common con tricks

[Confused Ape]

I always thought the best common cons were held in nyc or L.a. I think the best part of the common con are the cos-players, and sci if celebs. We have a version of the common con, where I live, it's called Mega con. This year they are going to have the whole STNG crew signing autographs. I want to get a good enterprise-D model any suggestions?

Parallels have been drawn between Star Trek fandom and religious devotion - Trekkie

The religious devotion of Star Trek's fans began almost immediately. When Roddenberry previewed the new show at a 1966 science-fiction convention, he and his creation received a rapturous response:

The showing divided the convention into two factions, the "enlightened" who had seen the preview and the "unenlightened" who had not.[38] The humanist Roddenberry, however, disliked his role as involuntary prophet of a religion. Although he depended on Trekkies to support future Star Trek projects, Roddenberry stated that
It frightens me when I learn of 10,000 people treating a 'Star Trek' script as if it were Scripture. I certainly didn't write Scripture, and my feeling is that those who did were not treated very well in the end ... I'm just afraid that if it goes too far and it appears that I have created a philosophy to answer all human ills that someone will stand up and cry, 'Fraud!' And with good reason.[35]

Medieval Christians collected holy relics but they never held conventions where Jesus, the Apostles and the Virgin Mary turned up to sign autographs.