Building Star Trek in Bloomington, MN

Building Star Trek celebrates the 50th anniversary of the beloved series and includes a look at the effort to restore the original 11-foot, 250-pound model of the USS Enterprise and a look at the effort to build a model of the ship's bridge. Also: technological concepts the series introduced, such as hand-held communication devices, desktop computers and space shuttles; and the work to create real-life versions of other things conceived on the show, including warp drive, medical tricorders, cloaking devices and tractor beams.