They'll be dedicating an hour in the program, including my chat and a screening of "The Savage Empire", which we assume many Aussie fans have never seen.
It's funny. I'd just started working in a new school, and then "The Savage Empire" premiered on the Internet in the Australian December/January school holidays. When Term 1, 2003, started back, one teacher (who had previously worked out that I was an avid Star Trek fan) raced up to me and exclaimed, "Did you see the Sydney Morning Herald article about some wacky American Star Trek fans? They spent over $20 000 of their own money to make a Star Trek episode - they wrote it, acted in it, made their own costumes, special effects - everything - then they put it up on the Internet. It was so popular it crashed the Mac web server for several days!"
"Yeah, I know," I said with a smirk. "I'm in it."
Therin's Dad, Senator Therin Sr, cameos in The Savage Empire,
the pilot episode of the Starship Exeter fan film series.
Guests-of-honour at the convention include Richard Arnold (former "Star Trek" Archivist), Katy Manning ("Doctor Who"), Gary Lockwood ("2001" and "Star Trek") and Keir Dullea ("2001"; "2010").
I hope to catch up with lots of ST and SF acquaintances.
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Neat UFP ambassador pin! Where'd you snag it?
It's cool, eh? That would have been from either "Star Tech" or "Intergalactic Trading Post", two indispensible mail order companies (to a Trek-coveting Andorian from Down Under), in the months following the premiere of ST IV, where the pin was first featured.
The square insignia is a homemade (by me) copperworked and enamelled Epsilon Indi logo from the old "Technical Manual".
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