Summer Star Trek is basically a local performance troupe recreating Star Trek episodes on a minimal budget outdoors. These gigs are inspiring and inventive with their use of sounds (provided by their band Trouble with Trebles) and handmade props. This charming young lady is the Enterprise's computer for example.
Back for their third year Summer Star Trek this year was classic Star Trek episode Mirror, Mirror. In which Captain Kirk and his away team find themselves transported to a dark alternate universe, where science officers have goatees and everyone is an assassin.
One of the really cool aspects of this performance is how people often become objects... for example the lady in the background of the above picture is a door, and when people walk through she says "WOOOSH!" at another point in the show some people wearing shiny outfits were "force fields" which was totally clear when they started waving sparkly strands of something.
Another cool aspect of the show is the amount of comedy included, but let me be clear this is not satire, they are not mocking the source material just giving it a few sly winks and nods. Spock is clearly out of his Vulcan mind here....
Audience participation is a pretty big part of it, joining in on the preshow sing-a-long is basically mandatory, and when this kid decided to run up and get amongst it, and the actors just rolled right along with it. Artists!
Happily back on the Enterprise and chasing skirt.... exactly the Kirk we need!
This show while technically free, relies on donations from the crowd at the end, just pay what you can. It was definitely worth everything I gave them though.
Next up: Wellington Museum
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