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“The director preferred promoting his projects quietly, but concurred Paramount needed to remove Star Trek’s stigma. Abrams would exaggerate his preference for other shows to Star Trek as a child to the press, with statements like “I’m not a Star Trek fan” and “this movie is not made for Star Trek fans necessarily”. “

The Karpeles Manuscript Library and Museum (www.karpeles.com) acquired much of Mr. Probert’s wonderful work you speak of for ST:TNG some time ago. The collection has been touring their various facilities for almost 10 years. For those unfamiliar with The Karpeles, it is the world’s largest, private collection of rare and historically significant documents, manuscripts, letters and art.

My company, Oculente, Ltd., leases office space from The Karpeles Porter Hall location in Buffalo, NY. I believe the Probert drawings are in secure storage in my building now.

The Karpeles makes digital scans of selected documents in their possession and publishes them on their website. However I don’t see the Probert collection online.

Star Trek fans should see this work!

I’m on the Karpeles Advisory Board and have done volunteer work for them for probably a decade. I’ll check with the museum director and offer to scan the Probert collection at no cost. Perhaps there is a way to legally publish and share them online since not everyone can get to one of their locations.

I used to work for Applied Graphics Technologies in Rochester, NY. We did all of the document scanning and digital media asset management for the National Holocaust Museum as well as archival work for Steven Spielberg.

Oculente has the equipment to do it and I’ve got the background. Let me see if I can make it happen!

Perhaps you can clarify something since you were present at the interview.

Mr. Zimmerman mentioned that JJ is a “huge fan of the show” when Mr. Abrams was consistently beginning his interviews and speeches by stating he was never a fan, or not much of one.

Is your sense that Mr. Zimmerman meant that Abrams has since become a fan or is it something else?

Thanks.

Next would be the NX01 bridge, maybe not all modern or as future tech as TNG or VOY but its simple and it works. We in the 21st century are used to that and it is the familiar style we know. But one bridge that has been overlooked but it is just as stunning in its workmanship and design is 1701-B from ST-Generations.

I agree the spinoffs will pass the test of time. In many ways they already have. The only reason everyone is obsessed with TOS right now is because of several factors:
1) TOSR
2) The new movie being based on the original
3) TOS being the first Star Trek show on Blu-ray

The time will come for the spinoffs.

For me, TOS was the worst of the Star Trek series, not because it wasn’t excellent, it was, but because I grew up on TNG/DS9/VOY and those three shows will always be my Star Trek. Those were the shows that inspired my imagination and made me a life-long Trekkie. I love everything about the TNG era; the sets, the costumes, the equipment, the characters, the stories, the graphics, the ships, etc. Herman Zimmerman was a large part of that and he will always have my thanks, along with the entire cast and crew of all the Star Trek shows and movies.

Agreed. Next to the TOS bridge (which beats all), that one was the best!