{"id":2241,"date":"2016-01-21T13:05:25","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T20:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=2241"},"modified":"2016-03-12T13:12:41","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T20:12:41","slug":"original-starship-enterprise-is-getting-a-face-lift-for-50th-anniversary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?p=2241","title":{"rendered":"Original Starship Enterprise Is Getting a Face-Lift for 50th anniversary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #5b5b5b;\">The Smithsonian&#8217;s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. has begun work on preserving the\u00a0<a style=\"font-weight: inherit; font-style: inherit; color: #3366cc;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/29762-uss-enterprise-different-vessels-video.html\">11-foot (3.4 meters) model craft<\/a>\u00a0in an effort to make the ship resemble how it looked in the episode &#8220;The Trouble with Tribbles.&#8221; That episode was the last known modification to the model during the run of &#8220;Star Trek.&#8221; The model appeared in all 79 episodes of the original &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; TV series, which ran from 1966 to 1969.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #5b5b5b;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.space.com\/31833-star-trek-uss-enterprise-model-smithsonian-restoration.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"2242\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/?attachment_id=2242\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2016\/03\/enterprise-restoration-nasm-1.jpg?fit=1000%2C586&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1000,586\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"enterprise-restoration-nasm-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2016\/03\/enterprise-restoration-nasm-1.jpg?fit=640%2C375&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-2242\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2016\/03\/enterprise-restoration-nasm-1.jpg?resize=640%2C375&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"enterprise-restoration-nasm-1\" width=\"640\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2016\/03\/enterprise-restoration-nasm-1.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mattfife.com\/wp-content\/themes\/mattTheme\/headerimgs\/2016\/03\/enterprise-restoration-nasm-1.jpg?resize=300%2C175&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Smithsonian&#8217;s National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C. has begun work on preserving the\u00a011-foot (3.4 meters) model craft\u00a0in an effort to make the ship resemble how it looked in the episode &#8220;The Trouble with Tribbles.&#8221; That episode was the last known modification to the model during the run of &#8220;Star Trek.&#8221; The model appeared in all 79 episodes of the original &#8220;Star Trek&#8221; TV series, which ran from 1966 to 1969.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cool","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4WECr-A9","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2241"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2247,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2241\/revisions\/2247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mattfife.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}