WonderCon Returns! Due to the ongoing COVID pandemic, it’s been three years since the last in-person WonderCon was held at the Anaheim Convention Center (ACC), right across the street from Disneyland. The last two were virtual (i.e. online Zoom panels, prerecorded videos, online buying, etc), but sci-fi/fantasy conventions are one of those things that cannot…
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San Diego Comic Con returned for an in-person Special Edition over Thanksgiving weekend…
San Diego Comic Con: The Special Edition. After two years and four months, San Diego Comic Con has finally returned as an in-person event–but not quite at full blast. In the thick of the ongoing COVID pandemic, San Diego Comic Con was turned into an online-only event, which meant that panels were held via Zoom…
Final report on Las Vegas’ “55 Year Mission”…
“But first, some scenes from Part 1…” “The 55 Year Mission” in Las Vegas is a Star Trek convention by any other name. Creation Entertainment, which has traditionally held the license to host “official” Star Trek conventions was forced to rebrand their world-famous Star Trek convention in Las Vegas this year, after losing the official…
Star Trek Las Vegas, 2019: Reverse angle on the viewer…
My wife and I spent much of last week (July 31st-August 4th) attending the “Star Trek Las Vegas” convention. My friends Nick and George were there this time (flying in from all over the country) as well as my wife, who couldn’t accompany me on the previous two Star Trek Las Vegas conventions, so I…
Peter Mayhew (1944-2019), remembering the gentle giant behind the mighty Chewbacca…
This May the 4th, Star Wars Day (get it? May the 4th…?), I usually try to get a little Star Wars something published. Last year, I did a bit on the 1978 Star Wars Holiday Special. This year, it’s with a heavy heart that I found myself doing a memorial. The actor who gave life…
Gallifrey One 2019; a weekend across ‘time and relative dimensions in space’ (and L.A)…
The annual L.A.-based Doctor Who convention “Gallifrey One” (Feb. 15-17th) has come to a close, and my wife and I were in attendance (as we have done for the last five years). We arrived at our hotel (the Residence Inn, across from the convention) late Friday afternoon, and it was pouring rain (yes, this is…
Star Trek at Las Vegas, day 3: Keep on trekking…
As the familiar narrative voice of the late Majel Barrett Roddenberry might say, “Last time on Star Trek, Last Vegas…” Star Trek Las Vegas, Day One: August 1st, 2018… Star Trek at Las Vegas, Day Two: August 2nd, 2018… Day three of the annual Star Trek convention in Las Vegas was a day for revisiting…
“Deep Space Nine”’s Chase Masterson Trekcore interview…
In March of this year, I had the genuine pleasure of doing an interview for Trekcore.com with Deep Space Nine’s Chase Masterson, who plays Leeta; former Dabo girl and now wife of the Ferengi Grand Nagus. In Star Trek Online, she also plays the Mirror Universe’s ‘Admiral Leeta’; the savage ruler of the Terran Empire….