What do you do at a Star Trek convention?

Convention season is right around the corner and it’ll be days filled with fun and activities, hanging with old friends and making new ones, cosplaying and participating in contests, meeting your favorite stars from Star Trek: The Original Series to Star Trek: Discovery and everything in between and much, much more.

What is a Star Trek convention?

Star Trek conventions are organized gatherings of Star Trek fans. The larger ones usually have stars and production staff speak or at least sign autographs. It is also common for there to be booths where vendors will sell Trek-related merchandise or collectors will sell and trade.

What happened to the Star Trek Experience?

Star Trek: The Experience was operated by entertainment management company Cedar Fair after its June 2006 purchase of Paramount Parks from the CBS Corporation. It closed in September 2008, and was scheduled to reopen in the Neonopolis Mall on May 8, 2009, in time for the premiere of the Star Trek film.

What is the largest Star Trek convention?

Creation hosts the largest Star Trek convention in the world, which occurs annually during the summer in Las Vegas, Nevada; they previously produced Fangoria’s Weekend of Horrors conventions.

Are there Star Trek conventions?

Creation Entertainment’s Trek Conventions:The 55 Year Mission Tour. On August 11-15, 2021 thousands of fans celebrated the enduring legacy of Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek, a truly epic gathering highlighted by a spirit of wonder, inclusion and positivity for the future.

Is there still a Star Trek Experience in Las Vegas?

Star Trek: The Experience closed at the Las Vegas Hilton on September 1st, 2008, and while it was supposed to open again in another location, those plans never materialized. “We all new something special was about to end,” Gordon says, recalling the end of The Experience’s run.

When did Star Trek The Experience open?

January 3, 1998
The Experience opened to the public on January 3, 1998 and was an immediate success. Over its lifetime, it included Klingon Encounter and Borg 4D, two adventure rides that combined ride simulators, special effects, detailed sets and actors to make guests feel like they were actually in an episode of Star Trek.

What do you wear to a Star Trek convention?

Dress up if you can– it adds richly to the experience. I’d say that at STLV, about 20\% of the attendees wear a costume of some sort, or at least a uniform top with jeans. About another 20\% wear a Star Trek t-shirt or baseball cap with regular casual clothes, and then the rest are mostly in shorts, jeans, and T-shirts.

What happened to Star Trek the Experience?

Where is the Star Trek Experience?

the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel
Star Trek: The Experience was a US$70 million permanent Star Trek-themed attraction at the Las Vegas Hilton Hotel, owned by Cedar Fair Enterprise. It contained shops styled after the Deep Space 9 Promenade, a restaurant styled after Quark’s, and the Klingon Encounter and Borg Invasion 4D rides.