10:00am - 11:00am
Room 25ABC
Get a behind-the-scenes look at what goes into creating the scores and sounds to some of today's most popular TV series and films. Panelists include Phil McGowan (score mixer, Star Trek: Picard), Amanda Jones (composer, American Horror Stories), Chris Bacon (composer, Wednesday), Sherri Chung (composer, Gremlins: Secrets of the Mogwai), Kurt Farquhar (composer, The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder), and Michael Yezerski (composer, Cabinet of Curiosities).
Home Space: Stories Set in Our Solar System
10:00am - 11:00am
Neil Morgan Auditorium, San Diego Central Library
We are in an age where we are looking to set a permanent habitat on the moon in the next decade and have our eyes set on landing on Mars. How do the rocky worlds that we can actually reach with rocketships and investigate with probes inform creators when spinning fictional tales? How can the real science from exploring our own solar system inspire near-earth space stories? Moderator Emily Lakdawalla (planetary scientist) talks with Corinna Bechko (The Expanse), Cecil Castellucci (Shifting Earth), Paul Cornell (Wild Cards), Brandon Easton (Star Trek: Year Five), and Mark Russell (Traveling to Mars), all of whom have crafted science fiction stories that are set a little bit closer to home.
Crazy Talk: Fifty Years of Mental Health, Pop Culture, and Comic-Con
11:00am - 12:00pm
Grand 10 & 11, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina
Comic books and graphic novels—as well as their creators and readers—are facing challenges not seen since the inception of the Comics Code Authority nearly 75 years ago. From unprecedented bans of graphic novels (many of which feature mental health and substance use themes) to the stressors of freelance work and toxic fandom, mental health has emerged as a common topic in the comic-book discourse. Has mental health finally achieved parity with other diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging priorities of publishers, or is that just "crazy" talk? Heather Antos (group editor, IDW; Eisner-nominated series, Star Trek), MariNaomi (I Thought You Loved Me, Turning Japanese), and Hannah Rose May (Rogues' Gallery) join forensic psychiatrist Vasilis K. Pozios, M.D. (Broadcast Thought) to discuss the state of mental health and comics. Moderated by attorney Jeff Trexler (The Comics Journal, The Beat).
Star Trek: More Bold Than Ever Before
12:00pm - 1:00pm
Room 28DE
Never before has Star Trek been bigger (or bloodier)! IDW Group Editor Heather Antos and writers Chris Cantwell, Collin Kelly, and Jackson Lanzing give an inside look into Star Trek: Day of Blood, the first ever Star Trek comics crossover event. Plus: Marc Guggenheim, Sam Maggs, Malachi Ward, Chirs Sequiera, and Liana Kangas share all the exciting things happening across IDW’s line of Star Trek comics.
How to Boldly Go into the Star Trek Universe
1:00pm - 2:00pm
Grand 12 & 13, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina
With Discovery, Lower Decks, Strange New Worlds, and Picard, Star Trek is going strong after 57 years. However, with so much Trek and such little time, it’s overwhelming to know what is essential viewing. With over a dozen movies, several series, and now all the streaming content, where does someone new to Star Trek start? Moderator Tony B Kim (Hero Within, Crazy 4 Comic Con) leads this fun and helpful discussion with Star Trek pros Giraffe (Strange New Podcast), Myrriah Gossett (Star Trek Discovery Podcast), and Clyde Haynes (Star Trek Discovery Podcast).
Roddenberry Presents
1:30pm - 2:30pm
Room 24ABC
Roddenberry Entertainment is warping back into Comic-Con, and resistance is futile. Prepare to be assimilated into the Roddenberry collective as this panel transmits updates on all things Star Trek. Executive producers Rod Roddenberry (Star Trek: Discovery, Star Trek: Prodigy) and Trevor Roth (Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Star Trek: Lower Decks) engage in a Q&A session moderated by Scott Mantz (Variety, Enterprise Incidents with Scott and Steve). Get ready to hear about the newest developments in the world of Star Trek (the Prime Universe, of course) as well as Rod and Trevor's hopes for the future of the franchise.
Women of Concept Art for Film and TV
1:45pm - 2:45pm
Room 6A
Concept artists Gina DeDomenico (The Boys, Star Trek: Picard), Barbara Araujo (Haunted Mansion, The Acolyte), Maybelle Pineda (Black Adam, Blue Beetle), Robin Richesson (Mars Attacks!, The Spiderwick Chronicles), and Jen Hancock (Haunted Mansion, Violent Night) join for a candid discussion moderated by costume designer Mairi Chisholm (Sleepy Hollow, Lucifer) highlighting their professional journeys into Hollywood, the unique challenges they are facing as female concept artists, and how their careers continue to grow and change alongside an ever-evolving industry.
Improving Sci-Fi Storytelling Through Science Accuracy
2:00pm - 3:00pm
Omni Hotel, Omni Grand Ballroom DE, 4th Floor
Clifford Johnson (theoretical physicist/Avengers science adviser), Erin Macdonald (astrophysicist, Star Trek science consultant), Tara Smith (professor of epidemiology), Trevor Valle (paleontologist), Joy Lin (nerdy comedian), and moderators Nikhil Shah and Jose Gonzalez, Jr. offer their thoughts about how sci-fi stories can be strengthened by using real concepts from physics, epidemiology, chemistry, and paleontology. They will also discuss movies and TV shows that have strived to be scientifically accurate and how their unique stories have contributed to them being financially successful as well as received critically.
Celebrating 1982: Greatest Geek Year Ever on the CW
3:00pm - 4:00pm
Room 5AB
Go behind the scenes of Greatest Geek Year Ever: 1982, premiering this month on The CW, with an exclusive in-depth look at the making of this series spotlighting the incredible films of 1982, including Blade Runner, The Beastmaster, Star Trek: The Wrath Of Khan, Poltergeist, Firefox, First Blood, The Thing, Tron, Dark Crystal, Diner, Fast Times Forbidden World, and, of course, Megaforce. Film critic Scott “Movie” Mantz and producers Mark A. Altman (Free Enterprise, The Librarians, Castle), and Roger Lay Jr. (Aliens Ate My Homework, Remembering Rod Serling) take you back four decades and remind you that the good guys always win... even in the ’80s.
Inglorious Treksperts Live: Free Enterprise at 25
4:00pm - 5:00pm
Room 5AB
The hosts of the Star Trek podcast TrekMovie present a 25th anniversary tribute to the ultimate love letter to Star Trek, the beloved cult classic Free Enterprise, released in theaters in 1999 and starring William Shatner and Eric McCormack. Panelists will be sharing never-before-seen clips and footage from the film that proved Captain Kirk was cooler than Han Solo. Featuring Inglorious Treksperts hosts Mark A. Altman (author, Star Trek: The Fifty-Year Mission; writer/producer, Free Enterprise), Daren Dochterman (associate producer, Star Trek: The Motion Picture—Director’s Edition), Ashley E. Miller (writer, Thor, X-Men: First Class), and Robert Meyer Burnett (director/writer, Free Enterprise, The Burnettwork), along with a special panelist or two.
Star Trek Adventures by Modiphius
4:30pm - 7:30pm
Omni Hotel, Omni Grand Ballroom ABC, 4th Floor
Star Trek Adventures is a Tabletop RPG where new discoveries await explorers of Starfleet. It’s a 2D20 game of action, adventure, hope, and shenanigans. The company GM and players boldly go where no con-goer ever went before. The Shackleton Expanse will never be the same!
Critical Completism! What It's Like to See It All
5:00pm - 6:00pm
Grand 12 & 13, Marriott Marquis San Diego Marina
Star Trek: Picard 's Marc Bernardin podcasted about every episode of Battlestar Galactica. Douglas Wolk (All of the Marvels) read every Marvel superhero comic and wrote an Eisner Award–winning book about it; Cecil Castellucci (Shifting Earth) is watching every Disney movie and live-tweeting about each one. They'll discuss the joys and terrors of experiencing and responding to every last piece of a gigantic body of work.
It's Alive, Jim! Evolutionary Biology in Star Trek
8:00pm - 9:00pm
Room 28DE
Did you ever wonder if giant space jellyfish could ever realistically be a thing? Could our parasites evolve to take over Starfleet Command? Or computers be reprogrammed by sentient yeast? Would aliens really just look like us with pointy ears or ridge noses? Since the beginning of Star Trek, exploring strange new worlds has been synonymous with meeting fascinating new species—friendly or less friendly. Star Trek shows us life as we know it and as we've never seen it before, and examining the science behind both can teach us a lot about where we come from, where we're going, and what we might meet—out there. Dr. Ashley Poust (paleontologist at the San Diego Natural History Museum), Dr. Danielle de Carle (researcher and lecturer at the University of Toronto), and Dr. Amanda Jack (biochemist and biophysicist at SyntheX) take a deep dive into the reality, the fiction, and the possibilities of this Trek-tastic biology these last 56 years. Moderated by Giraffe of the Star Trek podcast Strange New Pod.
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