By Nicole Campos, Wednesday, Nov. 18 2009 @ 1:46PM
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| Rod Roddenberry, posing with a key piece of Trek legacy, Captain Kirk's original uniform. |
It's one thing to wait for a big DVD release, run out, grab the disc, run home and watch it on your killer entertainment system; it's quite another to watch it on the bridge of the Enterprise. Truth be told, the sound and picture are probably better on your home system, but for dyed-in-the-wool Trekkies, Trekkers, and everyone in between, yesterday's release of J.J. Abrams' Star Trek is enough cause to celebrate that the folks behind the current "Star Trek: The Exhibition" at Hollywood & Highland figured the fans might want to come down and grok the film in a most appropriate setting.
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| Nicole Campos |
| If you're going to sit this close to the captain during the movie, better make sure all cell phones and communicators are OFF. |
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| "Worf here. The patient is improving, Captain, but I'm concerned that Dr. Crusher seems to be missing her head..." |
For a few hours Tuesday night, the Trek reboot unspooled on the replica of the Enterprise bridge from Star Trek: The Next Generation - a fine carbon copy, complete with a scarily realistic wax figure of Patrick Stewart's Captain Picard on loan from Madame Tussaud's next door - while fans could pull up a seat and watch some of the movie or stroll through the exhibit crammed with ephemera from points all along Trek's over-40-year history. Though tricky to find, tucked as it is at the back of H&H's first level (Remember where that odd back entrance to the Virgin Megastore used to be? Yeah, it's there), the exhibition is quite seriously worth a look-see for the geek at heart. William Shatner's Kirk threads through the years, going all the way back to his chartreuse tunic from the original series, are on display, as are numerous other key costumes, most notably the futuristically pimpin', shredded gold velour getup sported by Ricardo Montalban in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan.
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| Nicole Campos |
| Ah, go on then, shout it. You know you want to. |
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| Nicole Campos |
| Full colors!: The entire Enterprise crew's uniforms from J.J. Abrams' Star Trek reboot |
