After a more than ten years taking visitors to the final frontier, Star Trek: The Experience is finally getting removed from the list of available Las Vegas attractions. The Star Trek exhibit and its replica of the starship Enterprise are closing today after a decommissioning ceremony that gathered hundreds of “Trekkies” in Las Vegas for the last time.

Now, don’t take me wrong, but I have always thought that Las Vegas is probably the worst location for having a Star Trek museum or attraction. I mean, when you think of Las Vegas the first thing that comes to your mind are the casinos and extravagant Las Vegas shows and nightlife, not Klingons and Shatner wannabees. Although, I guess that since Las Vegas is among the most eclectic cites in the world, having a few people walking in Spandex suites and wearing facial prostheses while they explain visitors the basics of the Star Trek fictional universe is nothing out of this world. The place, which was inaugurated in 1998, included numerous items from Star Trek history as well as several video display devices and a timeline of Star Trek events, displays for each of the major alien races, which includes the Borg, Klingons, and Ferengi. The attraction also featured several simulated rides including the Klingon Encounter and the Borg Invasion 4-D.

However, no matter how many signatures the Trekkies gathered and how many calls they made, the attraction's owner, Cedar Fair Entertainment Co., and its landlord, the Las Vegas Hilton, couldn't agree on a new lease to continue with the attraction. According to the Las Vegas Hilton spokesman, Ira David Sternberg, the deal between the Las Vegas hotel and Cedar Fair was a regular tenant-landlord agreement that wasn’t really generating any extra dividends for the Hilton. Sternberg also denied the recent rumors that the space occupied by Star Trek: The Experience will become a theater for pop star Michael Jackson.