Look out, Seattle: We're back for Emerald City Comic-Con!

Can it be another year already?

I'm looking forward to meeting all our familiar Seattle peeps this weekend at Emerald City Comic Con, and hopefully a few new ones!

The con has been a sell-out for months, but I've just been quiet about my part in it all—until now.  No table for me this year, but there's two panels—and we'll do a "Con of Wrath" crowdfunding meetup, of course, where I'll have a few goodies like "Stellar Cartography."

Unique to this urban con, our meetup will actually be a kind of "dead dog party"* for Trekfans, just after the show closes on Sunday...an excuse for the locals to linger longer nearby in your ECCC ecstasy. I realize we lose any travelers that way, but people seem to prefer "Sunday-afters" to a hectic Saturday night meetup—and our friendly fellow patrons at the Six Arms are sure easier to talk over!

If you can come, please "Join" the Facebook Event page; if you can't make it, please share and tweet the word, would you?

So here's where I'll be, for sure:

—FRIDAY:

2 pm, Room 3AB: Larry Nemecek's Trekland—our annual but updated "slideshow" of news and in-jokes.

—SUNDAY:
3 pm, Room 3AB: Star Trek: The State of the Franchise—Our patented forum and cross-talk where you, me and the other guy get it all of our chest—or ask the interesting questions. Hopefully we can open your mind to some new ways of seeing the current ... fallow times.

5:30-7:30 pm: And yes our THIRD annual Seattle post-con CON OF WRATH crowdfunder meet-up—again at Six Arms upstairs loft, just 3 blocks up the street from the convention center at 300 E. Pike Street. As usual, you pitch in $20 to help The Con of Wrath move along with a screen credit and enjoy our rare clips, new peeks, some prize trivia—and each other! Now with Star Trek Continues awesome as well. You can "Join" the Facebook Event page here and really help me out with planning, since I do these on the fly.

Of course, if you catch me roaming around ECCC any other time...please let me go, eventually.


*And please don't tell me this is now an un-PC term. It's too old-school con fandom to let go now!

Meet us up at Emerald City, Seattle!

Yo, Seattle Treklanders, I hope to see you at Emerald City Comicon this weekend, again hitting town with all the latest in the Trekland show.  You might also be happy to note that Sir Patrick, Young Wil, and recent  Hollywood Walk of Fame star awardee Walter are also guests amid a big media line-up.

No panel this year for us, sadly—it's my own fault for my distractions in January!—but we will be seeing everyone OUT FRONT in the South Lobby with our Trekland table: CD copies of TREKLAND: On Speaker Vol. 1, our last six fundraiser Klingon PADDs for The Con of Wrath documentary,  info on this August's Trek Tour redux and the just-filmed Star Trek: Continues... plus all the usual stuff from my attic trunk. Including my brain cells.

The Six Arms upstairs—our very first meetup-fundraisers a year ago, after Emerald City Comicon/Seattle!

MOST OF ALL—please spread the word that we'll have one, and perhaps two, evening meet-ups to benefit THE CON OF WRATH just a couple blocks up the street from the convention center—back again at the Six Arms upper loft, 300 E. Pike Street. Hey, Seattle was where it all began for this great experimental show last year with the worthy cause, and I thank you and hope to see a lot of you guys-n-gals again. 

And THIS year we'll have video!

Yes, rare Trek vids —and sneak peeks from celebs and grunts alike of The Con of Wrath  ... with prize trivia to boot, and prying secrets and stories out of me with the right ... beverage. Our sophomore editions will begin at 9 p.m. Saturday and 5:30 p.m. Sunday—a "just afters" for all you locals who hate to go home right off.

The ECCC show hours run 2-8 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-7 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday, with a lot of fun after-hours events in the 7-9 p.m. Saturday slot—which is why we don't want to overrun that with our meet-up til 9. We Treklanders are a well-rounded lot.

If you are going to be at #ECCC this weekend—or heck, just anybody anywhere in Trekland—now's a good time to follow us on Twitter for just such occasions: @larrynemecek. The Facebook page Larry Nemecek's Trekland will also post updates as well if need be.

See you at Emerald City—I actually MADE it!

I’m sorry to have missed the opening Friday fun, y’all. But we’ll make up for it today: please stay tuned for a surprise event tonight —follow us on @larrynemecek or come by the table for more….

And Sunday: see you at noon in our “Trekland” poll and forum “Star Trek: The State of The Franchise” featuring YOU... in Room 4C1-2.

So here's where I usually write the standard "hey, can't wait to see everybody and do all the fun panel/table event stuff" story for Seattle's Emerald City Comic-Con that started Friday. Hard to believe it will be my third time in the house, this being their 10th anniversary...

Buf I almost didn’t  MAKE it.

See, a donor to The Con of Wrath has provided  us with stand-by miles, to help with the shoot and promotion, and here I was using them for the first time—with him holding my hand during my rookie plunge. I even started out at 6 a.m. Thursday just to anticipate  for “bumps’ and delays, and still leave a time cushion. But how was he or I to know this was apparently Spring Break Secret Ski Weekend? As one airline wag at Burbank put it, “I never saw so many ski poles go through here in one day!”

Seriously, all flights everywhere across the western U.S. on this major airline suddenly became overnight oversolds, with unsuccessful  stand-by riders piling up by the hour.  Since 6 a.m Thursday.

So, 6 a.m. Friday started out camped with DP Neil and his Jana in their San Diego home,  me hoping like mad that a few shining seats to Seattle from Houston  (of all places)  could be reached from San Diego, with no one in line before me —at least,  that was the picture at  5 p.m. Thursday.  Same-day tickets at this late stage, of course, would be astronomical. 

I was actually just an hour away from having to give up the trip, missing the chance to see all our friends in Seattle and hold up the honor of Trekland among the assembled genres and franchises.

Really… I was on the verge …

I think I’m in the clear now. As I write this I am finally inbound to Seattle after 30 hours of chasing an empty seat as far away as Chicago and Dulles/DC.  By another glimmer-of-hope story, we stumbled into a smaller airline ‘s decent prices, gave up and just bought  one—and what  a down-to-earth deal out of Long Beach, of all places. Thus my new slogan: “If it’s beyond your reach… try Long Beach.”

In all my con-going days, I’ve never had one like this trip—and the ever-tighter ratcheting of   frustration was not intended. I thank our donor now and always, as I do everyone whatever   they offer to help with.

All this to say that, once again:

I’m sorry to have missed the opening  Friday fun, y’all. But we’ll make  up for it today:  please stay tuned for a surprise event tonight—follow us on @larrynemecek or come by the table.for more….

And Sunday: see you at noon in our “Trekland” poll and forum “Star Trek: The State of The Franchise” featuring YOU .... in Room 4C1-2.

And our thanks to Jim D. and the whole ECCC staff for having us back again.

My 2012 con season starts in THIS MONTH*

Whoa—it's a busy March for me, if you want to come out and have a good ol' con meetup. Maybe it's all West Coast right now, but we'll make our way around.

In just two weeks I'll be at  WonderCon, this year down in Anaheim (instead of SanFran)—with a coveted panel slot featuring my "Between the Cracks" show at 7 pm Saturday night in Room 210. Hope to have some new sneak peeks from "The Con of Wrath" and goodies from this year's Trek anniversaries, as well as the usual TREKLAND rarities and jollies.

Hey, you can even check in here for that slot, and warn me you're coming! No table for an HQ this weekend, so follow me on Twitter at @larrynemecek and we may post a Twek Tweetup.

Later this month, March 30-April 1—no foolin', can it be my third straight year to bring TREKLAND to Seattle's Emerald City Comic-Con? We have some new plans afoot there, but most of all you can know that we're looking for all the Trekfan wide-awakes at Sunday noon in Room 4C1-2 for one of my forum panels, "Star Trek: The State of the Franchise"... "forum" meaning, we hear from YOU. So come with the hangover doused, the sleep out of your eyes, and awake enough to soak up what your fellow fans (and me, perhaps) have to say.

As always, the panel interactions are mass cool, but it's the table time where we can chat. And who knows? You might even find a goodie or too.

BEST OF ALL—if you are a far-flung Survivor of The Con of Wrath, I want to meet you! Yeah, you know who you are.

That's March, but it goes for all year—because looking down the line for the rest of 2012, so far—as is up at my website calendar—I know I'll be on hand with programming slots, hosting and/or table time ... maybe even some special events ... at several cons.

There are a couple more cons for me in the talking stage, but as usual the East is just naturally under-represented. If you have a line to any cons or shows in that time zone, tell 'em my e-door is always open... and the Between the Cracks sideshow can ramp up and even tailor topics for anyone, anywhere.

But for now, post-March we can have some real Trekland reunions and stuff at these fine fests:


APRIL 13-15
CyPhaCon 
Lake Charles, LA

JUNE 15-17
SoonerCon 21
Oklahoma City, OK —my old-home homies!

JUNE 30-JULY 1
BayouCon IV
Lake Charles, LA

JULY 12-15
Comic-Con Intl.
San Diego, CA

AUG. 4-15
Hollywood to Vegas: Trek Film Sites with Larry Nemecek
Geek Nation Tours
Los Angeles/Lone Pine, CA to Las Vegas, NV

AUG. 11-14
Creation Official Star Trek Con 
Las Vegas, NV

NOV. 23-25, 2012
Starbase Indy
Indianapolis, IN

Just stay tuned!




*Not counting Gallifrey One last month, which you totally SHOULD ...

See you in the Peach Capital—and more ...

Fer now, sho nuff, hope to see y'all among the other Deep Dixie hard-core Treklanders in Atlanta this weekend in the debut edition of Trek Trax Atlanta, organized by former Dragon*Con Trek track runner Eric Watts.  Tim "Tuvok" Russ and Barbara March & Gwynyth Walsh, the Duras sisters and fan faves all, will be on hand along with a slew of fellow authors and Farragut fan film folks. I hope to have a few choice funsies to share from the weekend here ....  and some big news of my own this weekend. Stay tuned on that>

Bottom line: It's not too late to make it down and get by the Holiday Inn-Atlanta Perimeter starting 6pm for Friday night's shows!

Down the road, we'll be up once again at Seattle's Emerald City ComiCon, too—with the debut of the 2011 "Between the Cracks" show and some more twivia tweet-ups with our podcasting buds Seattle Geekly! More on that later, too ...

And hey: We may be out of town, but if you're anywhere near SoCal this weekend, you better get your butt over to Gallifrey One near LAX to join Shaun Lyon and all the fun tweeps hanging out there. It's NOT just for Whovians anymore, you know... it's where I'd be on any other President's Day weekend!