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Old 07-07-2012, 11:20 AM  
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Star Trek Nerds : This Would Have Been So Cool...
A Life-Sized Starship Enterprise?
It almost happened -- in Vegas!


This story has been floating around for a few days now, but it's almost too difficult to talk about because of what we lost. For there was a time when mankind almost got a life-sized Starship Enterprise.

Yes, all of humanity's woes could've been wiped away if this wondrous project had gone ahead, but alas it was not to be. Gary Goddard recounts on The Goddard Group blog the project his design firm worked on in the early 1990s in an attempt to revitalize downtown Las Vegas. "It would create a new '8th Wonder of the World,'" he writes, "with an iconic monument that would take its place alongside other 'must see' monuments in the world. (You would be able to see this from the airplanes as they came for landing at the Vegas airport. It's that big.)"







Of course, visitors would be able to board the vessel. "Conceptually, it was to be a 'tour' of the ship, with all of the key rooms, chambers, decks, and corridors that we knew from the movie. There was to be the dining area for the ship's crew (where you could dine in Star Fleet comfort), and other special features. There were also one or two interesting ride elements that we were considering including a high-speed travelator that would whisk you from deck to deck. But we were really just getting into the show aspects when everything came to a head."


In other words, when the warp-drive brakes were slammed on the project. It all came down to Paramount CEO Stanley Jaffe. After five months of work, the plan was presented to him. This is how Goddard remembers the exec responding:

"You know, this is a major project. You're going to put a full-scale Enterprise up in the heart of Las Vegas. And on one hand that sounds exciting. But on another hand, it might not be a great idea for us -- for Paramount. … In the movie business, when we produce a big movie and it's a flop -- we take some bad press for a few weeks or a few months, but then it goes away. The next movie comes out and everyone forgets. But THIS -- this is different. If this doesn't work -- if this is not a success -- it's there, forever…"


And that was the end of it. But maybe it's for the best. After all, everyone knows that the Enterprise was not designed to exist within a planetary atmosphere anyway. That's why they built it on Earth but assembled it in space!
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Old 07-07-2012, 04:28 PM   #16
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Apparently it wouldn't have. What I've read is that the whole thing came about because the downtown hotels were looking for an attraction that could draw business for them. So they weren't looking to build a competitor. When the Enterprise idea got killed they built that light up awning thing instead.

Well, it would have been an awful waste of cubic feet then.
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Old 07-07-2012, 05:47 PM   #20
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Old 07-07-2012, 06:18 PM   #21
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I loved the star trek experience thing
went with my oldest he was 5 at the time
he loved it
he is a life long trekkie now
we saw the new movie together 3 years ? ago
we watch TNG together , I sneak in TOS when I can, he has seen the odd numbered movies
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Old 07-07-2012, 07:19 PM   #22
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I loved the star trek experience thing
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we saw the new movie together 3 years ? ago
we watch TNG together , I sneak in TOS when I can, he has seen the odd numbered movies
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You trying to torture the boy with the odd numbered movies? Please just keep him away from Star Trek V: The Search for God
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Enterprise D or original Enterprise only.

And I would have built the thing so I could walk on the bridge of every Enterprise.
I'd be cool with any design except the Edselprise from the reboot.
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You trying to torture the boy with the odd numbered movies? Please just keep him away from Star Trek V: The Search for God
aww **** its the even numbers that rock
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both boys saw them
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I It was great when I was 14. Sucks now. BOOOOOOOOOOOORING.
II Best of the bunch. Awesome. KHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN
III Tolerable. Some good parts. Also some bad parts. Shitty new Saavik. Sets so horrible they reminded me of the original series.
IV Okay, I guess. Star Trek for people who don't like Star Trek. **** the whales - I want space battles.
V Horrible.
VI Awesome. Great villain. Great battles.
VII Tolerable. I probably like it more than I should.
VIII Awesome, although it loses some luster if you watch the Red Letter Media review, because he makes some excellent points.
IX Abominable. Worst of the bunch. So bad it made V look okay. A lame TNG episode stretched out into a movie.
X Tolerable. Weakest of the even numbers. Basically a rip off of II, and the dune buggy scene made me want to shoot somebody with a disruptor.
XI Star Trek meets Star Wars. Silly but great fun.

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Enterprise D or original Enterprise only.

And I would have built the thing so I could walk on the bridge of every Enterprise.
I was originally going to say the D but figured people would be more interested in the newer shiner sleeker version. I think D would have been kind of bland for Vegas.
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I was originally going to say the D but figured people would be more interested in the newer shiner sleeker version. I think D would have been kind of bland for Vegas.
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