'Star Trek' USS Enterprise model to live long and prosper at the Smithsonian
Ask a Trekkie "What happened to the Enterprise?" and they're likely to tell you it was destroyed by Captain James T. Kirk in Star Trek III: The*Search*for Spock.
From a Star Trek ca**n perspective, they'd be right. From a real-world perspective, though, they'd probably be missing the point.
The 11-foot model appeared during the second season of the original Star Trek ******, in the memorable The Trouble with Tribbles*episode. It joined the museum's collection in 1974. Read more...