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Star Trek: The Experience - Borg Invasion 4D (2004)

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26 out of 29 people found the following comment useful :-
Great Fun while in Las Vegas!, 8 April 2004

Author: Scott Migaldi (smigaldi@hotmail.com) from Chicago

Saw it last weekend at the Las Vegas Hilton. It is indeed part of the Star Trek exhibit/experience there. They still have the original experience for those that are wondering.

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'4D' starts of with you receiving a briefing at Conpernicus station from a Lt (live in the room with you) and the Doctor (Robert Picardo of Voyager) on the view screen. It seems that you have been identified as probably having a gene that makes you immune to the Borg nanoprobes and Star Fleet wishes to do some research with you. But before that research can start the station is attacked by a Borg cube. While the attack is underway several crewmen rush in and the floor shakes form the phaser blasts. The order is given to evacuate you to a shuttle pod. So you are quickly rushed into a passageway inside the station where before you can reach the shuttle several crewmen are attacked by the BOrg, and you yourself have some close encounters with them.

Eventually you reach the shuttle pod and are orderd to put on protective gogles (3d glasses) and enter the pod, which is a large theater decorated to look like a shuttle with a big view screen and crewmen 'flying' it. The floor will move and you will feel things such as wind and 'nanoprobes' while trying to escape. But eventually all is lost and you are pulled into the Borg cube for assimilation. After some additional 'fun' you are rescued by Capt. Janeway and the Voyager.

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The whole encouter takes about 15 minutes and is great fun if you are a fan. Your ticket includes the other experience and of course a visit to Quark's Bar is a must afterwards.

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Emerse yourself in the world of Star Trek, 4 October 2005

Author: vernonwilmer from United States

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Especially now with the current absence of Star Trek TV shows or movies, this is the only place where you can feel Star Trek alive and feeling new. Unlike the shows, you can feel like you are a part of it, involved in the action and not just watching. A dream come true for any Trekkie or Trekker!!! Start by transporting through the space/time continuum to the remote Federation outpost "Copernicus Station" where the Doctor (Robert Picardo)from Star Trek Voyager briefs you on a medical mission to fight the Borg, when suddenly a cube arrives and attacks the station! Now in mortal danger, you are escorted through the station at the expense of several live Starfleet personnel to the docking bay where you escape assimilation aboard the Federation transport "Olympia"... or do you? The Borg Queen (Alice Krige) is on your case from this point of the show on!!! Can Admiral Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) prove that resistance is futile? Find out (In 4-D) at Star Trek the Experience, Las Vegas Hilton!!!

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What great fun!!!, 23 October 2004
Author: laserdude from Michigan, United States

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My wife and I were at the Las Vegas Hilton this past Tuesday 10/19/2004. We each paid the $34.99 for both "rides" in the "Star Trek: The Experience". The "rides"; Klingon Encounter & Borg Invasion; are both covered by this ticket price and allows you to take each journey all day long and as many times as you care to do (or at least until it closes for the day). I won't go into spoilers here. But just to say I couldn't stop laughing. The Borg Invasion was soooo cool and the effects you are immersed in are a riot!!! One of the other passengers really got into it and was screaming his head off every time a Borg appeared.

My wife and I are Star Trek fans, so being in this environment where everything feels like a 23rd Century world was great. There were non-Star Trek fans who also came to enjoy the "rides" and they got a kick out of all the fun too. If you have never been, go and enjoy it. I found it helps to just play along with the idea (don't take the goings on too seriously) and you'll have a blast. The food in "Quark's Bar" was really good and I wanted to stay there a week. I'll be back again before the end of the year. Go with a group if you can, it's more fun that way. The story line in both "rides" are solid enough to move the action along and the visuals (the 3-D effect is fantastic) are great! I think if Paramount were smart, they should do some kind of IMAX film for Star Trek. Because what I experienced there at the Las Vegas Hilton has such a good quality, it would translate well for a more developed story on a huge screen. All-n-all, what great fun!!! Both "rides" has a hands on quality to them, very interactive. Also try out the rides more than once. I found things I missed the first time around with the Borg hiding around and all the special effects.

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Ridiculously overpriced, but a fun experience for Trek fans, 30 April 2004
Author: (destrip@netzero.net) from San Bernardino, CA

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(WARNING: Lots of spoilers; see below)

While on a mid week trip to Vegas, my friend and I (both Trek fans but not nuts about it) went to the Star Trek Experience. My friend was jazzed about the new Borg 4-D portion of the experience. He said it was really cool and we could ride as many times as we wanted for the day.

Upon arrival, however, we were sorely disappointed. The admission price was $30, and it only offered a ONE TIME shot at each experience. The ride-all-day feature had been canceled.

Both experiences feature a walkthrough of a series of true-to-Star-Trek sets, culminating in a ride aboard a simulator. The Klingon Encounter features a standard motion simulator, while Borg 4-D has a larger theatre-style simulator reminiscent of Disney's "Honey, I Shrunk the Audience."

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Klingon Encounter was pretty cool. Participants line up for boarding what looks like a simulator but are accidentally beamed up to the Enterprise! When Enterprise is attacked by Klingons, participants are whisked away to the real simulator, where they escape in the midst of a fierce Klingon battle and are transported back to Vegas. The most impressive portion of Klingon Encounter is the sensation of being beamed aboard the Enterprise. We are still debating how the beaming is accomplished (rotating room, etc.?)

Borg 4-D was good, if not a bit hokey. The group of participants is informed that they have arrived on the Copernicus Base for an experiment --they have a special DNA sequence that could render them immune to the Borg. Of course, the Borg arrive before the experiment and the immunity is tested real-time! After being chased by the Borg they arrive in the simulator, which features amazing 3-D effects and things like water sprays when things blow up, and tactile sensations in the seats. My friend didn't like the water spray too much...

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All in all these were excellent experiences, but nowhere worth the price of admission ($30 will get you an entire day at many amusement parks.) Plus, guess where you get dumped at the end of the experience? A GIFT SHOP! And even before you get there you are detained for a two minute spiel about a $20 photograph of you Photoshopped into a scene from a Star Trek show. The restaurant, Quark's, has great food, though $5 for a salad and $10 for a burger and fries is a bit wide of the mark. The ambience is cool though, with a costumed Borg, Klingon and Ferengi making rounds and playing their parts very well.

My recommendation: Trek fan? Do it once. Not a Trek fan? Go to Circus Circus, Buffalo Bill's or Stratosphere and ride fun stuff all day for the same price or less.

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