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Larry Nemecek

Larry Nemecek

Birth name:

Larry Wayne Nemecek

Date of birth:

Place of birth:

Norman, Oklahoma, USA

Roles:

  • Writer
  • Reference author
  • Background actor
  • Publication editor
  • Special features staff
  • Podcast host

Character(s):

...with a Star Trek calendar at Christmas 1978

Larry Wayne Nemecek (born18 January1959; age 66) is a notedStar Trek speaker, host, author, consultant, archivist, editor, and producer. He is married to onetime script coordinatorJanet Nemecek and now develops a number of projects under his Trekland banner, including the Portal 47 monthly deep-dive fan experience and Trekland Treks custom film site day tours. He is the host on theRoddenberry Entertainment podcastThe Trek Files: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast. His other works include Trekland Tuesdays LIVE, Second Opinion, and Cadet Alice TalksProdigy on YouTube and Facebook.

A native Oklahoman, Nemecek began considering news and communications as a career in high school after being inspired by a teacher in his journalism class. He majored in theater at college with a journalism minor, and began writing aboutStar Trek because "all the Will Rogers and Sooners football books had been written." He also citesStephen Edward Poe's classicThe Making of Star Trek andBjo Trimble'sStar Trek Concordance as seminal influences in entertainment and genre writing.(citation needed •edit)

Star Trek fandom[]

As an undergrad at East Central University, Nemecek started a science-fiction fan club with his best friend Kevin Hopkins, called "Starbase ECU". His favoriteStar Trek: The Original Series character wasLeonard McCoy and in make-up class, he chose aTellarite for his non-realistic character project.

While a young newspaper reporter and editor, he chaired publicity for Oklahoma City's original SoonerCons and in 1991 founded ThunderCon there as an all-media/Star Trek charity convention. In1993, after the publication of his first professional book, Nemecek began sharing his stories and archives with humor as a guest atconventions worldwide.

Nemecek had a long-distance correspondence with fellowStar Trekfan and artist/authorGeoffrey Mandel, growing out of points in theStar Fleet Medical Reference Manual (Ballantine). Early drafts ofStar Trek star maps that Nemecek had created led them to work together when Mandel intended to publish them in fanzine form, but when Mandel was asked to finish the incompleteStar Trek Maps forBantam Books, he managed to include only Nemecek's data in the greatly reduced scale of the format.

In 1988, Nemecek began writing an annual episode guide and concordance fanzine for the then-newStar Trek: The Next Generation. "I wrote it as an update of Bjo'sConcordance when TNG started because it needed one – noInternet, no pro books [about the new series]; I was told Bjo was in line but wasn't working on it," Nemecek remembered. "If nothing else, I'd have it/need it for my own use. Each one covered each season, as released." (Information from Larry Nemecek)

In 1989, Nemecek met withGene Roddenberry in his office. He was personally thanked by Roddenberry for writing the annual reference works, which the staff used as an ongoing update to their writers' research needs.

Though he had initially planned to publish a collected edition of his annual TNG guides, Nemecek was confronted by the constantly changing nature of theStar Trek publishing world. "Before I got a chance to collate them," he said, "the world had turned and theEncyclopedia was done." (Information from Larry Nemecek) Nemecek was, however, credited (along with Bjo Trimble) as having served as one of two Research Consultants for theStar Trek Encyclopedia, as the writers of that book had used his writings (and Trimble's) to help jumpstart their work on that book, due to a short deadline.

Professional career[]

Instead of the reference of terms and entries, in 1992 Nemecek was offered the chance to author a "making-of" book covering TNG, which became the classic bestsellerStar Trek: The Next Generation Companion. He later updated this inMay 1995 and in 2003. His text commentary also appeared in theCD version.

InDecember 1994, after moving to Los Angeles, Nemecek and his wife Janet pitched and sold a story, "Reflections", for the yet-to-air seriesStar Trek: Voyager. It was shelved for six years before being updated and written as "Prophecy", an episode forVoyager's last season in2001.

His earlier work with the franchise's fictional/factual astrography came full-circle with the late 2013 publication ofStar Trek: Stellar Cartography, an officially licensed book and ten-map poster set he authored and oversaw forbecker&mayer! and47North /Amazon. That project, in turn, updated and expanded 2002'sStar Trek: Star Charts – a reunion of sorts with onetimeStar Trek Maps colleague Mandel, where Nemecek was a contributor, offering the chapter introductions and other research.

He now hostsThe Trek Files: A Roddenberry Star Trek Podcast forRoddenberry Podcasts, launched inJanuary 2018 as a weekly twenty-minute look, with a guest, at papers, letters, memos, and other documents fromGene Roddenberry's own archives. On the same day, he tackles "big picture" currentStar Trek topics onTrekland Tuesdays LIVE each week on his own "Trekland" channel at 1 pm Pacific time. From2020 to2022 during the COVID-19 pandemic, he co-hostedLife Support LIVE, a weekly Saturday morning YouTube show co-hosted with Dr. Ali Mattu designed "To Boldly Go through uncertain times" with fun yet helpful mental health insights gleaned across allTrek.

In 1996, Nemecek co-wroteThe Making of Star Trek: First Contact, published byTitan Books in the UK from material he,Ian Spelling, andLou Anders wrote for Titan's magazine specials on the film; Anders took the lead as overall editor. Nemecek also authored the original 1998 museum artifact placards and the 2002 timeline update in the museum area ofStar Trek: The Experience, and was a consultant as well as on such projects as theStar Trek: Federation Science European tour and SEE'sStar Trek World Tour guidebooks and image references.

From1998 until2005, after publication ofStar Trek: The Next Generation Companion, Nemecek served as managing editor ofStar Trek: Communicator, overseeing the planning, writers, content and look of the licensed magazine of theOfficial Star Trek Fan Club. He was a regular columnist inStar Trek Magazine and then its successor,Star Trek Explorer, from 1998 until the publication ended in2024. He contributed dozens of articles toStar Trek Fact Files, for which he worked all six years as Los Angeles photo editor and consultant. The topics researched and obscure references and sources tracked fueled the work of the UK-basedFact Files, later seen in the US inStar Trek: The Magazine and most recently theStar Trek: The Official Starships Collection magazine.

He was also the soleStar Trek-affiliated contributor toStar Trek: Best Episode Collection, aFact Files (edited)/DVDpartwork project for Japan. Nemecek followed up on this project with his participation on the ill-fated 2011 JapaneseThe Official Star Trek The Next Generation: Build the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D project, contributing either previously unpublished archived or newly conducted cast and crew interviews for the partwork's magazine element (source). The project was ultimately cancelled in the wake of Japan's economic downturn following the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, including the Fukushima nuclear accident. The title finally resurfaced in 2019, but without his involvement.

For many years, Nemecek was a contributor and producer onthe officialStar Trek website. In1996, he was its first-ever chat guest, its first managing editor (one day a week), and from 1996-99 wrote much of its early database as a consultant, with another update in 2012. In December 2007, however, on his latter-day stint with the site, he and the entire StarTrek.com production team were laid off byCBS Interactive, the result of restructuring at the company soon after the CBS spin-off from the old Viacom corporation.[1](X)

Since 1986, Nemecek has conducted over five hundred archival interviews ofStar Trek writers, designers, crew, and actors, most of them multiple or annual updates over the years and unpublished. Segments are now being produced under his own brand asTrekland: On Speaker. He has appeared as a documentary guest on titles such asTrek Nation,The Captains of The Final Frontier,The Green Girl,The Center Seat: 55 Years of Star Trek, and numerous installments of theNext Generation andEnterprise Blu-ray collection documentaries.

In 2022, he was inducted into theOklahoma Speculative Fiction Hall of Fame by theFuture Society of Central Oklahoma.

Other contributions toStar Trek[]

Nemecek in "These Are the Voyages..

Nemecek in "These Are the Voyages..."

Nemecek is currently producing and directingThe Con of Wrath, a documentary based on the infamous 1982 "Ultimate Fantasy" convention and arena show in Houston, Texas. Along with "survivor" fans, dealers, and organizers, it will also featureGeorge Takei,Nichelle Nichols,Walter Koenig,Laura Banks,James Doohan's widow Wende, publisher Kerry O'Quinn, and producerHarve Bennett in his last filmed interview.

In1990, the shuttleNenebek, featured in theThe Next Generation episode "Final Mission", was named in his honor byJeri Taylor. She had not yet met him but, like other writing staffers, used his self-published concordances – which preceded any published or onlineStar Trek references. She first told him the story in 1998.

As an actor, Nemecek, in 2013, portrayed Dr. McCoy in the first two episodes of award-winning independent web seriesStar Trek Continues. He also appeared in two episodes of thefan filmStar Trek: New Voyages, in2004 and2006, and in the "lost" 2005/2011 vignetteNo-Win Scenario as a Tellarite, Grolst.

In2002, Nemecek was interviewed for the bonus features (Star Trek Moments and Memories) on theseventh season DVD forStar Trek: The Next Generation. He spoke again in interviews for the new 20th anniversary DVD set for TNG in 2007, and served as Special Consultant on the overall project. Aside from being a frequent interviewee, Nemecek also hosted a discussion panel in all four 2009Next Generation Blu-ray/DVDfilm "Trek Roundtable"special features, in which he led a roundtable discussing each film withAnthony Pascale, Charlene Anderson, andJeff Bond.

In 2005, Nemecek appeared as acivilian with other cameo guests and crew in "These Are The Voyages...", the last episode ofStar Trek: Enterprise. His costume was a reuse ofAvery Brooks' suit fromDS9: "Far Beyond the Stars". Nemecek recounted his experience filming the episode in his "Endgame" column inStar Trek Magazine issue 124. ForEnterprise, Nemecek again appeared in the "Before Her Time: Decommissioning Enterprise" special feature on the 2014ENT Season 4 Blu-ray release, trying to put the troubled production history of that series into perspective.

Star Trek bibliography[]

Star Trek filmography[]

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