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>> K1 Journal moderator: Ok Scotty, beam me up! [beaming sound]
Welcome back to K1 Journal. Even 40 years after the broadcast of the first episode,
the Enterprise never has lost its fascination.
The Trekkie community is big and creative.
At Torsten Arfmann and its crew of five, the love even goes so far, that they built the
main engineering of the Enterprise in original scale.
Mr. Spock was very taken by when he saw his old workplace again on the Federation Convention
in Bonn.
>> Off Voice (OV): [TOS main title theme] The heroes of space...
About 3000 Trekkies and Science Fiction Fans are coming forth out the shadows of the silver
screen originals into the light of publicity.
Torsten Arfmann and its crew are coming extra from Cuxhaven to Bonn.
Here on the biggest Trekkie convention, they have only 4 hours to turn a simple seminar
room into the main engineering of the USS Enterprise.
>> Torsten: We've got here the long side side (of the room) and there we actually wanted
to set up our main engineering wall (there);
it's the large piece that we got and eh... directly in front of us,
because of the AC supply our Pool-Table our most well-know piece, what we built first...
Yeah and the rest, we gonna scatter a little bit in the room.
>> OV: [background music] For six years, Torsten and his buddy Frank, are building on their
Star Trek dream.
Uncountable work-hours are put into the approximately 150 single pieces.
>>Torsten: The pay-off is simply that the people are saying: Ey great!
Because we don't get money for this, we are spending money for it. [laughter]
>>Frank: With tear glistening eyes of a Trekkie, when he/she stands in front of the Pool-Table
and can touch it.
>>Torsten: Yeah, that too...
>>Frank: In that spirit...
>> OV: [continuing TOS title theme] For the entrance fee of 139 Euro, visitors can are
allowed to experience their own space adventure.
So that main egineering makes a lasting impression, the crew has to step up a notch.
>> Frank: That has to been completely moved over. We have to... there and there.
>> Torsten: This one?
>> Frank: That one has to be over there completely; that thing has to be put there and the other
one must be where you're standing.
>> Torsten: That's the one-piece?
>> Frank: Yeah, that's gotta be there.
>> Torsten: I'm always pretty confident, when the wall is set up, right ? [laughter]
No, well, we are expecting that the pieces will fit.
We have never pre-built that (main engineering) together, because there was no space, where
we made it.
We had always built piece-by-piece and hoped that it'll fit on the last one.
>> OV: Except for the scale [hammering sound], everything else true to the original.
The single modules are mounted together and set up one-by-one.
With every new element, the self-esteem of the crew is growing.
>> Frank: It's such a fun! That's stress, that makes really fun.
You… you're really someone. You're here really someone.
Normally you the small-time shop assistant, that nobody cares or so;
here you're really know, you are someone.
You've got a bunch of guys, who are on the same wavelength like you,
you've got fun with them and they give you a hand and so.
In that spirit, you've got something to say.
And that's the best.
>> Bärbel: Ahh, much better!
>> OV: Though the main engineering isn't yet ready, the first admirers are coming…
>>Dietrich: That's fantasic! Ehm... I'm making those things (prop-related) too. Not in THAT
style.
I'm making... the VISOR is self-made for example. The rank pips... self-made.
>> Torsten: We've split up. Everyone with its ability. He builds small, we big.
>> Dietrich: Exactly! I find it very amazing... it's really great!
>> OV: [continuing TOS main title theme] While the main engineering slowly takes form, lots
of Trekkies are standing in a queue for Mr. Spock.
The organizers (of the FedCon) have accomplished to get profession Vulcan Leonard Nimoy a commitment
for signing five hundred autographs.
For the characteristic ears the pay wasn't enough anymore.
>> Torsten: And Energize!
>> In the main engineering the energy supply is working. For the computer system, 1800
screencaps of the original (LCARS) design servered as a template.
>> LCARS: The Warp propulsion system consists of three major assemblies…
>> Me: There's a lot work in it. The font has to be correct and the number columns.
Even these numbers are taken from the original (I was pointing at the colums under the LCARS
title). As far you can reseach it.
>> OV: Final spurt in the main engineering: While hectic handiwork craft is done, the
buff longed guest star is beaming in unnoticablely to appreciate the work of the Cuxhavens.
>> Torsten: You can put that on the table, if you want. Yes, it's a very old one. We
didn't built a new one, because it has been signed by many.
>> Con staff: You've got 2 Min. left...
>> Leonard: Very good! Where does it go? Right in the middle? Ok... So...
>>Torsten: Yes. That's Frank.
>>Frank: Hello.
>> Leonard: Hello, how are you?
>>Torsten: We've built it (the main engineering) about six years ago…
>>Leonard: Congratulations! Bravo! Bravo! Ok... here we go.
>> Con staff: Yepp. (exiting with Nimoy for the next signing panel)
>> OV: After 2 min. Mr. Spock yet diappears again.
>> K1 Team: How do you all feel now?
>> Torsten: That's always very nice.
Very nice.
You... you want to get them (the guest star) up close and personal.
It was a little bit short for the moment, but right at moment there another signing
panel coming up
and he surely wants to fresh himself a bit,
before he has to got down there and we got our autograph, right?
And he's got to see it (the pool-table), unfortunately the lights weren't on,
but you can cope with that, that's not a problem.
>> OV: The last wires... then the console is complete. About twenty-eight autographs
has made it so valuable, that it soon comes into a display cabinet.
>> Is it on?
>> Torsten: Hit it!
>> all: Yes!
>> OV: [TNG title music] And then show time for a galactic audience!
For many (fans) their dream comes true with the work by the Cuhavens.
For one time being on the control switches of the Enterprise and gliding through the
imaginary final frontier.
>> Journal moderator: And I won't restrain you from this.
Captain Picard is ready, "Dark Page" is the name of the Star Trek episode now here on
Kabel 1.
Have a pleasant evening. Bye. [beaming sound]
Translation by Yen-Chih Lin 2012