Say Goodbye to Star Trek: The Experience

Posted by Alex in Movies & SciFi, Travel & Places on September 1, 2008 at 2:50 pm


Aaaw! Star Trek: The Experience, a hoaky but charming attraction at the Las Vegas Hilton is closing:

After a decade at the final frontier, Star Trek: The Experience is going where no Las Vegas Strip attraction wants to go. With a decommissioning ceremony — as befits any great vessel — the exhibit and its replica of the starship Enterprise are closing Monday. [...]

In the end, the frontier the USS Enterprise couldn’t breach was earthly: The attraction’s owner, Cedar Fair Entertainment Co., and the Las Vegas Hilton, its landlord, couldn’t agree on a new lease. They worked as a typical landlord and retail tenant, with Cedar Fair keeping all revenue from the attraction, said hotel spokesman Ira David Sternberg.

Trekkies are incensed. They’ve scrawled reminiscences about the exhibit on the walls inside, and they’re calling Cedar Fair and the hotel to complain. But their online rumor that the space the exhibit occupies will become a theater for pop star Michael Jackson is unfounded, Sternberg said. He said nothing’s decided.

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6 comments to "Say Goodbye to Star Trek: The Experience"

  1. Bruce
    September 1st, 2008 at 4:39 pm

    My wife and I had the poor sense to visit ST: The Experience just hours before our Vegas wedding in October of 2000. Let's just say that pre-wedding jitters and a motion-ride do not make a good combo. We'll never forget it though!

  2. Johnny Cat
    September 1st, 2008 at 9:50 pm

    How time flies in warp speed. Last time I was in Vegas, the thing was just opening.

  3. MoonCake
    September 2nd, 2008 at 5:18 am

    it's ok to let go.

  4. Mel Phistopheles
    September 2nd, 2008 at 8:36 am

    Damn! Frak! I never got the chance to ride the second one, the 4D Borg Experience, where you get to get assimilated by the Borg! Well, at least now it makes for one less choice of the thousands of things to do in Vegas. I think there's at least a dozen Cirque du Soleil shows to choose from. If they replace it with a theater for Michael Jackson..... PHOTON TORPEDOES AWAY!!!!!

  5. Johnny Cat
    September 2nd, 2008 at 11:09 pm

    mmmm...cirque du soleil

  6. Mel
    September 3rd, 2008 at 4:40 pm

    With the number of theme park properties that Cedar Fair owns, I wouldn't be surprised if the exhibit (or portions of it, perhaps) started showing up at places like Cedar Point or Kings Island...


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