August 2023 is the Destination Trek convention, and three days of Star Trek means three days of cosplays! My last outing to Destination Star Trek 2021 in London was incredibly successful with my Q cosplay, and in all honesty I don’t expect to replicate the sheer volume of positive feedback and photo requests I got back then.
But I try not to dwell in the past, even a successful cosplay has its time and then I have to move on to something new. Because there are three cosplay opportunities I tend to try and focus my efforts on a “main” cosplay for the convention, with other cosplays either being low-effort buy-and-wear affairs or an economical use of efforts for preceding conventions (like LFCC or MCM) that I can then re-use (or improve on) for Destination Trek.
This year my three project plans are:
Ensign Boimler from Lower Decks – This will be my lower-effort affair, and part of a possible group cosplay. This will involve buying and combining elements rather than making anything from scratch.
Portal 63 from Next Generation Episode “The Last Outpost” – This will be the main project, making basically everything from scratch.
Emergency Medical Hologram from Voyager – This is my re-use project, which I originally made for LFCC Spring 2023 (with the intent to re-use it) however I have some plans to add to it prior to August.