Nerds. 
How big was the Enterprise?
- Thread starter Admiral Jean-Luc Picard
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Nerds.
No need to change the 947' size based on realistic scales. Barely if the other hero ships would be appropriately scaled.
I think I asked before in the thread, but are the sets we see supposed to be taken 100% literally? The ship is meant to be bigger than the one stretch of corridor we saw over and over again, and because of the saucer curve it should curve differently depending on where you are. Scotty's engine room was forced-perspective. The sets were designed for massive TV cameras to access.
Everyone wants to change the ship to fit the sets, but only Franz Joseph Schnaubelt had the courage to change the sets to match his idealised version of the Enterprise.
Everyone wants to change the ship to fit the sets, but only Franz Joseph Schnaubelt had the courage to change the sets to match his idealised version of the Enterprise.
The more literal you take them, the more literal you can take the episodes and I love taking what I see seriously. Though yeah the curve can't be exactly what we're seeing unless the characters never leave the core of the saucer.
My point of view is, I build my understanding of the ship and the universe based on what we see on screen, and if anything contradicts that (like a character saying the wrong number of decks) then I disregard it as a mistake. The size of '947 feet' was shown on screen once in the tiniest of text about as visible as the jokes on the Enterprise-D MSD, so it feels better to me to find a better number rather than trying to squeeze everything in to make it match.
My point of view is, I build my understanding of the ship and the universe based on what we see on screen, and if anything contradicts that (like a character saying the wrong number of decks) then I disregard it as a mistake. The size of '947 feet' was shown on screen once in the tiniest of text about as visible as the jokes on the Enterprise-D MSD, so it feels better to me to find a better number rather than trying to squeeze everything in to make it match.
