Original Galileo 7 Shuttlecraft to Be Auctioned

[StarFuryG7]

Damn --I meant to post this one, but forgot to go back to it.

Over at TrekNews.net:

Original Galileo 7 Shuttlecraft Prop to Be Auctioned Off Next Month
May 24, 2012
By TrekNews.net Staff

The Galileo 1701/7, which was first seen in the fourteenth episode of Star Trek: The Original Series, titled “The Galileo Seven,” is going up for auction. The Galileo was last seen in public at Creation’s tribute to the 20th Anniversary of Star Trek convention, back in 1986, after it was restored by Stephen Haskins. After having been exposed to the elements for several years, a recent restoration project has been approximately 40% completed. The auction for the 24-foot prop begins on Monday, June 18th and concludes on Thursday, June 28th….

Read More » www.treknews.net/2012/05/24/original-galileo-7-shuttlecraft-prop-auction/

[StarFuryG7]

CRAM, next time you change the pictures on this site, try using the Center codes that we would use in messages and see if they work.

[CRAMBAM]

What center codes?

And not for nothing, but as cool as that prop is, would you really want to own it? It's a lot of rotted wood.

[StarFuryG7]

Jun 1, 2012 6:10:38 GMT -5 CRAMBAM said:

What center codes?

Unfortunately I can't post them here for you to see because they won't show up --they're codes. Look at your Add Tags when you're composing a message, first row, option number ten from the left to the right. Notice how when I post an article link with a picture that the subject header and picture are always seated at the center of the posts --that's the option I click, and the codes appear in the compose message box

Better yet even, look at this, and substitute brackets [ ] for the parenthesis I'm using here to give you an idea: (center)(/center)

Jun 1, 2012 6:10:38 GMT -5 CRAMBAM said:

And not for nothing, but as cool as that prop is, would you really want to own it? It's a lot of rotted wood.

That's because it wasn't taken care of, but I'm very much inclined to think it could be restored extremely well if someone wanted to invest the time and effort and funding to do it. I think the person who owns it realized the cost attached to restoring it and realized they could buy a new car for the price and are thus now ready to give it up instead in this lousy economy. However, clearly they didn't take care of it in the first place. It should not be in that condition --it's obvious it's been out for years in all kinds of weather, particularly rainy weather. Stupid, stupid, stupid. I wouldn't mind owning it as a club house or den if the backyard were four or five times the size that it is, and even as is it would still fit back there, but given the amount of room it would take up it would look silly and would probably annoy the neighbors. They're not geeks like me when it comes to this kind of stuff.

[CRAMBAM]

I wonder if those codes work the same when adding the pictures to the top. It's not quite as simple.

But I'll play with it. And I just realized, it's a new month. Time to change up. Any suggestions?

As for the shuttle, if you restore it, at what point does it no longer become the same prop?

An old philosophical question....

You have a boat, and you replace a board, and throw the old board on the ground. You do it again, and again. At what point is it a different boat? And if you put together the wood on the ground, which is the original boat?

[StarFuryG7]

Jun 1, 2012 19:58:07 GMT -5 CRAMBAM said:

And I just realized, it's a new month. Time to change up. Any suggestions?

I sent a small Zip file to your AOL email address. Some of them may be too large to use, but then again I don't know if the boards' software will adjust photos to fit them.

Jun 1, 2012 19:58:07 GMT -5 CRAMBAM said:

As for the shuttle, if you restore it, at what point does it no longer become the same prop?

I guess that depends how you restore it. If you restore a 1973 Challenger, but you do so with dealer parts, does it stop being the same model? I don't think so.

[Mel]

I wonder if those codes work the same when adding the pictures to the top. It's not quite as simple.

I have a Proboard for Monk. The codes I use for centering pictures in Headers and Footers is like this: <center> </center>.

[StarFuryG7]

Here they use brackets, otherwise the codes are the same.

[CRAMBAM]

It worked.

[StarFuryG7]

Over at Blastr:

Would you have paid $70,150 for this massive Star Trek: TOS prop?

One of the biggest props still hanging around from production of Star Trek: The Original Series has been snatched up for $70,150 at auction. So what is this giant piece of expensive Trek lore?

MORE: blastr.com/2012/07/would-you-have-paid-70150.php

[CRAMBAM]

I can't believe someone wasted the money.

[captainbasil]

Jul 3, 2012 12:18:39 GMT -5 CRAMBAM said:

I can't believe someone wasted the money.

I'm not really surprised. It is a shame the studio didn't take care of it. If they were going to leave it out in the elements, why didn't they offer it at auction years ago ?

[StarFuryG7]

Jul 3, 2012 12:18:39 GMT -5 CRAMBAM said:

I can't believe someone wasted the money.

That is a lot of money considering the deplorable condition it's in especially, however, if they invest in restoring it on top of what they paid to buy it at auction, it might actually be worth considerably more someday.

Then again, maybe not.

However, TOS is approaching the fifty-year mark.

[CRAMBAM]

I don't see how. That's a LOT of money. And if you truly restore it, at what point is it no longer the same prop?

[StarFuryG7]

UPDATE:

Over at Blastr:

Remember those fans restoring that Trek TOS shuttle? They're almost done
By Trent Moore
Fri, 04/26/2013 - 10:54am

A group of Star Trek fans are almost finished with a massive renovation project to save an almost-lost space shuttle.

More: www.blastr.com/2013-4-26/remember-those-fans-restoring-trek-tos-shuttle-theyre-almost-done