Phoenix Comicon: Captain Picard and The Cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation are on the 2012 Guest List

Warping to this years Phoenix Comicon: (from left) Brent Spiner, Lavar Burton, Patrick Stewart, Marina Sirtis, & Michael Dorn.

There are exactly 111 days left until this year's Phoenix Comicon, and the time probably can't pass quick enough for some local geeks. Especially since organizers of the annual pop culture fest announced some blockbuster names last night that will be appearing at this year's event.

And it includes most of the cast of landmark science fiction program Star Trek: The Next Generation.

More than 700 geeks let out a collective squee on Thursday night when Phoenix Comicon director Matt Solberg announced that Patrick Stewart (a.k.a. Jean-Luc Picard), Brent Spiner (Data), Michael Dorn (Worf), and Marina Sirtis (Deanna Troi) are all scheduled to appear at the four-day event taking place over Memorial Day Weekend at the Phoenix Convention Center.

"It was something we've been thinking about for a couple years as we knew [the anniversary] was coming up, and we just kept working with the agents and the actors to get them out," Solberg says. "And we're fortunate to get five of the original castmembers, which is just off the charts for us."

Conspicuous by his absence is Jonathan Frakes (who portrayed Commander William T. Riker on the show), which Solberg says is due to the actor's wedding anniversary taking place the same weekend as Comicon. He says there's also a chance that perennial Comicon favorite and geek icon Wil Wheaton (a.k.a. Wesley Crusher) might also appear, but only if the stars align.

"We're hoping he comes as well," Solberg says. "He's appeared for four or five years since 2008 and has a standing invitation for Phoenix Comicon. But he's a working actor and has more and more projects these days, so we might not know until two or three weeks beforehand if he'll make it."

If you add in the fact that William Shatner is already scheduled to appear at Comicon this year, this year's event is turning into Trek heaven, which should result in thousands of Final Frontier fans geeking out at the convention center come May. And there's going to be a lot of extra space for them the do so this year.