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The Star Trek World Tour was a traveling museum exhibit created by Special Entertainment Events that toured Europe and Asia in 1998 and 1999. The exhibition started in Düsseldorf, Germany, running from 5 December 1998 until 2 January 1999 , moved to Vienna, Austria on 29 June 1999 , and finally to Singapore on 6 December 1999 . It was originally planned to continue around the world as part of a five year tour. ( Star Trek: The Magazine  Volume 1, Issue 3 , p. 6)

Several sets from Star Trek: The Next Generation were reconstructed for the exhibit, including main engineering and the bridge . The exhibit also included a museum with props, a gift shop, theater and holodeck .

A short film, which introduced the scenario to the audience was filmed, directed by Winrich Kolbe . John de Lancie played his well known part as Q in this movie and along him his real life son Owen de Lancie as Q's son (referred to as "lower case q"). ( Star Trek: The Magazine  Volume 1, Issue 3 , p. 6)

One of the set designers on Star Trek World Tour was Dawn Brown , who worked on J.J. Abrams ' Star Trek . Another one was Ahna Packard , who also worked on Star Trek Nemesis and Star Trek: Enterprise .

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The history of the Star Trek universe stretches across time itself, from the first humanoid race who planted the seeds of life throughout the galaxy over four billion years ago, all the way to the year 2372 and the Klingon-Cardassian War. In between, Vulcans embraced the doctrine of logic, the Klingon Empire was born, and the human race successfully landed on the Moon, a predecessor to its eventual exploration of space as the Final Frontier.

On December 5, 1998, the Star Trek World Tour exhibit premiered in the German city of Düsseldorf before traveling to Vienna and then Singapore the following year. Although short lived, the exhibition was arguably the largest and most extensive of its kind, and while it may have been a homage to a fictional television and film franchise, it also served as a “museum from the future” that explored the history and evolution of life and the multitudes of civilizations that encompass the galaxy.

The first part of Star Trek World Tour contained replicas of the different sections that encompass the USS Enterprise . Visitors received a working knowledge of how various instruments operated, and were even able to watch as Starfleet personnel contained a warp core meltdown in Engineering. The Bridge, meanwhile, offered hands-on experience operating the helm and navigation consoles and featured an additional reenactment when the vessel was attacked by the Borg.

After having visited the Enterprise , attendees made their way through a make-shift “museum” filled with costumes and props used in the original Star Trek television series and spin-offs Next Generation , Deep Space 9 and Voyager , as well as initial batch of motion pictures. In keeping with the allusion of being an actual museum from the future and not just a testament to a fictional science fiction franchise, Star Trek World Tour featured Starfleet personnel interacting with visitors and discussing costume designs and the various props.

Communicators, phasers and medical equipment from the various Star Trek incarnations, meanwhile, were displayed side-by-side and highlighted the evolution of these fictional devices as if they were real. On the original Star Trek television show, for instance, communicators were hand-held and flipped open, while the first Star Trek motion picture depicted them as part of a wristband. By the times of Star Trek: The Next Generation , the insignia badges worn on Starfleet uniforms were themselves communicators that could be activated with a simple tap.

In many ways, the evolution of these fictional communicator reflects the evolution of real world cell phones, which first appeared as bulky mobile units before becoming flip-phones based on the design from Star Trek: The Original Series , with Bluetooth later eliminating the need to hold a physical phone to one’s ear and the wristband-like iWatch creating an even easier way to communicate.

Medical equipment likewise became more compact and powerful during the eighty years that separated the initial exploits of Captain James T. Kirk from those of his Next Generation counterpart Jean-Luc Picard. The tricorder is arguably the most memorable, and the bulky, rectangular device once carried by Doctor Leonard “Bones” McCoy via an attached shoulder strap eventually evolved into the smaller, hand-held device utilized by Doctor Beverly Crusher in the twenty-fourth century.

Like with the communicator, the tricorder offers a fictional account of real-world advances within the medical profession. Although announced ten years after the Star Trek World Tour concluded in Singapore, the San Diego-based Qualcomm established the Tricorder X Prize competition in 2012, offering $7 million dollars for the development of an “automatic non-invasive health diagnostics system in a single portable package able to autonomously diagnose thirteen medical conditions.”

While none of the initial 230 teams from thirty different countries were able to meet all of the criteria for a contemporary tricorder, efforts still continue to bring the fictional medical science of Star Trek to hospitals and medical professionals of the twenty-first century nonetheless.

After having explored the costumes and props from the various incarnations of Star Trek , visitors to Star Trek World Tour received an education on the “strange new worlds” that encompass the Star Trek universe with an exploration of the various alien races that reside there. Klingons, Vulcans and Ferengi were on-hand to answer questions, while an entire section of the traveling exhibit was dedicated to life-like busts of the many races that the various Enterprises encountered during their missions.

In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode “The Chase,” archaeologists discovered that DNA fragments recovered from different worlds across the galaxy contained components that were compatible with one another. A search for similar DNA led to a holographic message from the past that explained how an ancient humanoid race planted the seeds of life on various planets over four billion years earlier.

Thus while Klingons, Vulcans, Cardassians, Ferengi and even the humans of planet Earth may have evolved differently, the revelation contained within “The Chase” suggests that each of these races were all related to each other nonetheless, making even a galaxy as large as the Milky Way a much smaller place in the process.

The knowledge that the aliens seen mingling with the human visitors of Star Trek World Tour may have more in common than originally believed also demonstrated that intergalactic peace – a central concept of the Star Trek universe – was a realistic possibility after all. The same holds true for the diverse races of planet Earth, who have even more in common than Klingons and Vulcans.

The Star Trek Word Tour may have been a short one – encompassing a mere two years and three cities – but its scope and ambition eclipsed other such endeavors both before and after. Although Star Trek may be fictional, its history often mirrors our own nonetheless, and an exploration of a “museum from the future” that tells the story of Star Trek can likewise offer a blueprint to our own future, a fact that Star Trek World Tour made abundantly clear.

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The Star Trek World Tour

The Star Trek World Tour was planned as the name says a travelling Exhibition. It Started in “Düsseldorf” in Germany, moved to Vienna and then to Asia. It was 1998, after reading the first announcements I couldn’t believe it, it was too expensive for me to visit Las Vegas and the Star Trek Experience, so there was a Star Trek Tour coming to Düsseldorf. This is about 10-12 hours train ride or 1.5-hour flight. Flying was too expensive at this time – no Low-Cost Carriers, so we took the night train to Germany.

I visited the tour at the beginning and again at the end. At the end, I was on the very last flight of the “Enterprise” in Düsseldorf, and this flight was an amazing experience – the crew made a lot of fun.

During the tour in Düsseldorf they made some changes, the first thing was, that at the beginning of the tour the movie was in English, and the translations weren’t ready on the first days. They also changed the movie on the bridge. I’m glad that I was visiting the tour also on the first days so I was able to see both movies.

They also changed the “beaming effect” a bit. I talked to some people who worked there, and they said, that some guest complained, that the effects were too intense.

EARTHBASE OPERATIONS

Welcome to the Earth base Operation Centre

You got some basic information, about Star Trek . Sometimes there were also some Klingons in the room, who made a lot of fun with the guides and the visitors.

After that,  you were guided to a small briefing room.

BRIEFING ROOM / TRANSPORTER ROOM

In the briefing room, Q appeared on the screen with his son Maurice. He would like to show his son the Humans.

Our guide explained something about the transporter, and how it works – but Q interrupted him and opened the door to the transporter room. So we should all step on the platform.

This was the transporter platform – I have a better picture of the Star Trek Adventure. The Transporter Effect was made with flashes, bass-shakers and sound. Q was also a bit talking to us, he tries to scare some people about beaming.

You can see it in the video, sometimes they picked some people and told them, that they didn’t warn the crowd that the transporter had a maximum capacity of 10 persons. The video is only in German – sorry for that.

MAIN ENGINEERING

After the Transporter room, we arrived at Main Engineering. Q was also there on a screen. He simulated a warp core breach and all people were evacuated to another room. It should be labour or something like that.

While waiting for the turbolift we were standing in this room. I don’t have pictures from the turbolift, but you can see the ride on the video.

The lift took us up to the bridge.

First, the pictures on the bridge are from the World Tour and the ST-Adventure. After the World Tour vanished in Asia – some years later the Star Trek Adventure opens in London (I was also there) The used the sets from the World Tour for the Adventure. This explains the pictures without Starfleet officers at Engineering or the Ops / Conn on the bridge.

At the bridge, Q appeared again and there was a fight against the Borg. You can see in one picture the Enterprise-E. It was a lot of fun standing on the bridge.

These rides are very popular at amusement parks. After visiting the bridge, you were escorted to the shuttlebay and fly back to earth. At Düsseldorf, there wasn’t a shuttle ride, but at Vienna, they added this ride. The fun stuff was that the shuttle was landing in “Cologne” a city near Düsseldorf.

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 1999!

Our report on the Star Trek World Tour is online, along with many photos.

Finally I have managed to scan some images of my starship models. They can be found on the Enterprise-E page and the new page for the other starship models .

A report on the Star Trek World Tour in Düsseldorf is almost finished and will be online tomorrow.

Rearranged and updated the links and made a number of small improvements.

6 more starship designs are online.

After having some severe problems with my computer, everything is running again and the site will be extended and updated within the next few days. I will put up some new starship designs and my buddy Thorsten will report on our recent visit of the Star Trek World Tour in Düsseldorf.

Thanks go to Robert "Baloo" Dunehew for awarding me his Award of Excellence. Please visit his site and have a good time there.

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The image galleries have been supplemented and reorganized.

Some more images for the new Treknology glossary are still missing, however, it is officially online now ( page 1 , page 2 ), along with a few minor updates and corrections.

Added a few links and done some minor modifications.

The announced Treknology term glossary is almost finished. Check out the preliminary version: page 1 , page 2 .

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The six new starships from the DS9 Technical Manual are online in my starship list . The odd and inconsistent ship designs demonstrate that Kitbashing is no way to enrich the Star Trek universe. In my opinion, the responsible production designers should be fired and the kitbashed models destroyed. Still, the inconsistencies have to be handled. I will retouch the images as soon as I have more information on the ship classes.

The starship list has been updated, now including new and official schematics of the Prometheus class and Freedom class (thanks to Jim Stevenson's Starship Schematics). I have recently obtained six starship images from the new DS9 Technical Manual (thanks in advance to Frank Gerratana's Starfleet Ship Designs). Though official, these ships are not only very bizarre, but the schematics as well as the specs are also highly inaccurate and need to be cleaned up. I will put them up in a few days.

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New ship designs will be up within the next few days, the promised extensive Treknology glossary is under heavy construction and will soon be finished.

Links section updated, along with some small layout improvements.

I have made some minor additions and corrections.

My project to review all Star Trek time travel episodes is (almost) finished. Read about the DS9 and Voyager time travels on the third time travel page.

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The missing DS9 and Voyager time travel episodes will be up within the next days, including the most extensive review of the most complicated Star Trek episode ever, "Year of Hell".

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I have updated the starship list and added exclusive schematics of the Apollo, Centaur , Cheyenne and Sydney .

Made some additions to the links page.

The images in the starship design gallery have been improved, now showing some more details.

Reviews of all Star Trek time travel episodes can be found on the second time travel page. I will add the DS9 and Voyager episodes soon.

I have redesigned the links page and marked sites that deserve particular attention. Still, all of the listed sites are among the best Trek resources on the web.

Furthermore, you will find the previous surprise images in the new image archive.

Once again, the links section has been updated.

6 more starship designs are available.

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The links page and the starship list have been updated.

Time travel is probably the most interesting, but also the most confusing topic in science fiction. So it took a lot of time to consider and reconsider my time travel theories which are online now.

I have updated the starship list and changed some webring memberships.

It is alarming how many links become outdated within only a few weeks, so another update was necessary. New: a weekly (or at least frequently) changing surprise image

A complete list of the known Starfleet ship classes is online.

I have also improved my starship design gallery and I will add some new designs soon.

Furthermore my links page has been updated.

I have changed the title of my Star Trek site to Ex Astris Scientia , the motto of Starfleet Academy. I hope this is a nice contrast to the many Star Trek homepages with titles resembling each other.

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The inconsistencies page has been updated. A complete illustrated survey of Federation starship classes is being prepared.

I have added 6 more starship designs and improved the existing images.

Furthermore the gallery has been extended and the links have been updated.

Read about the Klingon forehead problem on my inconsistencies page and visit the other sites in the Star Trek webrings. Also, my links page has been updated. I am currently working on a complete analysis of time travel in Star Trek.

My site is now a member of the Starship Design Web Ring and I have applied for membership in 5 more web rings.

Added a gallery page with some of my favorite Star Trek images (no blurred screenshots, only high resolution pics).

My inconsistencies page includes some images now. Furthermore, I have updated the links page and removed all dead links.

Greetings! It's "Tuesday" and finally my Star Trek pages are online. I hope I can give you useful information on building the Enterprise-E model kit . Feel free to enjoy (or disapprove of) my starship designs . Also check the other links on the homepage . Since photographing, scanning and image processing requires some efforts, this website shows a lack of images. However, I intend to change this soon.

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