\n\tStar Trek: The Exhibition is currently at the Louisville Science Center in Louisville, KY through May 22, 2011. The traveling exhibition is also at the Riverside Metropolitan Museum in Riverside, CA, through February 28, 2011. (Each venue shows the exhibit just a little bit differently.) Star Trek: The Exhibition is sponsored by CBS Studios, Inc., Paramount Pictures Corp., and AT&T.
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\n\tThe exhibit features props, costumes, makeup mockups, and set pieces from the Star Trek television shows and movies. (Some of the exhibit items are authentic, and some are replicas.) This TechRepublic gallery features photos of Captain Kirk’s chair, Kai Opaka’s costume, Jean Luc Picard’s living quarters, and other highlights of my visit to the exhibition in Louisville.
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\n\tFor details about the special Star Trek-related programming at the Louisville Science Center and ticket prices, read my Geekend blog about Star Trek: The Exhibition.
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\n\tThe authentic Transporter from Enterprise-D had a range of 40,000 kilometers — enough to reach most Earth-like planets from synchronous orbit.
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\n\tTrek trivia: Nobody ever said \u201cBeam me up, Scotty\u201d in any episode of the original Star Trek.
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\n\tThe exhibit features a mix of medical equipment replicas and props used on the show.
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\n\tImage courtesy of Louisville Science Center and CBS Studios, Inc., Paramount Pictures Corp., and AT&T.
\n\tThe exhibit features a mix of medical equipment replicas and props used on the show.
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\n\tImage courtesy of Louisville Science Center and CBS Studios, Inc., Paramount Pictures Corp., and AT&T.
\n\tThe exhibit features a number of the mockups that were used for makeup design.
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\n\tImage courtesy of Louisville Science Center and CBS Studios, Inc., Paramount Pictures Corp., and AT&T.
\n\tThese starship models were used in the Star Trek television series. They are significantly smaller in real life (ha ha).
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\n\tImage courtesy of Louisville Science Center and CBS Studios, Inc., Paramount Pictures Corp., and AT&T.
\n\tThese are the original Spock and Kirk uniforms.
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\n\tNyota Uhura‘s costume is modern and well designed compared to those of Spock and Kirk.
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\n\tDr. Leonard “Bones” McCoy’s costume has actor DeForest Kelley‘s name written inside the collar.
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\n\tThe sewing on the costumes in the original Star Trek series was less than stellar. This is the rather ragged cuff of Captain Kirk’s uniform shirt.
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\n\tVisitor Experience Coordinator Andrew Spence takes a seat in Captain Kirk’s chair.
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\n\tThe buttons on Captain Kirk’s chair were made by putting colored marbles into the holes and then shining flashlights up through them. When Star Trek: The Exhibition first opened in California, three guards had to stay with the chair because visitors were using screwdrivers to pry out the marbles.
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\n\tThis is the control panel on the left arm of Captain Kirk’s chair.
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\n\tThe replica Tribbles are motion sensitive and shake and make noise at passersby when they are out of the display bubble.
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\n\tThe authentic Data character makeup mockup.
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\n\tCaptain Jean-Luc Picard’s living quarters feature a sleek modern look.
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\n\tThis is another photo of Captain Jean-Luc Picard’s living quarters.
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\n\tCaptain Jean-Luc Picard’s formal officer’s dress uniform, which was worn to William T. Riker’s wedding.
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\n\tCaptain Jean-Luc Picard’s coffee table holds a bottle of wine from Chateau Picard and a Horga’hn Statuette.
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\n\tWhoopi Goldberg‘s Guinan costume
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\n\tThe Kai Opaka costume, which was worn by Camille Saviola in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, is one of the loveliest and most detailed pieces in the collection.
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\n\tAuthentic Xhosa Freighter from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
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\n\tThis is a Dabo girl costume from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine.
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\n\tJeri Ryan‘s Seven of Nine costume is surprisingly made out of a thin, silky material. We were expecting a more plasticky material.
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\n\tMIT researchers are currently working on a spacesuit with a similar design to the Seven of Nine suit. The idea is that skin-tight spacesuits provide the needed counter-pressure without the bulk of traditional, air-filled suits. The Gravity Loading Countermeasure Skinsuit (GLCS) is made of an elastic mesh.
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\n\tCaptain Kathryn Janeway’s uniform, which was worn by Kate Mulgrew.
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\n\tJennifer Lien‘s Kes costume from Star Trek: Voyager.
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\n\tEthan Phillips‘s Morale Officer Neelix costume from Star Trek: Voyager.
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\n\tU.S.S. Excelsior from the Star Trek: Voyager episode “Flashback.”
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\n\tU.S.S. Enterprise-D
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\n\tAnother view of U.S.S. Enterprise-D.
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\n\tAuthentic U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701
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\n\tThis biohazard suit used by U.S.S. Enterprise crew is made of stiff orange fabric with an overlay of netting material embroidered with circles of silver-colored thread.
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\n\tAndorian makeup mockup
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\n\tThe fancy belt buckle of the Klingon Officer’s uniform was actually made of bubble wrap painted gold.
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\n\tThe authentic Borg sphere and Borg makeup mockup bust.
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\n\tAT&T, a sponsor of the exhibit, provided some modern technologies for comparison purposes. Note the iPad on the right, as compared to the Star Trek handheld devices.
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\n\tAT&T is a sponsor of the exhibit. One neat way in which modern technology is used in the exhibit is with these scannable trivia question and answer pages.
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\n\tMrs. Jean Wise has volunteered with the Louisville Science Center since 1991. She recalls watching the original Star Trek TV show as a newlywed. Mrs. Wise enjoys petting her Tribble while speaking with visitors to the exhibit. She says the exhibit item that most surprised her is Seven of Nine’s costume because she expected it to be plasticky.
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\n\tVarious Star Trek merchandise, including Tribbles (prices range from $19.99 to $29.99), sold as part of the exhibit.
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