Conventions...

[NIUPonyBoy]

And where to find them locally?

I remember when I was younger and TNG was still fresh on the TV and my VHS recorded as many minutes as it could I would go to them with my dad on occasion.

Where can find lists for local Star Trek and Sci-Fi conventions?

Everytime I do internet searches I just get the big one in LV.

 

[Possum]

There is the Trekfest next Friday and Saturday in Riverside Ia. It is over by Iowa City in eastern Iowa. Koenig, Nichols, and Takei are all supposed to be there. I don't remember hearing much about conventions in the last 10 years or so either. Omaha used to have some but I don't know if they do anymore.

 

[JiNX-01]

If what you're looking for are smaller, fan-run conventions, this looks promising:
http://www.code7r.org/cons/conloc.htm

 

[DiSiLLUSiON]

Really? Do people still organize conventions?

I thought they stopped doing that back when TOS went off the air.

 

[OmahaStar]

There is the Trekfest next Friday and Saturday in Riverside Ia. It is over by Iowa City in eastern Iowa. Koenig, Nichols, and Takei are all supposed to be there. I don't remember hearing much about conventions in the last 10 years or so either. Omaha used to have some but I don't know if they do anymore.

The second Osfest is coming up next month in Omaha.

 

[barnaclelapse]

Really? Do people still organize conventions?

I thought they stopped doing that back when TOS went off the air.

There's been a couple, but really, the whole Trek thing died down by the end of the 70's.

 

[NIUPonyBoy]

Well I sure wasn't around in the 70's, but I remember in the early 90's going to several. Somewhere bigger, got autographs from Sulu, McCoy and Scottie from TOS and Troi from TNG.

I don't care if there are not guest stars there, but I like to see what items are out there, still looking for models etc and am doing my best to avoid eBay. yuck

 

[SonicRanger]

There were plenty of conventions in the 90s during the height of TNG.

 

[Anthony Sabre]

Nana Visitor and Rene Auberjonois will be in Dallas, TX August 15-16, but that's for Dallas Comiccon. Seems like we rarely get Trek conventions in this part of the country. And the last supposed one in Dallas was a disaster.

 

[WillsBabe]

Really? Do people still organize conventions?

I thought they stopped doing that back when TOS went off the air.

That's when they started.