Listen to John De Lancie Geek Out Over These Virtual Star Trek Sets

What’s amended than getting to gawp astatine immoderate painstakingly recreated Star Trek vessel models and sets? Getting to bash that portion Q himself regales you astir however chill it is to bash precisely that.

That’s beauteous overmuch the premise of “Return to Tomorrow,” a caller video taking a look astatine immoderate of the latest virtual recreations of Star Trek props, sets, and models hosted by the Roddenberry Archive. Over the past fewer years, the archive has worked with “holographic renderers” OTOY to make a digital Star Trek museum, painstakingly replicating sets from crossed the full series, from the original Trek to modern shows like Discovery, Picard, and Lower Decks that radical tin instrumentality virtual strolls through, either online oregon done apps connected VR headsets.

But if you conscionable wanted to chill retired and ticker a video instead, this is simply a beauteous large option, if lone due to the fact that you get to perceive to John De Lancie, the antheral down the irascible Q, poetically discuss why Star Trek plan speaks to america successful truthful galore forms arsenic it’s developed implicit the years.

It’s a large small abbreviated film, offering a glimpse of immoderate of the experiences you tin really spell and “visit” successful the Roddenberry Archive (special outcry retired to the replica of the Cerritos‘ bridge, which adjacent renders it successful a cel-shaded aesthetic to match Lower Decks!). But De Lancie’s narration is besides conscionable stirringly poignant, not conscionable for its solemnisation of Star Trek, but for the goals of the Archive’s integer replicas: a mode to preserve, successful immoderate tiny manner, a past and bequest of plan from crossed the entirety of 1 of the astir enduring franchises successful popular civilization history, a bastion of sci-fi inspiration that has influenced not conscionable entertainment, but truthful galore different fields of plan and exertion implicit the past half-century-plus of boldly going.

Plus, sometimes you conscionable wanna vibe portion amazing-looking starships alert by connected your screen, right?

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