I have some questions regarding the Enterprise-D, and all Galaxy-class starships in TNG and beyond. My questions have to do with the shuttlecraft hangars, facilities and whatever craft are housed there. IIRC, there is supposed to be a shuttle bay house in the neck , the upper-most part of the. Since most of the enterprise's primary and seconary hills are empty space just like shipand assuming 2 centuries of progress in material science would allow the ship's structural weight to stay under control, this suggests most of the ship's mass must be in those two big engine nacelles. What do you think? The thing about shuttles is that if you can't use warp, for whatever reason, then the shuttle is your vehicle of choice. 1) If warp is forbidden, surely the mothership has better things to do than putter along at impulse - but Picard can still sail across the no-warp zone to his hairstylist and back, while the Enterprise does those things. The fourth shuttle was called mellgen ask warped9 he,s got some great tech pics of the four shuttles from the enterprise. I'm doing a little project at the moment using warped9 pics as a reference three standed type F and the fourth is a type H same config but the warp nacelles are swept back building them buy using the AMT kits. ? Nimoy and Roddenberry weren't really speaking in the 70s, but there they both are at the shuttle roll-out. For whatever reasons, Shatner rarely made such ST-related publicity appearances without his standard fee, or because he was too busy. That's going to colour people's views, whatever the truth. Today's the anniversary of the rollout of the Space Shuttle Enterprise and the pictures of the TOS actors at the event are all over the internet. Shatner is conspicuously absent. Anybody know the story behind that? Acquire a good external model of the Enterprise from TOS (Canon line-drawing) Acquire a good internal model of the Enterprise from TOS Then from there Establish a scale for the shuttle, whereby a certain number of pixels equal an inch Scale the Big-E to 947 feet, and 1,080 feet according to the same scale I was curious about the Constitution class ships from TOS. As I understand it, there were only 12 Constitution class starships during TOS. Is there a definitive list of which 12 were the original ships? Further to this, why were there only 12? Was this number chosen for a reason? When the National Air and Space Museum in Washington D.C. opened its new building for the US Bicentennial in 1976, it had a special surprise for fans and friends of Star Trek – Kirk’s iconic USS Enterprise had become a part of the collection and it was the first time that the underside of the. There have been several discussions in the past about viable crew complements of various ships and whether they are realistic. I've got a slightly different question regarding crew complements. Why do starships have such a wide range of standard crew versus maximum (sometimes referred to as the.