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‘First Contact’ with Noelle Hannibal!

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Hannibal_Noelle_March2015This week’s TrekFan watch-along will be ‘First Contact’ with our special guest, Noelle Hannibal!

Six years have passed since Captain Jean-Luc Picard was captured and assimilated by the Borg. Now, the Borg make a second attempt to conquer the Federation; but Starfleet believes that Picard’s experience makes him an “unstable element to a critical situation” and orders him to stay behind. But, when Starfleet’s fight does not go well, Picard and the crew of the new USS Enterprise disobey orders to join the fight, following the Borg three hundred years into the past just as Zefram Cochrane prepares to launch Humanity’s first warp-capable engine, the Phoenix, and make first contact with an alien race.

Noelle Hannibal is an actress/singer who appeared in the film “Star Trek: First Contact.”  She has the unique distinction of portraying the first female Vulcan on earth.
She has also appeared in “Star Trek: Voyager” as a Taresian woman and “Buffy The Vampire Slayer” as part of the Sisterhood of Jhe.
Originally from Los Angeles, Noelle made her professional theatre debut playing Chrissy in Hair, then moved to Ireland to tour the country starring in Lock Up Your Daughters (Hilaret). Los Angeles theatre credits include Chicago (Velma), Gypsy (Mazeppa) and Miss Saigon (Gigi). Montreal theatre credits include South Park (Sheila), Gefilte Fish Chronicles: The Musical (Basha), The Virgin Courtesan (Arielle), Rent (Mimi) and Chess (Florence). Noelle currently resides in Montreal where she performs regularly in concerts, cabarets and musical theatre productions. For more information, visit www.noellehannibal.ca.

Noelle will be with us for the entirety of First Contact on August 14th, and we’ll be starting at 9:30pm Eastern on our chat server, chat.trekfan.org.

SPECIAL UPDATE: The day after our watch-along, Noelle will be singing her heart out at a fundraiser, and you can attend! More information about the concert is available here.

TNG: Rascals with Diana Dru Botsford!

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rascals239 This week’s TrekFan Watch-Along is the episode ‘Rascals’ from season six of Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Captain Picard, Ensign Ro, Guinan, and Keiko O’Brien are regressed physiologically to age 12 by a transporter accident, but retain their adult memories, resulting in different reactions from each. When rogue Ferengi hijack the Enterprise, the young crewmembers, along with Alexander Rozhenko, lead the revolt.

As always, we’ll be starting at 9:30pm Eastern. But we have a special guest this week: Diana Dru Botsford, who wrote the episode!

dbotsfordWriter/Producer Diana Botsford‘s works run the gamut from novels to the screen including the Star Trek TNG episode, “Rascals,” the Stargate SG-1 novels (“Four Dragons,” “The Drift” and the upcoming “The Many & the Few”) ,and the award-winning science fiction webseries “Epilogue.”  Botsford’s work includes writing, producing, and visual FX for a variety of films and television series. As an author, her most recent short story, “Perceptions” (included in the Stargate anthology, “Far Horizons“) has received a Scribe Award nomination from the International Association of Media Tie-in Writers.  She received her undergraduate degree in Writing/producing for TV & Film from Boston University and her graduate degree in Creative Writing from Seton Hill University. As a creative writing and screenwriting instructor, she’s educated many a writing student on the finer points of storytelling. Botsford’s pursuit of great stories has taken her across the globe from Japan to Africa to Antarctica. If she could save up the $250,000, a seat on board Virgin Galactic would be next.
The TrekFan Watch-Along happens on our awesome chat server. Whether you’re joining us for the watch-along (Friday, July 10th) or just want to hang out, the chat server is available 24 hours a day, and you’re encouraged to join us!

Enterprise: The Andorian Incident

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Join us at 9:30pm Eastern for the TrekFan Watch-Along every Friday night! This week’s episode is ‘The Andorian Incident,’ episode 7 of the first season of ‘Enterprise.’ To join the watch-along, simply follow this link to the TrekFan chat, and get your Netflix episode queued up! As always, new folks on the TrekFan chat are eligible for cool prizes. Come by, and feel free to invite your friends!