Our favorite blogger and former Star Trek: The Experience cast member Jerad Formby takes us down a wonderfully reminiscent tour of his former haunt.  Star Trek: The Experience was Mecca for trek fans and we had the fantastic 'experience' of visiting it in it's prime.  For those of you Trek Fans that missed visiting, be sure to read Jerad's post.  He does an awesome job of capturing the atmosphere.

My good friend from Wyoming pushed me to move to Las Vegas. The idea was to attend film school. My friend also knew, deep down, that I would end up working at Star Trek: The Experience.

He didn’t confide that to me until I was hired.

There was no more financial aid coming and I could either go home defeated or try the job thing to stay. Hey Star Trek! is difficult to employ. Between car wash applications and movie theater applications and one shot off to Star Trek: The Experience, I got one phone call back.

Star Trek: The Experience was a 65,000 square foot facility that had two public levels. Every square inch of it was themed to have you feel you were in the 24th century. The lower level required no money to enter and the upper level contained two intense simulator rides –and those, gentle readers, did cost money.

I would have been happy selling tickets to the thing if it had come to that. But I got to do something else. I scored one of the most unique, most invigorating, and most creative jobs on the face of this good earth. And it paid okay.

The job required an audition, afterall, there was a simulator ride to staff. (source Trekcast.com)

Read the full article here.