Star Trek: The Evolution of the USS Enterprise A-J

I was 7 when the news was spreading about this upcoming series call " Star Trek: The Next Generation ". My mother told me it was a remake of an older show about humans exploring space in the future and I was blown away. And when I first laid eyes on that ship in the intro I was jaw dropped and wide eyed. It had a huge impact on me growing up and defined my hopefulness for our future as a species. I love the new ship designs and ideas from around the D, but none will ever mean so much to me. I cried when Jordi opened those bay doors. What a treat that was to get to relive those wide eyed days of my youth. The Enterprise D is the true heart of the Star Trek universe to me and always will be.

Well as Jean-Luc Picard pointed out, the best ships always had carpet. NCC 1701 D was literally the Cadillac of starships.

The original movies' Enterprise is the most beautiful art deco vessel ever.

I really think the NX-01's design is solid. has a great predecessor look that worked really well even if Enterprise as a show stumbled

Hands down, one of the best videos on the internet.

The Enterprise 'TMP' version is one of the most beautiful fictional ships in Sci-Fi history. They managed to take an already interesting & fun design and improved on it in nearly every way possible. Even at a standstill, it gives the impression of sleek speed and manuverability. It's a gorgeous Sculpture of the Imagination the only downside is that the films in which it appeared were 'uneven' at best. Still, it and the original will always remain iconic and a cornerstone of what Star Trek represents.

Some of my favorite tidbits from the J was that the designer for its brief appearance said if it wasn't ridiculous, he failed. LOL. I love that it's so big that they don't use turbolifts, but site-to-site transporters instead.

Still love the E. It’s so sleek and sexy. And I love the colors; the warp nacelles have such large bussard collectors and large outer shell to show off the blue plasma glow, and the dark gray accents on the saucer.

The Odessey Class Ent F is so awesome. It could carry large number of support craft in two shuttle bays and had a small corvette that could detache from its hull for long periods of time. It more or less combines a fleet carrier, mobile exploration outpost, and a starbase into one asset.

The Enterprise G is just ridiculous. Also the Enterprise E refit was much more significant. It has massive improvements to its phaser systems, including additional phaser banks in vulnerable areas of the ship. It has a new deflector shield system, and ablative hull armour. It also has more torpedo launchers. Also you missed the USS Venture, which was a Galaxy class refit. It had an improved warp core, and weapon systems. It also has altered warp nacelles due to the new phaser strips placed on top of them, as well as additional power reactors in the nacelles. Trek canon is vast and complex, but you do great with it!

The original Enterprise was the only one for 14 years, from 1966 to 1980. In that time, third parties (Franz Joseph, et al) stepped up to make the blueprints and the technical manual. The refit and the A model weren't that much different, so it wasn't really until 1987 that a whole new Enterprise was introduced. The C model was a one off, but most new ships named Enterprise were introduced around 7-8 years apart. These newer ones are coming at a faster pace, now that CGI has replaced studio models. Couple this with a decline in ability to monetize such works (the decline of print media, mainly), and it's small wonder nobody's taking the time to publish details.

I said once and I'll say it again: ENT-J looks like an oversized Pizza cutter or a ship gone anoxeric.😅

Ent B first capt was John "Harriman", not 'Herman', and played by Alan Ruck (Cameron in "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"), and "wasn't installed until Tuesday" before Kirk came aboard! Lol 🤭😆

The Enterprise 1701, no bloody A, B or C, had a crew compliment of 430 stated by Kirk in two episodes of the original series and every technical book since. I have no idea where you got 203 as her crew compliment.

Incredible attention to detail and respect for the design. I also appreciate your overview of the history of the Enterprise.

I don't know how I kept missing the time to watch this one it is so good thank you

Appreciate your efforts to correct the errors.

I'll never get over the fact that the NX-01 is bigger than the Defiant.

❗️To rebrand the Titan to Enterprise-G was the biggest mistake in the entire 3rd season of Picard 🫣

So detailed schematics of original Enterprise through the D; those others came after Roddenberry was gone.