I searched and couldn't find an existing thread, but I thought it might be appropriate to have a designated place to talk about Star Trek: The Experience, which remains one of the most impressive themed attractions I've ever seen. My parents took me there for my 15th birthday, and I was as amazed by it as anything at Disney or Universal. In many ways, it foreshadowed the kind of immersive, "in-universe" themed storytelling that both companies would more fully explore in the 2010s.
Right around when it closed, a performer there named Vernon Wilmer created a very lengthy documentary series -- called STAR TREK: MY EXPERIENCE -- about the place, complete with copious home movies of backstage areas, as well as lots of background information about the creation of the attraction. It was fascinating stuff... and it vanished from the internet about a decade ago. Wilmer has apparently (unfortunately) passed in the years since, which made me believe his work had become lost media. I've periodically searched for it over the last decade, but never found another version of it.
Well, it's somehow on Internet Archive now. If you visited The Experience and want to relive it, or are curious about what a special place it was, here you go with part one of three!
And if anyone has some fond memories of The Experience, I'd love to hear them!