We're back! Join us this Friday night for our usual Trekkie shenanigans. Including:
🖖 Lower Decks ep 1 'Second Contact' Review
🖖 Our thoughts on characters so far
🖖 Review of S3 Discovery
🖖 Best episodes of the season
🖖 Burnham and Tilly's promotions
🖖 Return of Kenneth Mitchell.
🖖 Star Trek themed cocktails - This week is the 'Emerald Chain'
The Trekkie Girls Do Deep Space Nine!
We are returning to our Friday night live chats each Friday at 21:00 BST. In this first episode, we revisit the series Deep Space Nine and share Sarah's first impression of the first 7 episodes.
We also discuss:
- Trek Bounding (Trek themed attire)
- The UK screenings of the DS9 Documentary 'What We Left Behind'
- The PICARD news and THAT teaser.- Blended
- Trek themed drinks.
- DS9 Diva - which character standouts for the first season of DS9.
It's the 24th Sci-Fi Ball at the Grand Harbour Hotel Southampton which once again has an incredible line up. Representing Star Trek are Terry Farrell (Jadzia Dax, DS9), vic Mignogna (Captain Kirk, ST: Continues), Chris Doohan (ST 09, Into Darkness and St Continues) and Gary Graham (Ambassador Soval, ENT).
The event is on all weekend and we highly suggest you drop all your plans and join us.
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We spent the afternoon interviewing the guests asking them about their time in Star Trek. Be sure to check back early next week when these will be posted.
The hotel has been assimilated and includes the fantastic Star Trek sets from the USS Riker's Beard which you are free to enjoy and take your photo with.
The opening ceremony was like a warp core explosion of energy with all guests taking the stage. Followed by a … Continue Reading ››
The first talk we attended was Fedcon's most favourite guest (as voted for by last years patrons) Marina Sirtis.
Marina can always deliver an entertaining talk and the audience hangs on to her every word. It didn't take long for her to get into politics!
Deanna Troi and Marina Sirtis is our favourite Juxtaposition. They are probably the most diametrically opposed personalities between an actor and her character. And we love them both!
We were there to bombard our twitter followers with every detail of our experience. Check out our top live tweets from the talk:
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Marina also told Fedcon a hilarious story about how her temper got her onto the the TSA's flight watch list!
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The opening ceremony was like most opening ceremonies at events, late to start but a great opportunity to see all the guests in one place. It also kick starts a … Continue Reading ››
It's approaching February which means time for the fabulous SF Ball! Despite being right in our backyard - The Grand Harbour Hotel, Southampton 3-5th February - it's always the hardest for us to attend!
But this year will be there on the Sunday (Carole and Sarah for sure. Sam, if she hasn't left on her away mission!)
And with a Trektastic lineup it's not one we want to miss.
We were sold when they announced Gates McFadden (Dr Beverley Crusher) but then they announced her number one Patti Yasutake (Nurse Alyssa Ogawa).
Then for added Trek-goodness our friend Larry Nemecek (Trek Continues, Trekland, Portal 47, Trek know-it-all) is also in attendance. He is a must see for for enthusiasts who enjoy hearing all about behind-the-scenes stories.
If you're a fan of the new Star Trek films you'll want to meet Dave Freeman who is the Concept artist for … Continue Reading ››
There's an internet meme doing the circuits that beautifully demonstrates the impact that 2016 has had on the many of us. 2016 has been one for the history books in both regards to current affairs and Star Trek.
Let us focus on Trek. The TL;DR is a mixed bag, mostly epic. The year began with the best announcement ever. A new Star Trek series announced, Star Trek Beyond was released, the tragic passing of Anton Yelchin and a global celebration of Star Trek's 50th anniversary.
For us, our love of Star Trek has taken us to Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Birmingham, met more friends, old and new and sparked that feeling of 'newness' regarding Star Trek that is reminiscent of the 1990's.
But Star Trek is all about looking forward.
Here's what we think will make Star Trek and it's fandom feel different from it's previous incarnations;
Social Media
Star Trek Enterprise ended before Facebook and … Continue Reading ››
Star Trek Discovery's latest casting - three Klingons - gives us the impression that there is a helluva story arc in development.
We welcome all the new additions to our Trekkie collective! The new cast must all be looking at there twitter notifications and it looks like this....
In addition to Doug Jones, Anthony Rapp and Michelle Yeoh who were announced recently, yesterday Chris Obi, Shazad Latif and Mary Chieffo were also added to the lineup. For character info and bio's see the Startrek.com article.
The bit that intrigues us is the Klingon wording on the image.
We took straight to deciphering it but it's been more tricky than anticipated. Some bits are straight forward however the font looks new so there's an element of interpretation.
Over the five hours we spent picking it apart (and searching the house/garage/loft for the Klingon dictionary) we … Continue Reading ››
If you're looking for Christmas gifts for a Trekkie than take a look at these winter wonders from Lovarzi. As we state in our vblog review, we are cautious when people ask us to review their products - mostly because we don't want to be in the awkward position of having to saying anything negative should we believe the product be worthy of disposable by a garbage scow!
Fortunately we were relieved to discover that the Umbrella's and Scarf's on offer from Lovarzi were good quality so we were happy to give them an honest review.
Available to buy direct from Lovarzi whilst stock lasts ... Perfect for this British weather!
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Late night early morning. That's how we roll at DST. We are still a bit green in places from yesterday's Orion look but we head straight to the Excelsior stage where we are hosting our second Cosplay panel with the wonderful Misty Chance (drag queen and Star Trek cosplayer) and Liam Dillon, Star Trek fan and Facebook costume group.
Cosplay Panel
In this panel we highlight the connection between cosplay (grown up talk for fancy dress) and Star Trek. What we discovered is that there is a close link between the two. Cosplay originated at Star Trek conventions (contrary to popular belief that it stemmed from manga/anime and Japanese culture).
We asked each panellist and the audience why they choose to dress up as Star Trek characters and we found and wide array of answers. For Liam, it is a … Continue Reading ››
**We are live blogging, please excuse any lapses in spelling, grammar and accuracy**
Last night was the second of the Destination Star Trek Europe parties. This one was themed 'Quarks bar and casino as was the venue for the official celebration of Star Trek's 50th anniversary.
The party was held at the Hilton Metropole which was a superb venue and conveniently close to the NEC. You have the added advantage of being able to access the main bar.
The Star Trek Rat Pack performed who were brilliant and hilarious. They had edited their routine for the British audience. For example at Star Trek Las Vegas they sang "you can't get a good drink at Rio" to "you can only get a good drink in England"
Apparently Chase played before but we were in the queue at the bar (longer than Shatners autograph line!) but we hear she was incredible.
After the performance Walter Koenig cut the specially commissioned birthday cake … Continue Reading ››