Favorite U.S.S. Enterprise starship design?

[Elder Knight]

I must have mentioned this before (sorry about that), but I really disklike the Enterprise-D.

I know there's no traditional gravity in space, but even so, it looks a lot more top-heavy than all the other Enterprises.

Someone took all the graceful lines and squashed them in the wrong direction. It looks as if it got foreshortened in a Bad Warp and never came out of it. Those pinprick windows somehow make it look like it was carved out of stone: The Fred Flintstone Starship.

Following the TOS Enterprise: the standard, it was a huge disappointment. Someone in charge must agree with me, as the "newer" Ent-C, Ent-B and Ent-E all look closer to the ideal and far better.

Blow it up, say I!

Oh, that's right: they did just that. Good show.

 

[Listener4]

1 A
2 D
3 E

 

[Arpy]

What I love about the TOS/TMP Enterprise is the verticality of the design. As time went by, it seems there was a felt need to increasingly squish the thing. The Enterprise E is basically the culmination of this trend.

I agree with you entirely. It's part of the Enterprise's mystique and sadly deficient in later, more run of the mill, designs.

 

[Warped9]

What I love about the TOS/TMP Enterprise is the verticality of the design. As time went by, it seems there was a felt need to increasingly squish the thing. The Enterprise E is basically the culmination of this trend.

Dead on! The TOS and TMP Enterprise designs really capture the spirit of "All I ask is a tall ship..."

 

[Galileo7]

What I love about the TOS/TMP Enterprise is the verticality of the design. As time went by, it seems there was a felt need to increasingly squish the thing. The Enterprise E is basically the culmination of this trend.

Dead on! The TOS and TMP Enterprise designs really capture the spirit of "All I ask is a tall ship..."

Absolutely, the TOS/TMP Enterprise plyons & nacelles design are symbolically like the masts & sails of a tall ship.

 

[Red Ranger]

For me, TMP refit, without any doubt.

Me, too. Second favorite: The E. Third: the original 1701, no bloody A, B, C, or D!

 

[C.E. Evans]

What I love about the TOS/TMP Enterprise is the verticality of the design. As time went by, it seems there was a felt need to increasingly squish the thing. The Enterprise E is basically the culmination of this trend.

I agree with you entirely. It's part of the Enterprise's mystique and sadly deficient in later, more run of the mill, designs.

I think the Enterprise-E is actually a bit taller than both the TOS Enterprise and the Enterprise-A. She only looks "squished" because her stardrive section is farther back and she's also much longer in comparison to her predecessors, IMO.

 

[Bry_Sinclair]

C

That is all,
Bry

 

[Admiral Buzzkill]

Probably the original television series design by Matt Jefferies.

I also like the TMP refit and the Ryan Church versions.

 

[YARN]

Probably the original television series design by Matt Jefferies.

I also like the TMP refit and the Ryan Church versions.

No love for your own designs?

 

[T'Girl]

I think the Enterprise-E is actually a bit taller than both the TOS Enterprise and the Enterprise-A. She only looks "squished"

Sovereigns are the "Jocks" of the Star Fleet, beefy with no necks.

 

[Arpy]

Tall is different from scale. The E-J is probably the tallest of the Enterprises but it's also probably the flattest.

This reminds me of arguments that the E-E is "bigger" than the E-D because it's longer, even though it's not as tall, wide, and has maybe half the displacement?

 

[Captain Rob]

For me, TMP refit, without any doubt.

Me, too. Second favorite: The E. Third: the original 1701, no bloody A, B, C, or D!

I second that. Give me the TMP Refit to cruise around on the weekends. And the TOS 1701 to keep pristine in my garage to show off. But when Monday comes and it's time to do the heavy missions and kick some ass; give me the 1701-E.

 

[tharpdevenport]

What I love about the TOS/TMP Enterprise is the verticality of the design. As time went by, it seems there was a felt need to increasingly squish the thing. The Enterprise E is basically the culmination of this trend.

I agree with you entirely. It's part of the Enterprise's mystique and sadly deficient in later, more run of the mill, designs.

I think the Enterprise-E is actually a bit taller than both the TOS Enterprise and the Enterprise-A. She only looks "squished" because her stardrive section is farther back and she's also much longer in comparison to her predecessors, IMO.

That's the thing about huge nerds -- the makers have catored to our needs and given us ship dimensions in technical manuals. I gave you:

1701 (TOS) height: 71.5m (actually decreasing a tad for Enterprise A)

1701-E height: 82.5m

 

[KJbushway]

For me, TMP refit, without any doubt.

Me, too. Second favorite: The E. Third: the original 1701, no bloody A, B, C, or D!

I second that. Give me the TMP Refit to cruise around on the weekends. And the TOS 1701 to keep pristine in my garage to show off. But when Monday comes and it's time to do the heavy missions and kick some ass; give me the 1701-E.

Same here, its like the antique car and your truck. ones to show off, ones to go to work.
I agree even though I still am not a large 1701-A. I guess the actaul original enterprise is my favorite. NX-01.

 

[Gojira]

Me, too. Second favorite: The E. Third: the original 1701, no bloody A, B, C, or D!

I second that. Give me the TMP Refit to cruise around on the weekends. And the TOS 1701 to keep pristine in my garage to show off. But when Monday comes and it's time to do the heavy missions and kick some ass; give me the 1701-E.

Same here, its like the antique car and your truck. ones to show off, ones to go to work.
I agree even though I still am not a large 1701-A. I guess the actaul original enterprise is my favorite. NX-01.

In the chronology of the Trek Universe the NX-01 may be the "original" Enterpise but in reality the Enterprise designed by Matt Jeffries from the 1966-1969 series is the original Enterprise.

 

[Gary7]

 

[I am Surak]

For me it is the NX-01 because it looks like a flying saucer from the 1950s. Just cool all the way around.

 

[YARN]

I agree with you entirely. It's part of the Enterprise's mystique and sadly deficient in later, more run of the mill, designs.

I think the Enterprise-E is actually a bit taller than both the TOS Enterprise and the Enterprise-A. She only looks "squished" because her stardrive section is farther back and she's also much longer in comparison to her predecessors, IMO.

That's the thing about huge nerds -- the makers have catored to our needs and given us ship dimensions in technical manuals. I gave you:

1701 (TOS) height: 71.5m (actually decreasing a tad for Enterprise A)

1701-E height: 82.5m

The 1701-E could be 500 meters high or 5,000 meters high, but so long as the rest of its dimensions increased it would still have the same relative proportions resulting in the squished "no-neck" look of the design.

That's the thing about relative proportions -- the specifications you cite are totally irrelevant to overall shape.

 

[Amasov]

NCC-1701 Refit.

She looked fantastic from every conceivable angle.

What I wouldn't give to see the drydock flyover on the big screen.