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DRAGON*CON WELCOMES STAR
TREK’S
(ATLANTA,
GA) – Star Trek fans will be glad to see Ethan
Phillips and Armin
Shimerman at Dragon*Con 2002. Both enjoyed long runs on Star Trek spin offs,
Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek:
Deep Space Nine, respectively. ,
Star Trek: Voyager Star Trek:
Deep Space Nine
Ethan Phillips is known as Neelix, the quirky Talaxian chef and unofficial morale officer of the starship Voyager. Armin Shimerman played Quark, the Ferengi bar owner on the space station Deep Space Nine.
Ethan Phillips, a transplanted New
Yorker now California resident, has lent his talent to a variety of theater,
film and TV roles. With a career that has spanned over several decades, Phillips
is also well known for his TV role as Pete Downey, the
governor's press aide, in ABC
Phillips,
author and playwright, has published The
Star Trek Cookbook offering recipes of traditional Star Trek food like
Trill soup, Hasperat and Heart of Targ prepared using Earth ingredients. In true
Neelix fashion, Phillips adds anecdotes, recounting tales of Neelix’s
experiences with the Voyager crew members. His short play, Penguin
Blues, has been produced on stage over a hundred times in the United States
and Canada.
On a totally different note, Phillips provided the narration for the "Jason" undersea probe exhibit at the EPCOT Center's The Living Seas attraction at Walt Disney World.
Armin Shimerman
After
moving her family from New Jersey to Los Angeles and in an attempt to help her
son meet new people, Shimerman’s mother enrolled him in a drama group. Her
effort paid off when, upon graduation from the University of California, he was
chosen as one of only eight apprentices out of 900 candidates at the prestigious
Old Globe Theater in San Diego. Shimerman later moved to New York to continue
his acting on Broadway.
Besides Quark, Shimerman has also appeared in recurring roles in two CBS series – Beauty & The Beast as Pascal and Brooklyn Bridge as Cousin Bernard; ABC’s series The Practice as Judge Moskin; and The WB Network’s Buffy the Vampire Slayer as the insidious principal Snyder. Currently he can be found teaching his unique Shakespearean acting approach to students throughout Los Angeles.
As an author, Shimerman has written the Star Trek: DS9 novel The 34th Rule about a major dispute between Bajor and the Ferengi Alliance seen from Quark's perspective. Shimerman also voices the audio book skillfully mimicking every character from the Deep Space Nine series. He went on the write The Merchant Prince, an historical sci-fi where the lead character is transported through time from 16th century England to the late 21st century by an inquisitive alien.
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Ethan Phillips and Armin Shimerman can each be linked to Kevin Bacon by 2 degrees of separation. Phillips was in Lean on Me (1989) with Lynne Thigpen. Lynne Thigpen was in Novocaine (2001) with Kevin Bacon. Shimerman was in Eye for an Eye (1996) with Keith David. Keith David was in Novocaine (2001) with Kevin Bacon.
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