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A whole mess of photos can be found on Flickr.

Whatever possessed us to attend a Star Trek convention?

Well, we're both fans, obviously. In fact, I'd just seen the last television incarnation of Star Trek, "Enterprise" this past Spring on HDNet. (So lovely in high definition!) I hadn't seen it when it aired on UPN from 2001-2005 because even standing on one leg, waving a dead chicken and making offerings to Cthulhu wouldn't have helped me receive UPN as anything more than television snow in my apartment at the time, and I was too poor for cable. But when I got a chnace to watch it, I was hooked. (And heartbroken when I found that it had been canceled after only four seasons. Dangit.)

We were also looking for a nice vacation. I'd wanted to drag my sweetie to see the Star Trek Experience in Las Vegas since 1999, when I had a chance to see it while visiting a friend who lives out there. I kept thinking we could just get a cheap flight to Vegas for a Star Trek weekend.

We'd also missed out on really celebrating our 5th anniversary this year (except for a nice dinner and wedding cake) because of school, work and illness. Once everything calmed down again we wanted to do something fun.

And finally, I just really needed to do something like this after surviving two years of graduate school while working full-time in a stressful job. I was wiped out and needed something to energize me.

Given all that, when I discovered that Creation's annual Star Trek convention was held in Las Vegas at the home of the Star Trek Experience, the Las Vegas Hilton, we just had to go. We're so glad we did.

Here's a bunch of related links:

Xanadu Las Vegas Fandom Blog has an Official Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas round-up

I found three other nice photo collections on Flickr: boushh2187's Las Vegas Star Trek Convention 2008 Collection, pensiveone's2008 Las Vegas Star Trek convention set, and zathrasknowz's 2008 Star Trek Vegas convention set.

Trekmovie.com has some convention related news, including a bit about the New Star Trek Movie Posters With Four New Cast Images

Then there's lots of stories about The Star Trek Expereince closing. Here's a sampling:

>From the Los Angeles Times: Can Star Trek convention continue mission without Experience?

>From WIRED: Star Trek: The Experience Closing in Vegas

>From the Review Journal: This is one 'Star Trek' episode that ends badly

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