https://xkcd.com/2115/

Things have been pretty awesome, so far, this year. Sadly, already we are over halfway though. I have dreams about this every year, and always it goes by far too rapidly. I can’t wait to bring little Zoey here and show her the awesomeness.

Anyhoo, went to a few pretty awesome panels yesterday and today. Most of it was Star Trek related. The best one, though, was probably the Patrick Stewart and Gates McFadden one this particular afternoon.

Saw a screening of Prelude to Axanar this evening. That was astoundingly cool. I had seen the video on YouTube this week, but the enthusiasm in this panel may just drive me to contribute to the kick starter to make this thing a full-fledged movie.

About to check out a podcast panel called Night Attack. Never heard of it. Funny, how many things are new to me at Dragon Con that I just lap up and assimilate…I’ll probably be a fanboy by next year 😉

Our first panel today was George Takei. It was kind of a disappointment, mostly because I didn’t realize it wasn’t on the Trek Track. Some of what he said was quite interesting, not the least of which being his involvement in the LA subway system. But, it got mostly political and it just ended up pissing me off. But, it still wasn’t the worst panel ever–the Walking Dead one where the cast didn’t show up holds that honor, but only because of the annoying moderator 🙂

We were going to try to squeeze into a Futurama voice acting panel just after, not the least of which because the current season is the last one for that show. Alas, it couldn’t be. You can’t really do one panel right after the other at D*C, because of how many people attend these things–you generally have to plan your schedule such that you have at least an hour (maybe two) to wait in line. Anyhoo, we ended up playing some Munchkin for a little while.

After which, we waited a couple hours or so to finally get into a successful Walking Dead panel. Unfortunately, the annoying moderator was still flapping his gums before the panel began *sigh*

Our last panel of the evening was the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company. Their feature that evening was a radio version of War of the Worlds; it wasn’t like Welles’ version of it, because it was more congruent to the plot of the novel–with a few twists of its own (e.g., a professor named Moriarity using biological weaponry to take down the Martians).

Today was a pretty epic day of panels. We got to see William Shatner. Hilarious dude. We were going to see a Walking Dead panel, but none of the guests showed up. Quite a bummer, particularly because the moderator was annoying; he couldn’t shut up before the panel. Last year, Ruthie experienced the same dude in the Vampire Diaries panel. I’ll probably leave some negative feedback for the track, if I can, but I don’t know what good it’ll do.

Later in the afternoon, we saw a DS9 panel that featured Cirroc Lofton, Avery Brooks and Terry Farrell. I hadn’t seen Dax before, so that was a pretty good panel. Avery Brooks is quite a hoot, too. He’s a very eclectic individual, and very entertaining.

Ran into quite a few interesting costumes, too.