Not one of my favourites, but I loved seeing how many of the later standard features were gradually added, such as the phasers and torpedoes. Not having a tractor beam and having to rely on grappling hooks for the shuttles always annoyed me, as well as the lack of food replicators, but the fact they were always the underdog added suspense to the series.
@@M1tjakaramazov I tend to agree. I do like the overall look but the mass to line of thrust makes me cringe, if you look at the sub-light drive line of thrust and the mass placement it is extremely top heavy, the engines will pitch it up without constant counter thrust from the maneuvering thrusters, stupid, if the nasals had been just under the saucer more like the Akira class it would be better thrust balanced. guess they wanted it to look cool not go straight
@@dunsel5887 I think it's just the result of two design philosphies colliding - the Jetsons approach of the 60s when they thoght future materials would be so tensile that normal laws of stress and physics would no longer apply, and the early 2000s attempt to move away from the 90s sleek pastel and brushed-steel look towards more realistic and gritty designs. The result was a logical and aesthetic mish-mash.
@@dunsel5887 don't all of the main startrek ships have rather silly center of mass to center of thrust lines? At least most of the "classic human startrek ships" are oddly lopsided, this is one of the more sensible hero ships from the series as far as I can tell.
With apologies to the creator of this animation, there are a few mistakes on the configuration of the NX-class bridge: both the Science and Tactical station each had a secondary console facing the Captain's chair where the handrails are depicted. In addition, there was only one Helm console in front of the Captain's chair, manned by Travis Mayweather.
@@M60gunner1971 I was watching the series when I found this post. It was all right there in front of me, on the tv screen. What more proof do you want?
Awesome job! The thought that we put into this ship is finally earning it the love and respect that it deserves. You know the NX has fully arrived when you see the work and extrapolation put into developing it by fans. Kudos to all involved.
My favourite of all the ships and series for two Reasons, one is that it looked and performed like an expected “next step” invention. Starfleet was established but still scientific and logistical. The fact they needed to board MACOs to defend is a likely story in the development of space travel likely to happen to humans. The second was it was futuristic but only in increments. It still had the expected military submarine attitude to it whilst been ahead of the class. No civilian , no families just people working and developing, excellent work on developing this
NX-01 is my second-favorite starship. I love that it's very utilitarian but has an elegance in the design. I fell in love with it the first time I saw it. It 's beyond wonderful to be able to see it all laid out like this.
It sure as he'll beat the looks of uss Kelvin ship. I mean come on jj what did you do get enterprise kit tear out one nacelle glued it to the saucer and come up with the WORST looking ship anyone has EVER seen???!!! REALLY??? if I were an starfleet enemy I'd target the lone nacelle to have it dead in space easily. Ffwwhhaaa....
@@josephcontreras8930 The USS Kelvin almost literally makes my skin crawl. It's just soooooo wrong. All of the Starfleet vessels follow a certain standard, and then the designer for the Kelvin comes along and says "Let's try doing all these things upside-down and see what happens". I can barely stand to look at the thing. The NX-01 is a bit more basic, but it's the first prototype for what would later be standard design elements, and I love how it still manages to capture that elegance that would persist (Kelvin excepted) throughout Starfleet.
@4:27 you said the double hull and pylons could only be accessed with an environmental suit, but there is an episode of enterprise where the entire crew takes refuge inside one of the nacelles and just climb a ladder to reach to nacelle.
Your bridge is off. Unlike other Star Trek ships, there was only the Helm in front of the Captain's chair. Mayweather sat there and no one sat beside him. Also, both science station and tactical had consoles on two sides. The seats were on tracks that slid over to operate the console facing the center of the bridge. Your ready room is off. Why would the captain have his back facing the door in the ready room? It's reversed. Sorry, I'm a nerd - I notice these things.
- The Center area, only lies the Helm station, tho the seat is still in front of the screen, it stretch abit left for more console control since he's also in charge of navigation. - Left side near the captain chair is the Science station, which surrounded with consoles from railing to the wall, - Left side near the viewscreen is the Communications station which only face at the wall - Right side near the captain chair is the tactical officer station, like the communication station, it surrounded with consoles. - Like the communications station, there also a station for engineering on the opposite side, it rarely show but it's there. (The relationship between Helm, Nav and tactical is very odd, i guess that Helm and Nav work together on ship control, shield and weapon system depend on their specialties, while Tac work as a third hand for weapon and shield control but their original designation is still interior security.)
Good video. Good model. I just wish they had the courage to use the REAL first Enterprise design. The XCV330. Now if you'll excuse me, I gotta go shave the beard off of my neck.
Great series and maybe my favourite Starfleet ship after the 1701-D. Excellent work on the video again, although I'd appreciate the popups being visible a bit longer. Sometimes you're just taking it all in and by the time you focus on the popup, it's gone already.
Wow fantastic concept making the ships more coherent and real for us viewers. Would love to see DS9 and the Battlestar Galactica this way :) Instant sub, keep it up!
@@Halfscreen Warp core is on decks D and E. On the schematics it is refered to as 'reactor'. All those labels there are describing each component of the warp core individually, instead of having just one single label 'warp core'.
Love your videos. The work put into them is felt. So my critique isn't meant in a mean way, however, the bridge is rather incorrect. There was 1 helm position, tactical and science had railing stations as well. You marked was should be the tactical station as the engineering station. The situation area was not closed off with support beams but rather an open area with railing separations only. Archer's Ready Room did not have a second door nor is the layout exact. Engineering and the warp core should be twice the size detailed here. Again, I don't say any of this to insult your work. Just being a nerd who loves this ship and your channel.
This was due to downloading a fan-made bridge of the refit version (to save me some time modeling), I should have done a better job with modeling the bridge correctly.
@@Halfscreen Hey, it's pretty damn awesome no matter the errors. The production itself made tons of mistakes. Unavoidable :) Keep the good work coming!
Another great video. The Warp 5 engine at the time the series started was the most innovative human tool. As an Enterprise defender, i’ve made these points before, but for the uninitiated, warp speed increases aren’t uniform, they’re exponential. I don’t have my chart handy, but Warp 5 is many, many times faster than Warp 4.
I always preferred the TOS scale over the TNG scale. 1. It was simply the cube of the factor (warp 1 was (1x1x1)=1c, warp 5 was (5x5x5)=125c, etc.), rather than the factor raised to the power of 3.333... Much easier to figure out. 2. The numbers just kept going (so you could figure out what warp 14.1 was, if you wanted), rather than the scale completely changing above warp 9 because they wanted to cram every speed between that and infinite speed between 9 and 10. I'm convinced the "warp 13" we hear in the future of TNG's finale is there because they realized how dumb it was having ships travel at warp 9.9999 or warp 9.9999999.
Love these videos. The NX was probably one of my least favorite Enterprises on the outside but probably my favorite interior. Always felt like how an early deep-space starship would look. Even 20 years later it still holds up. Don't think I can say any of the other series' interiors do nearly as well. Can't wait for more of these.
Love watching these. Though I am curious how the ship's layout would have looked had they had gone ahead with the fifth season and the NX refit. I think it would have been a great way to further bridge the gap between the NX and the TOS 1701.
Thank you as always for making this video. I initially didn't know if I liked this ship or not when watching the series but it quickly grew on me. It felt like everything had purpose and we got to see how they had to fine-tune all of the systems whilst on mission because at this point they had not perfected the technology yet, and I thought this was something we needed. Even got to see Tucker come up with and develop the "forcefields", as well as Novakovich's unfortunate transporter accident prompting them to add the Annular Confinement Beam.
I love seeing the development of the NX-01 but sometimes it is a bit weird storywise. It feels like a lot of technological development that we've seen in the Star Trek universe across several hundred years is created in that single family of ships called the Enterprise. I like how NX-01 encountered photon torpedoes and holodeck technology in alien ships and never exploited it but when one of the crew discovered/created something that will become a universal standard in the coming generations, that feels strange. That's the problem with prequel stories trying to make callbacks or references to series set in the future.
I'm surprised they don't mention the catwalk area inside the warp nacelles that was used as a temporary command area for the senior staff as seen in the season 2 episode 'The Catwalk' where the crew had to stay when a radioactive storm was heading they're way.
The NX might actually be my favorite Trek ship, maybe a three-way tie with the Constitution refit and the Galaxy. Thank you for letting me see inside it!
The science and tactical stations have swivel seats where they can face the wall and also face the consoles on the railing facing the center of the bridge.
Having the command centre (bridge) exposed on Deck 1 always seemed a mistake. It makes more sense to have the command staff/CIC in a more central area of the ship, where there is more protection from a lucky shot decapitating the leadership.
I have always wondered the same thing. It is probably the result of 20th century thinking. Ocean surface ships appear to be the basis for space ships, where the bridge is typically located well above the water line. Seeing as how the view screen on the bridge is not an actual 'window', the bridge could be located more centrally in the hull. If they were using navy ships as the primary design philosophy, they should have gone with submarines instead of surface ship design. Also regarding the bridge: The viewscreen is always far too small. If the viewscreen is basically a large monitor, then why not increase its width and height to show more of the surrounding space? Being able to display navigational and tactical information over a wider field of view would be of great benefit to a starship.
I'll always have a soft spot for the NX-01. Other Star Trek hero ships would all be sleek and spacious and sci-fi looking. But something about how cramped and almost threadbare the NX-01 felt that made it feel like an actual star ship. This was a ship made with function in mind first and comfort second because humanity was still very, very new to the stars. It gave it a very unique feel and actually made the era it lived in feel unique compared to OST and TNG
Yes and here is shown real setup in a bridge. In same site. www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints/enterprise-nx-01-deckplans/enterprise-nx-01-deckplans-sheet-8.jpg
I find it very unlikely that the NX-01 had VIP visitors or dignitary quarters onboard, and that those spaces would be utilized for something more utilitarian. This can be backed up by the episode "Fallen Hero" and Ambassador V'Lar's stay onboard Enterprise, where Hoshi was required to vacate her stateroom, striping it bare to provide a more spartan atmosphere. If VIP staterooms were available V'Lar would have assigned to one of those, made spartan or not.
Really love your videos. Doug Drexeler said there was always meant to be a fireman’s pole behind the view screen down to the same deck as engineering for emergency situations 😊 so wish we could have seen that on screen
Nice video… except the shot at 4:57 has a couple of screwups. WTF is a “IMPLUSE ENGINE” and Intake ramjet was thought up by Robert W. BUSSARD… and not Wobert T. Brussard. 😉Yeah, the BUSSARD Collector is actually a real thought experiment.
NX-01 was supposed to undergo a refit to give it a secondary hull like a traditional starfleet ship, but the show was canceled. You can still buy the NX-01 refit model, Eaglemoss I think.
i love pretty much everything here but engineering doesnt quite look right. the gravimetric field displacement manifold doesnt really resemble what appeared on the show and the room itself should be larger, possibly being two decks high. that being said, youre work is beautiful and informative, as always.
There was no separate helm and navigation. Just a single station. T’pol had consoles facing toward the center of the bridge. So di Malcolm’s console. The captain’s ready room is facing the wall when should face the door.
You do fantastic model work and I am enjoying every one of these. Next to the Refit and/or A, the NX-01 is my next favorite design. I just remember first seeing it and feeling as though it could be real, and in operations today (not just...20 years ago!!!). This is one thing that Discovery bothered me about its less realistic practical feel. I also do not think anyone understands ship exterior or interior size anymore and could use your help.
Thanks. I used to create architectural rendering, meaning it has to be scaled correctly if you wanted management and the client to be happy with the result, so I can understand the sentiment.
This was excellent. This reminds me of going through the TNG technical manual, and it reminds me of how much I enjoyed Enterprise. Thank you eh. Cheers...
Ok sorry but you forgot that it got a refit and it cannon. It had a engineering hull. Great video I hope that you do the refit too.{ picard was placing with the model as a kids So it on screen cannon}
Absolutely brilliant. Great work on this one. Best one yet, and i could only find one tiny error. Which is outstanding cos I make it a point to spot them. You mentioned the pylons and nacelle catwalk were only accessible with EV suits. Not so. As long as the warp engines were powered down the catwalk was accessible without specialist protective equipment, and the pylons were always accessible.
I once, (2006 - 16) owned my own hobby shop and loved selling Star Trek models and building accessories to Trekkies like myself. I would hold the model shows contests and attend local Trek cons to highlight my business and my models there.. It was fun. Now I just keep collecting vintage kits
barring a few errors as some have already mentioned, id also like to mention the lack of doors showing how they entered each area throughout the ship, other than that, what a fantastic model
Hello? I just accidentally stumbled upon your channel. As a Long Time ST fan... I was seven years old when TOS premiered. Thank you for these videos!!!
If there ever is a fifth series of ST: Enterprise (Which at them moment appears to be possible) hopefully we'll the NX-series refit where it gets fitted with a Constitution-class style secondary-hull.
This was so amazing! To see such a detailed 3D breakdown of a ship really informs on what it would be like to actually visit these structures if they were real. This even corrected me on just how big the NX Class is. Like I thought it was tiny, but having it be shown beside an aeroplane really showed me this thing is way bigger than what we were made to think on screen. Much like modern navy vessels, they really did use every inch of space they could, clearly. Such a great video! 😃👍
Don't forget that warp governor thing is also where the aft torpedo launcher was located as seen in the Star Trek Enterprise season 2 episode 'The Expanse'.
Keep in mind folks, that not only is the NX-01 a small early federation ship… but the USS Franklin is even SMALLER and more cramped, and people had to live on that ship too. So if you think the NX-01 is a bit of a crowded ship, just remember that the ships that came before were TINY by comparison.
Thank you! What strikes me is the volume difference. If NC 01 had 88 crew, but 1701 had like 400, even with increased volume Constitution class seems more cramped, like an aircraft carrier
Is rather sad that Deck G was never used, would have been suitable occasionally in the show and would have given a bit of visual variety...but would have cost more money to make the sets so I understand why they didn't do that an instead hosted people in standard crew quarters.
Here's a suggestion: the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise -- which played a part in the 4th film -- would seem like a good vessel to depict n one of your excellent deck-by-deck videos. How about it?
I wonder at what point they started adding cetacean labs? Probably not until TNG time. I bet the cetacean's training program at Starfleet academy was interesting.
Great video. I love your work. I was just wondering if you've ever noticed discrepancies in the officially stated & visible sizes of Star Trek ships? I try to calculate according to the number decks + what I can see. The NX-01 officially has 7 decks and is 108ft tall, but a Constitution class has 23 decks (3.25 times the NX) but is only 246ft tall? (2.25 times as tall as NX) Voyager officially has 15 decks *VS* NCC-1701-A's 23 decks, but Voyager is 134 feet taller?? 🤨The Excelsior class has only 17 decks but is 82 feet taller than a Constitution class with 23 decks?? (and Excelsior is officially & visibly much larger than a Constitution class) I've never understood the size discrepancies.
There are always a discrepancies on the official size of the ships when you take the time to do some real calculation. For example, there isn't any official size for the JJ Enterprise 1701, the USS Voyager lack true official height measurement from my understanding.
I would guess from the calculation the NY is correct, since the warp cells go over the ship und cause a massive increase of hight. With the A it could be that the deck hight is lower, especially in the neck section, when voy has a higher deck hight it could explain some. I'm not sure with the ex, but it could suffer from a higher deck hit as well and the higher warp cells. But yes, the size sometimes make no sense. Still in comparison you can check out some skyscrapers and compare the hight to floor ratio (and that antenna to be even higher, that's cheating), some are higher but have less floors
@@chimaican01 you could see it in voy deck 15, the deck hight was lower. Since the 1701 D has the shuttle bays over 2 decks you can see that the deck hight from the neck is lower as well. The issue is you only get measurement over all and that makes it hard to guess the habitable length and hight
@@mammutMK2 yes, I remember that episode, just can't recall its name. It was the one that told the story of the 4 lower deck crewmen. I imagine all the engineering decks would have lower headroom, as well as decks that are primarily crew quarters or research labs.
Why do you need a deflector at FTL? You warp space to get around the FTL problem in the first place. Objects hitting the ship at FTL would be at infinite energy ie would do more than dent the hull like in voyager.
I feel this is one of the most logical and realistic Star Trek ships. One of my favorites. Great comprehensive breakdown.
I was looking for a breakdown on YT, but couldn't one that is to my liking. Glad you liked it!
Not one of my favourites, but I loved seeing how many of the later standard features were gradually added, such as the phasers and torpedoes. Not having a tractor beam and having to rely on grappling hooks for the shuttles always annoyed me, as well as the lack of food replicators, but the fact they were always the underdog added suspense to the series.
@@M1tjakaramazov I tend to agree. I do like the overall look but the mass to line of thrust makes me cringe, if you look at the sub-light drive line of thrust and the mass placement it is extremely top heavy, the engines will pitch it up without constant counter thrust from the maneuvering thrusters, stupid, if the nasals had been just under the saucer more like the Akira class it would be better thrust balanced. guess they wanted it to look cool not go straight
@@dunsel5887 I think it's just the result of two design philosphies colliding - the Jetsons approach of the 60s when they thoght future materials would be so tensile that normal laws of stress and physics would no longer apply, and the early 2000s attempt to move away from the 90s sleek pastel and brushed-steel look towards more realistic and gritty designs. The result was a logical and aesthetic mish-mash.
@@dunsel5887 don't all of the main startrek ships have rather silly center of mass to center of thrust lines?
At least most of the "classic human startrek ships" are oddly lopsided, this is one of the more sensible hero ships from the series as far as I can tell.
With apologies to the creator of this animation, there are a few mistakes on the configuration of the NX-class bridge: both the Science and Tactical station each had a secondary console facing the Captain's chair where the handrails are depicted. In addition, there was only one Helm console in front of the Captain's chair, manned by Travis Mayweather.
Yep, no helm and nav console.....only one seat....
Was going to point out these mistakes but you've saved me the job thanks
Look forward to YOU sorting these mistakes out.
Where's your proof?!
@@M60gunner1971 I was watching the series when I found this post. It was all right there in front of me, on the tv screen. What more proof do you want?
Awesome job! The thought that we put into this ship is finally earning it the love and respect that it deserves. You know the NX has fully arrived when you see the work and extrapolation put into developing it by fans. Kudos to all involved.
That's THE Doug Drexler! :D he designed the ship! :D
Did the ship have a fireman's pole when you designed it or was that just something they put on the blueprints?
A lot of us loved it from the start. We just weren't the ones complaining on the internet.
My favourite of all the ships and series for two Reasons, one is that it looked and performed like an expected “next step” invention. Starfleet was established but still scientific and logistical. The fact they needed to board MACOs to defend is a likely story in the development of space travel likely to happen to humans. The second was it was futuristic but only in increments. It still had the expected military submarine attitude to it whilst been ahead of the class. No civilian , no families just people working and developing, excellent work on developing this
No higher praise than this!
NX-01 is my second-favorite starship. I love that it's very utilitarian but has an elegance in the design. I fell in love with it the first time I saw it. It 's beyond wonderful to be able to see it all laid out like this.
It sure as he'll beat the looks of uss Kelvin ship. I mean come on jj what did you do get enterprise kit tear out one nacelle glued it to the saucer and come up with the WORST looking ship anyone has EVER seen???!!! REALLY??? if I were an starfleet enemy I'd target the lone nacelle to have it dead in space easily. Ffwwhhaaa....
@@josephcontreras8930 The USS Kelvin almost literally makes my skin crawl. It's just soooooo wrong. All of the Starfleet vessels follow a certain standard, and then the designer for the Kelvin comes along and says "Let's try doing all these things upside-down and see what happens". I can barely stand to look at the thing. The NX-01 is a bit more basic, but it's the first prototype for what would later be standard design elements, and I love how it still manages to capture that elegance that would persist (Kelvin excepted) throughout Starfleet.
Yep! The D will always be my favorite, but the NX is a very close second.
Also, Archer is the best captain. Change my mind!
@@bobcarn the Kelvin looks great to me
They actually based the NX class off the design for the Akira Class, both are my favorite ships, but that is why the ships have a lot of similarities
The cramped conditions on this really makes one appreciate the luxurious spaciousness and facilities on the Galaxy class!
Always reminded me of old WW2 submarine films. It really heightenned the drama
@Pumpkin Spice Indeed. When you're on a 5 year mission away from home, your ship cannot be homely enough!
@4:27 you said the double hull and pylons could only be accessed with an environmental suit, but there is an episode of enterprise where the entire crew takes refuge inside one of the nacelles and just climb a ladder to reach to nacelle.
The episode is “The Catwalk” btw
Your bridge is off. Unlike other Star Trek ships, there was only the Helm in front of the Captain's chair. Mayweather sat there and no one sat beside him. Also, both science station and tactical had consoles on two sides. The seats were on tracks that slid over to operate the console facing the center of the bridge. Your ready room is off. Why would the captain have his back facing the door in the ready room? It's reversed. Sorry, I'm a nerd - I notice these things.
Glad I wasn't the only one to notice.
The helm console is wrong. It's a single-seater. Mayweather didn't share it with anyone like Sulu did.
- The Center area, only lies the Helm station, tho the seat is still in front of the screen, it stretch abit left for more console control since he's also in charge of navigation.
- Left side near the captain chair is the Science station, which surrounded with consoles from railing to the wall,
- Left side near the viewscreen is the Communications station which only face at the wall
- Right side near the captain chair is the tactical officer station, like the communication station, it surrounded with consoles.
- Like the communications station, there also a station for engineering on the opposite side, it rarely show but it's there.
(The relationship between Helm, Nav and tactical is very odd, i guess that Helm and Nav work together on ship control, shield and weapon system depend on their specialties, while Tac work as a third hand for weapon and shield control but their original designation is still interior security.)
Good video. Good model. I just wish they had the courage to use the REAL first Enterprise design. The XCV330. Now if you'll excuse me, I gotta go shave the beard off of my neck.
This video was at a whole other level. Well done! You can really see how the NX-01 packed in people and systems. It was like a military submarine.
make you wonder how the nx 01 could be cramped with how large it is over an airliner🤣🤣🤣
Great series and maybe my favourite Starfleet ship after the 1701-D. Excellent work on the video again, although I'd appreciate the popups being visible a bit longer. Sometimes you're just taking it all in and by the time you focus on the popup, it's gone already.
I will try to slow it down next time.
@@Halfscreen Excellent tutorial.
Wow fantastic concept making the ships more coherent and real for us viewers. Would love to see DS9 and the Battlestar Galactica this way :) Instant sub, keep it up!
I actually brought DS9 book for research, so it will be made down the road.
@@Halfscreen Thank you! May the Prophets of the wormhole (and even Q if needed) guide your brilliant 3D modelling /bow
BSG is fucking massive. The show kinda shows her scale, but you never truly applicate it.
or LEXX & T.A.R.D.I.S., нана
Galactica and Pegasus would probably be a 2hr video lol
You got tactical and engineering stations on the bridge backwards...
is main engineering missing the warp core?
On the schematic, they didn't mentioned the warp core.
@@Halfscreen Warp core is on decks D and E. On the schematics it is refered to as 'reactor'. All those labels there are describing each component of the warp core individually, instead of having just one single label 'warp core'.
@@Lukas-Trnka I see. Thanks for the clarification!
@@Halfscreen Oh. Do you model these cutaways all by yourself or do you commission peoples do to it?
@@WeyounLP It's just me. I'm a one-man team, that includes modeling, video editing, writing/research, and VO.
Love these series! Great job as always 😊
Glad you enjoy it!
@@Halfscreen Ya still going to do a video about the Heilcarrier's from the Avenger movie and the winter soldier?
Love your videos. The work put into them is felt. So my critique isn't meant in a mean way, however, the bridge is rather incorrect. There was 1 helm position, tactical and science had railing stations as well. You marked was should be the tactical station as the engineering station. The situation area was not closed off with support beams but rather an open area with railing separations only. Archer's Ready Room did not have a second door nor is the layout exact. Engineering and the warp core should be twice the size detailed here. Again, I don't say any of this to insult your work. Just being a nerd who loves this ship and your channel.
This was due to downloading a fan-made bridge of the refit version (to save me some time modeling), I should have done a better job with modeling the bridge correctly.
@@Halfscreen Hey, it's pretty damn awesome no matter the errors. The production itself made tons of mistakes. Unavoidable :) Keep the good work coming!
Another great video. The Warp 5 engine at the time the series started was the most innovative human tool. As an Enterprise defender, i’ve made these points before, but for the uninitiated, warp speed increases aren’t uniform, they’re exponential. I don’t have my chart handy, but Warp 5 is many, many times faster than Warp 4.
Yeah. there is a big difference between warp 1 to warp 5.
Warp speed has always been "as fast as the plot requires", which is why Roddenberry didn't use terms like "5 lights".
@@stevenscott2136 Go away. Except for the fact that there is an actual Warp scale, adjusted for the TNG+ ships. So, off with you.
I always preferred the TOS scale over the TNG scale.
1. It was simply the cube of the factor (warp 1 was (1x1x1)=1c, warp 5 was (5x5x5)=125c, etc.), rather than the factor raised to the power of 3.333... Much easier to figure out.
2. The numbers just kept going (so you could figure out what warp 14.1 was, if you wanted), rather than the scale completely changing above warp 9 because they wanted to cram every speed between that and infinite speed between 9 and 10. I'm convinced the "warp 13" we hear in the future of TNG's finale is there because they realized how dumb it was having ships travel at warp 9.9999 or warp 9.9999999.
@@balrighty3523 Oh, okay.
Love these videos. The NX was probably one of my least favorite Enterprises on the outside but probably my favorite interior. Always felt like how an early deep-space starship would look. Even 20 years later it still holds up. Don't think I can say any of the other series' interiors do nearly as well. Can't wait for more of these.
Love watching these. Though I am curious how the ship's layout would have looked had they had gone ahead with the fifth season and the NX refit. I think it would have been a great way to further bridge the gap between the NX and the TOS 1701.
The NX Refit model was seen in Picard. So looks like it's canon.
@@xstarwolfx PICARD isn’t canon
@@-M0LE in your opinion, the franchise and most others say otherwise
Thank you as always for making this video. I initially didn't know if I liked this ship or not when watching the series but it quickly grew on me. It felt like everything had purpose and we got to see how they had to fine-tune all of the systems whilst on mission because at this point they had not perfected the technology yet, and I thought this was something we needed. Even got to see Tucker come up with and develop the "forcefields", as well as Novakovich's unfortunate transporter accident prompting them to add the Annular Confinement Beam.
It's kind of nice to see evolution to these ships.
I love seeing the development of the NX-01 but sometimes it is a bit weird storywise. It feels like a lot of technological development that we've seen in the Star Trek universe across several hundred years is created in that single family of ships called the Enterprise. I like how NX-01 encountered photon torpedoes and holodeck technology in alien ships and never exploited it but when one of the crew discovered/created something that will become a universal standard in the coming generations, that feels strange. That's the problem with prequel stories trying to make callbacks or references to series set in the future.
This ship and her crew’s uniform is my favorite.
I'm surprised they don't mention the catwalk area inside the warp nacelles that was used as a temporary command area for the senior staff as seen in the season 2 episode 'The Catwalk' where the crew had to stay when a radioactive storm was heading they're way.
The NX might actually be my favorite Trek ship, maybe a three-way tie with the Constitution refit and the Galaxy. Thank you for letting me see inside it!
No problem and thanks for watching!
Good video, one small correction, it is bussard collector not brussard collector.
Keep up the reat work!
Old age creepy up.. 😁
The NX-class is a beautiful design. The NX-refit ruins a terrific, graceful plan.
Great but there is only one seat/station helm manned mostly by Mayweather in front of the Captains chair
Tactical station faced towards the center of the bridge.
The science and tactical stations have swivel seats where they can face the wall and also face the consoles on the railing facing the center of the bridge.
the NX-01 is my favorite Enterprise. Given warp-technology, she is the Enterprise that my great-grandchildren will build.
Having the command centre (bridge) exposed on Deck 1 always seemed a mistake. It makes more sense to have the command staff/CIC in a more central area of the ship, where there is more protection from a lucky shot decapitating the leadership.
I have always wondered the same thing. It is probably the result of 20th century thinking. Ocean surface ships appear to be the basis for space ships, where the bridge is typically located well above the water line. Seeing as how the view screen on the bridge is not an actual 'window', the bridge could be located more centrally in the hull. If they were using navy ships as the primary design philosophy, they should have gone with submarines instead of surface ship design. Also regarding the bridge: The viewscreen is always far too small. If the viewscreen is basically a large monitor, then why not increase its width and height to show more of the surrounding space? Being able to display navigational and tactical information over a wider field of view would be of great benefit to a starship.
I'll always have a soft spot for the NX-01. Other Star Trek hero ships would all be sleek and spacious and sci-fi looking. But something about how cramped and almost threadbare the NX-01 felt that made it feel like an actual star ship. This was a ship made with function in mind first and comfort second because humanity was still very, very new to the stars. It gave it a very unique feel and actually made the era it lived in feel unique compared to OST and TNG
Good work but the design of the bridge does not match the NX-01 Enterprise bridge.
It's really based on the schematic below.
www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/enterprise-nx-01-deckplans.php
Yes and here is shown real setup in a bridge. In same site. www.cygnus-x1.net/links/lcars/blueprints/enterprise-nx-01-deckplans/enterprise-nx-01-deckplans-sheet-8.jpg
I mean location of bridge stations.
@@stargate12A I end up using a pre-made 3D model of a fan-made bridge but didn't modify every aspect of it, so some mistakes were probably made.
I find it very unlikely that the NX-01 had VIP visitors or dignitary quarters onboard, and that those spaces would be utilized for something more utilitarian. This can be backed up by the episode "Fallen Hero" and Ambassador V'Lar's stay onboard Enterprise, where Hoshi was required to vacate her stateroom, striping it bare to provide a more spartan atmosphere. If VIP staterooms were available V'Lar would have assigned to one of those, made spartan or not.
I am convinced that you came from an alternate universe from where these vessels exist 🤣 awesome as always. Keep em coming Halfscreen.
Thanks! Will do!
You know more history and tech information than Alex Kurtzman.
Well done.
Thanks for the compliment.
Really love your videos. Doug Drexeler said there was always meant to be a fireman’s pole behind the view screen down to the same deck as engineering for emergency situations 😊 so wish we could have seen that on screen
Thanks for the info
Nice video… except the shot at 4:57 has a couple of screwups. WTF is a “IMPLUSE ENGINE” and Intake ramjet was thought up by Robert W. BUSSARD… and not Wobert T. Brussard. 😉Yeah, the BUSSARD Collector is actually a real thought experiment.
NX-01 was supposed to undergo a refit to give it a secondary hull like a traditional starfleet ship, but the show was canceled. You can still buy the NX-01 refit model, Eaglemoss I think.
i love pretty much everything here but engineering doesnt quite look right. the gravimetric field displacement manifold doesnt really resemble what appeared on the show and the room itself should be larger, possibly being two decks high. that being said, youre work is beautiful and informative, as always.
Always wondered how this thing survived the Romulan wars...
Amazing video 👍
Thanks for watching Damian!
@@Halfscreen Thank YOU 😃
There was no separate helm and navigation. Just a single station. T’pol had consoles facing toward the center of the bridge. So di Malcolm’s console. The captain’s ready room is facing the wall when should face the door.
Another great video. Shame the show Enterprise had SOOOOO many issues. Can you do a video on the DAEDALUS class next?
I have to do some research on it since I know very little of the Daedalus class.
Love your videos thank u sou mutch🎉
Thanks for watching!
You do fantastic model work and I am enjoying every one of these. Next to the Refit and/or A, the NX-01 is my next favorite design. I just remember first seeing it and feeling as though it could be real, and in operations today (not just...20 years ago!!!). This is one thing that Discovery bothered me about its less realistic practical feel. I also do not think anyone understands ship exterior or interior size anymore and could use your help.
Thanks. I used to create architectural rendering, meaning it has to be scaled correctly if you wanted management and the client to be happy with the result, so I can understand the sentiment.
The pointers... the lines connecting the words with the location on the ship... are thin and are difficult to see. So, I watched it twice. :-)
u make me watch the series again... luck I have it all on my pc.great job ...
This is weawly gweat!!
I'm missing something on the model there's a fireman's pole on the on the bridge going down to engineering the designer of the enterprise NX 01 said
Still one of my favourite Enterprises!
LOL so they keelhold their guest & if night shift hits anything in space the command Crew is the first to die
Amazing work. Excited to see the love for these ships continues to live on.
Thanks, somebody got to keep the dream alive.
This was excellent. This reminds me of going through the TNG technical manual, and it reminds me of how much I enjoyed Enterprise. Thank you eh. Cheers...
Glad you enjoyed it Brent!
Helm and Nav is one chair. Tactical and T'Pol's station face inward.
Love these videos keep up the awesome work my guy
Appreciate it!
Ok sorry but you forgot that it got a refit and it cannon. It had a engineering hull. Great video I hope that you do the refit too.{ picard was placing with the model as a kids So it on screen cannon}
Yeah, I didn't have the time to do the refit to meet my weekly YT deadline.
Absolutely brilliant. Great work on this one. Best one yet, and i could only find one tiny error. Which is outstanding cos I make it a point to spot them. You mentioned the pylons and nacelle catwalk were only accessible with EV suits. Not so. As long as the warp engines were powered down the catwalk was accessible without specialist protective equipment, and the pylons were always accessible.
Many thanks!
Like this video due to the graphics and research done.
Thanks Paul!
I love the NX-01. And I really love the crew. This was an incredibly well done video. Thank you! And you have a new subscriber.
Thanks for the sub James!
@@Halfscreen You are very welcome!
I once, (2006 - 16) owned my own hobby shop and loved selling Star Trek models and building accessories to Trekkies like myself. I would hold the model shows contests and attend local Trek cons to highlight my business and my models there.. It was fun. Now I just keep collecting vintage kits
Thanks for this. Enterprise the series is mostly overlooked, but I loved it.
Glad you enjoyed it!
barring a few errors as some have already mentioned, id also like to mention the lack of doors showing how they entered each area throughout the ship, other than that, what a fantastic model
Thanks for sharing!
i really love these deck by deck exploration videos. awesome work, keep it up.
Thanks, will do!
Did I miss the Warp core?
are you sure that is the right bridge? It just seems... off
Hello? I just accidentally stumbled upon your channel. As a Long Time ST fan... I was seven years old when TOS premiered. Thank you for these videos!!!
Welcome aboard! There isn't too many original 3D ST channel out there.
Great video. Love to see a video on the Oberth class science ship in the future one day. Great job on the graphic 👏
Probably down the road since I don't really know much about it.
or also LEXX & T.A.R.D.I.S., нана
These videos are terrific!
I didn’t see the warp core in what looked like a very small “main engineering” love the vid overall. ❤
Cool, thanks
👏🏼 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 that was fantastic
Please do one on the USS Defiant and DS9 station. That's my favorite Star Trek series
DS9, for sure, Defiant, when I have the time.
Such a great job showing and explaining these ships. EXCELLENT!!!!
Thank you kindly!
I really do like the NX-01 refit where they add the 2ndary hull.
Aesthetically the NX 01 is my favorite. I wish the show had been renewed for another season.
If there ever is a fifth series of ST: Enterprise (Which at them moment appears to be possible) hopefully we'll the NX-series refit where it gets fitted with a Constitution-class style secondary-hull.
That would be super cool. Where are you reading about that? 🖖
@@queens.dee.223 It's been on a number of ST videos for the last few months on YT.
Looking forward to more videos
My favorite ship design has to be Voyager, sleek and fast looking, no extra bits sticking out ! Best into music also !
Yes, it definitely slick!
This was so amazing! To see such a detailed 3D breakdown of a ship really informs on what it would be like to actually visit these structures if they were real. This even corrected me on just how big the NX Class is. Like I thought it was tiny, but having it be shown beside an aeroplane really showed me this thing is way bigger than what we were made to think on screen. Much like modern navy vessels, they really did use every inch of space they could, clearly. Such a great video! 😃👍
Fantastic in depth look! Love it!
Glad you liked it!!
Wow dude..Awesome! im going to look at the others now...so cool..great work
Hey, thanks!
PLEASE DO THE NX-REFIT TOO!
Will there be an episode with STAR TREK ncc-1701-d uss enterprise (the next generation)🚀
ua-cam.com/video/1Rh3X3aODdo/v-deo.html
thank you
WHERES THE VAULT?!??
Thank you my friend. Always glad to see new content from you!
My pleasure!
Loved the tour; always wanted a in-depth look at this beauty. Thanks for posting!
No problem!
Don't forget that warp governor thing is also where the aft torpedo launcher was located as seen in the Star Trek Enterprise season 2 episode 'The Expanse'.
Keep in mind folks, that not only is the NX-01 a small early federation ship… but the USS Franklin is even SMALLER and more cramped, and people had to live on that ship too. So if you think the NX-01 is a bit of a crowded ship, just remember that the ships that came before were TINY by comparison.
Thank you for this video on the best ship in Star Trek.
Glad you liked it!
Thank you! What strikes me is the volume difference. If NC 01 had 88 crew, but 1701 had like 400, even with increased volume Constitution class seems more cramped, like an aircraft carrier
YOUR VIDEOS ARE EXCELLENT!!!
Glad you like them!
Is rather sad that Deck G was never used, would have been suitable occasionally in the show and would have given a bit of visual variety...but would have cost more money to make the sets so I understand why they didn't do that an instead hosted people in standard crew quarters.
A great videos an thanks for your this job LL&P
You bet
Great video.
I have enjoyed all your cutaways video of Star Trek Starships.
Keep up the good work.
Awesome, thank you!
Great video as always. But this time One part is a bit odd, at least for me: the warp core seems a bit short compared with the TV show
Sometime, schematic isn't always a direct representation to the show.
NX-01 is a beautiful space submarine :)
Here's a suggestion: the aircraft carrier U.S.S. Enterprise -- which played a part in the 4th film -- would seem like a good vessel to depict n one of your excellent deck-by-deck videos. How about it?
This is great! Will you be doing the ships from star trek online????
Not for the time being.
I wonder at what point they started adding cetacean labs? Probably not until TNG time. I bet the cetacean's training program at Starfleet academy was interesting.
Great video. I love your work. I was just wondering if you've ever noticed discrepancies in the officially stated & visible sizes of Star Trek ships? I try to calculate according to the number decks + what I can see. The NX-01 officially has 7 decks and is 108ft tall, but a Constitution class has 23 decks (3.25 times the NX) but is only 246ft tall? (2.25 times as tall as NX) Voyager officially has 15 decks *VS* NCC-1701-A's 23 decks, but Voyager is 134 feet taller?? 🤨The Excelsior class has only 17 decks but is 82 feet taller than a Constitution class with 23 decks?? (and Excelsior is officially & visibly much larger than a Constitution class) I've never understood the size discrepancies.
There are always a discrepancies on the official size of the ships when you take the time to do some real calculation. For example, there isn't any official size for the JJ Enterprise 1701, the USS Voyager lack true official height measurement from my understanding.
I would guess from the calculation the NY is correct, since the warp cells go over the ship und cause a massive increase of hight.
With the A it could be that the deck hight is lower, especially in the neck section, when voy has a higher deck hight it could explain some.
I'm not sure with the ex, but it could suffer from a higher deck hit as well and the higher warp cells.
But yes, the size sometimes make no sense.
Still in comparison you can check out some skyscrapers and compare the hight to floor ratio (and that antenna to be even higher, that's cheating), some are higher but have less floors
@@mammutMK2 I wouldn't be surprised if some decks are lower in height then others, especially the engineering decks.
@@chimaican01 you could see it in voy deck 15, the deck hight was lower. Since the 1701 D has the shuttle bays over 2 decks you can see that the deck hight from the neck is lower as well.
The issue is you only get measurement over all and that makes it hard to guess the habitable length and hight
@@mammutMK2 yes, I remember that episode, just can't recall its name. It was the one that told the story of the 4 lower deck crewmen. I imagine all the engineering decks would have lower headroom, as well as decks that are primarily crew quarters or research labs.
Great overview! Very informative. Keep at it!
Much appreciated!
Why do you need a deflector at FTL? You warp space to get around the FTL problem in the first place. Objects hitting the ship at FTL would be at infinite energy ie would do more than dent the hull like in voyager.
Did he forget to animate the Airbus nose gear?
Yes, i think I did. 😁