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Displaying Our Exploded USS Enterprise D

Our movie and TV memorabilia museum is expanding! We are now the proud owners of pieces of a 4 foot model of the Enterprise D. This model was blowed up in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Cause and Effect". It was shipped to us in a ton of pieces (it was exploded) and we had to figure out a way to display it. If we didn't do it soon it would be doomed to sit on a shelf somewhere forever as we are all pretty lazy (except Rich and Jay). So Mike and Dick the Birthday Boy spent many a nights discussing how to do this. A plan was made. Since this was a pretty long process, we decided to make a little documentary about it. What else are we gonna do with our time?

Comments

Tomas

I'm excited for whatever this is

Pete Michaelson

Very awesome. It’s exciting to have a piece of Trek history like that; especially from a memorable episode.

Damon Killian

The 'neck' is referred to as the 'Connecting Interhull'.

Jon Hollifield

I figured Rich would drive a pickup truck.

Kate Gottli

I collect a lot of large hand painted / mirrored signs (6ft+) and am ride-or-die for doing wooden French Cleats, with the mounting rack drilled into multiple studs. For the really big pieces I've bought the metal French Cleat kits from home Depot that come with special screws that hold like 150lbs.

Gabriel

Paint some stars in the background!

Rebecca

LOVE seeing vids like this and getting a look at the growing prop collection, fellas. The final display looks great!

Joshua Cubbin

I was shocked when Jay responded from off camera. I had always assumed that whenever it was a star trek thing, he'd be off editing and listening to john carpenter synth.

Marvin Falz

I can feel your excitement, but the only Enterprise that gets an emotional reaction out of me is the original as I remember it from TV in the 80s when I was 10 and very impressed by Star Trek. There was something about that ship and how it looked like on TV that was inspiring. The CGI version that came out a couple of years ago doesn't get any near that original feeling, but at least it didn't destroy the series.

Casey Shermer

Use museum wax for those nacelle tips guys. Better than gravity.

Michael

The Propa-who?

Eileen Herbert

The problem isn’t drywall anchors. The problem is that a lot of drywall is just compressed cotton candy and a half-hearted prayer to Jesus.

Robyn Nelson

Dang, that’s really awesome.

The Real Zam

I hope this is a children’s suicide video.

DimmieDim

This was a fun watch. The enthusiasm seen here is palpable.

Ian Stewart

This video is proof that jay loves caulk.

Jason Gravermoen

I'm glad you guys got my toy from childhood. You have my permission to blow it up. Also the STAR TREK figures. Start with the Kazon.

Dion Turner

That moment when Mike was pushing the wire against the model… stressful doesn’t begin to describe it

Hayes Johnson

As someone who can only dream of owning props from my favorite movies and TV shows, witnessing Mike mistreat theirs in the past was disheartening. So seeing them treat the D with such respect in this video was a nice redemption.

andrew

This is excellent. One of my top 5 episodes as well. At first I thought you were going to try to make a wire skeleton to attach the parts of the ship parts you had - like how dinosaur fossils are displayed in a museum when they don’t have a full set.

Michael Nuccio

Mike has resolved to treat his movie props better, which is why he now only opens the packages with the safest, most precise instrument designed for the purpose, a dollar store steak knife.

MeleeDuck

As a fan of both your work and prop and set fabrication, I always love these videos. Watching you guys in this and the Gremlin video figure out what you want to accomplish and how is really interesting.

J

What is the weirdest thing you've ever been sent by a fan?

Stefan Wilde

show the hard drive disaster!

The Real Zam

Now we just need to find the model of the D that’s haunted by the ghost of Gene Roddenberry. It’s the one from S1 that broke when filming the saucer separation maneuver. Gene haunts you with images of the mother creature from the episode titled “Conspiracy”

Jeremy _

It always struck me as odd that space ships in Trek always varied SO much by species. You'd think that physics would dictate a fairly narrow range of form factors but no apparently there is huge latitude for variable design and engineering from one civilization to another when they each build their advanced interstellar ships.

Nada Leona Sheppard

It looks great! If you ever decide to change the base, I was thinking it would be awesome to paint it in that blackest black paint, and then speckle it in a white gloss or silver paint, to give it the impression that it is in space.

Juan Calvo

This thing needs a metal frame and bullet proofglass around it to survive.

Daniel

This is remarkable. It feels special.

Frazzled Doo

I see a warehouse sized fire and an insurance claim one day..just destroy it All. Roger Corman