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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.
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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.
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Pocket Books, give us something we'd actually want to buy?
No. They really would never do that.
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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.
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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?
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I found her contact info via google.com. Go figure she's under a guild.
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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.
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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.
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