Tragically, no:
Inexcusable. Back in the '80s, there were department store mannequins that had the appropriate, uh, features. Why not use one of those more detailed displays?
Posted on 02/01/2016 5:55:12 PM PST by Libloather
Starship Enterprise will be restored to its 1967 glory: Smithsonian to rebuild 11ft model used in original Star Trek TV show
It has been 50 years since the original model of the Starship Enterprise made its final imaginary voyage.
Today, the 11ft-long model lies in pieces at the Smithsonian Museum in Virginia with a damaged secondary hull and nacelles.
Trekkies the world over have been urging model makers to save this iconic ship.
Now the Smithsonian says it will attempt to do just that, but restoring it to its appearance in 1967, during the filming of the episode 'The Trouble with Tribbles'.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Even our small town (pop ~6,000) library has a "replicator" now. It's called a 3-D printer, and yesterday evening, I watched a grade-school kid replicating a chess set with it...
Cool technology...
“the ship was this big”
Ditto. I reckon it was simply - well, literally - more down to earth.
Does it have the headlights?
Wouldn’t that money be better spent in muslim outreach?
Where are their priorities?
My first grade lunch box was a Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea kit.
Tragically, no:
Inexcusable. Back in the '80s, there were department store mannequins that had the appropriate, uh, features. Why not use one of those more detailed displays?
I don’t know why in the hell they didn’t just say that they gave “Khan” plastic surgery to disguise his identity, it would have fit nicely because he was a FAMOUS DICTATOR and no one recognizing him would be like no one recognizing HITLER so of course if they wanted to use him as secret agent they’d change his appearance because the last thing you want in secret agent is someone who’s identity can’t be kept secret. Even if they really drop the ball on teaching history in the future and no one would recognize him someone could run his picture through a computer and know instantly.
But of course Earth history expert Spock had to ask his older self who Khan was in that movie, so who knows what in God’s name they were thinking, most likely they weren’t thinking at all. Maybe the Borg went back in time and made Khan White and English and completely lacking in charm at the same time they made Zephrem Cochran much older and taller and dirtier than he was supposed to be.
I gave up trying to figure out what coherent logic went into what they did in those films. Not a shred as I can see.
"Non sequitur. Your facts are uncoordinated."
I thought the Smithsonian was all about real things, not poorly acted science fiction. Definitely not logical.
“Non sequitur. Your facts are uncoordinated.”
Note that wasn’t me that said the above about the Smithsonian.
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