The two versions (medical/science) differ in sound clips, displays and scanner designs.

Looks like it’s gonna be either Entertainment Earth or directly through Diamond.

http://www.startrekexp.com

The Mego communicators and tricorder? Ugh! But the tricorder did come with something more cool than the thing itself — a professionally edited audiocassette of about 15 minutes of genuine Trek audio (*not* taped off the TV so no background noise!) It was a nice kluge of action parts of “Where No Man Has Gone Before” and “Corbomite Maneuver” with a Spock line from “Mudd’s Women” to close it. In the pre-home video days this was fantastic to me, and I wore that cassette out on my own deck, a black-and-silver recorder from Sears that I thought looked closer to a tricorder than that Mego thing. Thankfully a store friend gave me the tape without having to buy the tricorder.

Actually, for a 10-year-old kid of limited exposure and resources like me, it was hard to even establish what the authentic look was. Back then I watched a lot of Trek in black and white, and the times I saw it in color, the odds were that TV didn’t have great color because the tint was misadjusted as they often were. Plus there weren’t a lot of print references — not even the cover pics on “The Making of Star Trek” helped much! Now start to factor in how the effects themselves were done, sometimes with lighting bouncing off the blue screen throwing a bluish cast on the big E model. So in those early days of getting into Star Trek, my brother and I would debate whether the ship was gray or light blue.

Often, I thought the ship was light blue — an influence in those days was the photo on the box of the AMT Enterprise kit, where the model was lit with a bluish cast (seen here: http://tinyurl.com/6atpvj). So one of the Enterprise kits I built — oh, there were several thanks to those shitty, saggy nacelles — I spray-painted light blue!

It was only later in the ’70s that better color references came along like the Star Trek Poster Books that confirmed the Enterprise as gray.

Let me know what you are going to charge for the mods and count me in. And did you just call yourself a neohippie MAKE freak?