JanJans Blog

Sunday is always the saddest FedCon day, just because it's the last one. The whole day the closing looms just around the corner. But, as always, all good things have to end, eventually. After about 4 hours of sleep that's almost inevitable and might happen sooner than later.

First one today was Christopher Judge again, at 9:15 in the morning. He said he saw some people up on his floor at 5 still partying when he was getting cigarettes - bad habit, Chris! -, supposedly half naked! (No sightings confirmed as of now! ) He told us that he sometimes fell asleep on the set when he himself had been partying all night, back when he was younger. ("Whenever Teal'c is in the background with his eyes closed, I'm probably asleep!") When he was approached on this because he had missed his cue, he would say something like "why would he be interested in this conversation [between humans], he is an alien!" (Maybe he told us that Saturday, it all starts to fade into one in retrospective. But that's not so important.)

Instead of staying in the main hall we went to have a look at the art show upstairs. There was a long line of people up there because Nichelle Nichols was signing there. The art show was very interesting. Here are some examples.
Again, the time invested into these projects and the richness of detail is fascinating. Again, I wish I could do that. Again, I'm far to clumsy. But that's OK. But on the other hand I think in earlier years there were more people doing artwork, so it could be more...

We returned to the main hall to see the panel of Dominic Keating. We had already seen him on Saturday so I personally would have liked to see his Enterprise colleague Connor Trinneer, who had his only panel on Sunday at the same time as Michael Hogan. However, he told us a joke: "Two peanuts cross the street. One was a salted." (OK, it's not that funny, but it somehow stuck.)

After that it was time for the second Eureka Panel: Colin and Jordan had the stage again and they talked for some time about Eureka. As I said before, I haven't got the slightest clue what they were talking about, since I haven't seen the series.

The following panel was far more interesting for me: EJ Olmos and Michael Hogen, later joined by Richard Hatch talked about BSG. Sadly its a week later now and I don't remember anything they said in this second panel.

The Star Trek Panel - consisting of Nichelle Nichols, Richard Arnold, Robert Picardo, Nana Visitor, John Billingsley, and Connor Trinneer - was arranged so that there was one actor from each show on the stage, with the exception of TNG. Richard Arnold was supposed to fill this spot; he's no actor but as we all know he has vast knowledge of the whole franchise.

(That's as far as I got today, stay tuned for the following topics:)

Summer Glau and Jonathan Woodward

Mark Sheppard

Closing Ceremony