STV: Trek2Chuck 3-D—with Robbie McNeill

You're hearing all the hype about NBC's follow-up to the 3-D Super Bowl: its 3-D episode of Chuck?

Funny how our catch-up chat with Robbie "Tom Paris" McNeill as part of the big Trekland alumni chapter on Chuck—he's a supervising producer and oft-time director—just happened to fall on a December day when he was trying to wrap up the very segments for "Chuck Versus the Third Dimension" that are being ballyhooed on that trailer.

You should try Chuck—like Trek, it has its own universe, just not on a starship!—but you Robbie die-hards out there will enjoy our chat in any case. In fact, Robbie and I make a 3-D moment...sorta kinda. At least, we have the soundtrack for it. I just hope we made Dr. Tounge proud.

STV: It's...Manny Coto & "Brandon Brayga"!

They were at Vegas Trek to promote "24," that little project they have worked on the past few years ...but Manny Coto and Brannon Braga were also really there because of their Trek roots, natch, as former cohorts on Enterprise (Brannon, of course, having a season on his Threshold later, and previously all those "weird shit" TNG stories that morphed into being show-runner later on Voyager, too).

The guys were good enough to stop by my table for a quickie v-chat, but look who's promoting, and look who's getting his geek on for onetime Bond babe Caroline Munro ....?? (Maybe it's just because no one ever says his name right...)



(And a shout-out to my impromptu cameraman, Andrew Baumer, wherever you are, who gave me a rare chance to jump in the shot. But that's guerilla shooting, baby!)