Google Builds Star Trek Bridge at Cult Convention
Steve Greenthal (L), owner of "The Crew," a collection of wax figures from the original Star Trek series, shows his display to Richard Newman of Virginia, a member of the board of directors of "Star Trek New Voyages," at the fifth annual official Star Trek convention at the Las Vegas Hilton in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Image source: AFP / Getty Images / Ethan Miller
Image source: AFP / Getty Images / Ethan Miller
An AFP newswire article by Glenn Chapman, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
Google duplicated the bridge of the fictional Starship Enterprise and embarked on a mission in Las Vegas to recruit engineers, at a gathering of cultish Star Trek devotees.More here.
More than 10,000 fans of the Star Trek franchise that began with a television series debut in September of 1966 were expected by organisers to make pilgrimages to the official annual convention at the Las Vegas Hilton.
Google Earth chief technologist Michael Jones, who quipped that his job was to make certain Google's mapping service was "the warp drive of computer graphics," commanded a booth modeled after the Enterprise bridge.
posted by Fergie @ 8/18/2006 09:45:00 AM
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