My diagrams of the NX, compiled for Herman’s first ship’s internal arrangement meeting with our producers.
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This is great. Thanks.
These. Are. NEAT!
It immediately made me think of the specs that Scotty is studying while sipping tea in Star Trek 6, right before he discovers the weirdly hidden uniforms of those two men … Burke and Samno!
This is awful, but I have to confess as its making me laugh – in my mind, I picture Herman presenting these to the producers and then one of them saying “Oh no, no, these make too much sense. Change them!”
Still, all fun aside, I’m sure they were wonderful people in their own special ways.
She’s a fine ship and she’s got the right name!
Nice. I really liked this particular ship – had no problem imagining a Daedalus coming afterwards.
In fact, it would have been neat to see the two flying alongside oneanother . . . maybe I’ll render up something . . .
I love starship schematics and cutaway views! They make those ships seem much more real and I’m always impressed by the amount of thought that goes into them.
chrisdawson: That would be fantastic to see! An NX and Daedalus (maybe with a subtle retexture a la the EdenFX Constitution class) flying side-by-side, somewhere pretty, would be eye candy indeed.
In fact, I’d like to see something like that in SOTL. It should be in there!
I second Syd’s emotion.
Just love seeing the official deck layout of the NX-01.
But I’m curious, Doug. When designing starships, do you guys start off with a predetermined size (and design) of a ship, then fudge the interiors to make it work? Or you had certain ideas with the interior and tweek the outside to make the inside work for the sets?
Interesting. I note a distinct lack of phasers—sorry, phase cannons—on the diagram. And numbered decks instead of lettered. (The latter never made any sense to me.)
Impulse rockets…hmm
Thanks for sharing those! I totally echo Jay – that is really neat!
Andrew, Doug states that this was “compiled for Herman’s first ship’s internal arrangement meeting with our producers.” The post of the NX Cutaway Diagram on May 16th shows the decks with letters. Either way works for me, as I know the alphabet as well as I can count!
I think (hope) my quarters are on E Deck.
I’ll be downloading these for further perusal! Thanks again, Doug!
Very nice, Doug! I’m sure Herman felt well armed with this in hand!
I’m confused where is the bowling alley….
Terry, that would be in an unassigned area, per Doug on his May 16th post. I’ll definitely take his word for it! I assumed the MACO guys went into an unassigned area as well, or do the military guys not need space for sleep, just training?
Andrew Timson: The reason Federation starships of the 24th century have numbered decks is because some of them have more than 26 decks.
Darn, no rubber duckies! Personally, I would have hollowed out Deck 5, placed a disco ball in the middle and danced the night away!
Hey Doug, I’m pretty sure I saw these on TV years ago during Star Treks 35th Anniversary night on BBC 2, a UK channel. When B&b were being interviewed these were in the backround.
Did they ask to have this ship flying in the other direction too?
I love these tech sheets. They are such a peek into the viability of the concept. This one’s detail is impressive. Thanks for sharing.
One question though…where are the inverted braces for the shuttlebay?
The DC
Paul, I thought of that too. I think this diagram (blurry, in the back of shot and on a show not even broadcast outside the UK) was the very first time fans got a glimpse of the NX-01. And everyone asked “where’s the secondary hull?”
All those times negative people essentially said “the NX sucks and Doug doesn’t know what he’s doing”?
Those people were idiots. Doug kept us from having a REAL Akiraprise. And the NX has plenty of thought behind her.
Andrew, Doug states that this was “compiled for Herman’s first ship’s internal arrangement meeting with our producers.”
Right. I was trying to point out differences between this and the final ship where I think the draft version is an improvement.
The reason Federation starships of the 24th century have numbered decks is because some of them have more than 26 decks.
True. What I was trying to say (perhaps not clearly enough) is that I think using letters in the first place, before they had more decks, didn’t make sense; we don’t letter floors in office buildings, do we?
Sorry if I misread your comment, Andrew!
I can’t say for other types of current ships, but cruise ships do typically use letters to designate, at least on paper, different decks, even though they make up fancy attractive names for them. A Deck is still used as the final name of the lowest deck on one or two lines. I didn’t actually think about that until just now.
thanks for sharing.
whats the roadmap from we need a ship till it hits the screen ?
Jonathan: I’d actually go as far to say the NX is the most-thought-out design for an Enterprise ever. Whereas (as far as I know) every other one was just designed, largely from a aesthetic perspective, and then assigned functions by the writers and producers (ie Roddenberry arbitrarily lengthening the Galaxy-class nacelles from Probert’s original idea), Doug put thought and logic into just about every feature of the ship (well, and some nice TOS tips o’ the hat too). It’s all there for a REASON.
Swappable warp cores, EVA access hatches on the nacelles, identifiable sensor packages located where they’d need to be, it all makes SENSE. The Tech Briefs here are awesome.
Syd! Be still my heart!
As an original series die-hard, I thought the exterior and interior design of Enterprise was the best feature of the series. It succeeded for me in the brutal challenge of being futuristic for modern TV audiences yet ostensibly coming 100 years before the time (and look) of the original series. (My one quibble: too many of the ships’ monitors/screens/panels were inadequately disguised flat-panel PC displays, especially all over the bridge. They seemed obvious to me from day one and made me fear they will date an otherwise great look.)
The design was so strong, and made me that much more excited for the series, it just made the storytelling of the first 3 years that much more of a letdown. But today I will stop to watch the show when it’s on HDNet because it just looks so good.
Desilu Trek! What a great moniker! Thank you so much for the kind words. Everyone in the art department loved Star Trek and it’s traditions. A lotta love there.