In my continuing struggle against the collection of financial wealth, I have gone out and found the widescreen DVD of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen and a model kit of NCC-1701 USS Enterprise as represented in her 1960s appearance.

Some time next year, I'll write my thoughts on LOEG, because that's a micro-den Beste of its own. Suffice it to say that I was favorably inclined towards the movie, and wished more had been done with it. To the model kit:

It's a snap-together model (yay!) that can be assembled and insignia-ed for seven variations. Parts are included to create Enterprise as she appeared in the first pilot, "The Cage"; the second pilot, "Where No Man Has Gone Before", and as the regular series vessel. Deep students of the series will know more about this, but the cosmetics largely involve what you cap the warp nacelles with, and what the bridge looks like. Decals are included to also replicate USS Constellation, USS Exeter, USS Defiant, or ISS Enterprise as seen in "Mirror, Mirror".

I've got zero model-building ability (evidenced by a partially-completed Airfix 1/600 HMS Hood that's sat idle for two and a half years and a never-started 1/750 HMS King George V) but I might be able to pull this one off. If USS Constellation as seen in the 2260s ever arises, the readers will be notified.

At any rate, I found these items at the den of evil (no, not Barad-dur; I mean the greater evil in the Mid-west known as Wal-mart) for reasonable prices, and I may yet go back and get another Enterprise in order to have a couple completed ones. Hooray.

Happy New Year to all those who have read since this blog's incept date.

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