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'Star Trek' Fans Can Now Virtually Tour Every Starship Enterprise Bridge (smithsonianmag.com) 34

Posted by BeauHD from the made-for-die-hard-Trekkies dept.
A new web portal allows "Star Trek" fans to explore the iconic bridge of the starship Enterprise through 360-degree, 3D models and learn about its evolution throughout the franchise's history. Smithsonian Magazine reports: The site features 360-degree, 3D models of the various versions of the Enterprise, as well as a timeline of the ship's evolution throughout the franchise's history. Fans of the show can also read detailed information about each version of the ship's design, its significance to the "Star Trek" storyline and its production backstory. Developed in honor of the "Star Trek: Picard" series finale, which dropped late last month on Paramount+, the portal is a collaboration between the Roddenberry Estate, the Roddenberry Archive and the technology company OTOY. A group of well-known "Star Trek" artists -- including Denise and Michael Okuda, Daren Dochterman, Doug Drexler and Dave Blass -- also supported the project.

The voice of the late actress Majel Roddenberry, who played the Enterprise's computer for years, will be added to the site in the future. Gene Roddenberry died in 1991, followed by Majel Roddenberry in 2008; the two had been married since 1969. The portal's creators also released a short video, narrated by actor John de Lancie, exploring every version of the Enterprise's bridge to date, "from its inception in Pato Guzman's 1964 sketches, through its portrayal across decades of TV shows and feature films, to its latest incarnation on the Enterprise-G, as revealed in the final episode of 'Star Trek: Picard,'" per the video description. Accompanying video interviews with "Star Trek" cast and crew -- including William Shatner, who played Captain Kirk in the original series, and Terry Matalas, a showrunner for "Star Trek: Picard" -- also explore the series' legacy.
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  • Man, I'm either stupid or drunk. Went to this site [x.io] linked in TFA. TFA says "The site features 360-degree, 3D models of the various versions of the Enterprise." What I saw doesn't resemble NCC-1701. The other ships looks pretty cool, but Star Trek is mostly about the NCC-1701 series, at least until DS9 came along. Is this half-baked? Or did I miss something?

  • Regemeration (Score:4, Informative)

    by cstacy ( 534252 ) on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @03:55AM (#63493470)

    The graphics company here, OTOY, has a fantastic CGI short about recovering the crashed TNG Enterprise. It's all CGI but looks totally realistic. Including deepfake Spock.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?... [youtube.com]

    For context: this short video references Star Trek Picard S3. How did they get the Enterprise back for the Starfleet Museum? And what about Kirk's body that was also left on the planet? I don't read ST comics, but apparently the scenes in this video are based on the explanations in the comic books.

  • shame... (Score:5, Interesting)

    by SuperDre ( 982372 ) on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @05:45AM (#63493526) Homepage
    It's a shame they didn't help the VR experience Stage-9 and even got them to take it down (luckily you can still get it through torrents). Stage-9 is an awesome way to experience what it would be like to actually walk around the Enterprise, it's already great, even though it still got its performance problems and bugs. They should give those people some money and let them create a real game around it and have some other starships done with access to real production assets.

    • It's a shame they didn't help the VR experience Stage-9 and even got them to take it down (luckily you can still get it through torrents). Stage-9 is an awesome way to experience what it would be like to actually walk around the Enterprise, it's already great, even though it still got its performance problems and bugs. They should give those people some money and let them create a real game around it and have some other starships done with access to real production assets.

      I can't get over how small the enterprise really is once you see it in Stage-9. At first I was convinced it must have been a bug yet seems everything appeared to be way bigger than it actually is on TV. For example focus on the three bridge chairs and how much of the width of the bridge they take up. Ten forward was especially cramped.

    • Comment removed (Score:4, Insightful)

      by account_deleted ( 4530225 ) on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @12:49PM (#63494368)
      Comment removed based on user account deletion

    • Re: (Score:2)

      by cstacy ( 534252 )

      It's a shame they didn't help the VR experience Stage-9 and even got them to take it down

      You're talking about something Paramount, owners of the Star Trek IP, did to some unauthorized fan thing.

      By contrast, the 3D viewer (and all the other stuff over at the Roddenberry Archives) is NOT Paramount. This is also FAN stuff. However, Paramount is allowing these guys to do their thing.

      Fight the real enemy.

  • This would be a perfect use for VR. You could walk around the various bridges, trip over chairs, "touch" control panels.

    Instead, they create a web page where all you can do is look.

  • How i can download this models?

  • What if you're not a fan? Are you excluded from this?

  • I want to print this
  • Will the bridges have proper lighting like everything up to the D, or will they have the modern lighting of a WW2 submarine with a dying battery (and spot lights facing the camera)?
  • Various news articles about this have indicated that these 3D bridge/ship things will only be available "for a limited time", which seems contrary to the mission of the Roddenberry Archive to "preserve for future generations". The JS controlling the 3D is owned by OTOY, obfuscated and laden with 'FBI' duplication warnings, even if it is somewhat generic and easily replaceable if you have the 3D model, which is embedded into a and unclear how much of it is actually preservable in the event the site disappe

  • virtual is boring (Score:3)

    by OrangeTide ( 124937 ) on Wednesday May 03, 2023 @01:20PM (#63494514) Homepage Journal

    I want to tour a physical bridge. Like Disney's Star Wars: Galactic Cruiser experience, except Star Trek instead. You know, the original science fiction franchise, the one without magic. I mean really. If you replace Trek with "walk", and Star with "sky". You just about got Luke's last name.

    But I think instead of a luxury hotel room, I'd want my family to stay in an Klingon barracks or an austere Federation officer's quarters. But it's also important that children not get bored. They should either be having fun or crying. The later can be accomplished with a few hours in a work camp on Bajor with a Cardassian trooper shouting at them, and a smug Legate reviewing their work each day.

  • I didn't know that Pato Guzman worked on the first bridge of Star Trek.... well, siempre hay un chileno hueveando en todos lados :)

  • Can we look up and see the compartments where they store the rocks?

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