A Trek video that I have never seen before

[Brandonv]

I was searching for Star Trek videos on Youtube and found this video that I have never seen before.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rva2v1W_GY

Based on the comments, the video appears to be an attraction they used to have at Universal Studio's in Orlando called Star Trek Encounter that let you superimpose yourself into a video. The video features the TOS cast. I thought some of you might be interested in seeing it.

I have been to Universal Studios in Orlando once in 98 and again in 02, but I do not remember seeing this attraction.

 

[Dieks]

My brother went to Universal in LA back in 90. He didn't participate but he brought me back a placemat with the Star Trek Adventure logo on it.

 

[Therin of Andor]

^ I played the Klingon Captain once in the LA version, "Star Trek Adventure" (which featured footage from ST II and III to create a new story), and is narrated by William Shatner. The actual ST cast don't feature in any of the "new" footage. A huge audience would turn up to see this attraction being acted out live, several times a day. It featured then-state of the art computerized edited; even though filmed out of order, the final edited "movie", complete with personalized closing credits, was able to be played on the big screen within minutes of the last frame being shot.

The Orlando version ("Star Trek Encounter"?) is interesting in that it appears to use newly-filmed footage with the stars on the white-painted bridge set from the end of ST IV. It is narrated by DeForest Kelley and, when explaining the absence of Kirk and Spock, has stock footage from the San Francisco scenes of ST:TMP. I assume the guest participants added their roles via a small editing booth arrangement rather than as a gala performance for a live audience?

 

[intrinsical]

I have been to the Star Trek Encounter back in the 1990s. I was 12 years old at that time so I'm afraid I can't remember much. The show is set on a large stage with movable sets. I think there was a bridge, transporter room and an "alien planet" set that are rotated onto the main stage.

In every show, the paid actors invite a few audience members on stage and dress them in Starfleet uniforms. They then get to "react" to whatever happens on stage, which usually ends up being very comical. I'm afraid I can't remember the plot. What I do remember is the very impressive "transporter effect". The actors will get the invited audience members to stand on transporter pads. One of the actors say "Energize" while twiddling with the transporter panel and the people on the transporter pads are bathed in very bright sparkles of light. The sparkles fade, revealing empty transporter pads. It really impressed me as a kid, almost to the point where I thought "gosh, transporters are real!".

 

[Therin of Andor]

^ intrinsical, you are describing "Star Trek Adventure" at Los Angeles, not "Star Trek Encounter" at Orlando.

The transporter FX is the oldest live stage trick in Hollywood. It's done with a muslin curtain, and floodlights directed onto either side, which can turn the curtain invisible or opaque to audiences.

 

[xortex]

very funny. Loved it.