#XCV 330

[spockvarietyhour]

Only had 12 slots so did not include NX-01, Archer's Toy ship, Nomad, Ares IV (which eaglemoss never produced, get on that next company) and Friendship One, but I am always thinking about them

[alphamecha-mkii]

USS Enterprise XCV-330, Declaration-class by Jace Ridley

[stra-tek]

This is one of the greatest things ever. Walk around every single version of the U.S.S. Enterprise in photorealistic 3D in your browser, from the Roddenberry Archive. On a phone you just see wraparound 3D pics. On a PC or laptop you get the full 3D interactive experience. They NEED to make this VR compatible, it'll be beyond words.

There are more Enterprises here than Tumblr will allow me photos of, and more will likely be added.

Here's the TOS Enterprise, which appears in several incarnations ("The Cage", "Where No Man Has Gone Before" and TOS proper as well as TAS with the second turbolift!), has the correct original graphics and is perfect.

This is the bridge from the unmade Star Trek: Phase II series (whose pilot episode "In Thy Image" was rewritten to become Star Trek: The Motion Picture), with it's legendary big comfy command sofa seat and tactical display bubble!

The Motion Picture, such an accurate recreation that there's even a very faint flicker on the rear-projection animated screens as seen in the movie.

Enterprise NX-01, looking exactly as it did in "Broken Bow"

Recognise this? It's the briefing room of Discovery season 2's version of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701. Although at the front of the saucer on the "real" ship, here it's off the second bridge door which may well be where the set was IRL.

I wasn't expecting modern Trek to be represented equally as the originals in this project, but it is. This is the Enterprise from Strange New Worlds, with Pike's Ready Room located just off the bridge.

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. My favourite version of the classic bridge, as a kid I drew all these control panels and stuck them on my bedroom walls. And now I can look around and look at them all close-up! They've even replicated the noticable TVs stuffed into the panels for the more complex animated screens.

The Enterprise-C bridge from "Yesterday's Enterprise". This one has always fascinated me, being a low-budget TV set (formerly the Enterprise-D battle bridge, originally built from the rain-damaged TMP set's back wall and redressed endlessly though TNG) representing TNG's immediate predecessor. In the episode they mostly shoot the back wall and imply the consoles make a huge circle, but here you can see the set's real dimensions and the weirdness of the classic movie helm/nav console in front of the TNG con/ops panels. I love it.

You know how much I love the Kelvin movies, so seeing this was amazing. For some reason the consoles don't have their screens lit (hopefully this'll be fixed soon), but you can see the saucer under the window and it's shiny and amazing.

The last thing I expected was the U.S.S. Titan-A/Enterprise-G bridge, but it's here. And the lights are on.

Other bridges available to explore which I'm out of pictures to show: The Enterprise-D (of course), Enterprise XCV-330 (the ringship, based on concept art for the unmade non-Trek series "Starship"), the Planet of the Titans U.S.S. Enterprise (again, based on concept art for a cool multi-levelled set) and the "launch" U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 (based on the very first piece of TOS bridge set concept art), the Enterprise-E, the Enterprise-F (seen on viewscreen for all of 2 minutes in Picard) and the U.S.S. Voyager NCC-74656!

Take a bow lads, you've done good. Now just add VR support!

That link again.

[allstartrekgames]

The Roddenberry Archive

Original Release: 2023

Developer: The Roddenberry Estate, OTOY

Publisher: The Roddenberry Estate

Platform: Browser

The ultimate bridge explorer is finally here. The Roddenberry Archives brings up digital recreations of a ton of Enterprise bridges, including concept bridges brought to life. The website provides a lot of information about the various different version of the Enterprise, and what the digital recreation of the bridge is based on.

All of these bridges can be explored in full 3D. It uses cloud technology so that you get the full detail no matter what PC you’re running (although it does have to be a desktop with Chromium browser) and can walk around, interact with some objects, sit down in chairs or turn on a fly camera. With the vast amount of detail, it’s a phenomenal experience and it’s amazing to look at the bridges in detail.

It starts off with a concept bridge: the XCV-330, the ring ship Enterprise seen in pictures in films and in Enterprise. It uses an early concept for the original Enterprise, with a round holographic table and a science room above it before moving on to the NX-01, which I loved seeing in closer detail, even finding doors I never knew were there.

Then onto the NCC-1701, which gets by far the most love. It has versions of the bridge starting with a concept bridge from early production then showing us the set from The Cage, Discovery, Strange New Worlds, the TOS pilot, TOS Season 1, TOS Season 2, Mirror Universe, TOS Season 3, a live action version of the bridge from The Animated Series, the bridge from the cancelled Phase II show, The Motion Picture, Wrath of Khan and two versions of the Kelvin version bridge, each one showing different versions of the bridge.

Then we get a look at a recreation of a wild concept for a cancelled film called Planet of the Titans, which featured a redesigned Enterprise from Ralph McQuarrie, which ended up inspiring the USS Discovery. It’s a lovely bridge, but not very practical.

From there we see the Enterprise A, B, C, D and E (with the D having multiple extra rooms), all looking absolutely stunning, but it doesn’t end there. It’s fully up to date with the bridges of the Enterprise F and brand new Enterprise G, which looks absolutely glorious. It ends the Enterprises with a new version of the Enterprise J featuring a see-through hull with visible cities, parks and water inside.

But it doesn’t end there, there’s a bonus Voyager bridge, with more to come in the future – hopefully we see the rest of the hero ships as well as other locations on ships, and some non-hero ships as well as alien bridges.

I look forward to the future updates of this software.

[anarcho-skamunist]

I want to test the waters for a star trek kinda poll because i think it would be fun to do this with more ships. maybe even do brackets.

[beammeupchief]

USS Enterprise XCV-330

[scifiction]

Star Trek  Enterprise XCV-330 by Mark Rademaker

[crushermyheart]

We were watching Star Trek Into Darkness this evening and this insane theory came to mind...

In Star Trek Into Darkness we see a display of ships on Admiral Marcus' desk. On the desk there is a ringed ship that looks remarkably similar to a ship in another science fiction show...

Lost in Space.

In Star Trek Into Darkness the ringed ship is labelled "Enterprise" with the registry number XCV 330. In Lost in Space the ringed ship, designed by Maureen Robinson and a team of rocket scientists, is called The Resolute.

Now, the Enterprise was placed after the Ares V and before the Phoenix, suggesting that it was a pre-warp ship and had a launch date somewhere between the 2020s and 2063. In Lost in Space The Resolute had been built and was making trips to and from Alpha Centauri by 2046.

In Chart B of the Star Trek Maps, the images of the ringed ship Enterprise was captioned: "Starliners. Earth's first attempts at manned interstellar probes were launched during the 2050s at various target stars within fifteen light years of Sol. Only one, the UESP Enterprise, reached its destination – the sunlike binary pair of Alpha Centauri – before they were overtaken by the new faster-than-light spacecraft."

In The Spaceship of the Rings article by Greg Taylor it's stated that 'each human on board [the Enterprise] is a genius, a highly trained science specialist.' Again in Lost in Space it's said that "only the best of the best get to go."

Possible theory for Lost in Space (bearing in mind I haven't seen all of season 2 yet):

The Resolute never returned to Earth, and in the 2050s Earth sent out ships based on the original Resolute design to search for the missing colonists. Also, this would mean that Maureen Robinson designed the prototype for the first USS Enterprise.

Like. How insane would this be? Coincidence? Who knows. What do you think?

[Info taken from memory-alpha wikia].

[defconprime]

Cover for Official Starships Collection special issue USS Enterprise XCV-330, 2018.

[spockvarietyhour]

The final version we saw on screen wasn't necessarily how that ship started, so out of these specific ships, which one would you have wanted to see on screen

[koutroularis]

A China pretende construir uma mega nave espacial

A China pretende construir uma mega nave espacial

É difícil dizer o quão grande é a nave estelar Enterprise na série Star Trek original, então ver a nave saindo dela ajudou a colocar seu enorme tamanho em perspectiva.  Aquela USS Enterprise fictícia (XCV 330) tinha 300 metros (980 pés) de comprimento, o que parecia imensa na época, mas seria ofuscada pela mega nave estelar que a China está planejando atualmente.  É possível?  Em quanto…

[stra-tek]

More Roddenberry Archive musings...

This is supposedly the launch configuration of the Prime universe U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701's main bridge. It's based on the first piece of concept art for the TOS set, and is one of several weird not-quite-canon things the Roddenberry Archive has decided to consider canonical. 2 command chairs and the whole centre console and chairs spins to face the very minimalist 60's scifi perimeter consoles or viewscreen. Try to imagine Captain April and first officer Chris Pike on this bridge, it's weird.

Behold! The top of the Jeffries Tube.

FERENGI ATM MACHINE ON THE PROMENADE!!!!

The view from OG Captain Pike's bed, featuring his awesome TV, his laser gun and his Starfleet hat. We wouldn't get hats back in Trek for 50 years.

This is inside the Ringship Enterprise XCV-330, circa 2100. The Ringship in canon was seen only in picture form or a desktop model, we never saw inside. The ship was actually designed for a non-Trek Roddenberry scifi show called Starship which never came to be, and there was actually concept art made for the interior which the RA people decided to import to Trek too. Predating the transporter, here is the Metafier.

Discovery Season 2's U.S.S. Enterprise has a cool corridor running around it. Walk around it and... it goes nowhere😂 the Archive tries to balance the reality of everything being a television show with the fantasy of a 100% accurate in-universe museum, it'll give sets ceilings to make them into a believable spaceship but doesn't want to go nuts inventing too much of it's own stuff and that sometimes leads to weird stuff like this dead end

Speaking of ceilings, here's the ceiling and lights of the classic TOS Enterprise's corridors. I think they did a decent job keeping to the TOS aesthetic. The sets TOS was filmed on didn't have ceilings at all.

The Enterprise-B actually had a red carpet for special guests Kirk, Scotty and Chekov

Strange New Worlds has the coolest transporter room of all. Just look at it😍

The TNG Enterprise battle bridge has it's own ready room! And it's super tiny, ultra cramped and Picard probably never used it because there's no replicator in there and thus no access to tea.

The 1st version of TNG engineering's big Master Systems Display as seen in "Encounter at Farpoint". Ten Forward wouldn't be a thing until season 2, and you can see here an earlier deck layout and the original concept for the saucer rim, a corridor walkway with windows above and below. You'll also note Ten Forward would actually be on deck 11 had they not changed the diagram by then.

Kirk's quarters on the TOS Enterprise has dresser drawers full of uniforms for when his gets torn

Walking around the Roddenberry Archive ships is eerie as hell. You're the only one on board, exploring corridors and poking your head into rooms. These starships are liminal spaces. This for me adds to the atmosphere greatly.

Here's the link (enjoy before it vanishes again!):

Roddenberry.x.io

Here's my original post about the Roddenberry Archive:

Also a clarification, I was wrong when I said it won't be in VR. There is one VR setup it was designed for - the $3,000 Apple Vision Pro. More details here, although it appears to only show a 2D window rather than be fully immersive 3D, possibly confirming what I was told previously that no current 3D setup is capable of doing a true VR experience:

[sfdfmoviereviews]

Some Thoughts on Star Trek: Discovery

Here, in no particular order, are some thoughts I have had recently regarding Star Trek Discovery:

Michael Burnham’s family history and the size of Star Trek: As others have noted, Spock’s half-brother didn’t get a mention until he turned up in The Final Frontier. Kirk didn’t even know Spock’s dad was Ambassador Sarek. It’s not surprising at all that Spock has an adoptive sister he’s never mentioned. Whether that’s someone who should exist, whether it is crucial to Michael Burnham’s character that she is raised by Sarek or her parentage is simply an awkward reference to the past, well we’ll have to wait and see. Once concern I do have is the presence of Harry Mudd, as I noted here. Is that trader the Enterprise ran into a couple of times really believable as a crucial participant in some critical event in the history of the Federation? Well that could be interesting actually, but why this trader? Why not a completely different character? Again we’ll have to see how it all works out here, but this particular aspect is the cause of my most acute skepticism.

Continuity: Do you really think there is any identifiable lineage between the XCV 330, the NX-01, the Kelvin, and the Constitution class? Do you really think the design of the Shenzhou and the Discovery disrupt whatever lineage there is? Do you think the Starfleet uniforms are so different from the TOS uniforms considering the difference between the Motion Picture uniforms and the Wrath of Khan uniforms? Do you really think the Klingon design is so infeasible, given the great variety of bodies here on planet Earth? There’s an interesting strategic inference here, as the myriad of fan complaints and nitpicking were surely predictable, and so the makers of the show must have a good reason to make the changes they did.

Heroes and fights: from the trailers we have seen, Star Trek: Discovery is certainly the Michael Burnham action show. There is a great focus on that character, and all the explosions she apparently causes. This is at odds with Star Trek’s supposed history as an exploration focused ensemble show. What it isn’t at odds with is the modern history of Star Trek marketing. Ever since the success of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, the various installments of the series have been marketed as a scifi action movie (remember, the series only made it to the big screen after the success of Star Wars). That’s the reality of selling Star Trek, but it doesn’t mean the Star Trek that results will necessarily be a simple action movie. Witness last year’s Star Trek Beyond, which was sold with Captain Kirk’s wicked dirt bike jump and ended up as the closest film to the show’s ethos since First Contact. Similarly, while the show has always been at it’s best when an ensemble, ask any member of the general public who the protagonist of a Star Trek show is and they’ll invariably say the captain. The captain has always received first billing, and always embodied the ethos of the show. If you have to sell a Star Trek show you may as well embrace the fact that people will infer a protagonist, especially, if you’re doing things differently. It’s worth noting that that first teaser mentioned crews plural, and that the most successful ensemble show on TV spent it’s first season as the Ned Stark show.

After all we’ve seen, I still have to conclude that the watchword of Discovery is ‘Wait and See’. We still can’t say anything as simple as ‘it’s on a space station instead’, or ‘the ship is thrown across the galaxy and has to get home’, or ‘there’s a beagle and Scott Bakula wears a purple jumpsuit’. That might be good a good thing: the nitpicked nerd rage will be exhausted come September, and we’ll be able to go into the show blind in order to be surprised by it. It might mean that what we’ve seen is all that can be extracted from a production shit show.

How do you want to watch Star Trek? Do you want to fixate on detail and inconsistency and find the errors therein? Do you want to hope for a Star Trek that embraces the long form narrative of golden age television to tell a modern version of itself?

All we can do right now is wait and see.

Tim

[clivos79]

The rather gorgeous XCV-330 Enterprise is coming soon. Damn this thing is stunning!!! The original concept for the USS Enterprise I believe it's going to be an online exclusive from the Starships collection. From the size of the stand it's a big one!!!. #startrek #scifi #model #enterprise #starship #display #collection #diecast #miniature #ship

[sharkchunks]

Enterprise designs (in chronological production order):

NCC-1701

The original design by Matt Jefferies (1966). One of the greatest spaceship designs of all time both aesthetically and practically. Iconic in every way.

NCC-1701-A

Originally the refit for The Motion Picture designed by Andrew Probert and Richard Taylor (1979), this design loses the glowing Bussard collector domes and satellite dish deflector in favor of a glowing deflector and grated collectors.

NCC-1701-D

The Next Generation Enterprise by Andrew Probert (1987). Essentially taking the original design and streamlining it into an incomparable work of art, the Enterprise D design is the only design yet to outdo the original. This is the most futuristic design of any ship in all of science fiction. No other ship has so sleek a form, or suggestion of form over function while remaining not only practical but true to the elder designs. It looks powerful and functional but it’s incredibly beautiful. The only flaw with the design is that it made any further Enterprises a step backwards. As the pinnacle of Federation ship design, it could not be surpassed or even equalled, making its universe-chronological successors inevitably inferior.

NCC-1701-C

Literally “Yesterday’s Enterprise” from the 1990 episode of that name, Rick Sternbach merged the D and B influences (The Enterprise B having been known as an Excelsior class ship, though it would not be seen until Star Trek: Generations) into a functional design that expressed exactly what it needed to.

NCC-1701-DX

The 1994 series finale “All Good Things...” required a future Enterprise D, leading to the first instance of the difficulties caused by the original Enterprise D design. As it could not be improved on, it got a third nacelle (in violation of Roddenberry’s assertion that they always came in sets of two) and some fins and a new massive phaser cannon. It’s neat but it looks like what it is- The Enterprise D with stuff stuck onto it to look cool.

NCC-1701-B

An Excelsior class ship as dictated by the timeline, the Enterprise B appeared in Generations in 1994 with a design from 1984′s Search for Spock by artists at ILM. The Excelsior design is a solid Trek universe concept, but its application to the Enterprise B is otherwise unremarkable.

NCC-1701-E

The second victim of the original Enterprise D design was the Enterprise E. John Eaves and Herman Zimmerman made it pointier and it did look like a possible advancement in technology, but it was not as aesthetically powerful or creative as the Enterprise D, and proved disappointing as a successor. The last Enterprise of the canonical Pre-2000 Star Trek, it was still quite acceptable and logical and any disappointment was within the boundary of still being enjoyable to see.

NX-01

Star Trek ceased to be in 2000. All that came after was essentially a spin off franchise riddled with massive flaws and direct contradictions of the real shows. The new design, purportedly from before the 1701, looked far more advanced within the prior universe’s rules than the original 1966 design and would have fit more within the late DS9 chronology. The design itself is not bad by any means, but for what it was intended to be, it was utterly inappropriate even beyond the notion of a ship named Enterprise that contradicted the original franchise’s illustrations of previous Enterprises. This would be par for the course ever after.

NCC-1707-J

Seen briefly in a 2004 episode of Enterprise, this far future variant went for broke in terms of sleekness, having a nearly flat saucer and art deco nacelles. This too fell victim to the original Enterprise D’s overachievement. It fit its place in the show, but still the design feels like a futile attempt to improve on the flawless.

NCC-1701

Because the series “Enterprise” had not shat thoroughly enough on the original franchise with its unbearable theme song taken from Patch Adams, Paramount in its infinite wisdom gave the series to J.J. Abrams, Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman. At the avant-garde of the reboot frenzy, 2009′s “Star Trek” went back to the beginning to derange all aspects of the original franchise into a new action franchise that functioned more as a spoof than a recreation. So too was the Enterprise redesigned into a spoof of its original self. It was endowed with nacelles that looked vaguely like 1960s hair dryers, likely in an attempt to recapture the “60s feel” that must have been utterly alien and unresearched to those in charge of the production. The rest was smoothed out and bulged in unaesthetic places, like an unskilled Photoshop artist for a sleazy magazine who takes the perfect body of a model and reshapes their hips and chest into a cartoon image that might please a teenager who has yet to see an actual nude body. All that is to say- It fit the 2009 movie perfectly.

Not pictured are the XCV 330, as it appears only as paintings or models in either franchise (though had they wanted to make a series about an Enterprise that took place before the original series, it might have been a more appropriate design to use); the Mirror Universe ships, the Star Trek: Beyond version of the Enterprise A which featured only minimal changes to the 2009 design, at least as far as could be seen in its single, brief shot; or the Holodeck seafaring Enterprise seen in Star Trek: Generations.

Memory Alpha was used extensively as a source for information and images.

Complaints and corrections can be directed to SharkChunks.