What Enterprise Do You Prefer? NuENterprise NCC 1701 or TOS NCC 1701

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At first i didn't like the design of the NX 01 but it grew on me.

 

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Refit, Abrams, E, TOS, D, B, NX, C.

 

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The original Enterprise.
Abrams Enterprise.
TNG Enterprise.
The Search for Spock Excelsior.

 

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I like the way the Excelsior's deflector looks like it's glaring at you. Also, it's blue. The hull.

 

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I like the NX01 too the Akiraprise...

Can you climb into the nacelles on any of the other versions?

 

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There was an entire TNG episode based upon the nacelle interior - "Eye of the Beholder," the only instance in any Star Trek TV series or film where the inside of a starship's warp nacelle is depicted. (wiki)

 

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Wrong. See:

"One of Our Planets Is Missing" - TAS
"The Catwalk" - ENT

 

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The Catwalk is the episode I was thinking of, I just wondered if any of the other ships had crew access to the nacelle interior..

Didn't the refit Enterprise A have a docking port on the bottom of the nacelles? I have an AMT kit and it shows a round docking port just where the engine meets the pylon

 

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I don't recall seeing the nacelle's interior in "Catwalk" - only an adjoining chamber. I'll have to take a look at "One of Our Planets Is Missing" - I don't remember it at all, and I don't include anything animated in my head canon just as I exclude comics from my reality.

 

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Looks like your headcanon is...


...not fully loaded!

 

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@JWPlatt, the ENT episode did indeed feature the interior of the nacelle itself.

The adjoining chamber you were referring to, was the control room which Archer turned into a makeshift bridge/helm station.

 

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Why would a nacelle need a control room anyway? Wouldn't it be super hot in there when it's turned on?

 

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Here are screenshots, and here's the dialog from "One of Our Planets Is Missing" that confirms that they are indeed inside one of the nacelles:

This design clearly influenced Geoffrey Mandel's schematic of the nacelle from 1978, that's included as a bonus sheet in the LCARS Blueprint Database entry of the Franz Joseph plans.

 

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In the actual nacelle, yes. But the room in question was sealed off. That's why Archer used it as a bridge/helm.

 

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Actually they had to power down the warp drive and let Enterprise drift on through the anomaly.

The nacelles were still cooling when they went in and people complained about the heat at first, until it dissipated.

The catwalk was only meant for maintenance when the ship was at a starbase, if the engine were under normal operation they'd have been incinerated in seconds.

The little control room was likely no more protected either, meant for shore based coordination of the worker crews.

 

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And yet if that control room had the same heat inside why didn't all the equipment like the screens and stuff melt?

 

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^^^ Ah OK my bad..

I had thought that equipment was part of a nacelle control room ..But that probably could have been done from Engineering under normal conditions..

 

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Yeah I remember them having to haul a lot of monitors and cables in there, opening all the wall panels and jerry-rigging everything into the cables running behind the bulkheads that would have been sealed and heat protected otherwise.

Wasn't there a mockup joystick for flying the ship too at one point?

Interesting episode, dumb ideas at times. Pity they rehashed the near extact same idea in the first Federation novel post-Romulan War.