Have you ever met any Star Trek actors/actresses?

[Balok's Decoy]

Curious to know if anyone has ever met (and had a conversation with) any Star Trek actors/actresses, what that experience was like, and what you talked about.

I'm going to William Shatner's live show in October, and I also got a "meet and greet" ticket. Honestly not sure what I am going to say or what to expect. Has anyone had this kind of interaction with a Star Trek star? What was your experience like?

 

[The Old Mixer]

It starts in a negative place, but you may find this recent thread informative.

 

[retroenzo]

Curious to know if anyone has ever met (and had a conversation with) any Star Trek actors/actresses, what that experience was like, and what you talked about.

I'm going to William Shatner's live show in October, and I also got a "meet and greet" ticket. Honestly not sure what I am going to say or what to expect. Has anyone had this kind of interaction with a Star Trek star? What was your experience like?

Sounds like you're off to Destination Star Trek too. We're not getting tickets for Shatner's World ourselves but looking forward to everything else.

As to who I've met, there's been a few thanks to recent comic cons I've gone to, but here we go:
Walter Koenig, Ethan Phillips, Jennifer Lien, Aron Eisenberg, Max Grodenchik, Armin Shimerman, Robert Duncan McNeill, Marina Sirtis, Nana Visitor, Alice Krieg, Rene Auberjonois, JG Hertzler, Robert O'Reilly, Connor Trineer, Dominic Keating. Plus others I've either gone to talks with at conventions/comic cons. I don't class them as meeting but I was certainly privileged to be in the same room as them.

 

[JeffinOakland]

Copy and paste time:

I read Kate Mulgrew's autobiography. I was unimpressed. Doesn't mean I won't watch Voyager but it was probably just as well to get a healthy reminder that Mulgrew is not Janeway and expecting her to be is silly and weird. Most fans who get treated rudely are the ones who want to quote lines & carry on about the actor's movie/tv show and confuse the actor w the role. Brent Spiner is notoriously sensitive about being pestered into "doing" Data. Watch the show or the movies if you want that stuff. Otherwise, just be gracious, ask politely, follow simple rules & say something boring like, "I'm a big fan".

 

[Starbreaker]

Clint Howard at a showing of The Wraith. He complained about how Charlie Sheen never hangs out with him anymore.

 

[Iamnotspock]

Sir Patrick Stewart and Andrew Robinson at the big London convention with all five TV captains a couple of years ago. I couldn't afford to meet all of them.

Just a brief but friendly exchange with Sir Patrick, but Andrew Robinson was lovely, and as it was late in the day and there was no line behind me, I actually had a decent chat with him.

 

[Balok's Decoy]

It starts in a negative place, but you may find this recent thread informative.

Thanks for linking me to that (and apologies for posting a thread that's perhaps too similar).

Kinda worrying, tbh. I don't expect William Shatner to cater to my every fan need and desire. But I just hope he's, y'know, NICE to me. That's all I want. At this point all I can think to say to him is to thank him for his work because it's meant a lot to me and given me hope and confidence. :/

 

[eobard]

I didn't, but last month my wife and a group of her friends had dinner and drinks with Jefferey Combs, JG Hertzler, and Robert O'Reilly. Jefferey was busy scrolling through pics on my wife's phone.

 

[sbk1234]

Like many here, I've met more than my share at conventions over the years.
Some who stand out:
George Takai
Walter Keonig
Nichelle Nichols
James Doohan (phone conversation at a radio show)
Majel Barett
Grace Lee Whitney
Jonathan Frakes
Wil Weaton
Gates McFadden
LeVar Burton
Brent Spiner
Marina Sirtis
Michael Dorn
Armin Shimerman
Cirroc Lofton
Conner Trineer
John Billingsly

A couple I've run into in the "real world"
Walter Keonig
Brent Spiner
Nichelle Nichols

That's not mentioning a lot of the guest actors. Again, these were mostly at conventions, although I did run into and have a nice chat with William Windom (Commodore Matt Decker, TOS) at the Red Cross while donating blood once.

I will say that all really were different degrees of nice. Never really had a bad experience, although I've come close.

 

[Balok's Decoy]

Just as follow up to this if anyone is curious. I was at Mission New York this weekend, the Star Trek convention. While I only had a 2 second photo op with William Shatner, he was super funny and entertaining at his panel, which was not so much a panel as him doing a one-man-show/stand-up/questions from the audience. It was great.

I did get to meet Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis. Both were very funny too. Frakes was more interested in the fact that my gf's name is a palindrome, and wanted to know if her last name and my name were palindromes. I wanted to say something about his character but I quickly realized none of them seem terribly interested in talking about that. Which is actually kinda nice. Both of them just wanted to talk to us about something normal and relatable.

 

[Admiral Bear]

For anyone going to Shatner's World in Birmingham, the organisers of Disorganisation Star Trek Europe are refusing to tell people if they need to buy an entry ticket to the main convention (£29) as well as an entry ticket to Shatner's World, despite the Showmasters forum goon squad saying SW is an event not connected to DSTE.

It's clear to see the game that's being played here. Fans who've not been to the main convention being turned away from Shatner's World unless they fork out another £29 on the the spot.

 

[Admiral Bear]

I did get to meet Jonathan Frakes and Marina Sirtis.

Kudos to the organisers of ST Mission New York for actually getting Frakes to turn up to a contracted appearance.

 

[MacLeod]

A few over the years at conventions, but you really only have the briefest of interactions with them, Even at events where I've helped out you don't have much interaction with them or time for much.

TOS

Shatner
Nimoy
Doohan
Koenig

TNG

DeLance


DSN

Eisenberg
Robinson
Shimmerman
Grodénchik
Masterson

VOY

Mulgrew
Picardo
Phillips
Wang
Russ
Herd

ENT

Bakula
Keating
Park
Montgomery
Billingsley

OTHERS

Krige

Failry sure there a few others.

 

[seigezunt]

I met Leonard Nimoy three times for signings of each of his big photography books, once when I had a cousin of his and her daughter with me. He was a wonderfully sweet man, seemed just like you would expect of someone's elderly Jewish uncle from Boston.

In the days before people paid for autographs, I met and got to briefly chat with, while getting the autographs of Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig and James Doohan. They all seemed wonderful people. Nichelle made the biggest impression at the time. She seemed very gracious and appreciative of the adulation. I also got John de Lancie's autograph during that period, but I recall that wasn't a positive interaction.

I refuse to pay for autographs --I think it just makes the experience ultra-weird for me-- and the photo ops also make me uncomfortable, so I haven't really had any interactions since those days, except Nimoy. And this weekend at Mission NY, I turned a corner and there was Denise Crosby, signing pictures and hawking Star Trek Online. I got kind of emotional, actually, and she seemed very patient and thoughtful. I remember she addressed each person getting an autograph by name after talking with each a bit.

 

[1001001]

I have met tons of actors over the years, as we have gone to many conventions.

Almost all of them have been great.

My convention favorite is Marina Sirtis.

Notably awesome were: Brent Spiner, Gates McFadden, Jeffrey Combs, Nana Visitor, Kate Mulgrew, Jonathan Frakes, Max Grodenchik.

 

[Sophie74656]

Kudos to the organisers of ST Mission New York for actually getting Frakes to turn up to a contracted appearance.

he was half an hour late for his autograph time though. I was in that line LOL

 

[Sophie74656]

I met Leonard Nimoy three times for signings of each of his big photography books, once when I had a cousin of his and her daughter with me. He was a wonderfully sweet man, seemed just like you would expect of someone's elderly Jewish uncle from Boston.

In the days before people paid for autographs, I met and got to briefly chat with, while getting the autographs of Nichelle Nichols, Walter Koenig and James Doohan. They all seemed wonderful people. Nichelle made the biggest impression at the time. She seemed very gracious and appreciative of the adulation. I also got John de Lancie's autograph during that period, but I recall that wasn't a positive interaction.

I refuse to pay for autographs --I think it just makes the experience ultra-weird for me-- and the photo ops also make me uncomfortable, so I haven't really had any interactions since those days, except Nimoy. And this weekend at Mission NY, I turned a corner and there was Denise Crosby, signing pictures and hawking Star Trek Online. I got kind of emotional, actually, and she seemed very patient and thoughtful. I remember she addressed each person getting an autograph by name after talking with each a bit.

Where was Denise? I didn't see her in the autograph room

 

[MacLeod]

he was half an hour late for his autograph time though. I was in that line LOL

AKA Convention Standard Time. Things tend to start off on schedule and slowly get behind throughout the day.

 

[Starkers]

The only Trek Alumni I've met, thus far, is Denise Crosby and heck that was 20 years ago (I feel old now) at a con in Bristol. She impressed me. I was in line to get her autograph (along with Jerry Doyle's, Andrea Thompson's and Dean Stockwell's) and she had to run to her talk, but as she left the hall she went along the line signing for people as she went.

 

[Galactic Alignment]

I've been to general sci-fi/genre conventions where there have been Trek actors present, but always been too nervous to approach any of them for autographs or so on.