How Las Vegas Missed Out on a Life-Sized Starship Enterprise

Posted by timothy on Sunday April 8, 2012 @08:58AM from the oh-the-the-huge-manatee dept.

T-Kir writes "Apparently 20 years ago, instead of the Fremont Experience, downtown Las Vegas was actually close to building a life sized version of the refit USS Enterprise, and would have — had it not been for the then studio chairman Stanley Jaffe nixing it at the final meeting. The project had support from Paramount licensing and then-CEO Sherry Lansing, the Las Vegas Mayor, and the downtown redevelopment committee, but not opinion of Mr Jaffe: 'I don't want to be the guy that approved this and then it's a flop and sitting out there in Vegas forever.' As a Trek fan, I'm saddened that this never got built because I feel that this would've appealed to a much wider audience than science fiction fans. Props to io9 for picking this story up."

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RAGE! by Anonymous Coward · 2012-04-08 09:01 · Score: 5, Funny

KAHN!!!
Re:They are timeless and universal by sjames · 2012-04-08 15:15 · Score: 5, Funny

Why not? We did it for the Washington Monument which is nothing but a giant rock dildo.
But it so perfectly symbolizes what the People have come to expect from D.C.