The first place off the list that caught my eyes was the Sci-Fi Geeks Museum. I do consider myself a “geek” and I love science fiction. So I teleport to the location and I get a nice view of the facade of the museum.
Sci-Fi Geeks Museum
I flew around the building and it was huge, I was sure that this would have many exhibits that would take up a lot of time. As I entered the building, I immediately came to the theater. Today’s movie was the trailer for the sci-fi flick “CLOVERFIELD”. Much to my dismay, the doors were locked to the theater so I could not get inside to catch the trailer. I walked around and noticed that most of the walls in the hallway were bare like maybe it was not finished yet or it has been abandoned. When I get upstairs, I notice a whole wall of movie posters from popular science fiction movies. They had a very good selection, most of them I have seen and even a few of them are my all-time favorites.
Movie Posters
Right across the hall was the Sci-Fi Museum Main Computer ready. This was futuristic holo deck that uses a control panel to select a popular scene from a sci-fi movie. Once I pressed the “start” button, the scene appeared in the holo deck. I could walk around the scene and the objects appeared absolutely real. I scrolled through the choices of scenes and decided my favorite was from the movie ALIENS. The scene consisted of two of the aliens and a mobile vehicle behind them. The walls and floor were covered in alien organic matter, just like in the movie near the alien’s nest. This was by far the highlight of my visit to the museum.
ALIENS scene
I left this part of the museum and walked around some more. I came to the only other exhibit. It was an exact replica of the transporter from Star Trek. I read the sign next to it and it would transport me to the Klingon ship Bird of Prey. I stepped into the teleporter and gave my best Captain Kirk impersonation by saying “Scotty, beam me up!” The ship was not too big and wasn’t much to look at.
As I flew away from this place, one last thing caught my eye. It was the transporter from Stargate.
Stargate transporter in Second Life
Actual Stargate transporter
It was amazing how the center was lit up. I tried to walk into it but was not functional. I was hoping that this would transport me to some far off civilization on a distant planet for the next part of my journey. Ahh, that’s ok, I will just have to discover it on my own!
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