In Ticonderoga, New York, you can find yourself back aboard the NCC-1701. James Cawley, an Elvis Impersonator, has finally open the culmination of a decades long dream. In an interview with the local ABC news affiliate, James said, "I don’t want to convince you that you are on a space ship, but that you’re on a sound stage in 1966.”

He has rebuilt, from scratch, the interior sets of the Enterprise, taking fifteen years to build the soundstages from the original blueprints, with CBS' permission. The details are amazing. Cawley has been able to go far and wide looking for exactly the right items to recreate these venerable locations. When it came to the lights, knobs, and dials that cover each control board, Cawley would follow the original designers instructions, “They would make rubber molds of marbles and fill them; pop it out,” Cawley described. “These are corners of ice cube trays.”

Within these so beloved pieces of shared history, Cawley saw not only the beauty of the sets themselves but the beauty of what the cast and crew were accomplishing all those years ago. “Look at the cast,” he said. “They were doing things the real world was not doing. Star Trek speaks to so many people for so many reasons, but ultimately, it’s hopeful and optimistic.”

Star Trek the Original Series Set Tours happen every hour at TEN minutes after the Hour between 10AM and 5PM. You can find out more about the tour and the folks who made it at this link, http://startrektour.com/general-information/
You can also check out the local news broadcast about the Set Tour at this link, http://news10.com/2016/09/28/trekkin...s-replica-set/

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