A recent post by the National Air and Space Museum about this week marking the debut of “Star Trek” (The Original Series) in 1966 reminded me of my visits to the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC where I was able to photograph the actual model of the U.S.S. Enterprise that was used in the original TV series. The photos are from my second visit to see the model a couple of years ago, which is quite large, eleven feet long. The first time I saw the model was in college when the Museum had it hanging high up in a hallway in what seemed like an afterthought of an exhibit just to have it on display somewhere. Now it sits in a glass case that allows for excellent viewing from most angles but the placement of it is rather bizarre. One finds it incongruously placed squarely in the middle of…
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