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With Sci Fi Studios all about inviting and nurturing new talent and feedback in entertainment, it reminds us just how the industry has been shaken up thanks to fandom. No longer is "the biz" such a remote mystery: As fanzines begat professional writers and editors, as CGI visual effects begat a whole generation of space battles and fantasy armies created on a laptop, so now are digital cameras, editing and Internet video channels opening up the booming "hobby" of genre fan films to nearly anyone who takes the leap.
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| Larry Nemecek | | These days, Larry is managing editor of the once and future Communicator magazine, the glossy, licensed and newsstand face of the Star Trek Fan Club—as well as a columnist, consultant, guest speaker and author, including his Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion from Pocket Books.
Way back at age 20 in his native Oklahoma, Larry became managing editor for two newly merged small-town weekly newspapers amidst what was supposed to be a summer job as a rookie reporter—but then returned that fall to finish up a theatre degree. A master’s in theatre at the University of Kansas followed, but then news called him home again. At the university burg’s Norman Transcript daily, he segued from reporter to entertainment editor—and shared two state Associated Press newswriting awards along the way.
But it was the sci-fi bug that brought him westward ho when his self-published reference books on TNG snagged the Companion book deal. Now based in SoCal, Larry is an original and frequent contributor (and first-ever chat guest) for startrek.com, the official Paramount/CBS site, and was photo editor/consultant for the entire six-year run of the U.K.’s original Star Trek Fact Files partwork—now back as sole contributing writer for the new Japanese DVD edition. With wife Janet, he sold the story that became the Star Trek: Voyager episode “Prophecy”—and, oh no, has cameo’ed in two of the three Star Trek: New Voyages full-length episodes.
Larry also writes a Q&A column and a personal essay each issue in the U.K. Star Trek magazine, is a consultant and co-author with projects ranging from the Las Vegas-based Star Trek: The Experience museum and the various World Tour exhibitions, to Paramount’s DVD Star Trek sets, to Pocket’s recent Star Trek Charts—coming full-circle from college days when he partnered on the original and older-version Star Trek Maps from Bantam in 1980.
Most fun is sharing tales as a guest and pundit at fan conventions across the country, as well as in Canada, Germany, England, France, Italy and the Czech Republic. His fan roots go all the way back to OKC’s SoonerCon sci-fi committee and then founding the earliest ThunderCon Star Trek/media conventions for charity.
Get a life? Thank you very much, yes: Larry has his family ... his rich interest in history and politics, topped by hero and fellow Okie Will Rogers (and as a docent at Will’s ranch house Historic State Park near Santa Monica) … and his storied football Oklahoma Sooners.
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