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SUPERFAN REBUILDS 'STAR TREK' SHUTTLE AT HOME
GALILEO RECOMMISSIONED
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Space.com

Star Trek Galileo Rebuilt

Star Trek Galileo craft is rebuilt and recommissioned by a superfan.

If you have a much beloved movie or TV prop that needs some TLC, you want Adam Schneider to have it in his hands.

Fifty years after the premiere of Star Trek: The Original Series, Schneider and his family took a nearly unrecognizable shuttle Galileo prop and restored it to unbelievably accurate proportions.

The video, which Space.com shot, takes you through what Schneider started with, and how he took the famed shuttle craft back from the brink of destruction.

Watch it below: ...

http://www.popsci.com/superfan-rebuilds-star-trek-shuttle-at-home
 
Nice one, thanks for the info and link - also didn't realise that this was three years ago.
 
i watched beyond tonight, it was ok, the ending was a bit naff but the fight between the enterprise and the spacey things was awesome.6/10
 
Tribute to Star Trek’s Scotty to be staged at Linlithgow Palace James Doohan as Scotty. BRIAN FERGUSON 14:0818:30Monday 22 August 2016 2 HAVE YOUR SAY
The grounds of a historic royal palace are to host a film screening for the first time in its 600-year history - to celebrate a town’s links with Star Trek. The Wrath of Khan, the second instalment in the long-running movie series, will be screened at Linlithgow Palace next month to celebrate the home town of Montgomery “Scotty” Scott. The much-loved chief engineer of engineer of the Starship Enterprise, played for almost 30 years by Canadian actor James Doohan, is said to have been born in Linlithgow on 28 June 2222. Now the famous character will be honoured with a free screening of a “director’s cut” of the film regarded as the best Star Trek movie by many fans - which will also mark the 50th anniversary of the franchise. It is being organised by Historic Environment Scotland, which is responsible for the attraction, VisitScotland and Linlithgow town centre managers. Linlithgow Palace, the favoured residence of the Stewart kings and queens, is best known as the birthplace of Mary Queen of Scots. DC Fontana, one of the criptwriters on the original 1960s science fiction series, identified Linlithgow as Scotty’s birthplace in a later novel, Vulcan’s Glory. The actor’s relatives, including his widow Wende even visited the West Lothian town to unveil a commemorative plaque in 2007 - two years after he passed away at the age of 85. Fontana today revealed that she had decided to make Linlithgow the future birthplace of Scott after making a number of visits on drips to Scotland. She added: “It is a most beautiful place – and, of course, filled with history. Linlithgow Palace is stunning – a person can wander through and around it for hours and just drink in the spectacular scene and its haunting, stirring history. “I thought it was a fitting reference for the character of Mr Scott and his family background.” Only 200 tickets will be available for the free event on 10 September, which will take place in a mobile cinema parked in the courtyard. They will be allocated via an online ballot which will open until 4 September. To coincide with the film screening, a special exhibition devoted to James Doohan will also be mounted at the town’s Annet House Museum from 5-30 September. Stephen Duncan, director of commercial and tourism at Historic Environment Scotland, said: “Linlithgow is widely thought of as the future birthplace of Scotty, one of Star Trek’s best-known characters, so it’s extremely fitting that half a century on since the iconic sci-fic first appeared on screen, that Trekkies and other galactic enthusiasts will gather at Linlithgow Palace for a special screening next month. It promises to make for a truly unique open-air viewing experience.”

Read more at: http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/c...y-to-be-staged-at-linlithgow-palace-1-4209427
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http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/c...y-to-be-staged-at-linlithgow-palace-1-4209427
 
titchagain said:
i watched beyond tonight, it was ok, the ending was a bit naff but the fight between the enterprise and the spacey things was awesome.6/10
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I saw it a few weeks ago and thought the same thing. Still, it was nice to see the Enterprise saucer section crash again. I always thought it was strange how in the TV series she managed to get by without a scratch - a lucky ship. Yet as soon as there's a movie, the ship is destroyed and the saucer section has to be detached.
 
I just watched Beyond. When I heard they guy behind Fast & Furious was making it, I was worried it would end up as just a space action movie, with no big philosophical idea behind it. Well, it did.
 
The saucer section is detached in the very first episode of TNG!

Then...never again. Must have cost a bob or two.
 
It was also detached in The Best of Both Worlds (part 2) and also one or two other TNG episodes I think. Also the Generations film. Not sure if it was detached in First Contact though. :)
 
I may be wrong, but I seem to recall Ryker kept wanting to seperate the saucer but was continually overruled by Picard.

It wasn't seperated in First Contact. Much to Ryker's disappointment I dare say.
 
I've been reading that William Shatner has been apologising for Star Trek V recently. You have nothing to apologise for, sir! It's one of my favourites of the series, it's really funny. Maybe not intentionally all the way through, but still.
 
I guess I should be happy that I never managed to make it to the end of Star Trek V then.

If they make an action version of TNG as well, then I want Jason Statham as Picard.
 
Xanatic* said:
I guess I should be happy that I never managed to make it to the end of Star Trek V then.

If they make an action version of TNG as well, then I want Jason Statham as Picard.
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Bigphoot2 said:
Wasn't the saucer hull supposed to land vertically? But then again Deanna Troi was driving :)
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Never put a Betazoid at the helm! Deanna was at the helm in Generations, and wasn't she again at the helm in Nemesis? Lt. Stadi was at the helm of Voyager when it got stranded in the Delta Quadrant (killing her in the process - a wise Betazoid might take the hint!
 
Dinobot said:
Never put a Betazoid at the helm! Deanna was at the helm in Generations, and wasn't she again at the helm in Nemesis? Lt. Stadi was at the helm of Voyager when it got stranded in the Delta Quadrant (killing her in the process - a wise Betazoid might take the hint!
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With all the crew on the Enterprise you'd think they'd have a couple of spare helmsmen.
 
GNC said:
I've been reading that William Shatner has been apologising for Star Trek V recently. You have nothing to apologise for, sir! It's one of my favourites of the series, it's really funny. Maybe not intentionally all the way through, but still.
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Was that the one where Spock does the Vulcan death grip in 80's San Francisco on a punk playing his ghetto blaster on the bus? .. and some save the whales stuff? .. I liked it for what it was.
 
ramonmercado said:
SUPERFAN REBUILDS 'STAR TREK' SHUTTLE AT HOME
GALILEO RECOMMISSIONED
galileo_star_trek.jpg

Space.com

Star Trek Galileo Rebuilt

Star Trek Galileo craft is rebuilt and recommissioned by a superfan.

If you have a much beloved movie or TV prop that needs some TLC, you want Adam Schneider to have it in his hands.

Fifty years after the premiere of Star Trek: The Original Series, Schneider and his family took a nearly unrecognizable shuttle Galileo prop and restored it to unbelievably accurate proportions.

The video, which Space.com shot, takes you through what Schneider started with, and how he took the famed shuttle craft back from the brink of destruction.

Watch it below: ...

http://www.popsci.com/superfan-rebuilds-star-trek-shuttle-at-home
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I love restoration stuff like this, thanks for sharing.
 
Swifty said:
Was that the one where Spock does the Vulcan death grip in 80's San Francisco on a punk playing his ghetto blaster on the bus? .. and some save the whales stuff? .. I liked it for what it was.
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No, no, no, no, V was the one with Kirk interrupted from climbing a mountain in a tracksuit by Spock who is wearing antigravity boots, Uhura doing a sexy if elderly fan dance as a distraction for the enemy, and best of all our favourite Captain proving he's better than God by out-arguing him. That's just scratching the surface, it's a treasure trove of lunacy, it really is.
 
There were some interesting themes in Star Trek V, which could have been turned into a far better film.

It wasn't particularly flattering for the supporting crew members. Apart from Uhura's regrettable dancing, Chekov and Sulu get lost on shore leave and Scotty walks into a bulkhead.

Also the Klingon chasing after Kirk seemed a bit token. Plus that Great Galactic Barrier didn't seem to be much of a barrier at all. IIRC the bridge crew don't even fall off their chairs when they pass through it.
 
graylien said:
Plus that Great Galactic Barrier didn't seem to be much of a barrier at all. IIRC the bridge crew don't even fall off their chairs when they pass through it.
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Well, they had to be gentle, with all the actors getting on a bit.
 
Love all the Trek shows but particularly fond of Deep Space 9......been watching all the old episodes on one of the US cable channels.
 
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