I was watching the TNG Season 1 DVD collection after finally buying it at San Francisco and saw a featurette on the woman historian of Star Trek.
Anyhow, she tells a story about the missing 4 foot shooting model of the Enterprise-D that ILM used during the rest of the run, which ends up being brought back to the Paramount Studios lot. I saw a brief photo that she looks at in her binder and notice that A) the model was in a restaurant via wires and B) it returned around 1998. So does anyone have the screenshot of the page she looks at since it seems the registry is the USS Trinculo's.
Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :
This has been discussed before, in this thread. Alas, though I had hoped it was the Trinculo as well when I first saw it, the registry on the model is that of the U.S.S. Venture.
-MMoM Posted by Fleet-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
Should I ask Rick Sternbach on how to get in contact with the Star Trek historian so I can get a tour of her collection?
Posted by The Mighty Monkey of Mim (Member # 646) on :
Contact with Penny Juday could indeed prove to be hugely valuable in acquiring descriptions and pehaps even photos of items (computer displays, models, etc.) that she has in the archives. As to whether Sternbach knows or will divulge her contact information, I have no idea. But finding it out is definitely a worthwhile goal.
-MMoM Posted by Futurama Guy (Member # 968) on :
Just don't lead on to the fact that you are conducting espionage. Posted by Mark Nguyen (Member # 469) on :
More of a public service, I'd say. If you gathered data and put it online, we could stop bugging the officials.
Mark
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Yeah, but that stuff belongs to Paramount. I seem to recall that, back when Bernd first got a clear picture of the Springfield-class model from Okuda, he had to be very careful about letting it leak out to the Internet, because Paramount didn't want it being spread around for free when they could someday put it in a book and sell it.
Posted by Dat (Member # 302) on :
Like Pocket Books would ever do that.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
Pocket Books, give us something we'd actually want to buy?
No. They really would never do that.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
No, but how would that stop them from saying "we might do it some day, so you can't have the images"?
Posted by Sol System (Member # 30) on :
Not to mention that the kinds of books under consideration are exactly the kind people don't want, if people tend to buy the books they want.
Posted by Fleet-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
Well Rick said he has no idea on how to contact here... and damn I'm 20 min away from the Paramount lot in Hollywood. Any other venues I should use?
Posted by Fleet-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
I found her contact info via google.com. Go figure she's under a guild.
Posted by QuinnTV (Member # 859) on :
quote:Go figure she's under a guild.
Like myself, she's a member of I.A.T.S.E. (International Alliance of Television and Stage Employees). She wouldn't have a union email, but I'm pretty sure she's in our Viacom computers. I'll check it out.
Posted by PsyLiam (Member # 73) on :
Not to nitpick, but...
quote:Originally posted by Fleet-Admiral Michael T. Colorge: Anyhow, she tells a story about the missing 4 foot shooting model of the Enterprise-D that ILM used during the rest of the run...
ILM never used the 4 foot model. They only did the SFX for the pilot, where the 6 foot and two foot models were used. And when they did Generations, they used the 6 footer after refurbishing it.
Posted by Fleet-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
There was a switch though from the 6 foot model to the 4 foot model during Season 3. The reasoning was that there is more detail in the 4 foot model for panel lines. I saw one of the castings that a guy obtained while working on Star Trek: Voyager. He just never put it together, that bastard.
Posted by Jason Abbadon (Member # 882) on :
And you did not steal said casting?
Slacker.
Posted by Fleet-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
Well I was kinda busy with the guy to haul it off to parts unknown, Jason.
Posted by Ultra Klackrent Zlatan Magnus (Member # 239) on :
BUTT FUCKING OH YES
Posted by Fleet-Admiral Michael T. Colorge (Member # 144) on :
No, I was busy with the guy since he was fixing my Gateway K7 Select at the time... geez and I thought I was the one with the oversexed mind here.
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