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Original 11' Star Trek Enterprise Model Being Restored Again
NormalVisual (565491) writes The original 11-foot U.S.S. Enterprise studio model from the original series has gone back into the shop again. The Smithsonian owns the model and has had it on display in a gift shop at the National Air and Space Museum for the last 13 years, but will be placed on display in the Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall in 2016, to coincide with the museum's 40th anniversary. In the meantime, the model will be undergoing its fourth restoration to address a number of issues. The last restoration in 1991 was performed by Ed Miarecki, a professional modelmaker well known for his work in "Star Trek: The Next Generation", as well as films such as "Event Horizon". This previous restoration had Trek fans up in arms owing to the paint job, which many feel doesn't represent the way the model looked originally. Hopefully this next restoration will bring her back to her former glory.
We took the family to DC for a vacation, and of course one of the things I had to see was Smithsonian Air and Space. I didn't know that the original Enterprise model was there, and was surprised to see it on the lower floor.
The next surprise was that the model was never finished. One side had all of the lights, striping, and everything. The other side had a little striping, and was otherwise pretty much blank. I remembered reading that in one of those books, and how all shots were of the finished side, or mirrored in post-processing.
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What is this? A spaceship for ANTS?!
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She took a crack at restoring it, but it was deemed to be not entirely successful.
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Why is it that if you copy something it's called a fake, but if you also destroy the original it's called restoration?
I'm just glad all of us Atheists will now have our own religious symbol to hang on the wall and worship.
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Judging from STTOS on TV, the original model was almost toy-like crude. The STTNG model was much more convincing, and that one already looks pretty crude compared to a good movie. The modelwork in 2001: A Space Odyssey stll impresses.
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"The Smithsonian owns the model and has had it on display in a gift shop at the National Air and Space Museum for the last 13 years, but will be placed on display in the Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall in 2016, to coincide with the museum's 40th anniversary."
Milestones of Flight? A model of something which has never actually flown and which doesn't actually exist?
Ah well, I suppose it goes with those Creationist museums.....
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>but will be placed on display in the Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall in 2016
No. Fuck this. It's not a milestone of flight, and it doesn't belong there in the least.
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This previous restoration had Trek fans up in arms owing to the paint job, which many feel doesn't represent the way the model looked originally.
Or did they feel it didn't represent the way it looked on TV?
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40th anniversary?
What is it commemorating, the animated series from the 70s?
The TV show begain in the 60s so the 40th anniversary was around 2006 (or earlier if you want to count the cage).
I was three years old when Star Trek arrived on a B&W set in my home... and I can remember it.
So I grew up with it, and the Apollo moonshots.
One of the things about ST was that it took Space Travel as a practical reality, and simply "accepted" that some things had to be similar to how we travel now.
If they weren't things would be so different and alien, they would interfere with everyday life.. which was hugely 'Smart'. We are adaptable.. but the way we tell stories isn't.. we still have to relate.
The books could get more technically edgy and fly off in directions that would make HG Wells proud.
Now we've discovered the Higgs Boson.. and it turns out "artificial gravity" is a lot easier than we ever thought it would be.. "antigravity" well that's the same as "gravity" turned upside down. In fact all those Vector fields we learned about in high school and third year college were excellent training wheels for a technology we never thought would exist.
As for Transporters.. it was originally based on Thor's "Light Bridge" and had absolutely [nothing] to do with "assembly or disassembly" that has so many problems inherent it's stupefying people still talk about it in those terms. Even the "Avengers" got it a lot more correct.
The Transporter is a misnomer.. it's a space folding machine that "relocates" the mass.. similar to the Higgs Boson effect.. only without the residual "Hang Over" of inertia after the trip. Think of it like standing on a moving sidewalk, that doesn't "move" but you still get to your destination. Or.. put it this way.. the rest of the Universe "shift" around you from your point of view. Albert Einstein would have no problem accepting the Transporter as possible.. even a fundamental demonstration of the translocation property of matter. If it didn't exist in the first place.. the Universe would have never existed.. a few Planck times after the Big Bang it would have snuffed itself out. There's a famous Russian term for the forces between two parallel sheets of matter that escapes me at the moment.. but its like that.. it had to exist all along.
The new movie Interstellar looks to exploring the third attribute of the Universe that makes "Warp" drive a rather mundane.. of course that had to be how it works. Too long to explain.. its late.. I'll leave it in the margins.. but essentially "point masses" are an illusion brought on by the gravitational "lens effect" of all stars and faster than light travel is "apparently" possible without ever moving faster than light.. Dark Matter proves it.. Dark Matter never existed.. it was an elementary principal of how the Universe evolved.
It seems kind of contradictory to hang the TV production model in the A&S museum, where people will complain about how simplistic the model is without understanding the nature of a TV model (ie, not meant to be seen other than in controlled TV shots on 1960s standard def television).
The TV model should be restored as closely as possible to its TV version and then put in the Smithsonian wing that houses various forms of Americana so that it can be a proper historical relic.
Then they should build a new model of the Enterprise with all the detail people have come to expect for A&S.
There are web pages out there about the construction of the TNG model ships. The large one was quite detailed but also very smooth. The painted detail didn't show up in SD, only on Blu-ray, and the model was too large and delicate to work with. So they built a cruder, less smooth, and smaller model. The big one had cracked by the time it was auctioned off. The TOS model seems to have been filmed only on 4 or 5 occasions: for the 1st and 2nd pilots, for Corbomite Maneuver stock shots reused throughout the series, maybe something later in the 1st season, and for some 2nd season stock shots that replaced the older ones. The film grain on all but the last batch hides the fact that the model has little detail. The movie models in auction photos online look like works of art, mostly due to the paint jobs.
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