The Roddenberry Archive

Big hat tip to Scott at the Unwanted Blog for posting about this one a while back, and I figure I'll forward the news along. 

So the big news in nerd circles a couple weeks ago was the announcement of the Roddenberry Archive and the projects it announced. First, they stated they will be making full digital recreations of all of the Enterprise starships, including ones not seen on screen, all of which will include every room and prop in excruciating detail. 

Next they announced a project to recreate the pilot episode of "The Cage" as a a full scale holodeck simulation, whatever that means. I assume that they mean a VR-style, fully 3d experience, but that's just a guess. But, they do include the famous Michael Okuda in the project as well as the original director of the episode as well. Below is a little video of the projects they are working on at the archive so far:

Now, as Scott pointed out, how the projects will be digested or distributed is a complete mystery to me at this point, and I don't know if they will be products to consume by the public at large, or just an internal thing, so we'll see how that pans out, I guess. Hopefully is is something that the average person can enjoy, as true Trek fans have been getting nothing but runny excrement with nutty chunks as official content for more than decade or so.