Star Trek Fans Rejoice
Every summer in Portland, once the rain has stopped and sun comes out, Portland’s wildly popular Trek in the Park series returns. Opening this year on August 4, they’ll be doing their most complex production yet: Episode #39 – Journey to Babel (complete with blue-skinned Andorians!)
Our Portland office houses most of our engineering team and being the nerdy engineers we are, we love Trek in the Park: we love that it’s Trek (yes, we’re that nerdy); we love that it’s family friendly (it goes with our Best Places to Work family friendly nature); we love that it’s free (just like New Relic Lite); and we love that it’s put on by really talented and enthusiastic people (because we’re talented and enthusiastic people too!) We’re such big fans that this year we’re proud to be the major sponsor of Trek in the Park, helping to keep Trek fantastic and free, and helping to keep Portland a great place to live and work.
If you’re one of those talented, enthusiastic engineers and you’d like to work in a great startup without the brogrammer hours or attitudes, you can find us online or at Cathedral Park watching the show.
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I’m an old, retired telecomm tech, so I won’t be applying for a job at what sounds like a great company, but I was intrigued by the thought of a live, in a park recreation of a Star Trek (TOS) episode. Back in the 1970′s, my dad and I would tune in Trek reruns and see who could name the episode from the “teaser” scene first. “Amok Time!” “All Our Yesterdays!” “Shore Leave!” The night he passed away (beamed up?) there was a full moon, as if the cosmos was welcoming one of their own.
For a TV show that barely made it through three seasons, Star Trek it still saying something to us in the 21st Century.
Live Long and Prosper
Bob Davis
Posted: 27 August 2012 at 10:47 pm by Bob Davis