A Photo Of The Starship Enterprise Model And The Men Who Built It In 1965 ~ Gene Roddenberry

A photo of the Starship Enterprise model
and the men who built it in 1965.


When Gene Roddenberry pitched his idea
for a space based television series in the mid-1960s,
he simply described the Starship Enterprise
as a ‘United States ship.’

When the show was picked up for production,
the art director, Matt Jeffries,
was tasked with making a realistic-looking,
futuristic starship model.

The unique design of the space craft
has stood the test of time and variations
of Jeffries’ model are still being used
in the spinoff TV shows and movies still today.