Star Trek Earth Tour

Star Trek Earth Tour was a travelling exhibition that toured North America in and 1994. Organized by Paramount Production/Show Services and Paramount Parks Entertainment, the exhibition appeared at the five entertainment parks owned by Paramount Communications (the former Gulf+Western Industries, owner of both the movie and television Star Trek properties) at the time, where they were open to the public for two weeks before moving on. 
The tour was housed in a 2,500-square-foot self-contained walk-through exhibit tent area, divided into four sections. Three sections were dedicated to the television shows, , , and , whereas the fourth was dedicated to the . Featured were costumes, sets, props and other artifacts, some of them screen-used and others replicas manufactured by, among others, Steve Horch. Horch constructed replicas of the original series captain's chair, and helm and navigational console for use in the exhibition. These were discovered by Mike Okuda, who rented them from Horch for use in the Next Generation episode , and were returned to him as bona-fide screen-used set pieces. Together with the wedge-shaped bridge section the studio constructed for the episode, they were showcased to the public in the Earth Tour. 
Cheralyn Lambeth from Paramount Show Services served as one of the production supervisors on the tour, building costumes and props. Long-time Star Trek Production Designer Herman F. Zimmerman was responsible for the layout of the exhibit, arranging it so that visitors were immersed in the Star Trek environment. Zimmerman reprised that role for the later Star Trek exhibitions as well. George Takei made a personal preview event appearance at the Kings Dominion venue. 
The format given to this tour served as the template for all the subsequent exhibition tours that followed suit.fff
== Venues ==
:In chronological order, dates provided where known.
Park 	City 	Opened 	Closed
Kings Island 	Mason, Ohio 	 	
Carowinds 	Charlotte, North Carolina	 	
Kings Dominion 	Doswell, Virginia 	 	
Great America 	San Jose, California 	 	
Canada’s Wonderland	Vaughan, Canada 	"TRAVEL ADVISORY: Trekkies' Wonderland", The Globe and Mail, 25 Aug 1993, D4.	
Mall of America 	Bloomington, MN 	30 June 1994 	31 July 1994
The Carowinds location later housed the 2004-2008 Borg Assimilator roller coaster ride attraction.
== External link ==
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