Elements of the Cold Death Quadrant, including members of the IKV Rakehell, IKV Warhammer, IKV Black Thunder and other groups were all in attendance at MarsCon over the first weekend of March.
The MarsCon theme this year was pirates, and many Klingons dressed the part with the Rakehell throwing an appropriately themed party: “Come Join the Imperial Navy.” The party drink of choice was Captain Jack Sparrow, featuring a secret ingredient.
45k JPEG Rakehell Party Room
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47k JPEG The Bog
Richard Herd was the media guest of honor, and best known in Klingon Fandom in his role as L’Kor in Star Trek:TNG, Timothy Zahn, author of numerous novels, including several Star Wars books was the writer guest of honor, and Herbert Jefferson, Jr, AKA Boomer MacDude, best known for his role as Boomer in Battlestar Galactica was a surprise special guest.
62k JPEG Boomer MacDude
The Rakehell ran a Klingon Dating Game, which had the audience howling to the responses prospective dates gave to the questions posed by the fine array of Klingon suitors that included such gallant warriors as Qe’Pa, JaPa, K’Elvis, and The Kahuna of the KSD, Sqotty MacKlingon. Contestants were pulled from the audience, and a rip-roaring time was had by all.
34k JPEG JP in the Klingon Dating Game
32k JPEG Sqotty in the Klingon Dating Game
72k JPEG Sqotty and Date from the Klingon Dating Game
34k JPEG The Captain in the Klingon Dating Game
28k JPEG The Captain with the Host of the Klingon Dating Game
24k JPEG The Host with contestants in the Klingon Dating Game
Of course, the Klingons also dominated the Feddie run Intergalactic Feud, and made of with much booty to the chagrin of the red shirts that failed to slow down one of the Klingon teams, lead by Qe’Pa, that commanded the field of play. A second Klingon team, lead by Krom, did not do as well as they blew getting the final name for most quotable Star Trek character, allowing for the Feddies to win in a nearly, kind of closely contested round.
The masquerade for a con of this size (over 700 attendees), was most excellent, with Patrick of the Rakehell showing the boys in pajamas what a Klingon Pirate Captain would look like, as he staggered drunkenly across the stage with his flagon of rum. Or torpedo juice. Or Captain Jack Sparrows.
Over all, much fun was had by all, and the KAG presence was fairly large with the crews of four ships and some 25-30 crew members in attendance.
Other pics:
22k JPEG Whip Show
57k JPEG A quiet moment for Qob
22k JPEG Con hallway.
