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GUEST: Anthony T. Montgomery

Anthony was born on the 2nd of June 1971 in Indianapolis Indiana, the grandson of legendary jazz guitarist and composer WES MONTGOMERY.

Well remembered for the lead role of Helm officer TRAVIS MAYWEATHER on STAR TREK-ENTERPRISE (2001).

Anthony has appeared in such series as: BOOMTOWN, POPULAR, CHARMED and FRASIER He has just shot the movie AN AMERICAN IN CHINA and WHY AM I DOING THIS? which is in post production to be released in 2009.

Anthony is also a talented songwriter and Rapper, check out his album: “AT” at his website at www.anthony-montgomery.com

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GUEST: Garrett Wang

Garrett Richard Wang was born on December 15, 1968 in Riverside, California to Chinese immigrant parents. He and his sister Laura spent their childhood on the move. He lived in Indiana, then moved to Bermuda and finally to Tennessee. Later, he graduated from Harding Academy High School, Memphis, and moved to Los Angeles to attend UCLA where he majored in Asian studies. UCLA theater professor Jenny Roudtree inspired him to pursue an acting career. His first acting performance outside College was the portrayal of “John Lee” in the lead role of Chay Yew’s “Porcelain” at the burbage theater. Later, he continued to perform onstage such as “Model Minority”, “Woman Warrior” and “A Language Of Our Own”. He made his TV debut in 1994 as a guest star on the pilot episode of comedy “All-American Girl” (1994). One year later, he got the part of “Ensign Harry Kim” on “Star Trek: Voyager” (1995) where he appeared on television regularly for 7 years. Later, in 1997, Wang was named one of People Magazine’s 50 most beautiful people in the world. Also E! Entertainment Television has named Garrett as one of the “20 Coolest Bachelors” in the country. His television experience also includes roles in a variety of movies including Flesh Suitcase (1995), Angry Cafe (1995), Ivory Tower (1998), Hundred Percent (1998), Demon Island (2002), among others.

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GUEST: Casey Biggs

Casey was born on the 4th of April in Toledo Ohio,He decided to give up football and pursue an acting career while a student at Central Catholic High School in Toledo, Ohio. He joined a glee club and chorus, then started getting involved in musicals and operettas. This led to his audition for the Juilliard School, where he received a BFA in 1977. He continues to star in numerous stage, film and television productions. Casey is best known to SCI FI fans for his recurring role of Cardassian leader Gul Dumar on STAR TREK-DEEPSPACE NINE, and has appeared as the IILYRIAN CAPTAIN in STAR TREK-ENTERRISE episode DAMAGE. He has guest starred in such recent television series as WITHOUT A TRACE, MEDIUM, CSI and CSI-MIAMI, CROSSING JORDAN, GIDEONS CROSSING, THE X-FILES and ER. Casey continues to sing and play guitar at events also.

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GUEST: Tracy Scoggins

Tracy Scoggins was born and raised in Dickinson, Texas. At the age of 16, she enrolled in Southwest Texas State, where she studied speech communications and physical education. After leaving college, she was hired by the Elite Modeling Agency and sent to New York City. After one year, she continued her modeling career with assignments in Italy, France and Germany. Later, she decided to return to the United States to study acting. She attended the Wynn Handman Studio and the Herbert Berghof Studio — both well-known acting schools. After completing her training, she moved to Hollywood where she has become internationally known as a television and movie star. Today, she resides in Los Angeles and spends her free time developing workout videos, cycle riding, swimming, and jogging. Best known for her role on the BABYLON 5 Franchise as ELIZABETH LOCHLEY, She also starred in LOIS AND CLARK, THE NEW ADVENTURES OF SUPERMAN as CAT GRANT and as a guest star in STAR TREK-DEEP SPACE NINE episode DESTINY as the cardassian GILORA.

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GUEST: Vaughn Armstrong

Vaughn was born in Sonora California on July 7th, He originally Auditioned for the role of Commander William T. Riker on “Star Trek: The Next Generation” (1987). But fate had other trek plans for him, as of December 2004, he has appeared on Star Trek 27 times, as 11 different characters of 8 different races (two Cardassians (Gul Danar, Seskal), a Vidiian, a Hirogen, a Romulan (Telek R’Mor), three Klingons (Korris, Korath), a former Borg drone (Two of Nine/Lansor), a Kreetassan, and a Human (Admiral Forrest)). Along with Jeffrey Combs, he is one of only two actors to played three characters in a single “Star Trek” season (“Enterprise” (2001) Season One). He is the only actor to play five different characters on a single “Star Trek” series (“Star Trek: Voyager” (1995)). Appeared in both the second (’Past Prologue’) and second last (’Dogs of War’) episodes of “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” (1993). He played Gul Danar and Seskal respectively, both of whom were Cardassians.

His “Enterprise” (2001) character, Admiral Maxwell Forrest, was named after the late DeForest Kelley who played Dr. Leonard H. “Bones” McCoy in the original “Star Trek” (1966) Series. Kelley died on June 11, 1999. He has also appearing in such series as MAD MEN, THE WEST WING, JAG, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER and ER.

Recently formed a blues band with Star Trek co-stars Richard Herd (Admiral Paris from “Star Trek: Voyager” (1995)), Casey Biggs (Damar from “Star Trek: Deep Space Nine” (1993)) and Steve Rankin (multiple roles).

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GUEST: Robert Picardo

Robert Picardo best know to Star Trek fans as “The Doctor” from Star Trek: Voyager, also had a reoccuring role on Stargate SG-1 as Richard Woolsey . And for season 5 of Stargate: Atlantis he continues his role as Richard Woolsey while that charactor takes over as the station commander.

Mr. Picardo continues his varied career in television and movies with appearances in The Lyons Den, Dead Zone, CSI: NY and Women’s Murder Club. Television series of interest to Vulkon fans include Smallville, Masters of Horror, The 4400 and voicing the character of Amazo on Justice League.

Join Vulkon in welcoming him back to our convention.

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GUEST: Richard Hatch

Richard Hatch was born in Santa Monica, California. He was studying classical piano at the age of eight, and knew he wanted to carve out a career as a performer before he reached his teens. After attending Harbor College in San Pedro, he joined a Los Angeles repertory company with which he traveled to New York City in 1967. He performed in the plays “Song of Walt Whitman”, “Young Rebels” and a production called “Exercise”, which Richard directed. Richard was cast as the original “Philip Brent” in the soap “All My Children” in 1970. He later played “Inspector Dan Robbins” on the television series “The Streets of San Francisco”. Richard Hatch is best remembered for his portrayal of “Apollo” on the series, “Battlestar Galactica” and his new role as Tom Zarek on the new “Battlestar Galactica”.

Richard Hatch’s first Vulkon convention was the Fall 2000 Orlando convention. Vulkon is proud to have him at another of our conventions.

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GUEST: Marina Sirtis

Marina Sirtis was born to Greek parents who didn’t want her to become an actress. As soon as Marina completed high school, she applied to the Guild Hall School of Music and Drama secretly. After her graduation, she worked in musical theater, repertory, and television. In 1986, she moved to Los Angeles, California. For six months she auditioned for parts but was unsuccessful. Just before she planned to go back home, she got the part of Counselor Deanna Troi in “Star Trek: The Next Generation” (1987).

It is with great honor that Vulkon welcomes Marina Sirtis back to our convention.

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GUEST: Corin Nemic

Corin Nemic was born in Little Rock, Arkansas, and later moved to Atlanta. He now lives in California. His first acting parts were in the series “Webster” (1983) and “Sidekicks” (1986). He then got a part in Tucker: The Man and His Dream (1988), directed by Francis Ford Coppola, followed by lead roles in I Know My First Name Is Steven (1989) (TV) and My Son Johnny (1991) (TV), and the lead role in the TV series “Parker Lewis Can’t Lose” (1990). He is known to Vulkon fans by his role in Stargate SG-1 as Jonas Quinn.

Vulkon is proud to bring him again to one of our conventions.

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