Star Trek

Star Trek actress – Chase Masterson interview

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Chase Masterson was an actress on Star Trek Deep Space Nine for five years and is currently an activist with the Pop Culture Hero Coalition anti-bullying organization. She and coalition member Raymond Litster spoke to me about their campaign and anti-bullying work in general.

1:02 – Chase talks about her anti-bullying non-profit coalition

1:42 – Raymond talks about how he got involved in the coalition. Chase also talks about how she was bullied when she was a child.

3:50 – Chase didn’t have resources to escape bullying when she was young.

5:28 – Raymond sees bullying every day. Bullies take out their angers on friends, family and so on.

8:32 – They’ve been promoting the coalition since 2013 and they do about 17 conventions a year. Their link is Popculturehero.org and they are @superheroirl on facebook, twitter and instragram. They also have t-shirts and baseball caps available.

10:12 – Chase Masterson is on twitter. Raymond is on twitter @rrlitster

Links of interest

Pop Culture Hero Coalition

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Guests: Chase Masterson and Raymond Litster

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: science fiction, sci-fi, star trek, deep space nine, bullying, anti-bullying, conventions

Star Trek graphic designers – Michael and Denise Okuda interview

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Michael and Denise Okuda worked as graphic designers on Star Trek The Next Generation. They’ve also worked on a number of other Star Trek media projects and have written various books on Star Trek. In my intro I say they wrote a book on Star Trek but in fact they’ve worked on many Star Trek books that are popular among fans.

2:09 – Michael Okuda talks about he first got involved in Star Trek. Denise Okuda started as a registered nurse before she got into Star Trek graphic design.

4:24 – Michael talks about how he approaches his work. You don’t want to create designs that draw the audience eye away from the cast.

6:29 – Denise was video coordinator for Star Trek Deep Space Nine.

8:29 – Michael talks about the difficulty of the graphics associated with alien languages.

10:12 – Michael was always inspired by Saul Bass especially for his ideas of Corporate Identity Design.

12:09 – Star Trek has always been on the cutting edge of the technology of graphic design.

14:13 – Denise noted that the less money a production has, the more creative designers have to be.

17:56 – Michael loves the design of the Apollo module.

19:31 – Filmmaking is a team effort and the designer is working for someone.

21:29 – Denise talks about the large Star Trek prop auction that she and Michael helped with. Michael talks about some Star Trek II ship miniatures he found in a box.

26:09 – They talk about their current projects. Michael Okuda is working on a Clint Eastwood project.

 

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Guests: Michael and Denise Okuda

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: science fiction, art, graphic design, Star Trek, The Next Generation, Star Trek II, ship models, The original series, costumes, Saul Bass, Roddenberry, Max Headroom, Undiscovered Country

Sci-fi actor – Aron Eisenberg interview

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Aron Eisenberg is an actor and filmmaker who is probably best known to sci-fi fans as Nog on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. He and I spoke at Shore Leave 2018 about acting.

1:01 – Aaron talks about how he first got into acting at the age of 17. He just did it for money at first then loved it. He had two auditions for Star Trek. His first big success was Horror Movie.

3:36 – Any role he takes on, he feels he needs to show the honesty of the role regardless of whether its genre or drama. He actually worked as Mickey Mouse at Disneyland in the past.

5:11 – Aaron talks about doing mask work. He mentions things he needed to do to work in prosthetics.

6:49 – He talks about his voice acting work on a Star Trek video game as Nog.

7:52 – He’s a big fan of Penn, Pacino, Rourke, and DeNiro. Those are his role models in acting. He got to work with Sean Penn in Colors.

9:51 – He loves Altered Carbon and Yellowstone. He also would love to be in Orville. He’s on twitter and facebook under his name, Aaron Eisenberg. He’s doing a webcast show with Garret Wong called the Alpha Quadrant. They talk about DS9 and Voyager.

 

Links of interest

TheAlphaQuadrant.com

https://www.facebook.com/aron.eisenberg

https://twitter.com/AronEisenberg

 

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Guests: Aron Eisenberg

Host: Cris Alvarez

Tags: science fiction, actor, star trek, DS9, deep space nine, Colors, Horror, Movie, Disneyland