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Wonder Where This Is Now? Try The Smithsonian…

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Wonder Where This Is Now? Try The Smithsonian…


Here’s clip of the original Starship Enterprise model behind glass at it’s permanent home in Washington.The original filming model from the ‘Star Trek’ television series has resided at the Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum in Washington, D.C. since it was donated it in 1974.

NBC considered the fist pilot “The Cage”, too cerebral, but liked the space angle and ordered another pilot. “Where No Man Has Gone Before” was the second pilot episode. Reportedly, Lucille Ball, who owned Desilu Studios, persuaded NBC management to consider a second pilot, thereby exercising a special option agreement it had with Desilu, because she liked Gene Roddenberry and believed in the project.

“Where No Man Has Gone Before” was written by Samuel A. Peeples, directed by James Goldstone, and filmed in July 1965. It was the first episode of ‘Star Trek’ to feature William Shatner as Captain James Kirk, James Doohan as Chief Engineer Montgomery Scott, and George Takei as Lt. Sulu. The episode title was adopted as the final phrase in the opening voice-over which characterizes the series. Enjoy and share! – Bobby Ellerbee

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11 responses to “Wonder Where This Is Now? Try The Smithsonian…”

  1. Bunky Wertman

    I photographed this USS Enterprise model at the National Air & Space Museum back in August 1976 when I was 13.

  2. Daniel Cahn

    This story is highly inaccurate. http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1996-08-02/entertainment/9608020351_1_robert-justman-trek-gene-roddenberry

  3. Jim Dellon

    A few months before the museum opened in 1976, I was part of a film crew doing a Hugh Down interview with Werner Von Braun. We shot them in front of the Apollo 11 capsule, but got to wander around the unfinished museum. The Enterprise model was just sitting on the floor in an adjacent gallery. I think we were all afraid to touch it.

  4. Ray Remillard ॐ

    Smithsonian, the final frontier…

  5. Steven Bradford

    This is the studio at Linwood Dunn’s Film Effects of Hollywood. The Enterprise and other ship model shots were done there.

  6. Wayne Harrison

    Its, not “it’s permanent home.”

  7. Michael Hayne

    forget cgi crap! I’ll take this ANY DAY!!!

  8. Dave Zdon

    Here is an effort to save some Star Trek history.
    http://startrekhistory.com/index2.html

  9. Ron Bernknopf

    Derek is correct. Capt. Pike was in the original Pilot.

  10. Derek Toten

    The Enterprise model used to hang at the entrance of the Air & Space section on fictional portrayals of air and space travel. Now it’s behind glass and in the gift shop. Interesting new setting! Do like the fact that it’s at eye level now.

  11. Derek Toten

    Of course, no self-respecting Trekker could let this go by: Jeffery Hunter played Capt. Christopher Pike, not Kirk. In Star Trek canon, Pike immediately proceeded Kirk as captain of the Enterprise.

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