BGuthrie Photos: DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- Gallery 108: U.S.S. Starship Enterprise Model

DC -- Natl Air and Space Museum -- Gallery 108: U.S.S. Starship Enterprise Model:

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1. USSENT_221014_011.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
2. USSENT_221014_015.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.
3. USSENT_221014_023.JPG: The guy on the left had come from Europe to come for the museum's opening. The guy on the right, Adam Schneider, had been involved in refurbishing the Enterprise model.
4. USSENT_221014_037.JPG: Adam Schneider, the guy third from the left, was the guy showing the guy his pictures.
5. USSENT_221014_044.JPG: Adam Schneider
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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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