Larry Nemecek

Larry Nemecek  is a noted Star Trek author, editor, archivist, consultant and producer. He is married to onetime script coordinator Janet Nemecek.  A native Oklahoman, Nemecek began considering news and communications as a career in high school after being inspired by a teacher in his journalism class. He majored in theater at college with a journalism minor, and began writing about Star Trek because "all the Will Rogers and Sooners football books had been written." He also cites Stephen Edward Poe's classic The Making of Star Trek and Bjo Trimble's Star Trek Concordance as seminal influences in entertainment and genre writing.As an undergrad at East Central University, Nemecek started a science fiction fan club with his best friend Kevin Hopkins, called "Starbase ECU." His favorite TOS character was Leonard McCoy and in make-up class chose a Tellarite for his non-realistic character project.  While a young newspaper reporter and editor, he chaired publicity for Oklahoma City's SoonerCons and in 1991 founded ThunderCon there as an all-media/Star Trek charity convention. In 1993, after the publication of his first professional book, Nemecek began sharing his stories and archives with humor as a guest at conventions worldwide.

From 1998 until 2005, Nemecek served as managing editor of Star Trek: Communicator, overseeing the planning, writers, content and look of the licensed magazine of the Official Star Trek Fan Club. He has been a regular contributor to Star Trek Magazine since 1995, and contributed dozens of articles to Star Trek Fact Files, for which he worked all six years as Los Angeles photo editor and consultant. The topics researched and obscure references and sources tracked fueled the work of the UK-based Fact Files, later seen in the US in Star Trek: The Magazine.  Since 1986, Nemecek has conducted over 500 archival interviews of Star Trek writers, designers, crew and actors, most of them multiple or annual updates over the years and unpublished.  He also appeared in two episodes of the fan film Star Trek: New Voyages, in 2004 and 2006, and in a still-unreleased vignette as a Tellarite. star maps led them to work together when Mandel intended to publish them in fanzine form, but when Mandel was asked to finish the incomplete Star Trek Maps for Bantam Books he managed to include Nemecek's data in the revised format scale.

 In 1992, Nemecek was the author of the Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion. He would later update this in May 1995 and in 2003. His text commentary also appeared in the CD version.  In December 1994, Nemecek and his wife Janet pitched and sold a story, "Reflections," for the yet-to-air series Star Trek: Voyager. It was shelved for six years before being updated and written as "Prophecy", an episode for Voyager's last season in 2001.  Nemecek co-wrote The Making of Star Trek: First Contact, published by Titan Books in the UK from material he, Ian Spelling and Lou Anders wrote for Titan's magazine specials on the film. He also wrote the chapter openers and other research for Star Trek: Star Charts – a reunion of sorts with onetime Star Trek Maps colleague Mandel. He authored the original museum artifact placards and recent timeline update in the museum area of Star Trek: The Experience, and was a consultant there as well as on such projects as the Star Trek: Federation Science European tour and the Star Trek World Tour guidebooks and image references.  In 2002, Nemecek was interviewed for the bonus features (Star Trek Moments and Memories) on the seventh season DVD for Star Trek: The Next Generation. He spoke again in interviews for the new 20th anniversary DVD set for TNG in 2007, and served as Special Consultant on the overall project.  In 2005, Nemecek appeared with other cameo guests and crew in "These Are the Voyages...", the last episode of Star Trek: Enterprise. His costume was a reuse of Avery Brooks' suit from DS9: "Far Beyond the Stars". Nemecek recounted his experience filming the episode in his "Endgame" column in Star Trek Magazine issue 124.  For many years, Nemecek was a contributor and producer on the official Star Trek website. In 1996, he was its first-ever chat guest. In December 2007, however, he and the rest of the StarTrek.com production team were laid off by CBS Interactive, the result of restructuring at the company.

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Daryl Frazetti

Anthropologist and pop culture researcher based in Carson City, NV. Currently teaching at Western Nevada College. Research areas include the cultural significance of fan film making, teaching others how to teach utilizing science fiction, and the cultural significance of science fiction and comics.  Forthcoming works include texts on anthropology and 'Star Trek' and the role science fiction plays in higher education. Fun stuff of note: Avid tribble collector and Trek cat dad.  Daryl is a friend of Sci-Fi conventions nationwide and contribute to some of the most popular conventions including Creation's official Star Trek Convention, WondeCon, and others.  Daryl currently resides in Los Angeles with his three cats whom all love Star Trek.

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Josh Yawn

Josh Yawn is a national television host, producer and music composer.  Credits include hosting Game Show Network's live game show "GSN Live," producing the 25th anniversary reunion of the cult-classic "You Can't Do That on Television" and composing music for an array of national television productions. Other credits include casting departments for NBC's "Biggest Loser" and "Last Comic Standing," ABC's "Supernanny" and contestant departments for Nickelodeon's "My Family's Got GUTS." Currently, Yawn is the host, writer and executive producer of the how-to DVD series for DJs "DJ Crash Course."