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Size Of The New Enterprise (large images)

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I wonder if that's why the Robot was always running out of power at the most inopportune moments...?

That's what you get for switching the batteries between the robot's main battery compartment and it's extended tool battery compartment; sometimes, you forget to put the batteries back to where they were.
 
Ok, so we have a pretty clear picture of a shuttle craft as compared to the height of the outer edge of the saucer. So if we give the shuttle a height of 1 shuttle unit, that makes the saucer roughly 10.5 shuttle units in height:
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Assuming that the suttle is just under the height of a deck, that means the saucer has around 25 decks from bridge to bottom. This is a very large ship.

And if we then take the height of the saucer and compare it to the length of the ship we see that the ship is roughly 424 shuttle units.
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So from there all you need to do is decide on the height of the shuttle. That works out to be:
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Seems that a shuttle should be about 8 feet hi or 2.4 meters. That places the enterprise at approx 1000 meters. And when we see the shuttles in the bay, it makes pretty good sense.

http://i628.photobucket.com/albums/uu7/jm_drums/shuttlesinbar.jpg

[Large image converted to link to reduce horizontal stretching. - M']

Whether or not this movie has scaling issues, based on shuttle craft size, this ship is giant. Well over 700 meters.
 
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another thing I was curious about after seeing the movie again:

When Enterprise warps in the debris field at Vulcan, it dodges the partial saucer section of another ship. The scale of that saucer section looks to be even larger than that of the Enterprise.

Anyone else notice that? If so, which ship was that supposed to be, and how damned big should that be in JJ scale-verse?

http://www.scottandtemphotography.com/enterprise-huge-saucer.jpg


[Huge image converted to link to reduce horizontal stretching. - M']
 
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another thing I was curious about after seeing the movie again:

When Enterprise warps in the debris field at Vulcan, it dodges the partial saucer section of another ship. The scale of that saucer section looks to be even larger than that of the Enterprise.

Anyone else notice that? If so, which ship was that supposed to be, and how damned big should that be in JJ scale-verse?

http://www.scottandtemphotography.com/enterprise-huge-saucer.jpg

[Huge image converted to link to reduce horizontal stretching. - M']

The hull plating on that saucer lends itself to a Kevlin class ship. If that's the case/intention, then in this brief shot the Enterprise is back down to ILM's original 366m (1,200ft).
 
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another thing I was curious about after seeing the movie again:

When Enterprise warps in the debris field at Vulcan, it dodges the partial saucer section of another ship. The scale of that saucer section looks to be even larger than that of the Enterprise.

It's not. When you see the same saucer in the wide shot it's the same size as Enterprise's saucer. You need to take into account the fact that the Enterprise is turned slightly on an angle approaching the other ship, so not only is its entire saucer not even visible (for an accurate comparison) but the lateral dimension is smaller because of the roll angle.
 
I assumed the saucer was from one of those four-nacelled behemoths from the departure scene. Either that or part of a starbase that used to orbit Vulcan.

Also, anyone else notice the body floating in the top right of the picture in front of the sun? Not the kind of detail we usually see in Trek.
 
If that was/is a Kelvin class ship - then the Enterprise is significantly smaller in this particular shot.

There are no Kelvin-class ships in the fleet scene before this. They are all almost certainly much larger designs.
Are you sure? All their components seem to be similar or identical to those of the Kelvin, suggesting that they are from the same era and design.

This movie has MAJOR scaling issues when it comes to the size of its starships.
 
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