STV: Aren't you a little short to be a parody?

All these years on the pro side of Trekland can easily leave one jaded, but every once in a while life still has its geek moments. Sometimes they even pop up from another franchise! *gasp*

With TREKLAND truly alive now, I dusted off another "Switching to Video" long waiting in the wings... and so it was that, while in Dallas a year ago, I had a memory timewarp back to the days when just about the only things fans put on frames of celluloid were parodies and satires, not whole-cloth new fan-made episodes. And while FedCon USA may have been a bust, this moment was not. In short:

I GOT TO MEET PRINCESS ANNE-DROID!

(Or Cindy Freeling (nee Furgatch).

Those of you wondering what the hell... I'll say nada but refer your Googlefingers to a little cult classic called Hardware Wars. Nuff said.

STV: JG Hertzler IS Martok!

It was a shame that only 100-some people caught a truly historic moment for the Empire recently... the Klingon variety, that is.

Our two favorite chancellors, JG Hertzler and Robert O'Reilly, took the incredible step a few years ago and appeared in Germany in full makeup and costume as their famed alter egos, Martok and Gowron. The FedConUSA (eventually, no relation to its German cousin) tried the same thing on US soil—but after the con famously shuttered its doors one day in, let's hope the boys get to recreate this moment somewhere else in the States for a lot more live eyeballs.

Til then, here for all posterity are just a few seconds of the sage (and surprisingly catty) insights of our good buddy, JG/Martok... on his way out the door.

(BTW—that was a completely unsolicited plug ...)