Trek Pics from the Indianapolis Children's Museum

[Captain Dunsel]

dcarty - Which one is the AMT model that you are interested in?

It’s this one from “The Trouble With Tribbles”:

 

[airhead]

Got it! What shots are you specifically looking for?

 

[dcarty]

Got it! What shots are you specifically looking for?

I'd like to get some closer/clearer shots of the yellowish parts on the fronts of the nacelles, the undersides of the primary and secondary hulls (that might be difficult), and the balls on the endcaps of the nacelles, please. Thank you!

Dave

 

[airhead]

Dave

Well, that was some kind of low level lighting! The exhibit is excellent (it just isn't as well lit as we might like). Hey, it's a museum exhibit - Atmosphere!

Enough of that - here's what I got of the AMT Enterprise. It was mounted up high enough that I could get some underneath shots, but again - pretty dark. Hope that you can get some use out of these:

 

[airhead]

And Khan! Here are some more shots of the Wrath of Khan costume - mostly necklace and wrist device (?). Interesting that the wrist device looks to be made up of a relay, a ceramic trimmer capacitor, a hinge and something as a "body" for the parts, with a leather wrist band. Hmm...relays, tube sockets, resistors and chokes... you'd have thought that the state of electronics would have progressed a little further in one hundred years from now...
David

 

[airhead]

Just a couple more -

 

[dcarty]

Outstanding! Thank you so much

 

[PHArchivist]

Were you not using a flash?

 

[mgoob]

Thanks for sharing!

 

[Inquisitor Peregrinus]

Looks like most of the same exhibit as recently left Paul's Museum of Popular Culture (MoPOP) where I live in Seattle, so I can comment on some bits.

That's the Borg Cube that I helped build for First Contact!
I've wondered where that ended up after everything was sold off.
Was the Borg Sphere there too? Now we need to find the Enterprise E and the Cochrane Phoenix.

Whether it was on display in this version, I know Paul had the Phoenix, at least. From the Seattle showing:

The Enterprise-E was part of that, too, but that ship makes me angry -- no offense -- so I didn't grab any pics. I feel like I saw the sphere, too, but I might just be remembering the launch portal on the FC cube...

PHArchivist, if the rules were the same as Seattle, flashes weren't allowed.

I'm just glad I finally got some good pictured of the TMP/TWOK phaser for reference.

 

[PHArchivist]

Presume the yellow color of the bussard collectors (Is that the correct term? The nacelle domes...) on the off-the-shelf model is either yellowed clear plastic, or faded orange / pink plastic.

How did they appear in the actual show?

 

[Inquisitor Peregrinus]

Presume the tellow color of the bussard collectors (Is that the correct term? The nacelle domes...) on the off-the-shelf model is either yellowed clear plastic, or faded orange / pink plastic.

How did they appear in the actual show?

Washed out.

Well, the stock parts were light gray smoked translucent plastic. That could've yellowed where they left it bare for the domes. But that build also looks like it had a lot of the kit's shortcomings corrected -- like the fantail lights and the three plant-on pieces behind and below the nacelle domes. Plus, those domes are missing the three "anchor" details around the base of the dome where it meets the wider base, that are part of the kit pieces. So it might have been scratch-built parts with resin domes that have also yellowed with age. But probably untinted originally, with light bulbs that don't show up well on the old transfers...

 

[Duncanator]

Looks like most of the same exhibit as recently left Paul's Museum of Popular Culture (MoPOP) where I live in Seattle, so I can comment on some bits.

The Enterprise-E was part of that, too, but that ship makes me angry -- no offense -- so I didn't grab any pics.

No offense taken. Just curious though - what is it about the Ent-E that makes you angry?

 

[airhead]

Inquisitor Peregrinus - Exactly - no flashes allowed. Some of the lack of detail was my use of a polarizing filter to try to eliminate glare and reflections, but there were so many small lights and lighted displays at all angles that it was not entirely successful. Plus, the filter cuts the light down even lower - hence the somewhat grainy images.

And, yes, this exhibit came from the Seattle MoPOP collection and it is touring, but no one that I spoke with knew what the schedule was.

David

 

[Inquisitor Peregrinus]

No offense taken. Just curious though - what is it about the Ent-E that makes you angry?

Design-wise, it's a massive step backward. It's longer than the -D, but overall smaller. That length is due to looooong warp engine nacelles, a bit of a slap in the face to Gene's directive of visual cues of improving technology -- amplification and miniaturization making for smaller engines that were more powerful than their bigger predecessors. A trend carried forward by Rick Sternbach with Voyager, that Andy Probert was mindful of in his design of the Ambassador class, but that John Eaves went the exact opposite direction with.

The "mood" of the ship I don't think Gene would have liked either. Too aggressive and militaristic, to suit the shooty-fest that was FC.

I disagreed with the overtextured model of the -D made partway through TNG, and a similar complaint here. Matt Jeffries deliberately kept the exterior of the original Enterprise pretty greeble-free, for practical reasons. The TMP refit, the Grissom and Excelsior, the concept and model of the Ambassador, the original -D miniature... All followed that ethic nicely. Too many of the FC ships are visually interesting, but not well-thought-through. The Steamrunner, for instance (and I'm still peeved it was arbitrarily changed from the historically-accurate "Streamrunner" to that nonsense word), is a moronic design, putting the high-energy-field-producing bussard collectors right up against the living quarters. There were reasons Jeffries put the engines out away from the habitable volume. The -E is too busy, too textured, to upgunned, and all done because the execs felt the -D looked too "boring" on the big-screen test shots, so they mandated its destruction and replacement with a more visually-exciting ship for Our Heroes to run around kicking ass in non-cerebral adventures. It's a very well executed bad design. *heh*

 

[Nicksdad]

Great photos David, thank you so much.

 

[airhead]

Just a tiny pay-back for all of the brilliant information shared here over the years.

 

[Force Commander]

Went again today, new pictures, but they may be redundant.

 

[airhead]

Force Commander - Thanks for the additional shots of the exhibit. I think that it will be in Indy for a little more than one week. I wish that I could be on hand when the show wraps to take some out-of-the-case shots, but it has been a great experience to get to see these screen-used artifacts.
David