Debbie noted that a guy who posts a blog on props and wardrobe will be at the convention, and she'd like to quiz him on some things. She acquired five lots of wardrobe in the Christie's auction in 2006 in New York, and doesn't know how to store them.
But first, Salome Jens was on in the main room. Salome played two shapeshifting-type human forms in two different Star Trek series. One gets the idea from her talk that she teaches more than she acts nowadays.
When Salome first saw herself in the shapeshifter makeup, she said she felt despair. "This is not how I want to look in life! But as I got to like my character, I had to move into the character, how the mask fit over my mouth. When I do a character, I need to fall in love. I began to love the mask. I didn't love the mask after 18 hours, however... I was known as the one-take actress." There were a lot of people at the end of the day, the actors and the crew, who wanted to go home, and she didn't dare mess up a take. "A lot of people thought she was a villain. I thought she was the only sane person in the universe. She was smart, until she got sucked in."
Nicole deBoer came next, and, as usual at these conventions, started defending the existence of her character, Ezri Dax. I'm not Jadzia Dax, and, in effect, I'm not Terry Farrell, she seemed to say, as replacing a loved character on a series is very difficult to do. And why continue the Bashir/Dax relationship after Jadzia left? "I thought he was cute," she laughed. And you can't fight it. He's a good catch. It did get a bit barfy, 'cause they were all googly-eyed."
She spent five years on The Dead Zone, which "became very difficult after Michael Piller passed away." She is now starting to spend a lot of time writing.
Jeffrey Combs and J.G. Hertzler, two character actors who each played many parts on DS9, Voyager and Enterprise, came on together.J.G. is buying a new home in Ithaca, New York, and asked if everyone, especially the Klingons in the audience, would help him fix it up. Jeff offered to "supply all the Jem Hadar you need."
Believe it or not, Jeff auditioned for Will Ryker before Jonathan Frakes got the part. He knew there was "no chance in hell I'd get the part."
After we left during the break, Debbie went to get some coffee. In the coffee line, she stood in back of Walter Koenig, and greeted him. She thanked him for "still coming to these things. He was very sweet, she said.
We then went into the secondary room to listen to Alec Peters of startrekprops.com. Take a look at Alec's blog, as well:http://startrekauction.blogspot.com/
Alec posted a really complete (for a beginner) treatise on how to take care of a collection, especially uniforms. Alec himself told us he has 30 uniforms in addition to his prop weapons and other items. And this is Debbie's main concern involving the costumes she acquired. Earlier in the convention, she went up to Suzie Plakson and told her that she had won her costume, two versions of it, but couldn't find a photo of it. She had wanted to find a photo of K'ehleyr, have Suzie sign it, and then display it with the costume at some point. Suzie advised her that she didn't think a photo existed, unless Debbie herself took a screen photo from the DVD and produced her own photo.
I asked Alec about this very interesting discussion point. Which is the most popular series? He said it depends on the age but mostly the rarity of the item. Was it only worn once? He likes the black and grey Starfleet uniforms introduced on TNG in the 2nd season because they just look more realistic and are cool-looking. But the uniforms themselves have been work on First Contact, Insurrection, etc. It still sounds like Voyager, however, are the cheapest uniforms one can procure, mostly because they got lost in the Delta Quadrant while they were still wearing the red, cheesy-looking uniforms.
He introduced us to a couple, a female Vulcan and a male Romulan, who just got married 4 days ago. (And are honeymooning at a Star Trek convention....oh, yeahhhh.) They met on the forum, are collectors, and were wearing their costumes.Alec explained to us that after the Christie's auction of Star Trek memorabilia, Paramount took its remaining lots and gave them to the company It's a Wrap to auction them off on eBay. It's a Wrap had a booth at the convention.
After Alec's talk, we meandered over to It's a Wrap, briefly talked with Alec again, and perused the costumes and the props. The prices were right on there, and these costumes may have been worn by the actors, produced for the actors but never worn, or are replicas. Thanks to Alec's talk, I was better versed in the difference.Strolling around the convention, we saw a great t-shirt:
GORN: Looks like lizards,
taste like chicken
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