The Entire Cast of Star Trek TNG is coming to Calgary Comic Con

[Yeah_Baby]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

dignity and comic con..........

Please, geek is so in right now.


And it's not like I'm dressing up.

Nor do I know klingon.

[Biff]

As a side note, there is a high-tech Roland V-piano Grand being signed by the entire TNG cast and then auctioned in favor of the Make-A-Wish foundation. I am the supplier of that instrument and it will be in my store after the event. We'll be at the show so come by and say hello. The piano is being signed in the afternoon on Saturday. If you come by, I'll be the only male person there and say you're from Calgary Puck. I like to meet CPers.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by Mattington

For anybody that's interested, the Back to the Future DeLorean is sitting outside of the Palliser Hotel at the moment.

I already have a picture of it while wearing my neon hot pink track pants in 1993.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by Biff

As a side note, there is a high-tech Roland V-piano Grand being signed by the entire TNG cast and then auctioned in favor of the Make-A-Wish foundation. I am the supplier of that instrument and it will be in my store after the event. We'll be at the show so come by and say hello. The piano is being signed in the afternoon on Saturday. If you come by, I'll be the only male person there and say you're from Calgary Puck. I like to meet CPers.

Where will you be on the floor or should I just look for the piano? Can we try playing it? They auctioned off this interesting white piano 2 years ago but it was cordoned off when I wanted to sit down and hear how it sounded.

[Biff]

I believe we're booth 809 and, yes, either at the show or certainly after when it's back at the store, you're welcome to play it. We almost brought a limited edition John Lennon "Imagine" Steinway Grand Piano to the show as well but space constraints didn't allow for it so that one is still on display at the store. In the fall, we have Vladimir Horowitz's personal Steinway 9 foot concert grand coming to the store.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by Bertuzzied

When you pay and say

GREATTTTT SAVEEEEEE TANNNNNNNEVVVVVVVVVVV!

Is it always going to be you manning the till or will some fill in guy give me strange looks?

[macker]

Originally Posted by Mattington

For anybody that's interested, the Back to the Future DeLorean is sitting outside of the Palliser Hotel at the moment.

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/91076065/ or if you are interested in paying $95,000 you can have an electric Delorean. Goes faster than 88MPH .....but needs to be charged every 100miles

[Biff]

Originally Posted by macker

http://www.bloomberg.com/video/91076065/ or if you are interested in paying $95,000 you can have an electric Delorean. Goes faster than 88MPH .....but needs to be charged every 100miles

But where on earth are we going to get 1.21 Gigawatts?

[karl262]

Originally Posted by Yeah_Baby

If we didn't have I Borg in the meantime you could almost buy the fact that Picard went all rage blackout on the Borg in First Contact. In fact one of my favorite episodes of TNG is Family. You know, the one right after Best of Both Worlds. No alien of week, no technobabble, just relationships and dealing with the consequences of Picard basically getting raped.

Yep, that was one of my favorite episodes too. I love the fight scene with his brother where they end up laughing and Picard starts sobbing about the Borg assimilation and how they took everything he was. I've been rewatching the series and actually got my wife into the show, when we got to that episode we watched it a couple times.

[JurassicTunga12]

TNG IS SO GOOD.

I still watch it.

[Hack&Lube]

I really can't watch TNG anymore. It is a part of my childhood but compared to some of DS9 or Battlestar Galactica, etc. TNG is just silly most of the time and struggles throughout it's 7 seasons from episode to episode (especially in the early going) with a few high points here and there. It will always be part of my childhood (my mom made me watch it because she grew up watching TOS in Hong Kong of all places) and there will be some nostalgia there but just like Star Wars, I grew out of it in my teenage years and don't really care to see it anymore. Out of 176 episodes, the number of good or great episodes I can count on one hand.

That childhood nostalgia and my life-long interest in film and TV writing and production and all the behind the scenes stuff, etc. however, is enough to make me want to go see the TNG Exposed show and hear about those things and see the actors interacting together and hopefully being entertaining as they are all convention circuit vetrans by now.

[The Goon]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

Is it always going to be you manning the till or will some fill in guy give me strange looks?

That's the best part! I'm just going to go to random booths and yell it until I get the right one!

Apparently there's already a huge lineup of people waiting to get in when the doors open at 3pm.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Hack&Lube

I really can't watch TNG anymore. It is a part of my childhood but compared to some of DS9 or Battlestar Galactica, etc. TNG is just silly most of the time and struggles throughout it's 7 seasons from episode to episode (especially in the early going) with a few high points here and there. It will always be part of my childhood (my mom made me watch it because she grew up watching TOS in Hong Kong of all places) and there will be some nostalgia there but just like Star Wars, I grew out of it in my teenage years and don't really care to see it anymore. Out of 176 episodes, the number of good or great episodes I can count on one hand.

That childhood nostalgia and my life-long interest in film and TV writing and production and all the behind the scenes stuff, etc. however, is enough to make me want to go see the TNG Exposed show and hear about those things and see the actors interacting together and hopefully being entertaining as they are all convention circuit vetrans by now.

Star Trek TNG wasn't really one of my favorites when it came to the Star Trek universe. they had some decent Story arcs, Picard becomes a Borg, the Kilingon civil war were way above the rest of the show in terms of quantity. But you never ever felt like the good guys were even going to come close to losing, they would techno their way out of it and . . . .

Question - Every week they would reconfigure the main deflector array to channel some super particle wave or beam or whatever through it, did the designers of the deflector technology really understand that their design was the swiss army knife of space. It would be equivalent to the engineer on a WW2 battleship reconfiguring the main turrets to fire lasers and they could make the changes within 24 hours.

"Captain, we would have better luck at Midway if I could reconfigure the machine guns on our dive bombers to emit a focused particle beam, and I can do it in about 6 hours"

"Make it so engineer and while your at it can you reconfgure the ship's cooks to make french cuisine?"

The original series and DS9 are still the superior shows, DS9 because it completely departed from Roddenberry's wagon train to the stars concept.

[Wormius]

Originally Posted by Biff

But where on earth are we going to get 1.21 Gigawatts?

You took that handle hoping that someday you'd be able to say that line, didn't you?

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by Wormius

You took that handle hoping that someday you'd be able to say that line, didn't you?

Yup yup yup, that Biff, always up to something

[undercoverbrother]

i certainly hope someone posts sexy nerd girl photos from the comic con.

[MrMastodonFarm]

Originally Posted by undercoverbrother

i certainly hope someone posts sexy nerd girl photos from the comic con.

I managed to get a media pass for the weekend so I'll be taking plenty of photos. Only going Saturday though and won't have pics ready for a little while.

[undercoverbrother]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

I managed to get a media pass for the weekend so I'll be taking plenty of photos. Only going Saturday though and won't have pics ready for a little while.

your half effort will have to be sufficient until someone better comes along.

[prarieboy]

Originally Posted by MrMastodonFarm

I managed to get a media pass for the weekend so I'll be taking plenty of photos. Only going Saturday though and won't have pics ready for a little while.

Don't worry. We'll still be here waiting.

[BlackArcher101]

Jeebus what a busy day. I think there were more people there today than the Saturday last year. Tomorrow is going to be crazy busy. I don't even want to think about what time I should show up to get in the door close to 10am.