the American Shakespeare Theatre production of Our Town in Stratford, Connecticut. When Kate was only 23, she played "Kate Columbo" in a series created especially for her, Mrs. Columbo (1979). In this series, she played the wife of one of TV's most beloved detectives, "Lt. Columbo". While a critical success, the show was canceled after two seasons. Kate also starred in several feature films, such as Lovespell (1981), A Stranger Is Watching (1982) with Rip Torn, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins (1985) and Throw Momma from the Train (1987) with Danny DeVito. In 1981, she traveled to Europe to film the ABC miniseries, The Manions of America (1981) with Pierce Brosnan. About that time, she married theater director Robert H. Egan and, a few years later, she had two sons. In the drama series Heartbeat (1988), Kate played "Dr. Joanne Springsteen," the head of a medical clinic. However, in series such as Murphy Brown (1988), Murder, She Wrote (1984), St. Elsewhere (1982) and Cheers (1982), she only had guest roles. In 1993, Kate separated from her husband with whom she had been married for 12 years. In 1995, the divorce became final and she was on the verge of having to sell her house and move into an apartment in Westwood when something incredible happened. She had been called to resume a role in a TV show after the original actress, Geneviève Bujold, left two days into filming. What she did not know then was that this role was going to become her most famous one. The role in question was "Captain Kathryn Janeway" in Star Trek: Voyager (1995). |
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 Carlos PedrazaStar Trek: Phase II Star Trek vs. the New Battlestar Galactica The Missing Minority: "Blood and Fire" Carlos is a writer for Star Trek: Phase II (formerly Star Trek: New Voyages) and is one of the creators of the forthcoming series Star Trek: First Voyages. Before joining the Phase II crew as an associate producer in 2005, Carlos was the staff writer and one of the producers of Star Trek: Hidden Frontier, the longest-running fan-produced science fiction series on the Internet. Over the course of three seasons, he wrote 13 of that series' 43 episodes. David Gerrold, writer of "The Trouble with Tribbles," authorized Carlos to rewrite his famous unproduced script for Star Trek: The Next Generation, "Blood and Fire," for production by Phase II. Carlos' work has been featured in Daily Variety, The Today Show on NBC, Countdown on MSNBC, ABC News, the Columbia News Service and The New York Times. Carlos is a former Associated Press writer, deputy press secretary for the Governor of Washington, teacher, consultant and trainer for nonprofit organizations throughout the United States. Carlos has previously appeared as a guest at Arisia, Gaylaxicon, the Starfleet Ball in the U.K., and at Dragon*Con every year since 2005 as one of TrekTrak's most articulate and active programming participants. |
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 Brooke
PerryThe Music of Star Trek This year marks Brooke's 31st anniversary of convention-hopping, having met Gene Roddenberry at the age of 8. Residing in Alabama, Brooke is a proud Ensign aboard Atlanta's own USS Republic NCC-1371 and is a regular contributor to their chapter newsletter, The Sovereign Star. An avid soundtrack fanatic, Brooke is thrilled to be moderating this year's panel on one of his greatest passions, The Music of Star Trek. He also devoutly worships the Holy Trinity: Jerry Goldsmith, Bernard Herrmann and Ennio Morricone. |
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PicardoBorn and raised in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Robert Picardo graduated from the William Penn Charter School. He entered Yale University as a pre-med student, not knowing that he would someday portray doctors in three separate productions: first as Dr. Dick Richard on the ABC series China Beach, then as Dr. McCaskill in the theater production In The Waiting Room at the Mark Taper Forum, and as The Doctor on Star Trek: Voyager. While at Yale, Bob landed a role in Leonard Bernstein's Mass, a musical theater piece originally commissioned for the 1972 opening of the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. In 1974, armed with a B.A. in Drama from Yale, he enrolled at the Circle in the Square Professional Theater Workshop (fellow alumni include Kevin Bacon and Ken Olin). He waited tables for a couple of years, and then his theatrical work prospered in 1976 when he appeared in the David Mamet play Sexual Perversity in Chicago and with Diane Keaton in The Primary English Class. In 1977, Bob made his Broadway debut in the leading role in the comedy hit Gemini with Danny Aiello. He went on to co-star with Jack Lemmon in Bernard Slade's Tribute in 1978 on Broadway and in a West Coast run which brought him to Los Angeles, where he decided to try out film and TV. His work in theater also includes Beyond Therapy and Geniuses at the Los Angeles Public Theater, and The Normal Heart at the Berkeley Repertory Theater, for which he won a Drama-Logue Award. The awards and recognition continued as Bob became involved in television. He was nominated for an Emmy Award for his role as Mr. Cutlip on the ABC series The Wonder Years. Furthermore, Bob was awarded the Viewers For Quality Television Founder's Award for his outstanding performances in The Wonder Years and as military surgeon Dr. Dick Richard on China Beach. Aside from his role as everyone's favorite emergency holographic medical program in Star Trek: Voyager, Bob's extensive television work has included a starring role opposite Helena Bonham-Carter in NBC's movie-of-the-week Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald, the HBO movie White Mile, and the NBC mini-series Deadly Matrimony. He had recurring roles on Home Improvement, LA Law and Alice, and he has guest-starred in such series as Ally McBeal, Outer Limits, Early Edition, ER, Tales From The Crypt, Amazing Stories, Benson and Taxi. Bob recently appeared in the feature film Small Soldiers, the HBO feature The Second Civil War and the Showtime movie Menno's Mind, and he starred in the feature film Wagons East. Bob resides in Los Angeles with his wife, Linda, and two daughters. |
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RowlesStar Trek Online Simming Kelly is a twenty-four year-old Star Trek role-player (also known as a "simmer") with more than a decade's worth of online RP experience. She was a member of the United Space Federation (USF) online role-playing group from June of 1997 through June of 2007. She was only thirteen years old when she joined and became one of the youngest individuals to reach the rank of Captain and lead her own USF sim. Over the years, she has also cofounded two independent sims, the USS Redemption and Verak Nor, with fellow simmer Dan Fowler. She is also a member of the Simming League, the oldest organization for simming and online role-playing leaders and clubs, and the self-described "United Nations of simming." Although retired from the USF, Kelly continues to co-operate Verak Nor as the character "Captain Lyra Rose." Set after the end of Deep Space Nine, Verak Nor is a chat-based sim featuring live sound effects which are streamed over the Internet. With the help of her cofounder, Dan Fowler, Verak Nor has become an award-winning Star Trek sim, having won awards for Best Crew and Best Star Trek Live Sim in the 2007 Tournament of Sims. This is Kelly's fourth Dragon*con, but her first appearance as a panelist on TrekTrak. |
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 Josepha ShermanStar Trek Authors Cavalcade Josepha is a fantasy novelist, folklorist and editor who has written everything from Star Trek novels to biographies of Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos (founder of Amazon.com) to titles such as Mythology for Storytellers and Trickster Tales. She is a winner of the prestigious Compton Crook Award for best fantasy novel and has had many titles on the New York Public Library Books for the Teen Reader list. Josepha's Star Trek novels include Vulcan's Forge, Vulcan's Heart and Vulcan's Soul, Books I, II, and III, all coauthored with Susan Shwartz. Her other current titles include the reprint of the Unicorn Queen books from Del Rey and the almost-finished The Encyclopedia of Storytelling, due out early next year. She is also working on Folklore for Storytellers and three books on astronomy for children. When she isn't busy writing, editing or gathering folklore, Josepha loves to travel, knows how to do horse whispering and has had a newborn foal fall asleep on her foot. She also is the owner of Sherman Editorial Services. |
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 John C. SniderJohn is the editor of the online science fiction magazine scifidimensions.com, published monthly since February 2000. He's also the founder and administrator of the Southeastern Science Fiction Achievement Award (the SESFA), designed to honor accomplishments in science fiction, fantasy and horror by individuals born or living in the Southern U.S. His freelance writing has appeared in such diverse publications as Skeptic, Philosophy Now and Apex Science Fiction and Horror Digest. He lives in Roswell, Georgia (not New Mexico) with his lovely and intelligent wife. |
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 George TakeiBest known for his portrayal of Mr. Sulu in the acclaimed television and film series Star Trek, George has more than thirty feature films and hundreds of television guest-starring roles to his credit. Recognized worldwide as a member of the original Star Trek cast, George received a star on Hollywood Boulevard's Walk of Fame in 1986 and he placed his signature and handprint in the forecourt of the landmark Grauman's Chinese Theater in Hollywood in 1991. George was a recurring character on NBC-TV's Heroes, playing Kaito Nakamura, the father of time-traveler Hiro Nakamura (Emmy Award and Golden Globe nominee Masi Oka). George appeared in five episodes of Heroes' first season and he returned for two episodes in the second season. In 2006, George became a semi-regular on The Howard Stern Show on Sirius Satellite Radio. George was the announcer and on-air personality during Stern's debut week in January. George appeared for an additional four days in June, two days in September and four days in December. In 2007, he was in-studio for four days in March, four days in July and four days in December. George returns as Sulu in "World Enough and Time," an episode of the Star Trek: New Voyages Internet series. The episode, produced by fans and industry professionals, is directed by Marc Scott Zicree and written by Michael Reaves. It premiered at the Fine Arts Theatre in Beverly Hills in August 2007 and was also presented by TrekTrak at the 2007 Dragon*Con. Among his credits is a music industry accolade -- a 1987 Grammy nomination in the "Best Spoken Word or Non-Musical Recording" category. George's distinctive voice is featured in Walt Disney Pictures' full-length animated feature, Mulan (and the upcoming Mulan II), Star Trek audio novel recordings, Fox Television's The Simpsons, Futurama, and in numerous voice-overs and narrations. In October 2007, an asteroid was named in honor of George. The asteroid's official scientific name is 7307 Takei, which was approved by the International Astronomical Union's Committee on Small Body Nomenclature. 7307 Takei is located between Mars and Jupiter and is approximately five miles in diameter. Widely recognized for his vocal talents, George has been a guest narrator for several symphony orchestras. In November 2004, George narrated Copeland's Lincoln Portrait with the Honolulu Symphony conducted by Samuel Wong. He has narrated Johan de Meij's Symphony No. 1: The Lord of the Rings with the Long Island Philharmonic, Denver Symphony Orchestra, Orange County California Wind Orchestra, and the Imperial Symphony Orchestra of Lakeland, Florida, all conducted by David Warble. Serving as co-hosts, George and actor-comedian Margaret Cho provided the narration for the 2006 Peabody Award-winning Crossing East, a radio documentary divided into eight hour-long installments that traces the history of Asian American immigration to the United States. A community activist, George serves as chair of the council of governors of East West Players, the nation's foremost Asian Pacific American theater. He is chairman emeritus of the board of trustees of the Japanese American National Museum and a past member of the advisory committee of the California Civil Liberties Public Education Program. A member of the Human Rights Campaign, the largest national lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender political organization, George is a spokesman for HRC's Coming Out Project. In April 2006, he embarked on a nationwide speaking tour called "Equality Trek in which he talked about his life as a gay Japanese American. Star Trek's Leonard Nimoy presented George with HRC's Equality Award at its San Francisco gala dinner in July 2007. In 2004 and early 2005, he served on the Independent Task Force on Television Measurement, a 19-member body chaired by former Congresswoman Cardiss Collins that made recommendations on how the Nielsen ratings service can more accurately measure diverse television audiences including people of color. George's acting career has spanned five decades. It began in the summer between his freshman and sophomore years at the University of California at Berkeley, when George answered a newspaper advertisement placed by a company casting voices for a motion picture. The film was Rodan, a Japanese science-fiction classic about a prehistoric creature terrorizing Tokyo. In a sound stage on the MGM lot in Culver City, Calif., George dubbed the original Japanese lines into English, creating distinct voices for eight characters. George's professional acting debut occurred on live television in the pioneering drama series, Playhouse 90. His motion picture debut was in Ice Palace starring Richard Burton, released by Warner Bros. in 1959. Films include six Star Trek motion pictures (Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek: The Motion Picture), The Green Berets, Majority of One, Noon Blue Apples, Who Gets the House?, Mulan, Trekkies, The Best Bad Thing, Patient 14, Chongbal aka Vanished, Live by the Fist, Bug Busters, Kissinger and Nixon, Prisoners of the Sun, Return From the River Kwai, Red Line 7000, Never So Few, Walk Don't Run, An American Dream, P.T. 109, Oblivion, The Loudmouth, Which Way to the Front?, Bicycle Built for Three and Hell to Eternity. In addition to his role in the original Star Trek series, television roles include guest-starring appearances on 3rd Rock From the Sun, Murder She Wrote, Watching Ellie, Grosse Pointe, Early Edition, Diagnosis Murder, In the House, John Woo's Once a Thief, Homeboys in Outer Space, Muppets Tonight, Brotherly Love, Mission: Impossible, Twilight Zone, Perry Mason, Hallmark Hall of Fame, Miami Vice, I Spy, Son of the Beach, Marcus Welby, M.D., Hawaiian Eye, Hawaii Five-O, Ironside, Kung Fu, Mr. Novak, Mr. Roberts, The Six Million Dollar Man, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, The Wackiest Ship in the Army, Death Valley Days, Baa Baa Black Sheep, Bracken's World, Combat, Chico and the Man, The Courtship of Eddie's Father, MacGyver, Californians, Chrysler Theatre, U.S. Steel Hour, My Three Sons and many others. George is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (presenter of the Academy Awards), Academy of Television Arts and Sciences (the Emmy Awards), Actors' Equity Association, Screen Actors Guild and American Federation of Television and Radio Artists. In the theatrical arena, George starred in Peter Shaffer's Equus, directed by Tim Dang, at East West Players in Los Angeles, from October 26 to December 4, 2005. Additional theatrical credits include Undertow, winner of the Scotsman First Award at the Edinburgh Festival, and The Wash, written by Philip Kan Gotanda and presented in New York at the Manhattan Theater Club and in Los Angeles at the Mark Taper Forum. He performed in Year of the Dragon at the American Place Theater in New York and in Fly Blackbird at the Billy Rose Theater in New York and the Metro Theater in Los Angeles. George played in a musical version of Snow White at the Dome Theater in Brighton, England, and was the genie in Aladdin at the Hexagon Theatre in Reading, England. In June 2002, George appeared in The Human Race Theatre Company concert production of Stephen Sondheim's Pacific Overtures at the Loft Theatre in Dayton, Ohio. George is grateful for his association with Star Trek, TV's quintessential sci-fi show, and the character he portrays, Hikaru Sulu. Originally helmsman of the starship USS Enterprise, Mr. Sulu was promoted to captain of USS Excelsior in Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country, released in 1991. George reprised his Captain Sulu role in a Star Trek: Voyager episode entitled "Flashback" in 1996. George's talents extend to writing. In 1979, he co-wrote with Robert Asprin a science-fiction novel, Mirror Friend, Mirror Foe. As told in his autobiography, To the Stars, published by Pocket Books in 1994, George was born in Los Angeles, California. With the outbreak of World War II, he and his family, along with 120,000 other Japanese Americans, were placed behind the barbed-wire enclosures of United States internment camps. George spent most of his childhood at Camp Rohwer in the swamps of Arkansas and at wind-swept Camp Tule Lake in northern California. George's family eventually returned to his native Los Angeles, which shaped his acting career. The motion picture studios -- their magical back lot sets visible behind tall fences -- were alluring presences. Every grammar school skit, junior high drama club, and high school play became a stepping stone to realizing his not-so-secret dream of becoming an actor. After graduating from Los Angeles High School, George enrolled in the University of California at Berkeley. Later, he transferred to the University of California at Los Angeles, where he received a bachelor of arts in theater in 1960 and a master of arts in theater in 1964. He attended the Shakespeare Institute at Stratford-Upon-Avon in England and Sophia University in Tokyo, Japan. In Hollywood, he studied acting at the Desilu Workshop. In addition to his acting career, George always has been extremely involved in civic affairs. Along with actress Beulah Quo, George produced and hosted a public affairs show, Expression East/West, which aired on KNBC-TV in Los Angeles from 1971 to 1973. Always a political activist, George ran for the Los Angeles City Council in 1973, losing by a small percentage. At a crossroads, he had to decide whether to pursue a political career or an acting career. He decided on acting, but to remain involved in civic affairs to whatever extent he could. George was appointed by Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley to the board of directors of the Southern California Rapid Transit District, serving from 1973 to 1984. George was one of the driving forces behind the Arts in Transit program, in which every Metro Rail subway station is given its own distinctive look, thereby fostering neighborhood pride. He also served as a vice president of the American Public Transit Association. George is a past chairman of El Pueblo Park Association and former president of Friends of Little Tokyo Arts, an organization that encourages and supports artists. In the international arena, George was appointed by President Clinton to the board of the Japan-United States Friendship Commission, where he served two terms. He is a member of the board of directors of the US-Japan Bridging Foundation. The Government of Japan recognized George's contribution to the Japan-United States relationship by giving him the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette. The decoration was conferred by His Majesty, Emperor Akihito, at the Imperial Palace in Tokyo in November 2004. George is a dedicated long-distance runner since his high school cross-country team days. He has completed five 26.2-mile marathons and carried the Olympic Flame in the 1984 Los Angeles Olympic Torch Relay. George and his life partner, Brad Altman, are residents of Los Angeles. |
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 Eric L. WattsThe TrekTrak Show The 2008 Miss Klingon Empire Beauty Pageant Eric first began watching the original Star Trek series in the afternoon after getting home from junior high school in the early 1970s. As a high school sophomore, hoping to connect with other fans of the show, he bought a copy of All About Star Trek Fan Clubs in 1977 and was amazed to discover that one of the names on the magazine's pen-pal list was a fellow student in one of his very own classes! He introduced himself to her, who then loaned him a copy of the fanzine Off the Beaten Trek, in which the lead story dealt with how Spock had to deal with the death of Captain Kirk on a landing party mission. A lifelong friendship---and a brand new Trekkie---was born! A year later, in 1978, he attended his very first Star Trek convention: Vul-Con, a one-day event at Greenville (S.C.) Technical College with no guests but an auditorium filled with fanzines, home-made costumes and enthusiastic fans buzzing with rumors about the possibility of Star Trek returning as a major motion picture! In the summer of 1980, Eric founded the United Federation of Trekkers in Columbia, S.C., of which he served as president for the next eight years. Within three years, the UFT grew to become the largest Star Trek fan club in the state, with over one hundred dues-paying members. As president, he was a featured guest on the daily radio talk shows on WIS-AM 56 and WSOC-FM 100, was interviewed on several occasions by The State, The Carolina Reporter and The (USC) Gamecock newspapers, and in 1983 was featured in a segment of Columbia's local edition of PM Magazine, on WIS-TV. Eric also served as editor and publisher of the UFT's monthly newsletter, Captain's Quarters, which at one point was sold on local newsstands as a mini-fanzine, as well as the UFT's one-shot fanzine, Star Sector One. Club activities included monthly meetings, viewings of original series episodes on 35mm film at the local planetarium, serving as costumed ushers for a science fiction-themed concert presented by the Columbia Philharmonic Orchestra, attending Star Trek motion picture premieres in costume and annual picnics and barbecues at a local park. After eight glorious years, Eric resigned the presidency of the UFT and editorship of its newsletter in 1988 and relocated to Atlanta, Georgia, to attend the Art Institute of Atlanta. In 1990, Eric joined the Atlanta in '95 WorldCon Bid Committee, a group dedicated to bringing the 1995 WorldCon to Atlanta. During the next two years, he served the bid committee as its Volunteer Coordinator and as Central Mailer of its internal amateur press association, Atlapa. It was during this period that he met, worked with and became friends with Ed Kramer, a founder and then-chairman of Dragon*Con. At the 1992 WorldCon in Orlando, following the announcement of Glasgow, Scotland's successful bid for the 1995 WorldCon, Ed asked Eric to join the Dragon*Con organization and develop a track of programming devoted to Star Trek. Nine months later, in July 1993, Eric unleashed the very first TrekTrak... and Dragon*Con has never been the same! Fourteen years, more than three hundred programming events and many dozens of programming participants later, TrekTrak, under Eric's singular direction, has become one of Dragon*Con's most popular, well-attended and highly respected tracks of programming. In 2002, in recognition of TrekTrak's tenth year and its many contributions and achievements that helped make Dragon*Con the twelfth largest annual convention in Atlanta, Mayor Shirley Franklin proclaimed September 2, 2002 as "TrekTrak Day" in the City of Atlanta. In 2005 and again in 2006, TrekTrak's most popular annual event, the Miss Klingon Empire Beauty Pageant, was recognized by America Online as one of the Top 11 Most Offbeat Beauty Pageants Across America. The MKE pageant has also been featured in Discover magazine, Shock magazine, Spin magazine, Creative Loafing and on FoxNews.com. In 2003, Eric published Star Sector Two, a 72-page Star Trek fanzine set entirely in the Original Series universe. In addition to his service aboard the USS Republic, he is also a member of the IKAV Nemesis, the IKV Blackfire and an honorary lifetime member of the Klingon Imperial Embassy. Eric was honored to be selected as the Fan Guest of Honor at Sci-Fi Summer Con in Atlanta in June 2004. In September 2006, Eric served as a production assistant on the upstate New York set of Star Trek: New Voyages during the filming of the episode "World Enough and Time," featuring George Takei as Lt. Sulu. In October 2006, Eric was interviewed by CNN's Hong Kong news anchor Hugh Riminton about Star Trek's 40th anniversary in a segment on CNN Today, broadcast live around the world on CNN International. Later the same month, he appeared in Star Trek costume in an episode of CNN's Future Summit program featuring "iconic sci-fi forms of travel." Eric joined the USS Republic NCC-1371, a chapter of STARFLEET International, in 2003 and was elected Commanding Officer in May 2006. After establishing an all-new Internet presence for the chapter, creating a successful Member Benefits program for the membership, coordinating a busy schedule of chapter activities and nearly tripling the membership roster in his first six months, Commander Watts was promoted to Captain by STARFLEET International in December 2006. In March 2007, Captain Watts received the STARFLEET Region 2 Commanding Officer of the Year Award at the 2007 Region 2 Summit in Columbus, Georgia, and in August 2007, he was awarded the STARFLEET International Commanding Officer of the Year at the STARFLEET International Conference in Denver, Colorado. Eric created and was the editor and publisher of The New Moon Directory, an annual index to amateur press associations, from 1988 to 1997. He was a member of the amateur press association Imaginapa from 1980 to 2002 and served as its elected Central Mailer for 14 of its 23 years. He is also a former member of several other amateur press associations, including Apa Enterprise, Talking of Trek, GAPS, Atlapa and Dragon*Citings. Eric is currently performing in his twelfth season as a member of the Atlanta Gay Men's Chorus. Since 1993, he has served that organization at various times as newsletter editor, web site administrator, marketing committee chairman, office manager and a two-year term on its Board of Directors, and he currently serves on the archives and marketing committees. He is also a member of Atlanta Prime Timers and Georgia Right to Life, and a former longtime member of Southern Bears, for whom he also served a one-year term on its Board of Directors and briefly as newsletter editor. 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. An avid karaoke fan, Eric took first place in a local karaoke competition associated with the Karaoke World Contest USA organization in February 2006. He then advanced to the Georgia state finals, where he took third place in March 2006. That led him to the Region 6 semifinals (GA, AL, TN, NC, SC, FL), held in Pell City, Alabama, in May 2006, where he competed against 26 excellent vocalists and where he says he "had fun." Eric is Dragon*Con's longest-tenured track director and is honored to serve this, his sixteenth year, as Dragon*Con's Director of Star Trek Programming. |
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