The main engineering room was actually at the base of the pylons of the warp engine area. That reactor seen behind the fence is at the base of the pylons. ( secondary hull) what he shown was the impulse engine room. ( Located at the rear of the primary hull.)
Firstly Yes that is correct. Main engineering covering 2 decks was positioned behind the defector disk in the main secondary hull. Secondly the top speed of this model starship was not warp 10. Warp 10 is not possible. USS Voyager top speed was only warp 9.925 which was a must newer ship than this model
@@hendrikventer6346 the Warp Scale was changed in TNG. So warp 10 in TOS would be close to Warp 7 or 8 in the new TNG scale. Also I think Voyager had a maximum speed on 9.975 and at the time was the fastest Federation design.
Wasn't the Computer core room massive? it reach from deck below the main bridge all the way down near the Ventral Sensor dorm, let alone the hallway have to curve around it
I often smile to myself when I hear ST fans and non-ST fans complain about the apparently fragile design of the warp nacelles and their supporting pylons. The mistake I believe most people make when they talk about how fragile the ship appears is they are viewing 23rd century science fiction through the eyes and experiences of 21st century building techniques. Watching and listening to the program you will hear of something often referred to as the Structural Integrity Field. This is an application that is applied to all impulse and warp capable vessels. The SIF basically greatly strengthens the structure of the vessel on the order of several thousandfold. In addition, the building materials used to construct the Enterprise are vastly superior to what we utilize now. There is no welding, screws, bolts or rivets used. One construction technique utilizes molecular bonding of materials which do not yet exist. To put it all in perspective, I would say that someone who lived 300 years ago would be aghast at skyscrapers and suspension bridges of our era that flex slightly. Their worldview would tell them that the buildings and bridges that we take for granted are bound to collapse.
The neck is roughly the width of a turbolift. Your story can be summed up in 1 sentence: the designers never took the actual neck width into account and just made it look sleak. 😋 Structural integrity fields would be used to compensate for extreme hull stress, not compensating a self-breaking neck.
I don't think the "main engine room" would be all the way up there, you would think "engineering" would be closer to the antimatter(fuel) in the main body (two decks blacked out behind the deflector )
I was thinking of the same thing. On the Enterprise D, that "main engine room" which actually includes the warp core, is in secondary hull and when the core breached in ST: Generations they had to separate the saucer section to act as a "lifeboat" for everyone on board. Having that room up there just doesn't make sense. And correct me if I'm wrong, my TOS lore is worse than my TNG lore, but isn't the D the first Enterprise to have that detachable saucer section feature? Plus the way the main engine room is done here, it looks like the top half of that room is going to break from the bottom half when that saucer section does separate. And what's with that curved thing that is bisecting the warp core? Sorry but poor design on that part.
@@thundermane362 season 3 of discovery a star ship built around the same time as TOS Enterprise there is an episode where the warp core is ejected, this plus any "warp core ejection" images all show these are from the bottom of the main hull, even TNG blue prints show this as well. TNG saucer section only have impulse engines only for the very reason depleted in the movie (much the same way of the space shuttle piggy backed on a 747)
@@thundermane362 No D wasn't, ST TOS episode " The Apple" .... Kirk tells Scotty to discard the warp drive if you have to and crack out of orbit with the main section. It has been suggested for decades that Kirk was telling him to get the primary (Saucer) hull out. Enterprise A even shows a separation line that's marked in red on the interconnecting ( the neck) dorsal.
@@paulwilliams5208 varied deckplans have been notoriously inconsistent about this very room, for the original 1701. See also discussion on trekbbs forums, too. "Dave of the Dove" makes it fairly explicit the engine room is in the lower hull, too.
OMG I am surprised. I tried to watch "lost in space" but the only message in that show was that human beings were traitors and would endanger space travel at every opportunity ... The new "Lost in Space" would be better titled "Trapped in space" as the first 10 episodes contain at least 15 traps that ensnare the lost-in-space-cadets who waste most of their lives escaping from traps ...
I recall it only being mentioned once, but I think FJ's placement of it near the lower cargo hold makes sense, as you need some open "flex space" to maneuver your containers, and you also need a recreation area for the largely-unseen 400 enlisted crewmen, one that's a great deal larger than the Officer's Lounge we saw in the show. Don't buy the pool though, the Navigational Deflector and Warp Engineering need that space.
Wow, this was great! I've been a fan since day one, literally; but this is the first time I've seen the ship's layout really explained and diagrammed. Thank you!
@@Halfscreen What is the animation at the very end, of constructions of NCC-1701-A? Is that something you did or something we can watch somewhere else?
The constitution actually maintained main engineering control in the primary hull. This graphic doesn't properly show the tall tower style warp reactor which went down the neck to the secondary hull. A secondary engineering station was also present in the secondary hull which was larger, and oversaw the transfer of warp-plasma into the warp nacelles.
@@stephenandersen4625 nobody could be fully consistent on it, production-wise, but in 'Day of the Dove', we see the energy creature leave the engine room and exit the lower hull. Many deckplans make it the impulse hub, instead though.
the JJ Abrams Enterprise doesn´t count as a real Enterprise is from another universe Kelvin, his universe the reboot of star trek is an ugly ship, the original Enterprise and the others until the NCC-1701-E are beautiful ships.
Back in 1967, I got a complete set of schematic drawings for the Enterprise, deck by deck. Also was a disclaimer, not original schematic due to classified technology. That is why the drawings were in 20-century layouts. But I have kept them since.
0:33 One thing I loved about TOS was the bridge activity looking like a military bridge with people running around doing stuff. Lately, Star trek bridges remind me of someone driving an RV on vacation.
@ger du The Romulans, Klingons, Cardassians, Borg, Dominion, and Planet Killing Doomsday Machines throughout all the galaxy appreciate your pacifism and ask that you continue to merely tour the galaxy.
From a particle physics perspective, the enterprise and most of the Star Trek designs are more plausible capabilities of light speed, Stargate jumping and Rosen Bridge control. The biggest design flaws are the propulsion engines which are in a position that can cause stress and break-up of the ship since for light speed you need to have all the ships center of gravity directed to the propulsion system which is not the case here, perhaps bigger propulsion engines would be well suited if designed well. The sensor probe detector is not in a bad position only that it should be part of the propulsion system since you have to warp drive to very specific positions in space that the sensors detect as a course plotter and triangulator which the propulsion system uses to intensify fusion integration or burn to set coordinates using pre arranged galactic GPS adapters, just like a smart bomb missile engine and GPS sensors. A starship is essentially a highly advanced, space mapped, smartbomb missile converter into a transporter of people.
That would be the case if warp engines were reaction motors like rockets. However the theory behind warp engines is not predicated on producing a force. Warp engines are positioned where they can optimally produce a warp bubble that can fully encase the entire ship. It is the interaction of this warp bubble with space-time which allows for FTL travel. It is not pressure differences created within the engine itself like with a reaction motor which in turn push against the hull producing thrust. Now starships do have reaction motors called thrusters which are mainly used for maneuvering purposes. But the FTL warp travel is by field manipulation of the warp bubble interacting with space-time fabric while protecting that which is inside the bubble from time dilations. Additionally ships in the ST universe also produce a structure integrity field which is basically is force field running to structure bulk heads of the ship to augment it against stresses. Now if you look at the placement of the impulse engine which does operates on a reaction basis it's position in the hull is more centric to the ship's center of mass.
@@TheWallReports the warp bubble is formed by micro capacitors that can maintain a sub electron voltage at neutrino wavelength or less within each of the fusion reactors. There has to be more than one fusion reactor that can be controlled by bringing them together and pulling them apart as kind of a warp accelerator or warp drive or gear. Structural integrity during motion is achieved by centralizing the ships gravity and weight within the warp drive. The warp bubble is composed of a sub electron voltage field
@@TheWallReports in reality you need 2 to 8 independently operating or autonomous AI computers to stabilize the warp core and to activate the warp drive or to build the warp drive in the factory, the calibrations required are beyond the human ability to calculate or hold information . To achieve warp drive capabilities, AI would have to be independent of human manipulation, yet still cooperative. Europeans currently have a difficulty with not manipulating AI programming.
@@eastafrika728 Not trying to be rude but are you sure you're referencing the science behind much of the technology in ST universe? I am not sure what you mean by sub-electrons? Electrons are leptons. They are not composite subatomic particles like hadrons which means they have no subatomic constituents. Neutrinos are leptons as well and don't reacts with anything. Wave theory rules out electrons acting on anything smaller than it. As far as the fusion reactors goes there are several distributed throughout the vessel but they play no role whatsoever in powering warp drive. The fusion reactors supply power to the impulse drive and is the main power source for the ship. Whenever that plasma is ready for use an EPS tap draws plasma from the power transfer conduit and converts it to the type of energy required. Warp drive is based upon the creation and generation of exotic particles. Warp particles are one such exotic particles. They are produced through a matter & antimatter reaction occurring in the warp core. This type of reaction only take place in the warp core. Not the fusion reactors. These warp particles which are in a plasma state, warp plasma, is transferred via plasma conduits to the warp nacelles where the warp coils are. The warp coils, not micro-capacitors produces the warp field which encases the ship. If the warp coils operate anything like normal coils/inductors, a field is produced. Capacitors are mainly temporary energy storage devices and stores energy as a charge or an accumulation of charges. In addition to warp particles used for warp drive there are other exotic particles in use including gravitons for artificial gravity (AG). There is gravity plating throughout the ship. Embedded inside that plating are gravity generators which in turn produces gravitons particles for AG. An EPS tap draws power from the transfer conduits to provide the power to the gravity plating. Nadion particles are used by and the basis for the many of the directed energy weapons and forcefields; tachyons another exotic particle if memory serve me correctly is the basis for much of the subspace communication systems and on and so on. The thing to remember is all are theoretical particles meaning they don't exist or have been discovered or created yet today. Scientist have mathematical models for existence but that's about it. Electricity meaning flowing electron through a conductor is not going to get you any of this. Electricity is obsolete. As I stated above much of the power for all that technology excluding warp drive comes from plasma produced by fusion reactors which is transferred by plasma conduits. The reason for that is b/c plasma is much more versatile source of energy than electricity. If there's a need for old fashion electricity it can be easily derived from plasma with the right EPS tap.
In my personal "canon" it has 2 engineering sections. One at the impulse engines ( where Kirk fought Khan in the first season) and a warp engine room in the bottom hull section (2nd and 3rd season with stairs down the middle).
Agreed there are two. Kirk piloted the heavily damaged Constellation from "Impulse Engineering" in The Doomsday Machine. They wanted to lower the overhead in Impulse to distinguish between the two, but time and budget didn't permit, so they just removed the "Dilithium Converter" assembly. It is probably a good deal further forward than Franz Josef depicts it, so the thicker hull cross-section can accommodate the height, and there's room for some actual engines aft.
There would HAVE to be an impulse control or impulse engineering deck located behind the impulse engines - which are the primary sunlight propulsion method for the Enterprise. (And ONLY* method after saucer separation - then the Main Engineering controlling the matter/anti-matter engines and the warp core. There are likely smaller engineering compartments in each of the warp nacelles, as there were in the E-D, and also seen in the animated series.
He ended up using an unofficial blueprint made by fans instead of the real thing, which resulted in a number of mistakes in the video. The official blueprint is called _"Booklet of General Plans: U.S.S. Constitution Class"_ and is officially published by Paramount. The Enterprise does indeed have two different engineering rooms.
Well done from one of the schematics. They're a few that conflict here and there. Visually on episodes, Main Engineering (warp core feeds behind the cage Scotty often clings to) would indicate that somewhere around the shuttle deck front, as that's where the struts enter the secondary hull. There is "auxillary control" but sometimes that is a different room (Space Seed, Court Marshal, Doomsday) or the main engineering engine room... Depending on which set looked better for the composition of the shooting scene of "auxillary control" . Realities of directing a TV show, assumed to be shown twice and forgotten. A discussion of Impulse Drive, the control room and location may help viewers. Also if impulse is FTL equivalent or not. Many scripts fail if impulse is not FTL capable.
@@STho205 There are some discrepancies, but that's what happens when you have 50 years of fans adding their own ideas to the concept. Nothing wrong with that. I like some ideas some people have come up with over the years.
@@davidkaminski615 it's fine. The show started out as "Forbidden Planet the Next Generation" with set dressing and situations from "Rocky Jones Space Ranger". The original set and costume designer had even worked on that kids show a decade earlier. Check it out. You'll see some familiar plots as well.
Outstanding animation and explanation you did a wonderful job bring the Enterprise to life thank you very much I truly do appreciate the work you put into this.
It's pretty cool how it's plausible IRL - warp drive, some kind of high energy from fusion or a breakthrough with antimatter. And it was mocked mercilessly by the Literati of Science Fiction of the day. That's common though. Verne's work was seen as preposterous and even those that liked Verne mocked HG Wells as pure fantasy and social utopianism. The latter predicted what we are using to casually view this video, BTW. In 1890
Nice! Your cutaway doesn't show the Jeffries Tubes, though. They went up the pylons to the Warp nacelles. Also, the shuttlecraft were wrong for this era.
If the creator's anything like me, he might've just used whatever he could find, that was the same general size and shape. Something that says, "This is where they park the shuttlecraft." : )
@Sosi Tehlirian Simple. They DON'T go faster than the speed of light. They warp space so they can get places as if they were traveling faster than light. Take a piece of paper and draw two dots at opposite corners then move a pencil from one dot to the other with the paper flat and time how long it takes. Now make folds between the two dots and move the pencil at the same speed as before. The time from dot to dot will be shorter. D=R*T. R can't be > c, the speed of light but if you shorten D, the distance, then T, time is decreased.
True. I noticed that the shuttle craft were from the Next Gen era but I think you got mare right than wrong and I especially liked that you explained (and showed) how the primary hull / saucer section separates from the secondary hull.
Another brilliant presentation HalfScreen… I’m not a ‘Trekkie’ but after watching this amazing detailed description of the Starship Enterprise I stand converted! …I wasn’t aware of the size, capacity & speed of this craft …. I feel I’ve been where I’ve ‘never been before!’ and learned so much …. thanks again for another enjoyable video …clear detailed graphics, well paced timing, professionally narrated commentary & packed with interesting information…… definitely a Warp factor 1000! …. make more & proser HalfScreen #FederationAdmiral
No problem Mikey. I always wanted to explore other theme outside the Star Wars genre but my core theme will still be Star Wars, but I occasionally do something different. Thanks for watching!
@@Halfscreen your welcome HalfScreen….it made a nice change and it bought Star Trek Tech to those who wouldn’t have know much about it ….. Tc & more please #CaptainKirkClone
@@Halfscreen whatever your aim / target audience is I have to say that you should be proud of what you’ve achieved ….your a very talented & creative person which sets you way above anything else similar here on UA-cam ….. I really hope you get to use your skills and talents in a field that you both enjoy AND that showcases the quality your presentations reflect…. Your audience, those who genuinely appreciate & respect you, will continue to follow you in whatever you do within this art form …. ‘never be held back by what others may think - but push forward with what YOU have to give’ (Mikey) … #GoHalfScreen
@@mikeyb4610 I used to work in the oil and gas industry as a technically 3D animator before tackling UA-cam full-time on a full-time basis. My goal is to make enough money on YT so I don't have to get a "real" job.
There are 3 Enterprises from my point of view: NCC-1701, NCC-1701-A, and NCC 1701-D. Each of them was a perfect example of a design philosophy at the time of creation.. -60's, 70's, and 80's. All of the following iterations were just blend and generic iterations and will not be remembered in the future.
Years ago, +/- 1980, there was a very detailed cut-a-way poster of the re-fit Enterprise. To scale, and a very accurate representation of the Enterprise. I had that poster and enjoyed it greatly. But through all the moves in 40 years, I lost it. I wish I had that back.
Have you seen Star Blazers AD2199,AD2202? I have the model of the United Nations Cosmo Navy Andromnea. She is 1500 feet long 100 feet wide. And 300 feet high. If she was a real ship. But she can out run the Enterprise easy.
Not by a long long way is this remotely the most realistic sci fi ship. The fact that it has 'artifical gravity' decks makes it preposterous to known physics. For realistic spaceship refer to USS Discovery in Kubricks 2001 Space Odyseey or any ship in the Expanse.
Collapsing the magnetic polarity fields of matter and anti matter between two separated nacelles to warp space for a micro instant. Then repeating this as fast as a florescent lamp while moving forward. (A future project for the more evolved earth species. Homo Intelligens.)
This is fantastic. Would love it if you did more Star Trek vessels, and other franchises too. So much to choose from. Looking forward to it, Subscribed :)
I think it used special explosive bolts that could hard-separate the main hull from the secondary in case either half was about to experience a "blown to smithereens" scenario. But it was never shown on screen. I think it was the 1701 D that was the first type to be able to un couple and re couple without needing a space port to glue the ship back together again.
The saucer section was originally designed to be the "Landing Section" which detached from the "Drive Section" for planetfall, until the writers realized how much time and money could be saved by "inventing" the transporter. You can still see the two forward landing struts retracted into the underside. Saucer sep was mentioned once in The Apple, when the alien machine-god Vaal disabled the warp drive and was trying to tractor beam the Enterprise down. The Saucer section in the 'Prise became a lifeboat contingency; You couldn't get home on impulse, but there was enough speed to get you clear of an anti-matter detonation. Not enough power for shields and phasers, but you did have subspace radio to call for help, and photon torpedoes if the wrong life forms heard the call. Officially, Spacedock facilities are required to re-attach the two sections, but the Enterprise also maxes out at Warp 8 "by the book" In both cases. a certain Scottish "Miracle Worker" would like a word.
Great presentation! It was great to see the interior and exterior layouts of the Enterprise 1701 Constitution Class starship. Before, all we had were the various incarnations of Star Trek Blueprints, but this takes it further, I like how you did a "briefing" type of description, as if you were going to be serving on the ship and needed to do orientation. Thanks for sharing!
Great video and well narrated! I always saw Enterprise as kind of a "magical" ship with endless corridors going hither and yon and random elevators that went up, down sideways and around. Kirk, Spock and the rest of the bridge crew always managed to find themselves walking through the corridors at a watch change as there were SO many people moving back and forth at the same time. Loved the show growing up and now. Thanks for the cutaway.
6:25 No, it had a cruise speed of W6 (216c) and emergency speeds of W7 and W8 (343c and 512c respectively). On rare occasions it went higher, always under freakish situations rather than their own power. Back in the day Warp 10 was 1000c. That ship dates back to before Arbitrary Okuda.
I was thinking about that. If I remember correctly, Enterprise-D was capable of warp 10 on a good day. There was an advanced Enterprise from the future on a TNG episode that had three nacelles which could do warp 13.
@@nuttysquirrel8816 Yeah, they weren't consistent about it. But according to Roddenberry and Okuda, W10 is supposed to be 'infinitely fast' on the new scale.
J.S. Connolly _It's Pronounced... "NAY-CELLS" NOT "NA-SALIS"!_ *SO WHAT ?* All the great comments to this discussion and that's your best contribution?
As a note: the Constitution class did not separate right at the top of the pylon. The pylon was blown apart with explosive bolts roughly where the second deck in the pylon is.
I'll NEVER accept that the JJ Enterprise is bigger than the Enterprise-D and Enterprise-E. ILM ORIGINALLY had it just a little bigger than the original 1701 Refit. However, because of the shuttlebay sequence that the idiot JJ wanted to have (before the fleet leaves for Vulcan) the scale had to be ridiculously resized. Edit: Actually the top warp speed of the Enterprise was warp 9. Some external source at work (alien) is what made the ship go past warp 9 on occasion. Even then the ship couldn't hold up to the stress of those speeds (past warp 9) before it started tearing itself apart.
In "That Which Survives" the hostile alien entity Losira gets her up to warp 15 (pre trans-warp scale) by simply jamming the throttle open. The Kelvans modded her for warp 11, but what was most impressive is that they expected to retain that speed all the way to Andromeda ON A SINGLE TANK OF ANTIMATTER. Bet Scotty picked up a few tricks for the refit after he loosened the tongue of the Kelvin engineer with that bottle of blue stuff.
I actually came to terms somewhat with trying to explain why the JJ Enterprise is so much bigger. Which would be that the Enterprise we see in the new movies is actually not the Enterprise we know. (Duh!) But why is it not the Enterprise we know of? Because Starfleet made contact with an Enemy they couldn't understand and who had Weapons and Technology far beyond their reach. When Nero destroyed the USS Kelvin with the Narada there weren't that many casualties on the Kelvin. So there were lots of witnesses and potential sensor readings from the Kelvin that made Starfleet realize that there's a foe out there who is agressive and has weapons far superior to theirs. And since one of Neros man actually contacted the Kelvin they (or some vulcans) might have guessed that they were romulan. So Starfleet went out of their way and built a new class of Starship. One that would be stronger and more capable than the ones they had before. But here's the catch: Starfleet needed that new class to have more weapons, stronger shields and more energy to power all of that. But the technology they had at their disposal was still limited. So what do you do if you need more energy but don't have the technology to fit all of that in your design for your new class? That's right, you make it bigger to actually fit more power plants (Warp Cores) to get that energy. Which would also explain why the JJ Abrams Enterprise had her maiden voyage way after the original Enterprise. (JJ Enterprise was launched in 2258 while the original was launched in 2245) So they basically scrapped all plans they had for the Constitution class and scaled it up to fit their needs for more weapons, more energy and more big which also pushed the timeframe for the construction way back in time. That would also explain why the engine room of the JJ Enterprise is so absurdly big - more energy but no way to scale down the warp core technology so it has to be as big as they could make it.
@@Scitch87 because, as Abrams has publicly stated, he always hated Star Trek and never gave a hoot about its continuity, characters, driving principles or anything else about it except using loyal fans to make a buck.
Nice video but there needs to be a correction in your video the Enterprise could never reach warp 10. only ship to reach warp 10 was the shuttle that Tom Paris piloted in Star Trek Voyager . the original USS Enterprise could only get up to Warp seven
The graphics and animation in this are great! I see some folks have already called out the discrepancies related to the placement of main engineering and the warp core. This particular vessel did not actually have the capability of hull separation. That was a new feature with the Enterprise D due to the large number of civilians traveling aboard.
Incorrect. The original Enterprise had the ability to separate during an emergency using an explosive bolt system. Unlike the Ent-D, reconnection would have taken starbase facilities.
At least two episodes of the original '60s show have Kirk contemplating saucer seperation, but we never saw it on screen until 1987's The Next Generation. But yes, NCC-1701 was capable of it. The Kelvin timeline version seperates it's saucer in 'Star Trek Beyond' as well, with Kirk running down to the lower saucer and performing the operation manually after bridge control is disabled.
Lance is correct, however they did separate in TAS one time. They had planned to do this in TOS, but due to budget constraints,... they abandoned the idea until TAS.
Sir, awesome animation, but it's missing the reactor room, which was located in the secondary hull righ before warp nacelle's pylons. The circular corridors from the saucer also seem to be missing.
This video makes me feel the excitment and wonder when I was a kid watching Star Trek for the first time on TV. I enjoyed your tour of the Enterprise. Thank you.
The cut away was great. Some of your facts and where engineering was located was wrong. We all make mistakes and I look forward to you making another video.
One thing I also noticed was that the animator used a vertical warp core (which wasn't invented until the TMP era) instead of the typical horizontal warp core from the TOS era.
Where did you get the warp 10 figure from?Except for the TNG episode "All Good Things" where the 3 nacelled Galaxy class goes warp 13, No starship goes faster than warp 9.995.They all say that warp 10 is impossible to reach as you would occupy all points in the universe simultaneously.(Voyager episode where they break the barrier & Tom Paris evolves into a future Salamander & has babies with Janeway) cant recall the title of the episode.
@@ElectronicGigabyte There is the one episode "The Enterprise Incident" where they are running from the Romulans & Kirk orders warp 9.Other than that, they always talk about the Constitution class as being able to maintain a warp 7 & higher speeds only for short periods.
Exactly what I was thinking. Considering Enterprise NX01's MAX speed was Warp 5, the TOS Enterprise reached Warp 6 to 8 in VERY EXTREME situations. Even STTNG only did a max cruising speed of Warp 8-9, Warp 10 in a ship wasn't considered normal until Voyager or DS9 I am thinking or Speculating. Nevertheless, this is a decent video to watch - Nicely Done & Thanks for Sharing.
All worries aside, the nacelles cannot break off due to: 1. The Structural Integrity Field which strengthens the ship to endure the stress of warp travel and maneuvers. 2. The construction materials and the technique of molecular bonding. Imagine what advances in building materials and construction techniques will be made 300 or so years from now. Oh, one last real world example. Did you know the wing tips of modern passenger planes can flex upwards to eight feet during flight while not snapping off?
it has in some episodes, but for a extremely short time and not without damage to the engines. And the TOS warp scale was different that the later one. With the old one, speeds over warp 10 where possible.
I saw this and I thought to myself…another of Half Screens ship diagrams…I wonder if I’ve already seen this one?…Looking at the date…nope…too new…Yay!!! A new Half Screen video to watch AND it’s on ol’ NCC1701 USS Enterprise, my original SciFi first love.
@Halfscreen +Halfscreen great that you venture into Star Trek. Nobody comes up with Star Trek Discovery & Piccard ships breakdown yet, hopefully you're the first. I like the no longer split section design instead.
This is a really good video, and you captured a lot of features other people miss, such as the saucer's ability to separate from the rest of the ship. However, you ended up using an unofficial interior made by fans instead of the real thing, which resulted in a number of mistakes in your video. The official blueprint is called _"Booklet of General Plans: U.S.S. Constitution Class"_ and is officially published by Paramount. I'd recommend giving that book a look if you ever decide to remake this video. 1. The Enterprise's top speed is only Warp 8, not Warp 10. Warp 10 would overload the engines and destroy the ship. 2. The bridge is way too big compared to the rest of the ship, which throws off the entire scale of the interior. 3. The Enterprise has two engine rooms: one for the Impulse Engines, and another for the Warp Engines. Your "main engine room" is actually the Impulse Engine room. 4. The location of the computer core is incorrect: it is actually lower in the saucer. 5. The location of the science lab is incorrect: it is actually on the backside of that dome, instead of the front. 6. The ship has many facilities that were simply not mentioned here, including fabrication facilities, a backup bridge, and recreational areas for the crew. 7. On another note, those shuttles are from the Enterprise-D, not the original Enterprise.
I know I made some mistake, but to be honest, it just a learning process. I really don't much about these vessel, but I wanted to give a different perspective then what I have been seeing on the UA-cam. It was the same thing with Star Wars. These comments give me the opportunities to learn and grow so these "mistake" would be less obvious to the fans. Thanks for the info btw!
"Official" specs are just that, they are for public consumption, including Klingons. as opposed to the actual performance numbers, which are classified. You won't blow up the ship if you push her past warp 8, but you will void the warranty.
@@FusionAero Scotty was repeatedly clear that the Enterprise cannot push past Warp 8 for long, while Warp 10 would certainly blow the ship apart. There's a tolerance beyond Warp 8, but it's not much.
@@Idazmi7 WF8 max is probably based on the standard Connie with the standard engineering team circa 2245, the year the class was first introduced. The Enterprise crew was the cream of the crop, and had two decades to upgrade, refine, and optimize Scotty's "bairns". Although the 'Prise never went North of warp 10 without advanced alien technology being involved, Kirk still had sufficient confidence in his "miracle worker's" ability to maintain the warp drive in a sufficient condition and capability state that he could call for, and get, a dash speed of warp 9 in both "The Enterprise Incident" and "The Deadly Years".
Main Engineering is in the lower or secondary hull. When you see the large, angled cylinders behind the large grated screen, those are the power transfer conduits going from the engine dilithium matrix on the opposite side of the grating where Scotty and other engineers access the dilithium crystals, up the pylons to the warp nacelles.
@@Halfscreen While the Franz Joseph designs are a delight to look at, they are not canon. (And there is some conjecture that, because Reilly was drunk when he mentioned the bowling alley, he was just making it up lol.) One thing that is canon is there are *3* engine rooms mentioned in the dialog of the series, and the actual filming set was changed 3 times during the 3 seasons of the TOS. It has been argued that either a) Main Engineering was upgrade several times during the Enterprise's 5 year mission or b) the different designs represent the 3 engine rooms: Warp Drive (Main Engineering in the secondary hull), Impulse Drive (at the back of the saucer section), and a 3rd room (Axillary Power? It is only seen once in "The Alternative Factor"). Hope that helps. No matter what though, you need to add the corridors back into your renderings.
@@jptrostle3275 I'm currently wrapping up part 1 of TOS Enterprise. I'm pretty sure it's not 100% accurate, but I can pretty much say the same thing with any Sci-Fi ship. Thanks for the info, and I will keep that in mind.
The Enterprise was designed by an engineer, not an artist. Thus, it actually makes sense as a vessel. With a little understanding of how the engines work, it becomes clear that there's really no other shape it could be.
Exactly. No unicorns surfing the turbo lifts on that cruiser, with only one exception - NOMAD. I believe James Doohan helped create and design the engine room sets for the original series. A simple engineering station on the bridge didn't sit too well with him. They needed an engine room with a crew making things happen, as it is and would be.
Sub-light with gradations in 'speed' equaling a logarithmic ascendancy. A variability would be inherent at such fabulous manifolds of physical law. Faster than light 'travel' is entirely reasonable - again, conventions are necessarily abandoned. The simile or comparison would be the like subsuming the difference between a marble in a slingshot and the photon circumnavigating that which is in front of it. A particle does not act upon space (or vice versa) if the space in question lacks dimension to begin with. 'Space' as a single word does not bely an infinity of dimension, direction, or meaning. The parameters of physics are as gray areas where a color whilst passing through another becomes yet a third. And 'time' becomes as a concession stand where an infinity of news papers display every conceivable headline.
Great vid, but I would argue the beige cyclical opening that runs top to bottom of the saucer section is actually the turbo lift and not the torpedo magazine.
It appears that the shuttle craft shown in this cut-away of the 1701 Enterprise are of ST: The Next Generation style. Also, didn't the turbo lift take occupants throughout the ship, traveling both vertically and horizontally? The turbo shaft shown here seems inconsistent with that. While a cool presentation, it seems some details miss the mark according to the original series details.
Not to mention I'm pretty sure the TOS Enterprise wasn't capable of Warp 10 (TOS Scale) without aliens fiddling with the systems. Scotty squealed at Kirk every time he took her to Warp 8. [And also, if Voyager, a ship 110 years newer, used this Warp 10, they'd be home in about 10 years... 20 if they stopped to get dilithium crystals and take pictures along the way... not 75 years]
Yeah I know about the bowling alley as I heard about it in a Spacedock video I saw on the Constitution Class along with a theatre and a chapel which I did know about as we saw it in the Star Trek T.O.S. Season 1 episode 'Balance of Terror' where we were first introduced to the Romulans when in that episode they were having a wedding between 2 crew members both of whom worked in the ships phaser control and they were starting to go through the ceremony when they received the distress call from the outposts on the neutral zone.
Really great job overall. I'm pretty sure the main engineering was in the secondary hull, not at the back of the primary, but overall this is a great visualization of size and scale. Be very proud of your work. :)
Thanks for the info! One of the schematics showed it being on the primary, while another show it was on the secondary. The audience mentioned it was on the secondary.
@@Halfscreen Yeah theres a few different schematics floating around out there, made by different folks. If you ever did the NX enterprise, which is mostly a Saucer Section, the engineering section would be where you put it in your 3d model of the 1701 though :)
Gene Roddenberry, must have seen into the future, they had the universal translated, the communicated , is the flip cell phone. The trancoder, we have a device Like it that’s used in hospitals , the visual monomer is today’s FaceTime. And so much more, Star Ttrek was a head of it’s time and I loved every minute of it I am a trekki for life.
The United Federation of Planets didn't yet exist when NX-01 was launched. It was simply Star Fleet. You never heard USS or United Star Ship in connection with NX-01.
There are a lot of canon-breaking tidbits from Enterprise, such as Spock being the first Vulcan to serve on a Starfleet vessel, Kirk & co. first to encounter the Andorians, etc.
The first Enterprise was originally envisioned in a decorative installation in ST/TMP which depicted the progression of ships to bear the name. It had large drive rings encircling the vessel and was long and gangly. The NX-01 was pretty much a downsized version of the fan-favorite Akira class from First Contact, which the producer thought "looked cool". This canon violation, along with a sappy new-age ballad as a theme song, contributed greatly to ENT's poor initial reception. But it DID look cool. Eventually fans agreed on a beta-canon explanation that the NX-01 was the product of an alternate timeline created by the events in First Contact, in which Earth's warp drive pioneers got more than a glimpse of things to come, and gained sufficient insight to leapfrog over a century of progress. They were given unlimited resources by a scared-schedtless United Earth, that had just become aware of the existence of the Borg threat two centuries sooner than it otherwise would have. Although Star Trek franchisees have never acknowledged this fan theory, it was certainly good enough to inspire some bad re-booters to cook up an "Accelerated Timeline" tale of their own.
VERY NICE, and thankyou for all your work and the care that you put into this project. As none of us are perfect and mistakes are made every day, yours is the lest of all the problems outthere, so no worries and I'm looking forward to your next video....
I remember reading in "The Making of Star Trek" (a book that came out while TOS was still in production) that the saucer section could separate, and I'm pretty sure it was quoting GR himself. But I'm having trouble finding it.
My favorite Starship is the U.S.S. CONSTELLATION N.C.C.-1017. The Doomsday Machine. TOS. The shuttlecraft are not the Galileo type. 4 shuttlecraft were carried on each CONSTITUTION class Starship.
You have built a spot on model of the original Enterprise. Very good job. I have made SketchUp drawings of the Enterprise next to the Millennium Falcon, the Space 1999 Eagle, the Empire State Building and several others. The thing that brought the Enterprise's size into focus for me were photographs of the original studio model, the one in the Smithsonian, with model railroad people at HO scale placed on and around it. Yes, the 11 foot model is in HO scale. HO scale model people are about an inch tall. This works out that the bussard collector is 60 feet across. The studio model is bigger that most people's HO model railroad set up's! Franz Joseph has duped you. All his drawing are non-canon. Main engineering is in the secondary hull. In some of the episodes you can see large arching beam on the ceiling. The warp core is on the deck below Main Engineering. It is a horizontal warp core. If you look at the Main Deflector Dish on the outside of the ship you will see evidence of a massive cooling system. The concentric rings behind the dish are radiators and there are three blockly heat sinks, one on the bottom, two on both side of the hull, with a reveal, an indentation, running behind the heat sinks. This is an area where great power is flowing to the dish. This power is coming from the warp drive, which has to be close. Detecting and deflecting objects in the path of the ship at great distance, quickly, is going to take lots of power which has to be close to the source for efficiently and to not have great power loss in it's transmission. You are not going to place all your head engineering people in a control center several decks away from the warp core and near an less powerful engine that is used less. The department head has to in an office near the warp core. Very small debris should be swept aside by the warp bubble. Franz Joseph has an array of errors. According to Gene Roddenberry and Andrew Probert, the designer of the Enterprise D, warp drive always come in pairs. The two nacelles warp space between them. Roddenberry and Probert wanted to show the warping between the nacelles in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, but it was to costly. There are original drawing by Probert showing the effect. Always in pairs. It can work with three if they have the emitters on the side aimed at each other. So you have the middle nacelle with two emitter trenches. One nacelle will not do anything, no go. Another "Joe Myth" is that everyone has a bed. The ship is too small for this. It is a Hilton in his drawings. Submarines have hot bunking after duty shifts, so does the Enterprise. Hot bunking is only used with NCO's and service men, no officers. Big "Joe Myth." The bridge is not built off angle from the centerline of the ship. It would be unusable. It is canon that the bridge is ON the centerline. It became canon in the very first Star Trek ever. The Cage. In the very first scene you see the Enterprise flying in space then the camera zooms in on the bridge. You can clearly see the the turbolift tower semi- embedded in the bridge dome, on the ship's centerline. The camera move into the bridge and you can see a crewmember stepping out of the turbolift which is off axis of the ship's centerline. Then you see Pike and his crew. Gene Roddenberry moved the turbolift doors from their original location behind Kirk's chair to the side so actors could gracefully enter the bridge without any visual obstruction from the center seat. The bridge is inside a double or even a triple hull vessel. The shuttle bay does not touch the side walls of the ship. It is segregated because it is open to space at times. There is space for machinery and offices to control shuttle operations in between the outer hull's interior and the outer hull of the shuttle bay. This is in Matt Jefferies drawings of it. Gene Roddenberry and Matt Jefferies, who was a noted aviation artist, thought this shit out. Franz Joseph did not think he assumed and has made an ass out of himself for as long as Star Trek exist. He did it for the money!
Some interesting parts that could be in a follow-on video 1. Ship's gymnasium (Charlie-X) 2. Ship's Arboretum (The Man Trap) 3. Auxiliary Bridge / Control Room (several episodes incl. Doomsday Machine). 4. Phaser Control (Balance of Terror) It might be fun to show clips from the show & identify points on the enterprise.
1701-D of ST:TOS had stunted warp nacelles to fit 4:3 TV screens that were popular at the time the series was filmed. By the time they ST:TNG movies were being made in the late 90's, they needed a larger ship to take advantage of movie screens (and the HDTV 16:9 screens that were emerging) and so they created 1701-E (and its successors) to meet the need ...
Maximum warp of 10 OMFGLOL.....I think that happened in like one episode and it was due to an Artificial Intelligence. I think the actual Max Speed was Warp 7.5
I found your video interesting enough, but your info and model are wrong. The Enterprise, NCC 1701, has a horizontal Warp Core and did not have a vertical Warp Core until the refit in Star Trek TMP.
very Enterprise is just amazing ... when it comes to sci fi. the is soft sci fi and hard sci fi. star wars and star trek and star trek is hard AF. just awesome stuff. even tho its fiction its way more in line with whats possible. i love every star trek done. just love the stories. the tech the ships.
I'm 54 and have been a devoted follower of all things Star Trek my whole life. Yet this is the first time I've seen what the interior of the original Enterprise looked like. Like a submarine, it must have been crowded on the main crew decks with lots of hot racking to accommodate a crew too large for everyone to have their own bed/rack. I'm quite upset that none of the Star Trek series addressed this. We only lived with the officers and never got a sense of how the rank and file lived.
Thank Richard. I'm going the a much more detail 3D model of the 1701 coming up since I wasn't using right schematic. Should be coming up in a few weeks.
The ncc 1701 was a great ship but fhe retrofit for the motion picture was always my favorite as her nacelles looked sleeker and the ship just had a better look to me... abrams version was ok... very organic, but i will always prefer the 70s retrofit more
I love the video cut away production; however, there are several inaccuracies. There’s a problem with the main engineering location, horizontal elevator shafts, as well as lack of corridors in the crew section, etc. No reference to the Transporter room, system, or emitters.
Yeah. He ended up using an unofficial blueprint made by fans instead of the real thing, which resulted in a number of mistakes in the video. For anyone reading, the official blueprint is called _"Booklet of General Plans: U.S.S. Constitution Class"_ and is officially published by Paramount.
@@Idazmi7 Those are the famous Franz Joseph blueprints, but - for as good as they are - they were still fan generated. There are many small items on his maps that don't match up to graphics and dialog on the show. Joseph also did the original Technical Manual in 1976 which had some VERY accurate uniform patterns and station schematics, but wildly inaccurate maps. Joseph was sucked into Trek fandom because of his daughter's interest in the show and early cosplay, and "filled in the blanks" with his own - admittedly very good - ideas. He never really consulted with Paramount or Roddenberry or Matt Jefferies on his designs, but built on what he saw on the show, and in the Making of Star Trek.
@@jptrostle3275 _"Those are the famous Franz Joseph blueprints, but - for as good as they are - they were still fan generated."_ Franz Joseph was not a Star Trek fan and never became one. He was a United States Navy Drafting Engineer hired by Roddenberry to create the definitive blueprints of the U.S.S. Enterprise for future reference, long after the show was cancelled. The Franz Joseph blueprints are canon, and were referenced during the creation of the Enterprise-D for TNG. _"There are many small items on his maps that don't match up to graphics and dialog on the show."_ Of course there are: the show itself is an inconsistent mess made of plywood, acrylic paint, and Christmas tree lights. Which is *_why_* Roddenberry commissioned the blueprints in the first place: to deal with inconsistencies created by the show. _"Joseph was sucked into Trek fandom because of his daughter's interest in the show and early cosplay (...) He never really consulted with Paramount or Roddenberry or Matt Jefferies on his designs, but built on what he saw on the show, and in the Making of Star Trek."_ Incorrect. Franz Joseph, by his own words, saw a group of fans in the 1970's creating poor "technical orders" of various Star Trek devices. After looking at the devices himself (and seeing how realistic they were), Joseph took it upon himself to contact Roddenberry to provide those technical orders, out of nothing more than educational interest. Roddenberry gave him the go-ahead, along with *direct instructions* to ignore any contradiction necessary to create greater overall technical consistency and believability. Gene went on to personally sign all of Franz Joseph's work into canon under Paramount license. After that, Franz Joseph simply and quietly moved on from Star Trek.
Correction, based on the official blueprint, the main engine room is actually located near the back (shuttlecraft maintenance room).
The main engineering room was actually at the base of the pylons of the warp engine area. That reactor seen behind the fence is at the base of the pylons. ( secondary hull) what he shown was the impulse engine room.
( Located at the rear of the primary hull.)
Firstly Yes that is correct. Main engineering covering 2 decks was positioned behind the defector disk in the main secondary hull.
Secondly the top speed of this model starship was not warp 10. Warp 10 is not possible. USS Voyager top speed was only warp 9.925 which was a must newer ship than this model
A great rendering of my favourite ship. Keep them coming please.
@@hendrikventer6346 the Warp Scale was changed in TNG. So warp 10 in TOS would be close to Warp 7 or 8 in the new TNG scale. Also I think Voyager had a maximum speed on 9.975 and at the time was the fastest Federation design.
Wasn't the Computer core room massive? it reach from deck below the main bridge all the way down near the Ventral Sensor dorm, let alone the hallway have to curve around it
I often smile to myself when I hear ST fans and non-ST fans complain about the apparently fragile design of the warp nacelles and their supporting pylons. The mistake I believe most people make when they talk about how fragile the ship appears is they are viewing 23rd century science fiction through the eyes and experiences of 21st century building techniques. Watching and listening to the program you will hear of something often referred to as the Structural Integrity Field. This is an application that is applied to all impulse and warp capable vessels. The SIF basically greatly strengthens the structure of the vessel on the order of several thousandfold. In addition, the building materials used to construct the Enterprise are vastly superior to what we utilize now. There is no welding, screws, bolts or rivets used. One construction technique utilizes molecular bonding of materials which do not yet exist. To put it all in perspective, I would say that someone who lived 300 years ago would be aghast at skyscrapers and suspension bridges of our era that flex slightly. Their worldview would tell them that the buildings and bridges that we take for granted are bound to collapse.
lol...maybe some people who developing starships of the 24th century would laugh previous designs are old school styles.
The neck is roughly the width of a turbolift. Your story can be summed up in 1 sentence: the designers never took the actual neck width into account and just made it look sleak. 😋
Structural integrity fields would be used to compensate for extreme hull stress, not compensating a self-breaking neck.
@@Handlealreadytaken.Trythisone. well it's probably just a bit wider than that.
I don't think the "main engine room" would be all the way up there, you would think "engineering" would be closer to the antimatter(fuel) in the main body (two decks blacked out behind the deflector )
I was thinking of the same thing. On the Enterprise D, that "main engine room" which actually includes the warp core, is in secondary hull and when the core breached in ST: Generations they had to separate the saucer section to act as a "lifeboat" for everyone on board. Having that room up there just doesn't make sense.
And correct me if I'm wrong, my TOS lore is worse than my TNG lore, but isn't the D the first Enterprise to have that detachable saucer section feature? Plus the way the main engine room is done here, it looks like the top half of that room is going to break from the bottom half when that saucer section does separate. And what's with that curved thing that is bisecting the warp core? Sorry but poor design on that part.
@@thundermane362 season 3 of discovery a star ship built around the same time as TOS Enterprise there is an episode where the warp core is ejected, this plus any "warp core ejection" images all show these are from the bottom of the main hull, even TNG blue prints show this as well.
TNG saucer section only have impulse engines only for the very reason depleted in the movie (much the same way of the space shuttle piggy backed on a 747)
@@thundermane362 No D wasn't, ST TOS episode " The Apple" .... Kirk tells Scotty to discard the warp drive if you have to and crack out of orbit with the main section. It has been suggested for decades that Kirk was telling him to get the primary (Saucer) hull out. Enterprise A even shows a separation line that's marked in red on the interconnecting ( the neck) dorsal.
Ethan Monroe on point
@@paulwilliams5208 varied deckplans have been notoriously inconsistent about this very room, for the original 1701. See also discussion on trekbbs forums, too.
"Dave of the Dove" makes it fairly explicit the engine room is in the lower hull, too.
I wish they had videos like this when I was a kid in the '60s. I absolutely loved Star Trek, and Lost in Space as well.
OMG I am surprised. I tried to watch "lost in space" but the only message in that show was that human beings were traitors and would endanger space travel at every opportunity ... The new "Lost in Space" would be better titled "Trapped in space" as the first 10 episodes contain at least 15 traps that ensnare the lost-in-space-cadets who waste most of their lives escaping from traps ...
The were the good Ole days
I was hoping you would show where the bowling alley was located. We'd been hearing about that for decades!
It was located in the star drive section. The blue prints, drawn by Franz Josef, showed that and the pool
Bowling was really big in the 60's
@@Zorro9129 It's much, much bigger now!
I recall it only being mentioned once, but I think FJ's placement of it near the lower cargo hold makes sense, as you need some open "flex space" to maneuver your containers, and you also need a recreation area for the largely-unseen 400 enlisted crewmen, one that's a great deal larger than the Officer's Lounge we saw in the show.
Don't buy the pool though, the Navigational Deflector and Warp Engineering need that space.
Deck 14 section 2
Wow, this was great! I've been a fan since day one, literally; but this is the first time I've seen the ship's layout really explained and diagrammed. Thank you!
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@Halfscreen What is the animation at the very end, of constructions of NCC-1701-A? Is that something you did or something we can watch somewhere else?
@@dgillies5420 That was in one of the Star Trek movies, Star Trek Into Darkness (2013).
This cutaway is massively innacurate and the location and Labelling of sections and functions is completely wrong.
@@BiggestDawgEver It was based on a fan-made schematic, but I'm hoping to fix some of the problems with an updated version down the road.
ähem, the main engineering with the warp core is located in the secondary hull. What you`ve showed is the impulsedeck
maybe . it's unclear. that glowy tunnel thing that scotty always gets thrown against and holds on to is supposedly the impulse engine
The constitution actually maintained main engineering control in the primary hull. This graphic doesn't properly show the tall tower style warp reactor which went down the neck to the secondary hull.
A secondary engineering station was also present in the secondary hull which was larger, and oversaw the transfer of warp-plasma into the warp nacelles.
Nerd.
@@stephenandersen4625 wrong, the bars within that chamber run up the nacelle struts
@@stephenandersen4625 nobody could be fully consistent on it, production-wise, but in 'Day of the Dove', we see the energy creature leave the engine room and exit the lower hull. Many deckplans make it the impulse hub, instead though.
the JJ Abrams Enterprise doesn´t count as a real Enterprise is from another universe Kelvin, his universe the reboot of star trek is an ugly ship, the original Enterprise and the others until the NCC-1701-E are beautiful ships.
Back in 1967, I got a complete set of schematic drawings for the Enterprise, deck by deck. Also was a disclaimer, not original schematic due to classified technology. That is why the drawings were in 20-century layouts. But I have kept them since.
you know those are probably worth a pretty penny today, especially if still in good condition
Do share via UA-cam
I also have a set
@@fubarmodelyard1392 Share please
I remember them, and my star fleet technical manual. Wish I knew where they were now.
0:33 One thing I loved about TOS was the bridge activity looking like a military bridge with people running around doing stuff. Lately, Star trek bridges remind me of someone driving an RV on vacation.
Same.
You have to consider that now Star Trek is Star Woke. The franchise is dead, Jim
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It's not really dead... so long as we remember it.
@ger du
The Romulans, Klingons, Cardassians, Borg, Dominion, and Planet Killing Doomsday Machines throughout all the galaxy appreciate your pacifism and ask that you continue to merely tour the galaxy.
"Tomorrow is Yesterday" Kirk says they are military.
From a particle physics perspective, the enterprise and most of the Star Trek designs are more plausible capabilities of light speed, Stargate jumping and Rosen Bridge control. The biggest design flaws are the propulsion engines which are in a position that can cause stress and break-up of the ship since for light speed you need to have all the ships center of gravity directed to the propulsion system which is not the case here, perhaps bigger propulsion engines would be well suited if designed well. The sensor probe detector is not in a bad position only that it should be part of the propulsion system since you have to warp drive to very specific positions in space that the sensors detect as a course plotter and triangulator which the propulsion system uses to intensify fusion integration or burn to set coordinates using pre arranged galactic GPS adapters, just like a smart bomb missile engine and GPS sensors. A starship is essentially a highly advanced, space mapped, smartbomb missile converter into a transporter of people.
That would be the case if warp engines were reaction motors like rockets. However the theory behind warp engines is not predicated on producing a force. Warp engines are positioned where they can optimally produce a warp bubble that can fully encase the entire ship. It is the interaction of this warp bubble with space-time which allows for FTL travel. It is not pressure differences created within the engine itself like with a reaction motor which in turn push against the hull producing thrust. Now starships do have reaction motors called thrusters which are mainly used for maneuvering purposes. But the FTL warp travel is by field manipulation of the warp bubble interacting with space-time fabric while protecting that which is inside the bubble from time dilations. Additionally ships in the ST universe also produce a structure integrity field which is basically is force field running to structure bulk heads of the ship to augment it against stresses. Now if you look at the placement of the impulse engine which does operates on a reaction basis it's position in the hull is more centric to the ship's center of mass.
@@TheWallReports the warp bubble is formed by micro capacitors that can maintain a sub electron voltage at neutrino wavelength or less within each of the fusion reactors. There has to be more than one fusion reactor that can be controlled by bringing them together and pulling them apart as kind of a warp accelerator or warp drive or gear. Structural integrity during motion is achieved by centralizing the ships gravity and weight within the warp drive. The warp bubble is composed of a sub electron voltage field
@@TheWallReports in reality you need 2 to 8 independently operating or autonomous AI computers to stabilize the warp core and to activate the warp drive or to build the warp drive in the factory, the calibrations required are beyond the human ability to calculate or hold information . To achieve warp drive capabilities, AI would have to be independent of human manipulation, yet still cooperative. Europeans currently have a difficulty with not manipulating AI programming.
@@eastafrika728 Not trying to be rude but are you sure you're referencing the science behind much of the technology in ST universe? I am not sure what you mean by sub-electrons? Electrons are leptons. They are not composite subatomic particles like hadrons which means they have no subatomic constituents. Neutrinos are leptons as well and don't reacts with anything. Wave theory rules out electrons acting on anything smaller than it.
As far as the fusion reactors goes there are several distributed throughout the vessel but they play no role whatsoever in powering warp drive. The fusion reactors supply power to the impulse drive and is the main power source for the ship. Whenever that plasma is ready for use an EPS tap draws plasma from the power transfer conduit and converts it to the type of energy required.
Warp drive is based upon the creation and generation of exotic particles. Warp particles are one such exotic particles. They are produced through a matter & antimatter reaction occurring in the warp core. This type of reaction only take place in the warp core. Not the fusion reactors. These warp particles which are in a plasma state, warp plasma, is transferred via plasma conduits to the warp nacelles where the warp coils are. The warp coils, not micro-capacitors produces the warp field which encases the ship. If the warp coils operate anything like normal coils/inductors, a field is produced. Capacitors are mainly temporary energy storage devices and stores energy as a charge or an accumulation of charges.
In addition to warp particles used for warp drive there are other exotic particles in use including gravitons for artificial gravity (AG).
There is gravity plating throughout the ship. Embedded inside that plating are gravity generators which in turn produces gravitons particles for AG. An EPS tap draws power from the transfer conduits to provide the power to the gravity plating.
Nadion particles are used by and the basis for the many of the directed energy weapons and forcefields; tachyons another exotic particle if memory serve me correctly is the basis for much of the subspace communication systems and on and so on. The thing to remember is all are theoretical particles meaning they don't exist or have been discovered or created yet today. Scientist have mathematical models for existence but that's about it.
Electricity meaning flowing electron through a conductor is not going to get you any of this. Electricity is obsolete. As I stated above much of the power for all that technology excluding warp drive comes from plasma produced by fusion reactors which is transferred by plasma conduits. The reason for that is b/c plasma is much more versatile source of energy than electricity. If there's a need for old fashion electricity it can be easily derived from plasma with the right EPS tap.
@@TheWallReports no, I'm using real science that is in our reality.
In my personal "canon" it has 2 engineering sections. One at the impulse engines ( where Kirk fought Khan in the first season) and a warp engine room in the bottom hull section (2nd and 3rd season with stairs down the middle).
That's what I've believed as well.
Me too.
Agreed there are two. Kirk piloted the heavily damaged Constellation from "Impulse Engineering" in The Doomsday Machine. They wanted to lower the overhead in Impulse to distinguish between the two, but time and budget didn't permit, so they just removed the "Dilithium Converter" assembly.
It is probably a good deal further forward than Franz Josef depicts it, so the thicker hull cross-section can accommodate the height, and there's room for some actual engines aft.
There would HAVE to be an impulse control or impulse engineering deck located behind the impulse engines - which are the primary sunlight propulsion method for the Enterprise. (And ONLY* method after saucer separation - then the Main Engineering controlling the matter/anti-matter engines and the warp core. There are likely smaller engineering compartments in each of the warp nacelles, as there were in the E-D, and also seen in the animated series.
He ended up using an unofficial blueprint made by fans instead of the real thing, which resulted in a number of mistakes in the video. The official blueprint is called _"Booklet of General Plans: U.S.S. Constitution Class"_ and is officially published by Paramount. The Enterprise does indeed have two different engineering rooms.
I always did wonder how everything fit together into the Classic Era Enterprise, and this video answered a lot of those questions. Thank you.
Same here.
Well done from one of the schematics. They're a few that conflict here and there.
Visually on episodes, Main Engineering (warp core feeds behind the cage Scotty often clings to) would indicate that somewhere around the shuttle deck front, as that's where the struts enter the secondary hull.
There is "auxillary control" but sometimes that is a different room (Space Seed, Court Marshal, Doomsday) or the main engineering engine room... Depending on which set looked better for the composition of the shooting scene of "auxillary control" . Realities of directing a TV show, assumed to be shown twice and forgotten.
A discussion of Impulse Drive, the control room and location may help viewers. Also if impulse is FTL equivalent or not. Many scripts fail if impulse is not FTL capable.
@@STho205 There are some discrepancies, but that's what happens when you have 50 years of fans adding their own ideas to the concept. Nothing wrong with that. I like some ideas some people have come up with over the years.
@@davidkaminski615 it's fine. The show started out as "Forbidden Planet the Next Generation" with set dressing and situations from "Rocky Jones Space Ranger". The original set and costume designer had even worked on that kids show a decade earlier.
Check it out. You'll see some familiar plots as well.
Outstanding animation and explanation you did a wonderful job bring the Enterprise to life thank you very much I truly do appreciate the work you put into this.
Thank you kindly Brian!
It's pretty cool how it's plausible IRL - warp drive, some kind of high energy from fusion or a breakthrough with antimatter.
And it was mocked mercilessly by the Literati of Science Fiction of the day.
That's common though. Verne's work was seen as preposterous and even those that liked Verne mocked HG Wells as pure fantasy and social utopianism. The latter predicted what we are using to casually view this video, BTW. In 1890
That was awesome! Seeing a cutaway version of the Enterprise and all its internal parts was "fascinating" I'd love to see more! Thanks for the video🤓❤
No problem. Thanks for watching.
Too bad it's completely inaccurate.
Massively innacurate.
I agree
@@Halfscreen Great job but those are the wrong shuttles. Minor not important just letting you know.
Nice! Your cutaway doesn't show the Jeffries Tubes, though. They went up the pylons to the Warp nacelles. Also, the shuttlecraft were wrong for this era.
If the creator's anything like me, he might've just used whatever he could find, that was the same general size and shape. Something that says, "This is where they park the shuttlecraft." : )
it is bristling with mistakes. people standing in turboshafts etc etc
@Sosi Tehlirian Simple. They DON'T go faster than the speed of light. They warp space so they can get places as if they were traveling faster than light. Take a piece of paper and draw two dots at opposite corners then move a pencil from one dot to the other with the paper flat and time how long it takes. Now make folds between the two dots and move the pencil at the same speed as before. The time from dot to dot will be shorter. D=R*T. R can't be > c, the speed of light but if you shorten D, the distance, then T, time is decreased.
True. I noticed that the shuttle craft were from the Next Gen era but I think you got mare right than wrong and I especially liked that you explained (and showed) how the primary hull / saucer section separates from the secondary hull.
As lovely as this rendering is, it is missing the hallways and, most importantly - the bowling alley.
Another brilliant presentation HalfScreen… I’m not a ‘Trekkie’ but after watching this amazing detailed description of the Starship Enterprise I stand converted! …I wasn’t aware of the size, capacity & speed of this craft …. I feel I’ve been where I’ve ‘never been before!’ and learned so much …. thanks again for another enjoyable video …clear detailed graphics, well paced timing, professionally narrated commentary & packed with interesting information…… definitely a Warp factor 1000! …. make more & proser HalfScreen #FederationAdmiral
No problem Mikey. I always wanted to explore other theme outside the Star Wars genre but my core theme will still be Star Wars, but I occasionally do something different. Thanks for watching!
@@Halfscreen your welcome HalfScreen….it made a nice change and it bought Star Trek Tech to those who wouldn’t have know much about it ….. Tc & more please #CaptainKirkClone
@@mikeyb4610 My animations were never meant for the hardcore fans, just for the casual viewers, which is about 95% of my viewers anyway. 😀
@@Halfscreen whatever your aim / target audience is I have to say that you should be proud of what you’ve achieved ….your a very talented & creative person which sets you way above anything else similar here on UA-cam ….. I really hope you get to use your skills and talents in a field that you both enjoy AND that showcases the quality your presentations reflect…. Your audience, those who genuinely appreciate & respect you, will continue to follow you in whatever you do within this art form …. ‘never be held back by what others may think - but push forward with what YOU have to give’ (Mikey) … #GoHalfScreen
@@mikeyb4610 I used to work in the oil and gas industry as a technically 3D animator before tackling UA-cam full-time on a full-time basis. My goal is to make enough money on YT so I don't have to get a "real" job.
There are 3 Enterprises from my point of view: NCC-1701, NCC-1701-A, and NCC 1701-D. Each of them was a perfect example of a design philosophy at the time of creation.. -60's, 70's, and 80's. All of the following iterations were just blend and generic iterations and will not be remembered in the future.
To me, the Enterprise B in _"Generations"_ is kind of like a bridge that connects the storyline from Kirk's Enterprises to Picard's.
Enterprise-B was an Excelsior Class ship and Enterprise-C was an Ambassador Class ship
I would LOVE to see you do one on the Enterprise "Re-Fit" from Star Trek: The Motion Picture Please? :D
It depend on how many views I will get from this video if I wanted to do the re-fit variant.
Years ago, +/- 1980, there was a very detailed cut-a-way poster of the re-fit Enterprise. To scale, and a very accurate representation of the Enterprise. I had that poster and enjoyed it greatly. But through all the moves in 40 years, I lost it. I wish I had that back.
@@elhanson5426 Same. I had the poster and the jigsaw puzzle of her. The TMP refit Enterprise is my favourite of them all.
Have you seen Star Blazers AD2199,AD2202? I have the model of the United Nations Cosmo Navy Andromnea. She is 1500 feet long 100 feet wide. And 300 feet high. If she was a real ship. But she can out run the Enterprise easy.
@@elhanson5426 I have managed to get 4 of those.. I am looking for the one which has the Enterprise-D on it, to hang them side by side.
Fantastic presentation , i would be fascinated to see the Re-Fit enterprise from the Motion Picture. Great work 🖖🏻
Great suggestion!
You had me till I seen TNG shuttlecraft in the hangar deck😆 still nice video 🖖🏾
Very cool! It is the most REAL science fiction spaceship! Long live the ENTERPRISE!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Not by a long long way is this remotely the most realistic sci fi ship. The fact that it has 'artifical gravity' decks makes it preposterous to known physics.
For realistic spaceship refer to USS Discovery in Kubricks 2001 Space Odyseey or any ship in the Expanse.
Collapsing the magnetic polarity fields of matter and anti matter between two separated nacelles to warp space for a micro instant. Then repeating this as fast as a florescent lamp while moving forward. (A future project for the more evolved earth species. Homo Intelligens.)
This is fantastic. Would love it if you did more Star Trek vessels, and other franchises too. So much to choose from. Looking forward to it, Subscribed :)
That's the plan!
Klingon D-7 battlecruiser please, they're cool looking.
To my knowledge the 1701 did not have saucer separation, the 1701-D did.
I didn't know that only the D can separate.
That's what I just asked; too.
I think it used special explosive bolts that could hard-separate the main hull from the secondary in case either half was about to experience a "blown to smithereens" scenario. But it was never shown on screen. I think it was the 1701 D that was the first type to be able to un couple and re couple without needing a space port to glue the ship back together again.
@@sixeswild274 Agreed
The saucer section was originally designed to be the "Landing Section" which detached from the "Drive Section" for planetfall, until the writers realized how much time and money could be saved by "inventing" the transporter. You can still see the two forward landing struts retracted into the underside.
Saucer sep was mentioned once in The Apple, when the alien machine-god Vaal disabled the warp drive and was trying to tractor beam the Enterprise down. The Saucer section in the 'Prise became a lifeboat contingency; You couldn't get home on impulse, but there was enough speed to get you clear of an anti-matter detonation. Not enough power for shields and phasers, but you did have subspace radio to call for help, and photon torpedoes if the wrong life forms heard the call.
Officially, Spacedock facilities are required to re-attach the two sections, but the Enterprise also maxes out at Warp 8 "by the book" In both cases. a certain Scottish "Miracle Worker" would like a word.
Great presentation! It was great to see the interior and exterior layouts of the Enterprise 1701 Constitution Class starship. Before, all we had were the various incarnations of Star Trek Blueprints, but this takes it further, I like how you did a "briefing" type of description, as if you were going to be serving on the ship and needed to do orientation. Thanks for sharing!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video and well narrated!
I always saw Enterprise as kind of a "magical" ship with endless corridors going hither and yon and random elevators that went up, down sideways and around. Kirk, Spock and the rest of the bridge crew always managed to find themselves walking through the corridors at a watch change as there were SO many people moving back and forth at the same time.
Loved the show growing up and now. Thanks for the cutaway.
Glad you enjoyed it!
6:25 No, it had a cruise speed of W6 (216c) and emergency speeds of W7 and W8 (343c and 512c respectively). On rare occasions it went higher, always under freakish situations rather than their own power. Back in the day Warp 10 was 1000c. That ship dates back to before Arbitrary Okuda.
I was thinking about that. If I remember correctly, Enterprise-D was capable of warp 10 on a good day. There was an advanced Enterprise from the future on a TNG episode that had three nacelles which could do warp 13.
@@nuttysquirrel8816 Yeah, they weren't consistent about it. But according to Roddenberry and Okuda, W10 is supposed to be 'infinitely fast' on the new scale.
can you do inside a brain lol
The brain is rather complicated. 😁
That is a really cool idea.
@@starsiegeplayer thanks
It's Pronounced... "NAY-CELLS" NOT "NA-SALIS"!
Close; it’s “na” like “apple” - “cells”
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_It's Pronounced... "NAY-CELLS" NOT "NA-SALIS"!_
*SO WHAT ?*
All the great comments to this discussion and that's your best contribution?
It had a Warp Speed of 10?!!! 6:22. Thanks for the good joke! Hilarious!
One day ! We will be visited ....
As a note: the Constitution class did not separate right at the top of the pylon. The pylon was blown apart with explosive bolts roughly where the second deck in the pylon is.
Macross Frontier please
I'll NEVER accept that the JJ Enterprise is bigger than the Enterprise-D and Enterprise-E. ILM ORIGINALLY had it just a little bigger than the original 1701 Refit. However, because of the shuttlebay sequence that the idiot JJ wanted to have (before the fleet leaves for Vulcan) the scale had to be ridiculously resized.
Edit: Actually the top warp speed of the Enterprise was warp 9. Some external source at work (alien) is what made the ship go past warp 9 on occasion. Even then the ship couldn't hold up to the stress of those speeds (past warp 9) before it started tearing itself apart.
In "That Which Survives" the hostile alien entity Losira gets her up to warp 15 (pre trans-warp scale) by simply jamming the throttle open. The Kelvans modded her for warp 11, but what was most impressive is that they expected to retain that speed all the way to Andromeda ON A SINGLE TANK OF ANTIMATTER.
Bet Scotty picked up a few tricks for the refit after he loosened the tongue of the Kelvin engineer with that bottle of blue stuff.
I actually came to terms somewhat with trying to explain why the JJ Enterprise is so much bigger.
Which would be that the Enterprise we see in the new movies is actually not the Enterprise we know. (Duh!)
But why is it not the Enterprise we know of?
Because Starfleet made contact with an Enemy they couldn't understand and who had Weapons and Technology far beyond their reach. When Nero destroyed the USS Kelvin with the Narada there weren't that many casualties on the Kelvin. So there were lots of witnesses and potential sensor readings from the Kelvin that made Starfleet realize that there's a foe out there who is agressive and has weapons far superior to theirs. And since one of Neros man actually contacted the Kelvin they (or some vulcans) might have guessed that they were romulan.
So Starfleet went out of their way and built a new class of Starship. One that would be stronger and more capable than the ones they had before.
But here's the catch:
Starfleet needed that new class to have more weapons, stronger shields and more energy to power all of that. But the technology they had at their disposal was still limited.
So what do you do if you need more energy but don't have the technology to fit all of that in your design for your new class?
That's right, you make it bigger to actually fit more power plants (Warp Cores) to get that energy.
Which would also explain why the JJ Abrams Enterprise had her maiden voyage way after the original Enterprise. (JJ Enterprise was launched in 2258 while the original was launched in 2245) So they basically scrapped all plans they had for the Constitution class and scaled it up to fit their needs for more weapons, more energy and more big which also pushed the timeframe for the construction way back in time.
That would also explain why the engine room of the JJ Enterprise is so absurdly big - more energy but no way to scale down the warp core technology so it has to be as big as they could make it.
@@Scitch87 because, as Abrams has publicly stated, he always hated Star Trek and never gave a hoot about its continuity, characters, driving principles or anything else about it except using loyal fans to make a buck.
@@jv-lk7bc I've never heard or read that but if that is true then I'm not sure why he agreed to make Trek (2009) and Into Darkness.
@@jv-lk7bc yes and you can now be a bitter twat about it or you can try to come to terms with it. The choice is yours.
thank you i waited over 50 years for this......
Wow. That is a very long wait! Thanks for watching henery!
Nice video but there needs to be a correction in your video the Enterprise could never reach warp 10. only ship to reach warp 10 was the shuttle that Tom Paris piloted in Star Trek Voyager . the original USS Enterprise could only get up to Warp seven
That was great. The best animation I've seen yet. Replete with scale models.
There is a 1701-D animation if you haven't seen it yet. Thanks for watching.
The graphics and animation in this are great! I see some folks have already called out the discrepancies related to the placement of main engineering and the warp core. This particular vessel did not actually have the capability of hull separation. That was a new feature with the Enterprise D due to the large number of civilians traveling aboard.
Incorrect. The original Enterprise had the ability to separate during an emergency using an explosive bolt system. Unlike the Ent-D, reconnection would have taken starbase facilities.
At least two episodes of the original '60s show have Kirk contemplating saucer seperation, but we never saw it on screen until 1987's The Next Generation. But yes, NCC-1701 was capable of it. The Kelvin timeline version seperates it's saucer in 'Star Trek Beyond' as well, with Kirk running down to the lower saucer and performing the operation manually after bridge control is disabled.
Lance is correct, however they did separate in TAS one time. They had planned to do this in TOS, but due to budget constraints,... they abandoned the idea until TAS.
Sir, awesome animation, but it's missing the reactor room, which was located in the secondary hull righ before warp nacelle's pylons. The circular corridors from the saucer also seem to be missing.
Yes, you are right. I knew I forgot something. The schematic i used on the enterprise was rather basic.
@@Halfscreen Oh, okay. Anyway, your videos are great and keep doing what you're doing!
This video makes me feel the excitment and wonder when I was a kid watching Star Trek for the first time on TV. I enjoyed your tour of the Enterprise. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it! More is coming. I didn't realized how popular it was until now.
The cut away was great. Some of your facts and where engineering was located was wrong. We all make mistakes and I look forward to you making another video.
One thing I also noticed was that the animator used a vertical warp core (which wasn't invented until the TMP era) instead of the typical horizontal warp core from the TOS era.
Where did you get the warp 10 figure from?Except for the TNG episode "All Good Things" where the 3 nacelled Galaxy class goes warp 13, No starship goes faster than warp 9.995.They all say that warp 10 is impossible to reach as you would occupy all points in the universe simultaneously.(Voyager episode where they break the barrier & Tom Paris evolves into a future Salamander & has babies with Janeway) cant recall the title of the episode.
It was called Threshold I believe
Yes. I thought in the original series of Star Trek the Enterprise NCC-1701 starship could only travel up to Warp 8 in speed across the galaxy.
@@ElectronicGigabyte There is the one episode "The Enterprise Incident" where they are running from the Romulans & Kirk orders warp 9.Other than that, they always talk about the Constitution class as being able to maintain a warp 7 & higher speeds only for short periods.
As the show itself explained, the maximum safe cruising speed was warp 6, but could do warp 8 in an emergency for shorter periods of time.
Exactly what I was thinking. Considering Enterprise NX01's MAX speed was Warp 5, the TOS Enterprise reached Warp 6 to 8 in VERY EXTREME situations. Even STTNG only did a max cruising speed of Warp 8-9, Warp 10 in a ship wasn't considered normal until Voyager or DS9 I am thinking or Speculating. Nevertheless, this is a decent video to watch - Nicely Done & Thanks for Sharing.
Wow!!! Exellent!!!! Thank's for this. video👌👌👌👌👌
Most welcome 😊
So good thank you, the effort involved is much appreciated. And anyone who says anything negative is just jealous, so keep up the good work!
Thank you! Will do! I have seen any good cross-section on the Enterprise for me to refer to on YT.
That was a great rendition! I loved seeing my favorite ship with such detail!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Awesome! I was always worried the nacelles would break off. It also seemed the ship would flip around due to imbalance (between the c.g. and thrust).
All worries aside, the nacelles cannot break off due to: 1. The Structural Integrity Field which strengthens the ship to endure the stress of warp travel and maneuvers. 2. The construction materials and the technique of molecular bonding. Imagine what advances in building materials and construction techniques will be made 300 or so years from now. Oh, one last real world example. Did you know the wing tips of modern passenger planes can flex upwards to eight feet during flight while not snapping off?
No Starfleet vessel could travel at warp 10. The max speed for this ship was warp 8.
it has in some episodes, but for a extremely short time and not without damage to the engines. And the TOS warp scale was different that the later one. With the old one, speeds over warp 10 where possible.
These just keep getting better.
Actually, yes! I have enjoyed alot of his videos and they keep getting better
I saw this and I thought to myself…another of Half Screens ship diagrams…I wonder if I’ve already seen this one?…Looking at the date…nope…too new…Yay!!! A new Half Screen video to watch AND it’s on ol’ NCC1701 USS Enterprise, my original SciFi first love.
@Halfscreen +Halfscreen great that you venture into Star Trek. Nobody comes up with Star Trek Discovery & Piccard ships breakdown yet, hopefully you're the first. I like the no longer split section design instead.
That is a valid point on Star Trek Discovery and Piccard breakdown. I will have to think about it.
@@Halfscreen we're counting on you, all the best. I always wanted to see how's the current star trek ships with low silhouette look like on the inside
@@jayjay53313 Depending on how well this video, I may do more star trek theme animation.
@@Halfscreen good, looking forward to it. I prefer more futuristic realistic design
There could be videos dubbed in Portuguese Brazil 🇧🇷 about the USS Enterprise!❤️
Can you do a droid ship from Star Wars please 🥺btw ur content is absolutely amazing🤩
Oddly enough, its my next project.
@@Halfscreen OMG YESSS!! I can’t wait to see it I bet it’s gonna be awesome 😌
This is a really good video, and you captured a lot of features other people miss, such as the saucer's ability to separate from the rest of the ship. However, you ended up using an unofficial interior made by fans instead of the real thing, which resulted in a number of mistakes in your video. The official blueprint is called _"Booklet of General Plans: U.S.S. Constitution Class"_ and is officially published by Paramount. I'd recommend giving that book a look if you ever decide to remake this video.
1. The Enterprise's top speed is only Warp 8, not Warp 10. Warp 10 would overload the engines and destroy the ship.
2. The bridge is way too big compared to the rest of the ship, which throws off the entire scale of the interior.
3. The Enterprise has two engine rooms: one for the Impulse Engines, and another for the Warp Engines. Your "main engine room" is actually the Impulse Engine room.
4. The location of the computer core is incorrect: it is actually lower in the saucer.
5. The location of the science lab is incorrect: it is actually on the backside of that dome, instead of the front.
6. The ship has many facilities that were simply not mentioned here, including fabrication facilities, a backup bridge, and recreational areas for the crew.
7. On another note, those shuttles are from the Enterprise-D, not the original Enterprise.
I know I made some mistake, but to be honest, it just a learning process. I really don't much about these vessel, but I wanted to give a different perspective then what I have been seeing on the UA-cam. It was the same thing with Star Wars. These comments give me the opportunities to learn and grow so these "mistake" would be less obvious to the fans. Thanks for the info btw!
@@Halfscreen
You're very welcome. I hope the information proves useful to you. :)
"Official" specs are just that, they are for public consumption, including Klingons. as opposed to the actual performance numbers, which are classified. You won't blow up the ship if you push her past warp 8, but you will void the warranty.
@@FusionAero
Scotty was repeatedly clear that the Enterprise cannot push past Warp 8 for long, while Warp 10 would certainly blow the ship apart. There's a tolerance beyond Warp 8, but it's not much.
@@Idazmi7 WF8 max is probably based on the standard Connie with the standard engineering team circa 2245, the year the class was first introduced.
The Enterprise crew was the cream of the crop, and had two decades to upgrade, refine, and optimize Scotty's "bairns".
Although the 'Prise never went North of warp 10 without advanced alien technology being involved, Kirk still had sufficient confidence in his "miracle worker's" ability to maintain the warp drive in a sufficient condition and capability state that he could call for, and get, a dash speed of warp 9 in both "The Enterprise Incident" and "The Deadly Years".
Main Engineering is in the lower or secondary hull. When you see the large, angled cylinders behind the large grated screen, those are the power transfer conduits going from the engine dilithium matrix on the opposite side of the grating where Scotty and other engineers access the dilithium crystals, up the pylons to the warp nacelles.
I'm going to an update to this animation down the road.
@@Halfscreen While the Franz Joseph designs are a delight to look at, they are not canon. (And there is some conjecture that, because Reilly was drunk when he mentioned the bowling alley, he was just making it up lol.)
One thing that is canon is there are *3* engine rooms mentioned in the dialog of the series, and the actual filming set was changed 3 times during the 3 seasons of the TOS. It has been argued that either a) Main Engineering was upgrade several times during the Enterprise's 5 year mission or b) the different designs represent the 3 engine rooms: Warp Drive (Main Engineering in the secondary hull), Impulse Drive (at the back of the saucer section), and a 3rd room (Axillary Power? It is only seen once in "The Alternative Factor"). Hope that helps.
No matter what though, you need to add the corridors back into your renderings.
@@jptrostle3275 I'm currently wrapping up part 1 of TOS Enterprise. I'm pretty sure it's not 100% accurate, but I can pretty much say the same thing with any Sci-Fi ship. Thanks for the info, and I will keep that in mind.
The Enterprise was designed by an engineer, not an artist. Thus, it actually makes sense as a vessel. With a little understanding of how the engines work, it becomes clear that there's really no other shape it could be.
Exactly. No unicorns surfing the turbo lifts on that cruiser, with only one exception - NOMAD. I believe James Doohan helped create and design the engine room sets for the original series. A simple engineering station on the bridge didn't sit too well with him. They needed an engine room with a crew making things happen, as it is and would be.
Would love to see a Walk-Thru video of the saucer dish section.
Good job.
Coming soon!
@@Halfscreen Ganna be watching out for it!
Sub-light with gradations in 'speed' equaling a logarithmic ascendancy.
A variability would be inherent at such fabulous manifolds of physical law.
Faster than light 'travel' is entirely reasonable - again,
conventions are necessarily abandoned.
The simile or comparison
would be the like subsuming the difference between a marble in a slingshot and the photon circumnavigating that which is in front of it.
A particle does not act upon space (or vice versa) if the space in question lacks dimension to begin with. 'Space' as a single word does not bely an infinity of dimension, direction, or meaning.
The parameters of physics are as gray areas where a color whilst passing through another becomes yet a third.
And 'time' becomes as a concession stand where an infinity of news papers
display every conceivable headline.
Great video. Great channel!
Thanks for the visit
Great vid, but I would argue the beige cyclical opening that runs top to bottom of the saucer section is actually the turbo lift and not the torpedo magazine.
It appears that the shuttle craft shown in this cut-away of the 1701 Enterprise are of ST: The Next Generation style. Also, didn't the turbo lift take occupants throughout the ship, traveling both vertically and horizontally? The turbo shaft shown here seems inconsistent with that. While a cool presentation, it seems some details miss the mark according to the original series details.
Not to mention I'm pretty sure the TOS Enterprise wasn't capable of Warp 10 (TOS Scale) without aliens fiddling with the systems. Scotty squealed at Kirk every time he took her to Warp 8. [And also, if Voyager, a ship 110 years newer, used this Warp 10, they'd be home in about 10 years... 20 if they stopped to get dilithium crystals and take pictures along the way... not 75 years]
@@Doctor_Robert I don't think too much research went in to this video. The OP doesn't appear to have watched many episodes ;)
@@Doctor_Robert Agreed.
Yeah I know about the bowling alley as I heard about it in a Spacedock video I saw on the Constitution Class along with a theatre and a chapel which I did know about as we saw it in the Star Trek T.O.S. Season 1 episode 'Balance of Terror' where we were first introduced to the Romulans when in that episode they were having a wedding between 2 crew members both of whom worked in the ships phaser control and they were starting to go through the ceremony when they received the distress call from the outposts on the neutral zone.
Really great job overall. I'm pretty sure the main engineering was in the secondary hull, not at the back of the primary, but overall this is a great visualization of size and scale. Be very proud of your work. :)
Thanks for the info! One of the schematics showed it being on the primary, while another show it was on the secondary. The audience mentioned it was on the secondary.
@@Halfscreen Yeah theres a few different schematics floating around out there, made by different folks. If you ever did the NX enterprise, which is mostly a Saucer Section, the engineering section would be where you put it in your 3d model of the 1701 though :)
Gene Roddenberry, must have seen into the future, they had the universal translated, the communicated , is the flip cell phone. The trancoder, we have a device
Like it that’s used in hospitals , the visual monomer is today’s FaceTime. And so much more, Star Ttrek was a head of it’s time and I loved every minute of it
I am a trekki for life.
Nx-01 Was the first starship to bear the name enterprise 👍.....And that ship was not capable of warp 10....Good effort though 👍
Love to see you do it 3-D animation of Batman’s Arkham asylum armor I see you’ve already done the hulk buster armor great work.
Kirk's version was always the prettiest and most powerful of all the enterprises.
Yes, it was a home of safety. (almost) Nobody ever died on the Enterprise. It took the fear out of space travel.
TNG Era Shuttlecraft? Some Space Time Dilation is going on! :)
I believe it was retconned that the first Federation Starship called Enterprise was the NX-01.
The United Federation of Planets didn't yet exist when NX-01 was launched. It was simply Star Fleet. You never heard USS or United Star Ship in connection with NX-01.
There are a lot of canon-breaking tidbits from Enterprise, such as Spock being the first Vulcan to serve on a Starfleet vessel, Kirk & co. first to encounter the Andorians, etc.
The first Enterprise was originally envisioned in a decorative installation in ST/TMP which depicted the progression of ships to bear the name. It had large drive rings encircling the vessel and was long and gangly.
The NX-01 was pretty much a downsized version of the fan-favorite Akira class from First Contact, which the producer thought "looked cool". This canon violation, along with a sappy new-age ballad as a theme song, contributed greatly to ENT's poor initial reception.
But it DID look cool. Eventually fans agreed on a beta-canon explanation that the NX-01 was the product of an alternate timeline created by the events in First Contact, in which Earth's warp drive pioneers got more than a glimpse of things to come, and gained sufficient insight to leapfrog over a century of progress. They were given unlimited resources by a scared-schedtless United Earth, that had just become aware of the existence of the Borg threat two centuries sooner than it otherwise would have.
Although Star Trek franchisees have never acknowledged this fan theory, it was certainly good enough to inspire some bad re-booters to cook up an "Accelerated Timeline" tale of their own.
It travels through part of the milky way galaxy, not the universe. Nacels, not nasellas
I would of thought that the 1701-d would of been much larger nearly the size of the other ships
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I always thought that the dish was used to warp the space in front of the ship allowing the ship to go along for the ride.
VERY NICE, and thankyou for all your work and the care that you put into this project.
As none of us are perfect and mistakes are made every day, yours is the lest of all the problems outthere, so no worries and I'm looking forward to your next video....
Is the separable nature of the saucer in the original series 1701 canon?
News to me too. Never knew it could separate.
I remember reading in "The Making of Star Trek" (a book that came out while TOS was still in production) that the saucer section could separate, and I'm pretty sure it was quoting GR himself. But I'm having trouble finding it.
There is one episode where kirk say to blow the nacelles and get out in impulse, but I can’t remember which one.
My favorite Starship is the U.S.S. CONSTELLATION N.C.C.-1017. The Doomsday Machine. TOS. The shuttlecraft are not the Galileo type. 4 shuttlecraft were carried on each CONSTITUTION class Starship.
I couldn't find the right 3D model of the shuttlecraft online, so I have to use a substitute.
You have built a spot on model of the original Enterprise. Very good job. I have made SketchUp drawings of the Enterprise next to the Millennium Falcon, the Space 1999 Eagle, the Empire State Building and several others. The thing that brought the Enterprise's size into focus for me were photographs of the original studio model, the one in the Smithsonian, with model railroad people at HO scale placed on and around it. Yes, the 11 foot model is in HO scale. HO scale model people are about an inch tall. This works out that the bussard collector is 60 feet across. The studio model is bigger that most people's HO model railroad set up's! Franz Joseph has duped you. All his drawing are non-canon. Main engineering is in the secondary hull. In some of the episodes you can see large arching beam on the ceiling. The warp core is on the deck below Main Engineering. It is a horizontal warp core. If you look at the Main Deflector Dish on the outside of the ship you will see evidence of a massive cooling system. The concentric rings behind the dish are radiators and there are three blockly heat sinks, one on the bottom, two on both side of the hull, with a reveal, an indentation, running behind the heat sinks. This is an area where great power is flowing to the dish. This power is coming from the warp drive, which has to be close. Detecting and deflecting objects in the path of the ship at great distance, quickly, is going to take lots of power which has to be close to the source for efficiently and to not have great power loss in it's transmission. You are not going to place all your head engineering people in a control center several decks away from the warp core and near an less powerful engine that is used less. The department head has to in an office near the warp core. Very small debris should be swept aside by the warp bubble. Franz Joseph has an array of errors. According to Gene Roddenberry and Andrew Probert, the designer of the Enterprise D, warp drive always come in pairs. The two nacelles warp space between them. Roddenberry and Probert wanted to show the warping between the nacelles in Star Trek: The Motion Picture, but it was to costly. There are original drawing by Probert showing the effect. Always in pairs. It can work with three if they have the emitters on the side aimed at each other. So you have the middle nacelle with two emitter trenches. One nacelle will not do anything, no go. Another "Joe Myth" is that everyone has a bed. The ship is too small for this. It is a Hilton in his drawings. Submarines have hot bunking after duty shifts, so does the Enterprise. Hot bunking is only used with NCO's and service men, no officers. Big "Joe Myth." The bridge is not built off angle from the centerline of the ship. It would be unusable. It is canon that the bridge is ON the centerline. It became canon in the very first Star Trek ever. The Cage. In the very first scene you see the Enterprise flying in space then the camera zooms in on the bridge. You can clearly see the the turbolift tower semi- embedded in the bridge dome, on the ship's centerline. The camera move into the bridge and you can see a crewmember stepping out of the turbolift which is off axis of the ship's centerline. Then you see Pike and his crew. Gene Roddenberry moved the turbolift doors from their original location behind Kirk's chair to the side so actors could gracefully enter the bridge without any visual obstruction from the center seat. The bridge is inside a double or even a triple hull vessel. The shuttle bay does not touch the side walls of the ship. It is segregated because it is open to space at times. There is space for machinery and offices to control shuttle operations in between the outer hull's interior and the outer hull of the shuttle bay. This is in Matt Jefferies drawings of it. Gene Roddenberry and Matt Jefferies, who was a noted aviation artist, thought this shit out. Franz Joseph did not think he assumed and has made an ass out of himself for as long as Star Trek exist. He did it for the money!
The original Enterprise is a very elegant design. That JJ Abrams version is grotesque in my opinion.
Some interesting parts that could be in a follow-on video
1. Ship's gymnasium (Charlie-X)
2. Ship's Arboretum (The Man Trap)
3. Auxiliary Bridge / Control Room (several episodes incl. Doomsday Machine).
4. Phaser Control (Balance of Terror)
It might be fun to show clips from the show & identify points on the enterprise.
Hm...I will need to look for a better schematic if I'm to update this animation. Good Info.
some errors with facts but this video was done beautifully
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1701-D of ST:TOS had stunted warp nacelles to fit 4:3 TV screens that were popular at the time the series was filmed. By the time they ST:TNG movies were being made in the late 90's, they needed a larger ship to take advantage of movie screens (and the HDTV 16:9 screens that were emerging) and so they created 1701-E (and its successors) to meet the need ...
Very Interesting facts.
Maximum warp of 10 OMFGLOL.....I think that happened in like one episode and it was due to an Artificial Intelligence. I think the actual Max Speed was Warp 7.5
Yeah, it should be around 6-7.5.
4:21 nice looking doors :)
Yes, indeed, doors are very nice.
I found your video interesting enough, but your info and model are wrong. The Enterprise, NCC 1701, has a horizontal Warp Core and did not have a vertical Warp Core until the refit in Star Trek TMP.
This was one of my earlier video and was using a fan made schematic. I was hoping to make some correction to it down the road.
Had that model as a kid. No cutaways though. Thanks for the video…..
No problem 👍
I'm just gonna leave this here.
Warp 10 of this era is 10^3=1000c, not 6395c. This would be more than warp 18.56, a normally not reachable speed at this time.
I really didn't know much about Warp Speed until i read about it on the comment section.
Enterprise1701>>JJ Enterprise1701
very Enterprise is just amazing ... when it comes to sci fi. the is soft sci fi and hard sci fi. star wars and star trek and star trek is hard AF. just awesome stuff. even tho its fiction its way more in line with whats possible. i love every star trek done. just love the stories. the tech the ships.
Thanks for sharing
I'm 54 and have been a devoted follower of all things Star Trek my whole life. Yet this is the first time I've seen what the interior of the original Enterprise looked like. Like a submarine, it must have been crowded on the main crew decks with lots of hot racking to accommodate a crew too large for everyone to have their own bed/rack. I'm quite upset that none of the Star Trek series addressed this. We only lived with the officers and never got a sense of how the rank and file lived.
Thank Richard. I'm going the a much more detail 3D model of the 1701 coming up since I wasn't using right schematic. Should be coming up in a few weeks.
The ncc 1701 was a great ship but fhe retrofit for the motion picture was always my favorite as her nacelles looked sleeker and the ship just had a better look to me... abrams version was ok... very organic, but i will always prefer the 70s retrofit more
Yeah I agree
I love the video cut away production; however, there are several inaccuracies. There’s a problem with the main engineering location, horizontal elevator shafts, as well as lack of corridors in the crew section, etc. No reference to the Transporter room, system, or emitters.
Yeah. He ended up using an unofficial blueprint made by fans instead of the real thing, which resulted in a number of mistakes in the video. For anyone reading, the official blueprint is called _"Booklet of General Plans: U.S.S. Constitution Class"_ and is officially published by Paramount.
I didn't have a proper schematic prior to creating the animation. I did the best I could with what was given.
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Understandable. There's so many fanmade versions that it's honestly hard to get real info sometimes.
@@Idazmi7 Those are the famous Franz Joseph blueprints, but - for as good as they are - they were still fan generated. There are many small items on his maps that don't match up to graphics and dialog on the show. Joseph also did the original Technical Manual in 1976 which had some VERY accurate uniform patterns and station schematics, but wildly inaccurate maps.
Joseph was sucked into Trek fandom because of his daughter's interest in the show and early cosplay, and "filled in the blanks" with his own - admittedly very good - ideas. He never really consulted with Paramount or Roddenberry or Matt Jefferies on his designs, but built on what he saw on the show, and in the Making of Star Trek.
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_"Those are the famous Franz Joseph blueprints, but - for as good as they are - they were still fan generated."_
Franz Joseph was not a Star Trek fan and never became one. He was a United States Navy Drafting Engineer hired by Roddenberry to create the definitive blueprints of the U.S.S. Enterprise for future reference, long after the show was cancelled. The Franz Joseph blueprints are canon, and were referenced during the creation of the Enterprise-D for TNG.
_"There are many small items on his maps that don't match up to graphics and dialog on the show."_
Of course there are: the show itself is an inconsistent mess made of plywood, acrylic paint, and Christmas tree lights. Which is *_why_* Roddenberry commissioned the blueprints in the first place: to deal with inconsistencies created by the show.
_"Joseph was sucked into Trek fandom because of his daughter's interest in the show and early cosplay (...) He never really consulted with Paramount or Roddenberry or Matt Jefferies on his designs, but built on what he saw on the show, and in the Making of Star Trek."_
Incorrect. Franz Joseph, by his own words, saw a group of fans in the 1970's creating poor "technical orders" of various Star Trek devices. After looking at the devices himself (and seeing how realistic they were), Joseph took it upon himself to contact Roddenberry to provide those technical orders, out of nothing more than educational interest.
Roddenberry gave him the go-ahead, along with *direct instructions* to ignore any contradiction necessary to create greater overall technical consistency and believability. Gene went on to personally sign all of Franz Joseph's work into canon under Paramount license.
After that, Franz Joseph simply and quietly moved on from Star Trek.
According to many different canon sources, WARP 10 means infinite speed, being at all places at all times, and is theoretically impossible.
It was changed from the original series, where Warp 10 was not infinite.
Constitution Refit will always be my favorite
not many people talk about star trek
good some more plz
When did they ever mention saucer detachment?
It was never shown in the shows but was mentioned on the 1701 schematic.