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 ...

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 ...