Greg Jein's K-7 space station
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trekman1017
Well-Known Member
anyone know anything about the original? seems I heard somewhere that it was partly a moon base model or something.
glorbes
Well-Known Member
Awesome pictures! Great reference to for anyone wanting to scratch this. Here's the article on the K-7 from Memory Alpha:
Deep Space Station K-7 - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki
Deep Space Station K-7 - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki
Ghost Host
Sr Member
What an interesting, beautiful model!
trekriffic
Sr Member
I love the way you can imagine the clamshells opening up to create the habitats. Awesome work!
JMChladek
Sr Member
The original design was from Douglas aircraft in the early 1960s for a "Sombrero Hat" style fold out structure that could be used either as an orbiting station or a lunar habitat. The idea is the main structures would be launched as a nested segment affair, then folded out to become a complete structure which could then have equipment bolted into it. Douglas built several models for use in proposals to NASA and the Air Force and somehow Gene Roddenberry got ahold of one or two and those were used to make the segments of K-7. As I recall, Richard Datin commented that the original model pieces were made from a slightly rubbery plastic (which makes sense, given the materials that desktop models were made from at the time).
bradleythekid
New Member
Does anyone know if the original had the shuttle bay detail?
Captain Finney
Member
I wonder where Jein's K-7 has gone? I've got a strong feeling that it's been loved in it's off-screen future much more than the original K-7 was..
Elderscrollsfan
Jr Member
Always liked the look of the station
