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Volume 14, Issue 2 April/May ConNotations 2004 The Bi-Monthly Science Fiction, Fantasy & Convention Newszine of the Central Arizona Speculative Fiction Society The Borg Invade Las Vegas Featured Inside by Lee Whiteside SF Tube Talk Special Features All the latest news about The Borg Invade Las Vegas The Star Trek Experience at the Las techniques, other effects are used Scienc Fiction TV shows by Lee Whiteside Vegas Hilton has stayed pretty much the (poking, air blasts, moving floors, and by Lee Whiteside same since it opened in 1998. The Klingon surround sound) to create a fuller The Waldorf Conference: Encounter ride has been a popular one, experience. 24 Frames Microphones, Scripts, and Actors with fans being able to visit the bridge of Behind the scenes of the visual All the latest Movie News Part 2 the Enterprise D from Star Trek: The Next effects is Threshold Digital Research by Lee Whiteside By Shane Shellenbarger Generation and experience a motion Labs and a team led by George Johnsen, simulator shuttle ride that ends up on a former Babylon 5 producer, with visual Haunted History: now outdated flight down the Las Vegas effects artists such as Mojo working on Pointless Meanderings News and Reviews Pioneer Living History Village Strip. Aside from some updated displays in it. They have created multiple 3-D images by Dawn Mullan the History of the Future museum for the that are displayed on multiple screens on from the world of comics and Anime last Trek movies and Enterprise TV series, the ride to give the feeling of being in In Memorium the attraction has stayed pretty much the space and to heighten the tension when Musical Notes Michael L Jackson same. That has now changed with the the Borg are attacking. According to The latest news of Filk and Filkers Sameul Edward Konkin III introduction of the Borg Invasion 4-D that George Johnsen, in order to make the from Tom Tuerff Mark Siegel opened in March. effects work, they had to invent some Using current high definition technol- new camera and CGI technology. “In Videophile Ken Unferth ogy, live actors and visual and physical order to replicate the way the human eye Reviews of genre releases effects, the new ride creates a very realistic sees, we literally had to reinvent the way on DVD and VHS Plus our Regular Features: Star Trek experience. As visitors tour a movies are made, from building a new futuristic research facility, the terrifying camera for the live-action shoot to the Screening Room CASFS Business Report drones of the Borg Collective launch an animation and editing process,” Johnsen Reviews of current theatrical releases Event Calendar attack to capture and assimilate guests told the Hollywood Reporter. They also Area events, TV premires, using 24th century cybernetic technology. developed what they call “infinite focus” In Our Book DVD & Movie releases The 3D and 4D effects will merge to create which makes the 3-D images look real no Reviews of New SF/F Books FYI a chilling realization as the action culmi- matter where the viewer is looking from. News and tidbits of nates in a state-of-the-art theater providing This is also the first Star Trek produc- interest to fans an all-immersive tactile experience for tion to be shot totally digitally, the first Musty Tomes visitors to the attraction. The associated multiple angle 3-D production, and the Reviews of Classic Genre books film features Robert Picardo (The Doctor), first attraction to use 2K digital cinema Club Listings Alice Krige (BORG Queen) and Kate projection, which produces the highest- Convention List & Mulgrew (Admiral Janeway) as the starship resolution digital projection commercially Generic Registration Form Voyager gets involved with the events. In available. “This experience is much like addition to traditional motion simulator ( CONTINUED ON PAGE 9 ) ConNotations Non-Profit Org. 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