Where is Galileo?

[gomtuu20]

Where is the restored Galileo?
A few years ago, we drove from Illinois to Houston to see it. We called the space center before we left to confirm it was there. When we got there, we were told it left the day before had gone to another museum. Of course, the employees had no clue where it went. I then heard it was at the set tour in Ticonderoga, New York, but their website doesn't seem to have any information on it whatsoever.
Can anyone tell me where it is currently located? Is it available to the public for viewing?

 

[1001001]

I’m pretty sure it’s at Ticonderoga.

At least it was a couple of years ago.

 

[Ronald Held]

AFAIK it is not available for public viewing.

 

[gomtuu20]

AFAIK it is not available for public viewing.

This saddens me. The previous owner spent something like $100,000 to restore it and then donated it to a museum to be displayed, and they then promptly got rid of it. Whoever has it now (The Set Tour, apparently) is apparently not displaying it. I don't understand why.

 

[Ronald Held]

A reason is there is no display area for it yet. I will try to remember to ask on my next trip there.

 

[publiusr]

I am seeing more of this:

Early european rocketry projects

Apologies the photocopier was not good... Europa III

www.secretprojects.co.uk

—and that’s in *Europe*…where they generally think more of history than Americans.

Galileo might still be aboard the Intrepid—if it had a tailhook.

The crew-cuts didn’t want it any more than real-spacers…

 

[Origami Chicken]

It’s at the Ticonderoga set. But not yet on display.

 

[drt]

A reason is there is no display area for it yet. I will try to remember to ask on my next trip there.

I could see that, Ticonderoga seems to want to have things in context. Instead of just having it randomly off to the side, I could see them wanting to make it accessible through a doorway with all of the hangar deck signage, etc., like it would have been in TOS.

 

[Phaser Two]

I could see that, Ticonderoga seems to want to have things in context. Instead of just having it randomly off to the side, I could see them wanting to make it accessible through a doorway with all of the hangar deck signage, etc., like it would have been in TOS.

Heck, they may want to construct the hangar deck! I don't know if they have enough room, but it's a thought.

 

[publiusr]

It would look nice at an old airship hangar—finally a 1:1 scale TAS’ shuttlebay

 

[Henoch]

It would look nice at an old airship hangar—finally a 1:1 scale TAS’ shuttlebay

Found it; second one on the left.

 

[Nerys Myk]

 

[trynda1701]

This may have been mentioned elsewhere now, which a quick search couldn't find, but there is now a Kickstarter to build a display area at Ticonderoga for the Galileo!

 

[1001001]

This may have been mentioned elsewhere now, which a quick search couldn't find, but there is now a Kickstarter to build a display area at Ticonderoga for the Galileo!

Sorry, no fundraising links allowed.

Thanks

 

[trynda1701]

Sorry, no fundraising links allowed.

Thanks

Oops! Sorry.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

I don't recall the specifics, but there is something known as (?) the law of large props. Someone will know this. It says, roughly, that the larger the sci-fi prop, the less sought-after it will be when production wraps. Portable Star Trek treasures grew legs and walked away in 1969. The communicators were stolen outright, as were the precious music score master tapes (which thankfully were later rescued by Neil Norman). By contrast, the big stuff had to be given away.

According to my notes, Paramount gave the Galileo mockup to the Braille Institute of L.A., who didn't want it, so they gave it to a Roger Hiseman of Palos Verdes for his son to play with in their front yard. When it got dirty and disgusting, Hiseman sold it off, and it changed hands several more times over the years. Outdoor living was hard on the mockup, and it's been through at least three restorations. For the owners, it's been kind of a white elephant.

An even bigger example: the 55-foot, 10-ton Titanic miniature from Raise the Titanic. Nobody wanted it, so it sat outdoors and decayed for decades in Malta, where the fx scenes had been filmed.

The spacecraft mockup from Planet of the Apes ended as a battered road sign in Kanab, Utah, proclaiming "Four Seasons Inn - Family Restaurant." There must be a lot of other great props that never got a place of honor in retirement.

 

[Ssosmcin]

, as were the precious music score master tapes (which thankfully were later rescued by Neil Norman).

When you consider that contractually, the music was supposed to be destroyed (according to Jeff Bond) this is doubly impressive.

Then again, according to union rules, they were never supposed to reuse music from prior seasons but we all know that happened.

According to my notes, Paramount gave the Galileo mockup to the Braille Institute of L.A.,

What an odd choice. "Oh those blind kids loved Star Trek."

who didn't want it, so they gave it to a Roger Hiseman of Palos Verdes for his son to play with in their front yard.

Did they just pick recipients out of the phone book?

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Did they just pick recipients out of the phone book?

My guess is that when a studio executive said "Get rid of that piece of sh-- in the parking lot, and make it deductible," the Braille Institute was the very first charitable org that popped into somebody's head, and it was in town. It didn't matter if they wanted it.

I wish they had just put a decent tarp over Galileo until the Smithsonian asked for the Enterprise in 1973. NASM might have been willing to take both.

 

[Maurice]

The Millenium Falcon got razed right after it was used for one (deleted) scene in Return of the Jedi.

 

[feek61]

When you consider that contractually, the music was supposed to be destroyed (according to Jeff Bond) this is doubly impressive.

Then again, according to union rules, they were never supposed to reuse music from prior seasons but we all know that happened.

Actually, back then I am pretty sure they could reuse music from prior seasons but it had to be re-recorded for the new season, which apparently was done based on the information on the complete soundtrack collection notes. Much of the familiar music became library cues, used (and recorded) every season. The rules now are totally different and don't allow that (as I understand it).