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This eatery/bar is at the exit to the Star Trek Experience, so you can stop there if you want to revel just a little more in the whole geeky trek thing. I’ve eaten here just about every trip I’ve taken to Vegas, so I guess I should just admit I have a problem and order my pointy Vulcan ears already. The place is decorated in Star Trek sci-fi whiz-bang themes, with electricity buzzing through the walls, steel and glass tables, and blue neon lighting everywhere. Models of Star Trek spacecraft hang from the ceiling, and a big-screen TV plays clips from Star Trek episodes. Actors in costume wander the floor while you eat. A Klingon might berate you for eating nothing but “dead weeds”, a Ferengi might try to sell you something, or buy one of your relatives. They have recently added more costumed actors, including a Borg drone and a Klingon woman (who filled out her costume quite nicely I might add...) They don’t take themselves too seriously, and if you play along it can be kind of fun. I always find it humorous that the Klingon wears 6” thick soles on his shoes, a padded chest in his outfit, and I’m STILL bigger then he is. You’d think there would be one out-of-work bodybuilder in Vegas they could hire. They are advertising that they have a new head chef, although I'm not sure exactly when the old head chef left. Suffice it to say that over the past few years I've seen the service and food quality go up and down. On my most recent trip, both seem to be "up". Service was good, and the food was as well. The "Flaming Ribs Of Targ" are still not as good as I remember way back when, but the general quality is quite good. This is (and pretty much always has been) the best food I've ever had at a "theme" restaurant. I (and several of my readers) recommend the "Fried Pipius Claws" with the Asian sauce (as opposed to Buffalo style). Damn tasty. The booze here is good, so good I’ll take a taxi to the Hilton even if I rented a car in Vegas. The drinks are big, tasty, and full of liquid woozy, plus they drop some dry ice in there to make smoke, so after your second “Warp Core Breach” you can have fun peering into the CO2 cloud while your table mates point and laugh at your drunken ass. I’m really not a huge Trek fan, but I like eating here. It’s
a lot of fun, and I’ll most likely keep going back until they
tear the place down to build another theater where people watch French
clowns get stuffed into meat grinders.
(EDITED 4/11/05: updated due to recent visit)
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