Another year of DragonCon winds down. This year, I managed to meet a lot of old acquaintances, including a former Teaching Assistant from Georgia Tech as well as a former student of Baker High School in Mobile, Alabama. The half-day affair managed to bring with it some interesting guest speakers, as well as some in-depth repeats from previous Star Trek panels.

• LeVar Burton let us know about his upcoming ventures, including his upcoming superhero movies with Spike Lee.
• Marina Sirtis heads with her two dogs and husband to England to pursue acting, and recounted interesting tidbits from her times on the Star Trek set.
• Peter David, best known for his Star Trek novels, ventured from the path and read from the pre-release of his upcoming Fallen Angel comic, a preview of which is available on Newsarama.
• Chris Nuccio of Leo Ticheli Productions and Hunter Cressall of the well-known Mac Parody gives us the nitty-gritty details on Digital Video Compression and Manipulation. Discussions ranged from digital rights management, to video encoding techniques and video ripping, to BitTorrent and the legality of web sites like the Pirate Bay and Torrent Reactor.

While I didn’t actually take any photos myself, Slinderdoo has posted some nice costume shots of DragonCon attendees. CyanBane and Mark Lusher also made an attendance, though I didn’t have a chance to personally meet them.