{"id":16903,"date":"2012-05-02T12:23:40","date_gmt":"2012-05-02T19:23:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=16903"},"modified":"2012-05-02T12:24:13","modified_gmt":"2012-05-02T19:24:13","slug":"the-next-generation-cast-calgary-expo-reunion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2012\/05\/the-next-generation-cast-calgary-expo-reunion\/","title":{"rendered":"The Next Generation Cast Calgary Expo Reunion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-16906\" title=\"CalgaryExpo050212\" src=\"http:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/CalgaryExpo050212.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"580\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Last weekend, fans attending the Calgary Expo in Calgary, Canada were able to see the entire cast of <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em>, plus surprise guest <strong>John de Lancie<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Over fifty thousand fans attended the weekend event, with the highlight of the convention being the TNG:EXPOsed event which took place Saturday evening.<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The<em> Next Generation<\/em> cast shared stories, which brought both laughter and tears to the audience and cast alike. <strong>Wil Wheaton<\/strong> spoke about leaving the show and how he felt afterwards about that decision.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I left <em>Star Trek: The Next Generation<\/em> when I was eighteen years old,&#8221; said Wheaton. &#8220;And initially, I thought it was a really smart business career move. And In some ways it was, and in more ways it wasn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;And what I was unprepared for was how much I was going to miss the people who are on this stage and how much I was gong to miss this spacesuit that I hated wearing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Wheaton felt ashamed of leaving, but appearing together with the entire cast at the Calgary Expo was like, &#8220;coming home,&#8221; he said, choking up with emotion. <strong>Marina Sirtis<\/strong> than ran over to hug Wheaton.<\/p>\n<p><strong>LeVar Burton<\/strong> lightened the mood, telling Wheaton that he was a &#8220;pain in the ass.&#8221; But Wheaton was &#8220;OUR pain in the ass,&#8221; said Burton.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Zvb8HEO6Koo\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Thanks to<strong> Patrick Dodds<\/strong> for the tip and for the photo used in the article.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, fans attending the Calgary Expo in Calgary, Canada were able to see the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,2442],"tags":[2451,4315,2833,2438,2430,2490,2491,2435,2440,2452],"class_list":["post-16903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-star-trek-tng","tag-burton","tag-calgary-expo","tag-de-lancie","tag-dorn","tag-frakes","tag-mcfadden","tag-sirtis","tag-spiner","tag-stewart","tag-wheaton"],"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-tng\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: TNG<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: TNG","comment_count":"13","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16903","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=16903"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16918,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16903\/revisions\/16918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}