Thursday, October 27, 2016
TMS Boldly Goes Through Intrepid's Starfleet Academy Experience
The Mary Sue: My first introduction into the Star Trek world was The Next Generation and watching Patrick Stewart command the screen like a wise uncle who really loves tea. Since then, I’ve always wondered what it was like to actually be on the bridge. Sure you can Photoshop yourself in pictures and visit the captain’s chair at a booth during a convention, but there’s nothing like being fully immersed in that world. That’s why I thoroughly enjoyed my time at the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space museum’s Star Trek: The Starfleet Academy Experience in New York City.
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This kind of exhibit is really cool, and isn’t at all something that I would have thought about wanting to be a part of when I first came to CMU. I don’t know if I would necessarily say that I’m extremely interested in that type of work now either, but I think that knowing that display and exhibit type work is a valid pursuit for people who are in our industry is extremely handy. It gives a perspective outside the extremely large base of theatrical work that we do at the school of drama (it is after all a school of drama, and so it makes sense that we don’t specifically cater to that work). And a great thing about this particular exhibit, if you’re into Star Trek or Sci-Fi at all, is that it’s work that you’re very interested in that perhaps a lot of people will see. I can see a person getting a lot of satisfaction from this design that they might not be able to do in a theatrical environment, so keeping one’s mind open to valid possibilities is never a bad thing.
Hey look! Its all scenery! Star Trek scenery! Someone should make an enterprise themed booth at carnival. Although the bridge would not feel quite right if there was hot dog scented puke splattered all over the floor. I really like this kind of interactive exhibit/museum. Its great for the hardcore fans that get a kick out of the more obscure bits of star trek lore and enjoy just being on the ship, and for the more casual appreciator of star trek that just enjoys the stories that they show told. Museums have hit a certain element of human interest on the head, we just enjoy hearing stories when they are detailed and told well. When the past (or a fictional world) can be abstracted into a story, we see it in a museum. The star trek universe is great to build a museum about, the story is entirely known already.
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