Mike and Rich (and Jay) talk about their process of restoring a Defiant Helms control panel. Quick and entertaining ~24 minute video.

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After months of delays and procrastination, Mike, Jay and Rich Evans decide to finally attempt to do something with the Deep Space Nine USS Defiant Helm Control Panel they purchased from Propstore. It was cracked in half. Scratched, ripped, warped and all sorts of bad. Plus it needed to be lit. So the gang attempts their unique style of drunken midwestern problem solving. See the results! See the horror! Witness the shame! But seriously. Mike emailed with Michael Okuda and got some info on the prop. The theory is that this is the panel used on the show from the first appearance of the Defiant until the season 6 episode “One Little Ship” where a stunt explosions appears to happen right at the split mark. Maybe it was just a crack in the plexiglass, but enough to cause them to replace it because the next time we see the bridge is on the “Valiant” (same set) and there is a new LCARS layout. This is a theory. Hopefully someone can shed some light on this, but alas it is what it is. A pile of junk lovingly restored to something we can display and that warms our cold, dead hearts.