How big was the Enterprise?

[knightgrace]

According to WHAT?!?

And the Galaxy class from Vonda's Wrath of Khan was from two years before TSFS pulled transwarp out of its butt.

According to the sound effects. This effects indicate a power build up time frame. Furthermore in particular the episode 'Tomorrow is Yesterday' plus the episode 'The Changeling' show that the warp engines can be destroyed energized, requiring time to energize.

In other words a hybrid power train.

This definitely shows that the matter/antimatter reactors don't put out a great deal of power. At least in terms of 'acceleration'* both sunlight and warp.

Keeping in mind that the reactors only have to sustain warp factor six.

This power train has been demonstrated numerous times in TOS.

In TMoST it mentioned that the Enterprise can only sustain deflector shields at optimum power for twenty hours.

 

[Forbin]

12 furlongs and 23 cubits

That's almost 8,000 feet, using the biblical cubit.

 

[XCV330]

That's almost 8,000 feet,

it would have made Tarantino's abandoned Trek film his ultimate triumph

 

[FredH]

It’s definitely spaceship-sized.

 

[fireproof78]

The Kelvin Enterprise never needed to be that big in the first place.

Nope but it still looks great

 

[DarrenTR1970]

What are your controversial opinions about how big the Enterprise is?

It's as big as the needs of the plot.

 

[Farscape One]

The kitbash of an Intrepid class ship and Maquis raider that is seen in the background of DS9 episodes (first appeared in "DOCTOR BASHIR, I PRESUME") looks better than the Kelvinverse Enterprise.

 

[XCV330]

The kitbash of an Intrepid class ship and Maquis raider that is seen in the background of DS9 episodes (first appeared in "DOCTOR BASHIR, I PRESUME") looks better than the Kelvinverse Enterprise.

in retrospect it now looks like what an AI would deliver if you asked them "make me a starship enterprise" and didn't give specific prompts.

 

[Nerys Myk]

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The true size of the Enterprise revealed

Not a lot of head room.

 

[cooleddie74]

The Frewer the better.

 

[HotRod]

The kitbash of an Intrepid class ship and Maquis raider that is seen in the background of DS9 episodes (first appeared in "DOCTOR BASHIR, I PRESUME") looks better than the Kelvinverse Enterprise.

Now, now, my friend. Let's not get nuts.

 

[HotRod]

The Frewer the better.

 

[cooleddie74]

Timely.

 

[Farscape One]

The Frewer the better.

"The higher... the Frewer."

Now, now, my friend. Let's not get nuts.

Oh, I'm dead serious. I can tolerate that kitbash far better.

 

[The Salt Umpire]

Kitbash two nacelles under the engineering hull for fun.

 

[CorporalCaptain]

Is this a hot spot in the Temporal Cold War?

 

[cooleddie74]

Based on the last twenty years of Star Trek, every era seems to have been a hot spot in the Temporal Cold War.

 

[F. King Daniel]

The kitbash of an Intrepid class ship and Maquis raider that is seen in the background of DS9 episodes (first appeared in "DOCTOR BASHIR, I PRESUME") looks better than the Kelvinverse Enterprise.

I think it looks really cool, but that's just me. The Beyond version is a little gangly though.

Trek's best looking ship of all is the Protostar. Not a single bad angle on it.

 

[Tango]

The Dreadnought does contradict the idea of the Constitution-class being the largest at least conceptually. During TOS the Dreadnought might not yet have existed. Some fifteen years later, after we have seen the introduction of new technology, the Dreadnought might never have been built and remained only a proposal, and what was seen in TWOK could have been a historical file. After all in TWOK era there exists the newly built Excelsior.

According to the Star Fleet Technical Manual, the first ships of the Dreadnought Class were “authorized by Star Fleet appropriation of Stardate 6066”, suggesting that the Constitution Class could have been the largest up until then.

The caveat here is there is some weirdness about the in-universe provenance of the SFTM and the Stardates therein...

 

[CorporalCaptain]

According to the Star Fleet Technical Manual, the first ships of the Dreadnought Class were “authorized by Star Fleet appropriation of Stardate 6066”, suggesting that the Constitution Class could have been the largest up until then.

The caveat here is there is some weirdness about the in-universe provenance of the SFTM and the Stardates therein...

The SFTM itself says in effect in its forewords that its contents might have been altered to protect the timeline.