So glad I got to it, though it was years ago now.
The Wired blog Underwire, in its posting about the closing, describes the Experience thusly:
Part simulator, part environment, part museum and (of course) part gift shop/restaurant, the Experience opened 10 years ago during the height of popularity for the Star Trek: The Next Generation movies. The exhibit gave fans a chance to examine a Trek time line with a collection of sci-fi relics. Then visitors could talk to a Klingon over a drink after strolling across the bridge of the Enterprise.
But that's not how I remember it. The "simulator" part of the attraction beams you up to the Enterprise via the coolest freakin' recreation of actually being transported that I can imagine. Seriously: it still blows my little fangirl mind to think about it. I mean, I know how these simulator things work, and I've worked in theater and I see how the designers achieved the effect, and still, the actual visceral experience of it was more than powerful enough to make me believe it was real.
The timeline and the props were nothing compared to that. Though it was kinda cool to walk around the DS9 promenade after that.
The Star Trek Experience is open for a few more months, so here's the last call for the last transport up to the Enterprise.
(Wil Wheaton has a nice reminiscence of his trip to the Experience...)
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