And to the surprise of no one, tons of tribbles are lurking throughout for eagle-eyed visitors who want to spot them. There's a station where one can listen to people reminisce about their favorite Star Trek films and shows as well as what the franchise has meant to them. A transporter simulation lets people create short films of themselves beaming down to the surface of an alien planet. On the interactive side of things, visitors can crawl through a Jefferies tube or be "assimilated" by the Borg.
Kirk in the episode "Mirror, Mirror"-all the way through to Star Trek: Discovery. "I will fight you over that." There are also many original costumes worn by cast members of the various series, from TOS -including the tunic worn by evil Capt. "Best Star Trek captain ever," Peck joked. His personal favorite? Kathryn Janeway from Star Trek: Voyager. Peck is also proud that the exhibit showcases the captains' uniforms from all the major Star Trek TV shows. "Now it's all digital, but back then it was all about plastic and wood models, so there's a wonderful craft to those pieces." "I love spaceship models," MoPOP's Brooks Peck, curator of the exhibit, said. There are also plenty of props: different designs of tricorders, communicators, phasers, and PADDs a model of a Borg cube and piles of weaponry, including a Klingon disruptor pistol.įurther Reading Star Trek Day celebrates 55 years with Picard, Prodigy trailers, and moreĪnd of course, exhibit attendees will gaze upon many, many models of the various spacecraft featured in the franchise over the decades, including filming models for the Enterprise, the USS Excelsior, and the Deep Space Nine space station. Kirk's command chair and the wooden helm and navigation console from TOS, fully restored. " Star Trek's vision resonates deeply with the Skirball's commitment to using the power of arts and storytelling to help build a society in which everyone belongs," museum director Sheri Bernstein said during the press preview last month. Exploring New Worlds has been exploring the country ever since, and now it has come to the final stop on its journey: the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, California, where Gene Roddenberry first created his visionary series, Star Trek: The Original Series ( TOS). The exhibit is a tribute to the hugely influential long-running franchise, and it embarked on a national tour two years later. Back in 2016, the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) in Seattle unveiled an immersive new exhibit, Star Trek: Exploring New Worlds, in its Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame.
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