<blockquote>(The real winner of the 1992 downtown Las Vegas redevelopment competition was NOT the FREMONT EXPERIENCE – it was the STARSHIP ENTERPRISE from STAR TREK. But no one knows this – until now.)</blockquote>
via <a href="http://www.garygoddard.com/blog/index.php/now-it-can-be-told-the-star-trek-attraction-that-almost-came-to-life-in-1992/">NOW IT CAN BE TOLD: THE “STAR TREK” ATTRACTION THAT ALMOST CAME TO LIFE in 1992. – GGE Blog</a>.

This would have been so cool!
<blockquote>We learned everything we could about the Starship – its actually size and dimensions, how it would exist in “dry dock” on the planet if indeed such a situation had been possible.  We imagined what it could be, and how we might achieve it.  We got Ken Ball (former head of engineering at Disney’s MAPO) involved to figure out how to engineer and support it.  (Ultimately we realized we would need to add some supports on the outer edge of the “disc” section due to the extremely high wind conditions in Vegas.  For this we created a high tech “scaffolding structure” that gave the ship more of the appearance of being in an open-air dry dock.  I have not yet located that sketch, but I’ll try to find it.)</blockquote>