Photo TR: Vegas Star Trek Convention 2008

[cosmic hearse]

Mods, I'm not sure if I posted in the correct place feel free to move it if need be.

 

Here's a late Photo report from the 2008 Star Trek Convention at the Las Vegas Hilton. A quick disclaimer: I am not a trekkie/trekker and actually just watched my first full episode of Star Trek this past year. I accompanied my trekkie boyfriend. I'm not going to lie and say that I didn't enjoy all the movies and some of the shows. In fact I grew quite fond of a few of the characters. I'd never been to anything like this before and was kinda scared and excited to see all the geeks. Sadly there weren't as many people dressed up as I would have liked to see. Anyways on to the pictures!

106...At night!

12:36 AM and the temp outside?

Dancing Corey!

Dancing Waters?

Nice picture of the Paris hotel during the Belagio fountain show.

Geek car. Even their car brand is space themed!

Goodbye Star Trek : the Experience and Con 2008.

One last pic with the sign.

A lot of people were stopping by as they left the convention. Notes lined the walls of the halls.

Goodbye light up wall thingy.

Farewell sequined reptilian creature.

Geek love. Star Trek wedding.

Gone

We stopped by again before leaving to say goodbye.

The new Star Trek slots and the Vegas Hilton.

Voyager crew.

Us, Leonard Nimoy and my Spock teddy bear.

time for both of them

The line for meeting Leonard Nimoy.

Both Spocks. Leonard Nemoy and Zachary Quinto whom is also Sylar from Heroes.

Us and Data

alongside Data

Warf

Storm Trooper

But I sped there and he made it for his picture.

But we were barely on Flamingo coming from "Henderson, NV

And it was 9:30. My clock is 10 min fast.

He had good reason since all the photo opps had been payed for in advance.

Day 3 We woke up late and are running late. He is not amused.

Q? I honestly don't know.

Resistance is futile.

The Las Vegas philharmonic performed the music from the show and films for an hour. All those empty seats up front and they wouldn't let us move up. LAME.

Us and the poster.

Borg and their un-assimilated children.

The worst hypnotist show ever.

Avery Brooks and the boy.

Waiting for Avery Brooks.

Klingons eating at Quarks.

Big Logo

Looking down into the casino area.

Janeway's uniform.

ship

Spock's robe from the movie.

Spock the sex beast! I don't know what it is but he's so cute! I think it's his eyebrows.

The Star Trek time line.

Super cool elevator.

The exit hallway after the ride. The ride had a crazy effect. Well the line did I guess. The teleportation part of the ride was a real trip. Everything leading to the ride was so well themed, I actually enjoyed that more than the actual simulator.

Us and one of the Borg.

Borg!

Stuff to look at while in line.

In line for Star Trek: The Experience

casino

Geeks Unite!

3 awesome costumes.

Klingon or foreskin foreheads as I like to call them.

There he is again in a different costume.

Another awesome sunset to end the day.

Patrick Stewart look-a-like.

Fuzzy cause we were so far back but here's George and Nichelle doing their talk and Q and A with the fans.

"I hate my life" The man who played Chewbacca in the Star Wars movies.

The super cool and super gay George Takei also known as Sulu and was also in Heroes as Hiro Nakamura's father.

Nichelle Nichols who played Uhura. She was extremely nice and you can feel all the positive energy just beaming off of her. Little fact, she helped get the first black woman into space and made history as being the first interracial kiss on tv when she kissed William Shatner.

Big posters from every series in the corridor between all of the rooms.

Here we have our first two costumed geeks.

OO Aahh. It's the hotties autographed glove from the movie.

They Accept...cat boobs?

So now we are in the hotel and got our wristbands. We went and checked out all the merch.

The sign says we have arrived. I hear they're getting rid of this ginormous sign in the near future.

It's now the next day and we're driving to our first day of the convention.

The view in the opposite direction of the thermometer.

Baker, Ca. home to the worlds largest rectal thermometer also our half way point.

puurrttty

It was a nice drive out to Vegas, there were thunderstorms in the distance.

[Groteslurf]

Interesting & great report.

 

I've always thought of Trekkies as weirdo's but I'm sure that a lot of people think we, as themepark and coasteraddicts, are weirdo's too.

 

Once again, great report. Love to read it.

[mcjaco]

Nice PTR, but this should be in the Random Forum.

 

 

Sooooo......I'm moving it!

[AllenA07]

I was at Vegas this past August and watched a bunch of Trekkies, in full costume of course, come up to the Ghostbar on the top of Palms. I'll admit that I thought they were really lame to be honest, but I was actually glad they came up there because it helped lose that "ultra hip" thing the Ghostbar had going on.

[gisco]

I find it interesting that you pay for a picture with Kate Mulgrew and she doesn't look that happy. You should have got your money back on that one.

[sugart]

I spy a sore thumb, and its not the borg.

 

Interesting TR. Im not gonna lie and say I get it, because I dont. Gotta admire their commitment though. Besides in the end we are all geeks in our own way.

[TheRapidsNerd]

Cosmic,

You did a great job with this TR. Thank you VERY much for including Star Trek: The Experience in it. And kudos to the Borg's costume. Just lots of good things in this TR.

[Erik Johnson]

Sweet trip report, thanks for posting. I guess I never had any idea that you now have to pay the actors to have your picture taken with them these days.

[chmilo24]

Great TR, I always wondered what went on in those conventions, and now I know. You seemed to get the whole experiance in this one PTR. Two question though, how much was it to get your picture with those actors? And where was Captian Kirk?

 

--Chris

[cosmic hearse]

Thanks for the comments.

 

I find it interesting that you pay for a picture with Kate Mulgrew and she doesn't look that happy. You should have got your money back on that one.

 

Haha I know right? That's what I told him too, but he says she was extremely nice when he spoke to her. I'm guessing the camera man probably just took the picture in haste since there was a huge line.

 

Great TR, I always wondered what went on in those conventions, and now I know. You seemed to get the whole experiance in this one Photo TR. Two question though, how much was it to get your picture with those actors? And where was Captian Kirk?

 

--Chris

 

The prices were absolutely insane! I don't know how the trekkies do this every year. Tickets for general admission were $30 a day. The cost for pictures differed from actor to actor. Luckily I didn't have to pay anything. My boyfriend is the trekkie and he just didn't want to go alone. He offered to pay for my tickets if I drove. He planned on getting all of those pics ahead of time minus the Leonard Nimoy pic. That was a gift to me since he knows I really like him.

 

Of the top of my head Janeway, Data, Avery Brooks, and the others were about 40-50 dollars each. Worf was $55 and Leonard Nimoy was $75! The insane part is that its 1 picture and that's it. If you want something signed you have to pay a separate price. I think Most autographs were 20-30 dollars except Leonards, his was $45.

 

Kirk wasn't a guest this year. I guess they have different actors attend each year so that it's not the same every year.

[dino]

Cool TR. Although I'm not a Star Trek person myself, it seems like an interesting event to attend. It looks like trekkies aren't as big nerds as I make them out to be (well most of them).