The whereabouts of the Galileo were unknown, and fans despaired that it had been scrapped, but the plucky shuttlecraft resurfaced in , when Kiko Auctioneers held an day online auction.
Gene Winfield, who had originally built the Galileo, suggested that a builder of wooden boats might be best suited for the job, and Adam selected Master Shipwrights Design and Restoration, which specialized in restoring antique and classic boats, to do the restoration.
Lift points were added so the heavy mock-up could be moved safely. Sturdy Marine-grade plywood replaced the flimsy Masonite, and the finished shuttle was painted with marine-grade paint.
Once the Galileo was fully restored, Adam set about finding a suitable museum to house the ship. The Galileo was unveiled, amid much ceremony, on July 31, The current management team at the museum is apparently not a fan of Star Trek. In contrast to its widely-traveled big brother, the inch Galileo miniature was a relative shut-in and remained in the Los Angeles area for most of its existence.
The studio model also had internal lighting for its impulse deck and front windows. Richard Datin had decal sheets with markings for both the Galileo and Columbus, but only the Galileo markings were ever applied to the model. They were very similar to the panels on the concept illustration that Thomas Kellogg had drawn for Gene Winfield and Matt Jefferies in , when an affordable version of the Galileo was first being designed. The foot mock-up did not possess corresponding roof panels, which makes financial sense.
The model vanished after the series ended, and was presumed to be lost, stolen, or destroyed during a cleanup at Paramount in In , though, the Galileo model unexpectedly reappeared. As long-time scenic art supervisor and Trek historian, Michael Okuda, explained, Set Decorator John Dwyer found the shuttlecraft miniature in storage at Paramount. The Galileo was in pretty poor shape.
The entire front bulkhead the panel with the windows was missing, and overall surface was cracked pretty badly. The nacelles, themselves, were broken off, and the corrugated cowlings on the ends of the nacelles were missing. Dwyer took the model down to the effects shop to have it refurbished. The model also lost its 2-tone paint scheme.
Afterwards, Greg Jein finished restoring the model to its original appearance, sans landing gear. Greg noted that before he restored the model, you could see straight through it, from front to back.
The dash had accidentally been omitted from the decal sheet, and a quarter-century later, that oversight was remedied. In , Paramount loaned the Galileo model to the Smithsonian for their Star Trek exhibition.
Against all odds, both of the original Galileos have survived over 50 years of rain, sun, floods, crushing, and neglect. Thank you, Gary, for all of the work you put into this special blog series. Until next time, live long and prosper! The story of the Galileo shuttle by Round 2 consultant, Gary Kerr, continues�. The Galileo mock-up sported a glossy, 2-tone exterior color scheme � lighter gray above and darker gray below � but the exact shades of gray were thought to be lost to time since the original paint had faded after decades of exposure to the elements.
I also had a sample of the weathered darker gray from the lower half of the mock-up. I now had samples of the original light and dark gray paint, but I had no way of knowing how much the original paints had faded.
The shutter is a low-tech affair: a beat-up piece of Masonite with a wooden frame in back. The shutter did not slide up and down, but was simply placed into the window opening on the shuttle. There were a number of spots where three layers of paint were exposed: a white primer base coat, a light gray middle layer, and a darker gray top coat. The top coat had almost certainly been applied by Trek fans during a restoration, but the middle layer was an exact match for the weathered light gray that I had examined in I wanted to expose more of the light gray middle layer, so I began to carefully chip away the brittle top layer of Large Scale Model Boats Kits Of paint with an X-Acto blade.
Very interesting�. I now had samples of the weathered light and dark gray paints, plus the relatively unweathered light gray paint from the shutter. If the original light gray paint had faded by X amount over the years, could I arrive at an approximation of the original dark gray paint by darkening my faded dark gray sample by X amount? I had the paint store do a color match on my weathered dark gray sample, and then darken the paint by a couple shades. After the original series ended, the Galileo began a years-long, cross-country odyssey.
The Masonite, plywood, and metal prop was not designed to withstand the elements, and once outdoors, it began to deteriorate.
Because of safety concerns, the institute sold the prop to Roger Hiseman of Palos Verdes, who displayed the decomposing shuttlecraft, a photo op Large Model Boats Kits Usa for young Trek fans, in his front yard. Following complaints from his neighbors, the Galileo was moved to an open storage area in Redondo Beach. By this time, the mock-up was looking MUCH worse for the wear, and the roof over the impulse deck had collapsed. Following an appearance at a Star Trek convention in Anaheim, the mock-up was moved to yet another open storage area, this time near Palm Springs, and the semi-restored mock-up continued to deteriorate.
After many years, the mock-up finally had a roof over its head. Yet another restoration was begun, and the Galileo was displayed at a Trek convention near Cleveland the following November. I took home a couple souvenirs, including an 8 ft roof truss, from a pile of rotting wood that had been removed from the mock-up. The restoration stopped in , following a dispute between Ms Miller and those doing the restoration. The Galileo had to be moved yet again when the airport property was sold and the hangar was demolished, and it ended up in open storage at an industrial site near Akron.
The mock-up dropped out of sight when the property was sold and cleaned up in What a shocking turn of events!
The Galileo straight up disappeared! Welcome back for our continuing series of Galileo articles by Round 2 consultant Gary Kerr.
In a major deviation from an interior that would actually fit inside the shuttlecraft, the ceiling was raised so the actors could stand erect without bumping their heads on the ceiling. The flight controls and computers were rudimentary, and were primarily designed to give the impression of high-tech instrumentation, with actors being the center of attention.
The aft compartment was something else altogether, since it changed size and shape in every scene. The yellowish tanks in the aft compartment are artfully framed just inside the rear doorway. But when Scotty goes in back to shock the ape monsters that are threatening them, the aft compartment has at least quadrupled in size, and the yellow tanks are nowhere in sight. The starboard wall had several gizmos affixed to it, including an instrument that looks somewhat like a wall clock.
It appears that there was no port wall, wild or otherwise, in the aft compartment. On August 15, , Jefferies flew out to the Phoenix shop for a quick, one-day inspection, leaving LA on Continental Airlines flight 68, and returning on Western Airlines flight Those were the days!
With the mock-up and miniature Galileo under construction, the production needed a hangar bay to park the shuttle in. Richard Datin, who had built the 3 ft Enterprise model and supervised construction of the footer, built the miniature hangar bay set in his garage workshop at Klump Ave, in North Hollywood, near Studio City, California.
Datin began construction on Sept 14, , and completed the project on Oct 25, Next time, Gary takes a look at the filming miniature and paint colors. See you then! The target date for completion of the interior set was September 6, , with a target date of September 12 for the exterior prop.
The Galileo mock-up was essentially a sturdy metal skeleton sheathed in wood. A Masonite skin was applied over the skeleton, and fiberglass cloth covered the Masonite. The internal floor was made from a sheet of plywood. To avoid unwelcome reflections in the front windows, they had no glass. Instead, simulated window shutters, consisting of a sheet of Masonite backed by a wooden frame, were inset into the window openings.
Curved fins along the upper and lower edges of the hull were made from sheet metal. A bulky metal framework inside the shuttle allowed a technician to operate the 3-piece side door.
The aft landing strut was salvaged from the landing gear of a scrapped aircraft. The identity of this aircraft has remained a mystery for years. The leading contender for the mystery aircraft thus far is the F Delta Dart. The intended purpose of a pair of 5.
He further explained that he had wired the nacelle domes for lighting. The actual lighting would have been installed by union workers at Large Scale Model Boats Kits Model the studio, per the agreement regarding outside vendors, but it appears that budgetary concerns nixed that plan. During filming, one or more sheets of white material was propped up inside the mock-up to block the view. Over a series of phone calls and emails, Mr Winfield explained that most of his papers were still boxed up, following the move to his current location in Mojave.
The original plans were extremely yellowed and fragile, and they showed something unexpected: details that Matt Jefferies had designed for the interior set, but which, like the exterior lighting, had never been installed. Most recently, his plans were used to develop our scale Galileo Shuttle model kit. As he wrote, he found that his information overflowed his allotted word count. Neither of us wanted that effort to go to waste so we invited him to publish the overflow on our blog.
So without further ado. Here is part 1�. Poor Lieutenant Sulu� slowly freezing to death after a malfunctioning transporter strands him and the rest of the landing party on the increasingly frigid planet Alpha The glitchy transporter beams down heaters, but they are non-functional, and the landing party seems doomed unless Scotty can repair the transporter in time. As the final design of the Starship Enterprise began to gel in , it became apparent that a starship would probably carry an assortment of smaller craft.
Art Director Matt Jefferies added a hangar bay and a pair of clamshell doors to aft end of the ship, but deciding what kind of craft would be housed in the hangar bay was not an easy matter. This ambitious concept was abandoned as being too costly. At this point, nailing down the design of the shuttlecraft moved into high gear.
Although Matt Jefferies favored a rounded, aerodynamic design for the shuttlecraft, he became the first, but not the last, Star Trek art director to learn that compound curves were a no-no on a television budget and time schedule, and that a shuttlecraft had to be built from sheets or plywood and Masonite.
Winfield and Jefferies set about designing a flat-sided shuttle that could be built in the allotted 30 days.
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