haha that is a good one! I wonder if the faire participants mind or feel like it hurts their immersion.
At least at the Faires I’ve worked at no one cares.
In fact, I have a second-hand anecdote that one faire staff has a screen accurate combadge inside their doublet. When they see people doing stuff like this, they run over and pull them aside. They would whip out the badge and get in their face. “Does the Prime Directive mean NOTHING to you?! This is an uncontacted pre-warp civilization. You are ruining YEARS of undercover research! Who is your captain? I’m going to have your court martialled if you don’t get under cover FAST.”
I’ve heard this same story. Third or fourth hand mind you.
Which, honestly, is the best way to deal with these assholes.
Are you reading a different thread? It seems like most people don’t mind.
God forbid I see some Star Trek cosplayer while I’m watching a comedian crack whips and sing twisted tunes.
I’m similarly minded. A friend and I have talked about doing this for some time, but it’s such an old joke I sorta fear it wanders into the same territory as asking the grocery clerk if the item that didn’t scan is free.
I worked as a cashier and still do it 😅
have you ever said anything back as a response, like" everything’s free if you steal it…" and just kind of pause for a moment?
deadpan serious stare
I’m not paid enough to care if you steal shit
I usually said something like “I already filled my theft quota for today”
Some Faires have a time traveler day for things like this.
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People at ren fairs are usually in pretty good spirits and good humor. Considering there are people dressed as wizards and elves, I think they’d be okay with Star Trek time travelers.
The Venn Diagram of Renn Fair goers, and Trekkies isn’t a circle, but it’s close I’d imagine.
I’ve seen a story where one of the faire participants had a commbadge hidden in their costume, pulled the Trekkie to one side, showed it to them, then told them off for breaking the Prime Directive…
In my experience, you might annoy the “hardcore” ones, but most people won’t be bothered. Hell, people may honestly join in, so long as you aren’t causing any problems.
A lot of the Faire folk I have met are just happy people are participating and having a good time, and if you put effort into a costume, even better.
Considering what goes into the more hard-core outfits, they deserve respect for their dedication. And there are lots of outlets for that too, which is great (e.g. SCA).
However, if someone gets their tabbard in a bunch because some sci-fi cosplayers ruined their sense of immersion, at what is arguably a pay-to-enter medieval-themed shopping mall, they may deserve what they get.
A lot of the Faire folk I have met are just happy people are participating and having a good time, and if you put effort into a costume, even better.
These people are the backbone of every Faire. Huzzah!
Depends on the event. There is a time and a place for the game.
A menagerie if you will
I wear a TNG uniform to my local ren fair every year - it almost exclusively generates excitement and high fives.
It would make way more sense for Stargate cosplayers to be at a renfaire since every single planet they went to on that series seemed to have villagers at about the renaissance level of technology (gotta wonder, did they have access to a bunch of medieval/renaissance sets for cheap lol?).
Of course, if you went as Stargate cosplayers you would have to basically dress up as para military wannabe chuds who’s personalities revolve around owning useless guns (like sword person who is obsessed with swords but way less fun) and being a bigot. People might not even recognize you are in costume and just assume you are a bunch of losers who express their freedom by going to renfaires carrying around murder weapons and dressing in tactical gear.
sigh
…better to go as the Star Trek cosplayers lol.
You’d never mistake a SG team for the bigots. There are women, and non-white people on the team!
/s
You could just have that weird golden cumshot on your forehead.
What a terrible day to be literate
Goes to the fair with the cumshot … but it isn’t golden
this got so out of hand at my local fest that they decided to do time traveller’s weekend as a theme. this year we went, and my costume was a cave man who hit his head on a tree branch while chasing a rabbit, woke up here and is amazed by everything
I was at a ren fair earlier this year wearing my MST3K shirt and several people in real cosplay stopped to tell me how much they loved my shirt.
Also, there was a guy wearing a shirt that just said “This is my ren fair costume.” Respect to that guy.
I use it as the only public event I will wear my JNCOs to. That and my “Fuck yeah, swords.” shirt.
Rock those JNCOs man!
I try. Believe it or not they are still the same pairs I had from when I was 20. Honestly some of the best jeans I’ve ever owned.
I’m jealous! My highly religious parents wouldn’t allow me to get those when I was in highschool in the 90s. They were definitely high quality jeans.
Still available too! https://jnco.com/
Kikwear is still around too. Though their store isn’t showing many products right now. There’s a brick and mortar near me that carries them.
My highly religious parents wouldn’t allow me to get those when I was in highschool in the 90s.
Which southern state are you from? lol
Well, the renfaire people only get to be upset if this is the only anachronism in costumes
My friend who used to work at a ren faire says it’s a lazy overdone joke and the people who do it tend to be dicks.
This would also work with Stargate
This is gold
Well glad you are apologizing at least
What a coincidence: just yesterday I rewatched the warehouse 13 episode where they’re at a civil war reenactment LARP and someone complains about the fucking trekkies always crashing their party as RPG time travelers.
A Foundation MTF exploring a temporal anomaly would also work, though I think less people would understand.
No Back To The Future? Baww
Someone needs to coordinate an S.C.P. containment team cosplay to crash the Ren faire
I see a Klingon in the back
Nah … that’s just your average medieval peasant
Hah, this is at the ren fest that goes on in my town.
This is why you have Time Traveler weekends.
