Trekfest!

[cambro]

There was a time when the future promised to be shiny and bland, like a tastefully furnished living room in a junior lawyer's dream house or the bridge on the Enterprise-D. Oh, there were problems, but the really serious ones usually took place far away--the metaphorical equivalent of an occasional fringe outpost being annihilated by strange beings

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[derekasaurus]

Interesting timing. I just read a post by Darth Mojo kind of on this topic. (Mojo is a special effects guy on the new Battlestar Galactica who also worked on Babylon 5 and Star Trek Voyager & TNG, among others.) He has some thoughts about why the smaller conventions and festivals are a shadow of their former glory. Some of the reader comments on the post are interesting as well.