It’s easy to mock but when you get hooked and fall in love with a TV show, it’s easy to forget sometimes that the props and sets are just that, and for most of the actor’s it’s only a job. And perhaps that applies more to Star Trek than any other show with it’s huge obsessive fan base. Therefore, when you see something iconic like the Enterprise Bridge from Star Trek The Next Generation, sitting dismantled and broken by some bins, it can tug the heartstrings.
That explains why a non profit group called the ‘Project Enterprise Restoration’ spent last week negotiating with Paramount to be allowed to save what was left of the Enterprise D Bridge from being destroyed and sent to the tip.
This replica of the bridge was built in the mid 1990′s by Paramount with the help of Production Designer Herman Zimmerman and the Okuda’s to be put on display, after the TV set was destroyed in Star Trek Generations. But in 2011, ‘Project Enterprise Restoration’ was formed when they found out that Paramount was getting ready to scrap the set. They also found that not only did it contain some original elements, most of the set was made from fiberglass so it had survived quite well having been neglected for so long.
On their Facebook page, the ’Project Enterprise Restoration’ group make the following statement;
”A highly skilled group of Hollywood professionals are in the process of completely restoring this set to it’s original splendor, and MAKE IT OPEN TO THE PUBLIC for Meetings, Movie Showings, Fund Raisers, Tours, Filming, anything!! Eventually, we will be doing a KICKSTARTER Campaign, but only after we have the estimates of restoration PLUS the support and STAR TREK ACTORS plus famous fans of the show.”
Apparently, Jean Luc Picard’s Captain’s Chair is the first item being refurbished and being restored with real leather like it was on the show. The group hope that once it is complete in October 2012, it will prompt others to donate money to the project. Once the set is complete, they hope to make it available to the public.
You can see pictures of their salvage below.
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Grrr… “actor’s” != actors. Elementary grammar!
I’m glad I’m not the only person anal-retentive enough to notice that and get irked by it.
And “Okuda’s” = “Okudas”, plurarl, not possessive.
This. Also, it’s vs. its is not difficult to figure out…
Seig Apostrophe! Keep up the good work, brothers! No article on the internet will be discussed in its comments based on its content as long as we’re on watch!
Especially since it’s elementary grammar and something we’ve used every day since 2nd grade. Kinda hard to forget.
We’re doomed. I weep for America.
I stopped reading after the first paragraph, which contained three errors: “actor’s”, “it’s” (the one before “huge”), and the incorrect comma after “Generation”. And this person is supposedly a writer? How embarrassing.
What’s embarrassing is that you missed a perfectly good story because of your own nitpickiness and retentiveness. Shame, since it makes your comment on the grammar and not the content of the piece completely worthless.
The “it’s” is correct. “Its” is possessive, and “it’s” is contracted from it and is, making “it is” shorter by one character. One of the more pointless contractions in my opinion.
“… and for most of the actor’s it’s only a job. And…” – Wrong.
“… and for most of the actors it is only a job. And…” – Just fine.
Moving forward, directed towards your third error (of which one is truly an error, Otto Palindrome), commas are nigh-archaic and of forgotten usefulness as they were once used to show natural pause or emphasis in speech patterns and are now either thrown willy-nilly into long-winded run on sentence structure or used far too sparingly otherwise. The comma after “Generation” is acceptable, however not of current style. Commas, like semicolons, are more author’s choice than anything; some use them, some don’t. It’s hard to go wrong with them as well; they can be used, anywhere and anytime. I am willing to wager you had right-brain seizure and catastrophic haemmorhage towards the end of this paragraph, too. >:D
To, Quote’s ThE, Great, William, S’hatner’s,..”GET A LIFE, will you people!”
The photo of the bridge (above) is from a replica used for the Vegas Star Trek Experience. I wonder what ever happened to is? Anyone know?
I wish it was me that had gotten his hands on this. I would have made a youtube video of me destroying that ugly-ass, lame set piece! The only thing better than that would be to have all the actors tied to the seats along with B&B to perish along with it!
0/10. You came on too strong, man. Better luck next time.
What a thing of beauty – I really hope that when they’re finished with it the final product goes soemwhere people can come and appreciate it. It’s so typical that Paramount and CBS have no regard for the things that people love so much…it makes me worry that as soon as they get wind that fans are planning on recreating the bridge they’ll sue them to get their property back so they can throw it away again.
Anyway, here’s to those enterprising fans (see what I did there) and good luck with their project. If they started a kickstarter, I’d donate!
OK. Star Trek:TNG was the Star Trek that I grew up with (so to speak), but come on. Lets move on people. I am glad that some Trekkies got their hands on this so that they can have a full on nerd-fest, but to be ticked off at the studios for scrapping what was a large set space for a series long gone? Really? Maybe Im not “Trekkie enough,” maybe I don’t have enough sentimental feelings towards it, or maybe I’ve moved on. It is, after all, just a TV show that some people have turned into a culture because they like to out-nerd each other.