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Retired engineer here, because of the Scotty character in TOS.

It’s funny that when I was at the Smithsonian how much the Enterprise effected me when there is all this other aviation history around me. Sure the Wright flyer is cool, but the it’s Enterprise! 🤣

Having built some battle bots in the early 90s, it's good to hear from someone else that had to build that kind of stuff pre-Internet. No videos to reference, no kits, no browsable mecha parts sites or consumer-facing companies for much of anything. Just the Yellow Pages, a telephone attached to a wall, and a bunch of driving around. Good times!

ah yes, the Bistromath Drive! One of Douglas Adams most hilarious concepts along with the "somebody else's problem field" which renders objects invisible to the perception of others. Technically the infinite improbability drive is a different invention, created by hooking a finite improbability generator up to a good fresh cup of really hot tea.

I lived in San Francisco during Mr. Savage's theatre days and am thrilled to know I saw productions he worked on. Also, that we both bought from Douglas & Sturgess! Great company. I moved to Vermont a decade ago, and I have to tell you: when Adam Savage name drops and makes references to the SF Bay Area, my nostalgia engine goes into full throttle. Best wishes to everyone out there for safe and thrilling 2023. 🥃🐧

TOS was never "my" show as I grew up on TNG, but living in Maryland I got to see the Enterprise as it languished for years in the Smithsonian basement gift shop, twice during its restoration at Udvar Hazy, and now again as it sits in its full glory on prominent display. I have to say that it is a very emotional experience for me and I continue to be impressed at the work they put into restoring it. Also, fun fact; my grandmother worked for the Air and Space museum in the 70s and my uncle has memories of doing homework in the storage areas next to the Enterprise when it wasn't on display at all.

Adam has done the "actors break props" bit half a dozen times on these videos and it's funny every time. He's just so great at telling stories.

Thanks for answering my question on Star Trek question. I loved hearing your answer with the Enterprise model.

I am a Prop Master in theatre with 30 years of experience. I will never stop being amazed by what actors can break. Adam, if you ever want to get back into a theater shop again, my doors are always open for a colab. (lol)

Adam's enthusiasm is so much fun to watch.

DOUGLAS AND STURGESS. Went to site. Never knew what was missing in my life until now! Sorry kids, no college for you. Daddy needs money to buy new toys. Haha. Thanks for sharing.

Love it when Adam Quotes or Relates something to The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy. Remember we are all inside the Asylum.

Every hoopy frood knows infinite improbability calculations begin with a very hot very strong cup of tea. Time is an illusion, lunch time doubly so!

Back in 2015 I wrote a poem dedicated to the USS Enterprise. It was inspired by the restoration the Smithsonian was doing as well as by my lifelong love of Trek. A great galactic bird with wide-swept wings, through space and time her powerful warp drive sings. Dilithium crystals fueling twin nacelles above a Duranium-alloy hull with many stories to tell. By Tholian, Klingon, and Tribble her crew's been vexed yet her unceasing missions have had great effect. To a galaxy in turmoil, she's helped bring much peace. Humanity's best into outer space unleashed. Despite the inner darkness plaguing the human spirit she's brought her message to all those who would hear it: -Diversity in all its infinite combinations. -Succor to those in desperate situations. -Peace and justice brought to civilizations edge. -Hope to all those who stand upon desperation's ledge. USS Enterprise: NCC-1701 Inspiring generations yet her task's not done. The future is hers and she holds it dear- Her power and glory help allay fear. With the stars as her guide and her crew in her heart, may she fly on forever by the courses she charts.

To add to the list: Mark Goddard, who played Major Don West in the original Lost in Space series, once mentioned what a thrill it had been when an astronaut told him how he'd been inspired by Goddard's character.

Spider web for a collection of heads. She sounds fun!

My career as a Software Engineer is because of Star Trek. I wanted to program a computer like Spock when I was 9 years old.

Not dealt with theatre props, but they can't be as bad as children. I used to build museum models and interactive exhibits, and it's amazing how over engineered something has to be if children are going to be operating it. Something with a simple push button switch needs industrial grade metal parts because a small child will break anything else. I made a model to show how a weaving loom worked, a weaving shuttle mounted on a track, steel cables used to pull on the blocks that launched it along the track. Once built it spent two weeks in our workshop being tested every time we walked past it, by a team of fully grown modelmakers, to test its durability. It passed with flying colours, so was installed into the museum and it took a day and a half before it was destroyed.

After watching clips of these Q&As at work all week I'm currently watching/listening to them in my shed spiffing up my neglected tools and generally cleaning and organizing. Preciate the inspiration

Man, you’re right; it’s AMAZING what performers can break on stage! I build/repair/restore custom musical instruments, and I can’t even begin to describe some of the totally inexplicable damage I’ve seen to instruments that seemed extremely sturdy!

As an artist, I find your passion for what you do deeply touching. There is NOTHING on EARTH (besides being a parent) that offers the same sensation as being an artist. You are a supreme artist, and even though I live more on the "Fine Art" (where the snobs live) side, what you create belongs in museums every bit as much as the Mona Lisa. And YOU UNDERSTAND HOW FUN IT IS TO NOT KNOW HOW TO DO SOMETHING AND LEARN HOW TO DO IT AS YOU DO IT! I am more mixed media sculptor than anything and I LIVE to create art that begins with ideas that seem nearly impossible to me. It's so much fun to bring them into being! I can see that same joy in your face when you are doing your work or telling your stories. Thank you for making me see that others feel that joy! Be well.

Your story about how actors break props reminds me (as an IT guy) how users break computers. When they ask why it’s not working (because they always ask a question that doesn’t have an answer) my response is “Because you used it.”

Thanks for bringing the VR camera with you when visiting the Enterprise. The footage looked great.

For me it was seeing the new Enterprise in the Motion Picture for the first time. Absolutely breathtaking model photography.

I hope that you listened to The Transformed Man on your way home from seeing the Enterprise model.

Love Adam, love everyone, happy new year

Hearing Jamie talk about bistromathics is awesome

Fave Star Trek memory: Meeting and making Karl Urban cry. Karl and I met during filming Thor 3 in Brisbane Australia. Good friends with the original Dr. McCoy's (DeForest Kelley) close friend and assistant Kris Smith (Kris and I see each other like family, in the same vein that the Kelley's saw Kris) and got him a signed headshot for Karl. Gave Karl a message from Kris saying "On behalf of Kris and DeForest Kelley's friends and family, thank you for your contribution to the role of Dr. Leonard McCoy. Not only did you bring back the spirit of Star Trek, The Original Series and the character of Dr. McCoy, you brought back the spirit of DeForest Kelley. If he was still here, Mr. Kelley and his wife Carolyn would be very honoured and proud of you! They would loved you!" Karl was in the middle of signing a headshot of him as McCoy and he started to shed silent tears and whispered "Thank you."

I once heard a fight, director say: “there is nothing more frightening, than a method actor with a sword”.

The Hitchhiker's guide to the Galaxy series is a foundation in itself, and a serious hoot!! What genius

8:20 - Just like the Dana Scully and Jane Tennison effect. Art that talks across to (not down at) motivates people.

Great that you like the original Enterprise model. I saw it in 1978, when I went to the USA with my mum and a friend. We were lucky that one of my mum's penfriends worked for Gene. So we got on the sets that were not in use, for the first film. We even stood where the view screen would be, when they were filming the attack on the Enterprise!

As a theatrical director who also ran stage construction and props when needed…we spent a lot of time threatening actors to take care of their props, costumes, etc. ! Actors can be quite the destructive force. Then again, to be fair, when I was young, I played Flute in Midsummer Night’s Dream who plays the girl Thisbe in the play within the play and I tended to shred that dress nightly (to the angst of the costume mistress).

How can I say this? Massive kudos for the Hitchhiker's reference, but bistromathics were what powered Slartibartfast's ship, the Bistromath, not the Heart of Gold. The infinite improbability drive in the Heart of Gold was powered by the Golden Bail. Yes, I am a nerd. Proudly so.

A Hitchhiker reference - love! 😀

I wish The Next Gen Enterprise would have ended up in the Smithsonian. Enterprise D is such a visually striking Model. 😕

Adam sir your videos are awesome.

Hello from Denver! Love this channel

The perpetual problem of a user or client inexplicably breaking something in more and more elaborate and extraordinary ways. "It just broke" is a phrase heralding some eldritch horror.

Modern cell phones came about because of folks watching Kirk flip open his communicator to talk to the Enterprise.

4:08 "the propmaster called Feinberg" That's not Irving Feinberg who also was the propmaster for Star Trek TOS, right? Just the same last name by coincidence?

One of my dad's favorite sayings was, "He could tear up an anvil with a rubber mallet!" I guess actors are those people.

8:40 Id say my favorite Trek memory is working with John Eaves and Greg Jein at Gregs shop on TNG and Undiscovered country. Such fond memories.

nice, i remember Woman Warrior when it was at the Berkeley Rep! old school!

I love the part where he talks about 100 pound actress breaking welded steel props. My response was ... "you have broken what could not BE broken"

Hey Adam. I love this video. Massive thanks. What a science fiction icon. One question though... What happened to the bridge from the ship? This is missing from the model. Thanks.

Oh to be a fly on the wall during that night with Adam and the TNG cast...

8:30 - it's telling that The Martian is getting the same recognition as being inspiring to future astronauts as Star Trek and Star Wars, even though it's only been out a few years.

I never made props, but when I was in high school I had a drama class, and I performed a Star Wars scene with another guy. (Vader and Luke's final confrontation in Return of the Jedi.) I brought in toy lightsabers for some lightsaber duel, and after all the practicing we did, when we actually came on to the stage to perform, in his first strike he breaks my lightsaber in half, sending red plastic cylinders upstage. These were commercial products, literally designed to be beaten together, and when we got on stage they failed. And the kid wasn't even five foot tall.

Bistro mathix was how you build the replacement for the Infinite Improbability Drive.

I met you, briefly, at DragonCon 2009. Although I did not realise it was you at the time.

Creativity begets Creativity ✅ Thank you Adam

ah prop destruction. I have one of those stories from "The Beast" (collage beauty and the beast production) had a sequence where the actors needed to knock pewter mugs together for a song and our Gaston just smashed the mugs to bits, got to the point the prop master couldn't salvage them and had to run around to every thrift store in the city to get any they could.

Regarding your reference to the original Star Trek Enterprise substructure. I worked on STTMP and learn that the welding shop that built the substructure in that Enterprise also welded the aluminum nose cone structure for the space shuttle. Fun factoid! That model was stunning even up close. Ron Gress was the model maker who painted all the pearlescent panels on it - it took him weeks to cover that whole thing.

Great as always,, great show besides having me on your show LOL Honestly you should have friend Doug Drexler on your show. Best Art Director and Model builder and artist for Trek and many other films I'm sure you know who he is.

I build for a professional haunt and oh boy you ain't wrong. Small actors can destroy damn near anything.

My 54 year old brain totally got the old brain reference. Some stuff feels like a lifetime ago, some stuff feels like someone else's lifetime ago...

Don't forget that some of our current technology has its roots in Star Trek as well. Every time I walk through an automatic sliding door I think about the original Star Trek! Researchers are also currently working on transport technology but I'm not so sure we'll see that realization in our lifetimes! And certain people feel that they have successfully proved (at least in computer models) that warp bubbles can work.

I laughed out loud when you talked about actors breaking props. We used to joke and say that we had to make stuff actor proof.

The bistromathics drive wasn't the improbability drive. I forget the name of the drive it was for though. It was installed on a vessel that was also covered in a S.E.P. (Someone Else's Problem) field, too, though, which Ford noticed after, if memory serves correctly, Arthur was returned to the near-present after he and Ford had split up while trapped on Earth's prehistoric land. The infinite improbability drive was very predicated on telephone numbers. The bistromathics version of the drive was built as an improvement. Again I'm going off old memories of a story I read dozens of times through junior high and high school and have been meaning to get around to rereading at some point now that I'm approaching my 29th completion of an orbit around our star.

Dude your hair only get more epic with time.

You mentioned a prop master Feinberg. THE Abe Feinberg? 😮

so long and thanks for all the fish

Wasn't expecting the bistromathics reference at all. Off guard guffaw.

You said "how much damage actors can do to props" and instantly my head went to Daniel Radcliffe and his wands.

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The Infinite Improbablility Drive and the Bistromathic Drive are different. Bistromathics avoids the dangers of Improbability Factors by utilizing a revolutionary understanding of the behavior of numbers.

Hi Adam, have you ever seen the movie USS Enterprise model close up ?

I became a Navy officer and an engineer because of Star Trek. Failed to select for astronaut though.

My hypothesis is that the actor who broke it has given it to the actor it's hardest to get mad at, often someone small and cute, to deliver the bad news.

I'm not able to find the (de)merit badges on the website. Are they limited?

6:00 Bistromatics, Discworld logic, it's weird and strangely true.

Can someone help me out, here? There was a show on TV when I was a kid, that had a motorized evening chair. I feel like the show was “All That”, but I could easily be mistaken. I could also just Google it, but where’s the fun in that? Anyway, the first time I saw the chair, I thought “oh, that’s cool”, but then, if memory serves, they used the chair all the time. It grew a little thin over time. Thing is, from a production standpoint, that thing was their special sauce. They may have blown their budget on that one go-to joke, and they were going to bleed it dry. I wonder if they had a team of people crafting that thing, or just one dude in a small space figuring it all out.

My buddy (who you bought a Superman Kryptonite rock from) can tell you stories of the actor on the recent MacGyver reboot series..

I was a prop builder for Halloween haunted attractions. Talk about a bunch of actors that could destroy stuff. I went in with the attitude of "Build it as indestructible as possible, then reinforce it'' I would always tell the owner/director these people could destroy a 250 pound anvil with a rubber hammer. SO, one year we built a gag around an anvil and a rubber hammer. Yep, They broke it. Knocked the horn clean off of it,. I quit the next day.

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Star Trek my mom loves Star Trek she still does her she loved Spock she loved🙂🙂🙂🎆✨️🎇✨️🎇

Paul Feinberg? Any relation to the legendary Art Feinberg, prop master on ST:TOS?

..... I thought the cast iron bench vice looked like a 'Enterprise' early draft.

For those who clicked on this for the favorite Star Trek memory, it's at 6:20

No mention of W00tStock with Wil et al?

Monster furniture are called mimics. Like the chest that eats travelers.

Time for a proper treatment of Hitchhikers Guide I'm seeing more references lately.

8:23 William Shatner

Is audio off? I'm listening on kindle fire so that may be why.

Adam you a doctor who fan?

Favorite aircraft The Millennium Falcon or Enterprise ?

I wonder if there´s any rivalry among SFX people when it comes from the old "Star Trek x Star Wars" debate.

The notion of "every Star Trek cast is a family and all one big family" is so true.

Is that a piece of Voldemort embedded up there, or just a leftover from your next cosplay. I would suggest the glasses to be more rounded.

Kudos going white young. In my family you're ginger until you're like 95. And you're in good shape as well, I'm happy for you.

The Enterprise was built in 1964, so fifty-eight years -- going on fifty-nine. Adam was close.

Couldn't remember that name, eh? I'm calling that my File not Found moment.

Adam confused the bistromathic drive with the infinite improbably drive! Separate ways to travel. Actually the bistro drive was designed to replace the improbably drive.

What did Adam bounce his head off of this time?

Is the scar just above the forehead new? Is there a story?

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Who knows if one day we will actually build a real Enterprise!

Come one you gotta name names. I'm thinking Reese Witherspoon is probably wayyy stronger than you think. 😸