Actual Stars in Star Trek

[Scott Kellogg]

If you ever wondered about this shot....

That's the Trifid Nebula
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trifid_Nebula
(And it has nothing to do with 3 footed poisonous plants that take over the world.)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebulae_in_fiction

 

[ZapBrannigan]

My favorite astronomical usage by far is the Talos Star Group:
https://tos.trekcore.com/hd/albums/1x00hd/thecagehd0107.jpg

also known as the Pleiades:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleiades

 

[Neopeius]

If you ever wondered about this shot....

That's the Trifid Nebula
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trifid_Nebula
(And it has nothing to do with 3 footed poisonous plants that take over the world.)


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebulae_in_fiction

As kids, we always found this to be the cheesiest effect. We had a copy of the Time LIFE book, The Universe with that picture, and we'd shove it back and forth in front of each other and then take a newspaper and spin it really fast to simulate the Lazarus effect.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

As kids, we always found this to be the cheesiest effect. We had a copy of the Time LIFE book, The Universe with that picture, and we'd shove it back and forth in front of each other and then take a newspaper and spin it really fast to simulate the Lazarus effect.

Now that's doing Star Trek on a budget. It takes me back to playing Star Trek in the yard. Binocular case Tricorder? Check. All the fx are in our heads? Check. Groping for a story as we go along? Check.

 

[publiusr]

As kids, we always found this to be the cheesiest effect. We had a copy of the Time LIFE book, The Universe with that picture, and we'd shove it back and forth in front of each other and then take a newspaper and spin it really fast to simulate the Lazarus effect.

I did stuff like that too. The deck rail was like the bridge rail.

 

[Scott Kellogg]

Here's the Trifid Nebula on the Astronomy Picture of the day, taken by the Hubble.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap201101.html

 

[Redfern]

...Binocular case Tricorder? Check.

Ah, you did that, too? What was it like when AMT released the "Exploration Set" plastic assembly model kit resulting in kid sized roleplay versions of the field gear? My childhood buddy Kyle and I thought we had been gifted the Holy Grail...had we known what was a Holy Grail.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Ah, you did that, too? What was it like when AMT released the "Exploration Set" plastic assembly model kit resulting in kid sized roleplay versions of the field gear? My childhood buddy Kyle and I thought we had been gifted the Holy Grail...had we known what was a Holy Grail.

I built and meticulously painted the Exploration kit, and I loved it, but I was at least 13 at the time and the models were too small to play with in a serious and mature way. That was a little frustrating. Still loved it.

 

[Poltargyst]

As kids, we always found this to be the cheesiest effect. We had a copy of the Time LIFE book, The Universe with that picture, and we'd shove it back and forth in front of each other and then take a newspaper and spin it really fast to simulate the Lazarus effect.

That is awesome.

 

[ChallengerHK]

Groping for a story as we go along? Check.

The current writing staffs must have done the same. Sadly, they haven't left it behind.

 

[Redfern]

I built and meticulously painted the Exploration kit, and I loved it, but I was at least 13 at the time and the models were too small to play with in a serious and mature way. That was a little frustrating. Still loved it.

Assuming it was released in mid 1974, I wasn't quite 12 at the time and I was not the most robust for my age. So the fully assembled props were not so dwarfed within my hands.

Just curious, did you have an issue with the electroplated chrome pieces snapping loose, like the beam emitter from the phaser and the instrument plates mounted within the comm and the 'corder? My buddy Kyle was too impatient to scrape away the chrome from the surfaces that should be glued, so those pieces snapped free on his props With the tricorder, he could manage to reach in his fingers from the top after popping free the pivoting hood to reposition the "recording disc" bay and and glue it again. But the communicator? That meant rattling around the sealed casing upside down until the piece dropped into position again and then gluing from the outside making a real mess. I think he bought a second kit and scraped the plating as recommended.

 

[F. King Daniel]

The Rock was in Voyager once

 

[Scott Kellogg]

Assuming it was released in mid 1974, I wasn't quite 12 at the time and I was not the most robust for my age. So the fully assembled props were not so dwarfed within my hands.

Just curious, did you have an issue with the electroplated chrome pieces snapping loose, like the beam emitter from the phaser and the instrument plates mounted within the comm and the 'corder? My buddy Kyle was too impatient to scrape away the chrome from the surfaces that should be glued, so those pieces snapped free on his props With the tricorder, he could manage to reach in his fingers from the top after popping free the pivoting hood to reposition the "recording disc" bay and and glue it again. But the communicator? That meant rattling around the sealed casing upside down until the piece dropped into position again and then gluing from the outside making a real mess. I think he bought a second kit and scraped the plating as recommended.

I would have been about 9 or so. So they were my size.

We had the Chrome bonding issue, and (for a while) made use of it.
The bonds on one side of the chrome piece gave way, so it would flex into the body of the various props so that effectively, you could push the buttons and they'd depress.

 

[ZapBrannigan]

Just curious, did you have an issue with the electroplated chrome pieces snapping loose, like the beam emitter from the phaser and the instrument plates mounted within the comm and the 'corder?

No, I was a pretty experienced model builder by that point, having done all the Star Trek kits and various aircraft. My favorite piece in the Exploration set was the communicator. I painted the lid gold, and it was gorgeous.