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Missing 32" Enterprise finally found...

Who has possession of the model?

Not publicly disclosed.

Anyone know where the court case is, in the process?...most recent I can find is from May of '24...

A jury trial has been scheduled for August 2025, however there is currently a motion to amend the complaint, so I'm not sure how that might affect the trial date. This is all public information if you know where to look.
 
Not publicly disclosed.



A jury trial has been scheduled for August 2025, however there is currently a motion to amend the complaint, so I'm not sure how that might affect the trial date. This is all public information if you know where to look.
Clearly, I am not in the know...I sincerely thank you...for the future, was this available on social media? Maybe I need to think about some accounts other than BBS...
 
Not publicly disclosed.



A jury trial has been scheduled for August 2025, however there is currently a motion to amend the complaint, so I'm not sure how that might affect the trial date. This is all public information if you know where to look.
Oh man..I thought Rod still had it and would start the process of restoration. ?....this could take a couple of years it seems like. Thanks for the info.
 
It got scanned at least—with that, the hologram, a replica can be back-engineered.

Different stand in the photos with unglued nacelles?
 
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Oh boy. I don't think we shall see it displayed anywhere or time soon.... ?
 
Well, the 3D capture that was posted on Twitter was only about halfway around, but it may not have been the entire video. It would be odd to do something like that without making it 360 degrees.

That's a standard "reveal" visual effect in video previews of 3D scans in the app they used, Luma 3D. They would've gotten all angles of the model before that video could be rendered.

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Oh boy. I don't think we shall see it displayed anywhere or time soon.... ?
Is there a written article that coincides with this? It's (at this moment) a live stream, and I can't backtrack to see if it opens with them bottom-lining what these docs say in an introduction.
 
That's a standard "reveal" visual effect in video previews of 3D scans in the app they used, Luma 3D. They would've gotten all angles of the model before that video could be rendered.


Is there a written article that coincides with this? It's (at this moment) a live stream, and I can't backtrack to see if it opens with them bottom-lining what these docs say in an introduction.

It was hard to see the documents in the video. But it didn't sound good. The model is considered fine art. The storage unit guys still have the model. I have a feeling it's gonna get auctioned off to the highest bidder and land in a private collection....just my thoughts .. ?
 
Just came upon this by accident:

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At least we know that it is in Rod's hands,,,,at least for the moment.

In the last close-up, you can see the effects of the Pine-Sol. Wonder if it still smells?

When the story first came out, there were no images of what the inside of the storage unit looked like.

In some ways, it's a wonder that the trash bag was ever opened. Talk about a close one!
 
Just came upon this by accident:

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At least we know that it is in Rod's hands,,,,at least for the moment.

In the last close-up, you can see the effects of the Pine-Sol. Wonder if it still smells?

When the story first came out, there were no images of what the inside of the storage unit looked like.

In some ways, it's a wonder that the trash bag was ever opened. Talk about a close one!

At 5:36 in that video, there is a colorized version of the "Roddenberry at His Desk" photo. Note the squashed, obliterated bridge dome on the model. And note the uncharacteristic, "Augie Doggie" face on Gene. This is the actual photo:


I'd say the photo was colorized by AI, and it is total AI slop. Another injury inflicted on our cultural history.
 
At 5:36 in that video, there is a colorized version of the "Roddenberry at His Desk" photo. Note the squashed, obliterated bridge dome on the model. And note the uncharacteristic, "Augie Doggie" face on Gene. This is the actual photo:


I'd say the photo was colorized by AI, and it is total AI slop. Another injury inflicted on our cultural history.

Thank you. I was looking at it thinking "Has the bridge been squashed on that picture all this time and I'm only JUST NOW noticing?"
 
I'd say the photo was colorized by AI, and it is total AI slop. Another injury inflicted on our cultural history.
It's a remarkably bad example of the technology. Just out of curiosity, I loaded that black and white version into Photoshop and tried out its AI colorization feature, and it looked much better (unfortunately, to a deceptive degree, since it seems to be tuned to emulate '70s-era color photography). Even cranking the noise reduction to 100% and turning the photo into an impressionistic blob still didn't lose the entire bridge on the model the way the one in the video did.

I have mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, the fact that so many people don't seem to have the aptitude to recognize subpar AI makes it easier to distinguish. On the other hand, that could cause a false sense of security, since making people think AI only looks like garbage and never looks plausible. I'm not posting the colorization Photoshop did specifically because it looked plausible and I don't want to be part of the problem.
 
At 5:36 in that video, there is a colorized version of the "Roddenberry at His Desk" photo. Note the squashed, obliterated bridge dome on the model. And note the uncharacteristic, "Augie Doggie" face on Gene. This is the actual photo:


I'd say the photo was colorized by AI, and it is total AI slop. Another injury inflicted on our cultural history.
It was late and I was sleepy when I watched that. I was just aware enough to know something was up with that pic, but it didn't fully register.

Yeah, the bridge dome looks like a bleached wad of chewing gum! :mad:
 
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