The USS Enterprise

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Click </B><A HREF="id22.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Star Trek Font"><U><B>here</B></U></A><B> to download it!</B></div> <bR> <div> <IMG SRC="040f4010.gif" border=0 width="500" height="1" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>THE PROTOTYPE</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="575" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="LEFT" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 ><NOBR><div> <B>Naval Construction Contract:  1701</B></div> </NOBR></tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP><NOBR><div> <B>Deadweight:  190,000 Metric Tons</B></div> </NOBR></tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="282"><div> <B>Type:  Class I Heavy Cruiser</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=CENTER WIDTH="282"><div> <B>Length Overall:  288.6 Meters</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="282"><div> <B>Starship Class:  </B><I><B>Constitution</B></I></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="282"><div> <B>Height Overall:  72.6 Meters</B></div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 16 WIDTH="282"><div> <B>Model:  MK-IX</B></div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="282"><div> <B>Breadth Overall:  127.1 Meters</B></div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <bR> <div> <B>2245:  The </B><I><B>USS Enterprise</B></I><B> is commissioned and begins the first of four five-year missions of exploration under the command of Captain Robert April.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>2250:  The </B><I><B>USS Enterprise</B></I><B> returns from its first five-year mission.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>2251:  The </B><I><B>USS Enterprise</B></I><B> begins its second of four five-year missions of exploration under the command of Captain Christopher Pike.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>2254:  The events portrayed in "THE CAGE" take place.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>2256:  The </B><I><B>USS Enterprise</B></I><B> returns from its second five-year mission and undergoes a year of refit work in space dock.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>2257:  Again under the command of Captain Christopher Pike, the </B><I><B>USS Enterprise</B></I><B> embarks on its third of four five-year missions of exploration.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>2261:  Captain Pike returns the </B><I><B>USS Enterprise</B></I><B> from its third five-year mission. The ship undergoes a major refit in space dock – the warp drive nacelles are upgraded, the main sensor dish is reduced, deck one (the bridge) is lowered, and the crew compliment is boosted to 430 from 203.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>2264:  Captain James T. Kirk is placed in command of the </B><I><B>USS Enterprise</B></I><B> and embarks on a five-year historic mission of exploration, the fourth such mission for the ship.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>2265:  The events portrayed in </B><A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Where No Man has Gone Before"><U><B>"</B></U></A><A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Where No Man has Gone Before"><U><B>WHERE NO MAN HAS GONE BEFORE</B></U></A><A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Where No Man has Gone Before"><U><B>"</B></U></A><B> take place.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>2266:  The events portrayed in the regular television series take place, beginning with the episode </B><A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Corbomite Maneuver"><U><B>"</B></U></A><A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Corbomite Maneuver"><U><B>THE CORBOMITE MANEUVER</B></U></A><A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Corbomite Maneuver"><U><B>."</B></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B>2269:  Captain Kirk returns the </B><I><B>USS Enterprise</B></I><B> from its fourth five-year mission.</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <IMG SRC="040f4010.gif" border=0 width="500" height="1" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <bR> <div> <B><U>THE MODEL</U></B></div> <bR> <div> <B>There were several models used to film the starship </B><I><B>Enterprise:  </B></I><B>a four-inch version, a three-foot version, and the largest, measuring eleven feet.  The largest model contained the lighting effects, and major modifications were made to the model between the filming of "THE CAGE" and </B><A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Corbomite Maneuver"><U><B>"</B></U></A><A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Corbomite Maneuver"><U><B>THE CORBOMITE MANEUVER</B></U></A><A HREF="id31.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="The Corbomite Maneuver"><U><B>."</B></U></A><B>  Those modifications included:</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- Reducing the height of the bridge (located on the uppermost part of the saucer section).</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- Relocating the bottom-most port and starboard running lights on the saucer section.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- Altering the impulse exhaust vents on the rear of the saucer section.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- Reversing the registry numbers (NCC-1701) on the underside of the saucer section, allowing them to be read when the ship approaches and moves past the camera, rather than as the ship travels over and away from the camera.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- Reducing the diameter of the main sensor/deflector dish on the bow section of the engineering hull (the cigar-shaped section).</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- Adding lighting effects to the engineering hull.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- Adding detail for the shuttle craft hanger doors on the aft of the engineering hull.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- Adding four cross-hatching sections to the inside of the warp nacelle pylons and detail to the inside of the warp nacelles.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- Removing the grating on the aft caps of the warp nacelles and adding half-spheres.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- Removing the spike on the bow caps of the warp nacelles and installing complex lighting effects to simulate the matter / antimatter reactions taking place inside the engines.</B></div> <bR> <div> <B>- "Weathering" the entire model to make it appear larger and more realistic.</B></div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>After the model was modified, the extensive wiring needed to produce the effects in the warp nacelles precluded filming the model from the port side.  All shots of the new </B><I><B>Enterprise</B></I><B> model were from the starboard side, showing the ship moving from left to right on the television screen.  Today, the largest model is on display at the </B><A HREF="http://www.nasm.edu/nasm/shops/enterprise.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.nasm.edu/nasm/shops/enterpris"><U><B>Smithsonian Institution's Air and Space Museum</B></U></A><B>.</B></div> </td> </tr></table></body>