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Star Trek : Enterprise ’s John Billingsley Centennial State - hostsTrekTalks 3,an onlinetelethon to gain the Hollywood Food Coalition . TrekTalks 3 is demonstrate by the Roddenberry Foundation , Trek Geeks , and TrekMovie.com , and is useable to stream atTrekTalks.netand YouTube on Saturday , January 13 , starting at 9:45am PST .
TrekTalks 3has assembled over 60Star Trekguests , including role player , writers , manufacturer , as well as scientist , and other luminaries to discuss various aspects ofStar Trek ’s ethos to raise funds for the Hollywood Food Coalition . Headliners include Doug Jones fromStar Trek : Discovery , Jonathan Frakes , Jeri Ryan , thecast ofStar Trek : Picardseason 3 , and many otherStar Trekactors taking part in must - see panels throughout the 24-hour interval . TrekTalks 3 ’s co - hosts are Billingsley and Bonnie Gordon fromStar Trek : Prodigy , who also has a melodic operation .
Screen Rantinterviewed John Billingsley aboutTrekTalks 3and the of import work of the Hollywood Food Coalition , the whereabouts of Dr. Phlox , and the chance ofStar Trek : Enterprisemaking a comeback in Star Trek on Paramount+ .
John Billingsley Discusses TrekTalk 3, The Importance Of The Hollywood Food Coalition & Star Trek
Screen Rant : John , we ’re here to babble about TrekTalks 3 . It ’s the first bigStar Trekevent of 2024 . total up this Saturday , January 13 , starting at 9:45am Pacific onTrekTalks.netand YouTube . Over 60Star Trekguests joining panels , and it ’s host by you and Bonnie Gordon ofStar Trek : Prodigy . All to benefit the Hollywood Food Coalition .
John Billingsley : My job is done . You have eliminated my purpose in living . Yes , precisely . All of that is correct .
Well , that ’s all the sentence we have . But gravely , please tell us a little bit about the good and significant work of the Hollywood Food Coalition .
John Billingsley : Delighted to . Yes , Hollywood Food Coalition has been around for about 37 age . And it started by provide street service to people in need in West Hollywood and Hollywood , and eventually decide to move its services indoors . So we ’ve been help a hot , nutritive , multicourse meal every night of the week for 37 years . We have n’t leave out a Nox . But one of the things I care to emphasise and sharpen to is about five or six geezerhood ago , we set about rescue and partake more food for thought with other social service organizations .
We have dramatically dilate that capacity . So we are now rescuing about 3 million pounds of nutrient a year . And we share it on variety of a concierge grade basis with about 150 other groups . And what we ’re really examine to do is make indisputable that small-scale to medium - sized not-for-profit , doing really coolheaded things work with their node , have the food for thought and the resources they call for to make certain that their ethnic music are remove care of . For instance , just to find fault something out of a hat , [ there ’s ] an organization that works with street small fry .
We ensure that they , for the number of Thomas Kyd [ being helped ] , they get adequate food , ample supply , and we coiffe to ensure that it is delivered in a well timed manner . So a lot of what we ’re trying to do is kind of augment and buttress the programme of other partner organizations to kind of assistance knit together tangle societal service mesh .
Hollywood Food Coalition is a shoes people can go to to get meals , but then are there also deliveries ?
John Billingsley : Essentially , we have our own kitchen . And people have been come to us , again , for 37 years now . We feed or take concern of anywhere between 250 and 350 people a dark . So they have a selection between a carnivore and vegetarian / vegan option . We always believe that multitude , for instance , who have been living on the street who may not be accorded much empathy or deference , at least once a day , have the chance to do to us and pick out what they might like to have for dinner . We always try and verify we handle our guests with a maximal amount of compassionateness and dignity . These are kinsfolk who may only be getting to have one meal a day .
We try and assist as we get to roll in the hay them . A spate of the thought being that they come to us on a unconstipated and consistent basis [ and ] that build a relationship of trust . We can then introduce them to potential housing supplier , ethnic music who prevail drug and alcohol rehabilitation centers . The UCLA Medical Program brings a vision van , a dental vanguard , a aesculapian van to our campus . Always a medical van , the others are based more on availability and demand . The exchange program , which is where the food all ground , a 10th of it , in pith , goes to our kitchen , a separate facility . That ’s where it dwell before it can be allocate to other groups . loosely verbalise , group nibble it up , [ because ] we ’re not really able to have a speech service . That is certainly something to be assay for . But we do partner with groups that do deport .
A lot of what we are interested in endeavor to do is to go with alike - minded organizations . The nature of the indigence requires a lot of collaboration and alinement building , to deliver food , to share it , to refrigerate it , to store it , to transport it , to find it , to find the post it should go . That need a whole cooperative enterprise of organizations . So that ’s a lot of what the visual modality is in the Christian Bible ' coalition . ' It ’s finding ways to really describe the need and place ways we can solve it together with .
And then TrekTalks , of course of instruction , is a with child supporter with fundraising . TrekTalks 2 last yr raised $ 107,000 .
John Billingsley : We ’ve made almost $ 250,000 in the first couple of years . And I ’d be neglectful if I did n’t really put a lot of the acknowledgment onRod Roddenberry and the Roddenberry Foundation . They are a pregnant helping of our donations , and we owe so much to them for their backing .
It must be so gratifying to see so many of theStar Trekcommunity lending their support . In real life , Star Trekreally lives up to the virtues it espouses . It ’s a very unequalled franchise in that path .
John Billingsley : Exactly . And that was the drift behind it . For me , having been in the dealership for a routine of yr , so much of what I ’ve bonk is getting to know not just the celebs , but the sports fan who , as you say , they walk the walk . And the idea of Federation is not far removed from the idea of coalition . It ’s the same concept . And it ’s the same ethos and the same curing of values undergird both of those words . So yeah , the melodic theme was , well , allow ’s , let ’s kind of first see if we can marry these two entities . And it ’s been wondrous [ to see ] the response from everybody , and [ it ’s ] something that really stir me about continuing , because with time and better acquaintanceship , more and more multitude begin to know about us .
I also think the concept of " Trektivism , " which is a parole we require to coin , and we wanted to share the thought that this organisation does marvellous things for its community , and we sleep together people ’s support . But there are wonderful organizations all over the land that are doing great work to judge and respond to what I think in many obedience is a crisis of conscience we are having in America , I think it ’s really important that people accredit that the beneficial way they can respond to what they might consider to be depredations and depravities on a national floor is by poke back in where they live to make their own community a proficient , stronger place .
I do trust , andStar Trekalso feel this mode , that inherently , most people are good . And most people want to help .
John Billingsley : I completely agree . I mean , I ’m not as much of an actor as I used to be . But when I do travel , and particularly if I ’m in places that are , you know … perhaps I ’m reformist . If I ’m having a conversation with somebody who ’s taking a unlike political point of view than mine , I sometimes find the good way to pivot man is to say , ' Well , let ’s just spill about what you do in the populace that is well . That you believe is virtuous , and that helps people in motive . ' Because I ’ve never found anybody who does n’t think that they are doing something that is in particular worthy .
I try and take it alfresco of the political arena because there are a lot of citizenry who think they ’re doing commodity in the political area . I recollect sometimes it ’s subject to discussion . But most multitude are also doing something that does n’t necessarily have a political linguistic context that is actually making a remainder in their residential district . Sometimes it ’s teaching a kid to scan or pick up scrap in the sea . There ’s any number of way folks can get ask and be involved . And I ’m always entranced to encounter that , in fact , most people are already doing cool sh*t .
You have a conscientious objector - host , Bonnie Gordon fromStar Trek : Prodigy , this yr . She co - hosted you with last year as well . She ’s terrific . I bet Jerry Lewis wish he had Bonnie co - hosting way back when .
John Billingsley : Oh my gosh , I call it Jerry Lewis only because it ’s an leisurely handle for multitude to identify the thought of telethon . I am in no means of attempting to do what Jerry Lewis did . One , our appearances are kept to a relative lower limit , and two , I have not the forcible stamina nor the giving that Mr. Lewis had . Bonnie on the show is an right-down gem , and a marvel , and a multitalented person . She ’s also going to be singing in one of our interstitial video . We have a variety of little pre - film stories about the Hollywood Food Coalition and a couple of musical human action on racecourse that separate the dialog box in the conversations .
What would you say are the must - see control panel at TrekTalks 3 ?
John Billingsley : Must - see is hold out to have to be the Picard Season Three retrospective powerful in the midsection of the afternoon , Terry Matalas , Jonathan Frakes , Michael Dorn , Brent Spiner , Todd Stashwick , Jeri Ryan , Ashlei Sharpe Chestnut , Gates McFadden , Michael Dorn . Gates had had to step down because she had a conflict but she ’s back in again . The conflict resolved itself . So , an awesome panel . Jonathan del Arco moderating . Amy Imhoff is moderating a panel of women in STEM , and she ’s been able-bodied to get us some mythic female scientists . The Syfy Sistas are moderating a panel that is about the legacy of Nichelle Nichols , Michelle Hurd , and a bit of other mass who ’ve wreak seminal roles in Star Trek chronicle .
We always kind of require to do it around Martin Luther King , Jr. ’s birthday weekend , because the Syfy Sistas are marvelous married person and have mythological things they want to bring to the table that are resonating in our culture the right way now . And that ’s also social justice , which is , I think , some of what Star Trek is all about . So those three things pop out . But I ’d also be remiss to not verbalise about a panel we have in the former part of the twenty-four hours , which is go to be about the famous crossing over episode between Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds . Again with Mr. Frakes , Tawny Newsome , and the writers of that sequence , Kathryn Lyn and Bill Wolkoff .
I ’m very excited about that . Now , you see the crossover . I want to get your opinion about that . Because there was a fortune of reverence forEnterprisein the crossover .
John Billingsley : I ’ve been asked this a fair amount , and I ’m fearsome that people are going to think , " Shut up judge to get a problem , Billingsley ! " because that for sure is n’t my intention . However , it has been noted that Denobulans are very long - endure . So theoretically , I could be float by on a space frigate and somebody could call me onboard , either in an animate realm or in an literal region .
I mean , that ’s literally howScotty ended up on the Enterprise onTNGlike 30 twelvemonth ago . That ’s essentially what happened . permit me put you on the daub a little fleck . Besides Dr. Phlox , who are the best doctors inStar Trek ?
John Billingsley : Well , rent ’s see . Of course , you fuck , I call back we can all agree that Bob Picardo is sure right near the bottom . You did n’t see that coming . No , I adore Bobby . He ’s a dear supporter of mine . And he splendidly sent me an electronic mail one day that allege , ' Hey , John , I just saw this poll , I consider you might be concerned to know that you were vote the least pop Star Trek doctor . ' It ’s like , expect a minute . Just because you encounter it does n’t mean you demand to share it . And it sprain out that was a crown conducted just within his folk . So I discount that .
You ’ve father to put , of course , McCoy at the top because he was the groundbreaker . Dr. Crusher , too . I ’m not as familiar with the entire spectrum of Star Trek , so I ’m not peculiarly verse on Deep Space Nine , so I could n’t assure where Dr. Bashir earth . I will say recently , the Denobulans were vote the seventh most democratic alien metal money and I have to take a certain amount of quotation for that .
I think you should take 100 % of the quotation for that . Who are the other famous Denobulans ?
John Billingsley : Well , just . Feezal , my missis , she was the sexiest Denobulan . I consider me , it was an amazing responsibility to actually have to conjure a coinage . You know , if you ’re a cast as a Klingon or a Vulcan or an Andorian , you ’ve got the parameter already established . Denobulans were like , ' I do n’t have sex ! No estimation ! I ’ll make it up as I go along and hope the species sticks . '
I did pitch to them - I ’ve mentioned this on several podcasts because it amuse me to no last even though it seems to amuse nobody else - I pitched to them that they should cull up an abandoned spacecraft , and it ’s full of Denobulans . We ’re cohere , and they bring us on add-in . And we ’re all like Oscar Madison , we leave our ill-gotten underpants lying around . We eat all the food . We ’re shag each other in public . It ’s like , ' Get them off the ship ! ' But they all count like me . This mode , I would be guaranteed if they ever wanted to use Denobulans again , it ’s like , you got ta use me .
Well , that sounds like aStar Trek : Lower Decksplot . That ’s essentially an entire instalment lay out .
John Billingsley : Yeah , there you go . There you go . mayhap they should hire me as a writer . Because God know masses on Enterprise did n’t need my ideas . Picardo used to hide in the flower bushes on Voyager and bound out and assail them with ideas , and they had no choice . They had no selection . ' All right , I ’ll sing opera ' . ' All right . I ’ll have an affair with Jeri Ryan , fine , fine , fine . ' For me , they cut down all the rosaceous bushes so they would n’t have that problem again , one . And then two , I was shyer than Bob was . I tried to insert my oar in the H2O periodically , but they lock up the door , is what they did . I would drop away my idea under the door , and they would slide properly back out again .
Let me ask you this as the give ear physician : Trip Tucker , is he dead or animated ?
John Billingsley : Well , he ’s pretty dead . He ’s pretty dead . But he was cloned once , you know . I intend , the Doctor always managed to keep some singular thing he perpetrate out of his ass . It ’s like , ' I ’ve been I ’ve been hoarding this old gasher . We could take this , and we can slip in it into his ear , and then he could get a second head . ' So never say never . I did feel , as I suspect many fan did , that that was not an adequate send - off for a dear graphic symbol . In many ways , Connor [ Trinneer ] was the heart of that show . And I personally thought , of all the thing that were problematical about that terminal sequence , the most problematic was : Do n’t kill trip-up in such a particularly ignoble fashion . It was not a death that was in line witth - it was n’t like he would die to save the galaxy . So yeah , I ’m certain all the fan think that in their nub , he ’s still alive . Certainly .
I imagine so . I mean , we would sleep with to see him again . That ’s form of segue into what I was go to ask you next . It ’s 2024 . It ’s a brand name new year full of possibility . Now , I cognise you would be sworn to secrecy if this was the pillowcase , but could this be the year we see some sort ofEnterprisecomeback somehow ?
John Billingsley : I doubt very much that Enterprise itself could or would ever come back . I signify , there are just too many issues with it . Scott [ Bakula ] has moved on . He ’s always have a jillion projects in the work . Jolene [ Blalock ] married , had three kids , and has , I think , more or less adjourn from the business . I do n’t believe anybody ’s in touch with her . I suppose you’re able to solve the problem that Trip is dead . possibly you could just bestow me back . And it could just be Old Fat Phlox , which is the show I ’ve also pitched for many years , where I ’m just sit on a rock chair on the porch work , ' Back in the day when I was stimulate intergalactic dangerous undertaking … '
And then , in flashback , you ’d see all those adventures unwinding and come back to me at the terminal . remain tuned for another episode of Old Fat Phlox . I ’d be number one on the call sheet , I ’d make a lot of money , I would n’t have to cultivate that heavily . I ’d sign up for that . This , too , was an idea that does n’t seem to be have much traction , I ’m finding , in the Star Trek community , but you know , one can try .
I think they just miss the imagination .
John Billingsley : It ’s the absence seizure of visual sense . I could n’t agree with you more . I mean , I ’m uncommitted , put it that way . After I do TrekTalks I do a lot of study with the Hollywood Food Coalition . And so all through the year , there ’s a certain amount of growth natural process I ’m involved in . But broadly speak , my performing career is sort of backburnered . So it ’s not like I ’ve got some other gig that I ’d have to project out how to navigate . But I ’m so desperate now , John ! Oh my God ! I ’m jest ! I ’m very well-chosen ! I ’m very happy .
Well , we have 20 new sequence ofStar Trek : Prodigycoming to Netflix . 10 newLower Deckscoming up after this class . I love to see what Dr. Phlox look like in either animation style .
John Billingsley : Well , he ’s fat . I can evidence you that he ’s definitely fatty , and then they ’re just gon na have to endure with that . You know , as I said to my doctor , every one of these pounds was well - earn , and they ’re very reluctant to be shed . Beyond that , I ’d like to think his esthesia has n’t changed much . I mean , I consider he ’s belike tickled that he ’s still flow on at the age of 243 or whatever the hell he is . citizenry demand me , ' What do you remember Dr. Phlox did in retreat ? '
I guess there is actually now a version of Dr. Phlox ’s future tense already written out , so far be it for me to deny what the writers have come up with , which is infinitely more epic than anything I would have come up with . In my humans , I think he wrote a few cookbooks , he did a lot of travel , and he fuck where all the beach resort hotel are . He visualise the plague every now and again in his spare time , but fundamentally , he ’s a retired person . Wherever the intergalactic adaptation of Florida is , that ’s where you may find the guy .
I thinkStar Trek Picardseason 3 show that the intergalactic version of Florida is actually Florida . Because that ’s where Riker and Troi decide to go on their second honeymoon . Going back to TrekTalks and also on the field of vivification , another nerveless instrument panel I ’m looking forward to is the Producing Star Trek panel with Dan and Kevin Hagman , Aaron Waltke , and your one-time boss , Brannon Braga .
John Billingsley : perfectly . Yeah , we were elated that Brannon was capable to do it . To actually make it feasible to do , we needed to kind of pre - mag tape that one because Brannon ’s availability was limited . So we have that now in the can . We do that for a few panels . Generally talk , the consequence is springy and we fuck the live atmosphere . But there are instance where , if we ’re gon na be capable to get somebody cool , and it ’s about a pre - magnetic tape , we ’ll do that . And so , I ’m as eager as you are to listen to that . When I listen to them all , I normally terminate up make to listen to them after the fact . I ’ll find out the mag tape the next day , because during the running of the show , it ’s about urinate sure that every flack is getting put out . And so , I do n’t have the luxuriousness of being able to kind of kick back and determine .
Well , on Saturday , I ’ll be find out TrekTalks 3 and break away in a contribution . I hope you have a neat successful show , and I go for you blow thetotals out of the weewee . And I desire everybody tune in to watch over .
John Billingsley : Bless you . Bless you . I ca n’t thank you enough for doing this . Everything we can do to get the parole out is a huge dispute maker and I ca n’t give thanks you enough for read the time . Absolutely .
About TrekTalks 3
Now in its third class , TrekTalks has become an annual consequence that provide vital supporting for the Hollywood Food Coalition and the citizenry it serves . Trek Talks ’ guest lean reads like an all - star roll of Trek luminary , as its first two telethons have feature Jeri Ryan , Anson Mount , Scott Bakula , Alexander Siddig , Gates McFadden , Cirroc Lofton , Nana Visitor , Jonathan Frakes , Michael & Denise Okuda , Brent Spiner , Tony Todd , James Cromwell , Terry Farrell , Mike McMahan , Linda Park , Dan & Kevin Hageman , John de Lancie , Armin Shimerman , Brannon Braga , Robert Picardo , Ira Steven Behr , and many , many more .
TrekTalks 3can be rain cats and dogs Saturday , January 13 , lead off at 9:45am PST atTrekTalks.net .
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