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USSENT_160630_02.JPG: They're still setting up the Star Trek model
USSENT_160630_06.JPG: Star Trek Starship Enterprise Studio Model The starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), the primary setting in the original Star Trek television program (1966-69), created an influential image of possible spaceflight. Despite a short three-season run, Star Trek inspired an enduring entertainment franchise and a loyal worldwide fan community, itself a cultural phenomenon. The Enterprise carried a diverse crew on its fictional adventures. The show's treatment of real contemporary social and political issues pushed the boundaries of network television. Walter Matthews "Matt" Jefferies designed the Enterprise for Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek, produced by Desilu and aired on NBC. For their work on Star Trek, three different companies, Howard A. Anderson Company, Film Effects of Hollywood, Inc., and Westheimer Company, received a joint Emmy Award nomination for special photographic effects in 1966. "Space: The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before." -- Star Trek Opening Monologue, 1966-69

USSENT_160630_15.JPG: Long before anyone flew in space, science fiction fired the imagination of people around the world. Many fans of Star Trek and other space science fiction franchises now do the work that makes those dreams a reality, or that imagines new fictions. Why do you think Star Trek is so popular with so many people around the world?

Studio Model		The "Real" Enterprise
Length:	3.3 m (11 ft)	Length:	289 m (948 ft)
Diameter (Saucer):	1.5 m (5 ft)	Diameter (Saucer):	127 m (417 ft)
Height:	0.8 m (2 ft 8 in)	Engine Pods: [sic]	153 m (504 ft) long
Engine Pods:	1.9 m (6 ft) long		18 m (60 ft) in diameter
Secondary Hull:	1.4 m (4 ft 7 in) long	Secondary Hull:	103 m (340 ft) long
Weight:	90 kg (200 lb)	Weight, Gross:	172,683,000 kg (190,000 tons)

USSENT_160630_21.JPG: "Space: The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before." -- Star Trek Opening Monologue, 1966-69
USSENT_160630_25.JPG: "Space For Everyone" Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry's vision of men and women of different races, nationalities, and species working together aboard the Enterprise had a powerful legacy in real spaceflight. In 1977, when NASA wanted a more diverse Space Shuttle astronaut corps, it hired Nichelle Nichols, the actress who played Star Trek's Lt. Uhura, to conduct a public awareness campaign encouraging talented women and people of color to apply. Before computer generated imaging (CGI), showing a spaceship in a movie or TV program required filming a miniature spaceship model. Here the Enterprise model sits on its stand in front of a blue screen. There were actually two models: first, one 84 centimeters (33 inches) long built by Richard C. Datin Jr.; and then this 3.4-meter (11-foot) long one, constructed by the Production Model Shop in Burbank, California, under Datin's supervision.
USSENT_160630_31.JPG: Star Trek's imaginative vision of space exploration inspired millions and offered a potent example of a diverse spaceflight crew. Worldwide Fandom: Star Trek has inspired fandom worldwide. In 1972, fans held the first Star Trek convention in New York City. In the decades since, multiple films and television series built a coherent Star Trek canon. Passionate fans have engaged, debated, and consumed those products as well as novels, reference books, comics, clothes, toys, and other branded items. In addition, fans around the world have added their own imaginative contributions to the universe of Star Trek. Star Trek fans led a successful write-in campaign to name the first Space Shuttle orbiter (built for approach and landing tests) Enterprise. Here, members of the original Star Trek television cast joined NASA officials at that Enterprise rollout in 1976. Left to right: NASA Administrator Dr. James D. Fletcher, DeForest Kelly (Dr. "Bones" McCoy), George Takei (Mr. Sulu), James Doohan (Mr. Scott), Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura), Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock), Gene Rodenberry [sic] (Star Trek creator), Rep. Don Fuqua (D-FL), and Walter Koenig (Ensign Pavel Chekov).
USSENT_160630_36.JPG: Mr Scott is running some routine diagnostics. The model's running lights will be operating on schedule on Friday, July 1st.
USSENT_160704_16.JPG: Star Trek's imaginative vision of space exploration inspired millions and offered a potent example of a diverse spaceflight crew. Original Wooden Nacelle End Cap: This wooden end cap finished one of the nacelles when the 11-foot model of the Star Trek starship Enterprise was first built. Between December 1964 and the end of its filming in 1968, the model underwent several significant changes, including the addition of internal lighting, which required changing the forward ends of the nacelles. Richard Datin, who made those changes to the model, kept the end cap, colored red by Matt Jefferies. Original Metal Stand: This metal stand held the 11-foot model of the Star Trek starship Enterprise when it was filming in front of a blue screen. The blue color on it dates from the 1960s.
USSENT_160704_22.JPG: For shots of the Enterprise, the model was filmed in front of a blue screen. A special effects company used the blue areas to create a mask -- called a "matte" -- where images of stars or planets could be inserted.
USSENT_160704_31.JPG: Exposed Wires: Notice the wires coming out of the left-hand side of the Enterprise model to power the internal lights and other effects. Because the model would only be filmed from one side, the wires could just be taped to the back side of the model. These wires are reproductions. The originals were removed in the 1970s to make the model look more like the iconic ship.
USSENT_160704_35.JPG: Star Trek Studio Model Walter Matthews "Matt" Jefferies designed the starship Enterprise (NCC-1701), the primary setting in the original Star Trek television program (1966-69), created by Gene Roddenberry. The studio model, designed to be filmed from one side only, created the images that became the iconic starship. This studio model appeared in the famous opening credits and transition sequences of every episode. Shot on a stand in front of a blue screen, this large prop needed heightened detail, color, and texture for visibility on a 1960s TV set. Imagine the starship Enterprise upside down. Designer Matt Jefferies created many concept for Star Trek's flagship. When he presented a model of his design to producer Gene Roddenberry, the model was accidentally flipped over. Roddenberry liked how the ship looked upside down, and Jefferies had to persuade him to keep the original design.
USSENT_160704_41.JPG: A rare photograph taken on set shows the less-finished left side of the Star Trek starship Enterprise model.
USSENT_160704_62.JPG: Star Trek Starship Enterprise Studio Model The starship USS Enterprise (NCC-1701), the primary setting in the original Star Trek television program (1966-69), created an influential image of possible spaceflight. Despite a short three-season run, Star Trek inspired an enduring entertainment franchise and a loyal worldwide fan community, itself a cultural phenomenon. The Enterprise carried a diverse crew on its fictional adventures. The show's treatment of real contemporary social and political issues pushed the boundaries of network television. Long before anyone flew in space, science fiction fired the imagination of people around the world. Many fans of Star Trek and other space science fiction franchises now do the work that makes those dreams a reality, or that imagines new fictions.
USSENT_160704_65.JPG: Walter Matthews "Matt" Jefferies designed the Enterprise for Gene Roddenberry's Star Trek, produced by Desilu and aired on NBC. For their work on Star Trek, three different companies, Howard A. Anderson Company, Film Effects of Hollywood, Inc., and Westheimer Company, received a joint Emmy Award nomination for special photographic effects in 1966.
USSENT_160704_71.JPG: "Space: The final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before." -- Star Trek Opening Monologue, 1966-69
USSENT_160704_81.JPG: Star Trek fans led a successful write-in campaign to name the first Space Shuttle orbiter (built for approach and landing tests) Enterprise. Here, members of the original Star Trek television cast joined NASA officials at that Enterprise rollout in 1976. Left to right: NASA Administrator Dr. James D. Fletcher, DeForest Kelly (Dr. "Bones" McCoy), George Takei (Mr. Sulu), James Doohan (Mr. Scott), Nichelle Nichols (Lt. Uhura), Leonard Nimoy (Mr. Spock), Gene Rodenberry [sic] (Star Trek creator), Rep. Don Fuqua (D-FL), and Walter Koenig (Ensign Pavel Chekov).

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Description of Subject Matter: U.S.S. Starship Enterprise Model
This model of the starship Enterprise was used in the filming of the Star Trek TV show, which ran from 1966 to 1969. It is mostly made of poplar wood and vacu-formed plastic. Sheet metal tubes were used for the two engine housings or nacelles.
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