How big was the Enterprise?

[DSG2k]

I'll need to see documentation of this because the additional windows and the doubling in crew compliment in dialogue certainly imply the size wasn't increased until later.

Per Shaw, again, the crew doubling was likely a result of the already doubled ship being thought awfully empty. I'd say this is especially true if the carrier comparison pic had been made. (The same sort of mathematics would impact the Galaxy years later as the doubled length led to a doubled complement on a ship with over 27 times the volume.)

Matt Jefferies and the TOS Enterprise...

MJ designed the TOS E--established fact. But I have some question marks in the back of my mind for quite sometime. How much of the E did he design? I ask this only because we have never seen construction drawings of the 11 footer. We have seen numerous sketches and illustrations as MJ...

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[T'Bonz]

Did I really read this whole thread? I need professional help.

Tell me about it. I have to read it and I'm not interested in how big the ship is. Poor little old me.

 

[cooleddie74]

289 meters. 442. Doesn't matter really. Both the TOS and SNW versions are the same ship just a decade or less apart.

 

[fireproof78]

289 meters. 442. Doesn't matter really. Both the TOS and SNW versions are the same ship just a decade or less apart.

And size doesn't matter.

 

[UssGlenn]

Per Shaw, again, the crew doubling was likely a result of the already doubled ship being thought awfully empty. I'd say this is especially true if the carrier comparison pic had been made. (The same sort of mathematics would impact the Galaxy years later as the doubled length led to a doubled complement on a ship with over 27 times the volume.)

Matt Jefferies and the TOS Enterprise...

MJ designed the TOS E--established fact. But I have some question marks in the back of my mind for quite sometime. How much of the E did he design? I ask this only because we have never seen construction drawings of the 11 footer. We have seen numerous sketches and illustrations as MJ...

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ah, very interesting. I probably read that thread at the time but had forgotten in the ten years since.

 

[cooleddie74]

And I have no problem upscaling the B, C, D, E, F and G to make them proportionately larger than the 1701 and 1701-A. If the 1701-D is closer to 900 meters now, so be it. The TNG Enterprise looked absolutely enormous, anyways, and when the saucer section was on Veridian III in GEN it looked way bigger than a 642-meter-long vessel.

 

[knightgrace]

The 'real' question is; just how effective are PR rooms that Franz Joseph included in his General Plans, are in preventing the crew from bouncing off the walls?