THE INSTAWIFE’S FILM PREMIERE went very well last night — there was an overflow crowd, the documentary looked good on the big screen, and everyone seemed quite pleased.

They also showed a trailer for Rod Roddenberry’s forthcoming documentary, Trek Nation,. (You can see a shorter trailer by following that link.) Rod is Gene’s son, and his film, which is being made with a Knoxville production company, is about the influence of Star Trek culture worldwide. He was there at the screening last night, and said that he hopes to interview some Klingons in Iraq (no, really) once things settle down.

UPDATE: A Knoxville production company? Well, yes. Knoxville is the fourth or fifth biggest center of cable-tv production in the country, with lots of stuff for Nickelodeon, Court TV, TNN, Discovery, etc. being done here. Roddenberry saw some MTV promos done by Atmosphere Pictures and then got in touch with them. As for Klingons in Iraq, Robin Goodfellow emails:

I don’t doubt there are klingons in Iraq, I remember several years ago being somewhat shocked while reading a usenet post in one of the star-trek newsgroups from someone in Rwanda explaining how television schedules were returning to normal after the refugees were returning and that meant he could
watch Star Trek: DS9 again. That was something of an eye opening for me of the depth and breadth of the global village.

Yep. And I sold a couple of Mobius Dick CDs to Iraqis back in 2000. I wonder who bought ’em, and how they’re doing now?