How big was the Enterprise?

[TIN_MAN]

I vaguely recall reading that it was 150% of the 947 foot length, which would be 1420.5.

Amusingly enough, I believe even at that size the original shuttle hangar model (as first seen in "Galileo 7") is still too big to fit, if I recall correctly, it needs to be closer to 1600 feet to accommodate that model.

With that kind of scale, we could almost justify the 20-deck saucer from the early TOS eps, based in-turn on an early rev of the writer's guide.

 

[Mytran]

I vaguely recall reading that it was 150% of the 947 foot length, which would be 1420.5.

Amusingly enough, I believe even at that size the original shuttle hangar model (as first seen in "Galileo 7") is still too big to fit, if I recall correctly, it needs to be closer to 1600 feet to accommodate that model.

The original flight deck model was built 122' long, to scale with a shuttlecraft of 21' in length.
If Drexler's cutaway shows a ship of 1,420' then the flight deck and shuttles would be consistent with this figure. The people are around 6' in height too.

 

[knightgrace]

The original flight deck model was 122 feet long??????

Computer model or physical???

 

[Forbin]

The original flight deck model was 122 feet long??????

Computer model or physical???

Dude, it was 1966, what do you think?
And he means to scale, not actual.

 

[blssdwlf]

I vaguely recall reading that it was 150% of the 947 foot length, which would be 1420.5.

Amusingly enough, I believe even at that size the original shuttle hangar model (as first seen in "Galileo 7") is still too big to fit, if I recall correctly, it needs to be closer to 1600 feet to accommodate that model.

Nah. The original shuttle flight deck as seen in "The Galileo Seven" will fit with the alcoves shaved off in a 947' ship. In a 1080' ship it will fit with no problems.

But if you scale the shuttle up...

 

[publiusr]

I vaguely recall reading that it was 150% of the 947 foot length, which would be 1420.5.

Amusingly enough, I believe even at that size the original shuttle hangar model (as first seen in "Galileo 7") is still too big to fit, if I recall correctly, it needs to be closer to 1600 feet to accommodate that model.

Then the TAS should be about ISD size?

 

[Henoch]

Nah. The original shuttle flight deck as seen in "The Galileo Seven" will fit with the alcoves shaved off in a 947' ship. In a 1080' ship it will fit with no problems.

But if you scale the shuttle up...

I have several different WIP Enterprise sizes; for a 947' ship I use the 3/4 ratio rule on the hangar model, so the hangar's new dimensions are 122'x3/4 = 91.5' length, etc. The hangar door size fits fairly nice at this scale. I always insert a 24' shuttlecraft per Kirk's dialog in The Galileo Seven. (Note my curved corridors. )


For a ship to fit the 122' length hangar model and also fitting it to the hangar doors again, I found a up-scaled ship size using the 4/3 ratio rule which is 947'x4/3 =1263' which works quite well. YMMV