A visit to upstate New York and Vermont – Star Trek Original Series Set Tour

When I mentioned to a colleague that we would be visiting Ticonderoga, NY she suggested that we might want to check out the Star Trek Original Series Set Tour. I’ve been watching Star Trek since I was kid, and my friend’s husband was an even more devoted fan than I am (he seems to be able to remember every episode in great detail, which is something that I’m a long way away from being able to do). So he got tickets for us.

The tour’s website provides the following description:

Star Trek: Original Series Set Tour is Located in Historic downtown Ticonderoga, New York.

When the STAR TREK television series was canceled in 1969, the original sets were dismantled and largely destroyed, only a few small items of the actual sets remain today, and those that have survived are in private collections. Trek superfan James Cawley began the process of rebuilding the sets just as they would have been seen 50 years ago when the series was being filmed, a 14 year journey has culminated in the most accurate rebuild of the original sets, and is now open and welcoming STAR TREK fans from all over the world!

Our sets are complete recreations built using the original blueprints, hundreds of hours of serious research and thousands of photographs – both period images and images culled from extensive review and capture from the original episodes. The sets will NOT and were NOT designed to move from one city to another and are fully licensed by CBS. The Star Trek: Original Series Set Tour Invites you to come see the Desilu Studio as it looked during the years between 1966-1969 while Star Trek was in production.


This “Batmobile” stood outside the entrance to the tour. We later discovered that it had been built by the person who also owned to tour.

The picture at the top of this post, and the next three pictures were taken in the lobby while we were waiting for the tour to begin.



The next three pictures show the transporter room, featuring my friend’s husband and (in the second picture the two consoles used in the original series)



In the next two pictures we’re in sick bay.


The famous curved corridor.

The conference room featuring a Vulcan lute (sometimes referred to as a Vulcan harp, Vulcan lyre, or Vulcan lyrette) was a twelve-stringed musical instrument played on the planet Vulcan that was tuned on a diatonic scale and noted to be very soothing.

A couple of artifacts featuring a skull and a Tricorder.


Captain Kirk’s room


The Engine Room (I’m not sure about the first picture below, but I think it was the engine room. The second one certainly is.


On the bridge


All in all, it was much better than I thought it would be and I really enjoyed it. The highlight of the tour was being able to sit in the captain’s chair on the bridge of the starship “Enterprise”!

Taken with a Sony RX10 IV