So, I went to the New York Rennaisance Faire this weekend:

[krunchyfrogg]

Did you spot a Starfleet Away Team? I heard that a group of friends were gonna go this year, in character, dressed in TNG Uniforms and their in character shtick was that they got transported to the wrong time to do some temporal anomaly.

Man, I havn't gone in two years, it's a great way to spend the day!

Nah, missed them.

I'm really wondering why they got rid of that torture chamber though.

 

[LightPhoenix]

Edit:
Thinking back on my very first Ren Faire (which was in the late 80s, IIRC) at Sterling I believe (definitely upstate New York), I remember the local residents not being all too thrilled about it happening at the time. They put in as much effort into their protest as many of the Ren Faire participants did, including tons of clever protest signs (with Medieval style caligraphy) and the neighboring farmers piled up cow and horse manure along the outskirts of their property that bordered the Faire. Fortunately we were up wind the day we attended.

Yeah, back when it first started; I remember being a kid and hearing about that. Nowadays most of the locals accept it if not embrace its existence.