Don't knock the Enterprise-A!! She was one of the original 12! She was first commissioned as the Yorktown 1717!!

hay! yes absolutely...i am acting and reading it like a radio announcer rather than in an energetic way. The advantage of this show is that its 100% audio and not meant to be personality driven plus i am just reading the script, not also having to look at a webcam in between sentences to ensure it looks as if i am engaged. I can be a lot more focused on this rather than the main show where i also have to be a "presenter" and "personality" Glad you are enjoying them!

Thanks for the response, and since I have your attention, let me just say that I am dying for Fleetyards or Spacedock to do a rundown on the SDF-1, or any Zentraedi battleship from the classic anime series, Robotech/Macross. 'Nuff said ;)

OH HERE YA GO! Robotech/Macross ship size comparison chart yomerome.deviantart.com/art/Star-Ship-Comparison-63562634

They take a long time to make and with a separate 3rd perosn that does the LCARS graphics, he is not as far as we can be in house. OH and because we haven't increased out patreon support...no one is donating more to our channel really...so we cant fund new shows. We may set a goal at $1250 a month ($250 more than we have now) and be able to make them :) lots of great ships to look at! Support us on Patreon to see more!

we dont have 3D models of those interior spaces, these videos are exclusively a short bite sized yet very detailed look at these ships. Short being the operative word as opposed to our other main long form content. When we get to the detailed connie episode it will have all those details and likely be over 1hr long.

Yes, and yes.

Its a tricky to find the exact center point of this ship for the rotations...i got close but yes it is still a little off :)

They're orthographic renders, so objects do not appear larger or smaller depending on their distance.

orthographic perspective does not have a vanishing point (think an old school RTS type game)

Are you talking about the running lights on the rear top portion of the secondary hull? It looks like they are visible through the warp nacelle support struts as the model spins. Just curious what sort of setting it is in whatever program Samuel is using for the 3D modeling he does. I hope he won't think that I'm giving him a hard time about the render. I am just simply curious. I really am envious of his renders and animations. Overall, they look awesome! :) I really need to learn how to do 3D modeling. Seems like I recall Sam saying that he used Lightwave? I'm probably wrong, so don't quote me on that one! ;) :P But, I have dabbled a bit with it. Nothing of consequence or any real significance, though. :/

lol...enjoying these starfleets, too.

biostemm I believe the enterprise A as one from scratch acording to some sources.

@@johnstibby I always thought Enterprise A was from scratch but I've heard recently that it was the Yorktown refit. That doesn't make sense to me personally but it might be canon now. I remember in the FASA game the refit class was called Constitution II class, and definitely some were built from scratch. Pretty sure Enterprise A was a new ship in that game at least. I think everything in that game was considered canon at one point too. Seems like Star Trek is a multiverse now so maybe both are true lol

This is where Franz Joseph's registry numbers should have been used. Considering that the producers just rearranged the digits for the _Constellation_ (1017 is an anagram of 1701), they could have went with 1710 instead (thus keeping the registry line consistent).

Yeah, they're "there", but not visible. The Defiant was firing torpedoes from the sensor dome in "In a Mirror". The shot were it destroyed the Avenger looked terrible.

and i thought i was lonely

we hoped to do many of the big ships for the 50th but the Galaxy took a LONG time to produce and made it tricky to produce all of the other shows...plus 2 work trips aboard...new guests...and Fleetyards...time just got away from us :)

Its Nemesis as they returned to the blues of ST6.

Ok thanks!

Yes but in comparison the brand new Gerald Ford carriers have less than the crew of the Nimitz class. A fully-staffed Ford-class carrier has a crew of about 800 or so less staff than a Nimitz. That's nearly 20% less crew in the span of about 40 years. Just remember that an extensive array of common, menial tasks aboard a starship are automated. Things like food preparation, cleaning, basic repairs, and day-to-day operational tasks are largely automated and handled by various computer and ship systems, eliminating the need for a large service staff which would otherwise be idle most of the day.

yea you got the point here

Plus 2,480 of the roughly 5,000 crew members of a Nimitz class carrier are part of the ship's air wing. A better comparison would be to the old Iowa class battleships which had a crew of 2,700 when first commissioned in the 1940s, but by the 1980s the standard crew was 1,800.

Well a good bit of the Constituion class starship's length is the warp nacelles. The actual inhabitable area is not that sizeable. Also an aircraft carrier exists within the Earth's atmosphere so there is no worry about oxygen supply and they can resupply with food, water etc relatively easily. Life support and supplies on a starship designed for deep space missions can handle far fewer crew.

Other responses are on point, but also: naval ships don't go on 5 year deployments, either. That calls for more attention paid to crew comfort than is needed for a 6 month stint.

Originally 23 (remember the tall bridge module in the 2 pilots).

This is the USS Defiant model from into a mirror darkley...so...its been though the ringers a bit...hence more weathering. It is also an updated version of the Connie design since she has slight azteching and aft weapons.

Going to the Smithsonian next week to see the big E and take lots of photos. Have a bunch of detail shots from 1979 but she was hanging from the ceiling. And my camera at the time was a POS. The upper saucer has lots of painting detail I intend to match. Thanks again guys 🖖

Charles Byington most of the TOS footage was either washed out for lighting or fuzzy from pans and zooms. The remastered looks sweet but not studio accurate. I'll let you know. I'm less then 1 hr drive to D.C. so I'll have time to explore details.

@Linda and Brian Kruse: Was just at the Smithsonian to see the E, and the model currently has no upper detailing on it. It's a flat green-grey paint. You can see some of my shots here: www.flickr.com/photos/101262365@N08/30938742130/in/datetaken-public/ I'm liking the detail on the remastered CG model though. The slight aztecing looks nice.

Dot Matrix ooookaaaay!

Plus the USS Intrepid to the space amoeba in "The Immunity Syndrome"

FLAME4564 the TOS defiant disappeared in a parallel dimension in the "tholian web" with their crew massacred maybe this isn't destroyed but it's definitely gone

Flathead Gg244 the tos defiant cross over to the mirror universe in the 22nd century.

The _Defiant's_ crew weren't massacred. The crew killed each other due to the effects of interphasic space on their brains.

we will cover it!

replace warp core to sliptime engine, that's would up to warp 14.

Nevermind. Looked it up and it made me angry. Might as well say "pre bad writing scale".

Huh? The TNG makes sense as well, as depicted in the TNG technical manual -- the warp factors being power thresholds.

According to Memory Alpha the official "new warp scale" is defined in the Voyager series, where warp 10 is infinite speed that turns you into a salamander because reasons. Terrible lazy dumb writing.

The lizard thing has nothing to do with the scale...

That's not what Memory Alpha says. Anyway the lizard thing is the terrible writing. The lazy dumb writing is to say the scale of speed goes from an insignificant amount (on the cosmic scale) to infinite at ten. It's both dumb and lazy both on the level of basic logic and basic story structure.

we are English and Canadian respectably...we say some things differently ^.^ and since English was invented by the English..maybe i say it right ;)

In STV it mentions N C C - One Seven Zero One Alpha

Borg said in "BOBW": U.S.S. Enterprise, NCC- one, seven, zero, one, D."

It's confusing, but then Scottie says the engines are at Warp 14 and my head explodes.