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TREK
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Now, Star Trek fan c.Iubs are
just as serious as the conventions
Every town is railed a starbase. so
it's the Portland Starbase. Every
club in Portland is a starship
Portland's first club is called the
U.S.S. Phoenix
Kathryn Braeme-Burr. co
founder of the first Portland club
and member for 10 and a half
years, describes the club as a lot
more than a bunch of people get
ting together to watch Star Trek
"It's set up like the military on
a starship." Braeme-Burr said
“You start out at the bottom and
make points bv doing things for
the club like writing in the
newsletter, setting up speakers
and working on the conventions
Then you get promoted I pist
made commander
Braeme-Burr met her husband
in the club while other members
have grown to become each
other’s le-st friends
There is a lot more going on
than just Star Trek Braeme-Burr
said.
Two auctions of rare Star Trek
stuff, two blooper films. « cos
tume contest and a trivia game
later, the lights dimmed We
watched a video of Q s scenes
from various Star Trek episodes
to the tune of "Bod to the Bones"
by (ieorge Thorogood before John
de Uncie came on Mage lo
answer questions.
A 25-year acting veteran, de
Unde devotes hi* time to movie*
and guest starring postitions.
whic h he calls freelancing.' and
teaching acting.
Star struck fans asked de Uncie
questions about being on the
show, playing Q and working
with the cast He added a sense of
reality to ideas he believed the
audience had
"For you. I'm sure it would be
the greatest thing to happen to
you. to be on Star Trek.'' de Un
cie said "But for me it's just
work We all get paid to wait, not
ac t Everyone has their own rou
tine and I'm not a part of it
When questions turned to act
ing. de Uncie started sharing act
ing techniques as if he were
teaching a ( lass, using his work as
Q as an example.
The secret is to keep a win
dow in the character where the
audience < an do the other half ol
the work.' de Uncie said. "It's
like running a marathon, if 1 pass
the baton just right, you'll run the
rest of tile race and usually run
further than i ever intended you
go You all have your own per
ioptions of (J as a result."
After an hour on stage, de Un
cie answered the last question—
how he came to play Q, the bad
boy of the continuum.
A few years back, one of the
producers of The Next Generation
was in the hospital with quadru
ple bypass surgery when de l.an
cie was a regular on Days of Our
Lives.
' At one o'clock the hospital
slowed to a stop." de t,ancie said.
''He watched every day and told
me You made me laugh when I
thought I was going to die. I swore
that if there was any way 1 could
get that actor back for that gift. I
would.' So he asked me to audi
tion for Q.”
A Star Trek convention is an
experience. It's place where you
meet new people, catch up on
gossip about your favorite science
fiction shows, not just Star Irek.
see everyone s costumes, meet an
actor or actress and maybe learn
a thing or two about getting into
the business yourself.
Star Trek conventions are put
on by private companies separate
from Paramount Studios and the
producers ol Star Trek
Pamela Rimington and her
company Infinite Visions put
together this month's show, her
first show on the West Coast.
"Turn out is low on vour first
visit to a region.” Rimington said.
"It will be belter next time after 1
get a mailing list together of
everyone who attended this
time."
GRUNGIES
Continued from Page 8
Bathtub ('.in 11 starting to get n lot of outside hell)
where marketing and management are concerned.
Martinez said.
But they're not giving up creative < ontrol. or their
willingness to n rub. chop and shovel in the daytime
to make intisii that matters to them.
"We re trying to do things our way instead of let
ting other people dictate our course, Martinez said.
Pocket Full of Kmptv, which also was featured in
the NAMA showcases, subs* ribes to the same blue
i ollur ethic
Guitarist and lead singer Theron Stevenson works
days in the Starlnn k s coffee-roasting plant Steven
son moved from Spokane to attend the University of
Washington in Seattle then started getting more
into playing music and decided I couldn't do both of
them."
Lead guitarist Steve Faucher. who attended
Spokane's Lewis and Clark High School with
Stevenson, joined him in Seattle, where he now
works at Kinko's copies Bassist Timm Shere works
as a delivery driver for Pizza Hut. and drummer
Tony Learner here it is works in investments for
Safeco Insurance Cm
“He's the guv that wears a suit." Stevenson said
Thu group plays a housewine style of grunge that 's
hard enough for most any Seattle audience and var
ied enough, with Stevenson and Faucher trading gui
tar licks, to keep the moshers interested.
Pocket Full of Empty is taking about a month off
from playing live to write songs and develop the act,
then hopes to he able to develop a strong local fol
lowing. Stevenson said.
Four-piece group Thinkfeed had a bit of a dilem
ma in their NAMA show. Singer Rafe Pearlman
missed his ferry after a weekend of reflection across
Puget Sound from Seattle, and the band had to put
on an unaccustomed instrumental show .
They acquitted themselves well In fact, the
crowd's response to guitarist Scott Ralston s strong
arm barre-t nord slice and drummer Kent Rountree's
frustration-fueled pounding was perhaps the most
enthusiastic for any band that night. They especial
ly liked it when Rountree beat an expensive splash
cymbal into shapeless submission.
Ralston works in construction by day. Pearlman
sells his arts-and-cralts creations, bassist Tim Devine
works at a Kidd Valley fast-food restaurant and
Rountree "spends his time playing his drums and
beating the hell out of them," Ralston said.
"We want to take it as far as it will go,” Ralston
said. "If it will get big and go big then we’d love to
do that."
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