Star Trek Convention, Day Four, Part Two: More of DS9

We watched Larry Nemecek in the secondary programming room talk about the late Bob Justman, and show us some Polaroids that Bob used to have taken of himself, usually with one of the monsters from the original series, and send to fans who wrote in to him in the '60's. Priceless stuff. Of course, I've read the book Justman wrote with Herb Solow.

Rene Auberjonois came on stage with his old friend Armin Shimerman, and both seemed so relaxed because of this pairing.

Rene told us that his daughter had just had her second child, Olivier, which will probably be known as Ollie. He's one month old. He was so happy to see Julian, his first grandchild, and Ollie as well as the rest of the family when he returned home from a 3-month stint in Washington, D.C. doing The Imaginary Invalid. "So happy to be home," he purred.

He got such good reviews, he told us, that Rene emailed Bill Shatner his good reviews from the Moliere play. "Bill emailed me the other day and asked, what, did you write them yourself?" Rene relayed, making us all laugh.

Rene introduced Armin to us as "one of the sweetest guys on the face of the Earth, yet he plays the creepiest guys." I didn't hear much of what Armin was doing except "I'm continuing to write my novel."

They both addressed the one scene they both shared in Boston Legal. "I don't think David Kelley ever saw Star Trek," Rene reported, and Armin added, "yet it was a very familiar scene." They told us the gaffer, who worked on both DS9 and BL, seemed to enjoy watching them recreate their Star Trek roles.

Rene related that when they both met on the set, "we had the same control-freak..." -- and Armin added, "I think it's called fear" -- "and we recognized that in each other. They made the mistake the first year of us together in the makeup trailer."