Roddenberry Archive Releases Enterprise Bridge Tours, Recovery of Enterprise-D Recreation

Paramount+, Roddenberry Entertainment and OTOY have announced a new collaboration with the Gene Roddenberry Estate to create a digital archive of all things Star Trek. The launch of the project includes a virtual tour of various Enterprise ships bridges, at least those that had one built for production. These and more can be found at The Roddenberry Archive. The more part is summarized by Deadline:

This combined documentary and exploratory online experience brings the legacy and history of the starship Enterprise to life through meticulous recreations of the filming sets used for production as well as the aforementioned “in-universe” life size, functional immersive virtual interiors. The recreations were produced for the Gene Roddenberry Estate, and overseen by veteran Star Trek artists including Denise and Michael Okuda, who authored The Star Trek Encyclopedia, as well as Daren Dochterman, Doug Drexler and Dave Blass.

The Archive will also, for a limited time, allow fans to try an experimental technology preview through the web portal, enabling them to walk onto the bridges of the Enterprise (boasting working turbolifts and consoles) and explore them in every detail, all from an instantaneous livestream. Accompanying the interactive bridge experiences and documentary film is a series of 2023 featurettes exploring Star Trek‘s behind-the-scenes production process with commentary from Star Trek luminaries who share Roddenberry’s vision for the franchise.

The first featurette teases Shatner’s hours-long testimonial for the Roddenberry Archive, captured holographically within a perfect recreation of the 1979 USS Enterprise bridge. The icon therein shares his memories, aspirations and intentions in bringing Captain Kirk to life in 1965 and portraying his death in 1994, as well as his personal views on the future he envisions for this beloved character, including visualizations from his 1995 novel Ashes of Eden.

The second includes interviews with leading cast and crew, including Star Trek: The Next Generation director James Conway, director-producer David Livingston, program consultant David Gerrold, consulting senior illustrator Andrew Probert and production designer Herman Zimmerman, as well as Star Trek: Picard‘s showrunner Matalas and production designer, Blass.

A sample of the work being created with OTOY can be seen below. It is fascinating and worth checking out.