Star Trek Memories

[science_officer]

Star Trek Memories

I bought the DVD sets of ST: TOS last year and finished watching all of them a few months ago. Paramount has since re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-re-released at least some of the TOS episodes on home video, this time on HD-DVD (just in time for HD to lose the format wars to Blu-Ray). Because I have only an ordinary DVD player

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Re: A Mind Forever Voyaging + Trek Experience

[bear_helms]

Deadline had fake matches, a case file, etc. Many InfoCom games at the end had a lot of "props" in them to encourage people to want the original packaging as opposed to a "locksmith copy."

I remember visiting the Smithsonians in Washington, D.C. There's so very much to see in these museums that you could go there every day of every weekend and holiday for a whole year and still not really take in everything - assuming you actually stopped to read the placards.

Such can be said of Star Trek: The Experience, if you took time to read all the placards and attempted to take photographs of every original prop and wardrobe piece displayed to the public, along with the uniquely constructed ship models and decorations (set and otherwise). Then toss in the actors who are made up using authentic Westmore makeup (Borg drone prosthetics have to be molded and hand-painted to each individual, so they managed to get the original makeup artist to do them). Add in the opportunity to interact with these aliens wandering the replica DS9 promenade, where not only may you photograph but videotape them, and you get an opportunity perhaps superior to any fan's backstage pass - the only things missing are the actual stars, really.

The actors, waiters, service personnel, cashiers, et al. in the Experience all are there out of a labor of love - they can get better pay and hours elsewhere, but not find a better job anywhere in the Universe. That vibe makes being there like a natural high better than most any Trek con I've ever attended - and that I miss most of all. You can be totally geeked out trekkie wise, and people smile - they Grok it.

Admission tends to be around $50 for an all-day pass - you can walk through the museum all you want, and enter the 2 rides all you can manage that day. (9a til 9p approx.) Until lastday, there were discounts for tacking on souvenir pictures of you in the Captain's Chair, in the Borg Regeneration Chamber, an alien morph photo, a souvenir glass, a behind-the-scenes tour, and a meal complete with appetizer, beverage and lunch. (They had a package including some ships models, but those ran out the previous month I went.)

It really was quite a full day when I took the maximum package available - especially with tours, photos and videos, getting my souvenir pictures taken, and having the meal in Quark's Bar & Restaurant. I ended up having most all meals there.