{"id":1776,"date":"2013-05-29T09:45:31","date_gmt":"2013-05-29T16:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2013-05-29T09:45:31","modified_gmt":"2013-05-29T16:45:31","slug":"be-prepared-for-surprises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/29\/be-prepared-for-surprises\/","title":{"rendered":"Be Prepared for Surprises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/signed_poster_web.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1777\" alt=\"signed_poster_web\" src=\"http:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/signed_poster_web-199x300.jpg\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/signed_poster_web-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/signed_poster_web-679x1024.jpg 679w, https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/signed_poster_web.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a>I\u2019ve been a Star Trek fan ever since I can remember. My older brother was one of the many thousands who wrote in to save Star Trek for another season. Over the years there\u2019s been a lot of speculation over what could have been had Star Trek not been cancelled, and over the years there have been various attempts to re-create the original series in fan films on the internet. Sometimes these productions have been the result of a lot of heart and soul of pure backyard film enthusiasts; but not always.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Phoenix Comicon 2013 hosted the premiere of <a title=\"Star Trek Continues\" href=\"http:\/\/www.startrekcontinues.com\/\">Star Trek Continues<\/a>. These guys bought a building in south Georgia, built a complete sound stage, and recreated all the sets from the original Star Trek series. They then filmed a full-length episode in the flavor of the original and even featured Michael Forest reprising his role as Apollo (Star Trek, \u201cWho Mourns for Adonais\u201d) and Christopher Doohan (son of Jimmy Doohan, Star Trek\u2019s \u201cScotty\u201d). The whole idea intrigued me, so I went to the premiere. I was not disappointed!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After the screening Vic Mignogna (Capt. Kirk, Star Trek Continues) announced that the cast and crew had free posters that they\u2019d sign at the tables outside.\u00a0 That was very cool, but what really knocked my socks off? The genuine enthusiasm and respect for the attendees.\u00a0 Now that was truly awesome!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been a Star Trek fan ever since I can remember. My older brother was one of the many thousands who wrote in to save Star Trek for another season. Over the years there\u2019s been a lot of speculation over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/29\/be-prepared-for-surprises\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-troubles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1779,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions\/1779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/richardpnixon.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}