Went to Motor City Comic Con and Star Trek: The Exhibition at the Detroit Science Center yesterday. Had an awesome time! At the con I saw a lot of people from tv/movies I enjoy watching. First I went and got in line to see John Schneider since he was the person I wanted to see first due to his work on Smallville. Unfortunately he didn’t have any copies of his movie Collier & Company there so I’ll have to order it from his site. The other people I saw were Catherine Hicks, Erick Avari, Bruce Davison, Brad Kesten, Sean Kenney, Garrett Wang and Dwayne McDuffie. Everyone was extremely nice and personable and I was able to get pictures with all of them except Erick Avari, which was due to the convention having photo ops with certain guests and so had asked those people not to do photos at their tables, Erick Avari being one of them.

I had considered getting an autograph from Carrie Fisher due to the fact she had been on an episode of Smallville, but due to that other thing she did (you know what I’m talking about…) the line to see her was two hours long, so I decided to pass.

After getting the autographs I wanted I looked around the vendor area and bought a few t-shirts. Probably don’t need more t-shirts but what can I say? I’m a sucker for the Flash.

After that we went to the Detroit Science Center to see Star Trek: The Exhibition. It was very fun and interesting. Lots of props and costumes and some ship models. Sadly, they didn’t allow photography in the exhibit due to an agreement with a professional photography service. But they did have replica sets of the bridge of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 (”No bloody A, B, C, D OR E” to paraphrase Mr. Scott), the transporter room of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-D, someone’s quarters from The Next Generation (the website says it’s Picard’s quarters, but most of the props in it were stuff that would have been in Riker’s quarters, so I’m not sure) and a life-size mock up of the Guardian of Forever. All of those, other than the quarters, you were able to have your picture taken on.

I do want to go back again before the exhibit moves on in September. I definitely want to ride the full motion simulator ride, and wouldn’t mind doing the audio tour and hearing what it has to say about the items.

While photos weren’t allowed in the Star Trek portion they were allowed in the rest of the museum and I got a few pictures before we had to leave.

Carefully I creep,
And I don’t make a peep.
Ready to bolt when the chance is here,
Needing to escape this place I fear.
I don’t know what to do,
Very certain I am through.
Already this place feels like a prison,
Locked in the fun house really isn’t.

Every day she used to look,
Getting to know the outer cover of her book.
And wishing she felt as good within.
Many times she tried to look past,
In her mind though she could not pass.
Rejecting the beauty others saw within.
Only now does she finally see,
Reality as it is truly meant to be.
Ready to admit what to others was always clear.
Inside beauty is how she now defines,
Made to see the day she was struck blind.
And never more slave to the mirror.

Last year on the cruise I went on they did something called On Deck for the Cure, which is an event where they sell shirts and arm bands to help support breast cancer research. They did it again this year, and like last year I donated. The thing they did different this year was afterward they had a one mile walk/run on the jogging track as a show of support. Obviously since there wasn’t pledging involved like in some other benefit walks it didn’t actually help financially, but was still fun. After the 1 mile was over I decided to keep walking for a bit. Lost track of how many laps I did but ended up walking for about 50 minutes.