A Distant Soil, Starcrossed, Atlantis: The Lost Continent, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Starless World, River Tam, Firefly, Big Bang Theory.

It's Summer Glau's birthday today. It was great to have Summer come to the Calgary Comic and Entertainment Expo this year. She was very approachable to the crowds and to the staff and was a pleasure to have at the show.


Enjoy !!!



Birthdays

Colleen Doran 1963, comic book writer and artist, best known for her fantasy series A Distant Soil. The character Thessaly in Neil Gaiman's Sandman is based on Doran,[citation needed] and she illustrated two issues of that series (#20 and #34) in the early 1990s.

Jacqueline Brookes 1930, actress, Dr. Hobbes - Starcrossed (1985) (TV), Admiral Brand - Star Trek: The Next Generation (1 episode, "The First Duty", 1992).

John Aniston 1933, actor, Quarren Ambassador - Star Trek: Voyager (2 episodes, 2001).

Phyllis Douglas 1936, actress, Girl - Atlantis, the Lost Continent (1961), Josie Miller - Batman (2 episodes, 1967), Yeoman Mears / Girl #2 - Star Trek (2 episodes, 1967-1969).

Christopher Sarandon 1942, actor, Kurotowa - Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (1984) (voice), Jack - Speaking - The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) (voice), Martus Mazur - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1 episode, "Rivals", 1994), Dr. Pallas - The Outer Limits (1 episode, "Corner of the Eye", 1995), Carson Walls - Perversions of Science (1 episode, "Panic", 1997).

Gordon Eklund 1945, sci-fi writer, author whose works include the "Lord Tedric" series and two of the earliest original novels based on the 1960s Star Trek TV series. Eklund's first published SF short story, "Dear Aunt Annie", ran in the April 1970 issue of Fantastic magazine and was nominated for a Nebula Award. Eklund won the Nebula for Best Novelette for his 1974 short story "If the Stars Are Gods", co-written with Gregory Benford. The two expanded the story into a full-length novel of the same title, published in 1977. Eklund's Star Trek novel The Starless World was the first Star Trek story about a Dyson sphere.

Summer Glau 1981, actress, River Tam - Firefly (14 episodes, 2002-2003), River - Serenity (2005), Tess Doerner - The 4400 (8 episodes, 2005-2007), Summer Glau - Big Bang Theory (1 episode, "The Terminator Decoupling", 2009), Cameron Phillips - Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles (31 episodes, 2008-2009), Bennett Halverson - Dollhouse (4 episodes, 2009-2010), Kara / Supergirl - Superman/Batman: Apocalypse (2010) (V) (voice), Orwell - The Cape (10 episodes, 2011).

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