The ENTERPRISE

[scotpens]

Nice to find the 3 foot model, though.

What?! They found it? When? Where? How did I miss this news?

I think he means it would be nice to find the 3-foot model.

After all the painstaking work of completely disassembling the 11-foot Enterprise, cleaning, fabricating new parts to replace missing ones, and putting the whole thing back together, why did Ed Miarecki disfigure the old girl with that horrid, overdone "weathering" job? WTF was he thinking?

 

[Melakon]

I think there was a discussion last year where someone posted their photos of the model, but can't find it now. I think it was in TOS forum.

I think he means it would be nice to find the 3-foot model.

Thanks, that must be it. Thought I was going to have a heart attack for a moment.

 

[Captain Rob]

Maybe the old girl is being depicted as still covered by space amoeba goo.

 

[Robert Comsol]

^^ Nice in-universe rationalization

Yes, we had several related TOS threads last year loaded with pictures and plenty of debate.

Bob

 

[Richard Baker]

IIRC the top of the Saucer is completely original- everything else has been 'restored'. They also had to re-build the port side since the filming miniature was covered in external wiring when they lighted the model for the series. It is good that this particular model has been preserved where people can see it, I just wish somebody with better knowledge of how it looked had done the restoration.

 

[BMariner]

I saw her just last year, and am still amazed every time. I just wish she wasn't tucked into the back of the basement gift shop, just one step up from mothballed.

 

[Lance]

I saw her just last year, and am still amazed every time. I just wish she wasn't tucked into the back of the basement gift shop, just one step up from mothballed.

Oh, agree. Initially I wasn't sure where to go to find her, but when I eventually stumbled upon her in the basement gift shop I was reminded of a quote from The Hitch-hiker's Guide To The Galaxy:

It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet, stuck in a disused lavatory, with a sign on the door saying "Beware of The Leopard".

 

[Alrik]

It's the original. Here are a few we took two years ago.

 

[Alrik]

After seeing this

we went to see this

and while we were there, I got to see this.

All in all, good trip.

 

[SeerSGB]

Nice to find the 3 foot model, though.

What?! They found it? When? Where? How did I miss this news?

I think he means it would be nice to find the 3-foot model.

After all the painstaking work of completely disassembling the 11-foot Enterprise, cleaning, fabricating new parts to replace missing ones, and putting the whole thing back together, why did Ed Miarecki disfigure the old girl with that horrid, overdone "weathering" job? WTF was he thinking?

Did he ever give a reason as to way he did it or thought it was the model was supposed to look?

 

[Lieut. Arex]

Iwas there a couple of months ago and surprised to see that the nacelle domes are secured with L-brackets that have been flattened slightly, she's a real beauty the clerk in the gift shop told me I couldn't have it, I said it didn't matter since I hadn't brought a truck anyway

 

[Robert Comsol]

Did he ever give a reason as to way he did it or thought it was the model was supposed to look?

I remember from the last year threads - according to a poster - that Ed Miarecki wanted to recreate the original pencil lines (only confirmed by original publicity stills and VFX footage for the top and bottom saucer) and somewhat felt these had been washed out by VFX lighting in the original footage.

Bob

 

[urbandefault]

I hope that someday the old girl will be restored to her original condition (and maybe, if it's not too horrid a thought, to have the port side detailed out to represent what it should have been). The current paint job just doesn't do her justice.

But she's still a beautiful ship.

 

[scotpens]

I remember from the last year threads - according to a poster - that Ed Miarecki wanted to recreate the original pencil lines (only confirmed by original publicity stills and VFX footage for the top and bottom saucer) and somewhat felt these had been washed out by VFX lighting in the original footage.

Then I'd say he went a tad too far. Like this other recent restoration attempt.

 

[Robert Comsol]

^^ Yes, I'm afraid that comparison isn't such a bad analogy.

Bob

 

[Lance]

I hope that someday the old girl will be restored to her original condition (and maybe, if it's not too horrid a thought, to have the port side detailed out to represent what it should have been).

Am I right in thinking that the whole reason the port side lacks any detail whatsoever is because it was always that way, and they just used to flip the shots when they needed the Enterprise to be seen from the other direction?

 

[LMFAOschwarz]

Am I right in thinking that the whole reason the port side lacks any detail whatsoever is because it was always that way, and they just used to flip the shots when they needed the Enterprise to be seen from the other direction?

That's my understanding, yes. It's kind of comparable to those square comm panels in the corridors on Space:1999. They only had two finished sides.

 

[Alrik]

I hope that someday the old girl will be restored to her original condition (and maybe, if it's not too horrid a thought, to have the port side detailed out to represent what it should have been).

Am I right in thinking that the whole reason the port side lacks any detail whatsoever is because it was always that way, and they just used to flip the shots when they needed the Enterprise to be seen from the other direction?

That's part of it. But the main reason that they couldn't shoot the port side was that was the side that all of the wiring to run the lights was fed through.