LA ALERT: FREE TOS/STC screening/writers Saturday

 

If you are in the LA area and love you some Original Series, plus Star Trek Continues' depiction of it... you have a don't-miss triple whammy this Saturday, July 12, 10 a.m.- 1 p.m. in Glendale.

 

And it's all free!

First up at the Glendale Central Library, 222 E. Harvard St., there's a stellar Star Trek panel with Walter Koenig (Chekov), Marc Cushman (award winning Star Trek author of These Are the Voyages TOS books), Mark Altman (writer/producer of Free Enterprise), John D.F. Black (sole surviving producer of Star Trek, TOS) and Scott Mantz of Access Hollywood.

After that, hang on for the screening of a clip from STC's most recent, "Fairest of Them All" (the mirror universe follow-up) -- and then a panel with director James Kerwin, assistant director Chris White, and actress Kipleigh Brown.

That's a knock-out, historic first panel—and if you have somehow not seen Marc's books yet, they are incredibly dense with TOS material. I know all those buds on the TOS side—as well as that lineup coming on afterward. I wish I could be there...but family calls, during my "rest" this month.

Yes, the day is free—plus get 3 hours' free parking (with validation from library) at the Market Place shopping center parking structure off Harvard Street.

Click in at the Facebook event page here.

LA ALERT: Join Marc Cushman & I Tuesday in Burbank

I had to miss author-screenwriter Marc Cushman's initial event last winter in support of his amazing These Are The Voyagers, a TOS Season 1 history based on his myth-busting Nielsen ratings exposé and his slogging through the archived show memos that I'm so envious he had the time to slog through!

But now, check out what's up THIS Tuesday, May 20 at Burbank's Buena Vista Library in a free event at 6 p.m.:

Hard on the headlines this week of his special Saturn Award for the book project, Marc's Season 2 follow-up book is being celebrated with another screening in Burbank — "Amok Time" —followed by a panel I'll be on, along with Arlene "T'Pring" Martel herself, plus old buddy and Access Hollywood's movie critic Scott Mantz and our own Vic Mignogna of Star Trek Continues.

Arlene will even join Marc for a reading of the show notes from "Amok TIme" to open the evening—all at the Buena Vista Public Library, 300 N. Buena Vista St. Burbank, CA 91505.  Marc has two follow-ups slated for locales in Santa Monica and San Diego, too.

To mark the tour, and Marc's special Saturn Award announcement, stay tuned here for the long-awaited first segment of the vidchat we did when the Season 1 edition came out.