Star Trek premiere in Los Angeles: Buildup

The Star Trek movie premiere will be at 7:00 PST. I'll be here. I've been taking photos as often as possible. Here's a little sampling of the photos I've come up with so far.

First, the mandatory "look, the Hollywood(land) sign" image, made ugly through the power of a Olympus subcompact camera. This is taken from the approach to Griffith Observatory in the hills of Griffith Park, east and slightly north of the center of Hollywood. The Star Trek Voyager (oh boy) episode "Future's End" was filmed here (that's the one from the 90s, and so that's all I can tell you). I left the hills in the front to give some impression of the semi-desert area you see in "Shore Leave" and some of the other original Trek episodes; turns out that wasn't filmed here.

Inside the Observatory is the "Leonard Nimoy Event Horizon Theater," which is showing something or other. Watched something else in the main planetarium instead - their system is definitely state of the art with full-color graphics over the dome, a star sphere, and individually tracked points (like planets) all at the same time. The show had water in the title, but the tickets
they printed off read "Centered in the Universe," which was showing later.

Here's an ABC News van careening into the blocked-off area in front of Grauman's Chinese Theater. See the "ELT" in the distance on the left, near the very top of the frame? That's the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. My room's window looks out from the other side - same street, but not towards the theater.

I heard the security people out there right now are misdirecting people into a coffee shop for the roll call tickets. Roll call for tickets starts at 5:45, but I'll be down there at 5:30 just to avoid a gigantic crush for tickets.

The last three pics are from the corner Roosevelt is sitting on - directly under the Roosevelt in the ABC Truck picture, looking towards the viewer. Workers setting up some walls - possibly some music event that seems unrelated to the actual premiere.

Check this space after the premiere (and I guess the following party - ?) for my impressions of the movie, if I can stay awake long enough to post 'em.