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Boldly Going To Nerdville So, just how big is the NCC-1701-D USS Enterprise from Star Trek: The Next Generation? Updated with new images and some additional information.
Here's what the Seattle sky line would look like if the Enterprise were to fly over it. As you can see, the Enterprise is just about 7 city blocks long, and taller than a 40 story building.
Even this city's enormity is brought into perspective when you put the entire ship on it. Whoever initially described the Ent-D as a "city in space" wasn't kidding!
because it looks like a car could drive through the windows and a bus would fit in the observation lounge. The Enterprise D is supposed to be something like 26 decks tall, right? I'd like to suggest scaling it down to what looks like the right size and then figuring out how wide Paramount should have said it is.
May 30th, 2007 at 5:56 pm just to make things interesting, i'd say you should recalculate the size of the ship flying over seattle. einstein's theory or relativity shows that as objects travel at relativistic speeds (i'm blanking on an "average" speed for the enterprise), it will appear shorter.
May 30th, 2007 at 5:57 pm just to make things interesting, i'd say you should recalculate the size of the ship flying over seattle. einstein's theory of relativity shows that as objects travel at relativistic speeds (i'm blanking on an "average" speed for the enterprise), it will appear shorter.
May 30th, 2007 at 6:10 pm If the enterprise flew over Seattle that close, even at 10% of the speed of light, it would destroy the buildings, and even at that percentage the size would hardly be changed to the outside observer.
May 30th, 2007 at 7:12 pm @ Patrick Delahanty Who says the height of a deck is the same as the story of a building? The bridge has got to be 20 feet high, and the holodeck likewise.
org/wiki/Executor_%28Star_Wars%29 Crew: 250 000 (or 33 million, depending upon estimates). Potentially hundreds of wings of TIE fighters at 144 TIE fighters per wing. This thing could ruin your whole morning coffee if it appeared over the horizon just as you were attacking....
May 30th, 2007 at 7:46 pm There is no length contraction.. the enterprise doesn't accelerate to light and warp speed in normal space, but creates a subspace field which avoids the relativistic effects 16.
just because a ship has 26 decks doesnt mean that a) 1 deck = 35 meters... look at the flight deck' on a standard Nimitz Class aircraft carrier... its at the very least 10 meters (about 10 feet) from floor to ceiling in there.... not to mention if you are in a deep space faring craft you arent going to have crew space straight up to the hull (i dont care if you have sheilds and polarized hull playing...
Those windows on the enterprise are surly big enough for a bus to drive through. I think some better calculations on the realistic size of the enterprice need to be done.
May 31st, 2007 at 12:41 am Mongo61 Said: May 30th, 2007 at 7:12 pm @ Patrick Delahanty Who says the height of a deck is the same as the story of a building? The bridge has got to be 20 feet high, and the holodeck likewise. This would be the part in which I stealthily creep up on you and pat you on the back.
May 31st, 2007 at 12:47 am Erm, you did know it's fictional right ? It's made up by a bunch of americans sitting in a room thinking of new ways to fill tv hours ?
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May 31st, 2007 at 6:35 am Boldly Going To Nerdville - Just How Big is The Enterprise?... A guy gets major geek cred by showing the Enterprise-D in relation to US major cities.
a Galaxy Class ship has a max berthing capability of 1300. a Nimitz Class Carrier has a crew of 5000, and is approximaly 1/4 the size of the saucer Some how I'm trying to fathom the scope of the engineering spaces' 42.
The Galaxy-class starships have 42 decks, not 26, so the profile of the Enterprise-D would be consistent with a forty-story city skyline. I have just maxed my nerd-cred for the rest of the century!
May 31st, 2007 at 11:19 am Um, I thought it was the license plate on Hiro's dad's limo that read NCC1701, not Hiro and Ando's Nissan Versa... And Sulu served on a much earlier model of Enterprise much more than thirty years ago, so I thumb my nose at anyone who says Star Trek has lost relevance.
a Galaxy Class ship has a max berthing capability of 1300. It's not just that the engineering spaces are big, the crew quarters are huge too; the original would have fit sixteen ratings into the space a single crewman gets on the -D. Even Kirk's quarters weren't as big as the senior staff/family quarters assigned the bridge crew of the -D. Scotty even commented on this when they found him stuck on that Dyson sphere. Heck, even Voyager, which is about the size of the Enterprise-A had half the crew... As to why the difference is so great, I suspect that there is a lot more automation on Galaxy Class vessels and the Federation of the 23rd century cared a lot less for creature comforts than does the Federation of the 24th.
May 31st, 2007 at 2:08 pm @velo: You statement that 10 meters = 10 feet is a little off. What a wonderful bunch of comments regarding such nonsensical, but relevant subject matter.
May 31st, 2007 at 6:33 pm rfjason's latest little experiment to draw the star trek geeks out of the woodwork seems to be coming along quite nicely. You probably don't want to be sending him pictures of your *ahem* forward phaser array though.
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