The End and New Beginning(?) of the Star Trek Experience
Posted on October 21, 2008 1:07 am by doug
Filed Under geek culture, television, videos
Tags: downtown enterprise geek monthly hilton las vegas neonopolis paramount star trek experience wired
Just a few weeks after the Star Trek Experience closed its shuttle bay doors for the last time at the Las Vegas Hilton on September 1st, there is renewed hope that it could return to Sin City in a completely new venue: Neonopolis. According to Wired, Neonopolis has struggled for years in it’s downtown location, hoping for a way to drum up steady business. With the also struggling Star Trek Experience now closed down after a 10 year run at the Hilton (Paramount’s deal with the hotel ended with neither wanting to continue the partnership), this appears to be a prime opportunity for the downtown collection of shops, restaurants, and casinos (duh) to re-invent itself and draw in some geeky gamblers that woudn’t normally stray far from the Strip. It’s still up in the air as of this posting, but who knows what the future holds?
By the way, there’s a great article in the latest issue of one of my favorite printed publications, Geek Monthly magazine (grab the one with the Paul Rudd cover), about the final days of the Star Trek Experience. Hopefully, this more recent news will help turn things around for both the Star Trek Experience and Neonopolis.
I was lucky enough to go through the entire Experience in 2007 with a friend and we were also able to take the behind-the-scenes tour. For a big Trek fan like me, it was a great geeky time, especially when they showed us how they “transported” us.
Below… some footage of the history of the Star Trek Experience and the dismantling of the Enterprise after the closing…
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