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Fan-made ‘Star Trek’ sets become NY tourist attraction
Keith Schubert of Peru, New York, dressed as Star Trek’s Mr Spock, and his daughter, Tiffany, right, talk with James Cawley, center, during a tour on Aug. 13 of his replica of the starship Enterprise from the original Star Trek series during the Trekonderoga festival in Ticonderoga, New York.
Photo: AP
On its many voyages through space, the starship Enterprise has endured bridge-shaking blasts from enemy ships and infiltration by scheming aliens. Now it is being invaded by tourists.
Sets mimicking those of the 1960s TV series Star Trek — including Captain Kirk’s bridge, sick bay and engine room — were built by fans for an Internet film series produced in this Adirondacks mountain town and are now open to paying customers who just cannot get enough of the 50-year-old franchise.
“The entire set ... how close it is to the actual TV show, you feel like you’re really there,” said 16-year-old Tiffany Schubert of Peru, New York. “It makes you just want to be in the show and have the same experience — being attacked by aliens, as bad as that is.”
Schubert wore a red Starfleet shirt during a guided tour on a recent Star Trek convention weekend with her father, who came dressed as Spock. They heard a red alert, stood on transporter pads (dad gave a live long and prosper hand sign) and poked around the bridge. The sets are doppelgangers of the originals down to each blinking light and 3D chess piece.
ames Cawley, a 50-year-old Elvis impersonator, began the years-long process of building the sets in 1997 after inheriting a copy of the original Enterprise blueprints from a costume designer on the original show.
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Shatner is probably working on his hip swivel as we speak. 
Completely explains the whole "Elvis Lives" thing. He went into space, in the future! Makes perfect sense! 
Unfortunately, they gave Elvis a red shirt. 
Elvis, Led Zeppelin, and reggae 
