Starship Enterprise Wikipedia. Enterprise or USS Enterprise often referred to as the Starship Enterprise is the name of several fictional spacecraft, some of which are the main craft and setting for various television series and films in the Star Trek science fiction franchise. DevelopmenteditAccording to The Star Trek Encyclopedia, the registry number NCC 1. Matt Jefferies, art director of the first Star Trek series, inspired by an old science fiction cover that Gene Roddenberry liked, with a starship flying through space. Jefferies, who was a pilot, based NCC on 2. In such 2. 0th century usage, an N first letter refers to an aircraft registered in the United States. The Orion Drive trope as used in popular culture. When you get into space, youre going to need some kind of drive to make moving around easier. If you cant. Presentation of our new universal mobile payment application, available since 18 May, created through a merger of the Wa and Fivory apps, incorporating such features. The Cool Starship trope as used in popular culture. The cool ship can be a spaceship that other characters consider a piece of junk. In fact, you get extra. For some good general notes on designing spacecraft in general, read Rick Robinsons Rocketpunk Manifesto essay on Spaceship Design 101. Also worth reading are Ricks. Aio Installer Download here. COLLEGE OF ARTS, COMMUNICATIONS AND DESIGN CACD draws a faculty of artists of national and international renown, who bring their passion and creativity directly. Starship Design Program' title='Starship Design Program' />A C for a second letter refers to a civil aircraft. Jefferies added a second C because he thought it looked better. The Franz Joseph. Blueprints, the book The Making of Star Trek, and a handful of Star Trek novels state that NCC is an initialism for Naval Construction Contract. In an interview with the BBC, Jefferies explained that NC is the designation for U. S. commercial aircraft and the Soviet Unions space program used the CCCP designation. He concluded that any major future space projects would likely be a combined international effort, thus he invented the combined designation NCC. The 1. 70. 1 had two functions, it represented the first 0. In Gene Roddenberrys original Star Trek pitch, the starship is described as a United Space Ship, and in two episodes of The Original Series TOS, Kirk refers to the United Space Ship Enterprise. Star Trek Planet of the TitanseditBefore Star Trek The Motion Picture, Paramount had planned a Star Trek film to have been named Star Trek Planet of the Titans. Early in the production, Ralph Mc. Quarrie had been hired to redesign the ship. The major feature of the redesign was to replace the cigar shaped secondary hull with a larger, triangle shaped delta wing section. Mc. Quarries design was discarded in favor of keeping the general shape of the ship intact for the release of Star Trek The Motion Picture. DepictioneditPre Federation eraeditThree spacecraft with the name Enterprise predate the United Federation of Planets in Star Treks fictional timeline. Registry Enterprise OV 1. Class Space Shuttle orbiter. Service February 1. April 2. 7, 2. 01. YearsCommander Fred Haise, Joe Engle. Space Shuttle Enterprise appears in Star Trek The Motion Picture among a series of illustrations depicting ships and spacecraft named Enterprise. A Space Shuttle orbiter model also appears in Star Trek Into Darkness among with models of historical aircraft, historical spacecraft and Star Trek starships many of which named Enterprise. It was retroactively entered into the Star Trek continuity. In real life, the originally selected name for the orbiter was Constitution but it was instead named Enterprise due to Star Trek fans and the personal intervention of President Gerald Ford. Registry USS Enterprise XCV 3. Class Declaration. Service circa 2. Captain Unknown. This USS Enterprise XCV 3. Star Trek The Motion Picture among a series of illustrations depicting ships named Enterprise. It also appears as a model in Star Trek Into Darkness. The 1. 97. 9 Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology describes this first interstellar liner as a Declaration class ship launched in 2. Its length is given as 3. The Star Trek Maps by New Eye Photography Editors, also published in 1. Earths first attempt to explore another star system. The Making of Star Trek The Motion Picture, published in 1. U. S. S. Enterprise. A painting of this ship hangs on the wall of Earths 6. Club in flashbacks from the Star Trek Enterprise episode First Flight. Registry Enterprise NX 0. Class NXService 2. YearsCaptain Jonathan Archer Scott BakulaUnited Earth Starfleets Enterprise is the main setting of Star Trek Enterprise 2. Enterprise was the first Earth built starship capable of reaching Warp 5. She was commanded by Captain Jonathan Archer and played an instrumental role in the founding of several proto Federation alliances. Scarface Ps2 Torrent Iso. Enterprise had significant engagements with the Klingons, Suliban, Xindi and the Romulans and playing a central role in the Temporal Cold War. The Original Series eraeditThree ships named USS Enterprise are featured in the original Star Trek television series and the first through seventh. Star Trek films. Registry USS Enterprise NCC 1. Class Constitution class6Service 2. YearsCaptains Robert April James Doohan, Christopher Pike Jeffrey Hunter, Sean Kenney, James T. Kirk William Shatner, Willard Decker Stephen Collins refit, Spock Leonard Nimoy refitThe Federations first Enterprise is the main setting of the original Star Trek series 1. The Animated Series 1. Having undergone an extensive rebuilding and refitting, Enterprise then appears in Star Trek The Motion Picture 1. Star Trek II The Wrath of Khan 1. Star Trek III The Search for Spock 1. The bridge appears on the holodeck of the Enterprise D in the Next Generation episode Relics. The ship herself also appears in the Deep Space Nine episode Trials and Tribble ations and the closing montage of the final Enterprise episode These Are the Voyages. Registry USS Enterprise NCC 1. AClass Enterprise class89Service 2. YearsCaptain James T. Kirk William ShatnerThis ship first appears at the conclusion of Star Trek IV The Voyage Home 1. Star Trek movies which use the original crew. The ship is ordered decommissioned at the end of Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country. Paperwork included with the model kit indicated the ship was mothballed at the Memory Alpha ship museum. Outside other Star Trek book canon, the Shatnerverse novel The Ashes of Eden 1. Enterprise As removal from the mothball fleet before being destroyed defending the planet Chal. Registry USS Enterprise NCC 1. BClass Excelsior refit1. Service 2. 29. 32. YearsCaptains John Harriman Alan Ruck, Demora Sulu Jacqueline Kim, William George, and Thomas Johnson Jr. Launched at the start of Star Trek Generations 1. James T. Kirk is declared missing, presumed killed, after the ship encounters the Nexus energy ribbon on its maiden voyage. According to Star Trek novels, Demora Sulu succeeded Harriman as captain. William George, Demora Sulu, and Thomas Johnson Jr. Haynes Enterprise Manual. The Next Generation eraeditThree ships named Enterprise are featured in Star Trek The Next Generation and four TNG era films. Registry USS Enterprise NCC 1. CClass Ambassador. Service 2. 33. 21. YearsCaptains Rachel Garrett Tricia ONeilThis ship appears in the Next Generation episode Yesterdays Enterprise 1. It was destroyed attempting to defend the Klingon outpost Narendra III from Romulan attack. Survivors included Tasha Yar Denise Crosby, whose alternate timeline version from Yesterdays Enterprise travels with the ship back in time to the battle over Narendra III. The actions of the Enterprise Cs crew became a catalyst for the alliance between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. Registry USS Enterprise NCC 1. DClass Galaxy. Service 2. YearsCaptains Jean Luc Picard Patrick Stewart, William T. Riker Jonathan Frakes, Edward Jellico Ronny CoxThe main setting of Star Trek The Next Generation 1. During Star Trek Generations, Enterprise was lost in 2. Duras sisters renegade Klingon Bird of Prey which caused extensive damage, leading to a warp core breach. Orion Drive TV Tropes. AKA Ol Boom Boom. When you get into space, youre going to need some kind of drive to make moving around easier. If you cant get Artificial Gravity to work your Reactionless Drive, perhaps you need to look at something simpler. Preferably with lots of explosions. You might consider implementing an Orion Drive, an old project that was thought up during the Cold War. Explosive Propulsion meets nuclear weapons, youve got the potential to move much larger ships than normal. The researchers working on this project tended to include things like barbers chairs in their ship designs just to emphasize how much mass they could move. A basic Orion Drive is composed of a Cool Ship, a large armor plate, and enough high yield weapons to set it in motion. They dont necessarily have to be nuclear, but they need to have the equivalent explosive power. A common variant is to have the explosive material be smaller pellets of frozen deuterium tritium mix, which would then be induced into nuclear fusion by a laser this is essentially an H bomb without having to use an A bomb to set it off. While this may all sound like madness, scale model tests with conventional explosives have established that the design is perfectly workable. The main obstacle to actually building one of these is the logistics of lifting the components into orbit, since for reasons that probably need little elaboration, nuclear detonations inside the planets atmosphere are deprecated these days. A common form of harder scifi propulsion systems. See also Explosion Propulsion. Anime and Manga  On several occasions, in the UC Gundam Series, some types of Propulsion systems are called Nuclear Drives, for example the propulsion systems of the AXIS Asteroid. Comic Books Atomic Robo has an Orion Drive based ship appear in Volume 6. Developed in secret, its planned launch is the driving force of the plot to kill Robo, as its launch would cause enough radioactive fallout to wipe out all life on Earth, leaving Robo as the last survivor, who would then almost certainly chase after it. The rocket designed by Professor Calculus in the Tintin comics, Destination Moon and Explorers On The Moon, is propelled by slow detonating nuclear fission explosions. The engine is made of calculon, a silicon based material that was invented by Calculus to withstand the radiation and extreme heat created by the explosions. The rocket also has chemical fuelled rocket engines so that it can take off and land without polluting the surroundings with deadly nuclear fallout. Fan Works     Film     Literature  In Footfall, humanity uses a ground launched Orion drive spaceship in a last ditch effort to fight off the invading aliens, as its the only way to get sufficient firepower into the orbitals. A crew member of the Archangel Michael memorably described liftoff. God was knocking, and he wanted in bad. Troy Rising by John Ringo Troy, a massive battle station ten kilometers wide made from a hollowed out and inflated asteroid, adds an Orion Drive so that it can get to the Portal Network and go crush enemy alien fleets. Upon first seeing the Troy come through the gate, the aliens think its been hit, only to suddenly realize its actually the drive. Orion Shall Rise, by Poul Anderson has this as its central premise. In The Land Of Crimson Clouds by the Strugatsky Brothers and its sequels this is called photonic drive. A spaceship is semi spherical, and its inner surface is covered with a super mirrornote Mezosubstance, probably consisting of atoms where electrons were replaced with heavier negative particles this kind of substance is theorized to be much more durable than normal electrosubstance, but nobody figured yet how to make it last even a microsecond. So basically, thermonuclear explosions under the mirror drive the ship forward. In the sequels mirrors are thicker, engines are smaller, ramscoops appear, certain side effects are discovered at relativistic speeds. This eventually leads to Casual Interstellar Travel as seen in Noon Universe proper. King Davids Spaceship by Jerry Pournelle inhabitants of a planet that is to be re admitted to the Empire plot to build the spaceship based on an Orion project concept in order to qualify their planet as a higher developed, Class One Imperial world. However, this craft uses non nuclear explosives. The Stone Dogs by S. M. Stirling Orion spacecraft are created during an arms race between the Domination of the Draka and the Alliance for Democracy, and used by both sides in their explorations of the solar system and as warships. The drive itself features as an improvised weapon in the book, being used to keep other ships at a distance. The Shiva Option A Starfire novel by David Weber and Steve White an arachnid homeworld is destroyed by converting several asteroids into Orion drive starships and launching them at it. Humanitys allies, the pseudo feline Orions, take the naming of the concept as an honour, not knowing the technology was imagined before humanity ever left Earth. Anathem by Neal Stephenson features a spacecraft that travels between different dimensions and uses an Orion style propulsion system. This ship, the Daban Urnud, is discovered by observing the nuclear explosions used to modify its orbit. Olympos by Dan Simmons describes an Orion style spaceship, designed by the Moravec machine race to emulate 2. Used by the ktritzal in Junction Point in order to escape the high gravity of their homeworld. Tricentennial by Joe Haldeman featured the Daedelus or John F. Kennedy, or Leonid Brezhnev apparently spaceships are also prone to renaming, which was powered by nuclear bombs. Marooned In Realtime by Vernor Vinge bobble technology makes this method of travel safe. Toss a timed nuke out of a spaceship, then activate a short lived and totally indestructible bobble. The nuke will explode, shoving the bobbled ship away. Cepheide the 1. 98. Tais Teng describes a ship with Orion propulsion as one of the most primitive and wasteful methods of interstellar flight, still only achieved by a tiny minority of all intelligent races in the universe. The ship is said to be the last relic of an unknown race exterminated by the dominant Yi. Yiki descendants of the humpback whales. John Varleys Eight Worlds series. In The Golden Globe, the wreck of an Orion spaceship is converted to an interstellar starship. Steel Beach sets several scenes near or within the bulk of the Robert A. Heinlein, the aforementioned Orion style ship, which was built and then abandoned when humanity lapsed into apathy for stellar exploration. Best Of Tears For Fears Rar. The Hive by Chris Berman involves the use of a ground launched Orion spacecraft by the Peoples Republic of China in a gamble to reach an alien artifact in orbit between Jupiter and Saturn before the crew of a spacecraft built by the United States and Russia can reach it first. Ark by Stephen Baxter a starship Ark One is built to save a small group of people as Earth drowns under a global flood. It launches and performs the first phase of its mission using a version of Orion. This version is ground launched though owing to the situation the entire planet is about to drown anyway environmental concerns are set aside. Manifold Space, also by Stephen Baxter, has the main character piloting an Orion craft to a large blue ring situated just outside the Solar system. Project Orion The Atomic Spaceship 1.