An Enterprise Has Fallen ...

[fireproof78]

Well, someone needs to build a new Enterprise,

Yes, the US NAVY is, launching 2028.

 

[Vale]

The one in STTMP is CV-6.

Blimey, so it is. I stand corrected!

I found the original source image the TMP diorama picture was based on:

Also while looking into it i discovered that John Eaves created a CV-6 picture for Archer's ready room in Enterprise, which was ultimately never used:

 

[Danja]

Also while looking into it i discovered that John Eaves created a CV-6 picture for Archer's ready room in Enterprise, which was ultimately never used:

Wow

I LOVE it!

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

The one in STTMP is CV-6.

But the one in TVH is the Ranger, CV-61.

Interesting choice of namesake. Gerald Ford isn't considered an exceptional President, though I think that he made a necessary sacrifice in pardoning Nixon. It ruined his chances of election in his own right, but it ended an episode that would have disgraced the US completely.

I'm not so certain that the Nixon pardon was necessary, or even the right thing to do, but Ford undeniably meant well.

As it is, Gerald R. Ford was the last Republican President I would trust any further than I could throw a Ford-class aircraft carrier. The fact that he was under attack from both the far right and the far left was (and still is) "centrist cred" enough for at least this militant centrist. I supported his reelection campaign in 1976 and would have supported him in 1980, had he chosen to run.

 

[Vale]

But the one in TVH is the Ranger, CV-61.

I believe a combination of the Enterprise herself being unavailable and there being no way in hell they'd actually be able to film in the highly-classified guts of a nuclear-powered aircraft carrier at the height of the cold war ensured that alternate arrangements had to be made

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

I was actually surprised it wasn't the Hornet (CV-12), but then again, the Hornet wouldn't become a museum ship until over a decade later.

 

[J.T.B.]

I found the original source image the TMP diorama picture was based on:

Well done! That's an early pre-war photo, probably 1938, with light "standard navy gray" paint. It looks like F3Fs up front, TBDs abaft the island and I think some Northrop BTs aft.

But the one in TVH is the Ranger, CV-61.

The only carrier that kept the 5-inch gun sponsons forward, a dead giveaway.

As it is, Gerald R. Ford was the last Republican President I would trust any further than I could throw a Ford-class aircraft carrier. The fact that he was under attack from both the far right and the far left was (and still is) "centrist cred" enough for at least this militant centrist. I supported his reelection campaign in 1976 and would have supported him in 1980, had he chosen to run.

He was also a navy veteran who had been in combat on a carrier (USS Monterey).

I was actually surprised it wasn't the Hornet (CV-12), but then again, the Hornet wouldn't become a museum ship until over a decade later.

Not big enough to effectively sub for the Big E. A similar comparison: Essex CV-9, same class as Hornet, and Saratoga CV-60, same class as Ranger.

 

[dupersuper]

There will be more to carry on the legacy.

Plenty of letters left in the alphabet...

 

[Paul Weaver]

Enterprise-æ

 

[hbquikcomjamesl]

Enterprise-æ

Enterprise Þ
Enterprise Đ

But Limeball ∏

 

[J.T.B.]

And another Enterprise begins its rise:

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[Danja]

And another Enterprise begins its rise:

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Salute! o7