How ‘Star Trek The Tour’ got stuck in Long Beach over a $200,000 bill

Remember “Star Trek the Tour,” that fantastical Queen Mary exhibit of all things Trekkie–uniforms and phasers and a real live fake Starship Enterprise? The rumor mill had it opening in San Diego last Thursday–but it’s still here, locked up in space jail, [...]

New owners, almost all smiles
In case you haven’t been following along at home, here’s coverage of yesterday’s joint press conference by Save the Queen officials–the development consortium which bought the lease to operate the Queen Mary and 64 acres of surrounding land–and the City of Long Beach.

Save The Queen frontman denies any deal
Jeff Klein says he’s already contacted the Israel-based news organization Globes Online to tell them they’re wrong: there’s no deal with anyone to sell off any part of the RMS Queen Mary.
“You can’t sell what you don’t have,” Klein told The District.
Klein said Save The Queen is talking with [...]

An international financial news service has reported that 50 percent of the RMS Queen Mary has been sold to an Israeli investment fund and an unknown partner for $8 million through a joint venture owned in equal shares.
The sale to Mydas Investment Fund Ltd. was revealed Sunday in Globes Online – the Internet version of [...]

Save The Queen frontman Jeff Klein, sounding exasperated and exhausted, continued to seek clarification Friday afternoon on a legal ruling that seems to give him only until the end of the day Tuesday to finalize his purchase of the Queen Mary lease.
“We’re trying to understand what the closing date should be — there are different [...]

Save The Queen frontman Jeff Klein was caught off guard this morning when he learned that his development consortium has only three business days — until the end of the day Tuesday, November 6 — to finalize its $43 million bid to purchase the lease to operate the Queen Mary and develop 64 acres of [...]

The Queen Mary’s new lease on life — well, technically, its life with a new leaseholder – was scheduled to begin Monday, Oct. 22, but LBreport.com says a judge has delayed things at least a month.  Apparently, one of the subtenants of previous leaseholder QSDI, which drove Long Beach’s icon into bankruptcy under the self-serving reign of Joseph Prevratil and Howard [...]