What's your pick for the real U.S.S. Enterprise?

SciFi Wire ^ | 09/16/09

[KevinDavis]

Which is the real Enterprise?

That's the challenge being thrown down by filmmaker and Star Trek expert Robert Meyer Burnett (Free Enterprise), who posted the composite image below on his Facebook page.

Burnett has his own opinions on the matter, which anyone who's ever talked with him would know; after all, he helped design Star Trek: The Experience in Las Vegas.

[KevinDavis]

A big thanks goes to Visualops for the Banner!!

[JennysCool]

[neodad]

Word.

[Redcitizen]

I vote the refit of the original Enterprise as the best.

[buccaneer81]

[Billthedrill]

Damn right. BTT.

[Disambiguator]

[Viking2002]

Minor aesthetics. They're all beauties in my eyes......God, if we only had the will.

***I am on vacation the week of 9/14, and will have limited access to my graphics, my avatar, and my pre-planned smartass comments. I will be returning to my computer the week of 9/21, and will resume offending you then, as time permits - thanks to all in advance.***

[Names Ash Housewares]

The Abrams-prise looks like two sex toys cobbled together. I hate it, I refuse to even acknowledge the “reboot” nonsense.

The orginal ship designed by Matt Jeffries is timeless. also the refit is quite elegant, which also had Jeffries input.

Make no mistake, the original is THE ENTERPRISE.

In all it’s meaning to boldy go, exploration and the higher goals of the Federation that improve the human condition. It’s not just a ship.

And the message of the original series (right there in the mission statement in front of every episode) is getting lost more and more with each Trek incarnation. Sad.

[GeronL]

They mean “real” as in real? I say the aircraft carrier.

When they ask “real” in the Star Trek “universe”? I say NCC-1701 no bloody A, B, C or bloody D.

I apologize to Scotty for that =o)

[TurtleUp]

Any support for the first Space Shuttle: Enterprise?

[Question_Assumptions]

My favorite is still the original.

[KevinDavis]

Don’t forget about the “E”

[GeronL]

lol.

That came later, this was the epsiode where the Next Generation , 1701-D, rescued Scotty.

[Riley]

Mine, too.

Link hotter'n a fireship.

[KevinDavis]

Me I like them all.. Including the NX-01 and JJ Enterprise..

[KevinDavis]

[ZinGirl]

nice! good one. :)

[GeronL]

Okay. me too. I like them all too.

[Redcitizen]

Oh yeah. That’s the stuff. (Ahhhh)

[bushpilot1]

How do you know it isn’t real.

[golas1964]

“N - C - C - 1 - 7 - 0 - 1. No bloody A, B, C, OR D!”
(Scotty - TNG episode “Relics”)

[Robert A. Cook, PE]

No plumbing.

No hot showers.

No cold showers either.

No holo-deck.

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

Aye Aye!

"There can be only one."

[sionnsar]

That one! But the Shuttle and aircraft carrier are up there too.

[sionnsar]

No plumbing.
No hot showers.
No cold showers either.
No holo-deck.

No holo-deck? How is that possible?

[OneWingedShark]

The following has several things wrong, the bulges in the fore of the warp-nacelles and the mis-proportioned fore-section of the lower hull; but if those defects were corrected it would be a good looking ship.

[concentric circles]

[Riley]

A sufficiency of grog would address all of those shortcomings.

[Riley]

Heh. There you go. I can almost feel the pitching deck and smell the air. :-)

[KevinDavis]

CSS Enterprise (The only Enterprise in the Civil War on the Confederate side)...

[KevinDavis]

[PLMerite]

My dog would have killed me in my sleep for that...

[Professional Engineer]

lol

[TonyInOhio]

U.S.S. Enterprise CV-6

"Finally, on the morning of October 26, as Hornet burned just over the horizon, Enterprise became the last operational US carrier in the Pacific. A bold sign appeared in the hangar deck - "Enterprise vs. Japan" - reflecting both the desperate nature of the situation, and the resolve of Enterprise's men. Not until December 5, when the repaired Saratoga arrived at Noumea, would the men in Enterprise see another friendly flattop."

[NicknamedBob]

"No holo-deck? How is that possible?"

Wesley Crusher stole it when he left.

[Professional Engineer]

Now you’re talkin’.

[Grig]

I’ll take any of the TOS movie enterprises over any of the others. In fact I’ll take the TOS movies over the TOS tv series too.

[Question_Assumptions]

I meant this one:

...but that one's nice, too.

[patton]

Had a poop deck, though.