Smithsonian: The Mission to restore the original Starship Enterprise

[Trekfan12]

I thought this was a nice article. I feel SO lucky to have seen the Enterprise. They did a fantastic job of bringing her back to her original glory. I urge any Star Trek fan, who can get to DC, to see her.

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-...180960339/?utm_source=smithsoniandaily&no-ist

 

[Spock's Barber]

I've been to the Smithsonian. We made a beeline straight to where the Enterprise was displayed. It was awesome to see an invaluable artifact of sci-fi history. I was almost in tears.

 

[Green Shirt]

The number of errors and misstatements in an article from a prestigious magazine are sad. The strangest one was "navel convention". The article seemed to infer the entire model was painted turkey red, not simply the nacelle caps. Are there any others? I'm heading to work now, so I'm out of time.

 

[Spock's Barber]

Yes, I saw that word "navel" used instead of "naval". I can just hear Shatner joking "They're having a belly button convention?"

 

[Trekfan12]

I've been to the Smithsonian. We made a beeline straight to where the Enterprise was displayed. It was awesome to see an invaluable artifact of sci-fi history. I was almost in tears.

I couldn't get my mouth off the floor. I was in awe.

 

[Spock's Barber]

I couldn't get my mouth off the floor. I was in awe.

I half expected to hear Kirk say "Scotty, I need Warp 5. Now!" and then see the ship head out into space. It was so realistic, especially with the lights activated!

 

[Green Shirt]

Yes, I saw that word "navel" used instead of "naval". I can just hear Shatner joking "They're having a belly button convention?"

I've never heard vacu-forming referred to as blow molding.

 

[drt]

I've never heard vacu-forming referred to as blow molding.

They're two different processes: with blow molding the hot plastic is "blown" into the inside of a mold, instead of being "sucked" down onto the outside of one with vacuum forming. I don't know which process was actually used to build the model - as I recall vacuum forming is a little cheaper, so I would have leaned that way, but blow molding is a bit more obscure to the general public, so it seems oddly specific to call it out in the article if that wasn't the process used.

 

[spockboy]

Well if we are being grateful to the Smithsonian then I have to post these.

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Spockboy

 

[Search4]

Thanks for the kind words guys.

 

[Spock's Barber]

At least they restored the Enterprise before it deteriorated to the point that it took a major effort, as in the case of the original Shuttlecraft.

 

[Trekfan12]

Well if we are being grateful to the Smithsonian then I have to post these.

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Spockboy

She's beautiful. The Smithsonian did a fantastic job of restoring her.