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You may be aware that there is currently a Star Trek Exhibition in the
Gas Hall by the Museum and Art Gallary.  I went today and thought I'd
pass on my comments to help those who may be thinking of going.  All of
the below is my own feelings and thoughts and all IMHO.

Firstly the entrance fee is 3.95ukp for adults, way overcharge for
what's offered.  

There are about 4-5 video screens most of which are showing 2-5 minute
trailers with actor interviews and general trailer type speil(sp?) about
'the STAR TREK experience' repeating endlessly.  All but one are normal
TV size screens, the exception is a very out of focus projection screen
(imagine watching a 3d film without the glasses through a dirty window.
Most of the trailers are grainy (bad conversion from NTSC probably) and
have a very SHOUTY and distorted soundtrack.

There is a fairly broad selection of props and costumes on show, in
glass cases or behind ropes, althought they do tend to be very poor
quality (if they appeared in the series's at all they must have been
well towards the extreame of the picture) and mainly original series or
films.  The general standard of the items is shabby to say the least.

When I went there were two manned displayed, the bridge of the original
Enterprise (first series, Kirk, Spock, McCoy etc) and a transporter
room.  The bridge was manned by a man in a Next Generation uniform (ie
wrong series) sitting in the captains chair watching people go past.
The transporter room did not look much like one from any of the series
but at least the man there (also in Next Generation uniform) was
explaining how it was supposed to work and how the effects were done and
the console made the right sound effects (original series).

At the end of the exhibition there is the inevitable shop, although I
would say this is the best part of the exhibition.  Some shop assistants
are wearing Next Generation uniforms which helps add to the ambience.
There is a good range of merchandise, from postcards upto uniforms and
models and is well worth a visit if you want to fill in holes in your
books collection as they seemed to have most of the books, magazines and
other stuff.

The insult is the man from Bank of Scotland near the door who tries to
get you to take out their credit card which has a rather poor picture of
the Enterprise 1701-D on it.

For the record I am not a trekkie/er although I am a fan of the series
(mainly Next Generation and Deep Space 9).  On the whole I am
disapointed with the exhibition.

-- 
Stephen Booth
Technical Analyst.

All my own views, not my employers.