I'm back! (Con report - The Guest Stars)
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syredronningIt was a fabulous weekend at Fedcon and my very first real con, where I learned a lot, especially about how much of the actors is in the characters -
much more than expected.
EDIT: I was there with my wonderful husband, and he enjoyed it immensely too. But I am not comfortable with including his opinions into such a personal POV posting, because he is his own person and not just my matrimonial addition :)
There's so much I could write about, so I decided to make this
compilation right after the con. It was intended to be short, but this
is as short as I can get. Maybe more will come in the future. Or just
ask me, I will answer if I can :)))
The order, partly by time of appearance: Nimoy, Blalock, Keating,
Robinson, Spiner, Richard Arnold. Non-Trek: Kevon Sorbo
(Andromeda, Herkules), Corin Nemec (Stargate), Rick Searfoss (real
astronaut). (There were some more, but I forgot the rest.)
Disclaimer: Everything is my very personal opinion and might not be PC
or the one you'd like to hear. Transcripts will be in "", all else is
told by memory.
*
Nimoy (Spock/TOS) - Great to see him a bit closer in the super-quick
autograph session (the waiting was long, but the autograph quick). I
was literally bouncing down the stairs with the signed book in my
hand. He's an icon, no doubt about it, but really very much routinier
and guarding his privacy on stage. You get the feel he's always
circling back to the standard answers (but then, is there a thing he
wasn't asked before?) The audience gave standing ovation whenever he
came, and it has to be weird to be adored like that just for being
yourself and having played an immortal character once.
Something to remember which I didn't know from elsewhere: What makes a
good Startrek movie? His opinion: Like in ST IV or Devil in the Dark,
it should be about communication, learning, problem solving, ideals.
It doesn't need to have a real enemy.
At the end of the Closing Ceremony, he explained how the Vulcan
Ta'al has come to birth (Jewish blessing), and he kind of blessed the
audience...and it was weird and fitting all in one, because there are
so many preudo-religious aspects in fannish admiration working
here...
*
Jolene Blalock (T'Pol/ENT) - Authentic in a way that was hard to
watch. She was pitying the audience, she said later, and I at least
was pitying her and shaking my head about her likewise. Her third
convention ever, and she has no stage personality, looked very
insecure and overly shy. Took ENT cancellation very hard and almost
cried in the end when someon asked about the last day of shooting. She
felt to me like a guppy who has fallen into the Hollywood shark pool. She
said that she's only comfortable with talking to one or two people,
but three would be a crowd...and she sat in front of 2000+ this Friday
on stage, you can imagine the result. The Saturday session with
Dominic Keating was a bit more relaxed for her. When asked about the
difference between Berman/Braga and the directing of Manni Koto(sp?)
in season 4, she made very funny faces, then finally said that she
thought of them as "Bermaga" and moved her hands in the way of a
gigantic octopus monster. In contrast, Koto is a real ST fan. She also said
that while ENT is cancelled, Startrek is not, and that it would need
the retiring of "sleeping bears" in the upper ranks of Paramount to
change the trekworld to the better again. While I think she is a nice
person in rl and it was nice to hear some open words, I think she's no
actress and didn't get Vulcans - when asked about episodes where she
showed emotions she said she loved doing them, because the other time
she had to have that blank face/mask. Uhm. Although she had watched
TOS and was a fan of the original series.
*
Dominic Keating (Malcolm Reed/ENT): One adjective to describe him:
show-off ;) When the stars left the Closing Ceremony, he took his
short off (yeah, we hopefully will have a shot of that). He's rather
lively and comedian on stage, but sometimes he's a bit...hm...over the
top? I think he isn't as secure and cool as he wants to be. The
cancellation was also quite hard on him, as you could tell, and he
sung a special version of the ENT title song, with the line "they
can kiss my ass" in it. It was clear that all ENT members were quite
pissed about Paramount. There was a funny question relating to Linda
Park, who obviously has been to Fedcon in the past and was asked if
she wanted Hoshi to have a love affair with Malcom, and he correctly
guessed her answer - "over my dead body!". Obviously, they can't stand
each other one bit. He said she's "Diva Linda", and she obviously
thought that he has star attitutes. Which he kind of admitted, while he
spoke very nice about Scott Bakula and made some kinder jokes about
Connor.
*
Gary Graham (Soval/ENT): A nice guy, but on stage he's what we would
call a "Kasper" (buffon) in German - very lifely but even more over
the top than Dominic. I loved what he said about playing a Vulcan (and
he has watched Spock to get them), that it was very hard to play,
because it wasn't about having a mask on, but to have lots of emotions
under a tight reign and to convey them with only minute changes.
*
Andrew J. Robinson (Garak/DS9): Now, this is a man - a HUMAN - who
impressed me deeply. He had two panels on Friday and Saturday, and I'm
head over heels about him. So impressive, clear in mind,
self-assuredly resting in himself, thoughtful, opinionated, AUTHENTIC,
as someone said correctly...the whole audience was impressed to the
bone. I'm actually gushing about him every since his first sentences.
A wonderful person, really. He also spoke about his engagement in the
US peace movement and his directing of "Mother Courage and her
children" as anti-war play. He was criticizing the development in the
USA and expressing his fears, and after it he said "if there are
Republicans in the audience - I won't apologize." He was very
concerned and outspoken, but never aggressive or in a way that would
make you feel uncomfortable. His panels were a mixture of politics and DS9,
but it tied in where he spoke about "In the Pale Moonlight" - one of
his favorite episodes, where he remarked that the lines between good
and evil aren't always clear. In his opinion, Paramount had a problem
with DS9 and would've loved to cancel it because they would have preferred
to have a clearer view of good and evil, straight endings of the
episodes with the good winning, and DS9 was thanks to Ira Behr never
yielding to this idea. So in his opinion, there will never be a DS9
movie.
He said he has the feeling that he always got the roles in time when
he was ready for them, when they were posing a necessary challenge
etc. He originally read for Odo and it was more by chance that he then
read for Garak. He admitted that he loved playing "very disturbed,
deranged characters" and that he probably didn't end in the madhouse
because he could work out all his darker streaks this way. When asked
about the makeup, he admitted that at the first day, he was almost
freaking out because they put him in all those platings and he
really is claustrophobic (as they later wrote into Garak). But when he
saw the result, facing Garak in the mirror, the claustrophobia was
gone and he bowed to the person - "Mr. Garak. Nice meeting you." His
book "A stitch in time" evolved from writing the bio of Garak for
himself.
When asked about his relationship with Bashir, he smiled and said that
he would have loved to carry it in a direction that Paramount didn't
like. Because when he thought about Garak's sexuality, he found that
Garak wasn't hetero- or homosexual, but omnisexual. Any interesting
being of whatever gender would be on his radar. So it was fully
intentional that when Garak met the "young, handsome doctor" in the
first episode, that he looked all over him as if Bashir were his
potential love interest!!!!! (Can you imagine me squeeeeeeing?
I didn't know that! But it's so great!)
*
Brent Spiner (Data/TNG): Now he was a real surprise. I saw him first
on Friday evening right after Jolene, and he was everything she wasn't
- wrapping the audience around the small finger, dominating the stage,
being a first class stand-up comedian.
He stood on the stage all in black besides his white hair, and he has
a great body language and control, almost pantomime style. He always
was in control of the full audience, pulling them around his little
finger. On the other hand, he didn't let on with a lot of critic or
such. The things that I remember best was the complaint that it's
really terribly to work with a cat because it never made what it
should, and so they could've long work hours. The only thing that
worked right on schedule was when it had to "eat out of a bowl with
thuna". Then he told us about the yellow eye lenses and said it was a
pain, because his face costume was mostly powder, which got into his
eyes and dirtied the lenses, so at noon he barely wasn't able to see
anymore. Then he said one really interesting thing - they had asked if
Data would come back in another movie, and he said that some
characters just don't age well - he made a comparison with Harpo Marx
- and while they are perfect at a young "age" they simply looked
wrong/unfitting later. (Good fodder for thoughts how Data should
actually have grown from the naïve comic relief to an "old"
character.) In his eyes, Nemesis was the perfect wrap-up for Data, and
any comparison with ST II was purely coincidence.
But, while Spiner looked very good and professional after Jolene,
today he came right after Andrew Robinson's second wonderful panel.
And where Robinson felt authentic and real, from Brent Spiner you felt
little besides a very big EGO filling the stage. It was a comparison
that clearly wasn't good for Spiner, and it showed in the applause. So
Spiner leaves a kind of stale taste in my mouth after all.
*
O'Reilly and Hertzler (Gowron and Martok, DS9): LORD, those two are
comedians! Best friends, and really a good team. Imagine two people,
white-haired, much like Florida retirement guys, but really crazy and
weird and very sure about themselves and their Klingon side. Both are
obviously really Shakespearian actors, and it shows. They made a
Klingon Rap and later a very weird thingy resembling a Klingon opera,
they were really very cool. Hertzfeld at least speaks fluently
Klingon, it's very funny to hear a question asked in it.
*
Richard Arnold (technical advisor for the TOS movies):
I wasn't quite sure who that was at first, but then he showed shots
behind the TOS background and from the early cons, and told a lot of
stories. There were two shots I memorized best. One blooper shot from
STVI with Kirk in the center seat and Spock standing on his right
side, and Shatner's hand was about to sneak up Nimoy for a prank. De
stood behind them and, seeing what was coming, had already a big grin
on his face. The other shot was so much K/S I would've thought it's a
photomanip if someone else had shown it. Shatner and Nimoy - in full
Spock face including ears - sitting backstage in yellow jackets and
grey pants. Shatner is in profile, Nimoy front shot. I almost
fell out of my chair for squee. We have managed to take a bad shot,
which will come later this week.
Concerning ENT and Startrek, Arnold said that Paramount never really
had understood the fans. They looked at them like "only 5 %
of the viewers are fans", while Arnold tried telling them that "of
those 5%, 100% are the people who buy the merchandise" and keep the big
money press - which Startrek is for Paramount - running. He said it
might be a good thing that it goes underground for a bit now, because
TOS had the biggest fanbase growth between cancellation and TMP.
When asked what he would think about JMS (maker of B5) doing Startrek,
he said rather no, because Startrek would live from the diversity of
many good writers whose scripts were tweaked into trek style by Gene
(and later by others), while B5 was - his opinion - more of a JMS ego
show. (Now, I don't agree with it because I think we know how much of
an Ego show trek could be for GR, and I never had the impression that
B5 suffered from JMS dominance - if anything, it was the best full
concept scifi series ever.) But Arnold admitted that he didn't watch
series with a lot of plot or complete story line, but rather things
you can just jump into and out again. So I think he's definitely no
classic B5 audience anyway. (Someone should've asked him about his
opinion about DS9, actually…)
*
Stephen Furst (Vir Koto / Babylon 5): I missed the first session with
him, and only saw 2/3 of the second one (he had an overlap with the
big Saturday evening Nimoy panel, so even he thought he'd be alone in
the room ;). Very nice person, very authentic too. He is very much
looking and moving like Vir, and he told the funny story that when he
went for the audition for Vir, he heard that the characters had their
hair piled up, and so he went to the restrooms and tried to pile it up
himself with soap. During this, he got soap in his eyes and was
sobbing and everything. When he finally stepped into the audition
room, they all found that he's the perfect Vir and he even didn't have
to say a word.
Then another great thing was that he said, yes, there was a fake
script delivered by JMS in one season. It looked like a real one, and
every actor began reading his parts, but then were things in it like
Londo and G'Kar having a one-night-stand! Andreas Kazulas, the G'Kar
actor, was muttering "I won't do this!" while Furst read it and was
all "oohhh I would love doing it" I would doing it!"
The second B5 movie isn't going to be made because the studio wanted
to make it with other characters (? Are they out of their f*cking
mind?) and JMS - no way (yay!), so it wasn't cancelled before it had
more than a title and script bits.
*
Kevin Sorbo (Andromeda): He seems to be a really nice guy, very
relaxed, no big star attitudes. I never watched Andromeda, so I
didn't follow his panel, but looking back I should have tried, because
by now I'm really curious.
*
Corin Nemec (Stargate): Same here, really nice guy from next door,
very relaxed, no big star allurences attitudes. I didn't see him in
Stargate, but his old series "Parker Lewis" is quite well-known in
Germany and he had many fans because of this.
*
James Horvan (various Trek, ENT): He played Future Guy in ENT and
various smaller roles in other trek, but I didn't see much of him. He
gave the concert on Saturday night - because unfortunately James
Darren cancelled his appearance - but we were too tired to go there.
*
Rick Searfoss, astronaut: Real astronaut, and very good on stage. Nice
dia show, also showing the future, e.g. the X-Price where he was in
the jury. Very nice, intelligent, scientific guy - the kind of
professional astronaut I would've loved to see reflected in ENT
instead of "Archer the space cowboy" (one of my major peeves with the
series!). If you ever see him and love space science, talk to him!
***
much more than expected.
EDIT: I was there with my wonderful husband, and he enjoyed it immensely too. But I am not comfortable with including his opinions into such a personal POV posting, because he is his own person and not just my matrimonial addition :)
There's so much I could write about, so I decided to make this
compilation right after the con. It was intended to be short, but this
is as short as I can get. Maybe more will come in the future. Or just
ask me, I will answer if I can :)))
The order, partly by time of appearance: Nimoy, Blalock, Keating,
Robinson, Spiner, Richard Arnold. Non-Trek: Kevon Sorbo
(Andromeda, Herkules), Corin Nemec (Stargate), Rick Searfoss (real
astronaut). (There were some more, but I forgot the rest.)
Disclaimer: Everything is my very personal opinion and might not be PC
or the one you'd like to hear. Transcripts will be in "", all else is
told by memory.
*
Nimoy (Spock/TOS) - Great to see him a bit closer in the super-quick
autograph session (the waiting was long, but the autograph quick). I
was literally bouncing down the stairs with the signed book in my
hand. He's an icon, no doubt about it, but really very much routinier
and guarding his privacy on stage. You get the feel he's always
circling back to the standard answers (but then, is there a thing he
wasn't asked before?) The audience gave standing ovation whenever he
came, and it has to be weird to be adored like that just for being
yourself and having played an immortal character once.
Something to remember which I didn't know from elsewhere: What makes a
good Startrek movie? His opinion: Like in ST IV or Devil in the Dark,
it should be about communication, learning, problem solving, ideals.
It doesn't need to have a real enemy.
At the end of the Closing Ceremony, he explained how the Vulcan
Ta'al has come to birth (Jewish blessing), and he kind of blessed the
audience...and it was weird and fitting all in one, because there are
so many preudo-religious aspects in fannish admiration working
here...
*
Jolene Blalock (T'Pol/ENT) - Authentic in a way that was hard to
watch. She was pitying the audience, she said later, and I at least
was pitying her and shaking my head about her likewise. Her third
convention ever, and she has no stage personality, looked very
insecure and overly shy. Took ENT cancellation very hard and almost
cried in the end when someon asked about the last day of shooting. She
felt to me like a guppy who has fallen into the Hollywood shark pool. She
said that she's only comfortable with talking to one or two people,
but three would be a crowd...and she sat in front of 2000+ this Friday
on stage, you can imagine the result. The Saturday session with
Dominic Keating was a bit more relaxed for her. When asked about the
difference between Berman/Braga and the directing of Manni Koto(sp?)
in season 4, she made very funny faces, then finally said that she
thought of them as "Bermaga" and moved her hands in the way of a
gigantic octopus monster. In contrast, Koto is a real ST fan. She also said
that while ENT is cancelled, Startrek is not, and that it would need
the retiring of "sleeping bears" in the upper ranks of Paramount to
change the trekworld to the better again. While I think she is a nice
person in rl and it was nice to hear some open words, I think she's no
actress and didn't get Vulcans - when asked about episodes where she
showed emotions she said she loved doing them, because the other time
she had to have that blank face/mask. Uhm. Although she had watched
TOS and was a fan of the original series.
*
Dominic Keating (Malcolm Reed/ENT): One adjective to describe him:
show-off ;) When the stars left the Closing Ceremony, he took his
short off (yeah, we hopefully will have a shot of that). He's rather
lively and comedian on stage, but sometimes he's a bit...hm...over the
top? I think he isn't as secure and cool as he wants to be. The
cancellation was also quite hard on him, as you could tell, and he
sung a special version of the ENT title song, with the line "they
can kiss my ass" in it. It was clear that all ENT members were quite
pissed about Paramount. There was a funny question relating to Linda
Park, who obviously has been to Fedcon in the past and was asked if
she wanted Hoshi to have a love affair with Malcom, and he correctly
guessed her answer - "over my dead body!". Obviously, they can't stand
each other one bit. He said she's "Diva Linda", and she obviously
thought that he has star attitutes. Which he kind of admitted, while he
spoke very nice about Scott Bakula and made some kinder jokes about
Connor.
*
Gary Graham (Soval/ENT): A nice guy, but on stage he's what we would
call a "Kasper" (buffon) in German - very lifely but even more over
the top than Dominic. I loved what he said about playing a Vulcan (and
he has watched Spock to get them), that it was very hard to play,
because it wasn't about having a mask on, but to have lots of emotions
under a tight reign and to convey them with only minute changes.
*
Andrew J. Robinson (Garak/DS9): Now, this is a man - a HUMAN - who
impressed me deeply. He had two panels on Friday and Saturday, and I'm
head over heels about him. So impressive, clear in mind,
self-assuredly resting in himself, thoughtful, opinionated, AUTHENTIC,
as someone said correctly...the whole audience was impressed to the
bone. I'm actually gushing about him every since his first sentences.
A wonderful person, really. He also spoke about his engagement in the
US peace movement and his directing of "Mother Courage and her
children" as anti-war play. He was criticizing the development in the
USA and expressing his fears, and after it he said "if there are
Republicans in the audience - I won't apologize." He was very
concerned and outspoken, but never aggressive or in a way that would
make you feel uncomfortable. His panels were a mixture of politics and DS9,
but it tied in where he spoke about "In the Pale Moonlight" - one of
his favorite episodes, where he remarked that the lines between good
and evil aren't always clear. In his opinion, Paramount had a problem
with DS9 and would've loved to cancel it because they would have preferred
to have a clearer view of good and evil, straight endings of the
episodes with the good winning, and DS9 was thanks to Ira Behr never
yielding to this idea. So in his opinion, there will never be a DS9
movie.
He said he has the feeling that he always got the roles in time when
he was ready for them, when they were posing a necessary challenge
etc. He originally read for Odo and it was more by chance that he then
read for Garak. He admitted that he loved playing "very disturbed,
deranged characters" and that he probably didn't end in the madhouse
because he could work out all his darker streaks this way. When asked
about the makeup, he admitted that at the first day, he was almost
freaking out because they put him in all those platings and he
really is claustrophobic (as they later wrote into Garak). But when he
saw the result, facing Garak in the mirror, the claustrophobia was
gone and he bowed to the person - "Mr. Garak. Nice meeting you." His
book "A stitch in time" evolved from writing the bio of Garak for
himself.
When asked about his relationship with Bashir, he smiled and said that
he would have loved to carry it in a direction that Paramount didn't
like. Because when he thought about Garak's sexuality, he found that
Garak wasn't hetero- or homosexual, but omnisexual. Any interesting
being of whatever gender would be on his radar. So it was fully
intentional that when Garak met the "young, handsome doctor" in the
first episode, that he looked all over him as if Bashir were his
potential love interest!!!!! (Can you imagine me squeeeeeeing?
I didn't know that! But it's so great!)
*
Brent Spiner (Data/TNG): Now he was a real surprise. I saw him first
on Friday evening right after Jolene, and he was everything she wasn't
- wrapping the audience around the small finger, dominating the stage,
being a first class stand-up comedian.
He stood on the stage all in black besides his white hair, and he has
a great body language and control, almost pantomime style. He always
was in control of the full audience, pulling them around his little
finger. On the other hand, he didn't let on with a lot of critic or
such. The things that I remember best was the complaint that it's
really terribly to work with a cat because it never made what it
should, and so they could've long work hours. The only thing that
worked right on schedule was when it had to "eat out of a bowl with
thuna". Then he told us about the yellow eye lenses and said it was a
pain, because his face costume was mostly powder, which got into his
eyes and dirtied the lenses, so at noon he barely wasn't able to see
anymore. Then he said one really interesting thing - they had asked if
Data would come back in another movie, and he said that some
characters just don't age well - he made a comparison with Harpo Marx
- and while they are perfect at a young "age" they simply looked
wrong/unfitting later. (Good fodder for thoughts how Data should
actually have grown from the naïve comic relief to an "old"
character.) In his eyes, Nemesis was the perfect wrap-up for Data, and
any comparison with ST II was purely coincidence.
But, while Spiner looked very good and professional after Jolene,
today he came right after Andrew Robinson's second wonderful panel.
And where Robinson felt authentic and real, from Brent Spiner you felt
little besides a very big EGO filling the stage. It was a comparison
that clearly wasn't good for Spiner, and it showed in the applause. So
Spiner leaves a kind of stale taste in my mouth after all.
*
O'Reilly and Hertzler (Gowron and Martok, DS9): LORD, those two are
comedians! Best friends, and really a good team. Imagine two people,
white-haired, much like Florida retirement guys, but really crazy and
weird and very sure about themselves and their Klingon side. Both are
obviously really Shakespearian actors, and it shows. They made a
Klingon Rap and later a very weird thingy resembling a Klingon opera,
they were really very cool. Hertzfeld at least speaks fluently
Klingon, it's very funny to hear a question asked in it.
*
Richard Arnold (technical advisor for the TOS movies):
I wasn't quite sure who that was at first, but then he showed shots
behind the TOS background and from the early cons, and told a lot of
stories. There were two shots I memorized best. One blooper shot from
STVI with Kirk in the center seat and Spock standing on his right
side, and Shatner's hand was about to sneak up Nimoy for a prank. De
stood behind them and, seeing what was coming, had already a big grin
on his face. The other shot was so much K/S I would've thought it's a
photomanip if someone else had shown it. Shatner and Nimoy - in full
Spock face including ears - sitting backstage in yellow jackets and
grey pants. Shatner is in profile, Nimoy front shot. I almost
fell out of my chair for squee. We have managed to take a bad shot,
which will come later this week.
Concerning ENT and Startrek, Arnold said that Paramount never really
had understood the fans. They looked at them like "only 5 %
of the viewers are fans", while Arnold tried telling them that "of
those 5%, 100% are the people who buy the merchandise" and keep the big
money press - which Startrek is for Paramount - running. He said it
might be a good thing that it goes underground for a bit now, because
TOS had the biggest fanbase growth between cancellation and TMP.
When asked what he would think about JMS (maker of B5) doing Startrek,
he said rather no, because Startrek would live from the diversity of
many good writers whose scripts were tweaked into trek style by Gene
(and later by others), while B5 was - his opinion - more of a JMS ego
show. (Now, I don't agree with it because I think we know how much of
an Ego show trek could be for GR, and I never had the impression that
B5 suffered from JMS dominance - if anything, it was the best full
concept scifi series ever.) But Arnold admitted that he didn't watch
series with a lot of plot or complete story line, but rather things
you can just jump into and out again. So I think he's definitely no
classic B5 audience anyway. (Someone should've asked him about his
opinion about DS9, actually…)
*
Stephen Furst (Vir Koto / Babylon 5): I missed the first session with
him, and only saw 2/3 of the second one (he had an overlap with the
big Saturday evening Nimoy panel, so even he thought he'd be alone in
the room ;). Very nice person, very authentic too. He is very much
looking and moving like Vir, and he told the funny story that when he
went for the audition for Vir, he heard that the characters had their
hair piled up, and so he went to the restrooms and tried to pile it up
himself with soap. During this, he got soap in his eyes and was
sobbing and everything. When he finally stepped into the audition
room, they all found that he's the perfect Vir and he even didn't have
to say a word.
Then another great thing was that he said, yes, there was a fake
script delivered by JMS in one season. It looked like a real one, and
every actor began reading his parts, but then were things in it like
Londo and G'Kar having a one-night-stand! Andreas Kazulas, the G'Kar
actor, was muttering "I won't do this!" while Furst read it and was
all "oohhh I would love doing it" I would doing it!"
The second B5 movie isn't going to be made because the studio wanted
to make it with other characters (? Are they out of their f*cking
mind?) and JMS - no way (yay!), so it wasn't cancelled before it had
more than a title and script bits.
*
Kevin Sorbo (Andromeda): He seems to be a really nice guy, very
relaxed, no big star attitudes. I never watched Andromeda, so I
didn't follow his panel, but looking back I should have tried, because
by now I'm really curious.
*
Corin Nemec (Stargate): Same here, really nice guy from next door,
very relaxed, no big star allurences attitudes. I didn't see him in
Stargate, but his old series "Parker Lewis" is quite well-known in
Germany and he had many fans because of this.
*
James Horvan (various Trek, ENT): He played Future Guy in ENT and
various smaller roles in other trek, but I didn't see much of him. He
gave the concert on Saturday night - because unfortunately James
Darren cancelled his appearance - but we were too tired to go there.
*
Rick Searfoss, astronaut: Real astronaut, and very good on stage. Nice
dia show, also showing the future, e.g. the X-Price where he was in
the jury. Very nice, intelligent, scientific guy - the kind of
professional astronaut I would've loved to see reflected in ENT
instead of "Archer the space cowboy" (one of my major peeves with the
series!). If you ever see him and love space science, talk to him!
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Date: 2005-05-08 10:51 pm (UTC)infatuationopinions a little more.Can't blame you for not remembering much of Nimoy. Mostly what I remember is the pattern on his sweater after running plum into his chest. What came to my mind to say is "Boy, you're tall!" I don't think I did that, but God knows what else I did say.
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Date: 2005-05-08 10:58 pm (UTC)I think I'll never see Garak in the same way. Must investigate further too. Really impressive. Here's to you, Mr. Robinson! *cheers heartily************
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Date: 2005-05-09 02:01 am (UTC)Really? I feel sure that I've told it; I don't have that many stories. Same one as flying 500 miles to crash a VIP party.
Anyway, keep going about FedCon. If need be, I'll retell when I see you in England.
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Date: 2005-05-09 06:10 pm (UTC)I knew it - you let me do all the talking at KiScon! :P
(You would have had a field weekend at FedCon...so much to analyze *g*)
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Date: 2005-05-08 11:21 pm (UTC)Another thing I didn't mention in my comment on ASCEM: J.G. Hertzler is wonderful as well. I met him at the last Weekend On The Promenade con, and I sat on his lap for a photo. He could charm the socks off anyone. :0)
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Date: 2005-05-09 05:27 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2005-05-08 11:31 pm (UTC)he would have loved to carry it in a direction that Paramount didn't
like.
The next time ANYONE has a problem with slash, I'm quoting that. Seriously.
Lovely report! Thanks for sharing. Looking forward, sigh as predicted, to the picture (however blurry) of the thing you'd have thought was a K/S fake.
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Date: 2005-05-09 05:47 am (UTC)http://www.geocities.com/Seska9/novacon.html
It's about the same what he said this time, so quote him as you like. G/B is goddamn f*cking canon, at least G/B UST *G* Which makes it of course no slash ;))))) *coughs and grins*
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