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Set blueprint exchange

Hi
I haven't been active since October as I am currently going through a very rough patch regarding my health. I have several long term health issues and they flare up strongly from time to time.

At the moment all updates to the archive and to the reverse engineering projects are on hold until I'm in a better state. I am hoping to be more my usual nature by February.
I'm sorry your health has been keeping you from your archive and reverse engineering work. I'll second what blssdwlf said - please take care of yourself.
 
There have been some random Greg Jein items up for auction on ebay lately

Type 15 shuttle console:

ship negatives:

Has some Enterprise-D measurements:
 
^In that last one in amongst all the prop parts is a random MicroMachines Enterprise-C! :lol:
 
there's some nice close ups of the ferengi marauder and vorcha miniature undersides we are sorely lacking in the archive. I dont have hte photoshop experience to properly process the negatives in the screenshots to anything useable, maybe someone else does?
 
I'm glad we don't get a clear view of the panel in TWOK (and maybe TMP?) so as not to tip off the viewer that the Feds and Klingons use the same electronics store :D
 
I'm curious what changes, if any, they made to the console.

The Klingon helm console was used as the transporter on Spacelab, and I'm sure it didn't have English-language graphics the first time around. ;)

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Unfortunately I'm on my way out the door so I don't have time to try and grab a screenshot from the Amar bridge walkthrough for comparison.

(Image from TrekCore)
 
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So this is what the original console looked like (or at least the Roddenberry Archive recreation of it):

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The center part was more or less left alone, most likely because there wasn't any Klingon lettering on the panels. It's kind of hard to tell, but I don't think they re-used any of those clear Hershey Kiss-shaped buttons; the vertical row of buttons on the right hand side of the console (next to the three axis labels and under the "BEAM ACTIVATE" text) look more cylindrical to me.
 
I was surprised to see the habitat section from the GEN version of the drydock model. I heard that the drydock model was destroyed in the recent fires in southern California,* but I guess since it was restored to its TMP appearance, this part was either stored separately or owned by someone else.

*Needless to say, one bit of movie memorabilia pales in comparison to the home it was in being lost. I just want to acknowledge that.
 
Oh, now this is interesting: STAR TREK: GENERATIONS (1994) USS Enterprise NCC-1701-B Turbolift Deck Listing LCARS Panel

Apparently it didn't show up on screen because of the way they shot that bit with Kirk, Scotty, and Chekov exiting the turbolift. And it's not on the Roddenberry Archive's re-creation of the 1701-B bridge:

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The "turbolift is moving indicator light" on the TFF bridge for comparison:

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When the turbolift cars got reused in First Contact, the left-hand display was covered over with fabric, but the right-hand one had been replaced with this LCARS graphic (and flush-mounted to the wall rather than the CRT-looking thing they had in TFF):

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I assumed in TFF it actually was a CRT and they used a videotape or computer program to animate the turboshaft lights passing by.
 
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