Who is paying for this pavilion to exist? I don't think Star Trek props have the same drawing power that you do.
"It Belongs in A Museum!"
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Who is paying for this pavilion to exist? I don't think Star Trek props have the same drawing power that you do.
Unfortunately, you're probably right.
I admit it's a helluva hard sell; nobody wants to foot a bill. I'm just a "blue-collar" fellow. Paramount had big bucks (but their parent company has shareholders to answer to, also), but apparently were tired of paying warehouse space for material they saw no intrinsic need for anymore.
It'd be interesting to see the company ledgers after that '06 auction: where or what did the profits go into?
The '09 reboot?
Heh.
It'd be interesting to see the company ledgers after that '06 auction: where or what did the profits go into?
The '09 reboot?
Heh.
No one is willing to sink money into anything without some hope of getting their investment back and then some.
It's not just the money. Not enough interest/demand is another issue as well. You may be overestimating amount of interest among trekkies in going to such a place.
I'd say it's none of our business where the money went, unless one is a stakeholder in the company. The other thing, I'm excited they sold everything off. I don't have to worry about them cheaping out on props, sets, models and clothing on Discovery.
To the OP
Other than posting --
Have you gone to Houston to see Galileo?
Have you gone to Seattle to see the EMP Trek exhibit?
Have you gone to the Trekcetera museum in Canada?
I personally restored Galileo. And many others. And loaned several models to EMP for their current show. And helped restore the Command Chair and console. And helped Smithsonian with Enterprise. But most are with fans - in the care of fans who love them. Let it be.
"Should" is a great word but the idea is not practical. There are two sci-FI museums in formation now. Have you donated? Helped? Volunteered?
But I'd love to see you try. I've certainly tried to be true to the costumes, props and models I have owned. I am a custodian for their future.
Other than posting --
Have you gone to Houston to see Galileo?
Have you gone to Seattle to see the EMP Trek exhibit?
Have you gone to the Trekcetera museum in Canada?
I personally restored Galileo. And many others. And loaned several models to EMP for their current show. And helped restore the Command Chair and console. And helped Smithsonian with Enterprise. But most are with fans - in the care of fans who love them. Let it be.
"Should" is a great word but the idea is not practical. There are two sci-FI museums in formation now. Have you donated? Helped? Volunteered?
But I'd love to see you try. I've certainly tried to be true to the costumes, props and models I have owned. I am a custodian for their future.
Valid points. Mea culpa.
Thanks for your post, and your work as a "custodian".
No offense intended.
"Star Trek" is just not a big fish in the pond anymore. I think we all have dreams of what we'd like to see, but do to economics, they just aren't possible. I know there are folks that would love to see Deep Space Nine and Voyager restored for HD. I know that I have been waiting a long time for a seamless branching Star Trek: The Motion Picture Blu-ray, with all three editions of the film.
It is great to dream.
It is great to dream.
I remember now: "It belongs in a museum" is a line from the third Indiana Jones movie.
^Speaking of...
There's an idea--We could stuff all the props in the Galileo! It's bigger on the inside, right?
Makes you wonder what the heck are in all of those other boxes
That warehouse is ginormous!!
I remember that the late Forrest J Ackerman had a fabulous collection of science fiction and horror material, dating back to the 1920s. Original film props from Willis O’Brien and Eiji Tsuburaya and Ray Harryhausen; items from Lon Chaney and Orson Welles and Bela Lugosi; just about every sf book or magazine ever published; etc., etc. It kept outgrowing his houses, and at one point, he said he’d donate it all if the city of Los Angeles would give him a building in which to display it. Now, it appears that he had some added conditions, like some sinecure for him as curator, but, given his energy and knack for self-promotion, I’m guessing that the taxpayers would have come out ahead.
However, it never happened. His collection was sold off, item by item.
However, it never happened. His collection was sold off, item by item.
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It's just a painting. (paraphrasing Monty Python).
Yeah, I didn't think they'd built a giant building and filled it with crates, just for one small sequence at the end of a movie.
The funny thing is that I used to manage a movie theater at a mall in South Ft Worth, Texas. Just North of the interchange of Interstates 35W and 20. Just South of us was a old General Services Administration warehouse facility with over a dozen buildings like this each over a quarter mile long. I figured they all looked like this on the inside. God only knows what they kept there.
