The after-show party

No more photos yet - for that I apologize. Read to the bottom for the reason why (or just consider it's 1:23 AM locally; 4:23 my home time).

At the party: Lots of noise but a fair number of the cast members. I thought they had us driving into a warehouse - just an open-air affair with some gas lamps for heat here and there. I saw the big dude (Hugo?) from Lost as we were getting ready to make a u-turn for leaving the car off at valet parking, and I'd see him a few more times before we were done. No Mrs. Nimoy or Sulu, but I saw Walter Koenig a few times in the area with a roof. A couple of the new Trek core cast members (Sulu, possibly Scotty) seemed to be hanging out in the center of the outdoors area.

Obviously, I have a ton of photos to go through sometime. After a pretty relentless movie (I was thinking, while watching the film, that the video game adaptation couldn't possibly keep up the pace), and then a big party.

Big dang speakers all over the place, with a deejay up on a platform happily banging away. I caught some bass-heavy remixes of Corey Hart's "Sunglasses at Night" and "You Turn Me Right Round."

The big attraction, aside from rubbing elbows (hah) with cast members (who I didn't even want to bother with a flash) was the photo booth. Basically dress-up with toy blasters and flip-open tricorders and such - made in China with copyright dates of 2009. I think people were picking up early samples of the mass-market toys we'll be seeing for the movie.

You can check out pictures of the photos (many starring celebrities!) here:

www.politeinpublic.com/star-trek/premiere/

Can you figure out which one is mine?

On the way out, they were passing out collectable glasses: Uhura, Spock, Kirk, and the bad guy. Almost took the bad guy's glass because they didn't seem to have passed out any, but the guy at the table said they'd just restocked. What the hell, I took Kirk's glass. I'll definitely be arranging for some stuff to be shipped home from our next hotel: glass, four popcorn buckets (heh), and various other stuff.

I almost forgot to mention they had three people in suits: the Burger King as a Klingon (!)

Next time, I'll try to finally get some more pictures up. I'm afraid browsing through a bunch of blurry no-flash compact camera pictures at this hour will provoke a little twinge in my left brow into a full-on headache.

(Edit 6/16/09: added tags)