The Smithsonian has the original Star Trek Enterprise model. It has been restored by special effects experts from ILM (Industrial Light and Magic). It shows paint details that were not visible from the resolution of old TVs.
Adam Savage went and saw it.
It was made of wood. The Smithsonian did a great deal of historical analysis from old photos and other sources.
There are lights and there are windows that can be light.
The nacelle caps are able to rotate light propellers.
They have the deflector dish as well.
They x-rayed to get the internal structure.
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I watched Star trek TOS and TNG, but generally have bound that written SF can be more thoughtful and imaginative, less constrained by special effects budgets & unimaginative financers of the movie. After all it’s a lot easier to *write* a really alien alien than to do the special effects to show an alien intelligence that is not an upright biped.
Now that good special effects can be done on the cheap, I would like to see reasonably faithful video adaptations of some Poul Anderson stories. As someone else pointed out “Game of Glory” would probably be a good start. The Bahamas would be a pretty good stand in for the setting on a planet in another solar system and the ‘monster’ could be done with current special effects. (The ‘monster’ of course is an intelligent alien with humanly comprehensible motivations.)
I’d love to see it up close.
I remember catching a few minutes of the auction out of Paramount Studios a few years back, when they were clearing warehouse space. Several rather large ship models were auctioned off. I only remember the Enterprise C going for ~$26k. Yeah, I’m jealous.
This year – Star Trek: Picard season 3 was really good. The last few years are great for sci-fi fans.
Great shows: The Mandalorian, Andor, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds
Decent ones: Star Trek Picard(3rd season is awesome), Obi-Wan Kenobi, The Book of Boba Fett, Star Trek Discovery is so so.