Rusty Harrell comes to the Restoration Team via Denver, Colorado, with 17 years experience in prop and fabrication techniques. Since starting his own website, HollywoodRestoration.com, Rusty is continuing the restoration of Shuttlepod 1 from Star Trek Enterprise, and his creations are in private collections around the world. Starting with the restoration of the Enterprise D Captains Chair, Rusty will soon move onto other aspects of the Bridge Restoration.
Huston Huddleston is a Writer and the son of the Oscar-nominated Disney composer, Floyd Huddleston, and Neil Diamond-collaborator, Nancy Adams. Huston went to Buckley School, LA Valley College and a variety of high schools, majoring in Cinema and Broadcasting. He has written and directed several films, as well as articles and reviews for the LA Times, Film Threat, Video Watchdog, SFX Magazine and the book "Disney: A Mouse Under Glass". He wrote special lyrics for the ABC-TV Frank Sinatra's 80th Birthday TV Special, composed over 100 songs for various artists, wrote 25 screenplays, 4 musicals, and recently the horror play "Soul Less".
In London he wrote and produced several TV pilots including "Wanker World", "The Wacky Dooley Show", and the Channel 4 TV comedy, "The Greatest Show Ever" directed by Joe Dante. In Los Angeles, for Motor Entertainment, he re-wrote an Emily Osment feature, for Filmlook he wrote the screenplay based on the comic book "Valentine", wrote and directed the TV pilot "Paranormal Manifestation Squad", wrote two animated films for Don Bluth and just recently wrote and directed the pilot for the animated series "Captain Daddy" starring Ed Asner, Fred Willard, Richard Horvitz, Traci Lords and Roger Bart.
Huston is a lifelong Star Trek fan and hopes that rebuilding this set will bring much joy to everyone who steps aboard it.
BRIAN UIGA has been building gadgets and props since the 1990s when he was a 10-year-old "Star Trek" and "Doctor Who" fan and was inspired to create some of the iconic hardware that he saw on screen.
Brian designs precision optical film scanning equipment for Lasergraphics. He owns a collection of full-size movie cars which he loans out to charity or police fundraiser events with the group of TV and movie cars at Star Car Central.com. These include an interactive robotic version of "Herbie the Love Bug" built using bits and pieces of wrecked stunt cars from 2005's "Herbie: Fully Loaded", a screen-used "Horace the Hate Bug" evil twin car from the 1997 TV remake of "The Love Bug", and a replica of the radio-controlled gadget-laden BMW 7 series from "Tomorrow Never Dies".
You can see more of Brian's car collection of "STAR CARS" webseries at CRAVE Online.
Brian was the technical lead on Paul Salamoff's restoration of the screen-used DOCTOR WHO "TARDIS Console" time machine set piece from the 1996 Paul McGann TV movie. He also designed a transforming "Super Pursuit Mode" Knight Rider car and a gadget-laden "Goldfinger" Aston Martin for friends, and acting as Art Director on the "Untitled Web Series About a Space Traveler Who Can Also Travel Through Time", a.k.a. the "Not Inspector Spacetime Webseries".
Brian is honored to be part of the restoration team for a set that, through Michael Okuda's iconic graphic designs influenced nearly every piece of notable technology for the last 25 years, from flash drives to iPads.
