2025 promises to be a year of turbulence and uncertainty. At the time of this writing (January 1st, 2025), the United States has already seen two terrorist incidents, including one in Louisiana that has killed 15 people (at last count) and another suspected car bombing involving a Tesla Cybertruck in Las Vegas. 2025 is off…
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Log entry for Star Trek Las Vegas 2022, aka “The 56-Year Mission”…
The Search for Space? The annual Star Trek Convention in Las Vegas, renamed ‘the 56-Year Mission’ due to a lost license with Paramount/CBS, has returned to Las Vegas, has returned to the strip, but in a different venue this year–Bally’s Hotel and Casino–due to the refurbishment of its traditional host, The Rio, just down the…
Final report on Las Vegas’ “55 Year Mission”…
“But first, some scenes from Part 1…” “The 55 Year Mission” in Las Vegas is a Star Trek convention by any other name. Creation Entertainment, which has traditionally held the license to host “official” Star Trek conventions was forced to rebrand their world-famous Star Trek convention in Las Vegas this year, after losing the official…
Zack Snyder returns to zombieland with “Army of the Dead” (2021)…
*****VAULT OF SPOILERS AHEAD!!***** Las Vegas and zombies. Sounds like a comedy-horror marriage made in an all-night chapel with an Elvis impersonator doing the ceremony. What could’ve been a witty zom-com like “Shaun of the Dead” or “Zombieland” goes for lower hanging action-movie fruit. The result feels more like a grounded “Con Air,” but with…
“Star Trek: The Experience” (1998-2008) at the Las Vegas Hilton; “Surely, the best of times…”
Star Trek: The Experience opened in January of 1998, during Star Trek’s 1990s heyday. Early 1998 was a time of Trek plenty… there were two Star Trek TV series in production (“Deep Space Nine” and “Voyager”), a forthcoming movie (“Star Trek: Insurrection”) and tons of merchandise, including the now semi-legendary toy line from licensee Playmates….