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By Velvet Wells Spoiler: The first teaser trailer for Star Trek: Picard is included at the end of this blog. Early episodes of The Dandies’ Star Trek improv show, Holodeck Follies were peppered with references to the adventures and the crew on Star Trek: The Next Generation. Tachyon Field, my captain character, continues to use the Picard [...]

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BY DANIELLE COLE The Dandies monthly Star Trek improv show, Holodeck Follies is a top entertainment pick for for everyone from the Space Channel to Now Magazine. It has been named the perfect night out for geeks, but also a great time for non-geeks! Here are just a few of the reasons Holodeck Follies is [...]

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In January, The Dandies kicked off the seventh season of Holodeck Follies with an exciting premiere episode. The crew of the USS Pelican had a positive diplomatic encounter with the alpha Alpha Centauri centaur race and Ensign Enson Zach got a field promotion. Holodeck Follies - Spontaneous Star Trek Saturday, February 9 at 8 p.m., [...]

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Welcome back from the holidays! Have you made your 2019 resolutions yet? Three ways The Dandies can help you keep your 2019 resolutions 1. Exercise Everyone knows someone who has made a pact at one point in their life to join a gym, learn parkour, or enter a world level bodybuilding competition. Our geek comedy [...]

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The Dandies had another stellar year serving up geek improv comedy to the Star Trek, Supernatural, Star Wars and Harry Potter fandoms! Yeay us. (So dandy!) "It's been a long road..." But this wasn't our first year creating fandom favourite improv parody shows. Long-time followers know that we had four great years at Social Capital [...]

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Fall has descended upon Toronto, and that may make you SAD, but The Dandies are here to spontaneously cheer you up! On Saturday, November 10, 8 p.m. The Dandies present... Holodeck Follies - Spontaneous Star Trek Canada's only Star Trek parody show for Trekkies and non-Trekkies. "To slowly go where someone has gone before" (season [...]

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The Dandies had a busy September. Between our long weekend at Fan Expo Canada and our road trip appearance at the Festival of Wizardry, we entertained over a thousand new fans of our improvised fandom comedy shows! Now, we're ready to jump back into our monthly flagship show. On Saturday, October 13, 8 p.m. The [...]

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The back-to-school ads are on, which can only mean one thing… it’s almost Fan Expo Canada time! The Dandies have had a busy summer, picking fandoms and preparing our nerd comedy shows. It’s been hard to keep them under wraps all that time; but, now, we can finally announce what we’ve been cooking up! The [...]

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On Saturday, August 11, The Dandies return to Comedy Bar for Holodeck Follies Canada's longest running Star Trek parody show for Trekies and non-Trekkies “Holodeck Follies is one of the funniest shows in Toronto!” – Space Channel Now in their sixth season, The Dandies make up a completely improvised Star Trek episode every month. The next [...]