Hi Starbase Refuge! My name is Brian Gardner from Las Vegas. I have just joined your on-line group and am a Ensign 3. I am turning 74 at the end of March, so I am old enough to have watched TOS episodes when they ORIGINALLY aired! But had to watch them at my brothers - girlfriend's parents house, as they did and my parents did not, have a color TV yet!
I remember the colors were awesome!
I have gone to many conventions over the years, always cos-playing Captain Picard, as that's who I look like the most. Since I am an award-winning artist, I had so much fun being the property master for a Las Vegas fan-made Star Trek series: "Quark's Space Station". Pictures of a device and a board game, called Takbute, played by Stegamites.
You can still see many of my props and also me acting in the series as Captain Picard, a tree-based life form, Odo and an English fellow trying to get hired on Quark's Space Station. Only he was so worried about the replicator pea soup coming our too thin! LOL. At one convention, I dressed up as Picard as Dixon Hill. My son is a printer
and he was able to take a screen shot and make me a run of Dixon Hill business cards that looked exactly like the ones from the TNG episode. When I showed them to this one female fan, when I was cos-playing Hill and said: "Sweetheart if you're ever in San Francisco and need a private eye...look me up" The look on her face was priceless!!
Welcome! I’m a relatively new Crew member as well! We just got off the Star Trek cruise, I look forward to it every year.