Chapter 4: These are the Voyages...

Last Sunday Joe (my new found friend in all that is geek and I traveled down to San Jose to the Tech Museum's Star Trek Exhibit. Taking Pictures inside were absolutely forbidden (which sucked so I won't post them on the blog but I found these cool pics) But I was able to capture some cool stuff outside the exhibit..

As a spectator I was a little disappointed in the exhibit in that there wasn't enough multi media interaction, it was just a bunch of foam board signs on the wall noting great moments in Star Trek history and mixing real science and the science of the show. So for you parents out there you will have to be in a reading mood for your younglings. However the props and video that they did have were very informative and fun to see.

For example actress Nichelle Nichols who played Lt. Uhura in the movies and series was very close to resigning from the show.

It wasn't until Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. convinced her to stay with the show due to the lack of positive images portrayed of people of color during the 1960's. As a matter of fact her role also led to the first inter-racial kiss with William Shatner aka James T. Kirk (Take that backwoods former Louisiana Justice of the Peace Keith Bardwell). This moment in Television history pushed the envelope of reality and the future promised to us by Gene Roddenberry.


A Star Trek exhibit wouldn't be complete without the set of the original series bridge, where we had our picture taken in the
hopes of me paying $30 dollars for it (Yeah right). There was also a section of the Enterprise D hallway along with a replica of various sets and of course the teleport room.











On a scale of 1 to 10 and paying the $25 admission fee I'd have to give this exhibit a 7. On the account that I'd like to see more exhibit pieces with more flare and the merging of real history interweaved with Star Trek lore and the opportunity of taking pictures for personal use and without the option of paying thirty bucks for a computer print out of a photo that I can very well do at home. Live long and Prosper!

And so it is I am...
L. Jeffery Moore

ps
video to come with blog soon.