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You may know Larry best these days as editor of Communicator, the licensed U.S. Official Fan Club’s glossy bimonthly magazine (reprinted in its German translation). Or maybe as author of the TNG Companion or a contributor to other projects, like the Star Trek World Tour or Star Trek: The Experience. But talking to fans at conventions with his annual behind-the-scenes shows is still the most fun for the onetime
Oklahoma
journalist in the Star Trek world.
The original Companion from Pocket Books in 1992, one of the first two non-fiction books on all the later series, was recently revised and updated through Nemesis. Other credits are co-writing 1996’s The Making of Star Trek: First Contact from Titan Books of the U.K., consulting on the Star Trek Star Maps from Pocket, and continuing his regular Q&A column with fans into its sixth year for Britain’s Star Trek Monthly—as well as a new observations column, In Close Orbit.
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On-line, he helped create
Paramount
’s record-breaking ST: First Contact website content, and served as contributing editor for the official startrek.com, writing much of its original database. Meanwhile, he has consulted and written display materials for other venues such as
Europe
’s Federation Science tour revival. In 1994 he and wife Janet, Voyager’s assistant script coordinator from 1994-99, sold a story to Voyager which became the episode “Prophecy” when it was finally produced seven years later.
He founded
Oklahoma City
’s ThunderCon charity fan conventions of the 1990s, and contributed to the fan-produced U.S.S. Enterprise Officer’s Manual and Bantam Books’ Star Trek Maps way back when. He is a volunteer docent at the
Will
Rogers
House
State
Historic
Park
, honoring his hero, and still enjoys keyboards, theatre and his (Amercian) football Oklahoma Sooners. The one hobby now is finding time for any of them--much less his family.
Janet Nemecek
Shawnee, Okla., native JANET NEMECEK worked as mom and housekeeper before becoming a business graduate and executive assistant by the early ’90s -- and then came her five-year run as the assistant script coordinator on Star Trek: Voyager. Taking a break now, she is once again a fan--and still enjoys sharing her thoughts on both screen writing and what’s up with the Trek and sci-fi universe. After she and husband Larry moved from central
Oklahoma
to the
Los Angeles
area in 1994, she landed the temp job for seven weeks with the Voyager writers and won the job outright when it became open soon after. Even before taking several workshops, seminars and classes in writing, she and Larry sold a story to Voyager which was finally produced and updated in the series’ final season, “Prophecy.” After working as an executive assistant in downtown
Los Angeles
, Janet’s “break” is now about taking a few classes herself with an eye on new ventures. She enjoys fashion design, woodworking and remodeling, cooking, gardening, travel —and getting the last kid out of high school! (Oh yeah—and that Firefly thing.)
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