Here is the first picture I've ever posted on this blog.  Maybe it will steer me logically in the correct direction...

     Here is 'The Enterprise'.

     Without it, you don't have much of a show.

     When 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' came out in 1980, grown men were crying in the audience.  They hadn't seen new footage of their beloved ship in ten years, not counting the animated series.

     Fictional or not, it is one of the most beautiful vessels ever created.  It was designed by people who knew what they were doing.

     Never intended to land on a planet, that is one of its drawbacks, though.

     Anyway, 'The Enterprise' is one of the main characters of Star Trek.  She has a personality, and a constant presence.

     Most people don't know that the voice of the computer was voiced by Majel Barrett, who played Nurse Chapel in the original series. 
     Most people don't know that she was the original #1 in the pilot, even wearing pants.  People don't recognize her because she was a brunette as #1, then she dyed her hair so she could still be in the show. 
     It's a long story, and maybe I'll talk about it later.  Maybe not.

     I think someday that this ship will actually be built, if the human race does not destroy itself before then.  There are enough people in the hundreds of years to come who will want to make this ship a reality.
     A doable project would be to build it on the ground as a museum.  It could be done.