Long-lost first model of Star Trek’s USS Enterprise finally returned home

The first model of the USS Enterprise has finally returned home, decades after going missing (Josh David Jordan/Heritage Auctions via AP)

The first model of the USS Enterprise — used in the opening credits of the original Star Trek television series — has gone back home, returning to creator Gene Roddenberry’s son decades after it went missing.

The model’s disappearance sometime in the 1970s had become the subject of lore, so it caused a stir when it popped up on eBay last autumn.