Starship Enterprise will be restored to its 1967 glory: Smithsonian to rebuild 11ft model

Daily Mail ^ | 2/01/16 | Ellie Zolfagharifard

[mass55th]

"I've bought a couple of kits after decades of not fooling with scale models."

My son got back into it about 10 years ago. Besides science-fiction models, he does WWII vehicles, planes, tanks, etc...mostly German as that is his field of interest. He goes to Germany at least once a year, and is heading over there next weekend. He picks up models there every now and then. I visited him this past weekend, and he showed me a new model of the Millenium Falcon. This specific model is only available for purchase from Japan, and has many, many detail parts. There's even sitting and standing character figures of Finn, Chewbacca, Han, and Rey. There's also a BB-8. As well, he recently purchased a new model of a German Jagdpanther tank destroyer that he plans to make. His a pretty serious model builder, and builds his own dioramas to put the finished models in.

[MamaTexan]

[mass55th]

"I think we are referring to 2 different resins."

Yep.

[wally_bert]

Always loved good dioramas and plan to do some when I get building.

One kit I bought was an early 70s era K5 blazer. I always liked that series.

[Paladin2]

Stuning via Beebers?

[skr]

Of course! Duhhh to me!

[Vince Ferrer]

I thought the Smithsonian was all about real things, not poorly acted science fiction.

I thought it was about preserving and taking care of things it is responsible for, not throwing things in a closet to rot. If they don't want to take care of it, give it to someone who does.

[Smittie]

My tax money? Let Hollywood restore it........Geez....

At least they're not sending the money to Iran...

[Rockpile]

How about the big screen TVs on the bridge?

[Rockpile]

Speaking of stunning beebers, we have Tasers now so they are getting there.

[Fester Chugabrew]

[Secret Agent Man]

That was a great skit.

[Secret Agent Man]

I think he was a commodore. Kinda lost his marbles it seemed.

[Noumenon]

You haven't seen anything until you've seen a fleet of these coming at you. Caldari Navy Raven battleship.

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[Charles Martel]

Hubby and I watched an episode together and were in awe of all the technology from the original Star Trek that is in use today.

Indeed. I was loading a bunch of e-books, movies and music onto a micro-SD memory card recently and was struck by how much more advanced that seemed than even Star Trek envisioned (in the original series, portable data storage devices looked like plastic wafers about the size of 3 1/2" floppy disks).

My sister gave me an Amazon Echo (fancy streaming audio speaker) for Christmas. Damned if it doesn't approximate the Star Trek computers' voice interface. All it needs is Majel Barrett's voice.

[Charles Martel]

Isn't the roadsign to all sorts of places from MASH there too?

I'm not sure - but they *do* have Farrah's swimsuit.

[Charles Martel]

One thing I have noticed is that last season had some weak episodes. Still some good ones but it probably was about time to end it.

Yes, the third season is definitely the weakest. If you've ever read the behind-the-scenes stuff, Roddenberry had pissed off so many writers by then that they were lucky to get what they did. I guess I've always just wished that they'd shuffled the story order a bit and ended on a better note.

[Smokin' Joe]

That was a fun show.

[Smokin' Joe]

Flip phones, for one.

[Smokin' Joe]

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