Comment on After decades lost, Star Trek’s original Enterprise model may have been found
Madison420@lemmy.world 1 year agoIt was stolen, the locker likely had a name associated at some point, that’s a Clue the rest is up to investigation.
So yes I read it but I can also do math and understand grand theft investigations given it’s value is likely tens of thousands.
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
It doesn’t sound like anyone nor Rod Roddenberry is wanting an investigation though. They just want the model.
Aren’t these things so old that the would be thief is likely dead anyway? Hence the dilapidated locker?
HeartyBeast@kbin.social 1 year ago
Again - from the article - it went missing after being leant to the original motion picture production.
Quite a few people who were around in 1979 are still hanging on today :)
Madison420@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Bingo. Someone probably just didn’t pay their bill, it’s way more common than you’d think.
Madison420@lemmy.world 1 year ago
If they want it or not fans will do it anyway, it’s in their best interest to get the police involved so fans meddling are committing obstruction.
Maybe? We don’t know that’s the point of investigation. Dude stole history and should be punished for it, why are you implying a theft over time is absolved?
CCMan1701A@startrek.website 1 year ago
The studio is the owner right or the producers? I mean who really paid for the model is the owner. Not sure if that’s the Roddenberry’s or some other person from back in the day. I didn’t realize there was a great search for the original small scale model.
Cool that it might be found.
Madison420@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Gene is, it was built for Gene at genes direction and he continually requested it back.
It aught to be as interesting to find out how it came to be where it is as it is to the inevitable detailed inspection/investigation of the model should be.
blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m serious when I ask this. Can you point me to a source saying it was stolen? I can’t find one.
Madison420@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Are roddennberry lent it to the motion picture set guys and it was never returned even with gene asking for it directly. No 0 one misplaces ≈50lbs of wood that’s 3ft long and has specific storage requirements.
www.google.com/amp/s/arstechnica.com/…/amp/
Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The Roddenberry’s what now?
Madison420@lemmy.world 1 year ago
The Roddenberry’s as in the family or foundation. You act like it’s an incomplete sentence and it isn’t.