Comment on After decades lost, Star Trek’s original Enterprise model may have been found

• blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?

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  • HeartyBeast@kbin.social ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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 :)

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    • Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Bingo. Someone probably just didn’t pay their bill, it’s way more common than you’d think.

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  • Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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?

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    • CCMan1701A@startrek.website ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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      • Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

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    • blanketswithsmallpox@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I’m serious when I ask this. Can you point me to a source saying it was stolen? I can’t find one.

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      • Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ 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.

        Historians, like model-maker David Shaw, who wrote a detailed history of the lost 3-foot model, believe that for at least a time, the model sat on Roddenberry’s desk and was his property. They believe Roddenberry loaned it to people working on the production of Star Trek: The Motion Picture, but it was never returned. There is even a record of Roddenberry writing to contacts at the production house inquiring to get it back to no avail.

        www.google.com/amp/s/arstechnica.com/…/amp/

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    • Piecemakers3Dprints@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The Roddenberry’s what now?

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      • Madison420@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        The Roddenberry’s as in the family or foundation. You act like it’s an incomplete sentence and it isn’t.

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