Original Star Trek Galileo Spacecraft - Where Is It Today? | Video
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- čas přidán 30. 06. 2024
- The TV prop builder, Gene Winfield, 'beams' back to the time of construction to recount the backstory of the ship. It is currently being restored, more info about the project can be found at www.galileorestoration.com. --- How The Ship Was Restored to "Flight Status": goo.gl/57myht
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I have met Gene at car shows. What a talented builder. Did not realize he had a hand in Star Trek. I have watch Star Trek since it started in mid 1960s.
Thank you Gene.
I was at that Star Trek Convention in Ohio where you showed up after being contacted by the gal who (at the time) owned it. We were both members of "Starfleet, The International Star Trek Fan Club", which was broken down into various chapters all over the world. Our Chapter, the USS LaGrange, based in Akron, OH., did that convention you attended. The gal who owned it then (I won't mention her name) was having financial difficulties raising the amount of money needed to fully restore it, which had been her plan. For a long time, it sat, covered up, in an airplane hanger in Akron, OH. I'm glad that she finally sold it to people who have the desire to rebuild it to its former glory, and perhaps get it into the Smithsonian museum.
Galileo 7 was always one of my favorite episodes. Gene as a life long Trek fan I thank you for building her
Wow, Gene Winfield, what a lovely guy! Thanks so much for taking the time to tell us about the Galileo. Cheers.
guys like him are the real stars of star trek
Yeah. Die hard fans and believers
I saw it on the 78 freeway in Vista CA. 1980 to 1984. Blew my mind. Almost jumped out of my car.
I walked into the Houston Space Center Museum and I was so pleasantly surprised to see the Galileo Shuttlecraft sitting right in front of me. I had seen this video so I knew it was restored, but I was shocked to be able to walk right up to a sci-fi masterpiece!
It's up in Ticonderoga New York now.
I've had a Galileo Christmas tree ornament for almost 30 years. The design was beautiful!!!
These were the true creators of si-fi. All hand made, hard work, and a lot of imagination. No computers making it easy. Good stuff, good times. Thank you for posting a large piece of my youth.
Just to be clear, We are all glad you were a part of it too!!
Thank you so much Gene, you interview is as valuable as the Galileo you created. Being a guy who owned a body shop back in 1970, I really feel your words regarding the sanding and priming and painting. Blessing to you, thanks for sharing your memories with us.
it's amazing how much work was involved to make this appear the way it did on TV, but nowadays a computer can do all the work. I truly admire the creativeness and hard work of the people of the past having to work with less than we have today.
Appreciate your comment,. I scrolled down just to see if anyone in the entire comment thread was sane, and you restored my faith in humankind. Thanks!
Movie props like this are what I would expect to see at a place like Universal Studios.
what an amazing story. And a very kewl and intelligent man, Gene! He is a star!
I couldn't believe I found this story by accident. How amazing that it exists!
thanks to whomever got this story!
This guy is such a wonderful storyteller. I could listen to him all day.
I wish I had seen this last week. Last Sunday I saw Gene at the Grand National Roadster Show in Pomona, CA. He was there Linda Vaughn, Miss Hurst Golden Shifter from the mid 60's.
Very interesting! And I'm so glad that they used this Galileo to film our fearless crew both inside and out.
Glad to see that this piece of memorabilia isn't lost. Great story!
Watching this gave me a huge geekgasm. I am spent. Thanks for the upload!
When I was 17 my then-boyfriend, Roger Heisman, had the Galileo sitting on his parents' lawn in Palos Verdes. Because it sat there in all weathers the ceiling was rotting away and there were a few black widow spiders living inside. He also had a shit-ton of Trek and other props.
Thanks for that fascinating explanation of the creation of the shuttle craft, I was hooked on every word from start to finish. Gene Winfield you are a gentleman and a creative genius.
I remember seeing this shuttle in storage center in Bermuda Dunes, California, in the late 80s. Right off Interstate 10 at Washington & Varner Rd. I walked through it every time I happened to be there. It disappeared in the early 90s.
We're glad you were a part of it, too, Gene! Thank you! Whenever I did Star Trek first-person fanfic, I was usually a redshirt single-stripe looie named Jerry O'Neill, whose duty assignment was shuttlecraft pilot. Lt. O'Neill was a recurring ST:TOS background character who, unfortunately, nobody except myself ever noticed, he also did some transporter duty from time to time. ANYWAY: To fly your lovely little lighter around the Great White Lady would be *BEST DUTY ASSIGNMENT EVER* and while your "Tesseract" magic (the interior is larger than the exterior) is forgivable, your "Hot Car" magic is absolutely unforgivable!! You really make me want one of these! Probably terrible for the environment, wasteful of resources (meh, safer than the Transporter, according to McCoy) but beautiful, beautiful little boat, covet covet yum want one already
Thank you so much for sharing a piece of our television heritage with the community and for the generations to come. How impressive is the ingenuity of this gentleman. Thank you, and Happy New Year, Ciao, L
Thanks for the memories Gene.
Absolutely amazing! Thank you Gene for your ingenuity and craftsmanship. You are a part of my history and I hope I get to see the Galileo one day.
Gene Winfield thank you so much for all you did to make ST the amazing show it still is. I watched when it first hit the tv screen and I can tell you Star Trek was so far ahead of it's time, we were used to single camera motion, crappy sci fi monsters wrapped in tin foil and special effects. The fact they did the best they could while the whole time the studio cut their budget to nothing makes it even more amazing that people like Mr. Winfield stepped up and did things for free.
A very enjoyable documentary, its wonderful to hear the story of this gentlemen with so much genuine pride in his work and appreciation for the people that love that work.
I just saw the Galileo spacecraft sitting in the visitor center at Space Center Houston, NASA. :) Had no idea it was there!
Yes, sir. You were a small part of an outstanding moment in entertainment history. Your small part was perfectly executed and when combined with the excellent work of others created a cultural touch stone that was far greater than the sum of it's parts.
I saw this Spaceship at Space Center Houston in 2018. At that time it was in the cafeteria.
Thanks for sharing Gene! We all knew as kids this stuff was "real" and it was not until adults told us that we would have to wait. But your skills and magic did make it real for a while. So nice to see you are still enjoying it as much as most of the fans are. Good life work, and I hope your life has been blessed accordingly.
I'm happy for you that what you participated in so long ago turned out to be so large and gave you such a place in entertainment history, that's awesome!
Thank you---I love these types of historical videos!
When I was 14 or 15 I was proudly showing my brother a plastic model of the Tirpitz I had assembled. He dismissed it saying if I wanted to impress him then build something from scrap. So I took out my Starfleet Manual book and looked at the diagrams for the phaser. I spent the day with cardboard and balsa wood and paint. Pulled the top of a mustard bottle, etc. When I was done I had (and have ,40 odd years later) a beautiful phaser that breaks down into both type 1 and 2. And I'll never forget walking up to him with my hand behind my back till he noticed me, only to whip it out and point it at his chest. His expression was priceless.
If I wasn't busy building a house right now I'd love to build a shuttlecraft!
Outstanding job, Gene. Thank you!
Fantastic interview...loved the Galileo..wonderful imagination and workmanship.
Fascinating.
Amazing history....
Very happy that the old girl was salvaged and restored.
I’m a baby boomer and I watched Star Trek along with all the other programs that are in rerun heaven, when they first aired. Of course I never saw one episode of the Brady Bunch or the Partridge family or any of those shows because that came later. By then I was a teenager and I just didn’t care about those shows. That era was different when you grew up in it than the people today who look back on it. Another words like the latter-day beatle fans do not know what it’s like to have grown up with the Beatles or to live in Beatlemania. Same thing with Star Trek. Watching it was very different when it was on once a week, than daily.
You’ll never know what it was like with all of these things were happening the music that was coming out in the 60s TV shows like the wild wild West, the avengers, my favorite Martian, and then towards the end of the decade all the pop art kind of things clothing etc. Of course there was a lot of horror going on to that was the race riots there was the Vietnam war there was what was called the generation gap. But out of all that turmoil there was this renaissance that seem to have started in 1956 and more less ran until 1969. In 1970 things started to change.
You’re very familiar with every little nuance of Star Trek because you watch it every day and you see episodes repeatedly. Wasn’t like that in the 60s. Look at the first 10 episodes of Star Trek and figure that that was over two months of watching the series. Weekly! Imagine if you watched five of those shows and that’s all you knew about the series. Very different!
Thanks Gene - a critical addition in the ST universe! It is as iconic as they come.
What a wonderful video and he is such a nice humble man! I am glad that the Galileo 7 is being restored!
Thankyou for this upload - very appreciative
Awesome, love it. I always wondered what happened to some of those old props. Thanks for posting!
What a great story,thank you for sharing it.
You have one million dollars worth of knowledge from a man who is still with us and could easily design and build another extra copy of what now is lost. Too bad we can't get together to recreate another ship
Thanks a lot for uploading this terrific video. I loved every second of it. LLAP
Thank you ! Wow , we learn everyday, i had no Idea how it was built or what had happened to the Galileo ! Fascinating !
Fantastic concept. Beautiful shuttle design.
I saw it in the NASA Museum in Houston last year. It was in the lunch room for some reason. :)
It looks beautiful!
Trescued brought 2 nj boatyard. Nearly lost 2 superstorm. Sandy 2012
Man this guy had the coolest job doing this.
A more accurate title could've been "The Making of the Galileo".
All kind - of : Nobs *R > G*
Yes. Only the last few seconds of the video discusses whee the Galileo is today. Should not have been in the title as that's not what the video is about.
I know exactly where the Galileo was in 1969-70. It was in the yard of the Foundation for the Junior Blind's campus in Los Angeles, on Angeles Vista Blvd.
I know because when Star trek was cancelled, they loaded the Galileo full of props they no longer had a use for and donated them, and the Galileo TO the Foundation.
I went to the director, Norman Kaplan, and told him "Look, this is a VALUABLE thing you have here. It needs to be preserved!" When I first saw the Galileo, it was lying either on the ground or on a trailer, I have forgotten which, but the chairs seen in this video were off their mounts and lying on the floor. Parts of the carpeting on the floor had been ripped or rolled back to expose the plywood underneath. Other props that were included were: The cloth from the Sickbay diagnostic beds, bolts of cloth from the costume department, several of the salt shakers used by Dr. McCoy, the "Givers of Pain and Delight" (the wrist bands of those were actually cut and painted tin cans!!), the Captain's Log (a three ring binder with little electric lights, and a Magic Screen kind of "screen" which was actually one of those old wax contraptions that you write on and then pull up the plastic sheet and the letters disappear.) several of the triangular styluses used on the Log, a bunch of cloth scraps, one very dilapidated phaser and the styrofoam "cubes" that crewmembers had been zapped into on one episode (today I'd say they looked like D&D dice).
ALL OF THAT STUFF VANISHED almost immediately. I BEGGED Norm to allow me and my friends to rehab the Galileo and then sell it... no dice. he let the thing sit out in the rain, and tHAT is why it's so faded and patchy. It was mostly made of fiberglas and plastic and plywood, and it was NEVER intended to be outside in the elements.
I am so VERY glad to know that it is now being FINALLY refurbished and returned to its former glory!
Cool guy, cool story. I actually used to draw a "ship" like this in 1962 except instead of the "pontoons" I designed mine with four swiveling jet engines, so that it could take off vertically and then swivel for forward momentum. Of course, mine was for atmosphere flight and not space. When Star Trek came out later and then they showed the Galileo my whole family said "that is your flying box concept". LOL
Of course the Galileo episodes were my favorite.
Amazing interview! Thank You for posting this fine presentation.
Amazing story! Thank you so much for posting this! :)
So cool! I'd like to hear more stories like this, it's scifi history now, interesting to know. Fascinating too, how they had to use their creativity to overcome budget problems and lack of available technology and the clever ways they solved these problems. Great video! LLAP
its a damned shame it got neglected for so long and deteriorated so badly. should have been kept up and in good shape the whole time, the general public is lucky we didnt lose this piece of film heritage.
Fixt100 should have gone to The Smithsonian where the Enterprise is now under glass.
It's in houston at the JSC
we cant underestimate the impact of this series to the advance of science and technology nowdays .. it gave us the power to see the space exploration as necessary to our growth as living beings
STAR TREK is something to be preserved as mona lisa just because, as the Leonar's painting, star trek is inspiring and toutching for all generations, in every nations for all who believe in the future and the Grace of HUMAN BEING ....
At 1st I rolled my eyes and thought "OH, come on!" then I gave it some more thought. ST:TOS and NexGen had an inherent optimism to them that I really wish we had (have). There are so many tech breakthroughs directly inspired by engineers who grew up watching the shows that its impact on mankind* is really hard to fathom, let alone measure. So your comment went from an eye roll to a thumbs up. *=its a given with my generation that mankind embraces womankind so hold off on the automatic hating ;-)
Wonderful interview!
Yikes -- so many components to make this shuttle viable and usable for filming! Thank you for your fascinating leccture on how you created the Galileo.
Thanks for this mini-documentary. I really enjoyed it.
GREAT video by the way - well produced, entertaining and informative. It was a curiosity I didn't even realized I had...
I still have my First Plastic Model Kit of the Shuttlecraft " Galileo ". I Built that in Summer 1974 when I was a Little Kid.
Located at the NASA Space Museum in Houston
SDLively at the moment it’s at the intrepid in NYC
Great video. My feelings of nostalgia of watching Star Trek reruns late at night after bar time back in the 1970's, having an English muffin with peanut butter and cream cheese with orange juice gives me great pleasure.
Never knew Gene Winfield was involved in Star Trek, I sure know the man as a custom car builder. Nice that the Galileo didn't go to a scrap pile unnoticed.
A great piece! Too bad they had no idea what they had at the time, but luckily the buyer was able to trace back the history. Amazing!
From my reading, it was in a junkyard, set to be destroyed, and was purchased, and ended up in Akron Ohio. Have to get the correct spelling of the city in Ohio, please be patient with me on that.
Fascinating! Just wouldnt happen like this today.
Amazing work!!!!
Great ILLUSION....
I used to have a model of it...
Very freakin cool. I believe it is accurate to say, "YOU the man!" Thanks for the memories.
Thank you for posting this vid. I enjoyed watching it.
Great stuff, thanks for posting it, really enjoyed your video.
This was plain beautiful !
So nice work, so much work, and so interesting. Moore of these, please.
yeah just watched the Galileo 7 episode again yesterday. The Menagerie also is a good shuttle scene on film. Great design, timeless!!
Some fascinating trivia I was not aware of until now.
I was at that auction, and yes, was bidding on it. Don't regret for a minute loosing that one, I didn't have the time to work on it and would have stored it away till I retired (this year in fact). I'm glad it went to a good home, and when it's done, I'll take a trip out and see it.
Till then I'll be working on the BSG Viper I did get years ago :)
30 days to build and no money , i say he did amazing job- its privilege to work on projects like that
14 minutes of Star Trek memories and 1 1/2 minutes of where is it now...
To a Star Trek fan this is cool, to everyone else not so big.
great interview!
wow what a great guy,, he did a great job on that,, a real craftsman,, in less then 30 days to,, so the ford pinto of space shuttles was born.
Very interesting. Thanks for the posting.
Great interview.
Fascinating!
Neet to see the work that went into the ship.Thanks for posting
As of May 2016, the Galileo is in the Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, Space Shuttle Pavillion in NY City
Thanks for this!
This would make a great museum display for TV or Air & Space ! :-)
I remember seeing the Galileo in Long beach at someone's lot, when I was a little kid some time in the early 80s; i don't remember exactly. I wasn't even into Star Trek back then (musta been like 8yo) but I knew what it was the moment I saw it. I was compelled to go out side into the lot and walk around it, it wasn't protected out side at all, exposed to everything. But it wasn't in a pile with other junk it was in it's own place next to other stuff.
reliving history - thanks so much for posting
liked and subscribed to your channel
Tom (F4collector)
After all of that and the studio let the craft rot? Insane!
You obviously don't know how Hollywood works...
Most sets and models are NOT made to be preserved or exhibited in museums 50 years after the TV show or movie they were made for was shot! Most sets are built up quickly and torn down quickly. It is very unusual for any of these sets and props to be used for much longer than 5 years. They're generally not very durable. There have been fan reproductions of props and models that were much more durable than the originals!
It's also very unusual to save large numbers of models or props from TV shows and movies. To begin with, where do you store these things and WHO's going to pay for the upkeep and regular maintenance of these things?!?
They don't keep 11-foot models in storage for long unless they know they're going to be reused OR the study forgets they have models and props in storage (which happens more often than people think)!
Most of what the Smithsonian Institution has as part of its museum collections is not even on display. According to a quick check, it's something like TWO PERCENT of the collection is only display because there simply isn't even museum space to exhibit and at least half the stuff in storage in warehouses around the country has to be restored! Again, restoration takes money and who's going to pay for it when there are a million other things that have higher priority than a pop culture TV series?!?
@@AvengerII Not to mention, the people that run studios don't see them as artifacts. They look at them like disposable tools, nothing more. Then, you have filmmakers who have sets and props destroyed on purpose so they don't wind up being used in low budget crap films. Stanley Kubrick had the models and most everything built for "2001" destroyed for just that reason. Michael Landon had the "Little House on the Prairie" set blown up, and even shot their last episode around it. He did it because he was worried it would wind up being used in slasher flicks. Still, I hope more artifacts like this are preserved.
Actually the shuttlecraft and props' FIRST owner after the studio, was Norman Kaplan of the Foundation for the Junior Blind in Los Angeles. See my comment elsewhere for details. Basically I was the ONLY one who actually RECOGNIZED (at the time) the VALUE of the Galileo. I was ignored. Seeing this video, however, I feel vindicated.
The future... and it's still lit by incandescent light bulbs! Gotta love it.
Love it. I always wondered what happened to the shuttle craft.
Nice documentary.. I'm going to see it when it's possible....
Seems like a nice guy. Thanks for posting.
Ken
A friend's father in college (1975) from LA told me that a guy bought it off the lot in an auction and put it on his front lawn, which his neighbors hated because the paint was peeling.