From: bill@tv.tv.tek.com (William K. McFadden)
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Subject: Seattle(?) Convention Report
Keywords: ST:DS9 spoilers
Date: 22 Jul 92 19:27:03 GMT
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From: Marty Steinberg <martys@microsoft.com>
Date: Sun, 28 Jun 92 15:30:18 PDT
Subject: Star Trek convention summary
 
I went to the Star Trek convention yesterday afternoon - yes I feel
guilty for not being here but what the hell, I needed a break. It was a
real zoo, people were lined up around the entire back at the convention
center.  The merchandise was VERY expensive.  I picked up a poster, a
couple of shirts and some communicator pins for me and the kids. They
had a 'sound' board that plugs in behind the pin that make the sound
just like on tv - it was $20! It couldn't have been more that $2 worth
of parts that had obviously been hand soldered.
 
Shatner and Nimoy were really cool together, but Bill's getting really
fat and losing his hair - no secret there. I picked up a video of one
of their appearences last December when ST6 was released.  The sound is
really bad, but it's still fun to watch them together and some of the
old stories from the original series.
 
Now for some insight into what's coming. They said Star Trek 7 is being
discussed in Hollywood, but that's all they would say about it.
 
Somebody else talked about the TNG series and what to expect. He said
Data's not going die, of course.  But something disturbing is that next
season is the last season on the crew's current contract.  Patrick
Stewart is going to be playing Daddy Warbucks in an Annie movie
sometime next year so it's very unclear if he'll renew his contract.
Brent Spiner has also expressed interest in persuing other acting
oppotunites so Data's in question as well.  I think they could go
without them. Riker has already proved he can command during the
Locutus episodes. And Data could conceivably come back from the past
with a different head, and hence a differenct actor could take his
place.  If the producers blow the replacement it could kill the
series.

Alot of talk about Deep Space 9, the new spin off starting next
January.  The background on this series takes you to bajora, the home
planet of bajoran ensign ro laren.  The cardassians are the bad guys
here, they've been oppressing the bajoran people for 100 years and now
they're tired of all the fighting and have decided to withdraw. The
federation is called upon to act as sort of a UN peace keeping force in
the area. Deep Space 9 is the name of a space station that was built by
the cardassians, for the cardassians at a strategic location on the
outskirts of the star system where the bajoren live.  The federation
will now occupy this space station, but the station is 'not quite up to
spec' - alot stuff hasn't been finished or just doesn't work. To be
clear, the place is a shithole.  As the federation occupies the
station, a stable wormhole is discovered. This wormhole, unlike others
that have appeared on TNG, is stable and is very valuable. New
adventures lie in what can be found at the other end, as well as what's
at the other end they may appear in our section of the galaxy.

characters - The captain of Deep Space 9 is a guy named Cisco. He has a
major chip on his shoulder because his wife was killed on the Saratoga
by Locutus of Borg.... and guess who the first visitors to Deep Space 9
are - Picard/Locutus and the crew of Enterprise!  The 1st officer is a
woman, I forget the name, but she believes the bajorans ought to handle
this themselves and the federation has no business being there. I think
she has some kind of relationship going on with captain Cisco as well.
Transporter chief Miles O'Brian is now Chief Engineer Miles O'Brian on
Deep Space 9, Kako and the baby are there too, but Kako is very unhappy
about leaving the luxurious Enterprise for the rathole on Deep Space 9,
but she does it because she loves her man and knows this is a good
career move him.  I think ensign ro will move to deep space 9 too, but
that wasn't clear yesterday. The speaker also said that there will be a
guest character on Deep Space 9 with a 23rd century engineering
background and a scottish accent...  Another interesting area on Deep
Space 9 is a entertainment corridor run by a Ferengi. This corridor is
pretty surly, similar to Mos Isley spaceport in Star Wars. Beings of
questionable character will frequent this place, prostitution holodecks
are there, drugs, corruption and other nastiness.
 
Like I said, it supposed to start in jan '93, and there will be at
least 6 months air time that DS9 and TNG will be on tv together.
There's alot of room for character crossovers and visits between the 2
shows. Depending on how the 7th season of TNG turns out there could be
an additional year with the 2 shows on together.
 
ok, stop drooling -  that's it for now.
 
Marty.
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