Last Call for Vegas’ Star Trek: The Experience
Star Trek: The Experience?a legendarily nerd Trek-based restaurant and bar, situated in the Las Vegas Hilton. It’s mission: to get nerds to massively overpay for food and booze with Star Trek-themed names. That mission is coming to an end, as Star Trek: The Experience will close this September.
Oh, I poke fun, but but I’m sad to see it go?especially just before J.J. Abrams’ upcoming Trek movie, which couldn’t have hurt interest in the bar, at least, anymore than it already is. Besides, if there were a Star Wars version of this thing?a cantina that served Han Solo-themed cocktails and blue milk (and now that I think about it, why the fuck isn’t there one?)?I’d be there in a heartbeat, overpaying for Mon Fried Calamari and everything else on the menu. Good-bye, sweet Experience! You were certainly one of the world dorkiest meccas!
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.