"Cookin' With Gas": Another holiday Trek gift from Pony

Merry Christmas or what-have-you—it's my pleasure to pass along a little holiday treat from my buddy Pony Horton, CGI FX whiz and sometime producer/actor extraordinaire with the flair for comedy ... who last yuletide brought us the gift of the inevitable Star Trek/Nixon mashup, 1701 Pennsylvania. Please tell me you saw it, starring Ralph Miller in the role he was born to play-gate?

Well, now, Pony is back, with this video present set in the future ...though it's not of a holiday theme per se, it's just his way of saying "greetings of the season." In that whimsical away.

UPDATE: You can see "Cookin' With Gas" direct at Pony's YouTube page ... enjoy!

Meanwhile here's Teaser #3, via Pony:


Cookin' With Gas teaser trailer #3 from Pony R. Horton on Vimeo.

LA ALERT: NixonTrek short gets a PopCon LA screening

Short notice, guys-n-gals, but WORTH a look:

Recall the bizarrely wonderful Nixon-Trek spoof 1701 Pennsylvania Av.?

Our good friend Pony Horton, CGImeister and co-saviour of No-Win Scenario, lets us know that it will get a big-screen look at L.A.'s PopCon this weekend at 10:30-11 p.m.  Pony, along with audiomeister and spoofster extraordiinare Ralph Miller wil be around for a brief Q&A, too.

If you haven't already thought of hitting up PopCon LA, this year's expanded version of the ITVFest industry event and awards now including comics, social media, music and fashion— pros and exhibitors—then get to the LA Convention Center downtown and indulge. It gets underway today, but you can get single- and multi-day tickets ... and the fan-fave Tim Russ Band (below) plays Friday night, as well.

Happy holidays with ... Nixon and Star Trek??!!

Just in case you missed this stocking stuffer on Christmas Eve ... here ya go. No worries—it's the gift that keeps on giving!

Yes, it's a little wacky gift to Treklanders everywhere from some of the folks who bring you New Voyages/Phase II—that's sound masestro and jokester Ralph Miller, doing his infamous Nixon sendup full-bore, and Pony R. Horton as the agent, and behind camera as writer/director, plus the CGI and editing involved. Lots more cameos too of your P2 favorite faces ... including Kurt Carley, P2's onetime Chris Pike. And, once again, a "fan film" that's really full of professional work:



Pony tells me: "I am thrilled to have had a great deal of help from my friends Ralph Miller, James Cawley, Rob Mauro, Charles Root, Gwen Wilkins, Kurt Carley, Michael Stern, and John Carrigan in the making of this film, which is a short inspired by James Cawley's STAR TREK: PHASE II and Ralph Miller's hilarious Richard Nixon characterization.  I'm releasing it as a kind-of PHASE II stocking-stuffer, since we're in-between regular PHASE II releases right now."
 
Ralph has been pulling the wry video stuff and bloopers ever since New Voyagers began; Pony has handled CGI for recent full P2 episodes, and helped John Carrigan with those same CG skills to bring to life the "lost" 2005 vignette "No-Win Scenario."

And don't forget to watch the end credits' stills, too!