The Roddenberry estate have teamed up with cloud graphics company OTOY to create a new digital record of the work of Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry, The Roddenberry Archive. The project will seek to digitalise numerous documents and photographs, digitally capture and preserve 3D artefacts such as filming miniatures, and create new digital models of major Star Trek starships, with the promise of holographic experiences built off of the latter.
Here's a little intro video looking at what they're doing, featuring the the gaggle of behind the scenes Trek experts also involved: Denise and Mike Okuda, Doug Drexler and Daren Dochterman.
Their stated aim is to:
...preserve and present this information for
1) Those studying Roddenberry’s career now and, in the future.
2) For those who appreciate his work and simply want to experience a part of his invented worlds.
3) For posterity to provide accurate information for those involved in future productions and other projects based on Roddenberry’s work.
They will use the new digital assets to present life-size holographic displays, and according to Variety, will also be creating NFTs (nonfungible token), part of a current craze in crypto assets, which would presumably allow the archive to also generate income.
Continue below for more previews of the work already in progress:
