Star Trek Lover

Terribly happy and sad…

Well, I finally got to go to the Trek Experience at the Hilton. I was one of the first 20 in line when it opened on August 31st and I’m certainly glad I got there early! The line was hugely enormous by the time the entire place opened at 11:30.

It was great, getting to see all the various artifacts and props from the shows and movies. I was somewhat surprised that Spock’s white robe from The Search for Spock and The Voyage Home was not as heavy as it looked and was, instead, mostly made of some rather cheap cotton material.

The red jacket uniforms from the movies was not what I expected either. The red material was not, as I thought, a standard weave of cloth but was, instead, what I can only call a ‘t-shirt’ weave. But it certainly appeared heavier and stiffer than actual t-shirt material.

I enjoyed the rides, the Klingon one more so than the Borg one.

Unfortunately, as I said, the lines were HUGE and I was exhausted by the time the Experience opened; so I only got to go on each ride once.

If I had infinite time, money or energy then I could’ve gotten tons of pics from the museum and gone on the rides multiple times. Unfortunately, I had none of those and will have to be content with the few pics I managed to get and the memories of the rides I did go on.

I’m very, very happy I got to go. But I am also terribly saddened by the fact that I will never be able to go again. I would love to have been able to go on the Klingon one just one more time.

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