![]() ![]() For a moment it looks like the real thing: the crew of the starship Enterprise has landed on a strange new world, which also happens to be the emptied pool area of the Rio Hotel and Casino. By the makeshift altar, the groom stands in the dress uniform Picard wore to Riker and Troi’s wedding in Nemesis, flanked by two rosy-cheeked boys in gray suit-vests pinned with Next Generation-era combadges. ![]() Rows of seats are full of people in costume: there’s Ambassador Soval from Enterprise, Lore from The Next Generation, a Trill wearing an Original Series uniform, a member of the Borg. It’s the end of day three of the five-day Star Trek Las Vegas 50th Anniversary Convention, and I am outside, at a Star Trek wedding. In the desert in early August, the temperature nudges 100 degrees, even as the sun dips below the horizon.
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