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File:The Shuttle Enterprise - GPN-2000-001363.jpg, featured

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•  Info created by NASA - uploaded by BotMultichillT, edited by Sir James - nominated by Pine -- Pine^✉ 06:11, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
•  Support for historic value -- Pine^✉ 06:11, 28 February 2016 (UTC)
•  Support Per Pine. To elaborate on what I see as the historic importance of this image:

• First, I don't think there's any other free image showing most of the original Star Trek cast (William Shatner does not seem to be present) plus Gene Roddenberry (nor, of course, could there be the likelihood of another one, as four of the people in that group are dead). A more striking detail whose significance is not immediately apparent is that Leonard Nimoy and Roddenberry are not only standing next to each other but are actually looking like they're enjoying it, something you might not expect given Nimoy was in protracted litigation with Paramount at the time and was rather upset with Roddenberry personally for showing all the blooper reels at conventions. That adds a lot of significance to this.

  It's too bad about their clothes, but as my wife and I frequently turn to each other and say "It ... was ... the ... '70s!"

• Second, to me this marks a key moment in late 20th century history: the moment when science fiction began to inspire reality. NASA's astronauts might have named the ships on one of the Apollo missions after Peanuts characters, but they never would have dreamed of naming one after a ship in a sci-fi movie or TV series; the success and influence of Star Trek changed that in less than a decade. And look where things have gone from there ...

Thus concludes what I hope will be my longest !vote ever. Daniel Case (talk) 04:24, 29 February 2016 (UTC)

•  Support Per Daniel. INeverCry 05:04, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
•  Support - Great statement, Daniel! -- Ikan Kekek (talk) 06:43, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
•  Support absolutely --Martin Falbisoner (talk) 07:41, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Johann Jaritz (talk) 08:04, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
•  Support yay! --Rettinghaus (talk) 15:40, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
•  Support 😄 ArionEstar 😜 (talk) 18:25, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
•  Support I am very much in favor of this image (as per Daniel), but I suggest the careful use of noise reduction software, as there is a significant amount of noise all over the image (e.g. the sky). As an example of what can be achieved (in this case with Topaz Denoise 6): [1]. Also there are two scratches that should be edited out (I have done that in the denoised version): a yellow one above DeForest Kelley's amulet and a thin black one going down from the name of the Enterprise text (which cannot be a feature of the enterprise, since the features are not as sharp at this distance). --Rftblr (talk) 19:07, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --Lošmi (talk) 21:27, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Good image, but nothing special, no reason for FP.--Karelj (talk) 21:44, 29 February 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --LivioAndronico ^(talk) 21:05, 1 March 2016 (UTC)
•  Support --ComputerHotline (talk) 09:24, 2 March 2016 (UTC)
•  Support -- Gildir (talk) 15:41, 3 March 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Per Karelj. --Medium⁶₉ ^{You wanted talk to me?} 12:54, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Per Karelj and bad crop. --Alchemist-hp (talk) 13:46, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
•  Oppose Per Karelj, and I also believe that this picture can be improved with better processing. --Poco² 23:42, 6 March 2016 (UTC)

Confirmed results:

Result: 13 support, 4 oppose, 0 neutral → featured. /Yann (talk) 21:52, 8 March 2016 (UTC)

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