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MKK's own collection of Star Trek and other interesting photos and videos - with commentary!  Join me as I finally get around to saving them digitally.  I hope you find some you like!  I love all Star Trek but am "in love" with DS9.  I also write fan...

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Destination Star Trek Birmingham 2018 - Deep Space Nine Talk

Destination Star Trek Birmingham 2018 - Deep Space Nine Talk

For those who couldn’t be there - I know people aren’t supposed to film, but I’m still glad they did.

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Terry Farrell - What We Left Behind UK Premiere - Destination Star Trek Birmingham 2018

We caught up with Terry Farrell at the UK Premiere of the DS9 documentary "What We Left Behind" at Destination Star Trek Birmingham - 20/10/2018 Whilst you’r...

Found this on YouTube from last week’s Star Trek convention in Birmingham, England - what I really like about it is the scene in the very first few seconds, with Andy, Terry and Sid standing next to each other for photos - Bashir with his two DS9 obsessions! 

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Andrew Robinson is a wonderful and very kind man - I want that stated again in my blog!  I’ve known him as a fan for about 25 years, and for all this time he’s been kind and attentive to me every time I meet him again.  I’ve been having a little issue with some nervous twitching around one eye, hard to control in photos, and yet when I had opportunities to talk with him, the issue almost magically disappeared (he told me to do just what his theater students were told to do, which is to remember to BREATHE!!)

He’s very welcoming to all fans, of every age and every background - and he knows he’s been the subject of many, many stories, but when I’m around him, I keep to a strict “don’t tell” policy - I really don’t think he has any idea of how I’ve beaten up on poor Garak on occasion, although I admit that Bashir is more fun to pick on!  I never reveal anyone’s posts or names, but I AM happy to report that I tell him about Tumblr and my blog of photos, and also about how the newer fans (newer than I am, that is) love the show and are thrilled to meet him.  So any of you who post about him, be aware that HE MIGHT KNOW! :-)

At the same time, he’s not too dramatically tech-savvy - last time I saw, he had a flip phone (like I do!)  And I showed him my YouTube channel of convention videos but I really don’t know if he goes and watches them... 

Two little tidbits from the conversations I was lucky enough to have with him last weekend at the convention: he doesn’t gamble.  He said he won’t give the casino a NICKEL.  Big contrast to Marc Alaimo, who I know DOES do that.  Casey Biggs too!  And, second, the “Vegas” episode where he’s basically re-doing Scorpio in Dirty Harry was the job that probably made him decide to finally quit acting - although he did love Robert Urich.  (I actually like that episode, though - he has more of a vulnerability in it that’s very touching.) 

I committed a faux pas when the subject of the X-Files came up and I adamantly proclaimed that I only ever watched two episodes of it, the two-parter with Michael McKean (I love him in that and have seen those repeatedly.)  But - DUH - ANDY WAS IN AN X-FILES!!!  Which *he* had to remind me of!!  <smacks forehead>  Of *course* I saw and recorded that one too - I hope he believed me!!

I so hope he returns next year to this.  Rene Auberjonois thinks this convention might be his last - I asked him to reconsider, but he doesn’t like Creation (who does?) or Vegas, for that matter.  But maybe he’ll change his mind.  I do think Andy thrives even more on the interaction with all of us, enough to overcome any negative things - I hope so!!

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Andrew J Robinson | USC School of Dramatic Arts MA Commencement 2018

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An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

Chapters: 2/7 Fandom: Star Trek: Deep Space Nine Rating: Teen And Up Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Relationships: Julian Bashir/Elim Garak, Julian Bashir & Elim Garak Characters: Julian Bashir, Elim Garak, Odo (Star Trek), Kira Nerys, Jadzia Dax, Quark (Star Trek), Benjamin Sisko, Miles O'Brien, Keiko O'Brien, Original Female Character(s) Additional Tags: Mystery, Grief/Mourning, Other Additional Tags to Be Added, Psychic Abilities, Developing Relationship Summary:

Garak and Odo have not returned from their mission to the Gamma Quadrant in search of Enabran Tain - in fact, they are missing and presumed dead, and Julian Bashir finds himself dealing with that news badly. Very, very badly. Until, that is, he begins to wonder if Garak hasn't perhaps returned after all.

It took me almost a year to return to this strange little story, not because I didn’t want to continue it but because it just wasn’t making its way from my head to the screen.  I’m not sure if the changes in mood or tone and perspective will amuse readers or drive them away, but as always, the odder it is, the more fun it is to write.  I’m shamelessly stealing the main plot device from a Next Gen episode - which means it’ll get even sillier, if you know the episode.  

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Happy Birthday, very kind and considerate man.  I’ll never get sick of sharing this photo - it’s my favorite.  Taken back in 2001, signed in 2015!

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I can’t recall if I ever posted this one, but even if I did... who cares??

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Shakespeare in Disney Hall: An L.A. Phil 'Dream' deferred

For Susanna Mälkki’s second concert as principal guest conductor, the Los Angeles Philharmonic presents yet another extravaganza: Mendelssohn’s music to “A Midsummer Night’s Dream,” with a full cast of actors and dancers.

I have a feeling that using the phrase “wealthy Hollywood producer” when describing Andrew Robinson’s performance as Oberon isn’t quite going to warm his heart, now of all times.  And WALKOUTS??  (At Los Angeles ticket prices??)  I’m speechless.  If I could have, I would have been there for all four shows.  

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Andy Robinson as Prospero and Jeff Bratz as Ariel in a production of “The Tempest” in Wyoming in July.  These photos are from the article online:

http://www.jhnewsandguide.com/scene/arts/tempest-takes-over-thin-air-shakespeare/article_d2bc42ff-91a8-5fe6-8efa-c5d668a7bd43.html

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Andrew Robinson at a con in Hamburg in 1997, I think - and that’s one of the people who saved Star Trek, Bjo Trimble, next to him.  I sat at her table at lunch at a fan club event, and it bothers me to say this but I don’t think my fellow DS9 fans at that table were all that great to her - I don’t think they really had any idea of how much she did in the ‘60′s to keep the show going.  And without those efforts, no DS9 and no Garak!!

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I don’t want to forget how to post - it’s been a while...  Anyway I was at both Huntington and Illinois to see him.  Those were the days, my friends!

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Ds9 fan fiction fodder

In las Vegas at the star trek convention. I'm at the panel discussion about the ds9 documentary, and I don't know if this was already out there but I didn't know it - it seems that the documentary will include the ds9 writers speculating at length about what the story arcs would be for the 8th season. Even if I don't end up agreeing with every idea, I find it tremendously fascinating.  Now there might even be CANON post-canon Cardassia, in a way!  And by the way, the producers are VERY thrilled withe the new, young fan base.  So am I - yeah, I was there literally from day one but that doesn't mean I don't want it to keep living and being appreciated.

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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

“I offer a toast… The undiscovered country, the future.”

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Actually, I liked this scene and the two Klingons/actors, but this particular line always bothers me.  So now I can vent: I would have much preferred it if he had simply said “You have not experienced Shakespeare until you have read him in Klingon.”  (Possibly true!)  Why the “original” Klingon?  Surely they were aware that Shakespeare was a 16th century human playwright. 

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Ra’s Al Ghul Emerges From The Darkness | Season 3 | GOTHAM

The cast tease the mysterious introduction of Ra’s Al Ghul on GOTHAM. Subscribe now for more Gotham clips: http://fox.tv/SubscribeGOTHAM Watch more videos fr...

Doctor Bashir getting a little intimidating for a change.  Take THAT, Elim Garak.

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Another of Andy’s old newsletters.  BTW, I was at that convention in Las Vegas he talks about (as well as the Huntington one) - I flew home on September 10, 2001, as did most of us in attendance, never realizing that all flights would be grounded less than 24 hours later.