Star Trek: Exploring New Worlds exhibit comes to LA’s Skirball Center

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  Installation display: Capt. Kirk's command chair and restored navigation console from Star Trek: The Original Series. [credit: Skirball Center/MoPOP ]

Back in 2016, the Museum of Pop Culture (MoPOP) in Seattle unveiled an immersive new exhibit, Star Trek: Exploring New Worlds, in its Science Fiction Museum and Hall of Fame. The exhibit is a tribute to the hugely influential long-running franchise, and it embarked on a national tour two years later. Exploring New Worlds has been exploring the country ever since, and now it has come to the final stop on its journey: the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles, California, where Gene Roddenberry first created his visionary series, Star Trek: The Original Series (TOS).

"Star Trek's vision resonates deeply with the Skirball's commitment to using the power of arts and storytelling to help build a society in which everyone belongs," museum director Sheri Bernstein said during the press preview last month.

Highlights of the exhibit include Capt. Kirk's command chair and the wooden helm and navigation console from TOS, fully restored. There are also plenty of props: different designs of tricorders, communicators, phasers, and PADDs; a model of a Borg cube; and piles of weaponry, including a Klingon disruptor pistol.

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