STV: Star Trek Continues' premiere week: Sneaky peeks!

Ready for even MORE new Trek?

In honor of the world premiere of Star Trek Continues  Friday at Phoenix Comicon with a gala screening, cast panel and signing—and yes, I hope many of you can join us—I put together this little pastiche of faces and moments from my own lenses during our January shoot for "Pilgrim of Eternity." It got its own world premiere as an exclusive clip I showed at BlasterCon in L.A. a couple weekends ago.

You can catch Grant Imahara from Mythbusters, Chris Doohan looking like another Doohan in red, fearless leader Vic Mignogna as Kirk and director, with Todd Haberkorn the Wonder Spock ... and a lot of the cast and crew, including me in McCoy togs and our Kim Stinger as Uhura bein' tough. I'll save some moments with Michael "Apollo" Forrest for a later time.

In fact, you can catch those three npow that we have premiered the thing! And if you crave EVEN MORE, bop over to the STC Facebook page, "Like" it, and scroll back through the last few weeks—there's been fun video and stills a-plenty.

For now, enjoy this teaser—literally!

STV: Kirk and Spock, on-set cut-ups: Star Trek Continues' Vic Mignogna and Todd Haberkorn

Let me introduce you to two of the best voice actors and most popular guests on the anime convention circuit—as well as a couple of all-around performers, directors and even editors: Vic Mignogna and Todd Haberkorn.

With all that, you're catching them at Trekland because Vic is the driving force—as producer, director, co-writer and Captain James T. Kirk—behind Star Trek Continues, which as you know by now this week is the latest "fan film" to debut that looks like anything but amateur. Todd, always at his side—well, sometimes—is holding on to the Spock ears and inflamed stoicism with great aplomb. (Vic was also crazy enough to ask me to step in at the 11th hour to play Dr. McCoy when the prior actor could not make the January shoot.)

With the world debut of "Pilgrim of Eternity" coming at Phoenix Comicon in big Room 120, this chat during the shoot is the third of four videos I'm premiering this week in the countdown to Friday night's huge screening and cast Q&A/signing event. Don't forget you can see more of the shorts at the STC website,  and more clips and stills at the Facebook page, too—which of course is easily Liked.

Till the premiere gets online ASAP after PHXCC for all to see ... Enjoy this third pre-premiere glimpse:



PLUS:  GRANT "MYTHBUSTERS" IMAHARA AS SULU—JUST CONFIRMED AS WELL!

STV: Preview Week Part 2: CHRIS Doohan provides the DNA as Scotty for 'Star Trek Continues'

Of all the fan films and all their cast members—celebrity or not—I doubt there is a case quite like what you see with one role in Star Trek Continues, where DNA trumps all.

Yes, the real-life actor behind one of those iconic Star Trek characters—the late, great Jimmy Doohan, our beloved "Scotty" of course —is being represented in the recast role by none other than his own son, Chris Doohan. Not an actor, Chris has slipped into the role, worked on his "Doohan Scotch" accent, and the result is absolutely amazing—as you can see in this test short filmed last summer.

As you can see in our meetup, Chris is pretty non-plussed by all this—which, as for all of us in the cast, was both a lot of hard work and just having a hoot of a shoot ...

Star Trek Continues has its world premiere at 6 p.m. this Friday, May 24 at Phoenix Comicon's main room—a screening, cast Q&A, and a mass signing! Look for it online as soon as possible via the STC website and the Facebook page.

STV: It's Grant 'Mythbusters' Imahara as Sulu! Must be premiere week for Star Trek Continues

Great news!

As if having Grant "Mythbusters" Imahara as our Sulu in the indie online series "Star Trek Continues" wasn't enough... as you can see in our vidchat below the fold ...

We just heard that Grant confirmed the Mythbusters shoot schedule will indeed let him join us for the episode's world premiere hoopla this Friday night at Phoenix Comicon. I was honored to have been asked to play McCoy in this series for the January shoot, but I also made sure to record several of our folk on camera for everyone in TREKLAND —and thus this little gem.

Here's Grant below ... in uniform and out ... for the episode wrangled and helmed by voice actor/director Vic Mignogna as Kirk, his colleague and popular voice actor Todd Haberkorn as Spock, Chris Doohan playing his dad's role as Scotty ... and original TOS "Apollo" Michael Forrest reprising his role ... in a very savvy way. Kim Stinger is Uhura and Wyatt Lenhart is Chekov, too, and Michele Specht plays Lt. McKenna, another new key character, along with Steve Dengler's Security Chief Drake.

There's a screening, panel and signing for the pilot "Pilgrim of Eternity," all starting Friday at 6 p.m. in the con's huge main room. The show will be online soon after, I'll be there all weekend... and I'll be rolling out more vidchats this week prior to the hoopla Friday. You could also check the website (with three short vignettes, from before my casting) and go LIKE the Facebook page, which has a ton more videos and behind-the-scenes photos. Caption contests, anyone?

Meanwhile, whaddya think about how well Grant channels his forebear? Yes, we go there, too:

NO April Fools—this actually existed...

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Okay, who wants to guess the approximate timing and occasion?
(I mean, there's no prize or anything, but ...)

"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.

"Poll: Obama's Trekkieness not extend to Klingon love?"

Well, that's the idea behind these graphic titles for an interview regarding this amazing National Geographic piece of journalism ...

Obama Better Suited To Fight Aliens, According To Poll

... titles put up for the story, and interview with a comedy writer, on the normally straight-laced Lawrence O'Donnell's The Last Word news show on MSNBC:

Do you think the Klingons are the most-mainstream Trek aliens a news show should use here for the mundanes? The Borg still have a ways to go?

Colbert knows his Trek protection! ... Or DOES he?

Kudos to Stephen Colbert for my birthday present last night: his hedge against the Wikipedia all-day blackout protest of the SOPA/PIPA bills (and check that out if you don't know. Scary stuff; get involved).

Yes, it seems Stephen keeps the entire Wikipedia printed out on hard copy, twice a month in toto, fo' jus' such occaysions.  Why, the chunk you see him holding below is just Volume 5470—the section of Wikipedia re: (only) "Star Trek, from 'Yeomen, Rand' through 'Yeomen, Smith. B.' "... (video below the fold):

Nice gag: he scales WikiP's size (all that for three TOS yeomen) AND tweaks Trekfans in the same breath. Weeell...that's why he gets the big cable bucks (and that's all, now that his SuperPAC is remotely controlled).

But just think—THIS wasn't even Memory-Alpha!

(And yes, only a Trek analist would point out that in actual aired canon, there WAS never a "Yeoman B. Smith."  So I won't. The second pilot's yeoman's name was only listed as "Smith," without an initial or first name.)

(But .... maybe that "B" was actually just denoting PART "B"... OF the Rand-Smith (inclusive) Volume 5470, and Stephen hasn't given us yet another canon screw-up to fix ...!? Oh, surely that's the reason. He'd hate to lose the South Carolina Trek canonista vote.)

Full embed here: The Trek bit starts at 0:55, but the whole segment catches you up on the SOPA/PIPA blackout:

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STV: John "Phlox" Billingsley hawks his own show!

No interview or even chit-chat here:

Just a couple minutes of John "Phlox" Billingsley in an inspired reaction to a small turnout for his Q&A hour on Sunday morning at the recent Hollywood Xpo. Well, this sure woke'em up.

I really don't have to say anything more—except that I'm sorry we didn't get his, ahem, pitch from the very beginning.

We join our rant already in progress...

Who WAS that new Big Guy in command?

You have to go over here and vote...

CGI maestro Mojo has a funny running on his blog right now: after coming across this guy modeling Prime Timeline (ie, REAL) Starfleet captains' tunics, he unleashed a contest among friends to come up with familiar sights-n-pics in a universe where this guy, and not Shatner, had been cast when Jeff Hunter turned down the big chair.

Go cast your ballot here! There's nearly THREE DOZEN... with shoutouts to TJ Hooker, Priceline, et al. They are all high-larious, but I admit I have a fondness for the MEGO action doll ...

Zack the heist honcho

Looks like Zack Quinto just wanted some fresh material for his Vegas audience next week ...

Star Trek star's spoof stuns diners
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Zachary Quinto stunned diners in Los Angeles when he toted a gun as part of a comedy sketch - and his act was so convincing, terrified onlookers called the police.

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OK: Official geekdom is... official (UPDATED)

Well, that's it. I'm waiting for hell to freeze over now.

Real video and pics to come ASAP, but I just witnessed it on live cable: John "I'm a PC"/"Resident Expert" Hodgman concludes his wry jokefest on the D.C. "Nerds' Takeover" before the Radio & TV Correspondents' Association dinner by turning to President Obama two seats away--yep, the Vulcan-in-Chief, according to some mainstream pundits—and offering, "You have been, and always shall be, my friend."

Complete with the you-know what gesture.

It will be all over the tube and Tubes in minutes, I know.

What's doubly funny is, I just saw Nick Meyer earlier today. He must be a proud quotee.

UPDATE: I'm slow, but yep—it's a sensation. Along with (shhhh) the true subtext of Hodgman's nerd/jock subtext of bona fides and second-guessing among the faithful.