Author: Jeffrey Clark

Welcome to Jack Crusher played by Ed Speleers!! He will be joining us for our annual Trekonderoga event here at STAR TREK TOUR this August!

Ed can be seen on this season of Star Trek: Picard as Jack Crusher, son of Jean Luc Picard and Beverly Crusher!
He is also known for his portrayal of villain ‘Stephen Bonnet’ in the Starz! series Outlander as well as playing ‘Footman Jimmy’ for two seasons on the SAG Award-winning (for Best Ensemble) Downton Abbey. Other television credits include starring as ‘Slean’ in Beowulf: Return to the Shieldlands for ITV, as ‘Edward Seymour’ in the critically acclaimed Golden Globe- and Bafta-winning Wolf Hall alongside Mark Rylance and Damien Lewis, and Agatha Christie’s Partners in Crime. While starring as Jack Crusher on Picard, Ed can also be seen as ‘Rhys Montrose’ during the ongoing fourth season of the Netflix series You.

Ed’s feature credits include Breathe opposite Andrew Garfield and Claire Foy, Disney’s fantasy film Alice Through the Looking Glass, and Lars von Trier’s The House that Jack Built opposite Uma Thurman and Matt Dillon. Ed made his film debut as the titular role in the 20th Century Fox action fantasy film Eragon. He was selected by director Stefen Fangmeier from a worldwide casting search.

Come and meet Ed on board the original Starship Enterprise at this year’s event – don’t miss your chance to meet one of the newest stars of Star Trek and hear tales from his experiences filming Star Trek: Picard!

A big, big, big Star Trek fan of Treksphere and Parlons Trek.

A big, big, big Star Trek fan, and owner of “Heroes in Action” “Your SciFi and Superheroes Superstore!”

I’m a Trekkie! I grew up watching TAS on Saturday mornings, and every Star Trek series and movie since. I currently can be heard hosting Trek Talking a Star Trek podcast every Thursday night. I can often be found roaming around as a Klingon, stop and ask for a picture holding my Bat’Leth.

Seriously Nerdy Comedy is a group of East Coast stand-up comedians dedicated to telling the nerdiest jokes at all the nerdiest places. Dave McOwen is a professional museum nerd, DC-based comedian, and retired US Air Force flight medic. He has performed at the DC Improv, at an assortment of comic/sci-fi conventions across the country (including New York Comic Con), and online (with Myq Kaplan and Aparna Nancherla). In his spare time he teaches stand up to veterans and military family members for the Armed Services Arts Partnership, takes too much Motrin, and is the social media manager for a variety of woodland creatures. You can find him at davemcowencomedy.com

Dani Riedel is an NYC based comedian and author. She performs as Seven of Nine at conventions all along the east coast and as herself all over NYC and beyond. Her novel, Smile and Walk Away, is published by Champagne Books and available everywhere books are sold online.

A true Star Trek fan and afficionado! 

One of, if not the, most popular “non-regular” member of the Star Trek: The Next Generation cast is surely none other than John de Lancie, playing the villainous (or was he?) omnipotent (most times) Q!

John began acting in a Shakespearian play at the young age of 14 and continued studying his craft through to Kent State University and then won a scholarship to attend the prestigious Julliard School.

His first appearances in the genre of science fiction began with five episodes of The Six Million Dollar Man, including the popular two-parter “Death Probe” episodes, where a Russian space probe meant for Venus lands in the U.S. – you’ve all seen it!  He also appeared in 1979’s Battlestar Galactica, Emergency!, a popular stint as a regular star in Days of Our Lives, The Thorn Birds mini-series, an episode in 1986’s version of The Twilight Zone, MacGyver, Murder, She Wrote, 1988’s Mission: Impossible, and L.A Law, amongst so many others. 

He appeared in eight episodes as Q in Star Trek: TNG, bookending the series by appearing as one of the driving forces of the plots in both the pilot and the final series-ending two-parter, involving the long arc of the “humanity on trial” theme.  He once quoted Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry telling him after his audition for the part of Q, “You make my writing sound better than it is.”  High praise from The Great Bird of the Galaxy!

John and his character would continue appearing in various Star Trek series incarnations, including most recently appearing in the recent second season of Star Trek: Picard – we won’t spoil John’s wonderful performance and perhaps final Picard-Q storyline here, so stream it if you missed it – that’s an order – and then join the Q Continuum as an honorary guest as Q himself bends spacetime again with another snap of his fingers and we all find ourselves back on Earth, during the mid-1960s, entering Desilu Studios – but in this case, not in Hollywood but in Ticonderoga – and strolling down the corridors of the original Starship Enterprise with John de Lancie!

Not many Enterprise-D characters could call their Captain by his first name, but Doctor Beverly Crusher, memorably played by Gates McFadden, certainly could – and did. Representing one of the most popular incarnations of Star Trek, Gates McFadden will once again be roaming the corridors – and we expect her predecessor’s Sickbay – of the original starship Enterprise at this year’s edition of Trekonderoga!

Gates started in the movie business for Jim Henson’s organization, working on such films as Labyrinth and Dreamchild as the director of choreography and puppet movement, and as choreographer in The Muppets Take Manhattan. As an actress, she also cameoed in Muppets and played Jack Ryan’s wife in The Hunt For Red October.

But her next role as a widowed mother balancing a dangerous career with the raising of a son exploded her into the realm of Star Trek as 1987 saw her cast as Dr. Beverly Crusher on board a new Enterprise.  The long-lived newest incarnation of Star Trek gave its writers many opportunities to showcase Gates’ acting talents in such memorable Dr. Crusher episodes as “Remember Me,” “The Host,” “Descent,” and “Attached.” Her other talents were showcased behind the scenes as well, where Gates choreographed the dance sequence in “Data’s Day” and later directed her fellow castmates in “Genesis.”

Take this opportunity to personally meet the talented and radiant Gates McFadden as she makes her second appearance on board the original Starship Enterprise!

If you’ve watched Star Trek: The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and the feature films Generations, First Contact, and Insurrection, you are already very well acquainted with Tracee Cocco’s work as Lieutenant Jae across many episodes, and also as various background characters and even as a psychologically damaged Borg drone. She’s also appeared as various aliens in Quark’s bar on board Deep Space Nine.

Tracee first started working as a model for Revlon, Pool & Spa magazine, 7-Up, amongst many jobs. She has appeared in other television shows such as General Hospital and Baywatch, and in the films Gross Anatomy, Demolition Man, Barb Wire (in which Clint “Balok” Howard also appeared), Virtuosity, and Bulletproof.

Recently, Tracee worked on Star Trek: Renegades alongside original series stars Nichelle Nichols and Walter Koenig and various other Star Trek actors and continues working in film today!

Don’t miss a chance to hear Tracee’s stories about filming various Star Trek series both in and out of alien make-up, at this year’s edition of Trekonderoga!