Naval History

Just thinking about Adventure Through Inner Space today and how hard it is to explain the chokehold this had on us to generations raised on screens. It’s kind of like living through the build-up and release of The Blair Witch Project. Unless you were there you would have a hard time comprehending.

Y'all knew it was coming.

De's bench in the Alumni plaza at Decatur High School.

All of the benches were well cared for.

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Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the starship Enterprise.  Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new  life and new civilizations. To boldly go where no man has gone before!    

Aerial photos of Las Vegas in 1978

South end of the Las Vegas Strip, facing north.

It's fascinating to see how different artists have interpreted the interior of the ships differently over the decades

We finally get to see the SNW Enterprise deck plan up close!!!

Aaaaand it's just the Discovery "all corridors, no rooms" one, slightly modified to fit into the Enterprise's shape. Which is exactly what happened in 2013 when they reused the U.S.S. Kelvin's deck plan from 2009 as the U.S.S. Enterprise:

Enterprise deck plans on damage control displays!

Except... those are Franz Joseph Schnaubelt's old 1974 Star Trek Blueprints, for the TOS version of the ship and not the classic movie version. They lit up the right part of the ship for the attack on engineering but...