This was billed as the BIG event for Star Trek and it was. Most of the cast members from all four incarnations of Star Trek, the cast of Babylon 5, and many actors who have appeared as guest stars on these and many other shows and films from Lost In Space to Batman to Space: Above and Beyond were in attendance.
KAG’s Ring of Fire Fleet was well represented at this event with many members from the Southern California ships volunteering their time and energies to help staff the security force of the con (along with members from several California “Feddie” ships). Some of these folks, like Paul Anthony, even had a paid membership, and was happily (at least we were happy) pressed into service helping guard the stage and doing some grunt details with the Stranglehold crew in setting up the Saturday evening banquet.
Some of the highlights were stage appearances of the crews of the four Trek shows and Babylon 5, stage appearances of the “Guests of Trek and SF”, and Stars of many other shows including Richard Hatch of Battlestar Galactica, Bob May (Robbie the Robot) of Lost In Space, Paul Marco of Plan 9 fame, and many others.
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167KBSome of the Stranglehold crew (K’Han and his lovely consort, the infamous “Tribble Cups”, Kahlee), along with Scotty MacKlingon of the Kahlua, did double duty and inducted Richard Hatch and Lady Sophie (author of the Klingon Sex Manual) into the Clan MacDude. The newly inducted MacDudes were then surrounded by a swarm of Klingons to everyone’s delight. The Klingons, having so much fun, then proceeded to take Paul Marco prisoner.
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188KBVictor Lundin, one of the first actors to portray a Klingon (as Kor’s aide in Errand of Mercy) was also in attendance with his co-star from Robinson Crusoe on Mars, Paul Mantee (Paul was Crusoe and Victor played Friday). Kahlee and C’Hani of the Stranglehold found the leader of the Klingon High Council to be most entertaining.
The Fantasticon auction was well attended and they auctioned of Koloth’s headpiece and teeth to Klaatu for large sums of money. Scotty picked up a piece of artwork of some of the Bab 5 stars that had been autographed by them and the artist.
One of the funnest highlights of the con after-hours was Saturday night in the bar when many of the staffers took over several tables and partied down, and even sang a rousing round of “What do You Do With a Drunken Warrior”, which was found to be most entertaining by most of the other patrons (including, I found out later, members of road crew and band members of Alabama).
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89KBAfter the con was over, Connie Pocquette, who headed up the security/volunteer group, threw her staff a party in the staff suite, which was attended by many of her staffers and had guest appearances by Chase Masterson, Victor Lundin and Tereza Campbell.
167KBOver all, the con was a great time (even if I was too busy working to see any of the fun stuff) and on the personal side, I made several new good friends, especially Bo and Gail Maxwell who flew out from England with friends Laura and Harvey the Hedgehog, and Victor Lundin.
