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RE: Creation Con in London

parisamour — Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:25:43 GMT

Well if Showmasters bring Fed Con here maybe that would be one to go to.

Glad you are back Q.

RE: Creation Con in London

Q of the Continuum — Tue, 16 Jan 2007 08:12:06 GMT

[quote][b]parisamour (1/9/2007)[/b][hr]Well.....back after having the best time in the world.

Connor looked happy, relaxed, very smiley, very fit, and of course ...................need i say more.

Although the con was regimented it had to be in a way as there was so much to see and do, and cos the guests are only there for one day, but that did not stop me and Rhylo.

Managed to have one big chat with Connor and two little chats. But alas there was no talk about future work..........PLEASE SOMEONE GIVE THE MAN A JOB !

The dessert party was best as Connor sat between Rhylo and me and talked far longer than he should have..........[had two taps on the shoulder informing him that he had to move on]

I managed a quick chat about flying with small childern with Connor at the signing table, and a quick little exchange at the photo op, which was very sweet and only Rhylo and my sis knows what he said.

Think my photo op pics are not to good but others seem ok so you may have to wait until i vist sis to see some images.

By the way Dom was great too, very funny and a wee bit rude. Think i like him now.[/quote]

I wondered if you had gone! Glad you had a good time!

I would have gone to the con (I am a poet but I didn't know it) but like I think I told you I went to Austrailia for five weeks with my cousin, Gary. I am sorry, but Austrailia was better! LOL. Hope you said hello from me! LOL. Was Patrick Stewart there?

I might go to the next one if Im'm not too busy - I enjoyed Expo last May and I would like to go to another.

RE: Creation Con in London

Valentina 68 — Sat, 13 Jan 2007 05:47:23 GMT

Thank Ron for your amazing chronicle........Pics are simply wonderful ;)....It was also there Lolita ?

RE: Creation Con in London

Bajor_Ron — Thu, 11 Jan 2007 05:51:40 GMT

OK, here's the Con-report:

We have gone to Creation conventions before and our experience is that these are usually crowded and busy: many actors, many customers, and rather on the commercial side. We were therefore rather thrilled to encounter something different in London: a nice and quite intimate convention, smoothly run, and with just enough guests to make it interesting and to give each actor his or her time to ‘shine’.

We liked our seats: second row on the left but we hated the chairs: uncomfortable and too close together. But from that position we had a nice view, were able to shoot some nice pictures and communicate with the people on stage quite well.

We started on Friday afternoon with TOS celebrities
Walter Koenig (Chekov) and George Takei (Sulu). Both gentlemen still talk with relish about their adventures on the TOS set more than 40 years. Walter told us about his fan film project met Star Trek: New Voyages" and he elaborated on his reasons for doing this: he felt strongly that the Chekov character required some kind of closure.
One day later we were fortunate to witness the result. For an hour the entire audience watched breathlessly (and shedding the occasional tears) the episode "To Serve all my days", written by D.C. Fontana and as far as we are concerned highly recommended for any TOS and Star Trek fans. This production shows what other fan films should be striving for: wonderful story telling, sound acting by a talented cast (whom we saw perform in 2005’s stage rendition of “Spock’s Brain”) and fantastic SFX.

George was his usual shiny self, a nice and kind man who is also involved with fan film projects.
The evening program encompassed a cabaret show in which Walter performed a rather dramatic and somber poem, in which George took us on a musical Memory Lane of his own youth and in which Casey Biggs (Damar) performed fragments from “Stand-Up Shakespeare”. To us, Casey Biggs was our discovery at this con, the man is a wonderful speaker with lots of interesting things to say.

On Saturday, Biggs was scheduled for his Q&A which he turned into a public discussion about various things on his mind. A rather unique approach and so far removed from the usual Q&A’s. We loved this fascinating and at times thought-provoking performance.

It was the first time we met Colm Meany (O’ Brien) and the next time will probably take some time because this is one busy fellow!
He struck us as very nice and down-to-earth person, quite approachable and fun to listen to.

Saturday evening us Gold Seaters were treated to a special "Dessert Party" featuring Dominic Keating (Malcolm Reed) and Connor Trinneer. We sat at a table with rhylo and paris and we had a wonderful time: starting of with an introduction round and before we knew it we were engaged in a lively discussion about the merits (or lack of them) of Enterprise. By the time Dom joined us we politely changed the subject to something more apporopriate and welcoming to him. We asked him about his recent work and reminisced about his time at the Utopia-Outlawed convention last year: a Country& Western themed con in what Dom calls “a stable”. At the costume contest one of the participants actually danced a Can Can , which to this day “haunts” Dominic’s memories....
Connor was seated between rhylo and paris and I was sitting next to rhylo so we had an opportunity to really ‘cherish’ his presence.
After rhylo got her moment of glory, we started off by also jogging some memories about Connor’s presence at Utopia and we had a brief discussion with about how present actors are when on stage at a con and the kind of questions Connor likes to receive. “Anything non Star Trek and anything not about me, would be very welcome” was his reply. All of this emerged after talking about his Sunday Utopia Q&A which –according to some- he really did not seem to like it. I am happy to tell you that Connor thinks differently about that: he thinks more of it as ‘thought provoking’ than ‘bad’. )
Connor seemed to enjoy this discussion because they had to tap him three times in order to make him ‘move on’.

Sunday started off with Dominic and Connor on stage. At the start it was bit hesitating but after a few anecdotes (including the Can Can story by Dominic) the audience seemed to warm up (or wake up), and the whole session was delightful as usual.

Dominic has been working on a small independent movie and later this year will be seen in "Beowulf", playing –in his own words- “a slave to John Malkovich". Connor has no major projects to look forward to, he is still busy fathering son Jasper, but he expects to be called in into Vancouver to shoot some more Stargate: Atlantis stuff. Both gentlemen had been enjoying the streets of London for some days and both looked quite refreshed and relaxed.

And finally there was Patrick Stewart. On his last day off, so he told us because the next day he was scheduled to start working on two productions with the Royal Shakespeare Company: "The Tempest" en "Anthony and Cleopatra". He told us last time in Vegas that this return to the old nest has been one of his major wishes. We asked him whether theer was something to wish for now that this one had come through and he replied :”You never know what happens next. Who could have imagined what has happened with me after I signed up for Next Gen? But I will be very content if I do what I do now for the rest of my life”. Patrick has besides his Shakespeare work no big projects on the horizon, he knows nothing about an Xmen sequel, nor about Star Trek XI (although he canoot imagien him being asked for this).

Those were the guests: beside these “big names” there were a few guest actors from TOS available for autographs: Sean Kenney who played the crippled Captain Pike from "The Menagerie", Bobby Clarke who played the Gorn Captain in “Arena” , BarBara Luna who played Marlena Moreau in “Mirror Mirror”, Don Marshall who played Lt. Boma and Suzie Plakson who’s best known as TNG's K'Ehleyr. Actor Fintan McKeown (Voyager's Liam in “Fair Haven”) allegedly popped up for a while, but unfortunately we missed him.

A couple of technical things: quick to very quick autograph sessions, usually taking less than half an hour to an hour. Not much time for personal talks, unless you got lucky and there was no one else standing in line/queue at the time you were there.

Dealers: far too few. The ones we know well from FedCon, so to speak. We managed to get some niceties, e.g., an extremely soft NXO1 fleece sweater from our German dealer friends (and which Connor had to touch at the photo op)

No Minimum Bid auctions: now those were great! Every day there were many items on sale: autographs, clothing, hats, banners, and even some real props. Many items were auctioned until retail prizes were achieved, which immediately leads to a sale: a rare opportunity to obtain some really wonderful items, e.g., a City on the Edge of Forever picture signed by both William Shatner and Joan Collins.

The atmosphere: the audience was IMHO a little older and therefore more sophisticated than I usually encounter at cons. This was reflected in the entire ambiance but also in the depth of the Q&A sessions we witnessed: really thought-provoking questions and fascinating discussions. A “grown-up” convention was the term that probably describes it best.

Our Highlights:

-Walter Koenig’s work in New Voyages
-Casey Biggs
-Patrick Stewart’s autograph in my ST Encyclopedia copy...
-Connor Trinneer (as always)

Our Lows
-Cold auditorium: this is the very first convention at which I have not been overheated but instead felt cold on a regular basis.
-Uncomfortable and very narrow chairs
-Spoilt brats of children...

I've got my photos online. Surf to http://home.planet.nl/~rumle000/ConnorsQuotes/Gallery.htm#2007cruk and enjoy. Bigger sized pictures are available by clicking the thumbnails.

RE: Creation Con in London

Valentina 68 — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 12:49:26 GMT

Thank you Linsey for sharing your site......I just saw it and pics are very good, I love very much when Connor wearing his glasses cause he looks like most interest guy (perhaps I wear sight glasses too ! ) , seems also he's got more brown hair......He's always suit fine in every way :hehe:;):rolleyes:

RE: Creation Con in London

linsey — Wed, 10 Jan 2007 06:50:56 GMT

i've got a con report up on my blog http://indehed.livejournal.com

it'll be public for a few weeks. and as of today I added in a few photos from the stage talk.

As usual, they were both complete sweethearts. And for once I was more drunk than they were :)

RE: Creation Con in London

maxie — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 10:06:46 GMT

Thank you very much paris for your report, sitting and chating with our adored man:blush:. Wow, wonderful that he is fine, sad to hear there is no job around now. But I'm a believer, he has to get one, he just deserves it. Looking forward to your pics... Thanks again.

RE: Creation Con in London

parisamour — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 01:53:37 GMT

Well.....back after having the best time in the world.

Connor looked happy, relaxed, very smiley, very fit, and of course ...................need i say more.

Although the con was regimented it had to be in a way as there was so much to see and do, and cos the guests are only there for one day, but that did not stop me and Rhylo.

Managed to have one big chat with Connor and two little chats. But alas there was no talk about future work..........PLEASE SOMEONE GIVE THE MAN A JOB !

The dessert party was best as Connor sat between Rhylo and me and talked far longer than he should have..........[had two taps on the shoulder informing him that he had to move on]

I managed a quick chat about flying with small childern with Connor at the signing table, and a quick little exchange at the photo op, which was very sweet and only Rhylo and my sis knows what he said.

Think my photo op pics are not to good but others seem ok so you may have to wait until i vist sis to see some images.

By the way Dom was great too, very funny and a wee bit rude. Think i like him now.

RE: Creation Con in London

DomCat — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 02:29:34 GMT

Hi Paris :)

I had a look at the Creation website (look under In Person Autographs near the end of the page) and it says that you can take an item of your own choice to be autographed or you can purchase a photo to be signed (I think they're about £15.75 each) Like you say, there aren't many peeps round here so I thought I'd try to answer your question!

Have fun at the con!

RE: Creation Con in London

parisamour — Thu, 04 Jan 2007 01:25:59 GMT

Well i am off tomorrow, to meet rhylo, and have some fun.

At this moment in time i do not care if i only get within spitting distance of CT, i am so fed up with my other half and his crap attitude that just to get away for the weekend is gonna be great..........will miss my little girl though. She asked if she could come with me.....ahhh.....shes a bit of a CT and PS fan as well. [Do not think she is that keen on a weekend with dad........don't blame her]

One question..........do the actors have photos for you to pick for them to sign or do you have to purchase them ?............looking at the number of peeps on the boards at the mo i doubt that i will get a reply on time, so what the hell..........

RE: Creation Con in London

parisamour — Thu, 14 Dec 2006 05:31:17 GMT

You certainly will...........i will be glowing.......[no i will not be covered in lightbulbs but will be so happy that everyone will need to put on their 'Foster Grants']...now that is giving my age away abit....LOL

RE: Creation Con in London

rhylo — Wed, 13 Dec 2006 15:07:27 GMT

:) See ya there, paris (but you know that already!) And it will be nice to meet you, too, Ron. I really hope we get just a little time to talk to Connor. I'm only going to meet him :hehe:

RE: Creation Con in London

Hreod — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 09:53:40 GMT

The day tickets are now on sale at the Creation website, along with photo-op tickets.

RE: Creation Con in London

parisamour — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 01:29:03 GMT

Will see you there Ron.

I have had good times reading all your reports and look forward to meeting you.

Are you going to stay in the hotel as well ? Have you been to a creation con before ?, and what exactly is a dessert party ?, do we just get to stuff ourselves with puds all night ?.

RE: Creation Con in London

Bajor_Ron — Mon, 06 Nov 2006 23:59:10 GMT

[quote][b]Bajor_Ron (10/26/2006)[/b][hr]Nope, not unless they lower the ticket price. Considerably![/quote]

I must stand corrected, as of yesterday we ordered two tickets to this con. We will receive some nice suprises moneywise(as in: pay raise) at the end of the year and we figured a nice way to celebrate this as well as the New Year is to attend this con.

On a general note, I am rather busy with various things right now and I still owe you all a report on Utopia' s last day. I know, I haven't forgotten, I simply have had no time to sit down and write it all up. Don't worry, it is next on my list....

RE: Creation Con in London

parisamour — Thu, 02 Nov 2006 00:57:34 GMT

Are the cons in the US held in hotels or separate locations.

If the one in london is in the hotel maybe it will be smaller..............she says hopefully.

RE: Creation Con in London

Hreod — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 15:37:46 GMT

[quote][b]parisamour (11/1/2006)[/b][hr]Please enlighten me as i have only ever been to general conventions and not program speicfic [?] ones.

[/quote]

Creation cons are very regimented. You're not allowed contact with the guests, and at big cons there's barely time to say hello at the autograph table or photo op. They're run for Creation's benefit.

Fedcon and Utopia on the other hand are run for the fans benefit. Guests, if they want, are actively encouraged to mingle with the attendees. There's always time for a chat, or a hug - no touching allowed with Creation.

To be fair to Creation, most of their cons are in the US and are huge events. And there are some scary fans out there. But they'd have a better reputation if they relaxed a little.

RE: Creation Con in London

parisamour — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 01:53:15 GMT

Please enlighten me as i have only ever been to general conventions and not program speicfic [?] ones.

RE: Creation Con in London

Hreod — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 12:38:51 GMT

Well I probably will go now that both Connor and Dominic are appearing. But only for the Sunday, so I'm waiting for day tickets to go on sale.

And cost isn't the only criterium for measuring conventions. London Creation isn't all that much dearer than Fedcon, but the experience is totally different.

RE: Creation Con in London

parisamour — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 02:51:23 GMT

[quote][b]Hreod (10/27/2006)[/b][hr][quote][b]parisamour (10/27/2006)[/b][hr]Well i will just go and sit in the dark somewhere where i won't get my head bitten off.[/quote]

Who's bitten your head off?[/quote]

Sorry about that..........I know nothing about creation, but i do know that there is another con going on in London soon which makes Creation look cheap. And if Fed Con do not start making some announcements soon i will spend my money where i can.

The chance to meet PS is one i would hate to miss.

RE: Creation Con in London

DomCat — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 11:53:59 GMT

Dominic's appearing at the con too! :w00t:

RE: Creation Con in London

Hreod — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 12:05:18 GMT

[quote][b]parisamour (10/27/2006)[/b][hr]Well i will just go and sit in the dark somewhere where i won't get my head bitten off.[/quote]

Who's bitten your head off?

RE: Creation Con in London

Valentina 68 — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 11:19:52 GMT

Hi all....Connor will be with mitic Patrick Stewart and also George Takei (sorry, in this moment I don't remember other actors) in Hilton Metropole Hotel !....Unfortunely I will not to go cause it' soooo expensive for my pockets......If someone of you will go, keep me update please .....:crying: :crying:

RE: Creation Con in London

parisamour — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 06:38:33 GMT

Well i will just go and sit in the dark somewhere where i won't get my head bitten off.

RE: Creation Con in London

Hreod — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 13:23:38 GMT

Not me. Not even for Enterprise guests will I pay Creation prices. I'd rather save my cash for cons where the attendees are treated as though they matter.

RE: Creation Con in London

Bajor_Ron — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 11:44:29 GMT

Nope, not unless they lower the ticket price. Considerably!

Creation Con in London

parisamour — Thu, 26 Oct 2006 07:53:46 GMT

Is anyone going to go to this ?

Is there anyone actually out there ?