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How an over-ambitious star trek convention became “the con of wrath”, in 1982, nearly the entire tos cast gathered for a disastrous four-hour variety show..

Cyrus Farivar - Sep 9, 2016 12:00 pm UTC

Even by modern convention standards, it sounds crazy. It wasn't just a Star Trek convention. Not just a Star Trek convention with nearly the entire original series cast present, either. It was a Star Trek convention with a "multi-media extravaganza," a laser show, and live musical performances all on a custom-made, constantly slowly rotating stage built like the Starfleet uniform badge insignia with a captain’s chair right in the middle.

As Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan was being released, that's exactly what was planned for "Ultimate Fantasy" in Houston, Texas, at the Shamrock Hilton Convention Center and the adjacent Summit Arena in June 1982. The show was advertised all over Starlog and TV Guide . Huge billboards went up across the Houston area, and some organizers really believed that fans would come from overseas to see this four-hour live show.

There was only one problem: no one came.

In a venue that could hold at least 17,000 fans, which had been booked for three performances over a weekend, tickets sold to less than 10 percent of capacity. When relatively few fans showed up, the Shamrock Hilton demanded that all vendors pay their fair share in full, lest they be shut down early. Even the stage hands working on the performance nearly had some of their gear seized in the middle of a show. In short, "Ultimate Fantasy" collapsed miserably. Over time it became known as "The Con of Wrath"—it also became legendary among Trek  fans.

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A  Star Trek fan in Norman, Oklahoma, Larry Nemecek, took his first road trip 430 miles south to Houston for the show. "I didn’t know at the time, but it was a glorious failure—it was supposed to be the biggest rock show for Trek ," he told Ars. Nemecek has since grown up to become a well-known Star Trek archivist who runs a paid fan website called " Portal 47 ." And now he's making a film about that epic incident he witnessed. His documentary,  The Con of Wrath , will even include interviews with the cast and crew who performed that infamous weekend.

It’s important to remember the context within which Ultimate Fantasy was conceived. By the early 1980s, Star Trek was on the rise again. While TOS ended in 1969, it gained new fans in the 1970s through syndication. In 1972, the first Star Trek convention was held in New York City. Four years later, a letter-writing campaign convinced NASA to name the first space shuttle Enterprise . By 1979, Star Trek: The Motion Picture was released.

"The sci-fi boom is on," Nemecek recalled. "The guy in the middle of that was dreaming of the biggest show ever." That man was Jerry Wilhite, a Houstonian who had been involved in numerous comics conventions since the 1960s. According to the Houston Press , as the convention scene began to wane in the 1970s, Wilhite wanted to take the local scene to a new level. (Wilhite is reportedly still living in the Houston area but is in poor health and could not talk to Ars  for this article.)

As such, Wilhite dreamt up the Ultimate Fantasy experience. And to kick things up a notch, he also orchestrated two-person package deals (which included convention access and hotel rooms) for $425 (or $1,060 in 2016 dollars). Individual floor seats started at $75 ($187 in 2016 dollars) and general admission at $30 ($75 in 2016 dollars).

According to an article in the Houston Chronicle from June 27, 1982, "many fans arrived in Houston to find they owed hotel bills that should have been included in the price of the tickets." The two top-billed actors, William Shatner and DeForest Kelley, only received 60 percent of their fee, according to the Chronicle.  "Minor performers received little, if any, of their money," the paper reported.

Speaking through an unnamed agent, Kelley declined to speak to the Chronicle . The actor only said that he "didn’t want to get involved. Any comment should come through the producers of the show. They knew what was going on."

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The list below is the history of starfleet’s conferences., from 1986 to 1995 starfleet conferences were held in conjunction with another convention..

1986 – June 13 to June 15 – St. Louis, Missouri – 1st STRFLEET Conference, held at the Clarion Hotel in association with Archon 10 fan convention.

1987 – July 10 to July 12 – Hunt Valley, Maryland – Held at the Hunt Valley Inn, in association with Shore Leave IX.

1988 – June 16 to June 19 – Cleveland, Ohio – Held at the Cleveland Convention Center, this National Conference was combined with International Superman Convention and the 7th annual Neovention gaming convention.

1989 – August 25 to August 27 – San Jose, California Held at the LaBaron Hotel in association with TimeCon 89.

1990 – August 31 to September 2 – Kansas City, Missouri – Held at Adam’s Mark Hotel in association with Delecon One.

1991 – July 12 to July 14 – Hunt Valley, Maryland – Held again at the Hunt Valley Inn, in association with Shore Leave XIII.

1992 – July 3 to July 5 – Kansas City, Missouri – Kansas City Marriot Hotel, in association with Delecon Two. Special charity events at the 1992 IC raised money to benefit the Children’s Miracle Network.

1993 – July 2 to July 4 – Arlington, Texas – Held at the Arlington Convention Center, the IC was branded as “Tex-Trek ’93” and some events were opened to the public. Guests included actor Colm Meaney.

1994 – July 17 to July 19 – Orlando, Florida – Held at Orlando North Hilton in conjunction with Vulkon 94

1995 – July 13 to July 16 – Atlanta, Georgia – Held at Ramada Downtown in conjunction with Dragon Con/NASFIC

1996 marked the beginning of stand-alone STARFLEET International Conferences

1996 – August 30 to September 1 – Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – Held at Oklahoma City La Quinta

1997 – August 22 to August 24 – Cherry Hill, New Jersey – Held at Cherry Hill Hilton Hotel

1998 – July 3 to July 5 – Lubbock, Texas – Held at Holiday Inn and Towers

1999 – August 6 to August 8 – Charlotte, North Carolina – Held at Charlotte Marriott Executive Park

2000 – September 1 to September 3 – Burlington, Vermont – Held at Sheraton Burlington Hotel

2001 – July 27 to July 29 – Kansas City, Missouri – Held at Kansas City Airport Marriott

2002 – August 1 to August 4 – San Jose, California – Held at DoubleTree Hotel Airport

2003 – July 31 to August 3 – Greensboro, North Carolina – Held at Holiday Inn Airport

2004 – July 29 to August 1 – Birmingham, Alabama – Held at Marriot Grandview

2005 – July 1 to July 3 – San Antonio, Texas – Held at Hilton San Antonio Airport – Guests included Richard Herd, Vaughn Armstrong, and Casey Biggs.

2006 – August 4 to August 6 – Philadelphia, Pennsylvania – Held at Embassy Suites Philadelphia Airport

2007 – August 9 to August 12 – Denver, Colorado – Held at Adams Mark Hotel – Included guest Tim Russ

2008 – June 27 to June 29 – Ithaca, New York – Held at Ithaca Ramada Airport Inn – This IC’s theme was “Back to School” and special guests included actors J. G. Hertzler and Robin Curtis, and Superman author Roger Stern.

2009 – August 6 to August 9 – Greensboro, North Carolina – Held at Greensboro Airport Marriot – With the theme “One Small Step, One Giant Leap”, this IC celebrated the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing as well as the 35th Anniversary of STARFLEET International. The special guest was Apollo 13 astronaut Fred W. Haise.

2010 – July 30 to August 1 – Sequoyah State Park, Wagoner, Oklahoma – The “Wagon Train to the Stars” theme reflects the Oklahoma setting and echoes a phrase Gene Roddenberry used to describe Star Trek to television network executives.

2011 – August 12 to August 14 – Held at The Inn at Pocono Manor, Mount Pocono, Pennsylvania

2012 – August 3 to August 5 – Held at Whispering Woods Resort, Memphis, Tennessee – “Trekkin’ on the Mississippi” – Included Guest: Rod Roddenberry

2013 – August 1 to August 4 – Held at MCM Elegante Hotel, Dallas, Texas – “Year of the Phoenix” – Included Guest: Vaughn Armstrong

2014 – August 8 to August 10 – Held at The Clock Tower Resort and Convention Center, Rockford, Illinois – “Time is Fleeting”, Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of STARFLEET: The International Star Trek Fan Association, Inc.

2015 – August 21 to August 23 – Held at The Conference & Event Center, Niagara Falls, New York – “Honeymoon in STARFLEET”

2016 – August 12 to August 14 – Held at Crown Plaza Louisville Airport, Louisville, Kentucky – “Trekkin’ II: Horsing around on the Ohio!”

2017 – August 18 to August 20 – New Orleans, Louisiana – Held at the Crown Plaza New Orleans Airport.

2018 – August 10 to August 12 – Minneapolis, Minnesota – Held at Hilton Minneapolis/St. Paul Airport Mall of America – “Family Reunion”.

2019 – August 2 to August 5 – St. Louis, Missouri Held at the Marriott St. Louis Airport. A new convention, IDIC Con, attempted to use the International Conference funds to spin-off, but failed.

2020 – August 1 – Virtual IC2020 – Hosted online on Zoom by the STARFLEET International Conference Committee. IC2020 was to be held in San Mateo, California was CANCELLED by the Admiralty Board, due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.

2021 – August 7 – The IC was to be in Tallahassee, Florida but was postponed until 2022 due to the ongoing COVID-19 Pandemic. In place of a full IC, a one day Virtual IC was held by a Zoom conference call hosted by the STARFLEET International Conference Committee.

2022 – August 13 – The IC was once again scheduled to be in Tallahassee, Florida but was postponed another year until 2023 due to the COVID-19 Pandemic. So for the 3rd time, a one day Virtual IC will be held by a Zoom conference call hosted by the STARFLEET International Conference Committee.

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A convention is an event that usually takes place during two or three days and is dedicated to one or more anime, TV show(s), comics or movie(s).

Organized mainly by fans associations, conventions give fans the opportunity to participate in Q&A with the actors, take pictures with them, get autographs or spend a moment with them during a Meet & Greet.

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With WonderCon and San Diego Comic Con both (rightly) postponed this spring and summer, we're looking back at some of our favorite convention shots from yesteryear. We can't wait to see our family of fans again in person! But, in the meantime, get planning on those costumes, and perhaps consider grabbing a few Star Trek masks to go with them, just to be safe!

Star Trek Conventions

Star Trek Lives! was one of the earliest and most influential Star Trek conventions . It was fan -run, with many members of the committee also active in the Lunarians and working on Lunacon . The convention was also known as the Star Trek Con , the Committee Con and as the International Star Trek Convention .

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1972 [ edit ]

The first convention by this group was held January 21–23, 1972, at the Statler Hilton Hotel in Manhattan and included as guests Gene Roddenberry, Majel Barrett, Isaac Asimov , Hal Clement and D. C. Fontana. The organizers expected 500 people, but 3,000 showed up leaving the committee alive, but overwhelmed.

The committee was:

• Al Schuster , Co-ordinator
• Elyse Pines , Program
• Joan Winston , Dealers Room , NASA Display, Signs
• Eileen Becker , Registration
• Allan Asherman , Art Show
• Deborah Langsam , Costume Call
• Joyce Yasner , Displays
• Devra Langsam , Slide Shows, Program Asst.
• Regina Gottesman , Hospitality
• Steve Rosenstein , Auctioneer , MC
• Stu Hellinger , Program Assistant
• Chris Steinbrunner / Chester Grabowski , Visuals

1973 [ edit ]

In 1973, the convention moved to the Commodore Hotel and attracted approximately 10,000 people to its convention on February 16–19.

Members of the committee for the 1973 convention were: Joan Winston , Elyse Rosenstein , Allen Asherman , Eileen Becker , Steve Rosenstein , Dana Anderson , Thom Anderson , Renee Bodner , Stu Hellinger , Devra Langsam , Deborah Langsam , Eileen Becker , Maureen Wilson , Joyce Yasner and Al Schuster . In later years, Barbara Wenk , Wendy Lindboe , Louise Sachter , Stuart Grossman , Claire Eddy , Diane Duane and David Simmons joined the committee.

1974 [ edit ]

International Star Trek Convention On February 15–18, 1974, the convention attracted between 10,000 and 14,000 people ( Locus reports 8,000-12,000) to the Americana Hotel, and and had to turn people away each day due to Fire Marshall concerns — causing at least one small riot in front of the hotel. There were complaints about the crush and the bad attitude of some committee members (a walk-out from the costume ball was triggered by a committee member cursing at one of the invited guests).

The problems in New York caused Equicon in Los Angeles to impose a membership cap.

The committee fissioned, leaving records in disarray. Shortly after the convention, the committee announced that they no longer had any connection with Al Schuster and "and and all future debts he may incur in the name of the Convention will not be paid or honored, and he no longer has any authority to incur expenses, arrange contracts or conduct business in the name of the convention." They also distinguished themselves as __The__ Star Trek Convention as opposed to Schuster 's __International__ Star Trek Convention . They also reported that they had "misplaced" their list of non-attending members in the 1974 convention and pre-registered members of the 1975 convention.

1975 [ edit ]

The 1975 convention at the Commodore Hotel was held February 14–17 and was chaired by Devra Langsam and was now called the Star Trek Convention . (Former chairman Al Schuster had started a rival convention running a month earlier which kept the name International Star Trek Convention .)

1976 [ edit ]

In 1976, the giant Star Trek conventions seemed to hit a wall: The Chicago Star Trek/Space Spectacular, "The Greatest Show Since Earth" was held in June. The committee did heavy advertising including TV spots, and had rented the Chicago Amphitheater, which seats 13,000. The got 200 people on Friday and 800 on Saturday and then cancelled the convention. They did not pay the stars who came and the convention was reported to have lost multiple hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Other Star Trek conventions that failed in 1976 included the Boston Star Trek convention in April, a Tampa convention in June, and a Toledo Star Trek convention . The Toronto Star Trek convention lost money and the New York Star Trek Roast was cancelled "for lack of interest".

New York Star Trek '76 [ edit ]

New York Star Trek '76 attracted between 20,000 and 50,000 people according to the New York Times with many ticket holders being turned away when the facilities were completely swamped. (Its committee seems to have been entirely unprepared and quite disorganized.) The New York Attorney General investigated and both fan -run conventions ended.

Fanlore entry .

This had a fortunate side-effect in that it probably helped to kill the SF Expo , a convention planned for June of that year at the New York Hilton which was an attempt to create a regular SF convention on the scale of the Star Trek conventions.

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There will be seven conventions or shows in June and July that feature Trek actors.

In June, The Wizard World Philadelphia Comic-Con, TREKFEST XXVI, Trek Expo and Creation Entertainment’s Official Star Trek Convention will take place. July conventions include Shore Leave 32, held in Hunt Valley, Maryland, Super Mega Show & Comic Fest in New Jersey, and the London Film & Comic Con, which will be held in London, England.

This listing of conventions and shows feature Star Trek actors from all five televised series, and the Star Trek movies, including guest actors from Star Trek IV: The Voyager Home and Star Trek XI .

The Wizard World Philadelphia Comic-Con , held from June 11-13 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center in Philadelphia, will have several Star Trek actors in attendance, including: Patrick Stewart, William Shatner, Walter Koenig, Brent Spiner, John de Lancie, Avery Brooks and Cirroc Lofton .

TREKFEST XXVI will be held in Riverside, Iowa on June 25-26. Guests include Walter Koenig and Barbara Luna (original series Mirror, Mirror : Marlena Moreau).

Trek Expo will be held June 25-27 in Tulsa, Oklahoma and will celebrate its twenty-first anniversary. Trek guests include: William Shatner, Michael Dorn, Robert O’Reilly (Gowron), J.G. Hertzler (Martok), Garret Wang (who will be Master of Ceremonies), Sally Kellerman and Gary Lockwood (Dr. Elizabeth Dehner and Gary Mitchell from Where No Man Has Gone Before ).

The Creation Entertainment Official Star Trek Convention will also be held on June 25-27, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. There are plenty of Trek actors appearing, including: Connor Trinneer, Max Grodenchik, Armin Shimerman, Vaughn Armstrong, Jeffrey Combs, Casey Biggs, William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, Chase Masterson, Barbara March (Lursa), Gwynyth Walsh (B’Etor), and Jacob Kogan (Young Spock from Star Trek XI ).

July starts off with Shore Leave 32 , which will be held in Hunt Valley, Maryland from July 9-11. Catherine Hicks ( Star Trek IV : The Voyage Home’ s Gillian) and Dominic Keating (Malcolm Reed on Star Trek: Enterprise ) will be the Trek guests.

Shore Leave features guest Q&A and autograph sessions, live performances, a Saturday night dance party, gaming tournaments, a costume contest, an art show and auction, a “Meet the Pros” party with a large number of noted Star Trek authors, children’s activities, workshops, photo opportunities, memorabilia rooms, science presentations, fan panel discussions, and video presentations of new and classic genre entertainment, including the latest fan film productions sweeping the web.

Trek authors in attendance at Shore Leave include: Ann C. Crispin, Christopher L. Bennett, Dave Galanter, David Mack, Dayton Ward, Gerri Leen, Glen Hauman, Greg Cox, Howard Weinstein, Ilsa J. Blick, Keith DeCandido, Kevin Dilmore, Lawrence M. Schoen, Lorraine Anderson, Marco Palmieri, Michael Jan Friedman, Peter A. David, Richard C. White, Rigel Ailur, Robert Greenberger, Scott Pearson and Terri Osborne .

The Super Mega Show & Comic Fest , to be held July 9-11 in East Fairfield, N.J. will have Star Trek: The Next Generation ‘s Marina Sirtis as a guest.

Finally, Star Trek fans in the U.K. can see several Trek actors at the London Film & Comic Con , to be held July 17-18 in London. In attendance will be: Andrew Robinson (Garak), William Shatner and Jonathan Frakes .

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