The USS Enterprise 1701-D is updated in evolution to the original USS Enterprise 1701 from the Star
Trek media franchise. The Next Generation occurred in the 24th century 78 years after the adventure
of Captain James T. Kirk and the starship Enterprise. Under the command of Jean-Luc Picard.
It was the main setting of Star Trek the Next Generation and served as Starfleet
flagship for seven years. The Enterprise 1701-D retained the signature of Matt Jefferies'
design from the original enterprise a saucer section and engineering section and a pair of
engine nacelle. Artist Andrew Probert was in charge of redesigning the Enterprise-D
which was an update to matt Jeffrey's iconic 1960 enterprise design depicting a ship supporting a
larger crew on a longer mission to boldly go where no one has gone before. With a total of 42 decks
the Enterprise D was twice the length and have eight times the interior space of the constitution
class ships over the century earlier. She carries a combined crew and passenger load of 1012
For comparison, the original enterprise 1701 is about 288 meters
or 947 feet in length and is about 88 meters or 289 feet in height.
While the 1701-D is about twice the size.
It measures about 642 meters or 2,106 feet in length and is about 195 meters or 640
feet in height. However, when compared to the Borg Cube it's actually quite small in size.
The Cube volume is about 27 cubic kilometers and spanning more than 3000 meters on every side.
So how fast is warp speed? The current speed of light is around 299,792, 458 kilometers per second
which is similar to warp speed 1. In this current demonstration it takes light about 5
hours and 28 minutes just to reach pluto which is about 3.6 billion miles away from the sun.
At 5 warp speed which is about 213 times faster than warp speed 1
the same trip to pluto will take about 1 minute and 30 seconds. The 1701-D has
the maximum speed of warp 9.2 but can travel up to 9.6 in an emergency situation for 12 hours.
As we take a closer look we can see the captain's yacht, the main navigational deflector dish
and the photon torpedo launcher. The navigation deflector is a component
installed on many starships and was mainly used to deflect space debris asteroids and any other
object that may potentially be dangerous. The captain's yacht has named the Calypso
and was intended for a diplomatic mission such as transportation of dignitaries and ambassadors.
At the top of 1701-D was the main bridge. The bridge was the main command and control facility
of the starship. The commanding officer and the first officer was often positioned on the bridge.
At the back of the ship a secondary hall was the warp engine nacelle
and main impulse engine. The warped nacelle was an outboard structure found on a warped capable
vessel with warp drive will typically have two or more nacelles.
The warps coil and the warp nacelle creates a subspace displacement fill which warped
the space around the vessel and allowed it to travel faster than the speed of light.
An impulse engine or impulse drive was a the common propulsion system used on a starship.
The Bussard's collector was the device usually attached to the front of the warp nacelle.
It allows Starfleet to use a magnetic field to collect interstellar gas molecules for
use as fuel. The 1701-D has the ability to disconnect from the primary and secondary hull
and was used in cases of emergency or tactical maneuver.
The ship has about 42 decks but due to time and resources,
I have only managed to focus on decks 1 to 4, 10, 34, and 38.
Let's start with decks 1-4. At the very top of the vessel was deck 1 which was the bridge.
The bridge was the nerve center of every starship
and it was manned by top officers of each department except for engineering and medical.
On the bridge were the conference room technical console and restroom. The conference room
was where the senior staff or military leader could conduct meetings in various conferences.
In addition, there were also the ready room and science station.
In the ready room, the captain could engage in administrative work without interfering
with the bridge operation while having instant access to the bridge in the event of a crisis.
The science station was normally occupied by the science office which was a senior staff position.
On deck two was the officer's quarters. First was lieutenant commander Data's
quarter lieutenant commander La Forge's quarter in the crew lounge.
In addition, there was a lieutenant commander Worf's quarter, atmosphere system, and lifeboat.
A lifeboat sometimes known as escape pod was a small craft used to escape from a vessel or
facility during a catastrophic failure of an onboard system, external attack, or threat.
As we head down to Decks 3 and 4, these decks were dedicated to the shuttle bay. The shuttle bay
was a facility on the starship where the shutter craft would launch, receive, store and
maintain. Most shuttle bays were equipped with a tractor being emitted in order to facilitate
the landing procedure. On deck 3 was the flight crew lounge and the shuttle system programming.
On the center of the survey was the shutter bay control room and view balcony.
On deck 4 was the main shuttle bay internal cargo elevator and the main computer core data trunk.
Furthermore with the shuttle fuel and dock the shuttle maintenance low bay in the crew quarters.
The type 6 shuttle was a modification of the full-size Galileo type shuttle built
for Star Trek 5. It can hold up to 2 crews and 6 passengers
Type 6 was designed to be a short-range shuttle and was classified as a light shutter with the
ability to travel at warp speed 1.2 to the maximum speed of warp speed 4.
The RCS thruster quad or reaction control system
with a standard thruster used by the federation for low-velocity propulsion.
Depending on the facility available their rank and their length of services this quarter may
vary from a shared cabin to a personnel suite with bathroom living area and office space.
The holodeck and the holodeck high bay was a form of holo technology
used by the Federation Starfleet which ran holographic programs. When a user experienced
a holographic environment the holodeck wall could generate a holographic image
that appears to extend for a limited distance seemingly much larger than its own dimension
At the center of deck 10 well the main computer core and stellar cartography,
the computer network of a starship is based around a system of redundant computer core
that process data of our ship's system every single system from light support to weapons
and shielding depends on the computer core. Stellar cartography was a field of astronomy
dedicated to collecting and analyzing data in order to make maps of the star
system in planets one who specialized in this science is known as a stellar cartographer.
As we head further back of Deck 10 we can see the gas flow accelerator
and saucer impulse engines the impulse drive was essentially an augmented fusion rocket
Usually consisting of one or more fusion reactors
in close proximity to the impulse engine where the anti-matter storage pods and light boats.
The Ten-Forward was situated at the extreme the forward end of the saucer section and was
designed with several large windows which offer a spectacular view of the space ahead of the vessel.
The Turbolift or turbo elevator was a device that provides
rapid transport with both vertical and horizontal transportation for personnel.
As we head to dec 34 or the engineering support
the ballast core flight article and the computer core can be found here.
At the front was the main deflector dish it was a component used to deflect space debris
asteroid particles and other objects that might have collided with the ship.
To calculate and navigate through space the Deflector Signal Processor
performs calculations during flight the atmospheric physics lab combines
the component of physics and chemistry that focus on the planet's atmosphere.
Toward the back was the upper reactant loader in the launcher gas generator.
Located at deck 36 was the main engineering room and lowered reactant loader.
The engineering primary purpose was to be the center point for control of all engineering
systems aboard a starship especially those related to propulsion and power.
generation. The dilithium crystal chamber was a component in the starship's warp core
that contained the dilithium crystal. The dilithium is an element a member of the
hypersonic series and was a critical component of warp drive. At the center of deck 38 was the warp
engine core and the wall power transfer conduit commonly warp core utilized matter anti-matter
reaction to produce the required energy to achieve warped speed on a capable starship.
The warp power transport conduit was the advanced type of plasma pipe used for carrying warp plasma
from the vessel's warp core to the drive nacelle. As part of the main deflector
dish the main deflector field emitted was advice that emits charged particles.
The chief engineering duties range from making the roster for engineering personnel
to advising the captain on possible solutions for a certain technical problem with the vessel.
The USS Enterprise-D was destroyed in 2371
after an attack by the renegade Klingons. Although the saucer selection was separate before the
breach the force of the explosion caused the section to crash on the planet Veridian iii.
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