The Department of Temporal Investigations is on the case

this got so out of hand at my local fest that they decided to do time traveller's weekend as a theme. this year we went, and my costume was a cave man who hit his head on a tree branch while chasing a rabbit, woke up here and is amazed by everything

I hope you interacted with someone's pet like it was potential food.
- #DontEatTheFurries
- you mean friend-wolf? friend-wolf not food!

It would make way more sense for Stargate cosplayers to be at a renfaire since every single planet they went to on that series seemed to have villagers at about the renaissance level of technology (gotta wonder, did they have access to a bunch of medieval/renaissance sets for cheap lol?).

Of course, if you went as Stargate cosplayers you would have to basically dress up as para military wannabe chuds who’s personalities revolve around owning useless guns (like sword person who is obsessed with swords but way less fun) and being a bigot. People might not even recognize you are in costume and just assume you are a bunch of losers who express their freedom by going to renfaires carrying around murder weapons and dressing in tactical gear.

sigh

…better to go as the Star Trek cosplayers lol.

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

/s
- Have I missed something? Is stargate regarded as bigoted now?
You could just have that weird golden cumshot on your forehead.
- What a terrible day to be literate
- Goes to the fair with the cumshot ... but it isn't golden
- Never forget the episode where it was upside down
Stargate- thousands of inhabited planets, and almost all of them look like Canada.
- Eh class
Staff weapons are weapons of ~~terror~~ murder.

The P-90 is a weapon of war!
- Yeah but in Star Trek's future they have headlamps... but for your hands

haha that is a good one! I wonder if the faire participants mind or feel like it hurts their immersion.

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've seen that as well, it's slowly growing. Unsurprisingly the correlation of ren faire goers and trekkers is high.
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 worked as a cashier and still do it 😅
- What a perfect comparison. I would agree it's in the same neighborhood. It was funny the first 8 million times.
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.
- The Venn Diagram of Renn Fair goers, and Trekkies isn't a circle, but it's close I'd imagine.
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...
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.
- Considering what goes into the more hard-core outfits, they deserve respect for their dedication. And there are lots of outlets for that too, which is great (e.g. SCA).
  
  However, if someone gets their tabbard in a bunch because some sci-fi cosplayers ruined their sense of immersion, at what is arguably a pay-to-enter medieval-themed shopping mall, they may deserve what they get.
  
  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.
  
  These people are the backbone of every Faire. Huzzah!
Depends on the event. There is a time and a place for the game.
- A menagerie if you will
I wear a TNG uniform to my local ren fair every year - it almost exclusively generates excitement and high fives.

The Star Trek cosplayers don’t bother me… it’s the fucking furries. Like no judgement, you do you, but how is a full pink fur suit even slightly on theme?

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.
- Slow clap
- Nice
I mean someone is already cosplaying some romanticized ideal of someone 200 years ago is it really that much of a stretch to have someone dressed as an anamophized dog-man?
- Yes.
- I hope this comment is satire because it's hilarious.

I was at a ren fair earlier this year wearing my MST3K shirt and several people in real cosplay stopped to tell me how much they loved my shirt.

Also, there was a guy wearing a shirt that just said "This is my ren fair costume." Respect to that guy.

What a coincidence: just yesterday I rewatched the warehouse 13 episode where they're at a civil war reenactment LARP and someone complains about the fucking trekkies always crashing their party as RPG time travelers.

Normalize invading the ren faire dressed as Mongols

Yeah, give Trump a good reason to build a big ass wall! XD

I want to see the "bring out your dead" cart guy from The Holy Grail.

Well, the renfaire people only get to be upset if this is the only anachronism in costumes

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.
- I think if you’re going to go as a trek person they need to be in full renaissance clothing to not break the prime directive, but they can have pointy side burns.

I’ve never been to a ren fair in my life but I can feel it in my bones that this is one of those eyeroll inducing things where a million of people have done it but they all think they’re the first.

Same probably goes for Doctor Who.

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.
have done it but they all think they’re the first.

It's not about the first, it's about the best.
- I mean it kinda seems like there’s exactly one way to do it. They’re not elaborate costumes by any means, and they’re uniforms so you can’t exactly get creative with it.
All I've got left is my bones