Five Year Mission?

[blssdwlf]

Heh, or just build a (3d) model that can animate throught the configurations

 

[Forbin]

New tangent: How the hell does anyone get the idea that the spheres on the ends of the nacelles glow? 'CAUSE THEY DON'T!!

They're also not white, they're same color as the hull.

I know they're not lit, but are you sure they're the same color as the hull?!

 

[antiquityscion]

I always assumed "5 year mission" meant that Kirk himself was assigned to the Enterprise for 5 years, along with his hand-picked crew. Then at the end of the 5 years, the Enterprise returned to port, was overhauled, and given to another Captain and crew. That is basically what happened with Pike's crew, and Decker and Spock afterward, no?

I don't know about the Decker/Spock reference afterward, but the Pike reference is interesting. We know Spock served under Pike for 12 years, but we do not know if what capacity. It could be that Pike and Spock served on another space vessel for two years, and then Pike took command of the Enterprise for two five-year missions before turning command over to Kirk.

Spock never said that the 12 years were spent strictly aboard the Enterprise.

Well, didn't Decker captain the Enterprise before and during its refit, between TOS and TMP? I am not sure what amount of time elapsed supposedly during that time, but I would think at least 5 years. In real time it was 10 between TOS and TMP. And depending on the source, Kirk had a second 5 year mission, presumably right after his first?

Then wasn't Spock captain of the Enterprise, during its stint as a training vessel, between TMP and TWOK? That is about 3 years real time.

 

[Forbin]

Well, didn't Decker captain the Enterprise before and during its refit, between TOS and TMP? I am not sure what amount of time elapsed supposedly during that time, but I would think at least 5 years.

Supposedly, only about 2 1/2 years.

Then wasn't Spock captain of the Enterprise, during its stint as a training vessel, between TMP and TWOK? That is about 3 years real time.

Yes he was, and it was probably something like 10 years in-universe time.

 

[Captain Robert April]

The standard assumption is that after TMP, the Enterprise went out on two more five-year missions, then got reassigned as a training vessel, under Spock's command, so it's probably more like three or four years.