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SEATTLE<\/strong> \u2014 It\u2019s been 50 years since the Starship Enterprise began its five-year mission to boldly go where no man had gone before, and Seattle\u2019s EMP Museum is marking the anniversary with an exhibition honoring \u201cStar Trek\u201d and its influence on pop culture and society.<\/p>\n

\u201cStar Trek: Exploring New Worlds\u201d opens Saturday and is filled with geeky artifacts from all the Star Trek series and movies \u2014 from sections of the original Enterprise bridge to a costume worn by Benedict Cumberbatch in the latest movie.<\/p>\n

One uniform worn by every captain and one of only two phasers still in existence from the original series is on display among more than 100 props and artifacts. Keep an eye out for the tribbles that apparently escaped from their display case. There are half a dozen scattered around.<\/p>\n

Some of the set pieces are clearly showing their age, which curator Brooks Peck says is a sign of the less-than-ideal way some of them have been stored in garages and transported from collector to collector.<\/p>\n

But the new exhibit is much more than artifacts and costumes. The museum does its best to illustrate how Star Trek was both a reflection of its times and a catalyst for social change \u2014 from a starring role by a black actress to a Russian character featured during the Cold War and interracial and same-sex relationships.<\/p>\n

The show\u2019s influence on popular culture and even architecture is also on display, including a place to listen to Star Trek inspired bands, a \u201cPicardigan\u201d sweater that looks like Captain Picard\u2019s uniform, and a giant red foam Vulcan salute that was given out on Star Trek night at a Boston Red Sox game.<\/p>\n

The exhibit opened the same week that CBS released a teaser for the new Star Trek TV series and a few months before a new Star Trek movie premiers.<\/p>\n

Visitors are asked to wrestle with some of the Star Trek\u2019s ethical themes, such as what makes us human, in interactive display screens called \u201cAway Team Encounters.\u201d<\/p>\n

Although the objects cannot be touched, there\u2019s plenty of opportunity to explore in other ways: put yourself in a scene from the \u201cWrath of Kahn\u201d movie, crawl through a \u201cJeffries Tube,\u201d create your own Star Trek story line and take your picture in a Borg regeneration station.<\/p>\n

An opportunity to act out a scene involving a transporter and then have the scene emailed home was not available at the press preview, because of technical difficulties. The curator of the exhibit joked that people who volunteer for the transportation experience will do so at their own risk.<\/p>\n

Even the most ardent Star Trek fans might see something new at this exhibit, including a cardboard model of the set that was used to plan out scenes. And they might learn something too, including the role Lucille Ball played in creating the original series.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t know the answer to that Star Trek trivia, this exhibit is for you.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

SEATTLE \u2014 It\u2019s been 50 years since the Starship Enterprise began its five-year mission to boldly go where no man had gone before, and Seattle\u2019s EMP Museum is marking the anniversary with an exhibition honoring \u201cStar Trek\u201d and its influence on pop culture and society. \u201cStar Trek: Exploring New Worlds\u201d opens Saturday and is filled […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":7,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-4764","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4764"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=4764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}