Headed on down to the old Queen Mary area --for The Star Trek Tour.
A 2 year traveling Star Trek Exhibit that is touring the country. I'm not personally a big Star Trek fan (I'm a Star Wars geek not a Trekie) In fact of all the Star Trek movies which there are 10 I've only really liked maybe 3 of them. And series wise I've only seen all of the original Series episodes. My mom on the other hand was a big fan of the original series back in the day and also watched the Next Generation and some of the other series. But being a Sci-Fi fan in general I thought it would be fun to see the exhibit.
Price
At $35 it was a little pricey in my opinion (but everything at the Old Queen Mary is too expensive as far as I'm concerned) . Parking $15 (You have got to be kidding me this isn't .Disneyland folks) So unless you are a Star Trek fan Price vs. Value (Eh Not so much)
The Great Tiki Welcomes you to the exhibit.
"It's only a model"
The exhibit itself
The exhibit itself was pretty nice as far as traveling exhibits go. With photo op sets –a lot of costumes for the various series and films The displays of the props and costumes I liked better than the Vegas Exhibit. Although the Vegas Experience as a permanent exhibit is better (which is too be expected) Still an enjoyable experience.
Me doing my best Captain Kirk impression (with Hawaiian shirt of course) On a mock up set of the original show
You wear this Red shirt and go down to the planet you will die
Set your Phasers to stun
Beam me up Scotty!
We Can't do it any faster Captain
Mom on the bridge of Next Generation
Data's severed head
Props
The Borg
Seven of Nine (Yeah Baby!)
Next Generation outfit
Futurism The Communicator 1960's look familiar
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More stuff
Time Line Wall
Borg head
Spock
Picard's office
The Ride
They had a little simulator ride --which well it was cheesy. What do you expect when you step into a simulator that doesn't even have seat belts. The simulator ride looked like a cheesy Star Trek video game. You would think that 20 years after Star Tours the simulator rides would get better. But as far as I'm concerned Star Tours is still the best simulator to date (Well Mission Space at Epcot is pretty good if you can keep from nearly throwing up)
There was another small simulator that went upside down –but being a 2 seat attraction the line was over an hour –so after the less then stellar other simulator I passed on that one.
The Merchandise
The Merchandise was severely lacking. Sure that had T-shirts and a vibrating Tribble but with all the Star Trek stuff out there on the market –they could have had a lot more stuff. A missed opportunity. (And I really wanted a Gorn mask –dammit)
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Gorn where art thou
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