Tag: EMP Museum
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‘Star Trek’ at 50: How a space saga inspired a generation of scientists, engineers and writers
An exhibit at Seattle’s EMP museum features costumes and props from 50 years of “Star Trek” shows, including the bridge from the original Starship Enterprise set. (Credit: Brady Harvey / EMP Museum) Fifty years after “Star Trek” made its debut, the science-fiction saga’s biggest legacy may well be its inspirational impact on millions of scientists and engineers, writers…
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‘Building Star Trek’ connects 50-year-old artifacts with 23rd-century technologies
A scaled-down model of the Starship Enterprise hangs from the ceiling at “Star Trek: Exploring New Worlds,” an exhibit at Seattle’s EMP Museum marking the 50th anniversary of the TV show’s premiere. (GeekWire photo by Kevin Lisota) The vision of the future that “Star Trek” laid out in 1966 may have been bright and shiny, but…
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Video: ‘Star Trek’ shows its age – and agelessness – in EMP Museum’s 50th-anniversary exhibition
From several yards away, the bridge of the Starship Enterprise looks as if it was beamed down from the 23rd century into the “Star Trek: Exploring New Worlds” exhibition that opens Saturday at Seattle’s EMP Museum. But up close, you can tell it’s a 50-year-old movie prop, with rocker switches from the ’60s and bits of…