Enterprise D size.
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Eeeew a grotto. Hate to think what goes on in there
The Enterprise D also has fluid tubes that house dolphins as part of the navigation system. Go look it's there. Voyager I think also has those. There was a scene in Voyager where Harry was playing a musical instrument and something was said about fluid tubes. They also had an Ensign Baysart which was an easter egg to Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea.
I wonder, are there any pics of Enterprise-D next to some things we know, something large, for example it would be interesting to see Ent-D next to statue of liberty or something like that.
I wonder, are there any pics of Enterprise-D next to some things we know, something large, for example it would be interesting to see Ent-D next to statue of liberty or something like that.
I agree. Would love to see how tall that is alongside say the Chrysler Building or the Empire State Building.
Yea, it's huge.
So in the episode Lower Decks, they have the Ensigns sharing quarters.
I HATE that!!!
Whipped this together with a random diagram of buildings i found Googling:
How would she fair side by side with those? 42 decks really isn't that tall though is it?
I guess.... The tallest building around here where I live is 22 floors
That is certainly true. The saucer could hold a few parks and malls.
As for getting lost, compare with the early NCIS story set on a US aircraft carrier where Kate keeps getting lost - the E-D is many times that size, albeit as others have said it has much more open spaces.
It's small compared to human ships in SW, SG, B5, BSG, and others. Including Star Trek.
I love how spacious it is though. I also wish we could see more of its open spaces. Heck, the corridors we saw were always a reuse of the same set, but arcs of some corridors should have stretched way broader.
You couldn't really get lost though, as 1) the ship would verbally tell you where you are, 2) light up a panel to show you a schematic where you are, then light up your way to wherever you want to get, and 3) I thought I remembered an episode where Chakotay or Riker or someone looked at an intersection to read where exactly they were, so it may be written on the walls somewhere too.
I love how spacious it is though. I also wish we could see more of its open spaces. Heck, the corridors we saw were always a reuse of the same set, but arcs of some corridors should have stretched way broader.
You couldn't really get lost though, as 1) the ship would verbally tell you where you are, 2) light up a panel to show you a schematic where you are, then light up your way to wherever you want to get, and 3) I thought I remembered an episode where Chakotay or Riker or someone looked at an intersection to read where exactly they were, so it may be written on the walls somewhere too.
Have you ever been to one of those really huge Las Vegas hotels? There are endless identical hallways. I hope the D isn't like that on the inside(fictionally speaking, of course)
Whipped this together with a random diagram of buildings i found Googling:
One of the problems with these size comparisons, although you can't see it in this example, when you look at the bridge area it ends up looking much larger than depicted on the show.
...But it isn't, not really - the sets are in agreement with the miniature, at least for E-D and Voyager.
The bridges of the TOS and TOS movie Enterprises would actually have felt more at home in ships slightly bigger than the suggested 300 m or so. And the E-E bridge has some side rooms that just plain cannot fit inside the dome shown on the outside, although in this case even making the E-E five times bigger wouldn't help appreciably!
Timo Saloniemi
The bridges of the TOS and TOS movie Enterprises would actually have felt more at home in ships slightly bigger than the suggested 300 m or so. And the E-E bridge has some side rooms that just plain cannot fit inside the dome shown on the outside, although in this case even making the E-E five times bigger wouldn't help appreciably!
Timo Saloniemi
Yep especially in Nemesis where there's this seemingly bottomless cavern where the Reman fall into. Where exactly was that in the ship anyway?
Except for the window in Picard's ready room, which isn't on the model.
And Ten Forward, which is much bigger on the inside than it should be.
And Voyager's bigger-on-the-inside shuttlebay.
Easily my lest-favorite thing about the JJ-verse reboot is the needless and illogical re-scaling of the Enterprise. If you take what they say the size of it is, they've basically made it the size of the Enterprise-D, while keeping the basic same design and proportions as the original Enterprise. It's really annoying for a lot of reasons that have surely been discussed to death already, and it's one of the only major things that keeps me from embracing the reboot. That's not even to mention the ridiculous "Vengeance" in Into Darkness.
Apologies if this is off-topic, but I thought it was relevant since we were talking about how large the Enterprise-D is...
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