Enlarge / This mysterious mannequin appeared on eBay with little fanfare. (credit score: eBay)
The primary-ever mannequin of Star Trek’s USS Enterprise NCC-1701 has been returned to the Roddenberry household, in keeping with an ABC Information report.
The three-foot mannequin was used to shoot the pilot and credit scene for Star Trek’s unique sequence within the 1960s and was used often for photographs all through the sequence. (Usually, a bigger, 11-foot mannequin was used for photographs after the pilot.) The mannequin additionally sat on sequence creator Gene Roddenberry’s desk for a number of years.
It went lacking within the late 1970s; historians and collectors imagine it belonged to Roddenberry himself, that he lent it to a manufacturing home engaged on Star Trek: The Movement Image, and that it was by no means returned. Its whereabouts have been unknown till final fall, when a list for a mysterious mannequin of the Enterprise appeared on eBay.
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