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Star Trek exhibition at the Tech Museum

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  1. Just went to this today and was pretty disappointed. I guess I expected to see a lot more actual props, recreated sets, and staff milling about in costume or something. But I didn't get to go through a single door that made the cool door swishing noise. There were no people dressed up. Most of the exhibit consisted of a bunch of uniforms displayed in cases on headless mannequins and informational text on the walls about some kind of Star Trek trivia. The bridge was a scaled down cheap replica. The Borg Cube prop and some of the other props were pretty cool, but I think they could have lit the displays better and at least let you handle some of them.

    It was lame that they didn't allow you to take your own pictures in there. They had people with DSLRs stationed at the 3 sets, ready to take your picture and sell it to you, but there wasn't any professionally lit setup for the photo opp.

    Anyway I like Star Trek but I would say that the exhibit is really overpriced (tickets are $25, simulator ride is an additional $6, and IMAX movie is $8) for what it is.

    Posted 2 years ago #
  2. I thought from looking at the photos that one did not need to see it in person. I have some friends who went down and dressed up, and got their photo on cnet. But, there is a convention coming up in san francisco in January, but it's also going to be expensive. I don't know if I am going yet.

    Posted 2 years ago #
  3. Belldandy
    Member

    It was alright. Bridge layout was wrong, which was really bothersome, since it's not like with the level of detail it has, that they wouldn't know that it was wrong. Interesting that they mixed real props with replicas as well.

    Posted 2 years ago #
  4. I want to see the costumes, I just think it's over priced at $25 dollars. For ten dollars maybe it would be worth it.

    Posted 2 years ago #
  5. Awww I was planning to go but now you've made it sound like not worth it....

    Posted 2 years ago #
  6. Belldandy
    Member

    The costumes in my opinion, were the best part of the exhibition. Fanime has a coupon code for it now (type in 'Fanime' when it asks for a promotion code), so it brings it down to only $20, $18 if you're a student.

    http://www.fanime.com/2009/11/22/discounted-star-trek/

    Posted 2 years ago #

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