While fans love the cast and characters, the real star of Star Trek films are its ships, especially the ones named “Enterprise.” Despite maintaining its signature silhouette for nearly 60 years, the details have often changed over time. However, the best hero ship upgrade in Star Trek history was the USS Enterprise-D used in The Next Generation series. It was the most drastic change in design, but it remained immediately identifiable.Starfleet ships have changed quite a bit over the years, though most adhere to the structural rules defined by the original Enterprise. Ships have a saucer section, a secondary hull and two warp nacelles on either side. Some designs, like the Enterprise-A or the “original” Enterprise used in Strange New Worlds, don’t veer too far from the original. Other ships like those in Star Trek: Discovery or Voyager are quite different. Yet, even they still retain the basic ship structure. Smaller vessels, like Lower Decks’ USS Cerritos, will abandon the secondary hull but retain the saucer and nacelles. However, The Next Generation’s Enterprise-D was the most drastic evolution of the design. The “pieces” are all there, but it still looks new and revolutionary. It’s a style future Star Trek ships should return to.The original Enterprise was designed by Walter Matthew Jefferies for Star Trek: The Original Series. In honor of this legendary art director, the maintenance corridors on Starfleet ships are called “Jefferies Tubes” in his honor. While he was involved, briefly, with the mid-1970s resurgence of Gene Roddenberry’s saga, he soon retired. Andrew Probert took over and was tasked with redesigning the Enterprise for The Motion Picture. The ship stayed remarkably faithful to Jefferies’s design, with squared-off nacelles, a new torpedo bay and a glowing blue deflector dish. However, some things about the design bugged him. Specifically, he thought the nacelles should be closer to the center of mass and that the ship should have an organic shape. No one asked him to do this, but he drew up some designs anyway.RELATED: The New Star Trek Series Could Erase the Kelvin Timeline, but Shouldn’t
While fans love the cast and characters, the real star of Star Trek films are its ships, especially the ones named “Enterprise.” Despite maintaining its signature silhouette for nearly 60 years, the details have often changed over time. However, the best hero ship upgrade in Star Trek history was the USS Enterprise-D used in The Next Generation series. It was the most drastic change in design, but it remained immediately identifiable.
Starfleet ships have changed quite a bit over the years, though most adhere to the structural rules defined by the original Enterprise. Ships have a saucer section, a secondary hull and two warp nacelles on either side. Some designs, like the Enterprise-A or the “original” Enterprise used in Strange New Worlds, don’t veer too far from the original. Other ships like those in Star Trek: Discovery or Voyager are quite different. Yet, even they still retain the basic ship structure. Smaller vessels, like Lower Decks‘ USS Cerritos, will abandon the secondary hull but retain the saucer and nacelles. However, The Next Generation‘s Enterprise-D was the most drastic evolution of the design. The “pieces” are all there, but it still looks new and revolutionary. It’s a style future Star Trek ships should return to.
The original Enterprise was designed by Walter Matthew Jefferies for Star Trek: The Original Series. In honor of this legendary art director, the maintenance corridors on Starfleet ships are called “Jefferies Tubes” in his honor. While he was involved, briefly, with the mid-1970s resurgence of Gene Roddenberry’s saga, he soon retired. Andrew Probert took over and was tasked with redesigning the Enterprise for The Motion Picture. The ship stayed remarkably faithful to Jefferies’s design, with squared-off nacelles, a new torpedo bay and a glowing blue deflector dish. However, some things about the design bugged him. Specifically, he thought the nacelles should be closer to the center of mass and that the ship should have an organic shape. No one asked him to do this, but he drew up some designs anyway.
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