Risa

I hope you interacted with someone's pet like it was potential food.

You'd never mistake a SG team for the bigots. There are women, and non-white people on the team!

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You could just have that weird golden cumshot on your forehead.

Stargate- thousands of inhabited planets, and almost all of them look like Canada.

At least at the Faires I've worked at no one cares.

In fact, I have a second-hand anecdote that one faire staff has a screen accurate combadge inside their doublet. When they see people doing stuff like this, they run over and pull them aside. They would whip out the badge and get in their face. "Does the Prime Directive mean NOTHING to you?! This is an uncontacted pre-warp civilization. You are ruining YEARS of undercover research! Who is your captain? I'm going to have your court martialled if you don't get under cover FAST."

I'm similarly minded. A friend and I have talked about doing this for some time, but it's such an old joke I sorta fear it wanders into the same territory as asking the grocery clerk if the item that didn't scan is free.

I've seen a story where one of the faire participants had a commbadge hidden in their costume, pulled the Trekkie to one side, showed it to them, then told them off for breaking the Prime Directive...

People at ren fairs are usually in pretty good spirits and good humor. Considering there are people dressed as wizards and elves, I think they'd be okay with Star Trek time travelers.

Some Faires have a time traveler day for things like this.

In my experience, you might annoy the "hardcore" ones, but most people won't be bothered. Hell, people may honestly join in, so long as you aren't causing any problems.

A lot of the Faire folk I have met are just happy people are participating and having a good time, and if you put effort into a costume, even better.

Depends on the event. There is a time and a place for the game.

I wear a TNG uniform to my local ren fair every year - it almost exclusively generates excitement and high fives.

The furries I saw at a ren faire recently had theme appropriate attire for their fursuit. I was jealous that they had two costumes!

Those are Stimpies though. Stimpies of the Ren faire.

Understandable. Plus, the landing team would usually dress incognito so as not to violate the prime directive anyway, right?

So what are they doing dressed in their usual uniforms?

My friend who used to work at a ren faire says it's a lazy overdone joke and the people who do it tend to be dicks.

Apparently it's pretty common for ren fair people to wear a starfleet badge hidden somewhere and if this happens pull them aside in character, subtly show the badge and rip into them for violating the prime directive.