Star Trek Conventions

[cbosdell]

Never been to one either.

[Nutso]

Broken record here, but I've never been to one. Never wanted to. I just liked to watch the shows, except Voyager and Enterprise. Come to think of it, DITL is the closest I've come to talking to another Star Trek fan in nearly 10 years. Used to have a buddy I could chat about Babylon 5 and Deep Space Nine in high school. He loved the technical aspect of fictional space travel. He found Babylon 5's hyperspace more plausible than Star Trek's "going faster than the speed of light" warp speed traveling.

[Mark]

At one, as luck would have it, I was staying in the hotel, coming down from my room in the elevator when the car stopped at a lower floor, and Nana Vistor (Kira) got on wearing a kind of summer dress. GOD, when not dressed up like a bajoran butch, she was sexy! And of course I'm standing there in full starfleet uniform, only imagining what she must be thinking. But she was quite polite

[Graham Kennedy]

Never been to a convention, never wanted to.

[Aaron]

I went in Grade 11 with a friend (only because he paid for admission and lunch), Shatner and Nimoy were cool and funny but the obese Klingon cos-players were just embarrassing. Was a complete and total waste of time.

[thelordharry]

One funny story I do have from Star Trek, The Experience is when me and the wife were on one of the rides, the Klingon one I think, and you're in this mock up type TNG shuttle (on hydraulics so it throws you all over the shop and makes you feel sick). I'm sitting right to one side and there's this LCARS panel next to me. I turn round to the wife half way through the ride and shout that I'm re-routing auxilliary power through to structual integrity and then start randomly pressing loads of these buttons......and then a voice comes over the tannoy saying "This is Starfleet command, Sir, you're not authorised to touch any controls on the shuttle" and I go bright red

BUT I SAVED US FROM A HULL BREACH FOR GOD'S SAKE!!!

[Reliant121]

haha!

[Sionnach Glic]

[Mikey]

One funny story I do have from Star Trek, The Experience is when me and the wife were on one of the rides, the Klingon one I think, and you're in this mock up type TNG shuttle (on hydraulics so it throws you all over the shop and makes you feel sick). I'm sitting right to one side and there's this LCARS panel next to me. I turn round to the wife half way through the ride and shout that I'm re-routing auxilliary power through to structual integrity and then start randomly pressing loads of these buttons......and then a voice comes over the tannoy saying "This is Starfleet command, Sir, you're not authorised to touch any controls on the shuttle" and I go bright red

BUT I SAVED US FROM A HULL BREACH FOR GOD'S SAKE!!!

You're lucky it wasn't too accurate of a depiction... a passerby could have bumped the thing and the console would have exploded.

[Bryan Moore]

I met John DeLancie

You met Q?!? If I ever met him I don't think I'd be able to suppress my natural urge to, in crisp English accent (or is that French?) bark "what do you want Q?!?"

Funny thing was, at the time (13 years old, I believe), I was more interested in Boba Fett. In retrospect, I'd love to meet DeLancie again.

[Bryan Moore]

Never been to a convention, never wanted to.

Why's that?

[Mark]

They were ALOT of fun in my younger years. Even purchased the great Star Trek porn spoof video. "Sex Trek: The Next Penatration."

[Mikey]

They were ALOT of fun in my younger years. Even purchased the great Star Trek porn spoof video. "Sex Trek: The Next Penatration."

Who was in that?

[Mark]

God, I can't remember. They called the characters by parody names based on porn (don't wanna list 'em here for there are still young'uns present). And even made a sequel Sex Trek: The Wrath of Bob.

Corney and weak even as porns go..........but funny nevertheless.

[Graham Kennedy]

Never been to a convention, never wanted to.

Why's that?

From what I know of them, there's very little at a convention that would interest me. Although I respect the actors abilities and contribution immensely, my interest is more in the characters they play. I don't especially want to hear anyone's backstage stories, and I don't particularly want to get anyone's autograph. Nor do I buy Trek merchandise, outside of the reference books I use for the site or the DVDs Ian buys.

All power to a fan if all that is their thing. It's just not mine.