We got to the park where it's staged early, to secure good seats. We were sitting right next to this sign (below).
The space just above it was occupied by a pair of malevolent aliens at one point. Though this pair (played by Helen Thorsen and Mary Cutrera) had no speaking lines whatsoever, I could hardly take my eyes off their antics throughout.
The cast was bigger this year than we've seen in years past, as a whole crew of Klingons were involved.
And it's totally worth noting the opening act, Vixy & Tony, was wonderful. We bought their CD (it's important to support local art!)
Sure enough, the spots right next to us got lots of action. Below, Captain Kirk (right), Spock, and crew contemplate during the play.
I'll let CJ tell you a bit more about the play. ...
For multiple years in a row, my family has gone to the Outdoor Trek events at Blanche Lavizzo park, which are plays based on episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS). Outdoor Trek is done by Hello Earth Productions.
This Outdoor Trek performance was based off of "Day of the Dove", a TOS episode originally aired on 1 November 1968. The plot of the episode is described as follows by Memory Alpha (a popular Wiki about Star Trek):
The episode was chosen because Hello Earth believed it to be relevant to current events. In certain ways, the play deviated from the original episode (such as having an interlude with "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield).
At the end of the show, the cast alluded to doing a version of A New Hope (the first Star Wars film) for the next Hello Earth production, I look forward to future Hello Earth productions, as I did with previous ones.
An extremely powerful non-corporeal being brings the Enterprise and a Klingon ship in direct conflict with one another.
The episode was chosen because Hello Earth believed it to be relevant to current events. In certain ways, the play deviated from the original episode (such as having an interlude with "For What It's Worth" by Buffalo Springfield).
At the end of the show, the cast alluded to doing a version of A New Hope (the first Star Wars film) for the next Hello Earth production, I look forward to future Hello Earth productions, as I did with previous ones.And here's what Annabelle had to say about it all.
Hello Earth, a nonprofit in Seattle, is mostly known for their “Outdoor Trek” (also known as Trek in the Park), which are versions of classic Star Trek episodes performed as plays in a local city park. One of the best things about Outdoor Trek is that the cast is very diverse, which represents Seattle as a whole.
The episode that Outdoor Trek performed this time was “The Day of the Dove”. At the beginning of “The Day of the Dove” the Enterprise crew receives a distress signal from a nearby planet. When they go to investigate, they find that the planet is empty. Suddenly, a group of Klingon soldiers arrive and accuse the crew of destroying their ship. Before our heroes can explain, the Klingons demand to be taken to the Enterprise and claim it as consolation.
The Klingons are taken prisoner on the Enterprise while Captain Kirk and the other try to find out what happened. Before long, it seems as though many crew members are getting more and more hostile towards the Klingons and each other, too. The strangest thing is that whenever someone is fatally wounded in a fight, something keeps bringing them back.
After a computer scan, the Enterprise crew finds out that an alien being has been feeding off of the hate generated by the fighting! To make matters worse, the Klingon prisoners are trying to shut down the ship’s life support and make Captain Kirk surrender control. When the crew leaves in a group to confront the Klingons in the engineering block, a huge fight begins. Before anyone gets extremely hurt, through the power of friendship (and an added song) they drive the alien away and celebrate!
Hello Earth always does an amazing job at adapting the script into a live performance and their actors are always spot on. It excites me to know that next year, Hello Earth is going to do a Star Wars themed series of performances!It really is something not to be missed. We love everything about it, including their wonderfully cheezy props (see the 'transporters' below).
One of the songs they did (masterfully, might I add), was "Lust on the Bridge." to the tune of "Dust in the Wind." So funny!
SMOKE AND FIRE: Not the most pleasant of days, weather wise, in our pretty city.
It was witheringly hot, and we had a haze that turned into downright smoky.
Social media (and NASA) let us know the 'haze' was actually smoke from wildfires in British Columbia.
The view A(above) from space (NASA MODIS satellite) shows smoke as it continues to pour into Western Washington from the wildfires burning in British Columbia:
PARTING SHOTS: I was going through some old files on my old Sony camera today and found a few from the day we moved out of the house, including this one - their last time hanging out by the cathedral window upstairs.
And this one, taking one last look off the roofdeck, where we all enjoyed hanging out (not often enough, might I add!)
A little poignant, looking back, but we're also looking forward, and are enjoying the new place.
One of the first things we did was remove a very large stained glass window over the staircase. It was nicely done and I'm sure it means a lot to the original owners (we are giving it to them, of course), but we wanted a brighter staircase, for safety's sake.
What you can't see in this photo (because of clouds at that moment) is there is a lovely view of Mt. Rainier that was covered by the stained glass.
We have big plans for replacing the wrought iron railings, as well.
Stay tuned!
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