Despite being designed over 40 years ago, the refit Enterprise STILL has to be one of the most beautiful & believable Starship creations in Science Fiction.

We were at the theater watching tmp for the first time and scotty brought the transport around showing the full view for the first time.everybody stood and cheered,what a great moment.

I grew up watch TNG and it's still my favorite cast, but the refit/Enterprise-A is my favorite ship. There's something about the blue light from the deflector dish and the wide engine pylons that just gives this ship an incredible look. Phenomenal work on this video.

Had a real rough day working on subway trains. Back is killing me, hands are busted up, knees shot. Just a bad day. This video just took all that bad away. Excellent work! Got chills down my spine seeing her launch once again. You do some real excellent work. Thanks for making a bad day end good.

As much as I love TOS I have to admit my favorite Enterprise is the refit version

there's nothing like the Constitution class

I can’t help it..every time I see NCC 1701 my heart skips a beat and I want to put on my mini skirt uniform and go to work on the bridge. 🖖🏼🖖🏼💕💕

Beautiful!!! The Enterprise Refit is one of my fav ships

I say with no shame at all that watching the Enterprise leave the space dock in TMP made me tear up. Thank you (and I mean that sincerely) for making me tear up again.

"We had to replace the primary hull, and the secondary hull, and the engines, and the pylons, and the wiring and conduits; but the dedication plaque stayed and it occupies the same space intrinsically." My apologies to Michael Davis.

"Let's make sure history never forgets the name...Enterprise!"

the wrath of kahn theme is one of my favorite star trek tunes james horner wrote,excellent!.

Watching this just reminds me how ugly the JJ designs are compared to this beauty.

That was kick ass!!!!! May those who have gone before us R.I.P. September 8, 1966 A Great mans dream came to fruition and to TV. I was born about 40 days into the first season, October 1966 !! I am a TREK JUNKIE. Started watching back in 1970 when it went into reruns. Gene Roddenberry had a dream and a vision that has inspired millions to always keep reaching for the stars ✨ and hopefully one day you’ll get off the ground!

I like these where the viewer sees the transformation from TOS to TMP. I understand its painstaking work but personally Id love more detail in the conversion process. Well done

This is delightful! However according to the Motion Picture novel, the Saucer section was separated and went down to earth for it's ReFit, leaving just the Star-Drive section to be completely rebuilt in Space-Dock. The saucer then re-docked with the new stardrive section just before the VGer emergency became apparent. Still Gorgeous work. :D

Captain Decker wasn’t joking when he told Admiral Kirk that it was an almost totally new Enterprise then!

Very cool. The first half of this, where the "old" Enterprise is being pulled apart, is what they should have had during the "overture" at the beginning of STTMP. Then, jump to opening credits. Good job.

this should be at the beginning of the motion picture it would make sense if someone just watched the movies

I just can’t get over how sexy this ship is! And those nacelles! A mix of Art Deco and futurism, and utterly timeless, as is the entire ship! Great video! 🖖😀

The nacelle domes look just like the studio model! Weren't they Christmas tree lights & broken mirror fragments? The original will always be my favorite. In the "Enterprise" series, "In a mirror darkly", the episode showed this class star ship (the Defiant) in a way that gave us TOS fans a new appreciation for something we just got used to, or took for granted. It was cool to see it in a different light. All the more reason to love this star ship. Another labor of love. Recreated beautifully. Nice job, Rob.

I love watching this at bedtime to help me sleep.

Another MAGNIFICENT production! Well done. I, very much, appreciate your diligent work.

This work took alot of time and effort and is so appreciated, have watched all your blender vids, great app

The refit is my favorite enterprise, well done.

I LOVE your end titles with the Monte Python references!

Back again to watch this magnificent video! Like an old, trusted friend, the starship and this video have waited three more years, and she is every bit as beautiful as she was the last time I was here!

Stunningly beautiful work! The first video I have ever seen showing the replacement of the warp engines AND the impulse thrusters! Gorgeous work, Robert! It is videos of this quality that give me such a good feeling to have grown through the years with the legend that is Star Trek!

Brilliant choice of subject matter for animation. And nice use of what look like Oberth class vessels. Mind you, the transition from original to re-fit really highlights for me how it is difficult to accept the changing look in-story. Why would an upgrading to a ship suddenly make all its surface tiling more apparent? The only explanation that really works is the out-of-story one that we got better at depicting detail in film.

When I first saw this video I really liked it as it showed the transition between the T.O.S. series and the Motion Picture and showing what they most likely did when they started the redesign and refit of the Enterprise.

Love all your work. I think your attention to detail is amazing

Masterfully done! So beautiful! Attention to detail is astounding!

Now off to take on V'Ger!

Excellent job, Rob!

excellent work,one of your best ones yet.

Excellent Job - Thank You it was great to watch !

this brought a tear to me eye. TOS will always be my favorite

Out of all the recreations of the Enterprise on the net this is the best, close to perfect! well done

Very satisfying to watch. Thank you for making this. One fan to another. 👏🏼👏🏼

just subscribed-- please keep these works of art coming- they are fabulous

The refit is still the best looking Enterprise. Hey! We got some V'ger action here as well. Well done!

In Star Trek,The Motion Picture,Scotty told Admiral Kirk that they finished redesigning and refitting the Enterprise after 18 months before Kirk said that he had been Chief of Starfleet Operations for 2 and a half years.

I love videos like this when it shows the conversion of the TOS to the TMP! Though this one is the best so far! Keep up the amazing work! :D

So awesome! What a worthy vision of the upgrade Scotty mentioned in TMP! Thank you for this!

"These departure orders, sir...we've just spent eighteen months redesigning and refitting the Enterprise. How in the hell do they expect us to be ready in twelve hours?"

I always get a kick in seeing the Enterprise leaving Space dock. Thank you Scotty where ever you are for keeping the dream alive, and Thank you for the artist for making this film... Keep Gene's Dream Alive...

Hey Robert.... that was fantastic!! Especially the rebuilding phase!! Keep up the great work!!

Very good! I love your sense of humor at the ending.

Just Beautiful

Came in as a lady, come out as a princeness

Really Enjoyed this Video! Outstanding!

Great concept, and beautifully executed! Well done!

Matt Jeffries hit a home run with the '1701-A' design. The best model of all the Enterprise ships. It has an elegant look to it. The 1701-D is the most god-awful thing to look at. Best battle ship; the Defiant. Good job of the rendering, Robert!

I loved the end credits! Just so epic!

Star Trek fans just hit differently. Amazing work

This had me grinning all the way through. Great work.

Pimp My Starship - that they did. I've always loved the refit Enterprise & the Enterprise-A :)

These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Her 5 year mission to explore strange new worlds and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before.

Amazing!! Thank you for making this!

Just amazing, thank you for sharing this, you captured the Enterprise spirit perfectly.

The Enterprise crew sure had to take their time disembarking their ship so that they can pack up their belongings before leaving so that the Enterprise can get redesigned and refitted.

I wish you could have done a scene where the Enterprise of the legendary 5 year mission and the refit Enterprise would go to warp in the way it's been animated since TNG. Refer to that scene with the USS Defiant (NCC-1764) flying at warp in the Enterprise episode "In a Mirror, Darkly".

Beautiful work...Splendid job.

I really enjoyed this. Live long and prosper everyone and Merry Christmas.🚀🎅🎄

And yet, not one person anywhere can explain why the refit looks so much different than the original. It's bigger, has completely different angles all over. As much as they changed for the refit, they almost literally could have just built an entirely new ship from scratch, 'cause that's pretty much all they did.

I love the original design by Matt Jefferies but the refit for the Motion picture is a work of art too and in many ways improves upon the original! It's too bad JJ never understood or appreciated the original designs. How someone could make something so beautiful and iconic into something so bloated and unbalanced is beyond me. As a designer myself JJ really has no sense or appreciation of great design.

Beautiful, I love your passion.

I always wanted to see the 1701 refit done in detail. Thank you!

Captain Kirk's enterprise is the Best one NCC _ 1701

52 ppl were wearing red shirts while watching this video.

Just stumbled onto this. Very nicely done!

you've put a lot of work and inspiration into this, *robert* … best wishes to you.

I've always loved the TOS and TMP Constitution Class Heavy Cruisers the same. They both strike me as profoundly beautiful. But the Stark contrast between the detail in the ships is staggeringly apparent. And yes, the original was build in the 60s on a somewhat small budget but it's stood the test of time and has remained very iconic. However, with that statement, I feel that Star Trek: Discovery actually did the best rendition of the Constitution probably ever. It takes the best aspects of both the TOS and TMP and blends them into arguably the best ship in Star Trek. Yet, all three(technically four) can exist in Canon. The Cage Version is the NX-1700 USS Constitution, the TOS is the NX-1701 USS Enterprise. Then after their shake down cruise and testing the Disc Connie comes into play as the rest of the class is build with the Constitution and Enterprise being refit into this config. And then when the Golden age comes to a end, the TMP Connie's roll out.

Very nice. Such a beautiful ship. Not like that one from the alternate universe. lol. The space dock scene from TMP is one of my favorite scenes in the entire canon.Thanks for sharing.

Outstanding video! A great connecting point between TOS and TMP that I'll be watching over and over again! This video is inspiring me to finish my illuminated TMP Enterprise model, and maybe even to try making a mid-refit Enterprise model...

Great fly by in spacedock. Thank you for making the deflector dish blue instead of the boring white :-)

Great work! I liked the movie Enterprise, but wish they designers on the TMP had kept it closer to the original Phase 2 design. Despite some making attempts to show that it could be the same ship as TOS it just does not work. It would have been nice if it had kept the same hull, but with upgrades and refits. A movie version of TOS Enterprise with finer details (needed for higher resolution of film) and new bridge, sensor array, engines, torpedo tubes in the dorsal, on the original hull would have been great. As it was made it just is unimaginable that it was the same ship. It was still a looker, just not the same.

Thanks a lot for your comments!..

What a beautiful job. Simply awesome

Amazing job. It was beautiful

2:48 watch that clipping on the nacelle, lieutenant.

You made only a few very tiny mistakes. 1. When they first turn on the deflector dish, it's gold, not blue. It doesn't turn blue until they're just about to use the warp engines for the first time. 2. The 1701 refit dish had a ring of weird little matching rectangles around it. Your dish is in the 1701-A style, which didn't have those. 3. The inner grilles on the warp nacelles didn't glow unless the ship was at warp.

Beautifully done!

That was pretty awesome. The Refit is my favourite too. Nice job.

My ONLY WISH... is that I wish SOMEONE would do like a 30 minute to hour or so long video showing the ENTIRE Re-Build/Re-Fit process! Because when the Enterprise was "Re-Fit" it was basically almost ENTIRELY Re-BUILT From the Keel UP! ALOT More Extensive then just some new Nacelles etc. So yea... Just Sayin'! :D

Who else spots the monolith?

Gorgeous gorgeous work here, and the Monty Python end title gags had me cracking up!!

Beautifully done!!

jar jar abrams was a vorta in disguise

After Captain Kirks 5 Year Mission forgot to add that to what I wrote Before..

Beautiful, before and after! Great job!

Beautiful, great job.

... And always remember: The enterprise is a lady!

Its odd that ENTERPRISE wasnt REFIT where she was built, Utopia Planitia. Instead disassembled in orbital drydock and the saucer section sent planetside to San Francisco, etc........

Absolutely grand! Thank you.

Fantastic awesome art! Thank you 🙏

Robert, if more, too see how USS ENTERPRISE NCC-1701-A, come about. Was from the U.S.S. YORKTOWN, refit after ST-4, after Kirk save Earth, New starship he want,

Beautiful awesome work! Is there a way that I can download this to my personal computer so that I may burn this to my PERSONAL CD. Thanks, -Jim G.G.

wow super awesome, thanks for sharing all your hard work.

It was aaawwweeessooooommmm@ Love the Enterprise! Great work!