Enterprise Bible

[allstar77]

I assume the show had one. Did it ever make it to the internet? I have TOS and TNG. Just curious.

 

[allstar77]

Bueller?

 

[Avro Arrow]

There apparently was one, as per this thread.

Note that the site referenced near the end of the thread doesn't appear to exist anymore, and the Wayback Machine doesn't seem to have captured it at the appropriate time.

Google turned up this thread on another site that transcribes parts of the bible. I have no idea what percentage of the bible the transcriptions cover, because I've never seen it myself.

 

[Green Shirt]

Bueller?

He's not here. He's outside enjoying life.

 

[Hopeful Romantic]

Google turned up this thread on another site that transcribes parts of the bible. I have no idea what percentage of the bible the transcriptions cover, because I've never seen it myself.

Those transcriptions match the sum total of the bible that I have seen. It's only 12 pages long.

 

[Skywalker]

It's a shame that we can't scrounge up the full bible. It'd be interesting to see everything the producers had conceived of that either changed or didn't make it at all. I would have loved to see Mayweather going to bed in his cocoon-like hammock in zero-g, for example.

 

[Christopher]

Fascinating. Thanks for the link, Avro.

 

[SPCTRE]

Fascinating. Thanks for the link, Avro.

Indeed.

JAW, T'Pau and Spike in da house!

Because "bio-filters" haven't been invented yet, the ship will have a DECON CHAMBER. Under the low, ultraviolet light of this cramped room, the crew will review the mission, wind down, and get closer to one another -- literally.

Oh, BERBRAGA, you knuckleheads.

Because he knows his Captain's Logs will be studied for years to come, he keeps especially detailed reports. The logs themselves will be both personal and humorous.

 

[F. King Daniel]

futuristic design by today's standards, with shadings of starships to come. Make no mistake: this Enterprise is state-of-the-art, with all the technology and trimmings we've come to expect from Starfleet engineering.

So from the very start they planned "all the technology and trimmings" from other Trek series.

Also of interest is that Starfleet is less than 20 years old by 2151.

 

[allstar77]

Thanks! I loved reading this and comparing/contrasting. Made a great read. Thanks again!

 

[Christopher]

futuristic design by today's standards, with shadings of starships to come. Make no mistake: this Enterprise is state-of-the-art, with all the technology and trimmings we've come to expect from Starfleet engineering.

So from the very start they planned "all the technology and trimmings" from other Trek series.

No, that doesn't mean those specific trimmings like Okudagrams, it just means a generally state-of-the-art look, rather than some misguided effort to make it look like 1940s technology or something. As it says at the start, futuristic by today's standards, just as TOS was futuristic by the standards of its own day.

I've said it before: Roddenberry would've been the first to want to update TOS's look given the chance, and he did exactly that in Phase II/TMP. He wanted it to look like something from the future, not like something from the 1960s. Any '60s-ish elements were there out of necessity due to the limitations of the show's budget and technology. So fans who insist that 23rd-century technology has to look exactly as it did in TOS, or that 22nd-century tech has to look even more retro, are profoundly missing the point. The producers of ENT were absolutely in the right to make it look modern by today's standards, and Roddenberry would've been the first to agree with that.

 

[F. King Daniel]

futuristic design by today's standards, with shadings of starships to come. Make no mistake: this Enterprise is state-of-the-art, with all the technology and trimmings we've come to expect from Starfleet engineering.

So from the very start they planned "all the technology and trimmings" from other Trek series.

No, that doesn't mean those specific trimmings like Okudagrams, it just means a generally state-of-the-art look, rather than some misguided effort to make it look like 1940s technology or something. As it says at the start, futuristic by today's standards, just as TOS was futuristic by the standards of its own day.

I've said it before: Roddenberry would've been the first to want to update TOS's look given the chance, and he did exactly that in Phase II/TMP. He wanted it to look like something from the future, not like something from the 1960s. Any '60s-ish elements were there out of necessity due to the limitations of the show's budget and technology. So fans who insist that 23rd-century technology has to look exactly as it did in TOS, or that 22nd-century tech has to look even more retro, are profoundly missing the point. The producers of ENT were absolutely in the right to make it look modern by today's standards, and Roddenberry would've been the first to agree with that.

You completely misunderstand. I'm not talking about how things look, but the inclusion of all the technologies from TOS, TNG and the rest - thus making Trek a technologically stagnant universe.

 

[Christopher]

You completely misunderstand. I'm not talking about how things look, but the inclusion of all the technologies from TOS, TNG and the rest - thus making Trek a technologically stagnant universe.

Then you're misreading the bible.

In fact, dilithium injectors and hand phasers are such recent innovations that they won't get their first trials until after the mission has begun.
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Weapons: laser cannons and spatial torpedoes.
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Although the galley is stocked with genuine foodstuffs, there is another option: a sort of proto-replicator called a PROTEIN RESQUENCER, affectionately known by the crew as the JAW ("Just Add Water"). JAW can produce a limited menu; it makes decent pasta, soup and simple beverages, but that's about it. For the most part, meals are prepared by the ship's galley crew, headed by a chef who was hand-picked by Captain Archer.
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There's also a TRANSPORTER SYSTEM, but it can only beam cargo and technology -- no bio-matter. (During the first Season of ENTERPRISE, we will see how the crew refines the Transporters to start beaming people. There will be those among the crew -- Captain Archer included -- who are quite wary of this new development.)
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Long range, subspace communications are only possible while the ship is at warp. As a result, our ability to contact Starfleet Command will be extremely limited.

The intent was for the technology to be even more backward than we ended up getting -- we weren't supposed to get transportation of a live subject until late in the first season, but the network insisted it be sooner. The "all the trimmings" line, as is clear from the context, is simply a statement that the ship would look futuristic and high-tech by today's standards rather than going for some retro aesthetic.