Destination Trek Birmingham 2023 - Full Retrospective

[@alrice8302]

It was brilliant, you should have stayed the weekend. It was fantastic. Great to see you.

[@geeky_guys]

We will stay the weekend for the next Destination Trek hopefully 👍🖖

[@jivebunny3765]

@@geeky_guys Just not in the Norbreck.🐀

[@geeky_guys]

@@jivebunny3765 It’s had a big refurbishment.

[@jivebunny3765]

@@geeky_guysThe are videos on YT since the refurb. It's still a dump.

[@jivebunny3765]

There's a lot of things under the surface of this event, and the pre planning of it that you need to do a long video on. While you enjoyed it for the one day you were there, and I appreciate you're being objective, I think you're being overly charitable. The planning of the event was an absolute shambles. The guys from Riker's Beard have already said that. It's also safe to say that everyone who was at the event were the sum total of the UK Trek fanbase that will go to a Star Trek convention by the thieving con artist Jason Joiner, so the event won't grow, and the money isn't there for it to grow. I really think you need to focus on the fact that yet again, as with the Voyager 25th reunion at DST, he advertised guests for DT that were never going. I'm talking about Walter Koenig who was asked repeatedly on social media if he was coming, but never responded. He advertises all his con appearances on his twitter account. People with a brain were calling Koenig's cancellation last April. Guest photoshoot sales were terrible. Average attendee age seemed to be 45+ aside from a disproportionate number of visibly younger gay men. Once the OAPs start dying off, Trek cons are done for. Doesn't really matter who runs them. Joiner has no content aside from his pathetic fake "museum". Unless Riker's Beard go to Blackpool, the event's stuffed. As has already been said to me, people have more chance of meeting Lord Lucan in Blackpool than Robert Duncan McNeill after the fall out from him being advertised for the Voyager 25th when, along with Robert Beltran, he'd long told Joiner he wasn't coming. Joiner has pissed off far too many of the main Trek actors over the years, and many of them will no longer take his money. Where's he's going to get a viable guest list from for next year with such a paltry budget, is anyone's guess.