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Star Trek Las Vegas, aka The 56-Year Mission, Aug. 24-28th, 2022

by sebulia

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An Andorian "Dorothy" ('Andorothy?'); a Star Trek/Wizard of Oz mashup, and "Q" from Star Trek: The Next Generation
One of the Star Trek fan club recruitment tables at the convention; teddy bears welcome...
Two "Talosians" from the original Star Trek pilot, "The Cage," later incorporated into the two-part episode "The Menagerie".
An Orion hostess shows off a variety of real Star Trek wines in a typically colorful Star Trek moment...
Inside the Leonard Nimoy Theater; a panel for "Star Trek: Picard" was underway...
Panel for "Star Trek: Picard": Isa Briones ("Soji"), James Callis ("Maurice Picard"), Evan Evagora ("Elnor"), Jonathan Frakes (director), Michelle Hurd ("Raffi"), Peyton List ("Narissa"), Gates McFadden ("Dr. Crusher"), and Annie Wesching ("Borg queen")
The panel for "Star Trek: Discovery", including actors Doug Jones ("Saru"), Anthony Rapp ("Stamets") and Patrick Kwok-Choon ("Rhys"). Only caught a few minutes.
Two Star Trek: TNG cosplayers defend a fan-dancing "Lt. Uhura" (whom I'd met previously at the 2017 Star Trek convention)
One final look at the Roddenberry Archive Room, upstairs on the 26th floor
Two screen-used uniforms from "Star Trek: The Motion Picture"; my wife noticed subtle fraying and wear on the lower ends of the integrated leggings
Author/Trekspert Larry Nemecek ("The Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion") gave a fascinating talk on the evolving boundaries of Star Trek's galaxy and how it matches the real Milky Way, as explained in his book, "Star Trek Stellar Cartography."
Author/Trekspert Larry Nemecek ("The Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion") gave a fascinating talk on the evolving boundaries of Star Trek's galaxy and how it matches the real Milky Way, as explained in his book, "Star Trek Stellar Cartography."
Author/Trekspert Larry Nemecek ("The Star Trek: The Next Generation Companion") gave a fascinating talk on the evolving boundaries of Star Trek's galaxy and how it matches the real Milky Way, as explained in his book, "Star Trek Stellar Cartography."
The convention's bar, aka "Jimmy's Place" (formerly "Quark's") was also moved upstairs to the 26th floor
The convention's bar, aka "Jimmy's Place" (formerly "Quark's") was also moved upstairs to the 26th floor
The convention's bar, aka "Jimmy's Place" (formerly "Quark's") was also moved upstairs to the 26th floor
A cosplayer in a nicely recreated spacesuit from "Star Trek: Enterprise" (2001-2005)
"Spock" "Captain Sisko" "Romulan Commander" and USS Enterprise-D crewman cosplayers
A fan-dancing Starfleet science officer struts their stuff! Everything matched, too.
I've seen these two gents many times at various conventions over the years; one of them is a valued reader of my website, in fact!
A wonderful recreation of a helmeted Romulan from Star Trek's "Balance of Terror"... the episode that first aired the week I was born, in fact!
The brilliantly imagined love child between Star Trek: Discovery's "Saru" and his Vulcan girlfriend "T'Rina"
Running into a Twitter friend of mine, Lexa! She's very kind and it was lovely to meet her in person!
Also ran into another mashup cosplay; this one being a Starfleet "ALF"...
David Williams, Research Professor for Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration and Instructor for Osher Lifelong Learning Institute; giving a seminar on robotic solar system exploration.
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