Star Trek: Inside the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D
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- Опубліковано 26 жов 2021
- So I have decided to create a 3D animation of the iconic Enterprise 1701-D from Star Trek from the Next Generation. Enjoy!
The USS Enterprise 1701-D is an updated and evolution to the original USS Enterprise 1701 from the Star Trek media franchise.
Under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, it is the main setting of Star Trek: The Next Generation and server as the Starfleet flagship for seven years (1987-1994).
The Next Generation occurs in the 24th century, 78 years after the adventures of Captain James T. Kirk and the starship Enterprise.
Artist Andrew Probert was in charge of redesigning the Enterprise-D, which was an update to Matt Jefferies' iconic 1960s Enterprise designs, depicting a ship supporting a larger crew on a longer mission "to boldly go where no one has gone before."
The updated Enterprise retains the signature of Matt Jefferies' design for the original Enterprise: a saucer section, engineering section, and a pair of engine nacelles.
With a total of 42 decks, the Enterprise-D was twice the length and had eight times the interior space of the Constitution-class ships of over a century earlier. She carried a combined crew and passenger load of 1,012.
Defensive systems included 10 phaser banks, 250 photon torpedoes, and a high capacity shield grid; there are some 4,000 power systems in all aboard ships.
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There is an updated animation of Enterprise D, Deck 1-16. ua-cam.com/video/gFjdmhF2Kzo/v-deo.html
Nearly 30 years and still a timeless, well crafted Beauty
The Most beautiful ship in Star Trek
The true peak of the Star Trek franchise. It was to the Star Trek franchise what Empire Strikes Back was to Star Wars.
Undoubtedly the NCC-1701-D is the peak!!!
That's not the Defiant.
@@Heymrk Correct, that is not the ship that was made as a pale response to the Minbari Whitestar from the Babylon 5 universe.
Sovereign Class definitely take that title
Sometimes there are days when i don't feel like I need to know what is inside the Enterprise D but then when I'm out of that mood I'm glad that this video is here.
The coolest starship cutaway I’ve ever seen. I hope you do more!!
Thanks for watching.
@@Halfscreen Interesting how the SpaceX Star Ship is under the front section... SpaceX i recon are the only company that could build a version of the Enterprise due to the prototyping/testing/building speeds they follow... :):)
Ps notice how SpaceX at Boca Chicca looks like the place where the Enterprise is built in Star Trek 2009....
@@kylereese4822 Yeah. I was going to create an animation of Space X since I created the 3D model already, but I realized I really don't much about it.
@@Halfscreen You could do a theoretical build of the Enterprise from watching Star Ship being constructed eg treat each 4 ring sections of Star Ship as 1 deck of the Enterprise
eg, each vertical 4 ring section as crew quarters then each 4 horizontal ring as walkways...
thus you can build any shaped ship you want as each 4 ring section is a standard size...
@@kylereese4822 Interesting. Never thought about that technique before.
I've watched TNG since 1990 and I have the first couple of years' worth of the Star Trek Fact Files but I learnt something new from this video: I had no idea how enormous the main shuttlebay is! No wonder Riker suggested decompressing it to push the Enterprise clear of the Bozeman in Cause and Effect.
Thanks for sharing!
Dang it, I used to have a bunch of issues of the Star Trek magazine ( I'm not sure it's the same thing), they had all sorts of awesome stuff in there, I wish I still had them 😢
Thank you for this. Those animations with the people dotted around really gives a proper sense of scale. I've heard people talk about the size of a starship, and how long it would take a person to walk around certain areas but seeing it like this really puts it into perspective, that these ships are literal cities. Absolutely fascinating!
Thanks for watching and leaving a comments. When watching the shows, you really can't get the scale without and references. It's massive.
Remember: us aicraft carriers has like 5 k people aboard.
@@trazyntheinfinite9895 and like the 4k on most Cruise Ships, they're tightly packed and overcrowded in most areas, Enterprise-D was shown to be very spacious, with even the lowest ranking officer getting a quarters comparable to a 2-bedroom apartment (unlike the crew quarters on a cruise ship that's probably just one tiny room with a bunk bed)
You clearly don't understand what literal means. It's a ship, not a city, so you are using literal to emphasise that something patently untrue is in fact true. Since it's a fictional ship it's not even a literal ship. Intelligent people are laughing at you when you add the word literally or literal to everything you say.
@@markfox1545 It doesn't matter really, It is for entertainment and not to be taken seriously. As an animator and content creators, all of my animations are meant for casual viewers. It's not math, medical, engineering, or science channel.
I think this is the best Star Trek ship ever conceived and should have been given more than 7 years worth of screen time. There was so much put into the design of the ship and what could have been so many great sets that were never built. Thanks for this video. I very much enjoyed it!
Couldn't agree more!
The Enterprise D comes with a map for all new crew members to follow.
@@johnbockelie3899 that would be a heck of a map... Wait, they probably didn't get it on paper.
Impressive! I have the NCC 1701-D deck plans on paper that are nearly 30 years old. This 3D animation matched them up perfectly! Good Job!!
Thank you very much!
I agree. I used to have the cutaways also and used to stare at them endlessly soaking in all the details. This video definitely did them justice.
@@ckmbyrnes I wished I have a better schematic but it was a fan-made version.
Care go share?
@@hypnoticstudio6114 Not at the moment.
I have to say: "This is amazing". Very nice work. Hope to see more of it. Also from USS Voyager.
Thank you very much! I will look into it.
@@Halfscreen subbed my man
Those things you said were the anti-matter storage pods on Deck 10 are actually the saucer/engineering hull locking clamp housings. All anti-matter storage is in the engineering hull at the base of the neck above the warp core.
i thought the anti matter storage pods were below the warp core near the detachable hull plates so they could be ejected and the regular matter fuel tank sat behind and sat above the warp core ?
@@ryanjosef You may be right. I think I got the matter and anti-matter reversed. Either way, it’s all still in the engineering hull.
I was gonna post this but you beat me to it. And as Ryan said the anti mater pods are on the bottom storage bays of the secondary hull. The durtium tanks (which are filled by the bussard collectors) aka matter storage tanks are above the warp core since it's not volatile like the core and antimatter tanks are. Also I believe the 1701-d has a backup warp core like voyager dose.
@@astron1701 as far as i understand the Deuterium tanks do have a fill port and the collectors among other things are built to collect matter as they go to extend the ships travel range . I dont know about a secondary warp core but chances are if there was one, its ejection systems would be a big LOL as well.
I think it's stored under engineering perpendicular to the main core. Once the core is ejected the back up can either be beamed into place or moved there by work bees. The same procedure is used for voyager.
Fantastic. She was an incredible ship, the vessel of so many dreams.
The pinnacle of the Star Trek franchise. ST could never achieve this greatness again, after it was gone.
it will be an incredible ship
@@legPhase “will be”?
What, are you going to make a real one?
@@perfectsplit5515 - Humanity builds and launches the Enterprise D approximately 342 years from now in 2363.
Great video, out of all the Enterprise D layout videos ive seen, this is probably one of the best.
the cutaways for the decks is fantastic.
great work.
Thank you very much!
I built this ship in Minecraft. I built out the full interior with a small team of folks and I can tell you that there is a whole heck of a lot more space in that ship than one would think. It took me four years to build out the interior with help. And that is at a scale of close to 1 to 1. You can view and tour the ship if you own Minecraft. The ship and many more, are available for exploration on the minetrek minecraft game server.
I've just watched your video and man, that look like a lot of work. I spent 2 weeks on my 3D model and I thought it was taken too long. Great job!
Wow, you need more coverage.
Do a cut away of the Excelsior Class Enterprise B next.
@@johnbockelie3899 let me think about it.
The most beautiful and elegant of all the Enterprise designs. It was really a shame they decided to make the movie plot in such a way that it got destroyed. Picard could have returned from the nexus with more time to plan a better strategy and bad luck they put a spy camera in Laforge's viewer., but seeing the frequency at which the shields operated could have been a matter of noticing the spy camera before it happened or just having a better shield system that automatically changes whenever a hit is taken even with the shields are up. WIfi routers automatically change the channel frequency when there's interference from another wifi network. But the plot said the ship had to be destroyed and destroyed it was.
So your solution is to write all the drama out of a scene? Thank God you don't work as a writer then.
@@DrewLSsix I didn't say that. Drama could have been other things, but then again why destroy the Enterprise for #10000th time? Already happened many many times, wasn't the destruction of that entire solar system enough drama? Whatever.
I agree with your comment on the D! The Galaxy is such an elegant and utility design.
I agree , they should have had him come back and save the ship . Enterprise D was the best!
It crashing gave us the Sovereign class. Probably the prettiest star fleet vessel ever
Just binge watched the entire 7 seasons. Thanks for the clarification.
This was the silliest video I've seen in a long time. Loved every minute of it.
Nerd like silliest! 😁
When I served on NCC 1701-D as an scientific engineer, we had hilarious Party’s in Ten Forward. One night I puked into a Jefferies-Tube because some Girl out of my Team served us some self distilled ethanol. Great experience.
Liar if you see Worf he'll hook you up with the good replicators
I remember those parties. Good Romulan cocaine
You did all that on synthahol... 😂
I had a bananna split, but it got all over everybody. ; )
Lol
This cutaway really gives a feeling for the scale of the ship. Well done!
Design approved. Make it so. Let's go!
this was an amazingly detailed video, I don't normally post replies as they tend to get lost but please keep doing these videos they are awesome and a treat to watch with coffee in the morning, thank you again and please keep up the great work guys/girls
I appreciate that! I just like creating 3D animation and I really don't see it being done with Star Trek genre.
Very well done! This gives a refreshing and revealing look at the scale and practical reference of this enormous fantasy spaceship.
thanks for watching and leaving a comment M Di Tomaso!
THANK YOU so much for this!!! This is wonderful. Such great work with this video!
Thank for the complement Anthony, you just made my day!
i always thought 1701-D was a big ship. But this really puts it into perspective. this was amazing and beautiful!! Thank you for your time and effort for this !!
Glad you enjoyed it! When watching the show, you really can't see how large the 1701-D really was.
It's mind bogglingly huge. I once saw a yt video which explained how the D would feel almost deserted with It's normal ~1000+ (dunno the exact figure) crew, family, passengers etc.
@@nathanhobson1142 Yeah, I watched the same video. I thought about doing something a bit more accurate
well, they evacuate planets with it
Thanks for the time and dedication it took to make this!
You bet!
This is such an amazing rendering. Makes the ship feel real.
thanks!
I never knew the bridge had a restroom and main shuttle bay was that big.
It's massive.
watch stage 9 enterprise D walk through...
@@ThomasMarxJeetKuneDoIFO Will do.
It’s where Picard beams his number two to number ones quarters.
If you saw a Romulan Bird Of Prey decloaking you would need it. 💩
I don't know how this managed to stay off my feed for so long, but its here now. I don't even know what kind of videos you make, but I subscribed. Legend.
Thanks for subscribing!
2:15 "The current speed of light is around 299,792,458 km/sec."
First, the speed of light is around 299,792 km/sec. Second, I'm quite sure that this is not only the 'current' speed of light. :D
Aside from that it's a great video with fantastic graphics!
Yup. I stopped watching there.
It is unless Q gets involved
Psssh with that attitude we will never get the speed of light up to 400,000 km/s
Yeah. Sorry about that, I know it's a mistake on my part. Somehow, I had mistaken 299,792, 458 meters to 299,792, 458 kilometers. After spending 50-60 hours on this video, I get tunnel vision on the basics. I'm only human.
Maybe it's the speed within an atmosphere or underwater...🤔
I was hoping to see more of the recreational aspects of the ship, but this is easily the best video I've seen covering this subject matter
Thanks. I may do a more expansive version.
Recreation would be a fairly quick video...
Holodeck
@@mr.unpopular9367 I wanna see those dolphins, dammit 👀🤣
Thank you! I'm geeked out in the best possible way. Very impressive.
Wow, thanks!
This is amazing . When i started i thought it was just a 3d ship but your interiors show a lot of work and effort. Thank you
Thank you very much!
Nice video. I still have my Rick Sternbach blue prints of every single deck. I hope one day someone models the entire ship in UE4 or UE5 so we can explore it. It's a shame Stage9 was shut down by CBS.
I thought about designing the 1701-D on Unity for fun.
Really great, I could watch this for hours! I want to see the entire ship... please do the entire Enterprise D!
I probably will down the road.
Absolutely fantastic. I hope you do many more of these!
This was an amazing video. You did a great job, and it really helps us understand the layout and size of the Enterprise D.
This was absolutely amazing! Would love to see every deck. Please do another one with a deck by deck breakdown. I know it would be a long video, but it would be well worth it.
I thought about doing an extension when I have the time.
@@Halfscreen please do! This is very cool.
Great work! Great channel!
Thank you very much LiebensteinMovies!
This was amazing! So very cool with the layout and details. Thanks!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent video! Best ever assessment of the Enterprise-D I've ever seen, inside and sizewise! 👏👍
Glad you enjoyed it!
I've already watch this twice, third times a charm. I was going to watch it again anyways
probably trying to slip an edit here and there, probably to avoid the copyright strikes from the movie clips set forth by angry algorithms
Nah. Just fixing some errors. No copyright strikes.
Yo! The detail in this vid is awesome! I have seen several 3D rendered videos about the Enterprise D and I have to say that this is by far the best of them!!! I really love how much effort and research you put into your vids.... Keep up the amazing work!!!
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(and if you're wondering what \m/ is, it is the keyboard version on the "rock on" horns)
Awesome, thank you! Yeah, I have been looking for some solid 3D animations and rendering of any Star Trek on YT but really couldn't find any. So, I decided to create one myself. Thanks for watching Brian. 😁
@@Halfscreen you're welcome! I can't wait to see what you do next!!!🤘
Thank you for this guided tour of the interior of Enterprise D. So detailed, brilliant!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Very well made, thank you so much for posting!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Most impressive animation! 🤙
The USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D is my favorite.
My thoughts?!… the movie producers picked the dumbest reason to destroy a legacy. A small bird of prey.
It couldn’t have gone out in a blaze of glory in the heat of an epic battle.
Your thought is echoed by many others.
Generally speaking, ST: Generations was a disappointment. TNG was such a great show, and its first movie adaptation ended up being a disappointment. Unable to fill the shoes of TNG series.
@@perfectsplit5515 cbs wanted the old 1701D gone so they could have a new "sleeker" 1701E. Couldn't have made a good plot to do it it seems
Awesome, amazing, impressive, epic. Thank you VERY much, dude!
No problem!
WOW that is some modeling feat. A little driven? Fascinating tour. Thanks.
This video was amazing. I love learning new things about old scifi. Id love to see an indepth look at Voyager. It was my favorite Star Trek.
Glad you enjoyed it! I'm in a process of finishing one of my animation and should be working the the Voyager next. See you soon!
Why wasn't it DS9?
AMAZING details. The patience you have to have to create something like this. Now please do the Enterprise E... which is my favorite Star Trek vessel.
Eventually
Outstanding! Thanks for sharing
Glad you enjoyed it!
Wow! This is magnificent video! So detail.
Thank you! Cheers!
Rendered this way, it looks like Starfleet turned to Apple for design duties. Great video, thank you!
You're very welcome!
My first time seeing that much detail inside TNG star ship. Very good. I might suggest continue to add in the human for scale, and include the largest room on the ship. My understanding was the ship was so big that ever with 1000 people on board you'd hardly every meet/pass anyone in the corridors.
The average height of the human is around 5 feet 6 inches to 6 feet on the 3D model so the scaling is somewhat "accurate" within range.
It was an absolute joy to work on this project with @halfscreen. It was so fun gathering the information for him to put this video together.
Thanks for the help!
Its a shame the show could never do the internal volume justice. you could put several modern day aircraft carriers into the saucer section. and those things are gigantic.
just one single deck is absolutely vast and you would probably need a whole day visiting each and every room, if not more.
Nice. I'm excited to see more of the decks of the Enterprise D explored. Especially if you could cover Cetacean Ops. Presumably since Voyage Home was a hit, they included a complex for dolphins to be aboard the Enterprise D, which is on the lower starboard side of the Saucer. Decks 10 or 11 if recall correctly.
I didn't know about the dolphins inside of the Enterprise D. Good to know.
@@Halfscreen There are some treasures to discover in the Galaxy class!
@@BlueSideUp77 Yeah. I may revisit the D someday.
this is amazing work, thank you
Thank you too for watching!
This was AWESOME!!
If the Enterprise-D only had 1012 people on board you could wander around the ship all day and not see anybody else. 10,012 would have been a far more realistic number of crew and passengers. Even then it would still have had more than enough space for everyone to live very comfortably.
Heard this from ec henry. But if you put the computer cores, main engineering systems, and other technologies it really makes the inner corridors and workspace a bit more conducive even for a crew of 1,012. Having a crew of 10,012 for a single ship would be far too costly if 1 galaxy class happened to be destroyed in a battle or accident. That's why the computer corse and bio circutries as well as those killer whales in cetacean ops reduced the crew workload down to a sizeable 1012.
It had a max emergency capacity of 15,000 crew and passengers.
Yet on the show it looks small and cramped
@@jplonsdale7242 It looked to me what I call "reasonably sized for a more spacous looking space ship". But I doubt it was to scale of the blueprint, espically when it was to be broadcasted to low quality TVs.
I always thought the 'Warp Core' was the Blue vertical tube thingy that Geordie always stood in front of. I couldn't make anything like this out in your blueprints. Plus you need to make the 'locating lines' that extend from the 'boxed' name to the area on the map, bigger/thicker, I couldn't make half of them out or what they were pointing to.
Great video. Thank you
Awesome. You guys did an amazing job here. Congrats!
Glad you enjoyed it!
The Animations are great, but you make some mistakes at deck 10. The "10 forward" ist located at the front of deck ten, not at the displayed side. The Antimatter Storage ist on the bottom of the ship at deck 41/42. In case of emergency it is the best position to throw off the antimatter storage tanks. If the storage located on deck ten, between the battle and saucer section - a emergency will be catastrophic. And the Ships computer core are not only located ten. The ship has three cores (two in the saucer and one in the engeneering section) across multiple decks.
I think I have mislabel where the "10 Forward" was located. I knew it was at the front but put the GUI at the wrong place.
@@Halfscreen don't worry. They made a similar mistake in star trek Picard...
"Mistake"? The "Enterprise" doesn't exist; it's an imaginary ship. Therefore, there are no "mistakes" about it on anything.
@@elputas 😁😁
@@hansschluter9977 I think I need a personal AI to catch my mistake.
The actual size of the Enterprise is ridiculously large for the supposed crew compliment. You could wonder the halls for days without seeing anyone.
good. you wont feel confined
Why does it look so small on the show? It looks spacious but it should look much bigger
That's what I thought. At least 5000+ I thought.
There is a good YT video from user HC Henry on that matter: ua-cam.com/video/Lwx5uB0pyhQ/v-deo.html
I personally think the size compared to the crew complement is just about right considering the level of automation and the multipurpose role this ship has. It's not only about evacuation capacity in times of emergency. The ship could carry cargo, troops in case of some armed incident, aid colonization of some new planet, etc. But yes, especially in engineering hull it could get somewhat lonely. Luckily there is a turbolift leading straight to Ten Forward on every other corner. :-)
The "Enterprise" doesn't exist; it's an imaginary ship. Therefore, it cannot be ridiculously large or ridiculously small.
THank you man, that was very cool.
No problem!
I've watched Star Trek since its inception. All of it. I am very pleased to see young guys still are excited about the entire concept. You entire video is a gem. Well done.
Thanks for watching and leaving a comment. The whole purpose of the video is to get the next generation excited about Star Treks with better visuals even though not everything is technically right.
I dunno….ready room has a window. Doesn’t look very accurate to me. Still cool though
Yeah the meeting room is a little bit lower and there are stairs connecting it to the bridge, which was never seen in the show but can be seen in the Stage 9 game. Then the window also works again.
I always wondered how many decks high the flat area was that connected the two nacelles and it looks to be two decks.
This was really cool! Thanks!
No problem!
What an excellent effort to make this happen, thank you so much. I assume that you know the only way it could have been better would have been to do more decks. Outstanding work.
I thought about doing additional decks down the road but it's going to be long video.
I’ll watch it, from beginning to end
Just to note: This is the Galaxy Class starship. It is the same basic design for all of them. The Enterprise-D is NOT the type of ship. It's the name of the ship. Most people don't realize that. Hope this helps.
Thanks for sharing.
please do the shield helicarrier,c-3po,uss voyager,uss
enterprise(nix 01),uss defiant,deep space nine
Amazing. Loved it, so detailed. Great job.
Glad you liked it!
Have to hand it to you...great work. This took a while I can tell, great job!
Yeah, it did. I'm just a detail nut.
Nice animation! However, your speed comparison of "warp 1" to the speed of light is off. Light travels at ~300,000 KM/s in a vacuum, which is 299,792,458 Meters per second, not KM.
Maths count. Please simplify. 300,000,000 metres would be 300 megametres. 😋
We should all switch to gigametres and terametres for space travel. Metrification😁
One mistake in there: where you placed the lower reactant loader there is actually the rear torpedo launcher. Otherwise a really great video.
Absolutely fantastic video. Love your work.
Glad you enjoy it!
I enjoyed this very much, thank you for making it.
Glad you enjoyed it!
You mixed up the Saucher docking clamps with "antimatter storage" on deck 10 ... the saucer section has NO antimatter storage (except in main shuttle bay)
were you there ??
@@tsputube99 -
just watch the "Saucer Separation"
scene from the first 2 episodes of ST-TNG ( watch?v=wp_wznCVHHs + watch?v=tFR_ox1E49I ) .... I instantly recognized these in the blueprints & look at the blueprints
You beat me to it.😉
@@BrotherChad -
typoz happenz ... Clamps
What's a Saucher?
Awesome stuff! I see comments about Voyager, would like to see Klingon, Bird of Prey or Battle Cruiser. Thanks!
Great suggestion!
Bird of Prey and the Borg Cube.
@@ominous-omnipresent-they : We'll find out where those whales fit.
@@brodriguez11000 They fit here: ua-cam.com/video/7WUAldRvUY0/v-deo.html :-)
Very well done! I really enjoyed your video and the effort you put into preparing it! Thank you!!!
Glad you enjoyed it Daniel!
Wow, I've seen every episode of star trek all the way though Discovery so far and I gotta say I learned a good deal in this video. Good job.
Glad to hear it and thanks for watching Thomas!
Great video. While the restroom on Deck 1/Bridge is accurate, it’s typically referred to as ‘the head’ on ships.
Yeah. it was label as "the head" but for the for the casual viewers.
@@Halfscreen Seriously though, they'd just transport body waste directly, no gross heads needed.
@@alittlebitgone interesting.
The Head sounds like a potty comic relief episode. It precedes Drumhead. 🥁🚽
@@alittlebitgone
There's bound to be plenty of McCoy's who get the satisfaction of a good natursl bowel movement without all the 💩 being dematerialised.
And I, for one, believe they do normal bathroom for one major reason besides supposedly having toilets--they still have showers and sinks. Its quite easy to beam all the germs and grime off instead of washing hands or using hand sanitizer, yet there they stand...
I would like to file a formal complaint about your channel
It seems that i was going to head to bed early, and then i discovered your content, now i have spent the next few hours watching these wonderfully done videos. Now it is really late and i will not get much sleep.
Before people get on to me, that was a joke, and i really like the content of this channel. i did like all the videos i watched, not one single bad one and also subscribed, and i never do that the first day i see a channel.
LOL. wow...I typically don't have my audiences watching all my videos but really thanks for taking valuable time off your life to to watch my animations. Much appreciated 😁
@@Halfscreen it was not all the videos, but maybe about 10 or 15 videos.
@@floridaboz1 Good enough but some of my earlier video kind of sucks. 😁😁
Fascinating upload...well done!
Thanks for the visit
Amazing video and breakdown. Thank you
Glad you enjoyed it!
That was spectacular! Keep em coming.
Thanks! Will do!
This is amazing!!
I enjoy how immersive Star Trek is!
The bridge is on top of sailing vessels now, to provide a better view of the surroundings. On a starship, it seems to be a target for enemy fire, like a bullseye. Wouldn't it be better placed deep inside the ship, protected like sickbay, instead of blown off as shown in ST: Enterprise season 3, episode 8 "Twilight?" Windows and viewscreens would not be needed, cameras could provide a complete panoramic view of all surroundings to an enhanced holodeck fitted with all controls necessary for a bridge. Minbari ships in Babylon 5 have this.
I mean, it's at the top because that's Gene's rule #4 of Federation starship design. Also, he took quite a bit of inspiration from the warships of his era.
The bridges of the last armored warships not only sit right up at the top, but are also essentially unarmored; the important bits for command and control are inside the conning tower. On Iowa class ships, the bridge provides protection only against the weather (well, sort of; it's technically a weather - or exposed - deck, since the hatches aren't watertight) and shell splinters. The conning tower, however, has slightly more than 17" of face hardened, cemented steel for protection.
@@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t Right on top is still too exposed and an inviting target. Designs of older ships may be completely outdated and impractical by the time starships are actually built. I seriously doubt that real starships would be bound by any science fiction rules.
@@randystegemann9990 There are 808 episodes of Star Trek. In a mere 807 of them, the bridge is not deliberately shot off by the enemy. We can conclude from this that the location is fine.
@@f0rth3l0v30fchr15t That is science fiction, not reality.
@@randystegemann9990 Yes, Star Trek is science fiction. No, the bridge wouldn't be better buried inside the ship, because the shields are what protects it.
In Generations, an outdated, underpowered Klingon Bird of Prey, able to bypass the shields, is able to cripple the ship.
The bridge location doesn't matter a tunpenny fuck while shields are what prevent damage to the ship itself.
Amazing animation and details... Hats off
Very Cool! Thanks for this.
You bet!
Mind blowing that someone would not only make a model for filming, but layout the entire ship interior and exterior. Plus, a detailed drawing of each room, and its functions.
If anyone reading this is interested you should watch the documentary Unacknowledged.
In it, a retired govt official states that if you saw it on Star Trek, or Star Wars, the US is either currently using the technology, or decided to scrap it.
This is really excellent. Thanks for another amazing video.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is what makes UA-cam awesome.
So much good information, I’m in heaven watching this. Thank you!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Enterprise D is the most beautiful of all Enterprise!!
WOW.. just WOW.. VERY well done!!
Thank you very much!