Topic: Captains on the bridge.

[Javora]

Just saw this and thought I'd share, anyone planning a vacation to London?   

All five ''Star Trek'' captains unite at London event

Mon Apr 16, 2012 10:29am BST

(Reuters) - "Star Trek" is beaming over to London in October and boldly going where no trekkie event has gone before by bringing together all five TV captains on stage for the first time.

Organizers for "Destination Star Trek London" said on Monday that their fan convention would be the first official "Star Trek" live event in the UK for 10 years.

To mark the occasion, actors William Shatner (Captain Kirk), Sir Patrick Stewart (Captain Picard), Avery Brooks (Commander Sisko), Kate Mulgrew (Captain Janeway) and Scott Bakula (Captain Archer), who have commanded operations in each of their respective series based on the iconic TV franchise that began in 1966, will appear on stage together.

"The 'Star Trek' fan base in the UK is one of the biggest in the world, and it has waited a long time for the convention to return, so we wanted to make sure we did it right," said Liz Kalodner, general manger of CBS Consumer Products, which owns the TV franchise.

Shatner, 81, the first captain of the starship Enterprise, has been a fan favourite at conventions, mostly in the United States, that attract thousands of trekkies.

Avery Brooks, who became the first black actor to take the lead role when he appeared in the 1993-99 series "Star Trek: Deep Space Nine", has also made appearances, along with Kate Mulgrew, who made a splash as female Captain Janeway in "Star Trek: Voyager" for six years.

But all five actors have never appeared together at an official event for the cult series.

Organizers said they were expecting some 10,000-15,000 people from all over the world to attend the London convention at the Excel Exhibition Centre from Oct 19-21. Tickets go on sale starting April 30.

"It's not just the five captains. There will be a host of other guests from the series. The fans will be able to get up close," said Rob Nathan, marketing director for Media 10 which is organizing the events in collaboration with CBS.

Nathan said the London event would be bigger and better than many other "Star Trek" events.

"We are going to make this really interactive. There are going to be stunt displays, we are going to recreate some sets, and get some original sets. People will be able to sit on the starship bridge with members of the cast," he said.

Nathan said some 14,000 people had registered to sign up for information about the London event after an initial, cryptic Twitter message was posted at the beginning of March.

"It's going to be an absolute pilgrimage for 'Star Trek' fans," he said.

More information can be found on website www.startreklondon.com which goes live on Monday.

(Reporting By Jill Serjeant; Editing by Bob Tourtellotte)

[762_XC]

Nice, but I refuse to consider "Enterprise" part of the series.

[Javora]

Eh, to each there own.  IMHO I thought Enterprise was better than Voyager.

[Sirgod]

I liked Enterprise ok, I just hated their writers. Add to that, It was the first time they had a noted actor in the roll of Captain. Before hand, the actors had hardly been known at all.

Stephen

[EmeraldEdge]

Far better than voyager, but they just mucked up with the timeline too much that it causes some big issues.  Personally, Archer is almost tied (and might be) with Kirk as my favorite Captain.

[knightstorm]

I liked Enterprise better than TNG.  As for the timeline, it really didn't muck it up.  It just broke accepted fanon.

[762_XC]

I liked Enterprise ok, I just hated their writers. Add to that, It was the first time they had a noted actor in the roll of Captain. Before hand, the actors had hardly been known at all.

Stephen

Wot? Patrick Stewart was very well established.

[knightstorm]

Wot? Patrick Stewart was very well established.

He was mainly a Shakespearean actor.

[762_XC]

Mainly yes. But he was in Dune.

[knightstorm]

I for one have never seen Dune.  Either way, most of that $#%hole's work was in roles that wouldn't have brought him to the attention of a mainstream American audience.

[FRA.E.Kehakoul_XC]

Another film starring Patrick Stewart worth mentioning , was Excalibur.

[Andromeda]

I liked him as Gurney. I liked him as Picard.  He also played Scrooge (who hasn't) in a version of A Christmas Carol (admittedly post ST).  And King Richard in Rboin Hood: Men in Tights.

[Nemesis]

Nice, but I refuse to consider "Enterprise" part of the series.

Trek yes.  Different timeline from TOS and TNG.  I consider it to be a split caused by First Contact.

[762_XC]

Whatever. I have no patience for this alternate timeline horsesh*t. If it's not part of Trek canon, it's a waste of time and advertising space.

Honestly I think it would have been best if the series died after TNG Season 6. With the exception of First Contact.

[knightstorm]

Enterprise is not an alternate universe, it actually fits into the Star Trek canon fairly well.  Its definitely more worthy of the name Star Trek than that TNG, with its overly fluffy characters, and its Starship with a petting zoo.

[Lono]

Am I the only one who thinks it would be humorous to catch them all - and mount their heads in chronological order on the wall of my man cave?

Yes... yes I am...

 

[knightstorm]

That's not humorous, its just tacky.

[Nemesis]

Enterprise is not an alternate universe, it actually fits into the Star Trek canon fairly well.  Its definitely more worthy of the name Star Trek than that TNG, with its overly fluffy characters, and its Starship with a petting zoo.

The Romulan war occurred between the last two episodes of Enterprise?  The Federation founded in the same year as the alliance that was supposed to lead to Federation?  Cloaking devices everywhere well before Kirk?  Romulans with warp 5 tech but regressed before Kirks era?  Meeting Klingons decades too early?  The Klingon first contact was supposed to be flubbed and cause "decades of war".  Borg on Earth?  Ferengi way inside the future Federation? 

[Sirgod]

I liked Enterprise ok, I just hated their writers. Add to that, It was the first time they had a noted actor in the roll of Captain. Before hand, the actors had hardly been known at all.

Stephen

Wot? Patrick Stewart was very well established.

In theater mostly. Not many had heard of him prior to the show.

Stephen

[knightstorm]

Enterprise is not an alternate universe, it actually fits into the Star Trek canon fairly well.  Its definitely more worthy of the name Star Trek than that TNG, with its overly fluffy characters, and its Starship with a petting zoo.

The Romulan war occurred between the last two episodes of Enterprise?  The Federation founded in the same year as the alliance that was supposed to lead to Federation?  Cloaking devices everywhere well before Kirk?  Romulans with warp 5 tech but regressed before Kirks era?  Meeting Klingons decades too early?  The Klingon first contact was supposed to be flubbed and cause "decades of war".  Borg on Earth?  Ferengi way inside the future Federation?

There's a ten year gap between the last two episodes of Enterprise so yes the Romulan war could have occurred then.  It merely shows that there isn't as much of a firm line of when the alliance actually became the federation. It could be when the initial treaty was signed, or it could have evolved into the federation later.  Cloaking devices were not common at that point in time.  The Suliban cloaks were advanced future technology that they lost access to.  As for the one Romulan cloak it seems to be an experimental technology that wasn't adopted.  This is evident by the fact that they were experimenting with other methods of hiding or disguising their ships such as the holoship.  As for the Romulans not having warp drive.  That's one of the aspects of TOS that was retconned later.  Balance of terror was one of the early episodes of TOS from before they determined what exactly impulse power was going to be.  Once they determined that impulse was a sublight drive, there was no way the Romulans could have only had simple impulse power.  Pull out a script and show me where it says that hostilities with the Klingons began a decade later.  I went through my dvd of errand of mercy the first time you brought that up, and couldn't find it.  As for the borg and the Ferengi, they didn't know that those were the races they had encountered.  Also, its already been shown that the federation knew about the borg for at least 70 years before the Enterprise D encountered them, but that the information was classified.