| rdfs:comment | - The original shuttlecraft as originally designed by Matt Jefferies was to have a more rounded look to it, much like the initial shuttles of the later spin-off series, Star Trek: The Next Generation. On his original design Jefferies commented, "Basically it was a teardrop thing, and the whole side panel, the outside door, would slide back, and you could just step right off on the ground. The seats were like bicycle seats mounted on each side of the keel." (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 1, Issue 12, pp. 20) The model kit company Aluminum Metal Toys (AMT), however, which agreed to build the full-sized set model through their subsidiary ,"Speed & Custom Shop", located in Phoenix, Arizona and headed by Gene Winfield, as well as the filming miniature for free in exchange for exclusive modeling
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| abstract | - The original shuttlecraft as originally designed by Matt Jefferies was to have a more rounded look to it, much like the initial shuttles of the later spin-off series, Star Trek: The Next Generation. On his original design Jefferies commented, "Basically it was a teardrop thing, and the whole side panel, the outside door, would slide back, and you could just step right off on the ground. The seats were like bicycle seats mounted on each side of the keel." (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 1, Issue 12, pp. 20) The model kit company Aluminum Metal Toys (AMT), however, which agreed to build the full-sized set model through their subsidiary ,"Speed & Custom Shop", located in Phoenix, Arizona and headed by Gene Winfield, as well as the filming miniature for free in exchange for exclusive modeling rights (eventually resulting in their 1974 model kit S595), found that flat panels were easier, cheaper and more importantly, due to time restraints, more expedient to build. Gene Winfield later recalled in 2012, "So, I went to him [Jefferies], and I said "Now I can't built that in that short period of time", I think we had only thirty days to build this complete unit. So he said, "OK, you redesign it, and bring back a rendering or sketches of your version of the Galileo and then I'll look at it, and tell you yes or no" So I did that, I totally designed, and I had a company do a rendering, a nice beautiful colored rendering. I took that back to Jefferies, and he said, "Oh yeah, great, beautiful" and said "Go to work", and we built it." (Galileo Restoration Project) The "company" Winfield referred to was Raymond Loewy Associates, the design studio of its already legendary namesake, where one of its employees, Industrial Designer Thomas Kellogg, made the color rendering of the preliminary re-design. Kellogg proceeded from another Jefferies design, a "Space Dock Utility Craft Personnel Carrier" which had the more boxed configuration Winfield preferred, but also worked in some design elements of one of the Studio's most famous designs at the time, that of the 1962 Studebaker "Avanti" car. Largely adhered to, Kellog's design version did not yet sport the Enterprise-style warp nacelles, which Jefferies later added. [1](X) Matt Jefferies himself later made these observations about the redesign, "I worked up sketches for it. But AMT, who were going to build the model in their shops in Phoenix in exchange for being able to market the kit of the Enterprise, felt it was beyond their capabilities, so it was designed by Gene Winfield, an automotive designer who had a custom body shop that primarily serviced the automotive industry through AMT. The Galileo as everybody knows it today was not my design. Overall I was a little disappointed, but I think within their capabilities it was a good solution. And it did work, obviously; people did accept it." (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 1, Issue 12, pp. 20) Jefferies' mild comment however, belied the "bitter disappointment" he actually felt at the time according to his biography. (p. 225) Jefferies, an aviation enthusiast, did not design his rounded, smooth shuttle on a whim, but had sound aeronautical principles in mind. He figured that shuttles needed an aerodynamic design for atmospheric entries in order to reduce friction and drag, which the redesigned shuttle certainly had not. Only in the last two The Next Generation films and in the later series Star Trek: Enterprise was the aerodynamics principle truly applied to the shuttles featured therein. Also, Jefferies had to redesign the interior to match the ultimate exterior of the studio model. Later shuttle designs by Jefferies after the episode "The Galileo Seven", such as a small, two-man shuttle and a bubble-topped space scooter, were deemed either too cost-prohibitive to realize, or simply not plausible with the current special effects of the time and were never used, so the producers stuck with the established design for later appearances of the shuttlecraft. Drawings of all these designs have published in the Star Trek: The Original Series Sketchbook. Jefferies sold off all his original design sketches on 12 December 2001 at The Star Trek Auction, in order to raise funds for the charitable organization "Motion Picture and Television Fund".
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