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    How Las Vegas nearly had a life sized Starship Enterprise!

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    Back in 1992, Goddard & Co. came close...very close...to mounting an extraordinarily ambitious project in the heart of Las Vegas, which was looking for ways to make bold statements, establish unusual attractions, and generally revitalize itself. A life-sized Starship Enterprise was proposed...which they actually figured out how to build. Visitors would be able to tour the ship's interior, and engage in a number of entertainment opportunities.
    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
    -Carl Sagan

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    and engage in a number of entertainment opportunities.
    I like entertainment opportunities.

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    wasnt there a star trek experience in las vegas??

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    The Hilton had the Star Trek Experience. The centerpiece was a flight simulator like Star Tours at Disneyland, but also had a really well done transporter beam up effect to the Enterprise and getting to be on the bridge before the ride started. The casino around the Experience had an all Star Trek theme with Quark's Bar Restaurant and Trek slot machines that spun the wheels when you waved your hand over the activate pad. There were also many staff dressed and made up like Klingons, Vulcans and other Star Trek type characters wandering around the place.

    It was definitely a unique place but was shut down some time ago when the hard times started hitting Vegas and the casinos were getting away from the family oriented stuff and going back to the old school themes.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Christopher Jon View Post
    I like entertainment opportunities.
    Me too!

    Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there--on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam. [click for more]
    -Carl Sagan

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