How are you going to celebrate STAR TREK DAY????....

[Nerys Myk]

Pretty typical. In the morning there is the Star Trek Day parade down Broadway, with floats and marching bands. Capped off by the TOS Enterprise float. I swear that thing gets bigger every year.
Afterwards most folks go to the park for the Annual Picnic and Concert. This year Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran are headlining. They’ll probably do their remix cover of I’m The X/I’m Ready. Some local politicians will make speeches peppered with quotes from episodes and the Great Bird, pretending they get it. Of course there’s face painting for the kids. Andorians and Orions are perennial favorites. Booths selling tranya, food cubes and IDIC medallions. Once dusk falls we have the fireworks. By then the kids are pretty tuckered out. So we head back home and the wife and I enjoy a quiet late dinner.

 

[fireproof78]

I usually skip dinner. Too much activity.

I do sip my Earl Grey before bed though.

 

[Hawku]

Spent my Star Trek day video calling, tapping on tablets and walking through automatic sliding doors until a dude in a Gorn costume threw a giant foam boulder at me.

 

[cooleddie74]

I've been watching Star Trek documentary videos on YouTube, including this one about the unproduced Phase II series.

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[Bea Jonas]

Busy with lots of non-Trek related stuff today but I did manage to make time to watch Where No Man Has Gone Before on Paramount+ while eating dinner.

 

[Finn]

Pretty typical. In the morning there is the Star Trek Day parade down Broadway, with floats and marching bands. Capped off by the TOS Enterprise float. I swear that thing gets bigger every year.
Afterwards most folks go to the park for the Annual Picnic and Concert. This year Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran are headlining. They’ll probably do their remix cover of I’m The X/I’m Ready. Some local politicians will make speeches peppered with quotes from episodes and the Great Bird, pretending they get it. Of course there’s face painting for the kids. Andorians and Orions are perennial favorites. Booths selling tranya, food cubes and IDIC medallions. Once dusk falls we have the fireworks. By then the kids are pretty tuckered out. So we head back home and the wife and I enjoy a quiet late dinner.

Do they have the Leola Root dip and the roasted Targ over a fire pit in your area. Those things get huge in East Texas!

Unfortunately, we aren't allowed to use a fire pit around here this year due to the drought and the heat.

 

[NCC-73515]

I guess they forgot to take out the whole panels part from their announcement...

STAR TREK DAY GLOBAL PANELS (12:00-3:30 PM, PT/3:00-6:30 PM, ET)
Join hosts Wil Wheaton and Mica Burton for three and a half hours of free virtual panels and programming that will reunite iconic cast members and creative minds from nine Star Trek television series. The panels will dive into Star Trek stories from years past to present and offer exclusive sneak peeks into what’s next in the Star Trek Universe on CBS All Access.The panels will serve as the global centerpiece of Star Trek Day, and in addition, Star Trek updates, announcements and footage will be showcased throughout.

 

[Jayson1]

It was your typical Star Trek day. Me and a couple of friends went on a drug,gun, strippers and alcoholic binged road trip to Riverside, Iowa to pay our respects to the one and only great Captain Kirk by celebrating at the famous Kirk statue. It was all a big haze of constant sex and blurry eyed mayhem. Most of it not remembered except small fragments of shootouts with cops and monkeys driving the car and one of my friends loosing a hand to a mafia made man. Still it was worth it all to see the statue and salute KIrk and let him know he is still the greatest of all the Captains.

 

[Mudd]

 

[Avro Arrow]

Once dusk falls we have the fireworks.

We actually did have fireworks going off somewhere around here last night, for a fairly long time, too. I have no idea what it was celebrating, and Googling local events didn't turn up anything either. So in lieu of any actual evidence, I'm going to choose to believe they were for Star Trek Day!

 

[psikeyhackr]

Drink apple schnapps.

It's Green!

 

[DarrenTR1970]

There's a sculpture here in Seattle, more specifically, the Fremont neighborhood, called 'Waiting for the Interurban'; which is exactly as it sounds, a group of people waiting at the bus stop.
I had to drive into Fremont today, and as I drove by the sculpture, they were decorated as Kirk, Spock, McCoy, etc. in honor of Star Trek Day.

 

[Mudd]

 

[Qonundrum]

Why do they always cut to a view where the host looks away every other sentence?

Cuz IT'S exCITinG!!!

or because older technology made such rapidfire angle changes too time-consuming to do. Or because people took time to breathe back then? I don't know...

Well, any number of descriptions could cross any number of minds, but usually for interviews, one could argue how the focus should arguably be on the presenter's words and delivery and not the visual and/or audible adornments. It ultimately becomes distracting, which then defeats the purpose of the actual presentation to begin with.

Who's the guy in blue, or is that a CGI model? On edit: Got my answer from a later reply in the thread.

 

[publiusr]

Maybe he was looking at the wrong camera…the one without a red light?

Words to live by—the camera is always on and the mic is always hot.

You want a lot of looks. As opposed to one camera being where a stage’s audience is…you use a lot of shots…”there is no camera.”

I remember one broadcast where the person interviewed was really on his game. The name escapes me…but not the performance.

The host was off screen introducing his guest…who had a pen in hand…scribbled a bit, then looked dead into the camera—what Zoolander called “the Magnum.” A little side-eyed…as if he had been interrupted while working.

Magnificent.

Most guests look at the host…not the unblinking cyclops.

Folks don’t even know how photo booths work.
Look at the screen to primp—but look at the camera when it is time to take the shot.

Same with the radio in The King’s Speech.

You have to own it.