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 Cassini-Huygens
Visits Titan and Saturn: With January's epic view of the Titan moon and new colorful views of the planet
Saturn, ardent fans of astronomical material talked about the orbiter and probe analyses, landing observations, comparisons of Titan with primordial Earth, the latest
thermal and chemical images, cloud formations, and much more.
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Harry Potter
Jeopardy: Think you've got what it takes to be an honorary Hogwart? Or are you just a shallow muggle
with a brain not even fit for learning simple spells? Half Blood Prince Trivia included plenty of instructors, ministers, popular spells, owls, and elves, and of
course, facts and figures about the main characters Harry, Ron, and Hermione.
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Trek - The
Missing Minority: You see blacks, hispanics, asians, and all sorts of aliens, but what about members of the
gay community? Fans of the show gathered to talk about how these issues are slowly being overcome throughout the series. Topics included Worf and Dax's
relationship, debates from the production staff, and cryptic plot scenarios.
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Star Wars -
Celebration III Reflection: Billed as the biggest Star Wars party on the face of the planet, fans from the
event talked about their tiring experience including line parties, costuming, collections of paraphernalia, action figures, program books and posters, and just enjoying
the non-stop party of the century with over 32,000 excited fans.
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Fiction - Book
Seeks Home with Caring Publisher: So you've got a story that might just sell, but not sure what your
publisher thinks? The answers are at the panel as panelists talked about good writing styles, well-chosen topics, established writers, racing a manuscript to
publishers, printed fiction vs. Hollywood production, and the challenge in driving book sales.
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Gaming and Free
Expression: With so much violence and bad media about video games these days, it's difficult for game
developers to make a hit that appeases both fans and jumpy liberals. Topics included protection for racial differences and stereotypes, effects from the Patriot
Act, designing video games that sell well but may borderline aid terrorism, taking care what you say online, and much more.
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Ancient Secrets
of Fighting Robot Masters: Think you got what it takes to enter the Robot Battles arena with some serious
shredding mayhem? Competition is fierce every year as panelists talked about their own monster devices of destruction. Topics included construction
techniques, motors, wheels, shredders, armor, weight, budget, RC controllers, power supplies, and more.
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Mature Themes
in Tribe: For the newcomers, Tribe is a future world gone mad with all adults mysteriously disappeared and
all the children left on their own to survive and build themselves a new world. Topics from the panel included alliances, treatment of females, filming production
process, positive convention feedback from both Tribe cast members and fans, and more. For more information on this hot series go to: http://www.tribeworld.com
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Trek - An Hour
with Robin Curtis: When a Trek guest arrives, it's always time to fill up the room and listen in!
This year's panel presented Robin Curtis known as Lt. Saavik in The Search for Spock and The Voyage Home. Topics included Robin's current relaxing personal life,
audition process anxiety, meeting Leonard Nimoy, and many other exciting stories.
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EFF: Future of
Peer to Peer: With so much media piracy going on in the world, how do you police it all on so many P2P
networks in this fast-growing digital world? Topics included Digital Rights Management debates, streamcasting, Grokster, file-sharing explosion with movies,
music, and pictures, network engineering advances, and new technologies.
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Star Wars -
Legacy of The Force: As long as Star Wars fans continue to live and breathe, there will ways be a new quest
for side-stories and expanding universes. Topics in this highly inquisitive panel, especially after the last SW release, included more games, Knights of the
Republic information, extended scenes and dialogue on the upcoming DVDs, more character biographies, and well, just plain more of everything.
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Star Trek -
Authors Cavalcade: Trek fans have it good when it comes to plenty of Trek novels to read. Popular
authors were on hand to discuss the many side stories, alternate wars, covert wars, challenges in weaving real history into science fiction history, holodeck
recreations, listing their inspirational authors, favorite movies and episodes, and more.
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Dragon-con 2005 wouldn't
be complete without a humongous schedule of monstrous proportions, but you know what, we'll just save you some time and give a "small" list of the busy
weekend schedule: Guide to Anime and Cosplay Designs, Klingon Karaoke, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, British Pop, Andromeda Cast Reunion, Trends in Mobile Gaming,
Art of Funcom, Modern Tools with Traditional Illustrations, Corel Painter Workshop, Beginning Sewing and Costuming, Welcome to Middle Earth, Rebel Legion Club, Star
Wars Fan Fiction, Star Wars Prop Challenge, Tribal Charades, Ghost Hounds Ghost House, Write Story in One Hour, Lost in Space vs. Star Trek, Wheel of Time Clocks,
Changing Effects of Costume Design in Popular Media, My So-Called LiveJournal, The Gothic Impulse, Urban Legends, Patents and Threat to Open Source Software, Dragon
Poker, Weyrfest Latchkey, Using Suborbital Spacecraft for Microgravity Research, Space Elevator Progress, Harry Potter Sorting Ceremony, Robot Competition History,
Klingons Alive in America, Professional Star Trek Costume Building, Future of Star Trek Franchise, Starfleet Kitchen, RedDwarf, Digital Iron Artist, Book Cover
Illustrations, Themes of Lord of the Rings, Elf Ears and other Make-up Tips, Star Wars Figure Mold-making, Girlpower of Tribeworld, Hypnosis Fact or Fiction, Honing
Your Psychic Abilities, Characterization Through Dialogue, Web Cam Girls, Indie Film Directing, Women of Comics, Beat the Buffy Geeks, Buffy's Angelic Christmas, Wit
and Wisdom of the Internet Elders, Nanotechnology and Nanomedicine, Cryonics, Writing a Kid's Book, Soviet Space Disasters, Catapult Building Contest, Happy Hour at Ten
Forward, Diversification and Buyer Awareness, Battlestar Galactica the Old and the New, Women in Gaming, Licensing Art to a Company, Villains of The Tribe, Imperial
Costume Workshop, History and Art of Tattooing, Organizing a Writers Group That Works, From Book to Film, Ultimate Comics Trivia Challenge, Ann Crispin's Writer's
Workshop, Goth Gigs Gone Horribly Wrong, Atlanta Radio Theatre Company, Pern Costuming, Mars Society, Christianity and Paganism, How to Build an Antweight Robot, LARP
Costuming, Books and Taxes for Artists, Art and Graphic Design of Gaming, Myths and Legends, Adventures in Horror Publishing, Training a Suborbital Flight Crew, and
lots lots lots more. I think I need coffee.
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