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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.
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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If Lucas had created Star Trek rather than Roddenberry, then the Original Series model at the Smithsonian would have DS9 era warp nacelles ret-conned on it and the phasers could never be fired until the shields were below 50% strength because of course Kirk never shoots first.
If Lucas had created Star Trek; Uhura would've have been a northern European princess, Chekov a darkside villain, Kirk a 20 something whiny white boy, Spock a droid, and Scotty an ethnically insulting alien based on Mexican stereo types.
putting the 'B' in LGBTQ+
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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Why is it that if you copy something it's called a fake, but if you also destroy the original it's called restoration?
Interestingly, that's how transporters might eventually work:
Scan you, transmit scan data, reassemble you at the other end based on the data, confirm checksum, then destroy original.
So, what you're saying is, Lucas is making the new Star Trek films?
Not to mention you'll have the TSA rifling through your wallet's contents in the pattern buffer.
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...Kirk never shoots first.
Uhura might have something to say about that...
Kirk: This sort of thing . . . has never . . . happened . . . to me . . . before!
Uhura: I just wish you could have held out until I removed my uniform...
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Obviously created by a man whose "optimistic vision of a future" includes women wearing mini skirts and gogo boots.
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