Sci-Fi Faire Opens Today

 At 11 AM SL time today, Wednesday September 7,the Second Life Sci-Fi Faire opens. Organized by the Sci-Fi Alliance in Second Life, the event is to both celebrate the 50th anniversary of  the Star Trek franchise, and to raise funds for the American Cancer Society. The event covers three sims and over eighty booths.

Kirk Wingtips, one of the head organizers, stated this was a spinoff event of the Sci-Fi convention, "its our in-between conventions event, the conventions themselves are the bigger event with six sims. We have quiet a few events coming up, the Milky Way Cabaret, some trivia, a Star Trek flight experience, some DJ's, and a little ship combat area." Of the booths, "some (are) using their booths to advertise and recruit new members, and some are vendors who sell some pretty cool sci fi-stuff, uniforms such as this one and ships, props and things." There were also taxi stations in which one could rez a small ship, get in, and it would take one around the place.

The landmarks for the three sims are the following:

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Vulcan/128/129/24

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Qonos/127/128/24

http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Risa/128/128/33

For more information, check the Second Life Sci-Fi Convention blog: https://slscificonvention.wordpress.com/

Bixyl Shuftan

Star Trek Online Memorials

On Thursday March 5, The Star Trek Online MMO added some in-game memorials in response to the death of Leonard Nimoy about a week earlier. At the town square on planet Vulcan, the fountain had a statue of Spock placed with the words "Live long and prosper." There was another statue erected on New Romulus, with the words, "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few."

Also at New Romulus, and at the Earth Spacedocks and the Klingon homeworld of Qo'nos, there were black flags on the wall draped as a sign of respect for the fallen. There were also permanent memorial plaques at these locations in honor of Nimoy and others in real life associated with Star Trek.