Look at that Saturday front page! It was only a matter of time before the philosophy/ethics-rich "Spirit of Star Trek," the brainchild of my new friend Curtis Webster with my old friend Michael Westmore, finally hit critical mass and took off with some mainstream attention.
As you gentle readers know, I try to always shoot a
vidchat blog for each session—
where an actor or other Treklander notable screens one of their episodes with an apropos theme, followed by Q&A with Curtis, Mike and then the audience.
Now it is
reporter Bob Strauss and the LA Daily News story that likely helped the turnout hit 60 this month—and that's with
the first non-actor, non-Roddenberry guests ever:
Roger Nygard, the
Trekkies director
(at left, below), and anthropology professor
Daryl Frazetti (center), who teaches using Trek, Star Wars, Indy, Middle Earth, etc, themes, and now takes it on the con circuit.
And what an April for the
Spirit of Star Trek gang:
—Curtis and Michael are doing a panel Friday, April 9 at "
Monsterpalooza," the second-year Burbank convention for the film/stage monster art and make-up industry and its fans.
—A full-blown "Spirit" screening April 11 of
Yesterday Was a Lie, the enigmatic sci-fi/film noir odyssey by
September guests Chase Masterson and director James Kerwin, with Q&A afterward.
—A "Spirit" road show with
Chase just prior, at
Wondercon in San Francisco Saturday, April 3.
—A full-blown "Spirit" SNEAK PEEK early screening May 23 of
Roger's new doc, the globe-trotting, non-Trek
The Nature of Existence, with Q&A afterward.
And—finally scheduled!—
Marina "Deanna Troi" Sirtis is coming April 25, with
TNG's "The Child" and a theme about the alien in all of us.
So stay tuned—or better yet, get aboard. It's like no other Trek evening you've ever seen.
in Southwest Louisiana at Con du Lac in Lake Charles this weekend, right in your own backyard! This is the second Con du Lac (love the name), so come help Justin Toney boost and grow multi-genre fandom in the area. Swamp humidity, or no.
