Playing with a Bezos-sized budget and borrowing heavily from this concept for a Star Trek themed resort / casino in Las Vegas, but with the full-scale Enterprise-D saucer lying on the ground instead:
Location: Paramount Ranch in the Santa Monica Mountains Recreation Area of Southern California, northwest of Los Angeles.
The area that burned down 3 and 1/2 years ago in the Woolsey Fire (including the
western town used for filming
Westworld) will be redressed to look like the crash landing area of the Enterprise-D saucer on Veridian III, but several years later where the full-scale saucer has been converted into a resort hotel for Federation citizens (and a scientific outpost for duckblind missions studying the pre-industrial society on another continent on the other side of the planet). Any recovering scorched or barren hills can be explained as being a result of the crash, and the mountainous terrain surrounding the area is a close enough match for Veridian.
The road into the resort will lead up an on-ramp directly into the main shuttlebay of the saucer, which has a massive multi-story covered parking lot for guests in the rectangular "garage door" section to the aft, and to the fore is a full-scale mock-up of the Enterprise-D shuttlebay with life-sized shuttles, runabouts, workbees, spacesuits, cargo containers, etc.
Upon booking your passage on the immersive experience, you will be prompted to download an interactive app onto your smartphones (or laptops and tablet PCs) that mimics the LCARS format and will serve as your tricorder, audio/visual communicator, universal translator, library computer access, and PADD device and allow you to participate in various interactive and augmented reality experiences throughout the ship. The app also has a feature (from an existing off-the shelf app) that will measure you for a virtual fitting through the camera for your Starfleet and Federation civilian clothing to wear aboard ship, or if you are already a cosplayer, you can wear your own gear.
Each guest will also be issued a V.I.S.O.R. which are lightweight VR and augmented reality goggles that assist in the immersive experience.
Several buses painted and dressed to look like a new type of Starfleet Transport Runabout with flip-up/down video screens in front of the windows will take groups of visitors on multiple day trips to various locations around the
Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley area and surrounds that
have been featured in Star Trek productions, such as Vasquez Rocks (Gorn fight, Vulcan, Raffi's home, etc.), The Tillman Water Reclamation Plant (Starfleet HQ / Academy), Griffith Observatory & Fern Dell in Griffith Park (Bajoran Monastery), New York Street (Sanctuary District, etc.) and Paramount Studios, Callaway Vineyard & Winery in Temecula AKA Chateau Picard Winery (that's a bit further out, so another day trip for wine tasting), Santa Monica Pier, Loyola University Baseball Field for those interested in recreating DS9 -
Take Me Out to the Holosuite. Guests will team up to play a game of slow-pitch softball against each other. At each location on tour days performances can take place like a recreation of Kirk fighting the Gorn.
Since you're going to break the immersive experience every time you visit a real world location and will be wearing your regular clothes (to "blend in with the natives"), the tour guides will gives funny little *wink**wink* Treknobabble explanations why that is happening, like you're hallucinating from spores, we've sling-shotted back in time to visit primitive 21st century Earth, or we're on a planet where a Federation historian left a book about "Los Angeles Slobs of the 2020s" and the human-looking aliens are all mimicking it. The tour guides should have a humorous style akin to the safari guides on Disneyland's/Disneyworld's Jungle Cruise.
On the video screen windows on the buses / runabouts, during the trip it will simulate taking off from the planet, traveling through space, and coming in for a landing at the location with augmented reality projecting how it looked in the series or movies onto the screen and overlayed onto the real world location if possible. Like the Tillman Plant will have the full Starfleet HQ building seemingly rising behind it and alien Starfleet personnel walking around, shuttles taking off, and the Golden Gate Bridge in the background.
Attractions:
— Wild West Planet:
The burned down Western Town at Paramount Ranch will be rebuilt even bigger and more elaborate than before to both serve as a recreation of the various western-themed episodes of Star Trek, but also to provide a new western town for other TV and movie productions to film on. You can dress up in Wild West costumes, get into gunfights with
laser attachments and updated military MILES gear sensors that record hits and tell you if you've been wounded or killed. If you're dead your weapon no longer works for you and you are shown as "dead" on other's visors.
— Holodecks:
The walls and ceiling are made of the
StageCraft video displays like The Volume set used to film
The Mandalorian that project lifesize adaptive VR backgrounds for the actors (or in this case the guests) to react to. The door arch seals shut and becomes part of the display. Default will be the TNG-era yellow grid on black walls.
The ground will have a scrolling terrain projected onto it by cameras located in the walls and will consists of omindirectional treadmills for each guest to walk or run around on.
3d simulated free-floating holograms will be projected by lasers on a light mist, onto rapidly spinning fans that pop-up out of the floor, by augmented reality with the VISOR, or by lighted mini-drones acting in concert to form large complex shapes, such as were shown in the Olympics Opening Ceremonies.
— Galactic Zoo:
A combination of Earth animals used in Trek, Earth animals dressed as alien animals with non-invasive prosthetics (like the dog with some foam spikes and a mane, or the Nimbus III horses with foam unicorn horn, or a pig with spikes and fur as a targ), life-size animatronic animals with realistic touchable skin, including a Gormagander and a Delta Vega Ice Lobster thing.
— Cetacean Ops and Aquarium:
The Bottlenose Dolphins, Killer Whales, Humpback Whales George VI & Gracie V and other cetaceans would be a combination of real footage and CGI interactive augmented reality creations that push controls in the tank and speak / interact with the guests. No actual cetaceans will be held in captivity. Realistic life-sized animatronic ones you can touch and swim with will be in a pool.
The aquarium will have all the variety of freshwater and saltwater marine life that you can safely and ethically keep in captivity in a massive Atlanta Aquarium or larger sized series of tanks with artificial reef-like walls, lagoons, swamps, trenches, etc. to simulate various marine environments.
— Phaser Target Range:
Pretty much what it says. Like the circular range in TNG. Uses red lasers and a fine mist to simulate phasers, green lasers to simulate disruptors. You targets actual moving mini-drones that fly around the room in automated "random" patterns and have sensors which record hits. Once you hit the drone it flashes to simulate a hit than the light turns off and it sets down in the dark part of the room.
To Be Continued...
