The motion picture version of the Enterprise is cool, and I must admit when I saw it on the big screen watching the movie for the first time, that I did feel that it was, to borrow words from a friend," nifty bitchin".
And for a time, it did have my first affection. But as the years went by, and I saw more models being made by people, and saw the pictures in the Smithsonian, the aging of the model and the botched restorations, I have come to believe, that most people don't really know what the original Enterprise truly looked like. They know the 18 inch AMT model kit and the Fran's Joseph blueprints, both of which were extremely inaccurate. Everybody always portrays the original Enterprise as being something old, and from the past. I can't wait until the new Polar Lights model comes out this October. I intend to build the Enterprise the way no one has really seen her before, the way she looked when the series began. The correct color and finish and no ****ing bow light. And while I know pictures from this period exist, most are small or taken from a distance, grainy, scratched, washed out and color shifted. Too bad they didn't have have digital cameras in 1966.