Celebrate Star Trek: Voyager’s 20th Anniversary at Space City Comic Con This Weekend!

Star Trek fans from around the globe will be traveling to Houston this weekend for the Star Trek: Voyager 20th Anniversary Celebration at Space City Comic Con! For this special event, SCCC will be hosting many of the series’ main cast, including Kate Mulgrew (Captain Kathryn Janeway), Robert Beltran (Chakotay), Ethan Phillips (Neelix), Robert Picardo (The Doctor), Tim Russ (Tuvok), Garrett Wang (Harry Kim) and Manu Intiraymi (Icheb). Along with panels, photo ops and singings, Space City Comic Con will also be hosting a very special Voyager 20th Anniversary ticketed event featuring all seven cast members on one stage!

Along with this huge television reunion, Space City Comic Con will also be welcoming the original Star Trek captain William Shatner, Doctor Who's Karen Gillan and Arthur Darvill, Agent Carter's Chad Michael Murray, Arrow's Manu Bennett, Constantine's Matt Ryan, and more Power Rangers than you can shake a stick at! SCCC will also have a who’s who of comic book creators such as Brett Booth, Allen Bellman, Ken Lashley, Scott Kolins, Norm Rapmund, Ryan Benjamin, Carlo Barberi, Marat Mychaels, and Sean “Cheeks” Galloway.

NRG Center in Houston will be hosting its very first comic con, Space City Comic Con, this weekend, July 24th-26th! Tickets are still available online with weekend passes just $60 and daily passes ranging from $30-40. Order your tickets today at the Space City Comic Con online store. The Blot will be there all weekend long covering the event, and I look forward to seeing you there!

SDCC 15 Exclusive Star Trek Captains Monitor Mate Bobble Head Box Set by Bif Bang Pow!

Bif Bang Pow! and Entertainment Earth have teamed up to release this incredible San Diego Comic-Con 2015 Exclusive Star Trek Captains Monitor Mate Bobble Head Box Set! If you’re not familiar with Monitor Mates, they are miniature bobble heads that stick to the top of your computer monitor or LCD. Now collectors can use their monitor to proudly display all five of Starfleets’ most prominent commanding officers from Star Trek: The Original Series, The Next Generation, Deep Space Nine, Voyager, and Enterprise. 

Included in this Comic-Con exclusive 5 pack are Captain James T. Kirk, Captain Jean-Luc Picard, Captain Benjamin Sisko, Captain Kathryn Janeway and Captain Jonathan Archer. Each 4” miniature resin bobble head figure showcases a captain with their ship specific captain's chair that attach to your computer monitor (or any flat surface) via a non-damaging adhesive pad on its base.

Limited to 1,000 sets, the San Diego Comic-Con 2015 Exclusive Star Trek Captains Monitor Mate Bobble Head Box Set can be purchased at the Entertainment Earth SDCC booth #2343. For those of us unable to attend Comic-Con this year, you can pre-order a set now from Entertainment Earth for $59.99 here.

SDCC 14 Exclusive Star Trek: Voyager Seven of Nine Bobble Head by Bif Bang Pow!

At San Diego Comic-Con 2014, Bif Bang Pow! will be releasing its very first Star Trek: Voyager bobble head and of course it’s of the show’s most popular character, Seven of Nine! Jeri Ryan's Seven of Nine was born human but was assimilated by the dreaded Borg at the age of six. The San Diego Comic-Con 2014 Exclusive Seven of Nine bobble head features Voyager’s resident Borg drone in her famed red dress from Episode #164, “Human Error”.

The San Diego Comic-Con 2014 Exclusive Star Trek: Voyager Seven of Nine Bobble Head by Bif Bang Pow! stands 7” tall and comes standing on a base designed to look like the Voyager delta logo. This futuristic bobble head will be sold exclusively at the Entertainment Earth SDCC booth #2343 for $14.99. For those of us unable to attend Comic-Con, you can pre-order the resin bobble head at the Entertainment Earth online store.

Con Report: Space City Con 2013

The Blot was in no way prepared for the immense crowds at Space City Con 2013! I was lucky enough to be invited to cover the inaugural Space City Con last year, and it definitely had some growing pains. Every new comic-con has trouble getting the word out and attacking both die hard fanboys and casual fans to an unknown event. Plus, last year’s location at the Houston Galleria, the city’s biggest mall, allowed convention goers to come and go too freely. But wow, what a difference a year makes!

Space City Con felt twice as big this year with a crowd ten times as large. I don’t know what the convention’s promoters did to increase awareness of the event, but they did an amazing job! At times last year SCC seemed almost empty, but at certain points this year I actually had trouble navigating the show room floor. And considering the convention actually moved away from the center of the city it was extremely impressive they were able to draw such large crowds. Now the show wasn’t perfect, but for just its second year Space City Con has made huge improvements.

I think the biggest drawing power of this year’s convention was its celebrity guests. Fans were lining up to meet an impressive line-up of Star Trek veterans, Stargate stars, former Power Rangers, Doctor Who's Seventh Doctor Sylvester McCoy, and Firefly’s Jewel Staite. It was true geek nirvana! Personally, The Blot was extremely excited to meet Staite and Walter Koeing from Star Trek: The Original Series. What a legend!

The convention also had a huge influx of cosplay this year, rivaling almost any comic convention in Texas. There was a huge contingency from Star Wars 501st Legion, and I couldn’t get over how many young people were in attendance wearing Star Trek costumes. Even with the new movies I didn’t think there were die hard Trekkes under the age of 30. But the best costume I heard about was a young woman dressed as Ice from Justice League International!!! The Blot’s still ticked I didn’t get to see that one in person. I did get to see one X-Men fan in a killer Jubille costume though, which I loved.

My highlight of the show was definitely meeting superstar inker Art Thibert. Hearing stories about his time in the comic book industry and his new graphic novel, which was funded through Kickstarter, was awesome. It’s also great being able to flip through an artist’s portfolio and seeing tons of pages of original artwork, especially when you own so many of the published comics they came from.

The biggest surprise coming out of Space City Con 2013 was the show was becoming biannual! During the convention the show’s organizers announced they would not be hosting a Winter Edition Space City Con the first weekend of January, just four months after Space City Con 2013! Even better still, the show’s first celebrity guest to be announced is be Jason Momoa from Game of Thrones and 2011’ Conan reboot!!! GoT fans from around the southwest are sure to be flocking to Houston this winter to meet the Dothraki Khal Drogo!!! Can’t wait to find out who else will be at the Winter Edition of Space City Con 2014.

Space City Con 2013: The Final Frontier

It’s hard to believe it’s August is almost here, which means it’s almost time for Houston’s 2nd annual Space City Con! If you’re a fan of sci-fi, especially Star Trek, and live anywhere in or around Texas then you’ll definitely want to plan a trip to Houston August 2nd-4th. This new con has put together an impressive list of celebrity guests, including Doctor Who's Seventh Doctor Sylvester McCoy, Firefly’s Jewel Staite and more Star Trek cast members than you can share a stick at!

This year SCC is hosting Walter Koeing from TOS, John de Lancie and Denise Crosby from TNG, and Robert Picardo and Tim Russ from Voyager. There’s also 8 different Mighty Morphin Power Ranger cast members and a couple of big names from Babylon 5. Personally The Blot is more excited about the artists and comic creators at this year’s show including animator Rich Arons, Keu Cha and Art Thibert! It should be a fantastic show and The Blot will hopefully be there throughout the weekend. Hope to see you there!

Star Trek: Voyager “Seven of Nine” Screen Print by Craig Drake

Mondo’s Star Trek Screen Print Series is back with its very first design based on the hit television show Star Trek: Voyager! Originally introduced at San Diego Comic-Con 2011, Mondo will actually be releasing three different versions of Craig Drake’s “Seven of Nine” print featuring Jeri Ryan's uber-popular human Borg. There will be a special art print, as well as single versions of Seven's characters from the Star Trek: Voyager episodes “Scorpion: Part 2” and “The Gift”.

“Seven of Nine” by Craig Drake is a 36”x24” hand numbered screen print with a limited edition run size of 145 pieces. This Star Trek print will retail for $65 each and goes on sale at a random time today, Friday, September 16th, at the Mondo online store. The single versions of Drake’s “Seven of Nine” prints measure 24”x26”, come hand numbered, sold as a two print set for $85, and have a limited edition run size of 130 sets.