Gallery: Modern Star Trek Scenes, Now With the Original Starship

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    lightspeed

    Professional illustrator and concept artist Nick has used a Smithsonian photo of the original USS Enterprise model to composite the ship into stills from Star Trek movies, like this warp-speed scene from 1979's *Star Trek: The Motion Picture*.
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    riverside

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    Mutar

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    nibiri

    "This was a nightmare to isolate all the elements and recomposite," Acosta says of this shot from 2013's *Star Trek Into Darkness*, "from cutting out the Nibiri jungle to all the water elements pouring off the Enterprise."
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    re-entry

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    Titan-Rise

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