How big was the Enterprise?

[ZapBrannigan]

My point was the Franz Joseph plans depict how 430 people can comfortably function in that space. Plenty of room to work, sleep, eat, and recreate.

Yeah, and not only that, but some fan meticulously counted FJ's work stations onboard, and came up with something extremely close to one-third of 430, for three 8-hour shifts.

And I think FJ has 500 beds or so, which allows for stuff like "Journey to Babel." And I myself counted 14 science labs, which jibes with "Operation: Anihilate." And there's a Deck 6 Briefing Room, per "Return to Tomorrow." It's pretty great.

 

[Houston Trekker]

The Original Series Enterprise was approximately 1,000 feet in length with like 24 decks from the top of the primary saucer section to the Secondary Engineering Hull.

 

[HotRod]

The Original Series Enterprise was approximately 1,000 feet in length with like 24 decks from the top of the primary saucer section to the Secondary Engineering Hull.

Was it though?

 

[Tallguy]

There are good reasons it is and good reasons it might not be. It's certainly not twice that.

 

[Houston Trekker]

Was it though?

Original Series Enterprise was 947 feet in length (still an approximate number oddly enough) according to multiple sources from the web.

 

[Tallguy]

Original Series Enterprise was 947 feet in length (still an approximate number oddly enough) according to multiple sources from the web.

Forget the web. That used to be the official number. In these more enlightened times there are many who don't believe a word of it. Just cuz, apparently.

The closest that number ever came to appearing on screen was the comparison chart between the Klingon and the Enterprise in The Enterprise Incident.

 

[HotRod]

Original Series Enterprise was 947 feet in length (still an approximate number oddly enough) according to multiple sources from the web.

The old 289m length may have been the most common number thrown around, but its status as canonical is somewhat in question. Strange New Worlds presents us with the larger size of 442m, a size that works much better with what we've seen presented on screen.

 

[Tallguy]

Just looking at the shuttle deck alone in SNW it's clearly a MUCH bigger ship. So either the 442m is a better fit for SNW (I rather suspect it isn't) and the TOS numbers are fine (close enough) or the 442m is finally a realistic number for the TOS ship and the SNW ship is actually much bigger than that.

 

[Henoch]

The Original Series Enterprise was approximately 1,000 feet in length with like 24 decks from the top of the primary saucer section to the Secondary Engineering Hull.

Original Series Enterprise was 947 feet in length (still an approximate number oddly enough) according to multiple sources from the web.

True-ish. The most "official" length is ~947 feet with 11 decks in the saucer and ~23 decks overall, but exactly which external shape is official? Is it the 33 inch filming model, the 11 foot filming model, the Matt Jefferies sketch, or some sort of mishmash design of our own making? What is a "deck" in dimensions and design; how thick are the hull and deck spacings? How important are fitting the internal stage sets as seen on-screen into it? We don't even know where main engineering is located?

IMHO, no posted Enterprise Deck Plans live up to my expectations. These are some of the best thread topics on this site!

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

For what it's worth, I scaled a model of the TMP Enterprise to match a screencap of the Rec Deck and it came out to be about 450 metres long.

Here's my TOS Enterprise scaled to 442m overlaid onto Dennis Bailey's model of the TMP Enterprise scaled to 450m.

It's not a huge shock that if you scale up both ships to around the same size they'd match pretty well, but it makes me happy when the numbers seem to make sense.

And a bonus shot of how the bridge would look in a 442 metre Enterprise. (I'm sorry I never got around to modelling the chairs, or the consoles, or much of anything.)