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My personal belief right now is that Jennings did have a check for $5K. But it is what he had to give to Hololabs to pay for the hologram. However, Rosa is still maintaining her version of the story. But she was a child at the time and could be misremembering something her dad said. For this video, I focused on only the physical chain of custody. For the drama that Rosa is claiming, I will be doing a separate video in the future that only concerns itself with the stories that she and others have maintained behind the scenes as this moved toward resolution. And there are other stories by high profile folks who seem to be pointing in a direction of conspiracy theories, It's been a wild ride!

@@TREK-WORLD Wow. Fascinating! Thank you!

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Now we know why phasers had a "disintegrate" setting.

Yup!

Thank you very much!

Yup! And he was the first Captain of the Enterprise. Whereas ROBERT ABEL was a failed special effects house that got fired from Star Trek The Motion Picture. Don't sweat it though. Alot of our younger fans don't know their TMP history and it certainly isn't a cause for shame.

That isn't the 3 footer in the background. It's a standard AMT model. You can tell because the bottom of the saucer is fully visible and it's conical, not flat. On top of that, the model there is clearly too small in size when scaled to features on the desk itself. The refit model for Phase II was not used because it was too small and not detailed anywhere near enough for a major motion picture. So the 8 foot model was built and then modified for use by Douglas Trumbull and John Dykstra's respective FX staff. Robert Able & Associates were let go because they hadn't up to that point produced any usable special effects footage, even though several models were ready for tests or production. Joe Jennings and his art department staff also got the axe, but were rehired along with some other folks.

Hi there! Right now there is really no separate evidence that Abel actually ever used the 3FT model officially for anything at all. Since Susan told me that the model was delivered directly to Abel one time.... That leads me to believe that it was only given to them in response to someone wanting to create the hologram for the cast party.

And as Mike points out as well, the photo showing the smaller ship in the background turned out to be an AMT. When I first saw that photo years ago, I also believed it was the 3FT model. But upon inspection it doesn't have the proper saucer shape.

@@mikedicenso2778 Jim might need to comment on this, as he didn’t believe the model in his video about the “Stolen Enterprise” was the 18” AMT one but the 33” one. It looks too big to me, as well.

@@BuShips Didn't you see Jim's reply comment in this thread? He's basically in agreement with me for all the same reasons I outlined.

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That’s what made the issue even more difficult to track down. When I showed Susan Sackett one of the film frames; she responded that she had no idea why it was made, or who made it. I would seriously question why in the world someone even wanted the model in the first place. However, knowing that the film studio models were not camera ready in 1978 might explain their reasoning.

The 11-footer was in the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum at that time. The TMP models were either being constructed or used for filming, so they couldn't be used. The 3-footer was much smaller and lighter than the other models, so it would've been more convenient to make a hologram from that one.

The 11 foot model wasn't available for the same reason i wasn't available for use by the Phase II/ST:TMP staff: The Smithsonian had the darn thing on display and didn't want to go through the trouble of taking it down and shipping the 200 lb. thing. They especially wouldn't have let the 11 footer go after the D7 model debacle, and they were resistant to letting it go for use by the Deep Space Nine FX staff use for Trials and Tribble-ations" for that very reason. The 1977/78 timeframe seems to indicate that the TMP models were still in use or under construction.

Robert Abel & company are still the vector through which the ship vanished. It was delivered to them. And somehow they got it to HoloLabs and then promptly forgot who they gave it to.

@@TREK-WORLD Or conveniently forgot. Wink-wink. Know what I mean?

Yeah, I do. While I could never prove that they knew where it was; I wouldn't be surprised if they had played dumb just to spite Roddenberry.

Yes. In the very first comments to the press in the day or so following the news, Dustin & Jason actually name dropped BHI. This is how the name got out early on. But then no one could remember who said it, or where any post concerning it was originally seen.

Yeah, I think that Rosa Jennings may be quoting the $5K “buy” based on a map-formed childhood memory. I think that “Jennings paid $5K for the model” to be imaged into a hologram. I don’t think she lied; I just think that she didn’t actually know the whole story. And Jennings has been gone for quite a while now.