You are referring to the TMP miniature and not the TOS miniature, correct?

You are most welcome! Happy New Yearl!

@ You sound much better. I hope all is well with you and your family. Thanks

That's very kind of you; I appreciate it. Life is wonderful for me and my family. I hope and pray the same for you and yours. I've got a bit of a lisp still; but I'm doing my best to get back to normal sounding as quickly as I can.

I appreciate it! I had a lot of fun putting this one together.

" Rumor is Peter Jackson bought millions worth of props from this auction." THAT I can believe! I'd rather if a super-collector gets this stuff, that it's a Peter Jackson and not an anonymous millionaire that will hoard this stuff because he can. The original Star Trek props belong beside the skeleton (armature) of the original King Kong!

I'm always looking for new collections to show - thanks for the heads up!

Rest assured, most of the Super Collectors are in fact Hollywood names rather than tech names. I'm surprised at the number of big Hollywood names are in that arena. The tech guys can have more money, but there's far more activity from the Hollywood names.

@@TREK-WORLD No problem! Looking forward to the next video!

Hi Pete! Actually, the lawsuit can (and already has been) be filed in CA since both the sellers and Heritage maintain an active presence in the state. If the lawsuit had been filed in the wrong state, the court would not have accepted the complaint, ordered and process the defendant's answer, authorized and proceeded with depositions, and then accepted the most current amended complaint. If the court didn't have the jurisdiction over the case, it would have rejected the filing. And if by some rare error, they had accepted it by accident when it was filed; then Heritage would have moved for immediate dismissal of the case. So, at this point, we are legally already way past any "wrong state" complications in this case.

@ Oh! Also, I tried to send you some comments by X DM but that option is no longer there. I thought I had dm’d you before but couldn’t find any trace of our conversation.

Interesting... I'm still there. But I have noticed that the universal inbox I use has not brought anything in from X in a while. I assumed it was just a setting in the inbox. But I may have to go to X and see what is going on if it doesn't let you DM from there.

@ Oh boy! I haven’t used a universal inbox since I stopped using outlook. What software are you using for that?

@@PetesGuide It's a feature of one of the CRMs I use for content creation, it's called VistaSocial. It integrates with X, KZbin, Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram, Reddit, and TikTok. Its not bad at all. But it is slow to aggregate for me. Usually I get comments about a day or so after they are posted. I usually end up hitting KZbin directly for a more fluid experience for the viewer comments. And then I wait for VistaSocial to gather the others to me for review and response.

Thanks, I'm glad you liked it!

@ By the way. If you are interested in viewing my channel @billwolod7444 and Facebook page: Billy Wolod , I just posted some videos of my Starship model of The BlackStar Voyager. It is made from an Estes model rocket that I have added electronic parts and components 🖖🖖

Thanks! I’ll be sure to check these out.

@@earth2006 the big brother is now in storage.

Good scenario! In your example, the answer is no, you would have no legal jeopardy. In fact, your scenario is exactly how discoveries of treasure in shipwrecks. Remember Mel Fisher when he found the Atocha? In your scenario, no laws were broken - so there’s no criminal charges. Now, the scenario completely changes if you broke the law in order to find the object. If the location you visit is private property, or a protected site, then you are criminally charged. An example of such a criminal charges include people who take “pretty rocks” from Hawaii’s beaches. Jim Sent from my iPhone

citation for that accusation

@@Dmarcoot The last one was one of the original copies of the Declaration of Independence that I know of in the las few years. Also you might read Dewhurst book The Giants That Ruled America that some of the evidence I saw first hand as a child at the former Charleston WV Sunrise Museum backing his work. It details a long going coverup and even destruction of certain items. For every item permitted to be displayed they have a warehouse worth of Items not available to independent researchers. I'm not going to cite just one but direct you to a couple sources to that cover several each. A much longer tomb is a book called Forbidden Archeology by Cremo and Thompson. I have a BA in history myself and have seen the pattern over the years. At Sunrise they had a copper broadsword that was as strong and hard as steel and some of the red hair form the giant removed by the Smithsonian and now they say never existed despite good records kept locally of the dig and transfer to DC. Dewhurst covers much of the US in his book while I am just mentioning my local case that the book Kanawha County Images also covers some of. The Clay Family sold Sunrise to a Law firm and moved some art and science stuff to the Clay Center but the history stuff is gone now. As a child I had a flint napping class in the attic that held the sword in a case along with a visit to the Planetarium (that played the soundtrack of Star Trek II) and an Animal room that kept a small selection of native birds and snakes. I also bought an eraser and a small bit of a few meteorites from the gift shop that I no longer have. Sunrise had a good view of the State Capitol as well from the patio and it once belonged to a prior State Governor (MacCorkle). I can remember others cases but not with the detail to site of the top of my head. I hope you never trust the government or any of its branches such as the Smithsonian as any native tribe can attest to and I hope this list can get you started on the proof you seek. I have studied history over 30 years as a primary passion. BTW a fun fact to end it on at the time they got that red diamond on display there were only 7 known to exist, it was shipped to DC in a standard envelope via first class mail without insurance. No armored car or police escort, just regular mail carrier in a paper envelope that could have torn open anyplace along the way.

Actually, what most people do not understand is that the Smithsonian only has the ability to display well less than 2% of the items it has curated. The rest is warehoused in storage. And many of the rarest items of historical importance are secured and kept away from researchers. That has been its design and policy since the beginning. A really good example of both of these is that they have in their possession not only the 11ft model, but also the Klingon Battlecruiser. The 11ft has been on semi-permanent display for decades. Whereas the Klingon model has only been seen at rare events like the 1992 Star Trek exhibit. When Paramount was making Phase2/TMP, they asked to borrow both models back to use for preproduction. The official answer in cases like that is always "no". But they agreed to at least let the Klingon model go back to Paramount for their use. The only condition was that it had to be returned. When Paramount returned it to them after they were done with it; the returned it inside a box - where it has been broken into several pieces and the Smithsonian had to then do a complete restoration on it in order to be ready for the 1992 event. And because of the damage done to the model, they had to repaint it flat gray.... Which resulted in the loss of the original two-tone paint job. The Smithsonian is an archive. And as such, it has the right to be aggressive in identifying strategically important pieces and taking them into their custody. However, it's a two-edged sword. That's why I personally wouldn't ask the Smithsonian to take the 3ft model. They would stick it in a box in a warehouse as-is. They would consider the model to be a "conservation" item.

@@TREK-WORLD But as you just pointed out in addition to the issues I stated they failed to conserve the item in their care but broke the item then went further on an ad hoc repair and failed to even try to match the paint, further destroying the record. While I don't expect them to display all. legitimate researchers with some limited restrictions must be allowed access or they fail to be even an archive as an archive must be an useable searchable storehouse or it might as well just be a disposal service graveyard like the catacombs of Paris less a few small sections with the bones supporting the city above..

@@charlesmaurer6214 Hi Charles! I'm not disagreeing with you at all. I'm just saying that what you're describing has always been part of the way they've managed anything they curate. I'm not saying that they are right, or wrong, they just simply do what they do. It's a surprise to most people; but as you mentioned - it's been going on for decades or longer. It's just far more noticeable with things like the the Declaration of Independence, Old Glory, etc. They are actually not required to do anything with item's in their curations. And that simply means that we get things like the over-and-above beyond all expectations conservation and restoration of the 11ft model... It is a rare event and not the norm. I think that the average person just assumes they are like that with everything. But it's no way near that.

Believe it or not; the plans for what eventually became Star Trek the Experience in Las Vegas began with the building of a full-sized USS Enterprise landed in Vegas that the people would enter.

culttvman has a neat little article with some pics for a 50th anniversary, 2014.

Yup! I always get that mixed up when I speak about this photo. You’re right, this was taken at Volmer Jensen’s shop the day they loaded up and delivered to Howard Anderson on the Desilu lot.

I am sure that was the intention. But the video footage they took of the model was taken without permission from the owners; and actually contradicts what they originally told the court that no filming of any kind occurred that day. So I’m pretty certain we will see the 3D scan footage used in the future; right now the owners complaint says it was unauthorized. So it’s like a bootleg movie you filmed the theater with a cell phone. You can do it, but it’s not legal, and if you get caught there are legal penalties for violating copyright.

@TREK-WORLD Sad. I guess the model will be "lost" again then. ☹️ Unless a buyer wants to share it. Seems like most private buyers of things like this seldom share it with the public. It will probably go into storage and not see the light of day for years and years. At least we know it still exists. I guess that is something. 😂 Plus we still have the main model in the Smithsonian to enjoy. 😎

@@vidiotgod Yeah we know. But the smaller 32" model has different proportions. The polar lights are based on the 11 foot model...

In the near future, I will be able to explain what happens next, and why. But, unfortunately, there are types of collectors: those that collect for private reasons, and those who collect for prosperity. Like Adam Schneider did with the Galileo, and Paul Allen did for the Seattle Pop Culture Museum.

@TREK-WORLD Right. I was watching a video about the Santa and Rudolph puppets from the Rankin bass... Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer special. They were restored and then sold at Auction for over 350k and the buyer anonymously donated them to a puppet museum. Doubt that would happen with this Enterprise though. It will fetch a bigger sum than $350k I should think...

Actually, it was filmed on it's stand. Which is how it's been displayed at the Smithsonian since 1992. There were no mount points on the model other than the stand at the bottom of the secondary hull. However, the rumour about it being filmed upside down came from photos leaked while they were filming "Trials and Tribbleations" for DS9. The 6 foot model they built for the episode was mounted upside down for filming. This was also how Enterprise D was filmed for TNG.

I will definitely be checking that out! I've heard of plenty of Shore Leave bloopers but never that one.

@@TREK-WORLD I've never seen it mentioned on Star Trek fan sites going back years, so I think it is an original find. The same goes for an even more fascinating, yet unknown, blooper on "Operation Annihilate" that I noticed about 8 years ago. This one you really must see to believe! After Spock beams down to collect his specimen, starting at 29:56 and ending at 30:06, if you look at the very top right half of the screen you can see the legs of TRW employees--who were watching the filming below-- moving around on the catwalk (which leads to the café). You can clearly see the legs of the women in short skirts and the men in pants. There is a B&W photograph that TRW took showing the people on the catwalk above looking down at the filming below (people were wearing coats--so it was a cold day in Redondo Beach). If I had a way of embedding the picture I would. You can also see cars going by on Marine Avenue in a couple scenes after they first beam down to the planet. You have to look past the bottom of the buildings to see the cars on the street. You can even see the stairs and catwalk today using Google maps (the café is labeled "S-Café"). Today it is Northrop--Grumman, located on Space Park Drive in Redondo Beach. You can get closer views using streetview from select locations.

This is so cool! I will be sure to check this out and make notes for when I do the analysis on Operation Annihilate.

@@TREK-WORLD There is also a scene where you can see a man (TRW employee?) walking and then, noticing the filming, walks backward out of the scene in the distance. As for that photo I mentioned, if you search on the description below (Google Chrome), it might take you to the picture of the TRW employees on the cafeteria catwalk. It is on the Trek BBS site (page 1). Click on the main link (not the one that mentions Deneva). You have to scroll down to see the picture. A clearer picture, without the photobucket watermark, does exist on the internet though. TRW also had a history pdf showing the original picture somewhere on the net: "The Trek BBS: Tomorrow : Yesterday and Today - The Star Trek Filming Locations, Feb 1967"

At the moment, unfortunately, there’s no way to get one at this point if you missed the campaign. However, I know many folks bought extras and you will see them on eBay. But based on the aftermarket costs of the TOS model on eBay, I expect the prices to be at least twice as much or more. Sorry...

😀 Thanks! Glad you liked it.