Staff report

Stage Left Players draws inspiration from a out-of-this-world source for its holiday production.

“A Star Trek Christmas” opens Friday for a two-weekend run at Lisbon’s Trinity Playhouse

Executive Director and playwright Kandace Cleland channeled her passion for the original “Star Trek” television series by Gene Rodenberry to create what she called a joyful, holiday space adventure for the entire family.

According to Cleland, “Growing up as a ‘Star Trek’ kid, my mind reeled with the possibilities of a galactic future. Every week I boldly joined the Enterprise crew as they ‘sought out new life and new civilizations where no one had gone before.’ This holiday, I’m continuing that journey and taking my community theater friends with me. We are having a blast!”

In Cleland’s script, StarFleet has assigned Captain Kirk and crew to holiday surveillance duty of the class M mining planet, Borz 5, in remote Sector 11, which is Santa’s sole supply of coalamite in the galaxy. All is calm, all is bright as the Starship Enterprise maintains standard orbit until the Klingons show up with a scheme to get their names off the naughty list and destroy the coalamite supply.

The cast includes Kevin Schreffler, Paul Dahman, Aaron Hinchliffe, Christine Martin, Ethan Rudibaugh, Kari Beil, Tessa Young, Brady Duncan, Mark Hall, David Humphrey and Dylan Mauch.

“A Star Trek Christmas” will be staged 7 p.m. Friday, Saturday and Dec. 16 and 2 p.m. Sunday and Dec. 18. Tickets are $14 for adults and $12 for students and senior citizens and are available at the door and online at stageleftplayer.org. For more information, call 724-426-1955.

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