Hubby and I got in around noon yesterday and we spent a few hours hitting the Star Trek Experience. The Borg Experience was cute and very 4-D but not particuliarly scary, and the Klingon Encounter was a bit short on live Klingons, very exciting, and somewhat nauseating (thank goodness for Dramamine. I was pre-warned so I premedicated.) The timeline and museum were both very interesting, and the gift shop was quite impressive. Flying radio-controlled starship models are coming soon, apparently. We also had lunch at "Quark's Bar and Grill". The menu was amusing and the food was delicious. If anyone has the chance and finances they really should make the trip to see the Star Trek Experience before it shuts down (I think, unfortunately, on September 1st). That and the shops and hotels recreating virtually every major tourist spot in the world are worth the trip even if you don't gamble.
Today we went to "The Boys of Enterprise Luncheon", which was rather deceitfully billed as being "in Benihana". Turns out there were too many people to actually have it IN Benihana, and the menu was never intended to be Japanese. I never knew Benihana served tuna sandwiches and veggie wraps with chips.
At 85 dollars a head, the food was good for what it was, and having Connor, Dominic, and Anthony rotating throughout the room, spending about 5 minutes at each table one at a time for a total celebrity contact time of about 15 minutes was the main purpose of the meal anyway. After lunch, Jolene was on stage, and they used Boushh's video to introduce her! Boushh was all smiles, but I'll let her tell you the story.Jolene looked very good. She wasn't underfed looking like the boys seemed to look, and she was very genuine on stage. She introduced the trailer for Starship Troopers 3, and said she'd had a good time making it. She told stories of practical joking on the Enterprise set and once again expressed her dissatifaction with *the_abomination*. She described herself as an "SF geek with no social skills" as a child, and said she got into acting because when she was acting she could relate and interact with people "without actually having to talk to them".
So, evidently she was shy and geeky as a child. Jeez. I wish I'd grown up so well.I got Jolene to sign a t-shirt with the TriS logo on it, next to Connor's signature. I plan to wear it to the con tomorrow.
After Jolene and a couple of other people I wasn't interested in (I think their names were George and Nichelle
) the Enterprise Boys got up on stage. They're a riot together. Connor and Anthony are so nice, and Dominic's so funny that you really don't mind that he's a bit of a p**ck. I don't have a super-duper telephoto camera like Boushh does, though, so you may have to wait for her for good pics. After leaving the con this evening, hubby and I went to see a stage production of a Cirque de Soleil show called "Ka". Unbelievable. Indescribable. It was like a fantasy circus with a plot. The dialogue was in Japanese (I'm pretty sure. That's what it sounded like anyway.) There were more bare male backsides in it than any production I've ever seen (most of the male dancers were wearing loincloths like sumo wrestlers, but they were in shape). All in all, the female acrobats wore more clothes than the males did. And there was a sparkly Tarzan. Honestly. But there were enough martial arts in it to keep the guys' attention, too... and INDOOR FIREWORKS. I'm NOT kidding!!
Needless to say, I'm having a great time. I'm gonna go through my pictures now and see if there's anything postable. I can't promise anything, though. I'm no photographer.
Got any pics of her?
Oh, and the con organizers were honoring autograph tickets from the time when Jolene got sick and had to go to the hospital. Weren't you there, 
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