Like many other attendees, we’re still recovering from our week-long away mission to the 2021 Las Vegas Star Trek convention — Creation Entertainment’s 55-Year Mission Las Vegas — and while we shared with many of you our favorite costume efforts from the STLV floor last week on social media, we wanted to make sure the rest of you got to share our joy in these wonderful fan creations!
STLV 2021 had a great balance of cosplay from all the television shows and many of the feature films — and even one of the most complicated recreations of on-screen Trek characters we’ve seen in a long time, a Xindi-Insectoid, created by a 13-year-old fan who built the costume with his mom over the course of a month.
We also saw some wildly inventive costumes, representing everything from the “Ephraim and Dot” Short Trek, to a morning mug of raktajino, to an iconic end-credits image from the Original Series.
Saturday night’s annual Star Trek costume contest also revealed some fantastic fan creations, as Star Trek: Discovery actors Mary Chieffo (L’Rell), Mary Wiseman (Tilly) and Noah Averbach-Katz (Ryn), and Star Trek III’s Robin Curtis (Saavik) led the event as hosts and judges.
One of the highlights of the cosplay contest was when Averbach-Katz brought his own cosplaying mother onto the stage to show off her Terran Empire costume… as his Discovery uniform-wearing dad took photos from the audience.
Here’s our full gallery of all the great Trek costumes we saw over the convention week!
Which of the dozens of outstanding costume ideas is your favorite? Sound off in the comments below!