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Smithsonian National Air & Space Museum: Gift shop: Original model of the NCC-1701 Enterprise from the 1960s's "Star Trek" TV series
Image by Chris Devers
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Details, quoting from Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum | U.S.S. Enterprise Model, Star Trek:
This model of the fictional startship Enterprise was used in the weekly hour-long "Star Trek" TV show (NBC-TV), which aired from September 1966 until June 1969. Despite its short initial run (only three seasons), Star Trek became one of the most popular shows in the history of television. The show's depiction of a mixed-sex, racially-integrated, multinational crew and its attention to contemporary social and political issues pushed the boundaries of network television, earning Star Trek a dedicated fan base that lobbied for the franchise's continuation.
The Enterprise was meant to travel many times beyond light speed, powered by a controlled matter/anti-matter system, a propulsion concept "stretched" from a then-accepted theory. The fictional ship grossed 190,000 tons, and measured 947 feet long and 417 feet in diameter. The saucer-shaped hull included 11 decks, and had a crew complement of 430.
The model's principal designer, Walter "Matt" Jefferies, worked with concepts provided by Star Trek's creator Gene Roddenberry. At first, Paramount Studios constructed a rough 4-inch balsa and cardboard prototype. A 3-foot "pilot" model mostly of solid wood was then built by model-maker Richard C. Datin under subcontract to the Howard Anderson Company. Enlarging the plans for the 3-foot model resulted in the final 11-foot model shown here. The Anderson Company again turned to Datin who contracted it out to Production Model Shop of Burbank, California, with Datin supervising the construction while he did the detail work.
Paramount donated the model to the National Collection in 1974.
Manufacturer:
Richard C. Datin
Country of Origin:
United States of America
Dimensions:
Overall: 2ft 8in. x 11ft x 5ft, 200lb. (81.28 x 335.28 x 152.4cm, 90.7kg)
Other (engines): 6ft 1/4in. (183.52cm)
Other (central pod): 4ft 5 5/16in. (135.38cm)
Materials:
Primarily constructed of poplar wood, vacu-formed plastic, rolled sheet metal tubes for both the engine pods from the back of the struts to the start of the nacelle caps, and plastic for the main sensor dish and detailing (light covers, etc.). The front and rear of the engine pods or nacelles are of wood. The nacelle grill plates brass. Rolled steel wires were also inserted through its original pipe support for lights.
Gift of Paramount Pictures Inc.
Warner's Hotel, Christchurch, New Zealand
Image by pandrcutts
This is the area immediately north of the Anglican Cathedral viewed from its tower some four years before the earthquakes which struck the city in September 2010 and February 2012. The photo is one of a number taken in the area over the years a selection from which is reproduced in the first comment below.
The main feature in the main photo is Warner's Hotel. It was the second building of that name to occupy the site, the first being an establishment that had been opened in 1863 as the Commercial and Dining Rooms. During the 1870s it was renamed Warner's after William Warner, its proprietor at the time. Warner died in 1896 and his hotel was extensively damaged by fire in 1900. A new building was quickly commissioned and opened late the following year. With alterations, it was to remain in place until early 2012 when, having suffered damage as a result of the earthquake of February 2011, it was demolished early in 2012. The history of the building is recounted in a Wikipedia article written by Schwede66 to whom my thanks go for the help he has given in the preparation both of this description and of the first comment below.
The first photo in the comment is from the Bartley Family History website. It's was taken a year or two after the hotel was built. On the left is the Lyttelton Times building and, in their website, the author wistfully speculates that the man in front of the horse on the left could perhaps his ancestor, John Bartley. But, whoever the man is, he's probably reading the long-since-defunct Lyttelton Times. In the corner between the Times building and Warners is a tram displaying an advert for Strange's, the first department store in Christchurch. The second shot is similar, but taken a few years later.
The third photo, taken in the early 1910s, includes the Anglican Cathedral. That had been built during the 1860s and 1870s to the design of the British architect, George Gilbert Scott. The photo also shows that, by then, Warner's had fourth storey. It had been added in the early 1910s but perversely, having only recently having commissioned the enlargement of the hotel, the proprietors sanctioned the demolishment of a significant part of it in 1917 to make way for a theatre called Liberty's. In its time the theatre doubled as a cinema and you can see it here in its original form and, lower down, in its modernized form and renamed The Savoy.
The Savoy itself was demolished in 1997 and the space remained empty for ten years. The fourth photo – the main shot taken in January 2007 – shows the hotel in that state. The history of the space is described in a note as are the names of the other features around. Unbeknown to us at the time, the façade of the Hotel as it was in the early 1910s was to be restored and a much taller adjunct to the hotel was to be built behind the restored facade. Maybe the idea had been inspired by the way the nearby Clarendon Tower had been constructed on the site of the site of the Clarendon Hotel. You can see where it was to be located in the fifth shot which I also took in January 2007. The Press Building is the one with the reddish façade on the right of that photo. Work began on the project a year after our all-too-brief stay in Christchurch in January 2007. You can see the early stages of the rebuilding taking place here. The work was completed by 4 September 2010 when Christchurch was hit by a moderate earthquake.
The new hotel – the Novotel – was complete when the sixth photo was taken. It, and the buildings around it, survived the September 2010 earthquake with minimal damage as can be seen from the sixth photo that was taken by Bob Hall just 11 days before a second and much stronger earthquake struck the City on 22 February 2011. In the foreground of that shot is the War Memorial that was built in 1937. How the buildings in the area were affected by the two earthquakes can be judged from the final photo.
The other historic building in view – behind the tree – is the Lyttelton Times Building. It was the last headquarters of the Lyttelton Times before its demise in 1935 as the then oldest newspaper in New Zealand. That building also has been demolished in the wake of the February 2011 earthquake.
