The San Francisco Giants have added a variety of special events to their home schedule over the past few years, incorporating team reunions, national heritage days, law enforcement tributes, dog-friendly games, and even a night to honor Crazy Crab, the much maligned, but now loved mascot from the dismal 1984 campaign.
This season, however, brought a whole new event that attracted a slightly different kind of audience than usual—“Star Trek Movie Night" at the ballpark, which took place last week on April 27. Monday night's contest against the G-men’s longtime rivals the Los Angeles Dodgers featured a pre-game event that included a Star Trek Costume contest, where participants gathered in the plaza behind the scoreboard to show off their creations and enjoy a couple pints of Romulan ale.
The usual chill of a San Francisco night mixed with a bracing wind coming off of the bay to make for less than ideal conditions for a party, but the Trekkies did their best impersonations of Captain Kirk, a green-skinned Orion woman, and various other characters from the Roddenberry universe.
Why a “Star Trek” fete at a San Francisco Giants game? Starfleet Command was based here in the city of course! And don’t forget “Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home,” where the cast was sent back in time to 1980s San Francisco—who can forget Kirk and crew parking their ship in Golden Gate Park, yelling obscenities at passing drivers on the street, or taking care of an obnoxious punk on a MUNI bus? Special local recognition should have been given to the man wearing the U.S.S Enterprise aircraft carrier hat, in a nod to this classic 1986 Leonard Nimoy-directed film.
To top it all off, everyone who bought a ticket for the special Star Trek section received what could be one of the best stadium giveaways ever—a take-off on the classic foam finger (i.e. 'we're #1') that was redone in the shape of the classic Vulcan hand greeting—live long and prosper!
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