{"id":1019,"date":"2008-07-03T17:37:06","date_gmt":"2008-07-04T00:37:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2008-07-03T17:37:06","modified_gmt":"2008-07-04T00:37:06","slug":"abandon-ship-children-and-drink-menus-first","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/?p=1019","title":{"rendered":"Abandon Ship! Children and drink menus first!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>So, as mentioned previously<\/a>, The Star Trek Experience at the Las Vegas Hilton is coming to an end, leaving a less nerdy world in its wake. According to their website<\/a>, this was as planned – being Vegas, the experience was only intended to be 10 years long. I would have to see something from 1998 to believe that, but for now, I shall defer to the PR blurbing on their site.<\/p>\n

No more Star Trek weddings. No more themed dinner missions. No more heavily costumed wait staff.<\/p>\n

And no more themed drinks. BELAY THAT ORDER!<\/p>\n

The drinks must live, and to that end, I’m on a mission to retro-engineer them as best I can. I say retro, instead of reverse, because I’ve never had any of them. But if you can mix booze, fruit juice, ice, and Star Trek, I’m in. And based on their website, I think there’s a good shot at recreating their, well, shots.<\/p>\n

Warp Core Breach
\n10 oz (1 and 1\/4 cups) of 5 rums
\nRazzmatazz (Americans, please explain)
\nFruit juices (this will be the tricky part – was it citrusy or smooth?)
\nIce from Exo III (or in a pinch, dry ice from the grocery store, planet Earth)<\/p>\n

Risa Colada
\n(Lt. Commander Rupert Holmes approved)
\nCoconut Rum
\nBlue Curacao
\nPina Colada (mix, presumably)
\nIce cream (vanilla or coconut?)
\n– blend, whip cream on top<\/p>\n

Systems Overload
\n(hint – tastes like an Astropop)
\nBlavod Black Vodka (or vodka with all the colours in the food colour box)
\n99 Apples (a liqueur. If you get 99 actual apples, you’re doing it wrong)
\nMelon Liqueur
\nGrenadine
\nSour Mix
\n– Layer grenadine, green stuff in the middle (melon and 99 apples? with or without sour mix), black vodka on top. Rim of martini glass covered in crystals – sour mix? green coloured sugar?<\/p>\n

Cardassian Cooler
\nMelon Liqueur
\nCitrus Vodka
\nTriple Sec
\nSour Mix
\n– All I know about mixed drinks is that Triple Sec should be used lightly compared to the straight booze.<\/p>\n

If anyone would like to pick one and experiment along with me, I wouldn’t say no – let me know which one you pick, for organizational purposes.<\/p>\n

[UPDATE!] – I’ve found a supposed recreation of the ST: Experience recipe for a Warp Core Breach<\/a>, which will take the guess work out of the rum balance – still, we need someone who’s tried one to confirm the taste (and yes, the dry ice is important, as it carbonates the mix.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[284,386],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asides","tag-booze","tag-the-star-trek-experience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.alertnerd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}