I worked on this movie and this is the first time I've seen the whole experience together. It was one of the last times I worked in CG. I've been doing software since. They spent 12 million on it, so it's not exactly low budget. Digital projectors were new back then, so that was kind of a big deal, using them to do 3D. My least favorite things are the physics on the pieces of debris that Voyager knocks over, and some of the acting. BTW, when you see starship debris, it's usually chunks of the Borg probe from the “Dark Frontier” episode of Voyager. There wasn't a show in production at the time, so they didn't have a production machine to go to, so some of those people are probably staff dressed in Starfleet. Oh, and poor Alice must have had dental surgery, because she has the hardest time pronouncing “dwones.” There was however a handful of Star Trek veterans working on the movie. On the other hand, there are nuances in here that you just can't see on the blurry hand held footage. First off, I suspect the phasers looked better in person. There's enough smoke in the rooms that you would see a visible beam. You just can't see it in the video. The movie isn't as that bad for it's time. Back then they didn't have the fancy physics simulations that they have now. All that stuff had to be keyframed by hand. We had dual p4 processor (not dual core, but 2 processors on one motherboard) at 400 mhz and 512 megs of ram. You'd move your mouse and wait a couple of minutes for something to happen. I thought the Olympia and Copernicus station were pretty good. There are a lot of things you don't see, like Copernicus had hydroponic pods with palm trees. There are Worker Bees from ST:TMP rebuilding the station at the end. There's also a Nebula class starship in the background docked at the station. The original docking bay had to be rebuilt because the scale was wrong to fit an entire starship. One of the biggest problems we had was the explosion of the Borg cube. We messed with voxels and stuff for a long time and finally used a set of explosion image sequences. Somebody put a displacement map on the rigging as the explosion passes by, making it look like it's melting, and that was pretty cool.
Imagine if they had actually made full model of the enterprise to have such fun in. They were going to do it. everything was set. The money was there. The plot of land, everything. Save for the approval of one man who went back on his word. The story is well written online somewhere. I suggest reading it. It will make you cry at how close it was.
What the video is missing is the side screen where you see Janeway, standing on the bridge, arms behind her back all boss-like as she badmouth's the Queen. So epic :P
***** Yes,... I saw that,... and y'know what? We don't need him. With the boost in popularity the franchise has gained, we have seen many tremendous independent and fan-created projects emerge (namely Star Trek Continues, Star Trek Axanar, and Star Trek Renegades). All we really need is for groups of devoted, ambitious and talented fans to put their heads, their hearts, their hands, and their financial backing together to create a new "Experience" that all fans can enjoy. And now, with crowdfunding sources, like Kickstarter and Patreon, it can gain even greater financial support, not only from the usual business donors, but from us fans as well. Just something to consider.
A lot of comments are saying this looks corny or awkward. Star Trek: The Experience was basically Disneyland to me before it was shut down, so I feel I need to step in and defend it. This video (which looks like it was shot in the 90s at the earliest) really, really does not do Borg Invasion justice. It looked way more professional and "crisp" in person (the displays were HD/1080p, the uniforms looked way better, etc.). Both Borg Invasion and Klingon Encounter were very well done and made you feel like you were really in the Star Trek universe. Anyone who went to the Experience before it was tragically shut down can attest to how awesome Borg Invasion (and Klingon Encounter) was. The whole of Star Trek: The Experience was an absolute treat for any trekkie, I miss it dearly.
I did the backstage tour. The rush of air during the beam-up was the fake walls retracting into the ceiling. The corridor between the bridge and the shuttlebay was a proposed set piece for the show that got rejected due to being too expensive. They had to get special clearance from the fire department to make the fire exit signs look like control panels.
I wish I could see it again now as an adult. I saw the german version, which already closed down 2004 and all I can remember is that I was way too scared and had to cry, but I think now I would love that experience.
Even though I was born in the 80’s, I didn’t really get deeply invested in Star Trek until the 2010’s thanks to Netflix. I wish I could experience it now. To me it looks like it was amazing.
A piece of Star Trek history. I couldn't afford to visit the Las Vegas Hilton, Star Trek experience & now it's gone. But thanks to you Iv'e enjoyed watching the experience. Live Long & Prosper.
If only it survived another year, the boom in popularity from the 2009 film could have driven attendance back up, and the Experience might still be in operation today. Biggest problem, it was built within the Hilton, and there was no room for outward expansion.
K1productions Quarks Bar was neat... they served a Nebula cocktail in a huge fishbowl for $5USD. Robert Picardo was in town at Caesars Palace and would stop by in plain clothes and say hi to the guests for giggles... loads of people in the line didn't figure out who he was, even when he was standing directly beside a cardboard cutout of himself hahaha he was/is awesome (and at touring exhibitions/conventions) - they all are. It was so much fun to go there and meet people from all around the world. I don't know if Quark's Bar will be there... (quark's coffee house and synthahol) but apparently there's a project in Aqaba that the king is developing in Jordan (he played a walk on in ST:VOY)? Maybe some of the awesome of "The Experience" will be with the Astrarium project, hopefully!
I know most of them enjoyed it greatly, particularly the characters on the "Promenade". One example from personal experience - Me and two friends attended the Experience, each wearing a Voyager-style uniform I had made for each of us. I am sure this is what gained his attention at first. We were in the restaurant, having all ordered a non-alcoholic frozen drink (called a "Frozen Hirogen", quite delicious, in fact). The Klingon character had walked up to our table, picked up one of the drinks, holding it up for all to see, bellowing out loud "THIS IS NOT A WARRIOR'S DRINK!!!". He then proceeded to inquire further what three Starfleet Officers were doing here, rather than on-duty, and we were more than happy to indulge. Certainly one of the best experiences I ever had at a theme park, because you can tell each of the actors do everything they can to include the people in the experience, rather than treating it as if its just a ride, and just a job. You could see how much he loved what he did, in how much he embraced his character. I miss The Experience, and I can't wait to see another.
mystic true I most certainly do. In fact, if you look at my avatar pic, that is a Sierra-1 uniform from Star Trek Online that I made myself o_~ ... I really wanna make a wardrobe of the new Odyssey uniforms though
Watching it on video it doesn't convey actually being there and experience in it in real life. Nothing can prepare you as an avid Star Trek fan to turning around in the corridor and seeing 2 moving life-size Borg walking towards you. Even though I know it was make-believe, I still job tomorrow and nearly grabbed the nearest person to me. Was brilliant (in 2004 when I went to Vegas) and loud browsing the promenade at DS9 at the end of it. I hope now that Star Trek is starting to gaining popularity again with the new series and movies that we may see something like this again at some point.
My friends and I did this back in the day. And trust me it was just as fun as it looks. I am so sad that we, and so many others, can't experience this any more.
This was so AWESOME! Voyager has always been my favorite, and I felt so immersed when I saw it in person! I kinda got those same feelings again watching it here. Paramount has never really wanted Star Trek to succeed. All they do is throw something out and if people bite, great; if not, they'll cancel it again. They never cared about it, and still don't. The higher-ups don't get it and never have. Maybe if they actually listened to the people who have kept it alive (the fans), and got someone to head it up that is actually passionate about it and doesn't want to reinvent it, it would actually succeed and make them some money. That's what is needed, a passionate individual whom respects the canon and wants to progress the story into the future, not reinvent it. Paramount allowed the producers to do whatever they wanted until Enterprise. Rick Berman (love him or hate him) reigned over Star Trek's most successful decade ever. This is a fact as stated in interviews with Berman and other producers: the higher-ups started horning-in starting with Enterprise, and that's where all the major problems began.
Thank you for the upload. This brings back a piece of my childhood. In 2002, there used to be an almost identical adaptation of this ride at the Space Center Park in Bremen, Germany. The arrangement of the rooms were a bit different and the part in the cube took place in a giant cinema. I remember an effect that pumped pressured air into the back of the seat to simulate that you were pushed by the borg. As a child growing up with Trek, this was so awesome.
I did this when it was TNG, sad I missed this version as it looked pretty intense...the "transport" was still the best thing about the TNG version, it's literally a jaw-dropping moment.
They actually had both there at the same time. the other one was called The Klingon Encounter. I was not expecting the transporter bit at all, that was amazing!
Unfortunately, 2007-2008 was not a good time for the Star Trek franchise. It is as if the balloon had burst and started bleeding out air. The fanbase was shrinking, no new fans were being created (particularly from Enterprise, Insurrection, and Nemesis), the convention scene was dwindling, and attendance at The Experience had tapered off and begun to fall. While the addition of the Borg Invasion 4D was fruitful,... the biggest tragedy of The Experience was its location and the fact that it could not be expanded outward. Part of "The Klingon Encounter" had to be torn down in order to even make room for Borg Invasion, and there was just no more possibility for expansion. And as much as I loved both of them,... you can only do two attractions so many times. If there was ONE thing that could have saved Star Trek: The Experience, it would have been its own location that could be built upon and expanded outward. A third attraction could have granted The Experience another year at least,... and with the popularity boom that came from the 2009 Star Trek film, attendance at the Experience would no doubt have gotten a boost, and allowed greater expansion, and would certainly have continued operation to this day. But alas... one of the great "what if"s
saquist and I suppose you could do better? Enterprise's faults were not in the acting or the actors, but in the writing and direction. But, I guess it is the first reaction for people to blame the actors for failings in the script, as if the actors write it all themselves, right?
I’m guessing this is when after Voyager returned home, and it was updated and all, and it had quantum torpedos installed in it. All this before she was parked at Starfleet Museum. Btw if I was at the experience today, if it was still open, I’d be taking selfies with the borg lol.
From 10:10 to 12:40, it sounds like a guided meditation video. The Borg Queen has a very relaxing and soothing voice, I will use this video to help me get to sleep or the next time I need to connect with my inner Borg through meditation.
This video hardly makes justice to the great experience it was. My hubby and I went for our honeymoon and we enjoyed it very much. From Quarks bar to the interactive characters to being teletransported on one of the rides/walkthroughs. The seats did shake and tremble in synch with the video. Pity is not anymore. As a side note, the only things that broke during a trans-sea moving where those two nice anniversary glasses we got at the giftshop. Snif...Kleenex...
I'm so glad this got put online. I was at the Star Trek Experience once and had tickets to do both of the "rides" (if that's what you call them), but there was some problem with the Borg one. Never got to go back. At least I get to see it through once. :-)
This was an absolutely fantastic experience. The "4D" of the ride wasn't just the 3D effect when taken into the Borg cube, when the Queen said we would be assimilated, things poked gently out of the chairs behind your head to make it feel like they were assimilating your, it was a lot of fun.
At the end of the film, the character seen walking in the shuttle bay ( half way between the two shuttles) is Dizzy from the Starship Troopers: Roughneck Chronicles.
Star trek the experience was so awesome........I miss it so much. The ST:TNG thing was old when it closed but the borg experience wasn't, but it closed and will probably never reopen anywhere, even though it was so cool! It's sad but I am so glad I made my Mom take me when I first found out about it and wasn't even old enough to gamble and thank god she was an original trekkie and was okay with that! She took us and we even stayed in the same hotel and it was so cool, I got to go three times before it sadly closed. I wish it opened elsewhere it was so much fun, but sadly las vegas isn't sentimental about shit anymore, so once it's old it's gone!
I just remember the EMH version of the Enterprise-E in First Contact: "I'm a doctor, not a doorstopper." But the original one of course fights the Borg with a phaser.
This and the Klingon experience was pretty cool and a lot of fun. I went through it all twice many years back with the last time a couple months before permanent shut down. It's a shame it could stay alive long enough till the reboot, I would have loved to see what kind of ride experience they would have came out based on the Kelvin timeline.
I went to Star Trek: The Experience about a year before it closed and it was a ton of fun (especially if you dressed up in costume for it.) The video does not do the ride justice. It really was an immersive experience and made you feel like you were in an episode of Voyager. I miss this place dearly.
The funny thing is that, if a phaser existed, their version is more accurate. It wouldn't emit light unless light reflects off a target. If you can see it, that means it's emitting photons in all directions. It wouldn't make sense for a weapon to waste energy emitting light in all directions (unless it were terribly inefficient)
Went to the experience in 2004...loved the rides and the whole shebang. Only sad note is that when I got home I found out Jerry Goldsmith had passed away.
Geeky CollectiblesReviews Or nothing. Pretending to shoot, having the sound effect play, and then seeing a shower of sparks or something come out of the wall (or borg) would have been far cooler. Just have someone go in there and replace the pyrotechnic or whatever they use after every tour. Or figure out a way to have it be a renewable source of sparks. It's moot now, but it would have been far more impressive than that red flashlight.
fozzibab I have one of those professional laser pointers and even though it produces a thin trail of light from the source to the destination it would look a lot better than the red flashlight they used. They could rig a bunch of those laser pointers together to form a sort of solid beam or close to it, & then put the renewable pyrotechnics on the borg so that when the beam hits a certain area(a sensor) the sparks go off making it look close to a phaser hitting the borg. GOD bless.
+fozzibab One doesn't need pyrotechnics for sparks... Just flint and steel. on a motor... With a loud enough and clear enough speaker, one can cover up the sound of the flint and steel with sound effects.
Have you been on BOTH rides?!?!?! I kind of question that... Besides Star Wars and Star Trek? Apples and oranges! Star Wars and Star Trek versus Prequel Star Wars/Episode VII and NuTrek? Apples and oranges (original versions, original continuities) versus SPOILED fruit... Anyhow, motion ride-wise, even without the motion, I've seen the video of Star Tours II and experienced the original version many, many times... Thankfully, the original version HAS been preserved online. Star Tours was definitely more KINETIC than this ride was but Star Trek wasn't turned into Star WARS until JJ Abrams got his mitts on it and turned that series into his audition for Episode VII...
See, this is why all federation outposts or research facilities should be Deep Space Nine. Even the ones that aren't DS9. DS9 would have pimp-smacked that Cube back into place.
Andy Revell Is that...because DS9 had lots of weapons? It wouldn't have mattered. What *should* have happened is that after Voyager made it back to the Federation with future technology like armor and weapons, every ship and space station in the fleet should have been equipped with them. But it seems like they and the producers of Nemesis promptly forgot about that shit.
Doktor L True! However they didn't learn to adapt to the transphasic torpedoes - I assume there wasn't time enough, since one of them could destroy a cube. Other than the borg, though, no other power in the Alpha quadrant could have matched that technology. In a war the Federation would have rolled right over any aggressor! That would have been fun to see, but of course if that was the case, it would've meant the Scimitar in that clusterfuck called Nemesis wouldn't have been able to kick the crap out of the Enterprise.
I think Admiral Janeway brought back tech from 30 or 40 years in the future, actually...I haven't seen the episode in a while but I remember her saying something about the Borg being "30 years behind-the-times" or some such thing. I should watch it again!
fozzibab It is actually stated in a book that transphasic torpedoes were solely used by the enterprise e on hit and run missions against solitary cubes. Basically hit them and give them 0 chance to adapt. When everbody started using them later on the borg eventually adapted.
They had minifoggers on them so you could really see a lightbeam. Its just not visible on the video. Well about the spark part, it has to do with safetymesures for the visitors and for the set itself since it was 12 million.
The Doctor and actors on the viewscreen seem to have film/tv accurate costumes. Not sure why they changed them for the actors that interact with the visitors.
i remember going to the Star Trek experience in Vegas... I think this is different though. some of the people in the audience look genuinely terrified. :D
I just got the 10 movie collection from iTunes and it seemed like the extras are all from the 2009 set. I wonder why they didn't include the extra content from those other two DVDs that were in the 2009 box sets for the respective Star Trek Collections.
I didn't get to do this one. I did like crashing back to Earth and walking through the back corridor being guided by a Hilton maid and then to the Quark bar.
All you guys made a great experience. This absolutely terrified me as a child haha! Didn't get into Trek until much later in life, but glad to have this memory nowadays.
Came here after learning of the disaster that is star wars starship experiance, there might not be a hotel in this but the experience looks legendary compared to disney's idea of one.
I worked on this movie and this is the first time I've seen the whole experience together. It was one of the last times I worked in CG. I've been doing software since. They spent 12 million on it, so it's not exactly low budget. Digital projectors were new back then, so that was kind of a big deal, using them to do 3D.
My least favorite things are the physics on the pieces of debris that Voyager knocks over, and some of the acting. BTW, when you see starship debris, it's usually chunks of the Borg probe from the “Dark Frontier” episode of Voyager.
There wasn't a show in production at the time, so they didn't have a production machine to go to, so some of those people are probably staff dressed in Starfleet. Oh, and poor Alice must have had dental surgery, because she has the hardest time pronouncing “dwones.” There was however a handful of Star Trek veterans working on the movie.
On the other hand, there are nuances in here that you just can't see on the blurry hand held footage. First off, I suspect the phasers looked better in person. There's enough smoke in the rooms that you would see a visible beam. You just can't see it in the video.
The movie isn't as that bad for it's time. Back then they didn't have the fancy physics simulations that they have now. All that stuff had to be keyframed by hand. We had dual p4 processor (not dual core, but 2 processors on one motherboard) at 400 mhz and 512 megs of ram. You'd move your mouse and wait a couple of minutes for something to happen.
I thought the Olympia and Copernicus station were pretty good. There are a lot of things you don't see, like Copernicus had hydroponic pods with palm trees. There are Worker Bees from ST:TMP rebuilding the station at the end. There's also a Nebula class starship in the background docked at the station. The original docking bay had to be rebuilt because the scale was wrong to fit an entire starship.
One of the biggest problems we had was the explosion of the Borg cube. We messed with voxels and stuff for a long time and finally used a set of explosion image sequences. Somebody put a displacement map on the rigging as the explosion passes by, making it look like it's melting, and that was pretty cool.
You guys seem to have done a really good job with this.
Just noticed the "dwones" part - all this work, and nobody cared to fix that?
You are familiar with accents, correct?
Dude, thanks so much for your work and insight.
Very insightful, my only gripe really was the Quantum torpedos being the wrong color other then that it looked great.
This is utterly epic. The acting is fantastic. Just shows the Trek universe is a living, breathing universe which continues to evolve post-Voyager.
Imagine if they had actually made full model of the enterprise to have such fun in. They were going to do it. everything was set. The money was there. The plot of land, everything. Save for the approval of one man who went back on his word. The story is well written online somewhere. I suggest reading it. It will make you cry at how close it was.
What the video is missing is the side screen where you see Janeway, standing on the bridge, arms behind her back all boss-like as she badmouth's the Queen. So epic :P
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Yes,... I saw that,... and y'know what? We don't need him. With the boost in popularity the franchise has gained, we have seen many tremendous independent and fan-created projects emerge (namely Star Trek Continues, Star Trek Axanar, and Star Trek Renegades). All we really need is for groups of devoted, ambitious and talented fans to put their heads, their hearts, their hands, and their financial backing together to create a new "Experience" that all fans can enjoy.
And now, with crowdfunding sources, like Kickstarter and Patreon, it can gain even greater financial support, not only from the usual business donors, but from us fans as well. Just something to consider.
A lot of comments are saying this looks corny or awkward. Star Trek: The Experience was basically Disneyland to me before it was shut down, so I feel I need to step in and defend it.
This video (which looks like it was shot in the 90s at the earliest) really, really does not do Borg Invasion justice. It looked way more professional and "crisp" in person (the displays were HD/1080p, the uniforms looked way better, etc.). Both Borg Invasion and Klingon Encounter were very well done and made you feel like you were really in the Star Trek universe.
Anyone who went to the Experience before it was tragically shut down can attest to how awesome Borg Invasion (and Klingon Encounter) was. The whole of Star Trek: The Experience was an absolute treat for any trekkie, I miss it dearly.
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All I gotta say.... Flaming Ribs of Targ at the restaraunt there was awesome!!!
I did the backstage tour. The rush of air during the beam-up was the fake walls retracting into the ceiling. The corridor between the bridge and the shuttlebay was a proposed set piece for the show that got rejected due to being too expensive. They had to get special clearance from the fire department to make the fire exit signs look like control panels.
I wish I could see it again now as an adult. I saw the german version, which already closed down 2004 and all I can remember is that I was way too scared and had to cry, but I think now I would love that experience.
Even though I was born in the 80’s, I didn’t really get deeply invested in Star Trek until the 2010’s thanks to Netflix. I wish I could experience it now. To me it looks like it was amazing.
A piece of Star Trek history. I couldn't afford to visit the Las Vegas Hilton, Star Trek experience & now it's gone. But thanks to you Iv'e enjoyed watching the experience. Live Long & Prosper.
If only it survived another year, the boom in popularity from the 2009 film could have driven attendance back up, and the Experience might still be in operation today.
Biggest problem, it was built within the Hilton, and there was no room for outward expansion.
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Quarks Bar was neat... they served a Nebula cocktail in a huge fishbowl for $5USD.
Robert Picardo was in town at Caesars Palace and would stop by in plain clothes and say hi to the guests for giggles... loads of people in the line didn't figure out who he was, even when he was standing directly beside a cardboard cutout of himself hahaha
he was/is awesome (and at touring exhibitions/conventions) - they all are. It was so much fun to go there and meet people from all around the world.
I don't know if Quark's Bar will be there... (quark's coffee house and synthahol) but apparently there's a project in Aqaba that the king is developing in Jordan (he played a walk on in ST:VOY)? Maybe some of the awesome of "The Experience" will be with the Astrarium project, hopefully!
It’s honestly one of my few regrets that I never went to Vegas for this 😢
imagine being one of the actors and doing that 20 times a day...
Oh god!
They are actors, so more than likely they probably enjoyed it. Though I'm sure there were less than fun days like all jobs have.
I know most of them enjoyed it greatly, particularly the characters on the "Promenade". One example from personal experience - Me and two friends attended the Experience, each wearing a Voyager-style uniform I had made for each of us. I am sure this is what gained his attention at first. We were in the restaurant, having all ordered a non-alcoholic frozen drink (called a "Frozen Hirogen", quite delicious, in fact). The Klingon character had walked up to our table, picked up one of the drinks, holding it up for all to see, bellowing out loud "THIS IS NOT A WARRIOR'S DRINK!!!". He then proceeded to inquire further what three Starfleet Officers were doing here, rather than on-duty, and we were more than happy to indulge. Certainly one of the best experiences I ever had at a theme park, because you can tell each of the actors do everything they can to include the people in the experience, rather than treating it as if its just a ride, and just a job. You could see how much he loved what he did, in how much he embraced his character.
I miss The Experience, and I can't wait to see another.
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I most certainly do. In fact, if you look at my avatar pic, that is a Sierra-1 uniform from Star Trek Online that I made myself o_~
... I really wanna make a wardrobe of the new Odyssey uniforms though
Imagine doing a job and doing it every day...oh wait, there's no difference.
Watching it on video it doesn't convey actually being there and experience in it in real life. Nothing can prepare you as an avid Star Trek fan to turning around in the corridor and seeing 2 moving life-size Borg walking towards you. Even though I know it was make-believe, I still job tomorrow and nearly grabbed the nearest person to me. Was brilliant (in 2004 when I went to Vegas) and loud browsing the promenade at DS9 at the end of it. I hope now that Star Trek is starting to gaining popularity again with the new series and movies that we may see something like this again at some point.
My friends and I did this back in the day. And trust me it was just as fun as it looks. I am so sad that we, and so many others, can't experience this any more.
I am glad I got to experience this before they closed it down. The corridors, props, and the people involved made the whole thing worthwhile.
This was so AWESOME! Voyager has always been my favorite, and I felt so immersed when I saw it in person! I kinda got those same feelings again watching it here. Paramount has never really wanted Star Trek to succeed. All they do is throw something out and if people bite, great; if not, they'll cancel it again. They never cared about it, and still don't. The higher-ups don't get it and never have. Maybe if they actually listened to the people who have kept it alive (the fans), and got someone to head it up that is actually passionate about it and doesn't want to reinvent it, it would actually succeed and make them some money. That's what is needed, a passionate individual whom respects the canon and wants to progress the story into the future, not reinvent it. Paramount allowed the producers to do whatever they wanted until Enterprise. Rick Berman (love him or hate him) reigned over Star Trek's most successful decade ever. This is a fact as stated in interviews with Berman and other producers: the higher-ups started horning-in starting with Enterprise, and that's where all the major problems began.
Arm the photonic cannon
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Tom Paris: "This is my favorite part."
Fire transphasic torpedoes, computer deploy armour!
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I saw the older Vegas Star Trek experience (Geordi, Riker). It was great fun. This one looks even better. Wish they'd bring it back sometime.
Thanks for uploading. The bluray featurettes cutting around the video elements was maddening.
This looks like it was a blast. Thank you for sharing this with us.
Now this is one ride I WOULD go on for sure! Looks like an exciting ride!
Thank you for the upload. This brings back a piece of my childhood. In 2002, there used to be an almost identical adaptation of this ride at the Space Center Park in Bremen, Germany. The arrangement of the rooms were a bit different and the part in the cube took place in a giant cinema. I remember an effect that pumped pressured air into the back of the seat to simulate that you were pushed by the borg. As a child growing up with Trek, this was so awesome.
Loving the wonderful 4D effects of this ride gives off a creepiness to the Borg. Even more so then in the show as your on the ride.
I'd be running like hell screaming " I cant
Be no borg! every man for himself" Lmao
"Regroup on deck 15! Don't let them touch you!"
Resistance is futile!
I did this when it was TNG, sad I missed this version as it looked pretty intense...the "transport" was still the best thing about the TNG version, it's literally a jaw-dropping moment.
They actually had both there at the same time. the other one was called The Klingon Encounter.
I was not expecting the transporter bit at all, that was amazing!
Ya i remember i pushed a button on the klingon one and almost destroyed the ship
@Skipper847 The flash of light was to kill your night vision so you didn't see that room convert into the transporter pad in the dark.
The Borg Queen makes a pretty good sales pitch.
Why, why, WHYYYYY did this have to close?!
Unfortunately, 2007-2008 was not a good time for the Star Trek franchise. It is as if the balloon had burst and started bleeding out air. The fanbase was shrinking, no new fans were being created (particularly from Enterprise, Insurrection, and Nemesis), the convention scene was dwindling, and attendance at The Experience had tapered off and begun to fall.
While the addition of the Borg Invasion 4D was fruitful,... the biggest tragedy of The Experience was its location and the fact that it could not be expanded outward. Part of "The Klingon Encounter" had to be torn down in order to even make room for Borg Invasion, and there was just no more possibility for expansion. And as much as I loved both of them,... you can only do two attractions so many times.
If there was ONE thing that could have saved Star Trek: The Experience, it would have been its own location that could be built upon and expanded outward. A third attraction could have granted The Experience another year at least,... and with the popularity boom that came from the 2009 Star Trek film, attendance at the Experience would no doubt have gotten a boost, and allowed greater expansion, and would certainly have continued operation to this day.
But alas... one of the great "what if"s
K1productions you can thank Bekula for killing the franchise >_
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Actually, I enjoyed Scott Bakula. More of it was writing. Remember, there were no shortage of horrible episodes early in TNG as well.
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Then you enjoyed bad acting. It happens to all of us.
saquist and I suppose you could do better? Enterprise's faults were not in the acting or the actors, but in the writing and direction. But, I guess it is the first reaction for people to blame the actors for failings in the script, as if the actors write it all themselves, right?
I’m guessing this is when after Voyager returned home, and it was updated and all, and it had quantum torpedos installed in it. All this before she was parked at Starfleet Museum. Btw if I was at the experience today, if it was still open, I’d be taking selfies with the borg lol.
My parents took me to this in Las Vegas when I was five or so. Been deathly afraid of the borge ever since.
From 10:10 to 12:40, it sounds like a guided meditation video. The Borg Queen has a very relaxing and soothing voice, I will use this video to help me get to sleep or the next time I need to connect with my inner Borg through meditation.
+hmartinspliff RESIST
This video hardly makes justice to the great experience it was. My hubby and I went for our honeymoon and we enjoyed it very much. From Quarks bar to the interactive characters to being teletransported on one of the rides/walkthroughs. The seats did shake and tremble in synch with the video. Pity is not anymore. As a side note, the only things that broke during a trans-sea moving where those two nice anniversary glasses we got at the giftshop. Snif...Kleenex...
This has to be the coolest thing ever, right?
This was awesome! I only got to experience this attraction once & the other a few times, but they did a great job on both.
I'm so glad to see that again. I'm happy it hasn't been completely lost to time.
I'm so glad this got put online. I was at the Star Trek Experience once and had tickets to do both of the "rides" (if that's what you call them), but there was some problem with the Borg one.
Never got to go back. At least I get to see it through once. :-)
Is there a DVD or blu ray version I can purchase online? I can't seem to find it on Amazon.com
@@deafamerican2010 Buy? No. You're only option is videos like this m where people snuck cameras in.
This was an absolutely fantastic experience. The "4D" of the ride wasn't just the 3D effect when taken into the Borg cube, when the Queen said we would be assimilated, things poked gently out of the chairs behind your head to make it feel like they were assimilating your, it was a lot of fun.
wait... there are real life working phasers? Okay, propably just fancy flashlights, but still, I want one now...
yeah so true...
Fancy flashlight combined with a low-level fogger to illuminate the beam.
This was a fantastic ride and I'd love to do it again.
At the end of the film, the character seen walking in the shuttle bay ( half way between the two shuttles) is Dizzy from the Starship Troopers: Roughneck Chronicles.
What where?
Just being a part of it. To actually have the hope that one day we as humans will attain that level of humanity and degree of technological expertise.
This was amazing! Thanks!
I wish I could have been there.
Ahhh, the memories of going to the Experience at the Hilton!!
Star trek the experience was so awesome........I miss it so much. The ST:TNG thing was old when it closed but the borg experience wasn't, but it closed and will probably never reopen anywhere, even though it was so cool! It's sad but I am so glad I made my Mom take me when I first found out about it and wasn't even old enough to gamble and thank god she was an original trekkie and was okay with that! She took us and we even stayed in the same hotel and it was so cool, I got to go three times before it sadly closed. I wish it opened elsewhere it was so much fun, but sadly las vegas isn't sentimental about shit anymore, so once it's old it's gone!
I just remember the EMH version of the Enterprise-E in First Contact: "I'm a doctor, not a doorstopper." But the original one of course fights the Borg with a phaser.
I saw it in Germany as a kid of 13 yrs and it was EPIC! Have been inside like 10 times that day. It was super fun!
That seems really cool, pretty well done too.
This is gonna rock the house ride, like STAR TREK Series and Movies and now Stunt ride show.
"...the one thing queen can never assimilate - the human spirit. So long as we have that, resistance is NEVER futile. *drops mic*
This and the Klingon experience was pretty cool and a lot of fun. I went through it all twice many years back with the last time a couple months before permanent shut down. It's a shame it could stay alive long enough till the reboot, I would have loved to see what kind of ride experience they would have came out based on the Kelvin timeline.
Oh this looks so fun! And the doctor really nailed it :)
And then here we are 2022... they live
imagine how cool this kind of thing could be with today's tech?
Jaron Talotta Wicked Lasers Orange Laser
I went to Star Trek: The Experience about a year before it closed and it was a ton of fun (especially if you dressed up in costume for it.) The video does not do the ride justice. It really was an immersive experience and made you feel like you were in an episode of Voyager. I miss this place dearly.
Living here in Vegas I went to the show back when the old Hilton was here ..now it's called Westgate.. I miss it
I swear, every Nerd herd always has one tall guy with arms crossed.
The funny thing is that, if a phaser existed, their version is more accurate. It wouldn't emit light unless light reflects off a target. If you can see it, that means it's emitting photons in all directions. It wouldn't make sense for a weapon to waste energy emitting light in all directions (unless it were terribly inefficient)
I went on this ride it was fun!
Ohh man this brings back memories.
just get 7 of 9 to do the tours I bet the place would be booked up
Went to the experience in 2004...loved the rides and the whole shebang. Only sad note is that when I got home I found out Jerry Goldsmith had passed away.
He died, she died, they all died. The ride operators get like $3 million a month selling what the tourists leave behind, on Ebay.
This looks so badass! ☕🖖
Hahaha even though its a show....still get serious anxiety seeing the Borg.
I love Trek, and I was kind of into this thing until the "phaser blasts" ended up being a red flashlight. That is SO stupid.
Yeah, they should have used real phasers instead.
Geeky CollectiblesReviews Or nothing. Pretending to shoot, having the sound effect play, and then seeing a shower of sparks or something come out of the wall (or borg) would have been far cooler. Just have someone go in there and replace the pyrotechnic or whatever they use after every tour. Or figure out a way to have it be a renewable source of sparks. It's moot now, but it would have been far more impressive than that red flashlight.
fozzibab I have one of those professional laser pointers and even though it produces a thin trail of light from the source to the destination it would look a lot better than the red flashlight they used. They could rig a bunch of those laser pointers together to form a sort of solid beam or close to it, & then put the renewable pyrotechnics on the borg so that when the beam hits a certain area(a sensor) the sparks go off making it look close to a phaser hitting the borg. GOD bless.
+fozzibab One doesn't need pyrotechnics for sparks... Just flint and steel. on a motor... With a loud enough and clear enough speaker, one can cover up the sound of the flint and steel with sound effects.
+Jenny Tokumei Well there you go, then. Even easier! Even less of an excuse for them not to have that going. Ah, well.
If Universal wants a Star Trek themed ride, reviving this would be perfect
Unfortunately it’s owned by Paramount
This is really bad, but I would use my last bit of fuel in a time machine to see this in person.
Looks so much more fun than Star Tours.
Have you been on BOTH rides?!?!?!
I kind of question that...
Besides Star Wars and Star Trek? Apples and oranges!
Star Wars and Star Trek versus Prequel Star Wars/Episode VII and NuTrek? Apples and oranges (original versions, original continuities) versus SPOILED fruit...
Anyhow, motion ride-wise, even without the motion, I've seen the video of Star Tours II and experienced the original version many, many times... Thankfully, the original version HAS been preserved online.
Star Tours was definitely more KINETIC than this ride was but Star Trek wasn't turned into Star WARS until JJ Abrams got his mitts on it and turned that series into his audition for Episode VII...
This was really fun
See, this is why all federation outposts or research facilities should be Deep Space Nine. Even the ones that aren't DS9. DS9 would have pimp-smacked that Cube back into place.
Andy Revell Is that...because DS9 had lots of weapons? It wouldn't have mattered. What *should* have happened is that after Voyager made it back to the Federation with future technology like armor and weapons, every ship and space station in the fleet should have been equipped with them.
But it seems like they and the producers of Nemesis promptly forgot about that shit.
Doktor L True! However they didn't learn to adapt to the transphasic torpedoes - I assume there wasn't time enough, since one of them could destroy a cube. Other than the borg, though, no other power in the Alpha quadrant could have matched that technology. In a war the Federation would have rolled right over any aggressor! That would have been fun to see, but of course if that was the case, it would've meant the Scimitar in that clusterfuck called Nemesis wouldn't have been able to kick the crap out of the Enterprise.
I think Admiral Janeway brought back tech from 30 or 40 years in the future, actually...I haven't seen the episode in a while but I remember her saying something about the Borg being "30 years behind-the-times" or some such thing. I should watch it again!
fozzibab
It is actually stated in a book that transphasic torpedoes were solely used by the enterprise e on hit and run missions against solitary cubes. Basically hit them and give them 0 chance to adapt. When everbody started using them later on the borg eventually adapted.
The museum in the lobby was even better
You pressed the wrong button. Those were photon not quantum torpedoes
Since when do quantum torpedoes give off an orange glow? They were blue in every series. It's the photon torpedoes that were orange.
Love this
That was cool, thanks for sharing!
I never thought there'd a star trek b-movie, but....there it is. lol
I remember seeing this in Las Vegas
Would love to a movie where either Kirk or Archer would battle the borg.
Did they really turn the Borg Queen into a classic villain? You know, "You may have won this time, but I'll be back!"
As she always should be. They already turned her into a supervillain in Voyager.
I wonder how much the props went for at the auction they had when the ride closed.
I never did get to go on this ride, but I can say that no video can give the full experience. Seeing it and living it are two very different things.
the borg look awesome!
Reminds me of the T2 ride a bit
Very cool.
Really flashlights for the weapons and no spark when hitting the panel.... Been a treky all my life and a part of me died watching this
They had minifoggers on them so you could really see a lightbeam. Its just not visible on the video. Well about the spark part, it has to do with safetymesures for the visitors and for the set itself since it was 12 million.
Jamming shields? First time I've ever heard of that in Star Trek.
Okay, THAT sure got my heart pounding. I probably shouldn't go on this ride in case I charge one of the actors in a protective fury and hurt someone.
its really cool for a startrek fan
This looks fun
It bothers me that the uniforms are slightly wrong.
The Doctor and actors on the viewscreen seem to have film/tv accurate costumes.
Not sure why they changed them for the actors that interact with the visitors.
It really dosen't matter. that is just nitpicking. My girlfriend who went with me to this, loved it, she's not that big of a Star Trek fan.
I really hate that I missed the chance to go through this..
i remember going to the Star Trek experience in Vegas... I think this is different though.
some of the people in the audience look genuinely terrified. :D
I just got the 10 movie collection from iTunes and it seemed like the extras are all from the 2009 set. I wonder why they didn't include the extra content from those other two DVDs that were in the 2009 box sets for the respective Star Trek Collections.
This kind of reminds me of Japanese tokusatsu-related stage shows with voice over participation from the show's actors.
I didn't get to do this one. I did like crashing back to Earth and walking through the back corridor being guided by a Hilton maid and then to the Quark bar.
I experienced this and the time travel Klingon kidnapping plot twice, fun every time!
I miss this place... I worked on CGI for this ride. What a bummer.
nice job dude.
All you guys made a great experience. This absolutely terrified me as a child haha! Didn't get into Trek until much later in life, but glad to have this memory nowadays.
i wish I could have gone to this
The actors playing Borg drones as to make up, however part of me wants to see the actors playing Starfleet getting assimilated by the one real drones
I remember most from the ST Experience the Star Trek timeline exhibit-called The History of the Future.
Looks like a lot of fun but it has quite a few inaccuracies and is short but I still would have enjoyed it if I had been there
it was in Las Vegas
looked awesome me wanna visit and try
Came here after learning of the disaster that is star wars starship experiance, there might not be a hotel in this but the experience looks legendary compared to disney's idea of one.
That looked cool. It's a shame it's not around anymore.
"Fire quantum torpedos." They're firing photon torpedos.
Just came across this would be cool if you went onto a made bridge and that would move and such and see the space battle on the view screen :D
Looks pretty good. How much are the tickets? 200 bucks a head?