It was the Enterprise A. Nothing was done right on that ship... ;) Just ask Scotty.

@@neophytealpha ..........He even shouted, on the Hangar Deck, "They don't build them like they used to...." Leading to the FACT that Enterprise-Alpha was an entirely NEW ship, right off the assembly line. That nonsense about the Yorktown/Ti-Ho was misinformation. Our blithering host here forgot that Starfleet and related defence groups used shared tech and it was all modular construction. The Bridges came as modules that could be swapped out relatively fast, primary and secondary hulls could have wildly varying internal layouts.

@@LoneBrowncoat Yet they contradict it in other things. Like when the Enterprise Refit is referred to as being over 20 years old, and not getting a refit, and being retired, not long after the refit, when it was supposedly not long after the 5 year mission that it was put in drydock to refit it to what we saw in the movie that made it basically new. So even in canon they can't agree how old the ships are, and if it was new why was it retired so soon after commissioning? It was PUBLISHED that it was the Yorktown. Never addressed in canon whether it was new or renamed but much newer than the original Enterprise. Nor did they say if it was a new build or refit. They kept changing sets because they kept destroying existing ones or redressing them for other ships, so that they kept having to redo it.

@@neophytealpha As they say - "if your nose runs and your feet smell, you're built upside down"

@@LoneBrowncoat I think the in-universe answer is that it was being built as a different ship, and was commissioned as Enterprise-A instead when the -1701-no-bloody-a went kaboom. The US Navy has done similar - started building a ship planning on it being one name, then renamed it immediately before commissioning. See, appropriately, the upcoming CVN-80. Ordered with no plan to be named Enterprise, it was declared to be the next Enterprise on the retirement of CVN-65 USS Enterprise.

Unquestionably the best. My favorite. Peak design. Most majestic of all.

@@Wonderboywonderings Yes. It's the only one that looks like it's moving and is nicely balanced.

Agreed.

I like the defiant,enterprise E and F and voyager but the refit of the A is the most iconic and is really nice

Its nacelles look like the Enterprise E lol

That's interesting but if you are warping space around you, the warp bubble you are in has nothing moving as the entire bubble moves so what would need to be deflected?

@Simr Khera Yup, and warp speeds are a real thing, as well.

Toilet warning reads " Do not use while in space dock". ( I guess crap and pee is vented out into space.)

except that the dish in the pre TNG era was not a deflector at all it is the main Sensor dish, the deflectors are the little nodules around the dish.

The deflector dish is also a navigation beam

Was going to say just this. The model gets duller as STII progresses, as they added battle damage in chronological order. It remained dull for the blue screens until the Universal display team *shudder* spraaayed it graaaaaay. :.(

I have the HUGE 1/350 Scale Enterprise... AND I have the Exact "Aztec Patterning" AND the Exact Paints needed to do the job! They actually used Several differently mixed "Pearlescent" White, Silver, White/Blue and White/Silver paints so that each panel set looked JUST a bit different! Otherwise even if they masked off each section... Once it was all clear coated it would have just all blended in and the effect would have been lost! I have the High Grade Lighting Effect Kit AND I the person I bought it from included a second set of Clear "Nacelle" inner Grills so that The Inner Ones can be cut out and CLEAR Ones inserted so that you can make BOTH SIDES of the Nacelles Glow! I will be doing the "Purple/Blue" combo as in "The Motion Picture" version! :D

@@j.s.connolly8579 cool. I have the same kit but haven’t got around to building it. Like most that build it. It will be the TMP paint job. I got the Orbital Drydock masks, Tenacontrols mega board, photo etched from HDA, paint guide from Trek Modeler. I’m just waiting for the time and a shop set to build it. I’m doing my nacelles in violet and impulse in amber. I’m painting the big registry number instead of decals. Same for the strong back.

Yep... that's the true story.

@@j.s.connolly8579 Published pictures anywhere?

Face it, ILM hated filming the re fit Enterprise.

Yes

In Star Trek I it was yes.

You talk about all the stuff we talked about in 5th grade like its new..interesting are u new Trek fans? If so awesome. If not, nice to highlight the quality of old Trek pre Alex Kurtzman dribble. Old trek made u think and was made by Craftsmen, new trek tells u what to think.

The Battlestar Galactica and the Battlestar Pegasus were really Sexy.

@@cjones3710 Jesus, shut the fick up.

That scene is on my dvd

I prefer the Whitestar from B5.

@@burstcity3832 I was thinking about ships within Star Trek specifically, but even still, I think this is probably my favourite ship from any science fiction franchise.

@@craigwilliams9279 In the Trek universe I think I'd agree.

@@burstcity3832 The BEST ship that is in science fiction is a ship you IMAGINE it

Yep, I have the Eaglemoss Yorktown on the shelf above my desk.

The USS Enterprise (CV6) aircraft carrier was a Yorktown class. Could be referencing that. Yorktown herself was CV5.

It can't be the Yorktown cuz in Star Trek four when the probe went by the ship was do it and makeshift solar sail was the Yorktown too short of a time to have that brought in and renamed has to be another ship

Renaming Navy ships was not that uncommon in WWII, and before. So the precedent had been long set.

Captain's Log.

new take on "leaving a floater"

The enterprise has two independant deflector system one for the navigational delectors that clears away micrometerorites and space debris. There is also the combat deflectors that are raised when they go into combat and you have that display on the bridge. The naviugational deflectors would need more power when the ship is at warp but very little when it is stationary. they can be turned off when at spacedock or a starbase.

The ship isn't actually moving at warp though, it's warping the space around it so wouldn't the debris be pushed around the ship along with the space it's moving with the warp field? I could see the deflector being needed for impulse speeds though.

I’m curious the Enterprise had that dish, but not other ships.

@@mindyschocolate the Reliant comes to mind.

no, the theory is a little confusing. the warp engines forms a bubble around the enterprise but the navigational shields are close to the ship. even micrometerorites residual damage is big. In the novels, an unshielded enterprise took micrometerorites

They did keep blowing bits of it up!

If the brig is indeed on the lowest deck, sure. However, most point out that the “matter” used by the replicators is taken from the... err... waste recycling plant. (The new Admiral on Discovery outright admitted to it!)

@@joermnyc Yes. That's why I think the sign is meant as a joke. Even today's astronauts don't throw their poop into space.

It could also be that it's hooked up and cleaned out under pressure and you shouldn't use it while it's being serviced?

@@joermnyc yeah but replicators aren't definitely a thing until TNG. Due to set redressing of the 1701-D, the 1701-A has some food slots in quarters that look a lot like replicators but they have an actual galley, so they're probably more like the traditional synthesiser food slots we see in TOS, Discovery, etc. We have no idea if food synthesisers can use poo as a building material. Then again in Enterprise, it was stated that poo was recycled into boots (when that Earth class of schoolkids sends a bunch of questions to the NX-01).

Direct flush line, you say? Fire torpedoes!

Not to sound like a dick, but there was a GN of Eden? Published by Marvel?

a better follow on novel to ST6 is "Best Destiny" by Diane Carey...Ashes of Eden would take place some time later

And it was Roddenberry's original choice for the ship's name, but for whatever reason, he changed his mind.

Bizarrely the reference in Scotty's guide saying it was the Taihou as this was also the name of a Japanese WW2 aircraft carrier as well.

The Stargazer is one weird ship. Did it get all those tumours by keeping its subspace 5G antennae too close to the hull? I strongly second this request, even if I just made my own about the Excelsior.

The stargazer!!! Ermmm nope

Nor sure there's enough information on either to do a top 10.

LETS GO WITH THE REVENGE OF THE USS OBELISK THAT IS IN THE 25th CENTURY! Its a warship which has physical displacement drive and a liutenant commander as its backup Uber power source. WARNING! Made by a space nerd.

Maybe next Tuesday

I'd like to see more of the VIP lounge.

Especially Enterprise-B...I have to call TrekCulture out on this one as he claims Enterprise-A has the shortest amount of screen-time. At two full movies, it's not even CLOSE to the least amount of screen time and it's obvious he's seen very little actual Trek if he thinks it is...😵 Enterprise-C only got ONE episode from TNG, "Yesterday's Enterprise" and yet even THAT is more screen-time than our much-beleagured by Tuesday vessel, the Enterprise-B, which only existed apparently to shoot Admiral Kirk into the temporal nexus as it only appeared in Star Trek Generations for pretty much JUST that scene...which also explained why Capt. Harriman and his crew have a strong dislike for a certain day of the week...😵😵😵😵🤣🤣🤣🤣 Yes, out of all of the ship's in which any actual focus has been given within Star Trek, it is our woe-begotten Enterprise NCC-1701-B which earns the actual spot for shortest screentime period-blank...

We'll have to circle back to that

@@christopheralthouse6378 I just watched Generations and thought that Enterprise-B looked an awful lot like the Excelsior!

Constellation in the doomsday machine, doubled as the Excalibur in the Ultimate computer

Ah, yes. The U.S.S. Constellation was a replica kit with a melted nacelle in "The Doomsday Device." The remaster of that episode was a great improvement in the look of the Constellation.

There was a model used to show the enterprise through s viewport on space station K7 in The Trouble With Tribbles (per David Gerrold).

According to the 3rd edition of the Encyclopedia and Memory Alpha/Beta it's an AMT/Ertl model, and non written sources say it was going to be NCC 1710 originally but for u known reasons was changed to 1017

That's why the Constellation was numbered 1017 instead of something that made more sense.

Thank you. I was going to mention this same thing. I looked at the comments to make sure I wasn't repeating someone. LOL. Turns out I would have been. :-)

I guess if you're gonna screw it up THAT badly, might as well go the whole way. :)

I guess for anyone that wasn't a Star Trek fan wouldn't have noticed that but the first time I seen the movie I was like "Huh?" Not only that but in the movie Spock mentions that they overshot the bridge by three levels. lol. Herman Zimmerman talks about that scene but never mentions why there were so many levels.

I put it down as a joke by people with nothing better to do and were doing the numbers for every meter and not deck.

some ships had numbers and some used letters

Plasma field? Wasn't it flown between two suns? Granted still not a place you want the ship to be....

@@fredcasdensworld yes technically it was a plasma bridge linking the two suns.

Yep. Right before Kirk left, he yanked the ship's plaque off the bridge

"Miri" and "Return of the Archons" also filmed exteriors on that location; and "the Cage" and "Errand of Mercy" filmed exteriors just up the lot, on the Arab Village set.

i have read this ..it was yorktown but was also brand new

Wasn’t Yorktown the one Admiral Cartwright asked personnel to contact? The one with the Indian captain who’s chief engineer was trying to rig a makeshift solar sail? Would that mean that that ship was lost and the ship that was the Enterprise was renamed twice?

@@Bartonovich52 It wouldn't have been that fast.

Not "assembly line". That is twentieth century manufacturing. Look at how Starfleet refitted the Starship Enterprise.

@@jennydavis4198 , I had heard it was the Republic.

Adam has been, and always will be, your presenter.

o.0

Don't forget the NX-01 which is in the fleet museum.

@Simr Khera I totally forgot lol In my defense it's been years since I really got into Trek. I totally forgot the one that went down in III was the original refit.

And if you think about it... The Nexus is where Kirk could never grow older.... then Picard came along

@@fredcasdensworld - yeaahhhhh....

Second star to the right.

Well he was told to indulge himself...

no, it was another ex-wife of Kirk

@Simr Khera Here's the thing non of the novels were considered canon

FLY HER APART THEN

I got to see the big 6' model a few years back, awesome model!!

Which is also the name of a Constitution sub class

No its not

@@ColonelMetus Not a Fun Fact?

It is, listing all subclasses (taken from various media released under licence) Original configuration: Mk1 - Constitution Mk2 - Bonhomme Richard Mk3 - Archernar Mk4 - Tikopai Refit (Mk1 through 4) Enteprise

I'll agree to the latter, not the former.

Spock knocks on the door. Kirk shouts, "Don't come in! I have to take a shat 'n 'er!"

@@patricktilton5377 : Amusingly, it is definitely documented that Shatner´s favorite expletive on set was indeed _sh*t!_

Does anyone have _any idea_ of the momentum of a turd going at trans-lightspeed velocities?! It makes the lethality of the _Deathstar_ look like a disposable Bic lighter. The potential disaster staggers the imagination. Because of this, it should be _only_ while ported at Spacedock that one can use the toilet. All other times the crew has to just hold it in, and wait for a rest planet. _Why didn´t you go while we were at_ Shore Leave Planet!?

That's why I don't understand why they retired the 1701-A after only 7 or 8 years of service. She was launched in 2286 and retired around 2293 then the ne t year they launch the Excelsior class 1701-B. Doesn't make sense in universe.

Correction-correction. The Yorktown was one of the ships left adrift by the Whale Probe in ST:IV, do you recall the Captain talking about crafting a solar sail? That was from the Yorktown. They used a ship that had its systems heavily damaged, likely crew all dead, as the basis of the next iteration of the Enterprise. Then they wonder why it had all sorts of issues at the beginning of ST:V with just basic function.

@@AT2Productions in that case you would think they would've made the federation's flagship a brand new scratch build instead of painting enterprise on a busted up ship.

@@theamused8705 Not really, the Connie as a class was on the way out the door, and they were angling to push Kirk off active service sooner rather than later. Flagships aren't always the most advanced or capable ships, especially when in the case of a fleet-wide flagship. The Enterprise had that distinction for being the most resilient of the Connie's when it came to the 5yr mission profiles, and especially the exploits with Kirk in command. The redress of Yorktown into the Enterprise-A was both a compliment and a slap to Kirk after the events of ST:III and ST:IV, he was still sent to courts martial and still punished. Well, that ship was part of the punishment.

I prefer to think 1701-A was made out of spare parts like the Shuttle Endeavour. There could have been enough components for repairing Constitution class ships when Starfleet wound down the program that they could assemble one or more ships mostly from the spares and get the money's worth out of the parts. This could have been happening before STII, and Kirk destroying 1701 just made it easy to name one. It would also explain the why she had the problems in STV (she is freshly put together, and Scotty calling her a new ship), and the short service life (She is made out of the spare parts, so she's done at the first major overhaul if not earlier)

Which implies that the A was actually less modernized and would have taken Scotty a lot of work to get it up to speed

that's pretty surprising considering pretty much all modern US Navy capital ships get a mid-life refit at the same time their nuclear reactors are refuelled.

@@oldfrend Starships are a lot bigger a US Navy capital ship

@@leejohnstone2285 No, in fact, the TOS E was comparable in size to a US Navy aicraft carrier. Matt Jefferies showed us that explicitly.

@Simr Khera Khan, how has it never occurred to you that despite your DNA being tweaked to it's apex perfection... you're still not superior to a half Vulcan?

I have always thought those ships were awesome looking! But they also seemed so impractical that Romulans would never actually build something like that.

I thought the USS Yorktown in Star Trek IV was a newer built Constitution-class and in for repairs from the Whale Probe incident. Enterprise in TMP was a testbed for the new technology. Not a lot of Constitution-class ships made it home in the early days to be refitted. Lost: Constellation, Intrepid, Exeter, Defiant. Ship severely damaged by the M5 computer and we don't know if they could be repaired - Excalibur, Hood, Lexington, and Potemkin. So out of the original 12 Constitution-class ships, 5 remain to possibly be refitted or Star Fleet scrapped the 4 remaining ships and just built new ones. The name of the ship in the original Star Trek was supposed to be the USS Yorktown, then changed to Enterprise. Kind of neat if you think about it.

I like that the oldest ship in the fleet is the one that rushes in where angels fear to tread and battle the enemy's newest weapon to save the future

Indeed, they had so many Excelsior-class ships (my favourite class btw), seeing an old Constitution ship in TNG would have been very nice!

Really and truly the only visual changes from TMP and TWOK are that the stations are rearranged and it got a paontjob... However, the station screens from TMP were all changed out and replaced for TWOK because whatever they were in TMP were loud enough that they had to redub all the shipboard audio from the movie... This is revealed in TMP DE commentary...

@@ColtCobra2002 In TMP, they were rear-projected 8 mm film loops, like the ones used in schools. The noise was from all the film loop projectors. This is because TV screens were difficult to film at the time due to the different frame rates between the TV and the film camera. By the time TWOK was produced, the technology improved enough so it was easier for the TV screens to sync with the film camera and they were used. Notice the screens in TMP are a little dimmer as the projectors were not as bright.

When they uncrated the bridge for the second movie, they noticed also someone had stolen the captain’s chair. That was a really expensive piece of furniture. They replaced all the chairs with cheaper versions that still looked pretty good.

@@Cydonia2020 Funny thing, The same thing happened on the Enterprise-D bridge set shortly before filming was set to begin on Star Trek Generations.

You are correct that they were shown on the display but that could have only been referring to internal damage. The movements of the Reliant and the amount of hits they take don't suggest there was damage to the outer hull from the first attack. One phaser hit and one torpedo.

@@James-rn7dx That is certainly possible. If that is the case, then those ships are very fragile. However during the initial attack there are a few scenes where the ship shakes from being hit again and again. Mainly when the camera is showing the chaos in Engineering. You can also hear some explosions too.

In "The Doomsday Machine" on TOS, it was clearly a Revel model that was used. All the other Constitution Class (12 total at the time) had 1700, 1701, 1702, etc. as their hull numbers EXCEPT the USS Constellation......they just used the decals in the box and voila....her hull # was 1017. The special effects of the Constellation were so primitive in the un remastered originals that a couple of times you could actually see the strings holding up the $3 model...and it jiggled a couple of times. Didn't notice as a kid. The first VCR tapes you could see this on. Now they have all been re mastered and what I described is HARD to find, so it's now rare. I have a tape, but not a VCR in sight...so I don't know the condition of the tape. But tapes will deteriorate over time and this one is right at 30 years old as it is and probably been that long since I even watched it.

AMT not Revell!!

@@James-rn7dx Bear with me, I'm dealing with 50+ year old memories.

@@davidalexanders540 I read an article a few years ago about and organization that was attempting to digitize EVERY SINGLE motion picture/tv show EVER put to tape. Haven't run across anything concerning their efforts in awhile. I'll have to do a web search. It's great that there are those who are trying to preserve these filmings. A good many only exist in VHS (or the like) form!

@@James-rn7dx oops...you're right.....AMT...not Revel...I should have known. I built the first Enterprise 3 times at the age of 9 before I FINALLY figured out how to set the thing correct to glue the warp nacelles in place so the things didn't look droopy. Proud of that thing at the time. Went on to build more....culminating in the (expensive in 1994 at $90) the light up version of the Enterprise D. Took me a YEAR to cut the windows out, run the wiring to all the tiny windows, deflector dish, bridge, and warp engines. Had it displayed for a year. Then we had a fire in early fall 1996. Lost everything except for my brass belt loop key ring I bought day 1 on my one and only ship in the Navy. Still have it. I have worn it every day since 1978. It gets buried with me..or cremated...haven't decided...don't plan on feeling anything that particular day....LOL

There were 79 though.

@@knightad33 And if you check IMDB, it lists only 78, and other sites list 79. This has been a debate for decades, and this was their answer to settle it once and for all, even though it is still not accepted by everyone. In other words, it's a running gag, or the neverending story. ;)

@@knightad33 Is The Menagerie counted as 1 or 2?

They should've made the 1701-B a standard Excelsior instead of adding those awkward parts to it.

@@theamused8705thank you, I've been say that for years

@@theamused8705 But I like the awkward parts, I said sheepishly. :)

@@AnthonyWLeone lol yeah many people do.

It´ll buff right out...

Yorktown was a bad ass ship, she never gave up, she was tough, took a lot of damage could not be sunk and limped back to port.

If you looked closely on the toilet it read " caution do not use while in space dock" which means toilets empty out into space once flushed.

That also explains why Enterprise-A had so many problems. The damage from the whale probe when she was the Yorktown.

Put together by Planet Of The Apes.

Maybe from the 70s but to my eye it doesn't look dated at all. They did a great job with the design of all the movie models as they would still look great on the screen today.

@@James-rn7dx I still call it the best Enterprise design ever. I just don't like people calling it a pinnacle of 80s/90s design when it isn't.

I built probably half a dozen myself and the engines either drooped or snapped off. Thank goodness for the 1:350 scale version. A friend of mine helped design that and he made damn sure those engines were not going to snap off.

You're not the only one, I built two of them and even with the best glue I could find... it was like there was a magnetic field keeping the bond from happening, so I did the next logical thing, I took a hammer to them and made space debris for a diorama.

@@Cydonia2020 The problem was mainly due to the lighting feature which I never used.

Yeah, what idiot thought, I know why not put lights on the nacelles. Putting wires through the narrowest joined section of the entire model will surly cause structural issues, but at least I'll look good in a darkened room.

@pbz31374 I wish I could pass on your thanks and gratitude. Unfortunately, my good friend passed away several years ago due to diabetes. But I did have the fortune of inheriting a great deal of his work, including piles of his beautiful decals. Thomas also provided decals for the actual refurbished USS Excelsior (turning into the Lakota and other ships), worked on the model of the Starfury and Babylon 5 station and refurbished the USS Voyager kit. He was an incredible talent.

I have Picard's ship and a klingon cruiser. Lit too.

I bought when about 3 years ago. It's been hanging in the dining room, since.

@@rodroyal1779 Picard's ship? Which one?

@@redshirtveteran5688 the one from the tv show

@@rodroyal1779 The Enterprise-D then?

where did that come from?

TSFS Novel

Eh... I take the novels at face value. Have you read the TMP novelization, penned (or at least co-penned) by Roddenberry? It implied that all Captains and Admirals have a chip in their head that not only receives info from Starfleet, but also transmits their thoughts and experiences back. ... Thats a bit much, even for Section 31 LOL

I like the extra damage, and could easily see it as tertiary damage after the battle. Like in VOY Year of Hell when systems just fail over time from compensating for damaged/missing components. It also helps explain how the ship was so feeble in III. After some repair time both in space and spacedock, you'd think it'd be better off than at the end of II - but if they spent all that time repairing additional damage, it makes sense.

It's all the same set, it incurred some water damage after STIV... It shows up throughout TNG and DS9... The Stargazer, The Ent C, the Bozeman, the Saratoga, Courtroom from Measure of a Man, Armagossa Observatory... On a tangent, I would love to see a revised version of ST TMP's budget taking into account all the mileage they got out of those sets...