The listing was titled “Rare Custom Star Trek USS Enterprise Spaceship by Richard Datin.” Datin, a model maker from the Howard Anderson special-effects company, built the original model out of ...

It was built to operate a five-year mission ... from The Original Series to be the most esteemed. The model that was used to ...

and perhaps the most egregious to Star Trek fans, is that the “Red Alert” indicator on the top of the panel didn’t actually flash like it did in the show. To design and build this panel and ...

He did some of his TV work as a division manager for the model-car company AMT, for which he built the Galileo Shuttle for “Star Trek.” Based on a design by Thomas Kellogg, it appeared in a ...