{"id":10406,"date":"2010-10-07T11:56:07","date_gmt":"2010-10-07T18:56:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=10406"},"modified":"2010-10-07T11:56:07","modified_gmt":"2010-10-07T18:56:07","slug":"catching-up-with-cirroc-lofton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2010\/10\/catching-up-with-cirroc-lofton\/","title":{"rendered":"Catching Up With Cirroc Lofton"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cirroc Lofton<\/strong>, who went from teenager to young adult during his years on <em>Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/em>, has taken the same route taken by his fictional <em>Deep Space Nine<\/em> grandfather.<\/p>\n<p><em>Deep Space Nine<\/em> ended in 1999, and looking back, working on the show seems unreal to Lofton. &#8220;It feels like a dream now,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It was an amazing time. I loved the time that I spent with those people and my time with <strong>Avery<\/strong> (<strong>Brooks<\/strong>), and that still resonates to this day.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Lofton1007101.gif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-10408\" title=\"Lofton100710\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/Lofton1007101.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"132\" \/><\/a>Lofton will occasionally watch one of his favorite <em>Deep Space Nine<\/em> episodes. &#8220;I like to go revisit <em>Far Beyond the Stars<\/em>,&#8221; he said. &#8220;That one always brings back great memories. I like <em>The Visitor<\/em>. That&#8217;s another of my favorite episodes. It&#8217;s interesting when I do conventions, because I&#8217;m always reminded of things I forgot. The fans know, in some ways, more than I do about certain things that happened.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although it has been eleven years since the series ended, Lofton is still in touch with his Deep Space Nine father Avery Brooks. &#8220;Avery and I still have a strong connection,&#8221; said Lofton. &#8220;We&#8217;ve stayed in touch throughout the years and his son and I are really good friends.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Like Joseph Sisko in <em>Deep Space Nine<\/em>, Lofton now owns a restaurant, Caf\u00e9 Cirroc. &#8220;It was easy to come up with that name,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We&#8217;re in Culver City, near Playa Del Rey. It&#8217;s a growing, really sexy spot. We have gelato, which is Italian ice cream. We have sandwiches. We serve croissants and fresh coffee, espresso, cappuccinos. And right next door we have a really cute wine bar. So you can go in, have a nice glass of wine and enjoy some live music, karaoke. We do it all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lofton isn&#8217;t just the owner of the restaurant; he was fully involved in its creation and now in running it. &#8220;I&#8217;m about as hands-on as you can possibly get,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I built this place kind of from the floor up. It was a place before, but we gutted it and re-did a lot of things and put our personal flair on it. Why a restaurant? I wanted to do something to show my creative side and bring something to the people that would let them experience some of what I&#8217;ve experienced in my travels around the world. We&#8217;ve got the kitchen here that we&#8217;d all like to have when we&#8217;re out dining.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cirroc Lofton, who went from teenager to young adult during his years on Star Trek:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2663],"tags":[3410],"class_list":["post-10406","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-ds9","tag-lofton"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":"","thumbnail":"","medium":"","medium_large":"","large":"","1536x1536":"","2048x2048":"","newsphere-slider-full":"","newsphere-featured":"","newsphere-medium":""},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/star-trek-ds9\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: Deep Space Nine<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: Deep Space Nine","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10406"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10406\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10409,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10406\/revisions\/10409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}