Meeting Tim Russ, Robert Picardo, Jonathan Frakes, and William Shatner.

Over the last year or so, I have had the opportunity to meet many of my favorite Star Trek actors and actresses - Michael Dorn, William Shatner, Robert Picardo, Tim Russ, Jonathan Frakes, Nana Visitor, Chase Masterson, Garrett Wang, and Ethan Phillips. Unfortunately, I only got pictures with three of them, and another picture with a cut-out at a show.

Tim Russ and I:

Both Tim Russ and Robert Picardo were very nice, and absolutely hilarious. As I mentioned briefly before,   Tim Russ is very knowledgable about Vulcan culture, and we had a fantastic chat about the language, fashion, and history. Hopefully I will see both of them again.

Robert Picardo and I:

In all of these pictures, I have this goofy trying-not-to-smile smile because I was incredibly self conscious about it. Now that I have braces, I feel like the metal-queen. I absolutely love having braces, and had wanted to get them from the time I was in grade three. I used to roll tin foil into tiny strips and put them in my mouth to see what having braces would look like. But I digress.

I didn't have enough money to get a photo with William Shatner at Comic Con, but I did get some pictures taken with his cut-out at his show a few days earlier:

Last, but certainly not least - I had the wonderful opportunity to have my picture taken with Jonathan Frakes and his wonderful, untameable hair. 

If you look closely, you will see my TNG combadge.

A few days ago, I found out who is going to be at the 2012 Central Canadian Comic Con in my city - Patrick Stewart, Brent Spiner and... Walter Koenig! I am so excited that I can hardly breath. This year, I am going to make sure that I have enough money to pay for pictures with all of them.

Brent Spiner was supposed to be at least year's Con, but something came up and he couldn't make it. I am glad he had decided to come back this year.

Sherlock Gnomes - From Vulcan to Romulan - Old Costume Dress-up

I have not been spending a lot of time with some of my friends, being so busy and being such a procrastinator. They live so far away that I actually have to plan an entire day around them, and it doesn't always work out. This will be remedied.

One of those friends, who has made an appearance on this blog before, is the one and only "Sherlock Gnomes". The one time I had her over to my place (about half a year ago), I dressed her up quickly in a pair of my ears and my Vulcan headdress (and some green eyeliner, because that is all I had at the time):

She is standing in front of my closet door, which is covered in Star Trek pictures.

I took the headdress of of her, but kept the ears on - and she looked like an adorable Romulan girl. One might expect to find her roaming the high school hallways on Romulus (above). After scrubbing off the eyeliner and putting away my costume, she went home. I may see her again at the Comic and Toy expo this weekend - and I will bet anything that she has an amazing home-made costume. She is my Cosplay Queen.