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When was 947 feet established?

Incidentally -- viz. Shaw's "without seeing your work, why should I respect your talking big?" dig (a brutal paraphrase, and, as I said, QUITE deserved) -- I invite y'all to turn to my 3 "a tale of Khan" posts in Fan Fiction. I'm unseemly proud both of the story (split for post length limit strictures) and the "Trek heresies" set forth within. And welcome comments...here OR there.

IMHO, the decade-long fan fiction anthology series erred in buying not a one of my stories (though they did pay me the compliment of having me resubmit the next-to-last one...which this isn't). But for that, I'd be a Big Time Trek Author by now. Damnit.
 
trekkist said:
Something I've thought MANY times over the years is that an anthology of fan tech writings/art -- published without approval, under the branch of copyright allowing for "editorial" works -- would sell like gangbusters. I mean, Aridas "got away with" the Ships of the Starfleet, right? And I assume, made at least a modest profit?
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I've got literally gigs of material, just on my own, that I've thought about doing as a lulu.com-issued book. Thing is, I'm not really sure how well it would go over. A lot of us with the same interest seem to grate on one-another pretty harshly at times (and not always about Trek), and I think I'm still on Shaw and Aridas's shit list... I'm not sure.

I actually think the issue these days wouldn't be Paramount or CBS (Certainly there have been a number of unauthorized Trek books over the years), but simply getting someone's vision to be the one 'in charge' for each product... and then have that product compete with the same type of material that's pretty much free on the internet? Tall order.
 
The problem with the "canon, on-screen" schematic with scale bar is that the Enterprise works out to about 970 feet, not 947 feet.
 
SonicRanger said:
The problem with the "canon, on-screen" schematic with scale bar is that the Enterprise works out to about 970 feet, not 947 feet.
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Chalk it up to pixel error from a slightly off screen and call it 'done'. :) But that's really one of those issues that I was mentioning. If I were, for instance, in 'charge' of a 'Jaynz Guide to the Enterprise", she would be 947' and 190,000MT DW just because that's somewhat realistic for what we see and the numbers are well established. It's a good starting point.

And then SOME people will think I just strangled their puppy for it.
 
We can't even agree on which way the bridge faces or where the antimatter is stored, so the prospects of anything of any use coming out of such a project are slim and none.
 
Vance said:
And, at this point in the thread, the only woman to post...

There's meaning in that somewhere.
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Possibly. The only reason I read the thread was because I have to read every thread in here. :lol:
 
trekkist said:
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there remains the hangar deck set, into which we twice peer:

1)"Journey to Babel" -- eight redshirts stand side-by-side, seemingly two to three feet apart, as an honor guard leading to the shuttle. The first appears to be about 3 feet from the yellow stripe marking (I think) the edge of the bay wall inset cutout. The last appears to stand about 3 feet from the shuttle itself. Two foot wide people with a yard separation yields 43 feet to the shuttle, which sits midline in the bay. Is this arrangement possible in a bay fit for a 947' ship?
2)"Immunity Syndrome" -- we see Spock take nine or ten steps toward the shuttle before the camera cuts to McCoy...at which point Spock appears about halfway to the shuttle. My stride is nearly a yard, and I'm 5 ft. seven. Allowing for error, the distance Spock covers seems about the same as that the honor guard occupies.


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I have seen it suggested (an it adds up for me anyhow) that both of these shots represent a Hangar Deck below the actual Flight Deck and we're looking at a longer space from the door to that area with the crew lined up/walking towards the aft of the ship. The shuttle used the elevator to get up or down to/from the Flight Deck between camera cuts. This allows the Flight Deck (or Shuttlebay if you prefer) to be narrower than it'd have to be assuming that the shuttle was parked there and the distance we see is from the side of the Flight Deck looking across the space laterally.

Your mileage may vary, of course.

--Alex
 
^That makes the most sense to me, since the far wall in both shots is featureless, which the flight deck walls are not.
 
scotpens said:
antiquityscion said:
This is probably about what the scale is, going by the aforementioned books comparing the Midway to the Enterprise.

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Of course, you’re comparing the aircraft carrier to the TMP Refit/Enterprise-A, which is exactly 1000 feet long. According to canon, that is.
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Whatever. I don't know how big to the foot the Enterprise is. All I am saying is that is how I think the Enterprise would roughly compare to an aircraft carrier, since we know how big those are.

The Midway in San Diego is 972 feet. If the Enterprise is supposed about a 1000 feet, then that is how it would compare

The display wall on the Enterprise-D also supports this:
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_%28CVN-65%29

The CVN65 Enterprise carrier is 1,123 ft (342 m) , so the scale looks pretty close to me.
 
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