It will end up looking as if you were standing next to it in a studio or as seen on television?
Enterprise Restoration Blog Update 1/2016
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Why do we assume these actors working for a living actually bother to live and breathe this stuff the way we do? William Shatner hasn't had to talk about a "deflector dish" since 1994!
Could just be a fypo.
In fact, he never did. That terminology was never used in the original or animated series, and when it was used in Generations in '94, it was spoken by Scott rather than Kirk. The forward dish was never referenced in dialogue in TOS or TAS; it was just there, unremarkably doing its job. The Making of Star Trek called it the "main sensor-deflector (a parabolic sensor antenna and asteroid-deflector)." It wasn't until the TNG era that the tech advisors started making up new uses for the deflector dish, requiring its mention in dialogue.
TOS dialogue only used "deflector" to refer to deflector shields, aka deflector screens. These days we generally just call them "shields," now that "deflector" has come to be used more specifically for the navigational deflector beam. (The first use of the phrase "navigational deflector" was in TMP.)
Well, considering how he claims to have intimate knowledge of it in the tweet below, you would think he would know the correct name for it.
This story looks to have some additional photos.
Does anyone know if it will hang in the Milestones Hall or be displayed another way? I haven't found anything on that, myself.
I've always kind of wished they would keep it at the Udvar Hazy Center (out by Dulles Int'l Airport for those unfamiliar with metro DC). Then again, more people will see it downtown. It's just that I live only about a twenty minute drive from Udvar Hazy and drive by it often, so I could easily stop by and see it just about any time I wanted to (bearing in mind the $15 parking fee for each visit). Oh, well. The needs of the many, and all.
I've always kind of wished they would keep it at the Udvar Hazy Center (out by Dulles Int'l Airport for those unfamiliar with metro DC). Then again, more people will see it downtown. It's just that I live only about a twenty minute drive from Udvar Hazy and drive by it often, so I could easily stop by and see it just about any time I wanted to (bearing in mind the $15 parking fee for each visit). Oh, well. The needs of the many, and all.
No way will they hang it, since that damaged it the last time. It was designed to be supported from below. IIRC, they'll mount it in a sealed, climate-controlled case.
Well, I'm in Hyattsville MD, and thus much closer to the downtown museum, so I'd rather they keep it there. I have to admit, Udvar Hazy is not that far from me, but I've never been there. I need to go out there one day.
Absolutely beautiful facility. Gorgeous. Well laid out. Much to see. Well worth the trip.
It's actually pretty amazing the model survived after '69 at all. I guess they just put it back into storage after Tribbles on the assumption it'd be needed for future episodes and no one got it out again until the early 70's, at which point the series had become enough of a success in syndication for it to be worth holding on to as a cool artefact rather than a now defunct bit of tat from a cancelled series as it probably would have been treated if anyone had given it any thought after the show ended?
Sounds like someone needs to go to UCLA and pull the optical effects memo for "By Any Other Name."
Tag, you're it!
Re 1991 - there was no 'ask' from Smithsonian on "historical accuracy". And there was also almost no documentation as to what accurate was!
And when I meant 'white', I meant 'appearance on TV'. It was white!!
Now the case. It will be in the milestones hall - the main entrance - in front of, but not adjacent to, the large mural of man on the moon. It will be climate controlled.
And there will be some way to activate the lights - but not on demand from visitors, only when something special occurs.
And - yes - there will be shields. This specific part of the museum gets sun in the winter mornings, and the case will have rolldown shields that will (should) automatically protect the model when needed. You'll only see them winter mornings first thing. We are desperately trying to get them labelled appropriately as shields from intense solar radiation.
And when I meant 'white', I meant 'appearance on TV'. It was white!!
Now the case. It will be in the milestones hall - the main entrance - in front of, but not adjacent to, the large mural of man on the moon. It will be climate controlled.
And there will be some way to activate the lights - but not on demand from visitors, only when something special occurs.
And - yes - there will be shields. This specific part of the museum gets sun in the winter mornings, and the case will have rolldown shields that will (should) automatically protect the model when needed. You'll only see them winter mornings first thing. We are desperately trying to get them labelled appropriately as shields from intense solar radiation.
"Deflectors, full intensity!"
