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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 22 ก.ย. 2016
- The original studio model of the famous 'Star Trek' Enterprise went back on display in the National Air & Space Museum Tuesday, with a fresh coat of paint, new lights and a state-of-the-art climate control case in the new Boeing Milestones of Flight Hall.
No other ship in any other science fiction setting had the presence, the grace, and the beauty of the original Enterprise.
"She's a beautiful lady and we love her!" - James T. Kirk, TOS episode 'I Mudd.'
Star Trek has had a lasting effect on our culture. I was once witness to a comment by the Chief Engineer of the ship I was serving in when, after he had received a serious chewing out from our Captain after failing an exercise I overheard him mutter "Where's the Transporter Room on this bucket? I want to get off."
The TV series inspired so many people to go into the field of space and exploration. There's once an interview with Scotty and they talked about how many people had told him they became engineers just because of his role in Star trek. This was a show that inspired!
I loved Star Trek since I first saw it at 11 years old. I ended up working in the "Bowels" of several commercial buildings in the "Engine Room" ( Boiler Room ) It's amazing how many Star Trek "Engineering" and other sound effects I recognized, over the years, that surely must have come from or been inspired by real life Boiler Rooms. One example is the pulsating "hum" of large electrical transformers that are the same as the background sound in Scotty's Engine Room. I always felt right at home. P.S. - Scotty's "habit" of over estimating the repair time of a job that makes you look like a "miracle worker" is a real thing ! Many are the times I wrote a work order for 4 or 5 hours for a job that I KNEW I could / would finish in 2.5 or 3 hours. I was a budgetary hero.
I'm very glad She is, at last, safe and secure, and in original condition, being cared for the way She deserves.
It's good to know that this piece is still well preserved. The Starship Enterprise and her crew had a profound impact on science, technological developments and space exploration. The original studio model does indeed deserve ist place among historical legends in the museum.
Yes, she does. I think Gene would be proud!
Well said.
Is STILL having an effect, for that matter!
Thank you (also) Lucille Ball & Desi Arnez for believing in the Star Trek series, when no one else would at that early time. DesiLui Studios!
Desilu.
Not exactly true...Desi was no longer there and Lucy thought it was show about movie stars traveling the world. Herb Solow got STAR TREK going.
my dad worked with this model in the 1960s for the show. neat to see they are taking care of it.
Went to the Air and Space Museum this last August and finally got to meet the real Enterprise. She truly is a beautiful lady.
She is part of our history and remains part of our future. Thank you National Air & Space Museum, for giving her care, and a well deserved home.
I'm simultaneously getting chills and on the verge of crying. I'm so happy they gave this model the treatment it deserved. She looks beautiful, and I look forward to seeing her again in person (the last time being in the basement gift shop, unlit and with that horrible, over-weathered paint job). Super-cool they've shared the color scheme with modelers.
Do you remember when it was just hanging from the ceiling in one of the walking areas?
@@erik_griswold Yes I remember that location. It was sort of by happenstance I saw it. If you didn't look up you would miss it. It was dusty and looking a bit used up. I'm so glad the ole girl is fully restored.
Gene Roddenberry would be pleased.
Thank you for showing it proper respect.....Finally!
There is no telling how many millions of miles that ship has traveled in the inspired minds of people all over the world. She deserves a front and center place in the hall for all time.
Still an amazing model and a stunning iconic design five decades on. Terrific restoration work to all those involved :)
Beautifully Done, many will enjoy it for years to come! Many Thanks!
They have done a wonderful restoration job!
No, they haven't. Get some glasses.
Ah yes, an unsupported criticism followed by personal derision as substitution for a counterpoint. Very Star Trek!
Thank you for doing such a marvelous job restoring this iconic, beloved model that is so inspiring for so many people. It warms my heart to know that it still exists so many decades after it’s creation and is being properly preserved.
Gorgeous paint job. I'm thankful that they cared so much.
She's a thing of beauty.
There are two "space ships" that can make me misty-eyed. One is ANY space shuttle. The other is the Enterprise. The depth of affection and warmth I feel toward them can't be overstated.
This Model means so much to us all. It inspired our youth to think "Space", to think "Beyond our current Troubles" and "To the Future"!
I am very glad to see that this historic piece of television history has been preserved. "Star Trek" was decades ahead of its time, and it's good to see things from the show being preserved. The original shuttlecraft, "Galileo," has also been restored and preserved as well, although it's not at the museum but in private hands.
That is sooooo much better then the last so-called restoration!
I was a kid when the original show was the ONLY Star Trek that existed. That they care this much makes me so happy.
I saw the original model at my Junior College back in 1972 when they had a Science and Sci-fi day. They also had the shuttle, as well as actual Moon rocks which incidently was guarded by two Marines.
why marines?
one would think Moon Rocks will be under NASA, or Air Force jurisdiction, but no.
It's always the Navy.
@@davidjacobs8558 well we didnt have Space Marines back then ...
Cole Parker you were there! thats so cool! That showing in '72 was the only time the public was ever able to see the original (minus the dish) before all the mucking about ...
Still love the Original Star Trek series, always has and always will be the best show over them all, and what proceeded it.
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
Albert Einstein.
Someone has to imagine something before it becomes a reality, dreaming and imagination and then someone tries to create it. (Make it so!) . that little telephone in my pocket is the descendant of the dream of Kirk's communicator.
"A foolish faith in authority is worst enemy of truth," Albert Einstein
"Cheating and stealing is better than coming up with it yourself and doing hard work." Albert Einstein
I am so happy that they have preserved this model .The TV show captured my imagination as a young boy and to this day I still enjoy watching the original series . Imagine if 5000 years from now if this survives (and us as a species) how amazed people will be if this concept and design was actually developed. Gene Roddenberry was brilliant.
Thank you Matt Jeffries
I think its very rare and awesome to see the Original Enterprise in all its glory being restored and put on display for everyone to see and enjoy, its the REAL deal not a knock off replica which makes it even more desirable.
I don’t care what they do with this craft in *Discovery* *THIS* will always be the lady who my heart belongs to. “No A, B, C or bloody D!”
“Treat her like a lady, she’ll always bring you home.”
It's a shame the makers of Discovery don't have the same reverence for Trek history.
BY YOUR COMMAND
Amen
"No Bloody A...B...C....orrrrr D" :) I grew up watching ToS and later on TNG and I do like TNG better. That said Star Trek will always be the best!
Aye
Looks like they did a fine job with no tribble at all😊
Beat me to the pun!
No, they didn't.
KKKKKKKIIIIIIIIIRRRRRRRRKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You PetaQ !@#@##@%$%&++?&%%&&!!!!!!!! ( malfunction in translation )
Get a Message to Kronos ......
Tribbels In The Engine Room !!!!!
Abandon ship !!!! Activate self-destruct !!!
Except it took decades of sitting out on display to get them to do anything.
Those cracks in the paint? Nothing to worry about. That ship has been through MANY battles...and the cracks are just some stress fractures from all those Klingon disrupter and Romulan plasma hits. She's a tough ship!
Back in 2001 we had this exact model at my work, near out motion capture stage. I worked as an animator at a company called Foundation Imaging. I was working on a different show, but the Star Trek Voyager guys were busy updating the effects for Star Trek The Motion Picture for a re-release dvd. They requested the model and we had it for a few months....they claimed they needed it for reference purposes, but in reality they just wanted to see it up close and not behind glass at a museum (we are all nerds at heart). We were told if we touched or damaged the ship we'd be out of a job. :) This was long before the model was restored, it was definitely showing some age though I don't remember cracks in the paint or anything.
The cracks didn't show as much under normal indirect light.
I absolutely love your restoration with the internal lighting, etc! I first saw it in 1986 when I was 20 yrs old but it wasn't as dynamic as it is now! I think it was under the staircase back then! Thank you for restoring and keeping it! I look forward to seeing it again soon!
It's funny how it has slowly gained in prominence over the years as younger generations took over at NASM.
That is cool. Now when someone invents warp drive. They will have a ship model to go by. 😁
"You treat her like a lady; and she'll always bring you home".
Alvan5 “Shes like your first love once you’ve been with her they’ll never be another like her”
Couldn't have said it any better.
Or...or... "Treat her like a slut, and hopefully she won't be there in the morning!"
(-_-) Mondo why are you here?
United Federation of Planets Why am I here? To chew gum and kick some ass, but it looks like I'm all outta gum!
What an outstanding job everyone did, it really looks great! Congratulations!!
OMG Awesome restoration job! The Starship Enterprise!! Star Trek my favorite show of all time! Thank you for saving her!
She is absolutely gorgeous! I wish they made model kits that size! =-D
that'd be one expensive model at 11 feet long, 200 lbs.
IT WOULD BE TOO BIGFOR 1 GUY TO BUILD.
Spec it out and build one yourself , its almost all Wood Glue & Screws, a little plastic and Metal, Piece of Cake!
@@sakesama1
There's Cake !!!!!!
@@sakesama1 Somebody built a 6 foot one by hand out of wood: th-cam.com/video/wbbkbWuBHnQ/w-d-xo.html
Historic and Epic: The USS Enterprise.
Beautifully done! Thumbs up👍
those coloured lights at the front of the nacelles are pure 60's gold, love it.
beautiful restoration of a national icon...
A ship well worth preserving- GREAT JOB
Great work and bigrespect to the restaurators !
So good to see all the lights working again too.
Great Job with the restoration!!!
THANK YOU for removing those hideous grid lines! 💜
I have never been to that museum. Now I have a reason to visit.
It thrilled me when I was a kid and the museum opened to see the Enterprise hanging there. I felt much the same thrill couple years ago when we went through Air and Space and there she was right out in front in her new display case. Brought tears to my eyes.
Do you remember where it was hanging?
Very cool. Been a Trekkie forever. Dad and I were glued to the TV every week. I think my Mom thought we were nuts, but she came around eventually. LOL!!
Great job restoring the Big E! I wish there was a way a modeler like me could get color and blinking references for the lights in the nacelles.
It looks like a return visit to Washington, DC needs to be in my future planning.
I'll never be able to see her in person. What matters far more is knowing that she's there. I am no more than a moment. She is the sturdier vessel. She is the hope of past and future, the dream so many share.
Beautiful ship... I mean model. But it will always feel like a ship to me.
Given her influence to modern sci-fi, modern space technology, design, and flight and inspiration for hundreds of thousands of people who hope to see humans travel among the stars, and not to mention her pedigree of being the fictional ancestor to the Super Carrier USS Enterprise and is considered a historical important artifact to the Smithsonian I think she earns the title as ship.
Thanks to ALL that worked on Her
Matt Jeffries .... We'll Name a part of the ship in your Honor .
As they use to say in the 60's
Tubular Man !!!
I have always lived far away from it but I've been to the Smithsonian several times and I always remember it Hanging above the doors to the theaters downstairs and I would always stand there and look at it for a long period of time.
Such a cool model and piece of history. Glad they restored it.
Good video. Lady knows her stuff . No explanation about the navigation dish problems
It’s wonderful to know she’s safe and well-taken care of!
One fine lady with a great crew.
She's a beauty. Now and always.
Absolutely brilliant what has been done here. Those of us who are gone, those of us who are still here, and those of us yet to be born, will undoubtedly marvel at the story, the history, the beauty, and the 'promise' of what NCC- 701 was, still is, and ever will be. Hope.
This is very nice. I love it!
Guess I’m going to have make a special trip to DC this year just to see her!!
A number of years ago (before the Udvar-Hazy center opened), I literally burned an entire day at the Air and Space Museum. I was standing outside when they opened, and I was still there when it closed.
A beautiful thing to see. Thank you ABC News.
What a Awesome restoration for the Museum!
It's really nice to see this project completed and the model's appearance so beautifully restored. I saw the model there, where it was on display in the gift shop after the previous restoration, and whoever did that one really went much too heavy on the weathering. I'd read that the rationale for that was that the model was thought to have looked like that during series production, but that level of detail didn't come through given the 16mm film on which the effects were shot, and the standard definition CRT TVs people watched the show on back then. I still think the weathering was much too heavy. Now it looks right.
Pity they can't acquire the movie refit model, give it the same treatment, and put it on display next to the original one.
She may be old now but she´s still a beauty and well preserved at last. Star Trek youngsters which now grow up with "Discovery" won´t have the opportunity seeing their favourite space ship this way.
This pleases me to no end!
Really cool, and totally appropriate to house it in the Smithsonian.
Brings a tear to the eye... Thank you.
Beautiful and important work...this ship is legend...and one day.....it will be as real as Apollo, Gemini, Mercury or the Space Shuttle.
Margaret, I hope you read this: Thank you so much for this. You are clearly a fan and I'm so happy that you got to add this project to your wonderful career. This ship means so much to me and so many others (I have a smaller version in my office) :) Great job and well done!
It deserves a spot in the Smithsonian space museum. Star Trek inspired so many to go into science and space exploration
Like it or not, this model is a cultural icon and should be heritage listed as such. Imagine how many Engineers started their careers as little children watching Star Trek.
I seen her in the Smoke Smithsonian around 40 years ago, great that they are restoring her she still a very beautiful ship, and probably the most recognizable ship in all the world even though she is a fictional ship everyone knows the Enterprise !!!
Came all the way from Australia to see the model at the smithsonian in 1993 only to discover they had lent it out to The Hayden Planetarium in New York..........So thats were I went..
Looks gorgeous with all the lighting intact.
The Constitution class Enterprise is still one of the best looking sce-fi space ships
She's both a legend and a gorgeous brauty. Dhe made the ❤️ of so many trekkies beat faster. As a lovely museul peace, she gets the honour she deserves!👍
Amazing. By the end of the video it looks really beautiful.
Of course one good reason to have a fictional space craft on display with all the real ones are that programs like Star Trek inspired some to take a real life interest in science and space travel.
Incredible Job. Beautiful.
We just saw it. The starboard side spinning nacelle was stuck. But the ship was beautiful.
At what time point?
Such an important part of television history.
There would have been no Star Trek if it wasn’t for Lucille Ball at DesiLu Studios green lighting a second pilot, so the story goes.
Scotty would be proud. 🖖
In 2005, when the idea of the restoration project began, I remember seeing several photos of this model (by then it was already in the Smithsonian Institution) where it was seen that one side of the ship lacked aesthetic details and even had cables that They were outside the structure, that is, a totally neglected side because it was not filmed in any shot, to save design costs. So the scenes were always filmed with a single profile, then the film was inverted and thus "both sides" were available when only one was filmed. Only some decals were replaced, which were printed in reverse for those reversed shots. By the way, the restoration achieved is excellent, Star Trek was an icon of a generation that was inspired by this magnificent series, including many scientists, astronauts and engineers who have made some things that he anticipated come true.
Seeing this in person as a Star Trek fan, it is amazing. There are a few surprises that i wasn't aware of, but I was happy to see it in person.
Although they are probably all gone I wonder what the original model makers would have thought if they knew that their work would be so appreciated.
I'm sure they would have been thrilled. It's completely unlike CBS "remastering" the original series and just basically throwing out all the work from the original modelmakers and special effects personnel in favor of bad CGI.
@@amightysailingman Bad special effects were substituted by good CGI.
@@karekarenohay4432 You're a fool. Those effects were state of the art for the time and budget. Maybe you think we should get replace all the flying monkeys in The Wizard of Oz with CGI ones. Also, you obviously have terrible taste if you think the "remastered" effects are good CGI. Even its defenders say CBS intentionally made it bad because they didn't want it to look like 21st century effects.
@@amightysailingman NO, the effects of the original Star Trek were cheap and bad at their time (literally cheap). Nobody saw ST for their effects, but for the good Sci-fi stories. And the remastered efects are VERY GOOD. Of course you can not put some XXI century CGI fireworks in a 1966 TV show and expect it works. It won't. The effects were intentionally restrained (NOT BAD!) to fit the rest of the show.
The flying monkeys of The Wizard of Oz are OK, because The Wizard of Oz was not about flying monkeys. But Star Trek always was about space exploration, and it is a valid option to improve the space effects if you don't want the show get old badly, and still catch new fans and viewers in the XXI century.
@@karekarenohay4432 Spoken like a CGI-worshipping Millennial. You don't know anything about 1966 special effects on TV. Nobody would say contemporary shows like Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea or Lost in Space had better effects. I'm done with you, idiot.
Take good care of our old friend and thanks for giving her the respect she deserves
I remember the auction. I drooled over the Reliant. A klingon bird of prey would work as well.
It looks fantastic!
It was absolutely worthwhile to recreate the lighting effects.
She looks beautiful all lit up.
far better than any CGI
Beautiful!
An icon for many who have a love in the field of science and space travel.
Most beautiful ship ever made.
Wow! Just so Wow! Can’t wait to visit one day...
Who ever though that a series cancelled after 3 seasons would explode into a world wide phenomenon!