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The United Planets Cruiser ''C-57D'' is a fictional starship featured in MGM's 1956 science fiction film ''Forbidden Planet''. The design used for the starship is a flying saucer, inspired by the spate of UFO sightings during the 1950s era, and which itself inspired the look of the exterior saucer section and interior design of another iconic starship, ''Star Treks USS ''Enterprise''.〔(Mania.com, "Forbidden Plastic: Part 1" ) (retrieved 2010-02-22)〕 == ''Forbidden Planet'' production == In the film's screenplay the starship carries no name, only the designation "United Planets Cruiser C-57D". The saucer has a lenticular profile. Above there is a dome, approximately a third of the diameter of the lens. Below there is a very shallow cylinder of about the same diameter, and a somewhat smaller dome that ostensibly houses the starship's faster-than-light drive engine and central gyroscopic landing pedestal. The precise contours and proportions differ slightly between the saucer's shooting miniatures, full-size sets, and matte paintings used in the film. On landing, the saucer's gangway and two conveyor-loading ramps swing down at an angle from the underside hull, near the edge of the lower lens shape. The original movie blueprints for the command deck〔() (provenance unknown; retrieved 2010-02-23)〕 show it to have a central circular "navigation center", reminiscent of the TARDIS console used later in BBC's Doctor Who series, with a transparent globe centered on a small model of the starship. Around this central space are a number of wedge-shaped rooms, including: * A room with a curved table, chairs, and a space for books (presumably a galley and recreation room). * A room with the "communications center," a chart table and the "main viewscope." * A room with 16 bunk beds, with a pit and crane between it and the central area. * A room with 9 "decelerator platforms." The film shows the crew standing on these low, cylindrical platforms, enveloped within an opaque blue glow while the saucer decelerates from hyperdrive, but does not show whether these low platforms must also be used during the transition to faster-than-light speed. On the starship's mezzanine level there is an instrument station and other rooms that aren't seen. The studio created a stage set of the interior command and mezzanine decks and a 60-foot (18 m) semicircular mockup of the landed saucer's lower half (with the deployed central landing pedestal, gangway, and conveyor ramps). The sets suggest that the starship is somewhere between and feet in diameter. Three saucer miniatures were used, of , , and or in diameter, and costing an estimated total of $20,000. The largest miniature, constructed of wood, steel, and fiberglass, which contained the internal motors for the gangway, conveyor ramps, central landing pedestal, and glowing red-neon light engine, weighed . In 1970 MGM sold off these miniatures as part of the large MGM studio auction, but there was no record kept of who bought the largest of the three. A North Carolina man, who originally bought it for $800.00, stored it in his garage but hadn't realized its market value until 2008; he finally put the saucer up for auction that year, and it sold for $78,000.〔(''Los Angeles Times'', "The lost saucer of 'Forbidden Planet' reappears" ) (retrieved 2010-02-22)〕〔(''NJ.com'', "Amazing the things that are for sale!" ) (retrieved 2010-02-22)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「C-57D」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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