Trek in the Park is OUT OF THIS WORLD!

Went to see "Trek in the Park" on Saturday with Taylor and our total trek-nerd (trekie? trekker? whatever...) friend Melissa. This is a presentation of a group of young local actors who are acting out an episode of the classic, original Star Trek series. It's not a spoof, it's not a dramatically improved reinterpretation, it's pretty much a copy, minus most of the set...same dialogue and actions, same tone and inflection, even sound effects and music. And it is AWE---SOME! The crowd was overflowing. My completely unsupported, unscientific guestimate is at least 1000 people. I'm going again next Sunday, and this time we'll beam down early to get better seats.

According to the star, Captain Kirk, I mean Adam Rosko, with whom I had a just-post-noon beer a few Saturdays ago which proves I'm cool, he says this is the first ever "straight up" theater rendition of Star Trek. Of course, there have been spoofs, but this one is not a spoof (except in as much as Star Trek spoofs itself). They are putting it on two more nights, next Sat and Sunday in Portland's Woodlawn Park. Beam down....consider that an ORDER.

I didn't hear any announcements banning cameras or recording devices, so here are a few snaps I took:
The crew on the bridge. Left to right: Cmd Chekov (yellow shirt, complete with Rah-shin accent), Lt Uhura (red dress, scientific sounding lines), Spock (blue shirt, pointy ears, tragic hairstyle) , Capt James Tiberius Kirk (yellow shirt, overly serious expression), Sulu (yellow shirt, typing on special high tech invisible console) and (uh oh, can't remember the name) (blue dress, giant crush on spock)


High drama on the bridge.

Fight to the DEATH (or....is it?)

Things you'd ought not to say

Based on my own personally collected data, here are a few things that are probably best let unsaid:

In a room full of men: "Ok, who has the smallest feet?"

To the neighbor who has informed you that you should not spray the weeds: "So, you want me to have something I don't want, namely, weeds. And you're not going to offer any concession in return?"

To the neighbor who is talking more than you feel like listening: "Are you stoned? Oh, I guess it's just the Philadelphia in you."

To the neighbor you just now met: him: "Do you play frisbee?" me: "no, unless frisbee is code for something, in which case I love frisbee and play it all the time." Him: " ummmmmmm....frisbee, the flying disk thing."

To the person you're meeting for the first time after having talk to them on the phone many times: "Oh! I thought you'd be thinner."

There are more, I'm sure of that. I'll be back.