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Restoring a Trashed Star Trek Control Panel
🕑 Added 2025-02-20 19:43:22 +0000 UTC
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erin hawco
Have you seen the Okudas’ on with Adam Savage? They discussed the lighting of panels
plop
some plastic fresnel lens material between the LED strips and the panels probably would have helped a lot with the diffusion
Space Pug Pirate
Anything you make related to star trek I end up watching multiple times. We're watching DS9 again now. We'll look out for glass screen thing. It looks good 👍
Mark Brakenhoff
That looks pretty great. I wonder if heat will be an issue. That might cause some problems with the LEDs overheating. Maybe add a tiny fan or vent holes.
Alex
At 8:09, I enjoyed watching at 0.25x speed
Amanda Thompson
I think Mike has little tea parties with them when no one else is in the studio.
Tadeo D'Oria
If you ever do that larger housing, feel free to ping me and I can share a 3D model that matches the curve of the panel, if that's useful to you. Also Mike stop pretending to be Jay, he suffers enough having to hear you talk about Star Trek endlessly. ;)
Tim Kocher
Loved this video. Informative and entertaining, chef’s kiss. Did you send a link to Mr. Okuda so he could see how it came out?
Adam Atom Ant
This is the kind of project I would take on, and then my wife would be irritated that it's taking up space in the garage for the next year, because I would be working on it once a month.
James Fraser-Shelley
Excellent. Now melt all the Baby Binks in a tank of acetone.
AndrewCoppard
Well done chaps, well done.
Laura Elizabeth
As a huge DS9 fan, I love this so much!
Red Letter Media
Lots of great info here thanks! I did notice the switch from the yellow/blue/orange scheme to include more colors like purple. I do wonder if that helm explosion in One Little Ship caused the change out of the plexiglass.... also lots of complaints that the panel is curved to simulate the helm station. We really just wanted to light it up and hang it on the wall. It turned out to be more of a challenge due to the odd shape and need for lots of light. Eventually a larger housing might be needed and it would become more of an object rather than a wall piece. Either way, it was magic to light up such a historic prop. Thanks to all for watching me indulge in my personal nerdy passion. - Jay
StormTemplar
So now that Mike spent a lot of time rewatching DS9 for research when are we getting a series or "best of" Re:View?
Joshua Cubbin
It's an update, within an update, within an update. It's guest directed from the guy that made Ryan's Babe.
Joshua Cubbin
Firstly, you're god damn right. Second, It's pretty funny that they've recreated Discovery of all things and never any of the Trek that they actually like. Especially with a growing list of props from next gen.
Amanda Thompson
Look, the man is doing pretty well for someone filling his lungs with spray paint.
Amanda Thompson
Mike is trying to spin the wheel and see what sends him to the ER first.
Amanda Thompson
My husband is so damn tired of hearing me talk about Star Trek. And our other Trekkie friends get uncomfortable with my space racism against the Trill. I wish Rich and Mike would talk about Star Trek with me and let me touch all their props.
Amanda Thompson
In all seriousness, you guys are doing great. It's better for these props to be in the hands of people who are passionate about them. The people complaining aren't trying to help or even critique, they're only trying to make themselves seem knowledgeable. Now you guys just need to recreate entire episodes of TNG and see how long Jay will last before going totally insane.
Kraamh
I'm lost... why isn't this project in game show format?!
Kellic
I feel their pain. I got this. https://www.etsy.com/listing/1830876393/star-trek-uss-enterprise-1701-d-modern? They had an option for a plexiglass backing so you could backlight it. But I noped out as I knew getting even lighting would be a pain in the ass. Maybe I should have bought it and hired Miek Okuda to mount it for me. :D
Robyn Nelson
Wow, that looks great!
andrew
Pay attention, Jay. There will be questions about this on the next Star Trek Trivia. Also, did the UPDATE segment have its own UPDATE?
Yngwie Tarantino
If only you could have called Mendon and smart Barclay for help!
Joshua Mannix
Rip Jay. Maybe in another episode youll get your David Lynch tribute.
Erik Sheedlo
Reminds me of the old days when Dad and I would work on our deck... badly. Good times... good times.
Joshua Cubbin
Can you solder using friction and a router? If so then yes.
Joshua Cubbin
Someone needs to do a welfare check on Mike. Because Jay tried to change the subject by taking about Severance - specifically during a discussion about the helm control of the Defiant - and Mike didn't immediately go on a tangent about how Adam Scott from Severance also played the helmsman of the Defiant in First Contact.
Count Sqwueekula
If we give RLM enough money, eventually all tv shows’ sets will be destroyed. A noble pursuit.
BENJAMIN SHULTZ
Get him the log lady’s log!
The Real Zam
Cover part of it with black construction paper for authenticity.
The Real Zam
Just realized that Mr. Fire safety should not be handling a device that melts metal at 400c. How about Jay? Does he have steady hands? With his pervy taste in movies I am sure they get plenty of exercise. No way Mike does. He probably shakes like Katherine Hepburn from all the booze.
The Real Zam
Those Okudagrams are works of art. If you guys get any others, I can program some easily programmable (WLED) individually addressable LEDs that will let you mimic the blinking / color changing effects you mentioned above. Does Rich Evans know how to solder?
Kate Gottli
Cricut stencils can be a bitch for bleed like that, i feel for you Rich lol...i've learned that if you do a first coat(s) of paint using the surface colour first it will fill in any gaps without being noticable. Then you can paint over it with your choice colour and there's a lot less bleed.
Jeff Kleist
if I knew this was there and nobody else was bidding on it you would've had a fight :-) I missed Baltar's command chair, the real Baltar from 1978 for $800 and no competing bids when I thought I was gonna go for closer to 5 to 8000. There were probably five people in the world that wanted it and I was one of them
PIG
I really love this!
Damon Killian
I had tremendous anxiety when this thumbnail popped up. You all did a fabulous job🖖
Neil Peart, Lord of Drums
Yoooo I didn't know it would be the fucking helm control you bastards. Sigh. I live vicariously through you so I don't have to address my crippling depression
DonMac
RLM should have a series called re:Trek to group all their Star Trek videos under.
PunKat
Thanks for this video, it was a pleasure to watch! The final result is beautiful.
Neil Peart, Lord of Drums
I just want my kids back
Neil Peart, Lord of Drums
Amazing info from a person with a profile picture from my favorite book. I have CatWorf on a t-shirt.
Amanda B.
It's looks amazing despite Mike's obvious spray paint addiction. Love the Party Down/Severance theory. Talk more about Severance!
Tadeo D'Oria
It's great to see this restored to its former glory! I did a digital reproduction of it for work on The Roddenberry Archive alongside Mike Okuda, and we had to compensate the colors for the different light sources so the gels looked correctly, it was a fun research rabbit hole to go down, trying to track down what specific light bulbs they used. According to Mike the colored gels were very difficult to work with, and pieces of the gels often had to be replaced episode-by-episode to make sure they looked their best, leading to some buttons changing colors between episodes. The new helm console panel was actually first seen in 'Waltz', tho as they were released out of order from filming, it is indeed likely they decided to replace it after 'One Little Ship'. By late DS9 dot-matrix printing tech started to be of enough quality and low cost as to be a useful alternative to the gels, so whenever a panel needed maintenance they just replaced it with new printed versions. These not only needed no maintenance, they also allowed for many more colors and gradients to be used. If you pay attention around the Defiant, you'll notice that many of the panels were replaced around seasons 5-7 precisely because of this reason, and Doug Drexler did new designs for them each time to make use of the new colors/gradients (like the little Defiant schematics you mentioned added to the helm). This is also the reason why the colors changed so drastically, printed panels technically had the same orange+purple colors as the gels, but they weren't translucent so they didn't change so much with different light sources.
JTruts
Some of my favorite content from you guys are these prop videos, I don't know why just neat to watch you enjoy your hobbies. Also can you buy Jay something from Twin Peaks FFS.
Brian
You guys should open the Mike Stoklasa Haunted Prop Museum to compete with Zak Bagans
Bill Lehecka
I’m upgrading my 3D printer so I’d be willing to donate my currently working 3D printer to you guys to see how bad you can fuck it up.
L. J.
I had a panel from first episode of DS9. My friend was a grip on TNG and then DS9. I sold it on Ebay for $500. Someone has it.
THE_GnomeChomskee
Oh wow. I’d love to have something like this. I’d never leave the house. I’d just invite people over to play Star Trek.
Frazzled Doo
Over the shoulder look edit was fucking brilliant.
Gega _
This is my favorite RLM vid in awhile. So absurd yet charming and funny
Katy
I win "who's watching the coolest video in the lunchroom"!
Kelly Nguyen
Me too
AshesBoomstick
I just took a shower. But RLM always makes me feel dirty, and I have to shower. Again.
Lucas Yoshida
It's adrift but salvageable
JET_JAGUAR_PM
NOT TODAY DEATH
Corpo_Canine
Thank you space Jesus
Zoran Basic
My favourite hack frauds ❤️
Allen Brooks
Lcars literate boys
Brandon Capello
A workshop RLM video????? And it’s not even my birthday!
Jesper Lindberg
YES! You just saved an otherwise shitty day 🙌🏻
Hunter Clifton Mann
I miss my wife
Amanda Thompson
Work can't end fast enough!
