Secret history of the near-construction of a life-sized Starship Enterprise in downtown Las Vegas

by Laura Domela

Gary Goddard tells the story of the near-construction of a life-sized Starship Enterprise replica in downtown Las Vegas. Goddard successfully bid to build the attraction as part of the 1992 competition to revitalized Vegas’s sagging downtown and bring back tourist traffic that had been sucked away by the strip, but the project was scuttled at the last minute when Stanley Jaffe, then CEO of Paramount, got cold feet. The Enterprise was scrapped and replaced by the “Fremont Street Experience,” which stands there today.
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Secret history of the near-construction of a life-sized Starship Enterprise in downtown Las Vegas

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