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October 3, 2020 3:45 PM Subscribe
28 minutes of raw, behind-the-scenes footage from the production of STAR TREK: THE EXPERIENCE in Las Vegas – including a lights-on view of the transporter mechanism (via @davecobb)
Fighting the Gorn in the attraction queue
posted by The Underpants Monster at 4:02 PM on October 3, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by The Underpants Monster at 4:02 PM on October 3, 2020 [2 favorites]
I went a few years before it closed, it was a real treat. The highlight was an actor playing a Klingon telling Klingon jokes while we waited in line for one of the attractions. He really had fun with it. I wonder sometimes what he does now, and hope he’s having as much fun.
posted by jzb at 4:03 PM on October 3, 2020 [5 favorites]
posted by jzb at 4:03 PM on October 3, 2020 [5 favorites]
jzb, the performers really sold it. My sister and I were sitting in Quark’s when a Ferengi came up to our table and said, “I don’t know how you hu-mons can drink so slowly!”
posted by The Underpants Monster at 4:10 PM on October 3, 2020 [7 favorites]
posted by The Underpants Monster at 4:10 PM on October 3, 2020 [7 favorites]
Wait wait wait... THAT'S how they did the transporter?! That would explain the rush of air...
posted by SansPoint at 4:34 PM on October 3, 2020
posted by SansPoint at 4:34 PM on October 3, 2020
I kind of miss the theme-park era of Las Vegas. It was a crazy time, and everything wasn't a nightclub.
posted by mookoz at 4:48 PM on October 3, 2020 [3 favorites]
posted by mookoz at 4:48 PM on October 3, 2020 [3 favorites]
It's on my list of things to do as soon as I get this time machine working.
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 6:09 PM on October 3, 2020 [3 favorites]
posted by Mr.Encyclopedia at 6:09 PM on October 3, 2020 [3 favorites]
I'm still bitter we missed out on the life sized Enterprise in Vegas.
posted by thatwhichfalls at 6:51 PM on October 3, 2020 [8 favorites]
posted by thatwhichfalls at 6:51 PM on October 3, 2020 [8 favorites]
I am so happy that I managed to visit this once. It was a unique experience.
posted by heathkit at 7:49 PM on October 3, 2020
posted by heathkit at 7:49 PM on October 3, 2020
well, now I'm mad I'll never get to see this in person.
posted by nonasuch at 9:03 PM on October 3, 2020 [3 favorites]
posted by nonasuch at 9:03 PM on October 3, 2020 [3 favorites]
I loved this so much. There was a deal where you could just go around and around, and we'd do it again and again, getting drunker on Quark's Warp Core Breach every time.
The absolutely best thing about it was the first part you entered into -- the elevator that gets magically transformed into the transporter room in this tape -- was deliberately made to look like a shitty Star Trek ride. The uniforms of the person telling you the boring instructions were cheap star trek knockoffs, he/she looked bored, the introductory video had terrible production values, colors were muted. Then there was something that threw the guide off their pitch, they looked genuinely disoriented. And there was this wind that blew into your eyes from everywhere so you couldn't quite focus (where is that coming from?), and then ... the transporter sound.
Suddenly when you could look around again, the elevator had vanished, the colors were vivid, and your guide looks incredibly out of place. And you were on the Enterprise.
The funniest thing was that the Enterprise crew that came in to whisk you off also took your original guide off in a different direction. Presumably that was so they could get ready for the next batch, but we were all like: they didn't come back to the 20th century with us! What did they do with them?
posted by ntk at 11:22 PM on October 3, 2020 [8 favorites]
The absolutely best thing about it was the first part you entered into -- the elevator that gets magically transformed into the transporter room in this tape -- was deliberately made to look like a shitty Star Trek ride. The uniforms of the person telling you the boring instructions were cheap star trek knockoffs, he/she looked bored, the introductory video had terrible production values, colors were muted. Then there was something that threw the guide off their pitch, they looked genuinely disoriented. And there was this wind that blew into your eyes from everywhere so you couldn't quite focus (where is that coming from?), and then ... the transporter sound.
Suddenly when you could look around again, the elevator had vanished, the colors were vivid, and your guide looks incredibly out of place. And you were on the Enterprise.
The funniest thing was that the Enterprise crew that came in to whisk you off also took your original guide off in a different direction. Presumably that was so they could get ready for the next batch, but we were all like: they didn't come back to the 20th century with us! What did they do with them?
posted by ntk at 11:22 PM on October 3, 2020 [8 favorites]
Despair not...
There’s a guy in Ticonderoga, New York who has converted an old grocery store space into recreations of sets from the original Star Trek series. Apparently it’s good enough to impress Shatner.
posted by kinnakeet at 4:26 AM on October 4, 2020 [3 favorites]
There’s a guy in Ticonderoga, New York who has converted an old grocery store space into recreations of sets from the original Star Trek series. Apparently it’s good enough to impress Shatner.
posted by kinnakeet at 4:26 AM on October 4, 2020 [3 favorites]
The Ticonderoga project is very sweet. Obsessively detailed.
Photos from our last trip.
posted by doctornemo at 8:53 AM on October 4, 2020 [1 favorite]
Photos from our last trip.
posted by doctornemo at 8:53 AM on October 4, 2020 [1 favorite]
Is the Ticonderoga project in any way related to Neutral Zone Studios in Georgia?
I lover the idea of recreating the shooting sets, not just for tours, but as a facility for people to film their own fan creations.
Take a road trip with your local theatre troupe and the Film Production class from your community college. Stay in a motel down the road for a couple days while you film your own episode.
posted by bartleby at 11:58 AM on October 4, 2020 [1 favorite]
I lover the idea of recreating the shooting sets, not just for tours, but as a facility for people to film their own fan creations.
Take a road trip with your local theatre troupe and the Film Production class from your community college. Stay in a motel down the road for a couple days while you film your own episode.
posted by bartleby at 11:58 AM on October 4, 2020 [1 favorite]
I went once while it was open and bought some Romulan Ale, then I went again after they lost their Trek license and had reskinned everything in generic space-alien branding. Years later, I walked into the Millennium Fandom Bar where they must have had a 20th anniversary event next door, because they had the put up the old marquee and a poster with lots of signatures. I don't visit Vegas *that* often, but I'm glad to run into Trek when I do.
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 2:55 PM on October 4, 2020
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 2:55 PM on October 4, 2020
Ah, so it really happened. I just missed the party!
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 2:57 PM on October 4, 2020
posted by RobotVoodooPower at 2:57 PM on October 4, 2020
Quark's Warp Core Breach
OMG that drink. When I visited years ago we raced our friends to see who could finish it the quickest, we had to wear sunglasses to exit because the cacophony of slot machines was too much for our rum-soaked brains
Recipe
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 1:20 PM on October 5, 2020 [3 favorites]
OMG that drink. When I visited years ago we raced our friends to see who could finish it the quickest, we had to wear sunglasses to exit because the cacophony of slot machines was too much for our rum-soaked brains
Recipe
- 4.5 oz Bacardi Superior (or any white, clear, cheap rum out there)
- 3 oz Bacardi Limon (or any lemon rum you can find)
- 1.5 oz Bacardi Select (Meyers Dark rum also works, or whatever dark rum your store has)
- 1.5 oz Bacardi Spice (Captain Morgans also works, but any spiced rum will do)
- 1.5 oz Dekuyper Lucious Raspberry Rush (formerly known as Razzmatazz, this is the most important part, other Raspberry liqueurs don’t seem to work)
- 75 oz Bacardi 151 (any 151 proof rum will do since they all seem to taste like gasoline by themselves)
- 30 oz (1.5 bottles) Sobe Power (finding Aceorla/passion berry juice is too hard to find so just use Sobe Power, besides, the caffeine in the Sobe Power ads an extra kick to the drink)
posted by MiltonRandKalman at 1:20 PM on October 5, 2020 [3 favorites]
A friend and I shared the Warp Core Breach...it was delicious. We had to finish it quickly because the staff was kicking us out to accommodate a Barry Manilow fan club event.
posted by mmascolino at 5:59 PM on October 5, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by mmascolino at 5:59 PM on October 5, 2020 [1 favorite]
MiltonRandKalman - thanks for the recipe... is that correct, 75 oz of Bacardi 151 or is it 7.5 instead?
posted by jzb at 10:21 AM on October 9, 2020
posted by jzb at 10:21 AM on October 9, 2020
Looking at the rest of the proportions I'm guessing .75 oz (3/4 oz) of the 151, 75 oz would be undrinkable (not to mention expensive) and even 7.5 oz would be pretty extreme and not taste good.
posted by Daily Alice at 10:33 AM on October 9, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by Daily Alice at 10:33 AM on October 9, 2020 [1 favorite]
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