Slice of SciFi originally began as the voice of the SAVE ENTERPRISE campaign of Spring 2005, when loyal Star Trek fans rallied to the cause of saving a cancelled “Star Trek: Enterprise” series, and garner it a previously highly-anticipated 5th season. When that campaign fell on deaf Paramount ears, despite its success in generating fan support and unprecedented fan funding, Slice of SciFi continued to support the Star Trek fan base that had provided its starting point, but branched out into the wider arena of science fiction, fantasy and horror media: television, film, comics, and new media such as fan films, audio dramas, online animated comics and more.
The show was so popular, and garnered so much fan feedback that eventually, it was necessary to spin off the Voicemail Show, dedicated just to fan feedback, in order to keep the original show from consistently hitting running times of 90 minutes or more! Both Slice of SciFi and its companion Voicemail Show are fan favorites, and appeal to SF media geeks of all ages.
The funny, irreverent but always relevent discussion from show hosts Michael R. Mennenga, Brian Brown and Samantha Roberts always make for lively entertainment. Interviews with today’s top stars and genre production professionals, such as Ira Steven Behr, Walter Koenig, Jim Butcher, Samuel L. Jackson, Katee Sackhoff and an array of other top names in show business, are always on the cutting edge and timely.
In December 2005, Slice of SciFi made the jump to broadcast, finding an additional home on XM Satellite Radio, Channel 163, and bringing the show to a broad new fan base at the same time. In December 2007 Slice of SciFi became part of the growing Sirius Satellite Radio family of programming, and can now also be heard on Sirius Channel 117. In 2011, the Sirius-XM Radio merger consolidated and realigned many channels, and now Slice of SciFi can be heard on Channel 80 on both services.
The Slice of SciFi website doubles as an online entertainment news magazine, lead for its first 3 years by the now-retired Samuel K. Sloan. Current FarPoint Media Executive News Director Michael Hickerson now continues to edit the news for the website and the shows, and manages a team of reporters dedicated to bringing fans the latest news and developments in SF television and film, in science, technology, space exploration, and more.
Slice of SciFi On-Air Hosts
Michael R. Mennenga
Michael R. Mennenga (MEN-en-gay) was born in Nebraska, and grew up on a small farm outside of Holdrege. He began writing in late 1986 but it took a couple of years for Michael to develop his style.
Host: Brian Brown
Brian Brown is one of the co-hosts of Slice of SciFi bringing his thoughts, ideas, options and love for all things scifi and fantasy to the show. He is a uniquely talented host with a sharp wit and a good ear for voice impersonation, which serves him and us well for this type of medium.
Brian came to Slice of SciFi from Dragon Page: Cover to Cover where he started as a book reviewer, and was quickly brought in as one of the co-hosts there.
He is an avid reader, movie watcher and comic book collector in the sparse spare time he has. In those not so free moments he is also co-hosting on Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas and Buffy Between The Lines. He is also working on other side voice projects and hopes someday to be as famous as Don LaFontaine.
Co-Host: Samantha Roberts
Video Engineer, Contributor Tim Adamec
Video Engineer, Contributor Bret Filipek
Slice of SciFi Production Team
Jeffrey Willerth
Jeffrey joined the Warner Bros. sci-fi hit “Babylon 5″ for all five seasons of the show’s prime-time production. His versatile talents expanded into acting while playing the recurring role of Ambassador Kosh. Jeffrey was also the Producer’s Associate through the fourth and fifth seasons, four TNT movies and three episodes of the spin-off series “Babylon 5: Crusade”.
Since B5, Jeffrey furthered his digital filmmaking experience as a Visual Effects Coordinator for the Twentieth Century Fox feature film “X-MEN 2″ as well as two Miramax’s films, “I Still Know What You Did Last Summer” and “The Faculty”.
Other recent non-fiction programming credits include DIY, SPEED, BBN, BBC/Discovery Channel, Discovery’s Military Chanel, History Channel, Court TV, PBS, HGTV, A&E, CBS and VH1, Animal Planet, and FOX. Commercial credits include Verizon and Wal-Mart.
Jeffrey Willerth is a member of the (PGA) Producers Guild of America, (IFP/W) Independent Feature Project/West (SAG) Screen Actors Guild and the (ATAS) Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, Association of Downloadable Media (ADM).
Summer Brooks
Summer enjoys putting her scifi media geek skills to good use in booking guests for appearances on Slice of SciFi, and using her extensive tech skills to make sure the websites for both Slice of SciFi and Slice TV keep humming along.
She is an avid reader and writer of scifi, fantasy and thrillers, with a handful of publishing and voiceover credits to her name. Her dream is to someday write and produce a TV series or miniseries adaptation of her favorite yet highly-underrated story series.
She had spent many years as a Unix sysadmin and competing in amateur full contact kickboxing tournaments before moving into entertainment media and WordPress website design. These days, she maintains most of the FarPoint Media websites, and co-hosts and produces several other shows, including The Babylon Podcast.
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