The confusion, deliberate or otherwise, that often befell non Star Trek fans in the 70s and 80s when you mentioned Star Trek, was thinking Dr Spock, a well known, well published 20th century pediatrician, and a pointy eared alien in Star Trek, were one and the same. I seem to recall it was pretty much a joke aimed at Trek fans.
I suspect this was Joiner trolling his own event and sticking two fingers up at the fans, hoping they'd all be too stupid to notice. However, the post quickly got hammered by a few people, and was deleted. Luckily I caught it while it was still in the twitter cache. I did wonder if CBS had seen it.
Just another gaffe to add to the facebook event page "no kill" alien prop advertising, which no one at Showmasters knew was called a Horta, and also to Nichelle Nichols name being spelt wrong on the ticket ordering site.
It's a lot but I've always regretted not getting the TNG one 4 years ago.
Also, I've got a spare Gates McFadden and Nichelle Nichols autograph token if any Commanders going want to trade?
That TNG shoot from 2014 was the worst group photo I've ever seen in my life. A few I saw had half of Marina's face cut off because the monkey operating the camera couldn't frame the shot properly.
You bought a Commander's package in the belief, and I'm assuming you actually read what you were buying before you spent the money, that you would get a photoshoot and an autograph with a Captain actor. No one who bought a Commander package has received those with either Shatner, Mulgrew, or Isaacs. Have you complained about being defrauded by Showmasters?
I did the maths yesterday. With 5 days to go, the event had sold approx 55% fewer guest photoshoots than 2016. It's nice to see people voting with their feet and their wallets. Put on something decent and people go back for more. Put on shit and rip them off, and they don't. And yet CBS are reportedly alarmed that attendances at Trek conventions have become so low.
Also both Mulgrew and Doug Jones (and who knows who else) are leaving lunchtime on Sunday, this after his Friday appearance was cancelled. Nothing's been said by Showmasters. Doug has been telling people on his twitter feed. It's just all the usual lies and deception those of us who've been around long enough have got used to from Jason Joiner. And if you want a really dirty chuckle, the Tony Lee bloke that Joiner's got to emcee the opening ceremony, has quite happily said on twitter that he's besties with Manny Patel. That's not the sort of thing you admit to when you've been announced to appear at an official CBS Trek con.
