From fans in full costume, to super fans who collect it all, to fans who have surgically altered they all came dressed for the for the party at the Las Vegas Star Trek Convention a the Hilton.
The Star Trek fans get to really show off during the Las Vegas Star Trek Convention. Some wear costumes, some wear a different one each day. There are fans who don't wear costumes but collect everything they can get their hands on, some even go to auctions, like the big one at Christi's, and spend huge money to own Starships. Then there are fans who have gone, were no mane or woman has gone before, and had themselves surgically altered.
These fans are no different from sports fans who wear their team jerseys, paint their faces, sometimes whole bodies, dedicate their spare time to traveling to the games, and having huge tailgate parties. They collect autographs, baseball cards, and memorabilia just like the Trek fans do.
Memorabilia is big business and the Vendor Room at the convention is a testimony to that. Vendors like Roddenberry.com supply the fans with what they demand, it's a lesson economics 101.
Autographs photos dominate the show from Creation Entertainments along with photo ops. From the rare Trek autograph photos and film stars from the past, it was all found at this years convention in Las Vegas.
Digital Journal has put this piece together to show a wide and mixed collection of our own. We collected the stories and the pictures of fans at the Las Vegas Star Trek Convention for 2009.
Lets preface this with, that because of the fast and furious pace we had to keep, notes were flying every where over the four days Trek, some names and notes were not able to be matched up to the photos, so if you are reading this and see your photo without your name, feel free to leave us a note in the comment section and tell your side of the Trek convention.
This is Digital Journals tribute to the Fans of Star Trek, feel free to tell your side of the convention in our comments section or add a photo. With out you, the Star Trek universe would not exist. We would also like to thank all those who took their time to visit with us and let us take your picture during the convention. This article is for you.
Jay David Murphy
Space suit girl was a big hit at the convention. Here she poses with a laser rifle at the Roddenberry booth.
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By special request Space girl does a walk for Trek stars.
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The real reason for the Space girl walk is clearly seen by the looks from Dominic Keating and the other male fans from the Enterprise series. The purse makes the outfit.
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Fans at the Days Missing party at Body English at the Hard Rock in Las Vegas.
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The Albino Andorian make up and costume was created by this fan. In the next photo she shows off another costume she wore the next day.
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Here the woman who was the Albino Andorian shows off her other creation which she made herself, a Star Trek space suit.
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Fans Sue and Stacy from Toronto fly in every year to attend the Star Trek Convention.
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Star Trek fans come from all over the world, in and out of costume. We talked to fans who came from Tokyo, Norway, London, Scotland, Denmark, Canada, New York, California, Arizona, Iowa, Minnesota, Florida, and Las Vegas.
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Celina and Nina Delgadillo From Sacramento were there to see Zachary Quinto, mom brought her daughter because she got straight A's.
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Darwin Wireman and Hanna Rodgers stop just before they leave the Hilton for a photo with Digital Journal.
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Pat Whittaker from Edmonton, Alberta Canada is regular at the convention and has made many friends.
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Hege Mari Kolseth from Nordfjodeid and Stine Ellingsen from Alsvag came all the way from Norway to attend the Las Vegas Star Trek convention. DJ found them discussing how to get a batlif through air port security.
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Trek fans Sarah Warner and Tom Hugh came for the convention for New York.
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Anneke is form Denmark and Hugh is from Scotland and they both live in Denmark, their friend lives in Scotland.
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Jesse 17 in green has a coveted Gold Pass he got for his birthday with his brother Nelson 23. Their mom was hiding behind the giant planter.
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Megan is from Paradise AZ, Alyssa from Phoenix AZ, and Ali Bodnar is from Scottsdale AZ. Alyssa is an old school Trek fan. She has that Kirk swagger.
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Alison Warren is from Danville, Illinois. She says that the only thing to do there is to watch Star Trek with her boy friend.
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K in his Klingon outfit is flanked by his two human children.
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The Green Woman would not disclose her real identity because she is a teacher and said her students would never let her hear the end of it.
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This could be a future movie The Borg VS Green Woman.
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These two show off some of the finest Klingon outfits at the convention.
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A new television series coming this fall, Vulcan and the Horta.
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Christen "Germ" Hurba, can you say slave girl?
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These two are regulars at the convention and always bring their dogs, they also had their own collectors booth this year.
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This pesky Borg is quite the ladies man as he finds Seven of Nine and tries to assimilate her. O we get it now. Resistance is futile.
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Both of these women from Roddenberry helped last year with the booth and are back again, and have become fans. They both work conventions in Las Vegas but say this has been the best experience ever.
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This Borg School Girl armed with lunch pale has to be the most intriguing costume of the weekend. A a little scary and a lot of cute.
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Klingon and Cardasian together again, sounds like a Vegas revival show.
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Eric Allan Hall a regular at these conventions for years always comes as Data. This year he brought is daughter along for the ride.
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Every parade ends with Santa in a sleigh, this one ends with Moondog former wrestler and now with Beechers Mad House in his idea of a sleigh.
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One young woman came all the way from Tokyo to be at the Convention. But travel is her life. She is in the Army as part of what she called Force Support. Jessica Smeaton says she does everything from "helping with setting up sleeping facilities for the troops to morgue detail." She came all the way to Vegas by herself just for the convention. Now that's a dedicated fan. The two other people in the picture with her are Sydney MIlls and Senna Chen who have a grant to study fans and fan conventions from USC.
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Sydney Mills Jessica Smeaton and Senna Chen part of the huge influx of women at the Las Vegas Star Trek Convention for 2009.
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Tim Brooks is what you call a super fan. Tim went to the Christie auction and bought a 6 foot Enterprise that was on Voyager, it was not cheap and most of us could have bought a very nice home for what he spent. But when you meet this Texan you would never guess he was a Trek Fan. He is a property manger. Tim has everything you could think of. He said, "When I bought that ship I spent the next 7 years of money I had to buy memorabilia. My wife will only let me get a few autographs that I don't have." His daughter Sandy is going to college to become a math and science teacher. Tim Brooks can always be found smoking a good cigar.
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Sandy and Tim Brooks. Tim is a super fan who bought one of the Enterprise at the Christie auction.
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Fans come in all shapes and sizes, nationalities, career types, ages, and races. We even found a real alien, according to her. Fable Doe even has her (we were pretty sure it was a female)own web site. She claims to be on our planet watching our every move and reporting back to her home world. Fable had the ears to prove it. She even interviewed us for here planetary news network. Digital Journal will be looking into this matter more thoroughly at a later date, but for now you decide, alien or?
Jay David Murphy
Self proclaimed alien reporter, Fable Doe, here to report the bad news for her planet on human evolution.
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Is she a Playboy Borg or is she an alien reporter sent by her planet to spy on us? Only Fable Doe really knows.
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Proof of being an Alien? Fable Doe's ear. Or was it a surgical procedure that created this pointed ear?
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Fable Doe profile with her pointy ear just to make sure there has been no trickery. It was real. But is Fable a real Alien?
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This years Las Vegas Star Trek Convention was a monster success in terms of attendance and the events. What was amazing was the huge influx of children and women brought on board by the new Star Trek film. As one teen put it, "It's cool to like Trek now." So another generation has come on board to enjoy what older fans have known about for 40 years. Star Trek is more than a television series, its more than a movie, it's a philosophy of tolerance that was set down by its original creator Gene Roddenberry.
This past year Majel Roddenberry passed into the great cosmos to join her husband Gene on their next journey together, leaving the reigns of the Roddenberry family with Eugene "Rod" Roddenberry to continue with the traditions, dreams, and hopes that were put forth by his father over 40 years ago. Both would be proud of how far it has come and if this convention and the new movie are any indication, Rod, many years from now, will hand down the reigns of the Roddenberry vision to his children.
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This display was set up for fans to leave messages that will be included when Majel and Gene Roddenberry's ashes are sent into space in the near future.
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Here is one more parting batch of fan photo's from the Las Vegas Star Trek Convention. Digital Journal will have another piece that we have saved from Saturdays special presentation from Kevin Sorbo in remembrance of Majel Roddenberry.
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This the beginning of what we call the Tribble affect.
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The Tribble affect grows until Trek fans becomes a huge group of friends.
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This is Nielea showing off two Tribbles at the Roddenberry booth at the Las Vegas Star Trek Convention.
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What do you say, just Punk Trek. His fan was all smiles while cruising the Vendor hall.
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It is Las Vegas so, when in Rome, Trek fans leave the convention in a limo.
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Trek fans leave in a limo from the Las Vegas Hilton
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Trek fans load up in a limo and say goodbye to another Star Trek Convention.
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