Good Trek location in London

[Mr Apollo]

Hi everyone
Have just joined so please be nice. Am basically after good suggestions from Trek fans in London. I'm shooting a tv journalistic piece on the new Trek film in London and am looking for a good location to shoot it in. Thought I had it all sorted and was going to shoot it in Page's Bar until I just found out that it's now some crappy boring pub called The Westminster (what idiot allowed that to happen?)
Anyway, have been wracking my brains trying to come up with some interesting appropriate location and have so far drawn a blank. There's the Cochrane theatre but that's way too much of a stretch even for me. A branch of O'Brien's sandwich shops? Gah, these are terrible ideas!
Is there somewhere really obvious I'm missing? Any suggestion would be really gratefully received.

 

[Jaespol]

LOL, does it really matter where you shoot it? Its the actual piece of journalism that matters not some gimmicky setting.

Here's some suggestions I pulled off googlemaps
This is my only good suggestion


Address:
Janeway St/Janeway Place


Southwark, London SE16, UK


The rest of these suggestions are stupid



Riker Danzig London LLP‎ - more info »
33-35 Cornhill, London, Greater London, EC3V 3ND‎ - +1 609-396-2121‎

Ministry of Data LLC‎ - more info »
52 Lime Street, London, EC3M 7AF‎ - 020 7198 6170‎
And several other billion places with the word Data

Dax Moy Personal Training Studios‎ - more info »
21-22 St Alban's Pl, London, Islington, N1‎ - 020 7354 3550‎
Or other places with the word Dax

Quark Systems‎ - more info »
1 Northumberland Av, London, WC2N 5BW‎ - 020 73891900‎

Kes Food & Wine‎ - more info »
267 High Road Leyton, Leyton, London, E10 5QN‎ - 020 8586073‎Unverified listing
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[Temis the Vorta]

There was some famous person named "Curzon" who has stuff named after him in London, right?

That was funny when I went to London, and I wondered, why is all this stuff named after one of Dax' former hosts?

 

[Mr Apollo]

LOL, does it really matter where you shoot it? Its the actual piece of journalism that matters not some gimmicky setting.

Oh no you're absolutely right and I think the piece itself is going to be great, I just had my heart set on Page's as a setting and was sad to discover it had gone. It would just be nice to have something vaguely Trekkish going on in the background as it needs to be shot somewhere that isn't just a studio. Will have to keep brain buzzing. Maybe IMAX are doing something fancy in their foyer.

 

[An Officer]

Find out which sci-fi conventions are currently in town, and you will find plenty of trekkies there I'm sure, even if it's not specifically Trek related - it's just the kind of thing we like.

Perhaps Madam Tussaude's, if they have any of the Captains in place?

 

[WillsBabe]

Forbidden Planet is a sf venue, if not necessarily just Trek. When are you filming? There might be some cons on. Milton Keyenes (not London, but still) is having a Collectormania in June.

 

[Madzilla]

Patrick Stewart is in Madame Tussaud's I believe. I haven't been to Forbidden Planet in a while but they might have some Trek stuff up, maybe in the window, for the new movie?

Other than that, perhaps a toy shop that might have a display of the new toys; Hamleys or somewhere? I take it none of the stuff from the London premiere is still around Leicester Square?

And now I have to visit Janeway St some time.

Edit: Oh, and Sci Fi London is on until the 4th May: http://www.sci-fi-london.com/

 

[Kpnuts]

Forget the gimmicky settings, and just report from Leicester Square, outside the Empire. You know, the cinema with the enormous Star Trek posters everywhere.