Star Trek: The Experience - Decommissioning Ceremony

"Star Trek: The Experience" closed its doors last night at approximately 11pm, for the last time after more than a decade running. This video shows the last moments of the ceremony MC'ed by Suzie Plakson at the Las Vegas Hilton September 1, 2008.

The full ceremony included a parade of 160 staff from the venue, from bar & wait staff, administration and management, to the fully-costumed starfleet and alien actors. The whole ceremony ran for a little under 1 hour from 10pm and was filmed for posterity by Paramount Pictures.

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• star
• trek
• startrek
• las
• vegas
• hilton
• decommissioning
• experience
• closing
• enterprise
• voyager
• DS9
• TOS
• suzie
• plakson

[AprilSTTE]

Those names were DP Shapiro and Gina Burgos

[nikzane]

Ah, thanks April! My guesses were close, from listening to the audio, but my phonetic spellings were horribly wrong. ;¬)

[nikzane]

I couldn't verify two of the members names - they both directly follow Brigid Kelly and precede Melvin Ladera. If anyone knows their correct names, I'll edit and re-upload the video. (Apologies to these two untitled members). Also, if I've made mistakes on any of the other names, please let me know.

[DEP717]

It's sad they closed one of the trippiest places.

[Goldiney]

STE was the MAIN reason for me to visit Las Vegas. I don't think I'll be going half as much as I used to. RIP STE; my 15+ trips will never be forgotten. Thank you for the years of unforgettable memories.

[ChrisCa1601]

It sucks that the Star Trek Experience closed down. I never had a chance to visit that place. :(

[coupe73vf]

Wish I could have been there. I was one of the crew who build and installed the hydraulic motion base for the simulator. I was really proud to have been a part of that, especially after going through the finished attraction with my family. It's too bad it's gone now. I remember meeting a girl named April who was one of the original Enterprise crew members. She was cool!

[DSVOP]

Is the full ceremony, as filmed by Paramount, available for sale to the public?

[dim432]

kind of like star trek Enterprise.

Computer, End program

[aarondavid826]

God this is sad :(

[TRWolf]

The only thing with the Starfleet uniforms at STE was that they had those cheap gift shop metal comm badges instead of the more matt looking ones as used on the shows etc.

[EJ8civic]

wow..i was in the last cast of startrek the experience, worked in the kitchen making pastries and deserts for quarks bar, man i miss that job! i still have my startrek star fleet patch with the certifcate of aunthenticity

[TiffanyJ1985]

Bummer that its gone.. that was really cool.. was the hole point of why when ever i went id be at that hotel.. guess that goes to the saying "all good things have to end sometime"

[robert50501]

I wantd to go to see this now I won't be able to one of my friends told me it was a lbast.

[mocrg]

The Experience was great fun and all the people who worked there seemed to love it. I also liked the restaurant. But it had a few problems. it was too expensive. The ride video was never updated and after 10 years and digital tv, the effects looked old. And it should never have been in Vegas, the whole ride should be part of the Universal studios tour.