10 Greatest Star Trek Convention Moments
9. Oh Captain! Five Captains!
Now, here's a true story for you: this writer very nearly attended this particular convention but couldn't go in the end. Don't say we don't spoil you with the anecdotes at TrekCulture!
Destination Star Trek London 2012 earned a bit of a bad reputation. Some fans were (no doubt rightly) displeased by the high-priced 'add-ons' and the long queues, enough for their complaints to feature on the BBC's Watchdog programme. Nonetheless, more than 18,000 people attended, making it one of the largest Trek conventions in the world at the time. A first for Europe, the then five captains were assembled there for the weekend. As the host hinted at, failing some galactic timey-wimey catastrophe, we weren't going to see these actors in the same room very often again.
The famous five all took to the stage for questions during the opening ceremony. As well as the usual on-set anecdotes, they memorably sang a slightly off-key happy birthday to audience member, and daring son-of-a-phaser-rifle for asking, Richard. William Shatner told his story about signing a lady's breasts; Patrick Stewart recalled feeling like Sting; Avery Brooks philosophised; Scott Bakula basically dropped trow for the moderator, and Kate Mulgrew recounted the infinitely more elegant tale of the time she was asked to marry a same-sex couple at another convention.
Oh, and speaking of weddings, there were Klingon nuptials at Destination Star Trek London, because nothing says romantic like heavy prosthetics and painstiks.