C383

Star Trek Convention
Name:	C383 (Triple C Convention)
Dates:	August 26-29, 1983
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Location:	Birmingham, England
Type:	fan-run
Focus:	Star Trek
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Founder:	Chris Chivers
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C383 was a Star Trek con held in Birmingham, England. It was the 16th British Star Trek Convention.

a 1983 flyer

It was also called the "Triple C Convention" as the con committee consisted of Chrissie Chrzan, Chris Chivers, and Carol Collins.

Con Reports

Just before going to print, I'll add in a quick report on Triple C Con,to give all of you who were not able to attend the latest news on Star Trek III. Unfortunately George was unable to come, because he has to work on the movie, so at the last moment Bjo Trimble came over to fill in the Star Trek guest spot. She is a very nice person and gave us a very interesting talk. She was not able to talk about Spock in this new movie but the latest news so far (liable to be changed by Paramount at any time, however) is that the movie is to be titled 'Genesis: The Search for Spock.' We will see Vulcan and Spock's father (played by Mark Lenard) who is to have a disagreement with Kirk. There will be Klingons (hopefully more like the series Klingons, not those from ST:TMP) and new aliens. Some changes inside the Enterprise will take place but costumes remain the same. Uhura and Sulu have better parts in this movie, away from their consoles, and McCoy has a major part. Bjo said that there are a lot of clues in 'Wrath of Khan' (if you look carefully great, I love detective work!) to what will happen in 'Genesis'. We also learn something about Vulcans which we do not know - it's something Vulcans do not talk about normally. There are plans for Star Trek 4 and 5 too!

Bjo said that it would be nice if more fans wrote 'thank you's to Paramount and not just criticism. The address to write to is: Harve Bennett, 5555 Melrose Ave., Hollywood, California 90038 USA, so write and give some encouragement. There was a fire at Paramount Studios recently, however we were assured that the ST sets were not damaged seriously - in fact the only ST set to suffer was the alien set which was in the first stages of being built, so no real hold-ups have occurred.

All in all, the Con was great fun. There were 3 video rooms (Trek, general SF and one showing general movies which starred ST and SF actors and actresses) plus the main room where we were able to see both Trek movies, guests, etc etc. Thorn Christopher was his usual delightful self and we were all very happy to see him and Judy again. The other guest was Matt Irvine, He too seemed very nice, unfortunately I missed his talk due to Stewards duties.