I'm Captain Kirk!



In my last blog I wrote about how visiting Star Trek: the Experience was the highlight of my visit to Las Vegas. Well, for a die-hard Trekkie like myself, making a pilgrimage to this epicenter of Trekkana was made even more exciting because it enabled me to live out one of my lifelong dreams.

I got to be Captain Kirk.

Not in Vegas, mind you, but at my next destination on my tour across the USA: the Bisti Wilderness, a national park in New Mexico. During my previous visits to the park, I had always thought how bizarrely otherworldly the landscape there appears. Surrounded by hoodoos and crumbling rocks of every hue, one feels indeed like an explorer on a strange alien world. It was fortunate for me, then, that I had purchased a Captain Kirk uniform shirt while at Star Trek: the Experience! I donned my spaceman fatigues, copped the attitude of the bravado captain, and spent the next hour or so cavorting amongst the hoodoos (either to the delight or disturbance of my awesome photo-snapping friend Laura.)

The result is the following series I am only too happy (and equally embarrassed) to share with you.

I'm Captain Kirk! Enjoy! :)


The captain surveys the strange alien planet


Is there any intelligent life here?


Dilithium crystals!


What's that?


A Gorn!


Pursuing the enemy.


Fire phasers!


Explaining humanity to the Rock Creature.


New friends!


Beam me up, Scottie!