Star Trek Summer Camp: Brainstorming Thread

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#1

So, I sat down at my computer this morning, a little before 9 am this morning and I started thinking “Why can’t I be a Trekkie as a career?” You may well ask, didn’t I have anything more important and productive to be thinking about? Well, yes, but … Stop asking me that.

I mean, I’m content talking about Star Trek all day long, so is there a Star Trek business plan that can make me a livelihood? Anyway, fortunately my buddy Top Gun was on hand and stepped up and Tweeted some great ideas on Twitter.
So here’s our brainstorming session so far. Please feel free to add your own :slight_smile: (This should be read from bottom to top in Twitter fashion).

@frakkintalos Welcome to your new profession, Talos. Live action Trek parties. Big bucks, fun, and togetherness!less than 20 seconds ago from web in reply to frakkintalos

@ThotFullGWC Hell yeah! Even geeks like to be a little Evil now and again! Wear an Evil Spock Goatee, Your Drinks are Free happy hour.15 minutes ago from web in reply to ThotFullGWC

@TopgunGWC ~~~should we have 1/2 price “Mirror Universe/Wear a Goatee” Day?25 minutes ago from web in reply to TopgunGWC

@TopgunGWC Woot! We got a lot of ideas here. Flipping to new page on the flip chart. Okay, how many times a month should we have ~~~25 minutes ago from web in reply to TopgunGWC

@ThotFullGWC Saturday Night Campfire: Marshmallows and group sing of Ro Row Row Your Boat.21 minutes ago from web in reply to ThotFullGWC

@ThotFullGWC Saturday Itinerary: Kirk-Fight Free-For-All! All attendees painted w/dirt, hair mussed, shirts ripped, then a barbecue!23 minutes ago from web in reply to ThotFullGWC

@ThotFullGWC Enjoy the serenity of the forest as 1200watt speakers blast Trek theme music from hidden speakers 18 hrs a day!25 minutes ago from web in reply to ThotFullGWC

@ThotFullGWC Totally! A Trek Me Away Weekend Package. With full-sized shuttlecraft mockup on site.26 minutes ago from web in reply to ThotFullGWC

@ThotFullGWC Pin the Tail on the Gorn !30 minutes ago from web in reply to ThotFullGWC

@ThotFullGWC The Doomsday Package: Culminates in gathering around kitchen sink, where Trek miniatures are tossed into garbage disposal31 minutes ago from web in reply to ThotFullGWC

@ThotFullGWC Scantily-clad female extras completely ignored as group gathers excitedly around prop tricorder w/ no screen and broken strap.35 minutes ago from web in reply to ThotFullGWC

@TopgunGWC Good. How about mock Landing Party/Away Missions at Walden Pond or White Mountains National Forest?36 minutes ago from web in reply to TopgunGWC

@ThotFullGWC Picturing a roomful of 40-something’s, each drunk on two beers apiece, cheering loudly as we bury the Birthday-boy in tribbles.39 minutes ago from web in reply to ThotFullGWC

@TopgunGWC Exactly. I mean, we’d need to tweek the business plan to make it sell, but yeah, you get the idea.43 minutes ago from web in reply to TopgunGWC

@ThotFullGWC I like it. I like it alot! :smiley: Perhaps we could do live theater at geek birthday parties! Re-enact key scenes on request!40 minutes ago from web in reply to ThotFullGWC

How come I can’t, like, get paid to be a Trekkie…like as a job? I’d be good at it, and I’d work extra long hours with no complaint. Thots?about 1 hour ago from web

#2

TopgunGWC@frakkintalos The Shat-tas-tic Package! William Shatner is flown in and actually driven by the party residence once, in a limo. Doesn’t wave

Price: $67,000.

#3

TopgunGWC@frakkintalos @ThotFullGWC The Guinan Getaway: A weekend of drinks and discussion as actress Whoopie Goldberg, in full costume as Guinan, dispenses drinks and helpful quips on life and love. A Trek behind-the-scenes Q&A follows.

#4

TopgunGWC@frakkintalos Pon Farr Free-for-All ! Attendees club each other silly in ritual combat for an autographed Leonard Nimoy T Shirt.

TopgunGWC@frakkintalos @ThotFullGWC Destination: Data! Groups are faced w/a series of confusing emotional issues, which they must solve with math

#5

I have a question about this one. Does this one go in the G-rated folder or the X-rated folder? :eek:

#6

It depends on how many Romulan Ale-tinis have been consumed prior to the event.

#7

ThotFullGWC @TopgunGWC @frakkintalos The Ferengi “How to Make Money and Meet Females” All Day Seminar.8 minutes ago from web in reply to TopgunGWC

#8

Talos seems to have the most Gorn Porn expertise. So we’ll assign him to that section.

#9

I may have to break out the photoshop stuff and get to work! :smiley:

#10

ladydisdain@ThotFullGWC and has no one considered the obvious? Shore Leave Experience! frakking, fighting, white rabbits, black knights, strafing runsless than a minute ago from twitterrific in reply to ThotFullGWC

#11

This isn’t very coherent, but there should totally be a space camp like simulator to get the Enterprise out of Dry Dock. Or an actual ship. Whichever works for you.

And you need to find a dry rocky place to the away missions :wink:

#12

Both sound like awesome ideas to me!!
Well done.:slight_smile:

#13

Senior Citizen’s “Star Trek Love Boat” Singles Cruise Week? (…too mean?)

#14

In the “Arts and Crafts” Building, a weekly “Glue a Picture of Yorick on Your Favorite Space Ship” Night.

#15

the camp should be at or near Vasquez Rocks ojut here in Cali–site of most of the off-word outdoor shots in TOS…taht’d be sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet

#16

I love it. It could be like the game Operation…hit the sides and BUZZZZ !! :smiley:

#17

“Transporter Lottery Night”
Rules: Players take turns drawing a random string of numbers out of hat, and those coordinates are punched into the transporter controls.
The player who beams his red shirt closest to the alien monster, wins a $25 Home Depot gift card.

#18

A perfect idea!!

#19

There oughtta be a 2-week Terminator Summer Glau Camp.

Or Firefly.

Wed: Intro to Ballet Class with Summer.

Thursday: Breakfast with Mal. And maybe one lucky camper will have breakfast with Summer.

#20

Jefferies Tube Climbing Race Day