I went to the Star Trek Convention last week - it was my first time there and I had a blast. Overall a great experience and it’s safe to say I have some new friends that I’m looking forward to seeing again next year. At the same time, I found all of the cash-only photos and signatures with the actors to be pretty sad/disappointing in a lot of ways.
I wrote an article about my experience, curious to hear what people think about it.
So interesting to hear how the conferences used to be. Sounds like we’ve had a very similar experience, and yes - such a wonderful feeling meeting and being around the energy of other excited fans. Pretty much no show on the planet has fans like Star Trek does, and without the fans, the show wouldn’t exist today.