Dr. Phlox of ENTERPRISE fame John Billinglsey at the 2002 STAR TREK GRAND SLAM (Copyright 2002 Sue Schneider)
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TREK SLAM 2002: Braga and Billingsley talk ENTERPRISE

Recently the biggest names in STAR TREK gathered in Pasadena, California to glory and gather in the splendor that is the biggest franchise in modern science fiction: STAR TREK Grand Slam 2002.

While it was impossible to see everything and attend all of the guest stars appearances, CINESCAPE's own Anne Moore, Sue Schneider and Steven Klotz did their best, and brought us the details. This week, we're bringing them to you.

Check back every day for info and star pictures on everything from ENTERPRISE, STAR TREK: NEMESIS, to talk of DEEP SPACE NINE and hopes for a big screen adventure of their own, and more.

Today we touch on more of the ENTERPRISE quotes generated at the Slam, with John Billingsley (Dr. Phlox), Lt. Ryan, Lawrence Monson, and ENTERPRISE co-creator/executive producer Brannon Braga.

Braga was full of teases on what fans can expect from ENTERPRISE developments to come, staying this about the temporal cold war and this season's final cliff-hanging episode: "The final episode will deal a lot with that, as will the first episode of next year and you'll learn a lot more about it."

Billingsley talked about who should play his 3 Denobulan wives.

"My scheme is to have her (Bonnie, his real wife) play all three of my wives on the show, completely interchangeable," Billingsley said. "In fact, all Denobulans look like me and her. So it makes for much confusion amongst the rest of the crew, but we all have very distinctive personalities."

We'll see. Finally, Monson showed up to talk about his recurring role as First Lt. Ryan (seen in "Fortunate Son")

"He's very much on holding on to the ways of the old," Monson said about Ryan. "He's like the blue collar of space. We're like the cowboys of space. As America sort of developed and became more technological, which is exactly what is happening with ENTERPRISE... like with the higher warp speed. He wants to stay at the slower pace. He says, 'If you go so fast you miss the joy of the journey.' There is something really deep about what the guy says and because as we do advance there are advantages to that, but there also great disadvantages. We do lose out on a lot. It's an interesting conflict."