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Clue: "Star Trek" series, familiarly

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Today’s Reveal Answer: Firestarter

Themed answers each START with a word describing something on FIRE:

• 63A 1980 Stephen King novel, and what the answer to each starred clue literally has? : FIRESTARTER and “FIRE” STARTER
• 17A *”She Don’t Use Jelly” band, with “The” : … FLAMING LIPS
• 26A *Mel Brooks Western starring Cleavon Little : BLAZING SADDLES
• 46A *Enthusiastic praise : GLOWING TRIBUTE

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Today’s Wiki-est Amazonian Googlies

1 some rodent pets : mice.

About 40% of all mammal species are rodents, belong to the order Rodentia. The key characteristic of rodents is a single pair of continuously growing incisors in both the lower and upper jaws.

5 Nancy in the National Women’s Hall of Fame : PELOSI

Nancy Pelosi first became Speaker of the House in 2007, and was the 60th person to hold that position. Ms. Pelosi represents a district not far from here, which covers most of San Francisco. She was the first Californian, the first Italian-American and the first woman to be Speaker of the House. As Speaker of the House is second-in-line to the presidency, after the Vice President, Nancy Pelosi was for many years the highest-ranking female politician in US history. That was until Kamala Harris became Vice President in 2021.

The National Women’s Hall of Fame is located in Seneca Falls, New York, which was home to the nation’s first women’s rights convention, in 1848. The Hall was established in 1969, when it was hosted by Eisenhower College, which is also in Seneca Falls. The current facility opened for visitors in 1979. I was lucky enough to spend a very uplifting afternoon there several years ago ….

11 Reno’s st. : NEV

Reno, Nevada was named in honor of Major General Jesse Lee Reno, a Union officer killed in the Civil War. The city has a famous “Reno Arch”, a structure that stands over the main street. The arch was erected in 1926 to promote an exposition planned for the following year. After the expo, the city council decided to keep the arch and held a competition to decide what wording should be displayed, and the winner was “The Biggest Little City in the World”.

14 Water or elec. : UTIL

Utility (util.)

15 Buildings in the Pueblo Revival style, e.g. : ADOBES

The Pueblo Revival style of architecture is also known as the Santa Fe style. The style developed in the early 1900s and is most commonly found in New Mexico.

17 *”She Don’t Use Jelly” band, with “The” : … FLAMING LIPS

The Flaming Lips are a rock band from Oklahoma City that formed in 1983. I won’t expound here on how the band apparently chose its name. It’s a little “out there” …

20 One of the Bobbsey Twins : FLOSSIE

The “Bobbsey Twins” series of children’s novels was first written by Edward Stratemeyer in 1904. Stratemeyer used the pseudonym Laura Lee Hope, as did subsequent authors who wrote 72 books in the series between 1904 and 1979. The title characters are two sets of fraternal twins, one named Bert and Nan (who are 12) and the other named Flossie and Freddie (who are 6).

21 Ticket marketplace with a rhyming name : STUBHUB

StubHub is an online ticket exchange business that is owned by eBay. StubHub acts as the middleman between buyers and sellers of event tickets, whether those buyers and sellers are individuals or large organizations.

26 *Mel Brooks Western starring Cleavon Little : BLAZING SADDLES

“Blazing Saddles” is a 1974 Mel Brooks movie that has become a modern-day classic. I really only enjoy one Mel Brooks film, and “Blazing Saddles” isn’t it. Just in case you’re interested, I very much enjoy “Young Frankenstein” …

Actor Cleavon Little is best known for playing Sheriff Bart in the Mel Brooks film “Blazing Saddles”. Little had a sister, DeEtta West. She sang, along with Nelson Pigford, the “Rocky” theme “Gonna Fly Now”.

33 Brand in the eye care aisle : RENU

“ReNu” is a brand name of contact lens products sold by Bausch & Lomb.

36 __ Roll : TOOTSIE

Tootsie Rolls were developed by an Austrian candy maker called Leo Hirschfeld in New York City in 1896. Hirschfeld named the candy after his daughter, who had the nickname “Tootsie”. A couple of derivative products have become quite popular, namely Tootsie Pops and Tootsie Roll Midgees.

39 Mensch : NICE GUY

“Mensch” is a word that comes to us via Yiddish, and is ultimately derived from the German “mensch” meaning “human being”. We use the term to describe someone of integrity and honor.

43 __ of Reason : AGE

Thomas Paine’s pamphlet known as “The Age of Reason” (published in three parts, in 1794, 1795 and 1807) is critical of mainstream religion and also challenges the legitimacy of the Bible.

45 Med. condition treated by Ritalin : ADHD

The “official” name for the condition we sometimes still refer to as “attention deficit disorder” (ADD) is “attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder” (ADHD).

Ritalin is a trade name for the drug methylphenidate that is used for treatment of ADHD and narcolepsy. Methylphenidate has a similar structure and similar properties to the drug cocaine, although it is less potent.

51 “Hamilton” creator __-Manuel Miranda : LIN

Lin-Manuel Miranda is a composer and playwright from New York City, and the creator and star of the hit Broadway musicals “Hamilton” and “In the Heights”. Miranda also co-wrote the songs for the 2016 Disney animated feature “Moana”. He started composing early, and wrote jingles as a child. One of those jingles was later used by Eliot Spitzer in his 2006 gubernatorial campaign.

52 Ward of “FBI” : SELA

Sela Ward is an American actress who won Emmys for her role on the TV show “Sisters” in 1994 and for her role on “Once and Again” in 2000. She is a published author and released her autobiography “Homesick: A Memoir” in 2012.

57 The U.S., in México : EL NORTE

“El Norte” is the term many people in Central America use for the United States and Canada. It translates from Spanish as “the North”.

62 Ballpark fig. : EST

The phrase “in the ballpark” means “within an acceptable range of approximation”. The term was coined in the mid-fifties as jargon used by scientists developing atomic weapons. The first “ballpark” in this sense was the broad area within which a missile was forecast to return to earth.

63 1980 Stephen King novel, and what the answer to each starred clue literally has? : FIRESTARTER

Stephen King’s 1980 novel “Firestarter” was adapted into a movie of the same name in 1984 starring Drew Barrymore. Barrymore plays a girl with the power of pyrokinesis, the ability to create and control fire with the mind.

65 “The __ of Pooh” : TAO

Author Benjamin Hoff is best known for his 1982 book “The Tao of Pooh”, and a successor title published in 1992 called “The Te of Piglet”. Both books use the “Winnie-the-Pooh” stories to illustrate Taoist beliefs.

66 Cousin of the Bradys : OLIVER

Actor Robbie Rist is perhaps best known as a child actor, playing Cousin Oliver (Tyler) in the fifth and final season of “The Brady Bunch” sitcom. Later in life, Rist provided the voice of Michelangelo in the “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” series of films in the 1980s.

The famous sitcom “The Brady Bunch” originally aired from 1969 to 1974 on ABC. If you ever see a movie called “Yours, Mine and Ours” starring Lucille Ball and Henry Fonda (and remade with Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo), you might notice a similarity in storyline. It was because of the success of the 1968 movie that ABC decided to go ahead with the development of “The Brady Bunch”.

68 Chicago WNBA team : SKY

The Chicago Sky are a WNBA basketball team who play home games at Wintrust Arena, located in the South Loop neighborhood of Chicago. The Sky were founded in 2006, and the team’s mascot is a Sky Guy, a blue and yellow bird with a basketball for a head.

69 “__ on me”: “I’m delicate” : GO EASY

More and more delicate with the passing years …

70 IRS form figures : SSNS

The main purpose of a Social Security Number (SSN) is to track individuals for the purposes of taxation, although given its ubiquitous use, it is looking more and more like an identity number to me. The social security number system was introduced in 1936. Prior to 1986, an SSN was required only for persons with substantial income, so many children under 14 had no number assigned. For some years the IRS had a concern that a lot of people were claiming children on their tax returns who did not actually exist. So starting in 1986, the IRS made it a requirement to get an SSN for any dependents over the age of 5. Sure enough, seven million dependents “disappeared” in 1987. Today, a SSN is required for a child of any age in order to receive a tax exemption.

3 “Adieu,” across the Alps : CIAO

“Ciao” is Italian for “‘bye”. “Arrivederci” is more formal, and translates as “goodbye”.

4 Stately trees : ELMS

The Ulmus laevis deciduous tree that is native to Europe is commonly referred to as the European white elm, spreading elm and stately elm.

5 Sandwich made with a press : PANINI

In Italy, a sandwich made from sliced bread is called a “tramezzino”, while sandwiches made from non-sliced breads are called “panini” (singular “panino”). We’ve imported the plural term “panini” into English to describe a single pressed and toasted sandwich.

7 “haha! ur a riot!” : LOL!

Laugh out loud (LOL)

8 Japanese sashes : OBIS

The sash worn as part of traditional Japanese dress is known as an obi. The obi can be tied at the back in what is called a butterfly knot. The term “obi” is also used for the thick cotton belts that are an essential part of the outfits worn by practitioners of many martial arts. The color of the martial arts obi signifies the wearer’s skill level.

9 Mo. many Virgos are born : SEPT

The astrological sign Virgo is the sixth sign in the Zodiac, and is associated with the constellation of the same name. The Virgo constellation is related to maidens (virgins), purity and fertility.

12 Beige shade : ECRU

The color ecru is a grayish, yellowish brown. The word “ecru” comes from French and means “raw, unbleached”. “Ecru” has the same roots as our word “crude”.

13 Action word : VERB

Transitive verbs are those that can take direct objects, and intransitive verbs are those that do not. Examples of transitive verbs are “throw (the ball)” and “injure (a leg)”. Examples of intransitive verbs are “fall” and “sit”.

18 Old Rodeos, e.g. : ISUZUS

The Rodeo is a compact SUV that was produced by Isuzu for the North American market. At the same time, the Isuzu Rodeo name was used on compact pickup trucks sold in Japan.

24 __ Fridays : TGI

T.G.I. Fridays is an American restaurant chain that was founded in 1965 in New York City. Today there are over a thousand T.G.I. Fridays restaurants in over 50 countries. I think that Fridays has always been particularly successful overseas. I used to visit one a lot with my family when we lived in the Philippines, and I believe the most successful Fridays restaurant anywhere in the world is the one in Haymarket Leicester Square in London in the UK.

27 “Anna Karenina” writer : LEO TOLSTOY

I have to admit to not having read Leo Tolstoy’s “Anna Karenina”, but I did see the excellent 1977 British television adaptation starring Nicola Pagett. I also saw the 2012 film adaptation with a screenplay by Tom Stoppard and found that to be far from excellent, awful in fact. I am no Stoppard fan …

28 Picnic pest : ANT

Our term “picnic” comes from the French word that now has the same meaning, namely “pique-nique”. The original “pique-nique” was a fashionable potluck affair, and not necessarily held outdoors.

29 Male offspring : SON

The offspring is the immediate descendant born of a parent. The term “offspring” comes from the Old English “ofspring”, which had a similar meaning. Someone’s “offspring” “springs off” that person.

30 Singer DiFranco : ANI

Ani DiFranco is a folk-rock singer and songwriter. DiFranco has also been labeled a feminist icon, and in 2006 won the Woman of Courage Award from the National Organization for Women.

36 “Star Trek” series, familiarly : TNG

When Gene Roddenberry first proposed the science fiction series that became “Star Trek”, he marketed it as “Wagon Train to the Stars”, a pioneer-style Western in outer space. In fact, his idea was to produce something more like “Gulliver’s Travels”, as he intended to write episodes that were adventure stories on one level, but morality tales on another. Personally, I think that he best achieved this model with the spin-off series “Star Trek: The Next Generation” (TNG). If you watch individual episodes you will see thinly disguised treatments of moral issues such as racism, homosexuality, genocide etc. For my money, “The Next Generation” is the best of the whole franchise …

37 “At Seventeen” singer Janis : IAN

Janis Ian is a singer-songwriter, mainly of folk music, who was most successful in the sixties and seventies. Her most famous song by far is the 1975 recording “At Seventeen”. In more recent years, Ian has been published several times as a science-fiction author.

Janice Ian wrote her lovely song “At Seventeen“ when she herself was 22, looking back at that earlier age with a little maturity. The lyrics were inspired by a newspaper article she read about a teenage debutante who had learned the hard way that her popularity at school was not the answer to life’s problems.

38 Cobb salad ingredient : EGG

Ty Cobb’s first cousin, Robert H. Cobb, owned the Brown Derby chain of restaurants. One of his regular customers was the famous Sid Grauman, who ran Grauman’s Chinese Theater. Late one night, Grauman asked for a snack, and Cobb came up with a chopped salad simply made from ingredients he happened to have in the refrigerator. Grauman liked it so much that he continued to request it, and the Cobb salad was born.

40 Poolside structure : CABANA

Our word “cabana” comes from the Spanish “cabaña”, the word for a small hut or a cabin. We often use the term to describe a tent-like structure beside a pool.

41 College URL part : EDU

The .edu domain was one of the six original generic top-level domains specified. The complete original list is:

• .com (commercial enterprise)
• .net (entity involved in network infrastructure e.g. an ISP)
• .mil (US military)
• .org (not-for-profit organization)
• .gov (US federal government entity)
• .edu (college-level educational institution)

48 Recovering from anesthesia, say : IN A FOG

“Aisthesis” is the Greek word for “feeling”, from which “anaisthesia” is Greek for “want of feeling, lack of sensation”. And that’s how we get our English term “anesthesia”.

49 __ Pieces : REESE’S

Reese’s Pieces are an extension to the successful Peanut Butter Cups line. They are pieces of candy that look like M&Ms, but are filled with peanut butter.

53 Max Scherzer’s squad : METS

Max Scherzer is a professional baseball pitcher with the nickname “Mad Max”. Clearly, a great pitcher has great eyes. Scherzer’s eyes happen to be different colors; one blue and one brown.

54 “Out of Africa” writer Dinesen : ISAK

“Isak Dinesen” was the pen name of the Danish author Baroness Karen Blixen. Blixen’s most famous title by far is “Out of Africa”, her account of the time she spent living in Kenya.

55 Metric weight : KILO

Today, the gram is defined as one thousandth of a kilogram, with the kilogram being equal to the mass of a physical sample preserved by the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (well, up until 2019, when it became more hi-tech than I can explain!). Prior to 1960, the gram was defined as the weight of a cubic centimeter of pure water (at the temperature of melting ice).

56 Cleveland’s lake : ERIE

Cleveland, Ohio was named after the man who led the team that surveyed the area prior to the founding of the city. General Moses Cleaveland did his work in 1796 and then left Ohio, never to return again.

59 GPS suggestions : RTES

A global positioning system (GPS) might point out a route (rte.).

60 __ Choice Awards : TEEN

Fox television network’s Teen Choice Awards were created in 1999 to cater for the teen demographic, along the lines of the existing Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Awards. Sadly, the Teen Choice Awards have been plagued with controversy, with apparently well-founded claims that winners have been selected and sometimes notified even before voting has closed.

64 Actress Longoria : EVA

Eva Longoria is a fashion model and actress who had a regular role on TV’s “Desperate Housewives”, playing Gabrielle Solis. Her travel and food show “Eva Longoria: Searching for Mexico” premiered on CNN in 2023.

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Complete List of Clues/Answers

1 Some rodent pets : MICE 5 Nancy in the National Women’s Hall of Fame : PELOSI 11 Reno’s st. : NEV 14 Water or elec. : UTIL 15 Buildings in the Pueblo Revival style, e.g. : ADOBES 16 Hockey surface : ICE 17 *”She Don’t Use Jelly” band, with “The” : … FLAMING LIPS 19 “Not happy!” : GRR! 20 One of the Bobbsey Twins : FLOSSIE 21 Ticket marketplace with a rhyming name : STUBHUB 23 Self-storage rental : UNIT 25 “Dig in!” : EAT! 26 *Mel Brooks Western starring Cleavon Little : BLAZING SADDLES 33 Brand in the eye care aisle : RENU 34 Charged particle : ION 35 Ailing : ILL 36 __ Roll : TOOTSIE 39 Mensch : NICE GUY 42 Trivial criticism : NIT 43 __ of Reason : AGE 45 Med. condition treated by Ritalin : ADHD 46 *Enthusiastic praise : GLOWING TRIBUTE 51 “Hamilton” creator __-Manuel Miranda : LIN 52 Ward of “FBI” : SELA 53 Blunder : MISTAKE 57 The U.S., in México : EL NORTE 62 Ballpark fig. : EST 63 1980 Stephen King novel, and what the answer to each starred clue literally has? : FIRESTARTER 65 “The __ of Pooh” : TAO 66 Cousin of the Bradys : OLIVER 67 Brewery output : BEER 68 Chicago WNBA team : SKY 69 “__ on me”: “I’m delicate” : GO EASY 70 IRS form figures : SSNS

1 Play awkwardly, as a ground ball : MUFF 2 “‘__ be fun,’ they said … ” : IT’LL 3 “Adieu,” across the Alps : CIAO 4 Stately trees : ELMS 5 Sandwich made with a press : PANINI 6 Enter unobtrusively : EDGE IN 7 “haha! ur a riot!” : LOL! 8 Japanese sashes : OBIS 9 Mo. many Virgos are born : SEPT 10 Sent out : ISSUED 11 Device for one who’s afraid of the dark : NIGHT-LIGHT 12 Beige shade : ECRU 13 Action word : VERB 18 Old Rodeos, e.g. : ISUZUS 22 Defective : BAD 24 __ Fridays : TGI 26 Oven setting : BROIL 27 “Anna Karenina” writer : LEO TOLSTOY 28 Picnic pest : ANT 29 Male offspring : SON 30 Singer DiFranco : ANI 31 Dodge : ELUDE 32 __ as a fox : SLY 36 “Star Trek” series, familiarly : TNG 37 “At Seventeen” singer Janis : IAN 38 Cobb salad ingredient : EGG 40 Poolside structure : CABANA 41 College URL part : EDU 44 Aliens, for short : ETS 47 Wisdom partner : WIT 48 Recovering from anesthesia, say : IN A FOG 49 __ Pieces : REESE’S 50 Possible reply to “Will you be there?” : I’LL TRY 53 Max Scherzer’s squad : METS 54 “Out of Africa” writer Dinesen : ISAK 55 Metric weight : KILO 56 Cleveland’s lake : ERIE 58 Heavenly bodies, poetically : ORBS 59 GPS suggestions : RTES 60 __ Choice Awards : TEEN 61 Prints the wrong tickets, say : ERRS 64 Actress Longoria : EVA

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Lost for a generation, original ‘Star Trek’ Enterprise model finally completes its voyage home

DALLAS (AP) — The first model of the USS Enterprise — used in the opening credits of the original “Star Trek” television series — has boldly gone back home, returning to creator Gene Roddenberry’s son decades after it went missing.

The model's disappearance sometime in the 1970s had become the subject of lore, so it caused a stir when it popped up on eBay last fall. The sellers quickly took it down, and then contacted Dallas-based Heritage Auctions to authenticate it. Last weekend, the auction house facilitated the model's return.

Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry, CEO of Roddenberry Entertainment, said he's thrilled to have the model that had graced the desk of his father, who died in 1991 at age 70.

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“This is not going home to adorn my shelves," Roddenberry said. “This is going to get restored and we’re working on ways to get it out so the public can see it and my hope is that it will land in a museum somewhere.”

Heritage's executive vice president, Joe Maddalena, said the auction house was contacted by people who said they'd discovered it a storage unit, and when it was brought into their Beverly Hills office, he and a colleague “instantly knew that it was the real thing.”

They reached out to Roddenberry, who said he appreciates that everyone involved agreed returning the model was the right thing to do. He wouldn't go into details on the agreement reached but said “I felt it important to reward that and show appreciation for that.”

Maddalena said the model vanished in the 1970s after Gene Roddenberry loaned it to makers of "Star Trek: The Motion Picture," which was released in 1979.

“No one knew what happened to it," Rod Roddenberry said.

The 3-foot (0.91-meter) model of the USS Enterprise was used in the show's original pilot episode as well as the opening credits of the resulting TV series, and was the prototype for the 11-foot (3-meter) version featured in the series' episodes. The larger model is on display at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.

The original “Star Trek” television series, which aired in the late 1960s, kicked off an ever-expanding multiverse of cultural phenomena, with TV and movie spinoffs and conventions where a fanbase of zealous and devoted Trekkies can’t get enough of memorabilia.

This USS Enterprise model would easily sell for more than $1 million at auction, but really “it’s priceless," Maddalena said.

“It could sell for any amount and I wouldn’t be surprised because of what it is," he said. “It is truly a cultural icon.”

Roddenberry, who was just a young boy when the model went missing, said he has spotty memories of it, “almost a deja vu.” He said it wasn't something he'd thought much about until people began contacting him after it appeared on eBay.

“I don't think I really, fully comprehended at first that this was the first Enterprise ever created,” he said.

He said he has no idea if there was something nefarious behind the disappearance all those decades ago or if it was just mistakenly lost, but it would be interesting to find out more about what happened.

“This piece is incredibly important and it has its own story and this would be a great piece of the story,” Roddenberry said.

Thankfully, he said, the discovery has cleared up one rumor: That it was destroyed because as a young boy, he'd thrown it into a pool.

“Finally I’m vindicated after all these years,” he said with a laugh.

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Star Trek: Lower Decks’ creator is turning Sega’s Golden Axe into an animated comedy

Comedy Central orders a 10-episode series from Mike McMahan, adapting the hack-and-slash classic

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Sega’s arcade hack-and-slash beat-’em-up Golden Axe is being adapted for television. In something of an unexpected twist, that TV series will be an animated comedy. Mike McMahan ( Star Trek: Lower Decks , Solar Opposites ) and Joe Chandler ( American Dad! ) will co-write the first episode and executive produce the 10-episode series, Comedy Central announced Wednesday. The announcement came two days after Paramount revealed that season 5 of Lower Decks would be the series’ final installment.

Golden Axe heroes Ax Battler, Tyris Flare, and Gilius Thunderhead will face down the evil Death Adder in the animated comedy, and they’ll be joined by an all-new character: inexperienced adventurer Hampton Squib, voiced by Community ’s Danny Pudi. Joining Pudi in the voice cast are Matthew Rhys ( The Americans ) as lightning-powered dwarf Gilius, Lisa Gilroy ( Jury Duty ) as fiery swordswoman Tyris, and Liam McIntyre ( Spartacus ) as the earthshaking Ax — who does not fight with an ax, and is described as “a barbarian warrior with a strict code of honor and sweet golden retriever demeanor.”

Comedy Central’s Golden Axe will feature another deep-cut character from the franchise: Chronos “Evil” Lait, voiced by Carl Tart ( Star Trek: Lower Decks ). Chronos is the black panther/human hybrid warrior from Sega Genesis sequel Golden Axe 3 , who was turned into a beastman by that game’s big bad boss, Damned Hellstrike. This is a game series with really good character names, folks.

Animation studio Titmouse, responsible for series like Big Mouth , Frog and Toad , The Legend of Vox Machina , and much more, is animating the Golden Axe series.

Golden Axe is one of several Sega adaptations in the works. The third Sonic the Hedgehog movie will hit theaters later this year (with Keanu Reeves joining the franchise as Shadow ), and a spinoff centered on Knuckles the Echidna drops on Paramount Plus in April. There’s also a Streets of Rage movie in the works , with John Wick franchise creator Derek Kolstad at the helm.

Sega has been trying for the better part of a decade to turn its video game properties into film and television projects . The company has previously announced adaptations of games like Shinobi and Rent-A-Hero , without much to show for it. But 2020’s Sonic the Hedgehog movie appears to have accelerated Sega’s plans, with more projects finally coming to fruition.

Golden Axe is also being revived in video game form. At last year’s The Game Awards, Sega revealed modern iterations of its medieval fantasy beat-’em-up alongside new versions of Jet Set Radio , Crazy Taxi , Shinobi , and Streets of Rage .

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The first model of the USS Enterprise, the starship that appeared in the opening credits of the original “Star Trek” television series, has been returned to Eugene Roddenberry Jr., the son of the creator of the series, decades after it went missing.

“After a long journey, she’s home,” Roddenberry wrote on social media Thursday.

For die-hard Trekkies, the model’s disappearance had become the subject of folklore, so an eBay listing last fall, with a starting bid of $1,000, didn’t go unnoticed.

“Red alert,” someone in an online costume and prop-making forum wrote, linking to the listing.

Roddenberry’s father, Gene Roddenberry, created the television series, which first aired in 1966 and ran for three seasons. It spawned numerous spinoffs, several films and a franchise that has included conventions and legions of devoted fans with an avid interest in memorabilia.

The seller of the model was bombarded with inquiries and quickly took the listing down.

The seller contacted Heritage Auctions to authenticate it, the auction house’s executive vice president, Joe Maddalena, said Saturday. As soon as the seller, who said he had found it in a storage unit, brought it to the auction house’s office in Beverly Hills, California, Maddalena said he knew it was real.

“That’s when I reached out to Rod to say, ‘We’ve got this. This is it,’ ” he said, adding that the model was being transferred to Roddenberry.

Roddenberry, who is known as Rod, said Saturday that he would restore the model and seek to have it displayed in a museum or other institution.

He said reclaiming the item had only piqued his interest in the circumstances about its disappearance.

“Whoever borrowed it or misplaced it or lost it, something happened somewhere,” he said. “Where’s it been?”

It was unclear how the model ended up in the storage unit and who had it before its discovery.

The original USS Enterprise, a 33-inch model, was mostly made of solid wood by Richard Datin, a model maker for the Howard Anderson Co., a special-effects company that created the opening credits for some of the 20th century’s biggest TV shows.

An enlarged 11-foot model was used in subsequent “Star Trek” television episodes, and is part of the permanent collection of the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, where it was donated by Paramount Studios in 1974.

Roddenberry, who said he gave the seller a “reward” for its recovery but did not disclose the terms, assembled a group of “Star Trek” production veterans, model makers and restoration specialists in Beverly Hills to authenticate the find.

The group included a “Star Trek” art supervisor, Michael Okuda, and his wife, Denise, an artist on “Star Trek” television series and films, and Gary Kerr, a “Trek x-pert” who served as technical consultant for the Smithsonian during a 2016 restoration of the 11-foot model.

“We spent at least an hour photographing it, inspecting the paint, inspecting the dirt, looking under the base, the patina on the stem, the grain in the wood,” Roddenberry said.

“It was a unanimous ‘This is 100% the one,’ ” he said.

Gene Roddenberry, who died in 1991, kept the original model, which appeared in the show’s opening credits and pilot episode, on his desk.

Kerr compared the model to 1960s photos he had of the model on Roddenberry’s desk.

“The wood grain matched exactly, so that was it,” he said Saturday.

The model went missing after Roddenberry lent it to the makers of “Star Trek: The Motion Picture,” which was released in 1979, Maddalena said.

“This is a major discovery,” he said, likening the model to the ruby slippers from “The Wizard of Oz,” a prop stolen in 2005 and recovered by the FBI in 2018, and that Heritage Auctions is selling.

While the slippers represent hope, he said, the starship Enterprise model “represents dreams.”

“It’s a portal to what could be,” he said.

This article originally appeared in The New York Times .

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“With more aid, Ukraine will probably be able to solidify its defenses and keep its most important cities,” said my colleague Julian Barnes, who covers intelligence and national security.

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Ukraine’s official goal is to retake all of the Donbas and Crimea. Many experts are skeptical that Ukraine can do that, especially after last year’s disappointing counteroffensive. And some critics of the aid package argue that it won’t even allow Ukraine to stop Russia’s advance. Senator J.D. Vance, an Ohio Republican, says that U.S. manufacturing can’t currently keep pace with Russian weapons production. The war simply matters more to Russia than the West, and Russia is dedicating more resources to it, these critics have argued.

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The most realistic scenario for Ukraine is probably not a return to the prewar borders. The nation would be smaller, but it could retain most of its territory, then integrate itself economically and strategically with Europe. That’s a lot better than outright defeat.

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Eugene 'Rod' Roddenberry, CEO of Roddenberry Entertainment, said he's thrilled to have the model that had graced the desk of his father, who died in 1991.

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The first model of the USS Enterprise is displayed at Heritage Auctions in Los Angeles on April 13. The model – used in the original “Star Trek” television series – has been returned to Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry, the son of “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry, decades after it went missing in the 1970s. Josh David Jordan/Heritage Auctions via Associated Press

DALLAS — The first model of the USS Enterprise – used in the opening credits of the original “Star Trek” television series – has boldly gone back home, returning to creator Gene Roddenberry’s son decades after it went missing.

The model’s disappearance sometime in the 1970s had become the subject of lore, so it caused a stir when it popped up on eBay last fall. The sellers quickly took it down, then contacted Dallas-based Heritage Auctions to authenticate it. Last weekend, the auction house facilitated the model’s return.

Eugene “Rod” Roddenberry, CEO of Roddenberry Entertainment, said he’s thrilled to have the model that had graced the desk of his father, who died in 1991 at age 70.

“This is not going home to adorn my shelves,” Roddenberry said. “This is going to get restored, and we’re working on ways to get it out so the public can see it, and my hope is that it will land in a museum somewhere.”

Heritage’s executive vice president, Joe Maddalena, said the auction house was contacted by people who said they’d discovered it a storage unit, and when it was brought into their Beverly Hills office, he and a colleague “instantly knew that it was the real thing.”

They reached out to Roddenberry, who said he appreciated that everyone involved agreed returning the model was the right thing to do. He wouldn’t go into details on the agreement reached but said “I felt it important to reward that and show appreciation for that.” Advertisement

Maddalena said the model vanished in the 1970s after Gene Roddenberry loaned it to the makers of “Star Trek: The Motion Picture,” which was released in 1979.

“No one knew what happened to it,” Rod Roddenberry said.

The 3-foot model of the USS Enterprise was used in the show’s original pilot episode, as well as the opening credits of the resulting TV series, and was the prototype for the 11-foot version featured in the series’ episodes. The larger model is on display at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum.

The original “Star Trek” television series, which aired in the late 1960s, kicked off an ever-expanding multiverse of cultural phenomena, with TV and movie spinoffs and conventions where a fanbase of zealous and devoted Trekkies can’t get enough of memorabilia.

This USS Enterprise model would easily sell for more than $1 million at auction, but really, “it’s priceless,” Maddalena said.

“It could sell for any amount, and I wouldn’t be surprised because of what it is,” he said. “It is truly a cultural icon.” Advertisement

Roddenberry, who was just a young boy when the model went missing, said he has spotty memories of it, “almost a deja vu.” He said it wasn’t something he’d thought much about until people began contacting him after it appeared on eBay.

“I don’t think I really, fully comprehended at first that this was the first Enterprise ever created,” he said.

He said he had no idea if there was something nefarious behind the disappearance all those decades ago or if it was just mistakenly lost, but it would be interesting to find out more about what happened.

“This piece is incredibly important, and it has its own story, and this would be a great piece of the story,” Roddenberry said.

Thankfully, he said, the discovery has cleared up one rumor: that it was destroyed because, as a young boy, he’d thrown it into a pool.

“Finally, I’m vindicated after all these years,” he said with a laugh.

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