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Author Appearances on DVD/Blu-Ray Special Features and TV specials

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I hope it's OK if I start another thread even though I already have bunch up.
I've been working my way through the special features of the TOS movies' '00s Collectors Editions and I was surprised to see that the Trek authors popped up in some of the interviews.
I think I also remembering seeing somewhere that one or two of the authors were in some of the TV specials that aired around the 50th anniversary.
Here are the ones I've seen so far:
  • The Wrath of Kahn: A Novel Approach - Greg Cox discusses The Eugenics Wars and Julia Ecklar discusses The Kobayashi Maru
  • The Voyage Home: A Vulcan Primer - Margaret Wander Bonnano discusses the Vulcans
  • The Undiscovered Country: Klingons: Conjuring the Legend - Documentary on the Klingons, includes comments from Micheal Jan Friedman and Marco Palmieri
Anyone know of anymore?
Just in case anyone was about to bring it up, I am already aware of the Literary Treks podcast, but I haven't gotten around to checking any of the episodes out yet.
 
JD said:
I hope it's OK if I start another thread even though I already have bunch up.
I've been working my way through the special features of the TOS movies' '00s Collectors Editions and I was surprised to see that the Trek authors popped up in some of the interviews.
I think I also remembering seeing somewhere that one or two of the authors were in some of the TV specials that aired around the 50th anniversary.
Here are the ones I've seen so far:
  • The Wrath of Kahn: A Novel Approach - Greg Cox discusses The Eugenics Wars and Julia Ecklar discusses The Kobayashi Maru
  • The Voyage Home: A Vulcan Primer - Margaret Wander Bonnano discusses the Vulcans
  • The Undiscovered Country: Klingons: Conjuring the Legend - Documentary on the Klingons, includes comments from Micheal Jan Friedman and Marco Palmieri
Anyone know of anymore?
Just in case anyone was about to bring it up, I am already aware of the Literary Treks podcast, but I haven't gotten around to checking any of the episodes out yet.
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I highly recommend the Literary Treks podcast. I found it a while back and am working my way through the back episodes. Its fantastic the authors take the time to go on these types of shows. I love hearing about their motivations for writing the stories and the back story to their novels.
 
I have to get back to watching some of the special features for the various movies and shows. I was watching some of them for a while going back to when the remastered original series and TNG were released on Blu-Ray, but sort of stopped watching them. But I do remember there is some good material there. Even just seeing some of the insights from the showrunners and actors can be informative. And he background is always nice, including seeing some of our favorite authors talk about the show and things that maybe inspired some of their books.
 
Judith and Garfield Reeve-Stevens are featured on the TMP-DE special features disc in a segment about the never-was "Phase II" TV series.
 
David Mack said:
As it happens, several Star Trek authors were featured in that documentary, including myself, Keith R.A. DeCandido, Geoffrey Thorne, and Garfield and Judith Reeves-Stevens.
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That must be the one I was thinking of.
 
Digressing slightly, I was once interviewed for a TLC documentary on vampires. Spent an afternoon trudging around a historic cemetery in New York City looking moody and pensive. Sadly, I have never actually seen the finished product since I didn't have cable at the time and they never sent me a videotape (like they promised to). I know it aired, however, because for a few years thereafter people would occasionally report seeing me stalking through that cemetery on their TV at odd hours of the night. "Hey, Greg, I could have sworn I saw you on TV last night, talking about vampires."

I don't suppose anybody knows the name of the damn thing. :)
 
Mysterion said:
Judith and Garfield Reeve-Stevens are featured on the TMP-DE special features disc in a segment about the never-was "Phase II" TV series.
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They're also in the bonus features of Enterprise Season 4 since they wrote a couple of Season 4 episodes and were co-producers on Season 4.
 
Greg Cox said:
Digressing slightly, I was once interviewed for a TLC documentary on vampires. Spent an afternoon trudging around a historic cemetery in New York City looking moody and pensive. Sadly, I have never actually seen the finished product since I didn't have cable at the time and they never sent me a videotape (like they promised to). I know it aired, however, because for a few years thereafter people would occasionally report seeing me stalking through that cemetery on their TV at odd hours of the night. "Hey, Greg, I could have sworn I saw you on TV last night, talking about vampires."

I don't suppose anybody knows the name of the damn thing. :)
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Was it Vampires: Thirst for the Truth?
 
Jinn said:
Was it Vampires: Thirst for the Truth?
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I'll have to look that up. Thanks!

Like I said, I never saw the finished product so I don't know what it was titled.

EDIT: Did I quick skim of that one on YouTube. Spotted a lot of the usual suspects: David Skal, Gordon Melton, Elizabeth Miller, etc. But not me.

Thanks again for the suggestion, though. That was about the right time frame.
 
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Greg Cox said:
I'll have to look that up. Thanks!

Like I said, I never saw the finished product so I don't know what it was titled.

EDIT: Did I quick skim of that one on YouTube. Spotted a lot of the usual suspects: David Skal, Gordon Melton, Elizabeth Miller, etc. But not me.

Thanks again for the suggestion, though. That was about the right time frame.
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After about half an hour of googling:

https://archive.org/details/Mysterious_Forces_Beyond_Vampires_TLC_WOC_1994

Your part starts at 16:15.
 
Defcon said:
After about half an hour of googling:

https://archive.org/details/Mysterious_Forces_Beyond_Vampires_TLC_WOC_1994

Your part starts at 16:15.
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Wow! Your Google skills impress! I've been idly wondering about this for nearly a quarter of a century now! Thanks for tracking this down for me!

EDIT: Just rewatched that segment. Wow, that takes me back. For the record, that's Trinity Cemetery in lower Manhattan.

I remember that the TV people kept trying to get me to say that the rising popularity of vampires and vampire fiction was somehow dangerous or ominous or a sign of society's moral decline or whatever, but I wouldn't let them put those words in my mouth. Possibly why there's only a few minutes of me in that clip!
 
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Greg Cox said:
Wow! Your Google skills impress! I've been idly wondering about this for nearly a quarter of a century now! :)
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Glad to be of service. ;)

But I almost missed it. I found a website were you were mentioned being in it, but on my first skim through of the video (I didn't watch it just jumped forward minute per minute trying to spot you) I guess I missed it because it were only about 30 or 40 seconds. But on the second skim through I chose a closer intervall and found your part.
 
It's funny. I remember spending a whole afternoon in that cemetery rambling about vampires. Guess they only used that one bit. Nice to finally see it after all these years.

Thanks again!
 
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