I was in junior high school and bought both the blueprint pack and the Star Fleet Manual at a book fair. I believe they are both in a box of stuff I've carted around for about forty-five years. This brought those blueprints to life. Thank you!
Great video, love the deck plans. I find it amusing the 'head' (toilet) is behind the view screen. Can you imagine looking out into space and just behind is someone on the loo. lol
Fantastic presentation. Despite not matching perfectly with what's seen on screen in the episodes, Franz Joseph's deck plans are a phenomenal piece of work and it's great to see them in 3D
It'd be an amazing job to even fit the things on screen since most shows have their sets mostly in various different scales to begin with. This can only be done through a git model that gets cloned and forks the model to fit different episodes.
@@brodriguez11000 I'm getting close to being an old timer, grew up with Atari & Nintendo, so not sure how to do that, but I imagine that would be fun, Lol.
Always strange to me that the science labs would be located directly below the bridge. It made more sense for conference rooms, library computer banks, observation areas, a lounge for bridge crew, and perhaps even the captain's quarters to be located there. Considering that labs might be conducting dangerous experiments, placing them so close to the primary control center of the ship just seems bizarre. It might make more sense to put such labs in the secondary hull.
Yeah, a lot of the positioning doesn't really make sense. They have the infirmary as a taurus, the center of which is the battle bridge. The recreational deck is also a taurus, the center of which is the main computer system. And right beside the junior officers quarters? Photon torpedo banks. Sleep tight! I'd've imagined offices on the 2nd deck. Like, the XO's office... an office for R&D, an office for diplomacy. Perhaps a conference room, and special guest quarters. The computer would make more sense near engineering, or perhaps bridge. Like, right under or above one of those. Or at the very least, at the center of all the science labs.
I like the idea of the ship having a large astrophysics lab with a large telescope and all that. But the idea that it would be pointed in the aft direction to me is what makes no sense. If you had such a lab with a large telescope to do astronomical observations, it would make more sense to have it pointed ahead in the direction of travel and toward the star systems that you might be traveling to. Not away from it!!
It probably reflects the ship's mission of exploration. The science being done was considered a primary executive concern. Tucking it away in some other part of the ship, requiring a longer route to travel for the bridge crew, probably wouldn't align as well with that mission.
I was seven when Star Trek aired. I LOVED the show and was captivated by the science behind it. From that time on, I felt NCC-1701 was the most beautiful starship I had ever seen. It's simple and utilitarian, yet elegant and sleek, and it's my favorite ship to this day. This walkthrough is one of the most amazing I've seen. Thank you for doing this. I'm astounded and enchanted by this video! I kept pausing at every section to soak it all in.
When I was a boy my Dad bought me the illustrated Star Trek STAR FLEET TECHNICAL MANUAL by Franz Joseph, published in 1975. It is still amazing to look at.
Marvelous work. Seeing all those spaces it was fun to imagine living amongst all those less heroic spaces away from the camera lens. Throughout the various ship's adventures all those invisible crew working the labs, fabrication areas, and moving through their day to day life patterns.
I still find it funny that we never got to see the T.O.S Enterprise's cargo bays though we got to see them in the refit when Kirk and Scotty came aboard in The Motion Picture.
What an amazing job. Thank you for providing this in depth look at this iconic ship. I will be rewatching this video several times, and sharing with others. I look forward to part 2.
This is beyond awesome- Mr. Joseph’s designs brought to life. I’m always amazed by what talented people like you can achieve with digital artistry. This video made me very happy and for that I sincerely thank you.
In the early 80s I collected fan produced floorplans of several of those ships. The dreadnaught was my favorite. Those 1975 blueprints and the tech manual were gold back then :)
Your efforts are DEEPLY impressive and you are to be commended for your attention to detail. As a kid, I had those blueprints. I took them out of the vinyl pouch with the single snap on the front and unfolded each sheet with the greatest of care. Seeing them brought to life after all of these years I found myself having to remember to breath as you went through each deck - naming the different areas - MOST of which I actually knew before they were mentioned and/or the section titles faded into view! You have done a major service to the living memory of these Constitution class ships, and you will find that I am not the only one that your considerable effort will move to the depth that you have me. Though I am not clear at this moment of the specific "how", but you, Sir, are to be richly rewarded. Though I feel that is not the reason that you brought this into a sharable reality for others to enjoy, but when "love" (of what you apparently do so well) is combined with such an insightful and caring "effort" (your obvious willingness to take massive action) as evidenced by what you have done here, life has a way of ensuring that your status is elevated and the potential for needs you may have to simply be eliminated. Should you allow such a thing to take place, in the near future we will have the opportunity to speak. Sincerely and without hesitation, Max Laing, D. MP CEO / Project Development ActionCore, Inc., and the Allowing Success Network
Really, thank you, Max, it's just a labor of love really and I appreciate the compliment. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only person who had to try to design the vessel based on Franz's blueprint, but I couldn't find it based on my research.
If I understand correctly our content creator turned a 2D map of the ship into a 3D model we are seeing here, correct ? vey impressed sir, thanks, this video will be used in my Star Trek table top RPG, literally exactly what I needed
I liked the simplicity of the original Enterprise. All the other ships in later Star Trek shows seemed a bit too complicated. They were still amazing, but I gotta respect the simple but efficient design this ship had
I remember the first time we saw the chapel onboard the Enterprise was in the episode 'Balance of Terror' where the Enterprise had to deal with a Romulan Warbird that was attacking and destroying the Federation outposts along the Neutral Zone.
I have a first print of that Franz Joseph book. Had it as a little kid, like 5-6. I don't know where it came from. My dad had it for some reason and I took it. I spent hours comparing the various ship classes, uniforms, weapons, etc. It was hard for me to interpret all of it, but it was the coolest thing in the world. It made me believe Star Trek was real. There was an official manual! Proof! When I moved into my first apartment "The Manual" was a practical bible that my roommates and I would ritualistically acknowledge before watching every nightly episode at 11:00. We'd all sing the theme song in operatic style at the top of our lungs, and any guests needed to as well, house rules. The old lady next door hated us. Anyway, still have that book boxed, one of my oldest possessions. Need to find it. Great video, this puts a lot of context to what I remember from the diagrams.
I professionally recreate Star Trek ships in various video games. As of late I spend all my building time in Xbox Space Engineers. I strive for perfection and with alot of time and effort I achieve just that. My V3 Designs are my definitive products, and focus on completely accurate exteriors and internals. I'm currently working on my V3 TOS Enterprise right now, and videos like this is just what I need! Thanks you!!
Are you planning on releasing something to the general public? A VR walkthrough product would be amazing. You can tell that this person put a lot of work in which is great, unfortunately a lot of things about the Franz Joseph stuff just doesn't make a lot of sense, like putting lounges in the center of the ship, which is where you would put stuff that you would want to protect from battle damage or collision.
What a magnificent and wonderful experience, to revel in your creation of my absolute favorite starship from all of science fiction! My admiration for your artistry and love of the Star Trek universe is great! EXCELLENT work! May you Live Long and Prosper 🖖🏼
What's amazing is the illusion of the interior, created by a very limited number of standing sets that all fit in a giant film studio building the size of a large aircraft hanger.
Holy cow, you're awesome Talent led me to see to Enterprise the way I've never seen it before. Thank you for taking the time and energy . Much much much appreciated!
These videos are great. I've been watching Star Trek since it started in the 60s. It makes so much more sense now that I can figure out what is happening where. Thanks.
02:40 Actually, way way back in the mid-1960s, when Gene Roddenberry was first coming up with the idea of Star Trek, he wrote about how the primary hull can separate from the secondary hull in case of emergencies. He also wrote about the holodeck. The original series never used either idea, primarily because of budgetary and technical limitations. Older Star Trek fans like myself spent years dreaming about these possibilities until a brand new series called Star Trek - The Next Generation brought these exciting possibilities to life.
I recall reading that the primary hull was designed to be aerodynamic because that part of the ship was originally intended to land on a planet while the secondary hull stayed in orbit. However, doing that for most episodes would have slowed down the pace of the show. When the idea of the matter "Transporter" came along, it allowed a much faster change of scenes, getting the crew down to a planet in just seconds instead of minutes of film time. And that is why Roddenberry used it. Beam me up Scotty!
I bought the plans when they came out and during college Xmas break back in around 81, I built a model of it out of balsa wood 1:1 scale to the drawings.. Still have over 40 years later! Came out great...
This was really well done. I used to have most of the blueprints for Star Trek, this really brings them to life. Now I can hope for a version so I can walk through wearing my occulas 2
As a ten-year old, I enjoyed these drawings as much as I enjoyed the rest of "The Making of Star Trek" by Steven E. Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry, and I took special delight in the drawings, as I had finished my seventh grade drafting class, and these increased my appreciation for the work Franz Josephs accomplished. Decades later after being in the USNavy and working in the shipyards for a couple more decades, I completely understood the drawings, at best, would be a snapshot in time detailing the ship as it was in one iteration and understanding upgrades, refits and minor changes would cause some lazer variations could surprise the actual users. To me, this was the canon behind the canon and would, of course, be open to to change.
During the self destruct of the Enterprise refit, i noticed that the warpcore wasn't triggered to overload. Kinda looked like the emergency banks exploded then triggered a cascade that took out most of the forward saucer section.
I found a copy of those Franz Joseph schematics in the library back in the 1980s and looked them over. I noticed the 'saucer separation' feature described but had interpreted it as a kind of 'once done can't easily be undone' explosive maneuver.
Wonderful video! I loved the Franz Joseph Blueprints when I was a kid, and it's great to see them brought to life in your work here! Looking forward to Part 2!!!
The most detailed 3d model of the Enterprise I've seen was in a mod for Avorion on steam, wherein they layered in every bulkhead and sheet of armor. That said, this one's pretty cool.
I built this thing so many times in Minecraft to a 1to1 scale that I can tell you, she is a lot larger than you'd think given the dimensions listed for her. You should check out the new on being made on the TrekCraft minecraft Star Trek game server. Those folks are nailing the details out of the park. Looks like you are actually walking on the ship. Amazing work.
Impressive! I've been hoping to see something like this based on the Franz Josef blueprints ever since I first purchased them in a Cole's bookstore in or around 1977.
So fun! I used to pour over those blueprints in the 70s! BTW, its not strange that there are some differences between the prints and the show -- the prints are for the original Constitution design -- each ship built would have its own modifications. Oh, and I think you missed the science station on the bridge -- it appeared in several episodes ;)
Good points. In fact it makes sense to assume that the interiors of all 12 Constitution Class ships may perhaps have had some significant differences from each other!
Amazing detailed tour. Thanks for sharing. I agree with you, this saga ships are more reallistic. With these videos your are sharing we can know the porpuse of every part of it.
Glad you like them! I have seen many videos describing the exteriors of the ship, weapons, ect, but rarely the interior, which is far more interesting imo.
I hope to see videos on the other Starship classes that carried the name Enterprise from the NX Class to the Constitution Refit Class to the Excelsior Refit Class to the Ambassador Class to the Galaxy Class to the Sovereign Class and other ship classes like the Defiant Class.
WOW! Please more of that! I can only imagine how much work and effort it takes to make such a video. But I'd highly enjoy it if you made such videos for the Enterprise D and E too!
Nice. Interesting cutaway. If you do a feature on the constitution refit (Enterprise A), please do a comparrison on the OG constitution and the refit. Want to see if the refit is a "totally new enterprise" as quoted by decker
(science fiction) Sergeant Tim from Enterprise landed on a moon with a shuttlecraft, for recon. 20 percent oxygen, almost 70 percent nitrogen. Nice atmosphere, plus 20 degrees Celcius ambient temperature. Beautiful. Tim sat down and lit a cigarette. He noticed that an alien ship - saucer-shaped - landed nearby. It was not a large ship. More like a scout too. Tim was not too alerted but made sure that his sidearm, Marsec Autogun had its safety off.
A lithe alien - female I reckon - approached. She had grey scaled skin and some sort of dark shades protecting her large eyes. She said to Tim, - Hey. - Hey stranger. Why are you here? - For interest. You are from that interstellar starcraft, right? - Yep. - You know that it left already. Warped. - Yeah, I know. That is our job. - But they left you here? - They will come back for me if they need me 🙂 - Oh, I did not know that. - Well, they are really fast. They know that I love to be left alone. And besides, I cannot smoke on board. I could at the biospheres, and the plants would like it, but it would not be good advertising. - Right, Tim. I understand. - Thank you, alien 🙂 - No problemo, Tim. - By the way, you have a beautiful spacecraft. - You like it, Tim?! It is faster than your scout landing craft. - I figured out that much too. Do you have any armament within it? - It is a bit hard to describe, Tim. - Try me, please. - Well, it has a defense system. If someone fires at it, it will return the projectiles - for example - back at the one who fired at it first. It is automatic. The operator - like me - does not even need to select the response time or the target. - Wow! Awesome stuff! Amazing. You people rule! - Yeah, well, I do not know about the ruling so much, Tim. But that is how it works. - I am in love with your scientists and engineers already 🙂 - Okay, I will deliver the message. I am pretty sure they would like your review comment.
Tim asked from the obviously friendly alien female scout, - Are you in a hurry to leave? - No way, Tim. I have all the time. I am 300-years old. - Cool 🙂Would you like to taste Estonian canned fish and Australian red wine? The wine has alcohol content. If you drink it, you cannot fly. - I would love to taste them both. But I have to warn you that I am not very durable with alcohol. - it is totally fine 🙂I have a tent for us. You will be warm and cozy. - Tim, are you trying to seduce me? - Maybe? Are you trying that? - I think I am, Tim. I am so sorry! - Please do not be sorry, darling. You are doing great. You are succeeding too 🙂 - You mean you could be in love with me? - I think I already am, darling. May I call you Gwendolyn? It is a very old female name in Britannia. It is fantasy. - Sure! I love that name, Tim. May I call you Tim? It is my current fantasy 🙂 - I can live with that name too, Gwendolyn 🙂 - Awesome. Are we married now? - Not yet, my love. It will require some more time and us to get more to know each other, for instance. I am in love with you already though. - Thank you, Tim. I appreciate your patience. I cannot wait though 🙂 - Heaven's sake. Fine, I am in love with you. I always was. - Me too. Weird stuff. The space is an amazing environment. It bringeth all things. - Tell me about it, Gwendolyn. Well, I love you, darling. That is all that matters right now. - I agree. I want to have babies. - That might not be possible. You are from a different planet. We are not necessarily compatible at all. - You are right. Damn it. Okay, let's see what transpires. - Good idea, Gwendolyn. -
I wonder if the connecting section between the 2 hulls should indeed be decks with living space, or is it more of a structural part to keep the 2 hulls together. Logically it should be very strong, not living much space for anything else, other than an elevator.
Wiring, GNDN conduits, pipes, latches, turboshafts... not much room left! Did he show the Finney ion pods? the phasers? Khan showed a drawing of a phaser emitter...
I love the idea that the Enterprise did have a battle bridge deep in the middle of the saucer, but Kirk never used it, because Kirk had the biggest swinging pair in all of Starfleet.
You know it's crazy that the Constitution Class had that many transporter rooms and another thing I was surprised about is that it had a laundry room onboard but I guess it's no surprise I mean the ship would really stink if the crew was walking around in dirty uniforms and like the military of the 20th century that had laundry rooms on they're naval ships the starships of the U.F.P. would need the same thing and that the Constitution Class also had a battle bridge that was 6 decks below the main bridge.
Actually, the in universe idea of the fancy "uniforms" were, that they are "futuristic materials" that not only help regulate temperature, but also were hygienic and won't allow bacteria to grow (what creates the smell)... actually they had a limited budget, as it was a TV show.
You know it's funny that unlike with the Romulan D'Deredex Class Warbird ships of the United Federation of Planets had ships bigger than most ships of other major powers of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants.
I actually got these blueprints for my birthday one year back in the 70s. I think I was 10 or 11 years old. And I still have them! They live right next to my TNG Tech manual.
Very nicely done. It amazes me how much love and creativity are still lavished on a little TV space opera whose episodes originally aired a lifetime ago. I had one of the 500 original sets of blueprints that Franz Joseph had hand-printed, purchased at Equicon ‘74 before the rights were acquired by Pocket Books, which went on to sell about a trillion of them. They were ambrosia to us nerds back then, though I somewhat ‘de-canonized’ them in my own mind when a cutaway poster came out about a decade later locating Main Engineering just forward of the shuttle bay; much more logical than Joseph’s placement of it at the rear of the saucer. I still have that poster, somewhere, but the blueprints are long-lost to posterity. I miss them, in spite of the inconsistencies (and they’d probably be worth a fortune), though not so much as I miss my youth.
@@Halfscreen Again, I had one of the original sets that Joseph had printed himself, not the Pocket Books version. (Though there were only minor differences such as the “Starfleet font” between the two IIRC.). I’ll bet not too many of your posters can claim that! 😊
Ever since those deck plans became available, back in the 1970s, I've always wanted to see this ship model, in 3D. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it!
@@Halfscreen th-cam.com/video/oJwdsUQl7Ps/w-d-xo.html would also be nice, and hopefully not too difficult!
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I had a set of those blue prints as well. Love looking at them.
😎 cool
I was in junior high school and bought both the blueprint pack and the Star Fleet Manual at a book fair. I believe they are both in a box of stuff I've carted around for about forty-five years. This brought those blueprints to life. Thank you!
Very cool and thanks for watching! Old blueprints are awesome considering it was made before autocad.
I have the Ent-D blueprints… never letting them go.
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Great video, love the deck plans. I find it amusing the 'head' (toilet) is behind the view screen. Can you imagine looking out into space and just behind is someone on the loo. lol
I have a copy of the first Starfleet Technology manual. Love it. Has tons of information.
Fantastic presentation. Despite not matching perfectly with what's seen on screen in the episodes, Franz Joseph's deck plans are a phenomenal piece of work and it's great to see them in 3D
Glad you enjoyed it Matt and thanks for point out the acronym for me, I couldn't have figure that one out myself!
It'd be an amazing job to even fit the things on screen since most shows have their sets mostly in various different scales to begin with. This can only be done through a git model that gets cloned and forks the model to fit different episodes.
What an incredible feeling being walked through what I have thought of everyday for the past 50 years.
Wow. 50 years!
I waited all my childhood to see the ol' 1701 in 3d, and you made my dreams come true after 30 years! THANK YOU!!!
Glad you enjoyed it! I'm surprised it wasn't done before when the schematic has been around since 1973. .
Stick into a game engine and walk around.
@@brodriguez11000 I'm getting close to being an old timer, grew up with Atari & Nintendo, so not sure how to do that, but I imagine that would be fun, Lol.
Always strange to me that the science labs would be located directly below the bridge. It made more sense for conference rooms, library computer banks, observation areas, a lounge for bridge crew, and perhaps even the captain's quarters to be located there. Considering that labs might be conducting dangerous experiments, placing them so close to the primary control center of the ship just seems bizarre. It might make more sense to put such labs in the secondary hull.
I was thinking the same thing. Having been aboard several Navy ships, the layout of the Enterprise seems counter-intuitive to me.
Yeah, a lot of the positioning doesn't really make sense.
They have the infirmary as a taurus, the center of which is the battle bridge.
The recreational deck is also a taurus, the center of which is the main computer system.
And right beside the junior officers quarters? Photon torpedo banks. Sleep tight!
I'd've imagined offices on the 2nd deck. Like, the XO's office... an office for R&D, an office for diplomacy. Perhaps a conference room, and special guest quarters.
The computer would make more sense near engineering, or perhaps bridge. Like, right under or above one of those. Or at the very least, at the center of all the science labs.
I like the idea of the ship having a large astrophysics lab with a large telescope and all that. But the idea that it would be pointed in the aft direction to me is what makes no sense. If you had such a lab with a large telescope to do astronomical observations, it would make more sense to have it pointed ahead in the direction of travel and toward the star systems that you might be traveling to. Not away from it!!
It probably reflects the ship's mission of exploration. The science being done was considered a primary executive concern. Tucking it away in some other part of the ship, requiring a longer route to travel for the bridge crew, probably wouldn't align as well with that mission.
I was seven when Star Trek aired. I LOVED the show and was captivated by the science behind it. From that time on, I felt NCC-1701 was the most beautiful starship I had ever seen. It's simple and utilitarian, yet elegant and sleek, and it's my favorite ship to this day. This walkthrough is one of the most amazing I've seen. Thank you for doing this. I'm astounded and enchanted by this video! I kept pausing at every section to soak it all in.
Yeah, I got many of my audiences double checking my work for some reason, thanks for the compliment. 😁
When I was a boy my Dad bought me the illustrated Star Trek STAR FLEET TECHNICAL MANUAL by Franz Joseph, published in 1975. It is still amazing to look at.
Marvelous work.
Seeing all those spaces it was fun to imagine living amongst all those less heroic spaces away from the camera lens.
Throughout the various ship's adventures all those invisible crew working the labs, fabrication areas, and moving through their day to day life patterns.
It was good fun breaking out my 1973 plans (same ones you have) and following along!
Seem like you ain't the only one with the blueprint.
I like how it is so detailed that they include a Laundry Room....It makes sense. We had a Laundry Tent, on our base, when I was TDY to Saudi.
I still find it funny that we never got to see the T.O.S Enterprise's cargo bays though we got to see them in the refit when Kirk and Scotty came aboard in The Motion Picture.
What an amazing job. Thank you for providing this in depth look at this iconic ship. I will be rewatching this video several times, and sharing with others. I look forward to part 2.
Glad you enjoyed it!
This is beyond awesome- Mr. Joseph’s designs brought to life. I’m always amazed by what talented people like you can achieve with digital artistry. This video made me very happy and for that I sincerely thank you.
Thanks for the compliment!
Absolutely fantastic work. I’ll be forever referencing this video. Each of your videos are first class.
Thanks for watching.
I got the Franz Joseph plans when they came out, like 1973. Still have em. Except for the bowling alley, it all holds up still and I love this video!
In the early 80s I collected fan produced floorplans of several of those ships. The dreadnaught was my favorite. Those 1975 blueprints and the tech manual were gold back then :)
Yeah. In a days of cad files, seeing hand drawing blueprint is golden.
As an sci-fi fan, the "Connie" was the first ship I loved. Thanks for showing it, in all her glory! Looking forward to the conclusion!
Thanks for watching.
You've out done yourself and I can't wait for part two. Thanks for your work.
Thanks for watching Mickey!
Outstanding presentation. Well done. The 1973 Blueprints are amazing. Well thought out, very detailed, and well executed. I still have mine.
Glad you liked it. The old blueprints still hold up.
I love that back/sideways angle of the ship. Such a beautiful design.
Thank you again. I very much appreciate your efforts to bring us such fascinating looks!
My pleasure and thanks for watching Elzar!
I finally got a copy of the 1973 blueprints and this is still so cool to actually visualize!!
Glad i can help
Thank you, thank you, THANK YOU for including the Chapel! --Former US Navy Chaplain
No problem!
Your efforts are DEEPLY impressive and you are to be commended for your attention to detail. As a kid, I had those blueprints. I took them out of the vinyl pouch with the single snap on the front and unfolded each sheet with the greatest of care. Seeing them brought to life after all of these years I found myself having to remember to breath as you went through each deck - naming the different areas - MOST of which I actually knew before they were mentioned and/or the section titles faded into view!
You have done a major service to the living memory of these Constitution class ships, and you will find that I am not the only one that your considerable effort will move to the depth that you have me. Though I am not clear at this moment of the specific "how", but you, Sir, are to be richly rewarded. Though I feel that is not the reason that you brought this into a sharable reality for others to enjoy, but when "love" (of what you apparently do so well) is combined with such an insightful and caring "effort" (your obvious willingness to take massive action) as evidenced by what you have done here, life has a way of ensuring that your status is elevated and the potential for needs you may have to simply be eliminated.
Should you allow such a thing to take place, in the near future we will have the opportunity to speak.
Sincerely and without hesitation,
Max Laing, D. MP
CEO / Project Development
ActionCore, Inc., and the Allowing Success Network
Really, thank you, Max, it's just a labor of love really and I appreciate the compliment. I'm pretty sure I'm not the only person who had to try to design the vessel based on Franz's blueprint, but I couldn't find it based on my research.
If I understand correctly our content creator turned a 2D map of the ship into a 3D model we are seeing here, correct ? vey impressed sir, thanks, this video will be used in my Star Trek table top RPG, literally exactly what I needed
Yes, exactly, I took Franz design and created a 3D version.
@@Halfscreen what software are using to create these 3D models on screen?
@@BigTone_1701 3DS max.
@@Halfscreen Thank you!
I liked the simplicity of the original Enterprise. All the other ships in later Star Trek shows seemed a bit too complicated. They were still amazing, but I gotta respect the simple but efficient design this ship had
never stop. I love starships, especially the details.
Very impressive! Interesting how many staircases there are in the Enterprise, but you never see one on screen.
WOW !!!! Fantastic job. My deepest congratulations.
Thank you so much 😀
I remember the first time we saw the chapel onboard the Enterprise was in the episode 'Balance of Terror' where the Enterprise had to deal with a Romulan Warbird that was attacking and destroying the Federation outposts along the Neutral Zone.
I have a first print of that Franz Joseph book. Had it as a little kid, like 5-6. I don't know where it came from. My dad had it for some reason and I took it. I spent hours comparing the various ship classes, uniforms, weapons, etc. It was hard for me to interpret all of it, but it was the coolest thing in the world. It made me believe Star Trek was real. There was an official manual! Proof! When I moved into my first apartment "The Manual" was a practical bible that my roommates and I would ritualistically acknowledge before watching every nightly episode at 11:00. We'd all sing the theme song in operatic style at the top of our lungs, and any guests needed to as well, house rules. The old lady next door hated us. Anyway, still have that book boxed, one of my oldest possessions. Need to find it.
Great video, this puts a lot of context to what I remember from the diagrams.
Thanks. It seem like many of the older fans of TOS still keep their Franz Joseph book. I have a lot of respect for the designers of the era.
Beautifully done. Can't wait to see the bowling alley lol
Coming soon!
I professionally recreate Star Trek ships in various video games. As of late I spend all my building time in Xbox Space Engineers. I strive for perfection and with alot of time and effort I achieve just that. My V3 Designs are my definitive products, and focus on completely accurate exteriors and internals. I'm currently working on my V3 TOS Enterprise right now, and videos like this is just what I need! Thanks you!!
Thank. Due to time and resources, I can't create an accurate representation of the ship, but I tried.
Are you planning on releasing something to the general public? A VR walkthrough product would be amazing.
You can tell that this person put a lot of work in which is great, unfortunately a lot of things about the Franz Joseph stuff just doesn't make a lot of sense, like putting lounges in the center of the ship, which is where you would put stuff that you would want to protect from battle damage or collision.
What a magnificent and wonderful experience, to revel in your creation of my absolute favorite starship from all of science fiction! My admiration for your artistry and love of the Star Trek universe is great! EXCELLENT work! May you Live Long and Prosper 🖖🏼
Glad you enjoyed it Jeffrey!
What's amazing is the illusion of the interior, created by a very limited number of standing sets that all fit in a giant film studio building the size of a large aircraft hanger.
Holy cow, you're awesome Talent led me to see to Enterprise the way I've never seen it before. Thank you for taking the time and energy . Much much much appreciated!
Glad you enjoyed it!
I was about to ask about the secondary hull, Thank you look forward to more of your work it’s awesome
If you haven't seen it.
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This is stunning. Huge thanks for creating it!
Glad you like it!
Excellent work, giving me a nostalgic flashback to buying the Technical Manual many decades ago, thanks for this!
Glad you enjoyed it!
These videos are great. I've been watching Star Trek since it started in the 60s. It makes so much more sense now that I can figure out what is happening where. Thanks.
Glad you like them!
I love this. I hope a similar segment for the Enterprise-Refit/Enterprise-A would be some time in the future.
02:40 Actually, way way back in the mid-1960s, when Gene Roddenberry was first coming up with the idea of Star Trek, he wrote about how the primary hull can separate from the secondary hull in case of emergencies. He also wrote about the holodeck. The original series never used either idea, primarily because of budgetary and technical limitations. Older Star Trek fans like myself spent years dreaming about these possibilities until a brand new series called Star Trek - The Next Generation brought these exciting possibilities to life.
The holodeck was in TAS.
I recall reading that the primary hull was designed to be aerodynamic because that part of the ship was originally intended to land on a planet while the secondary hull stayed in orbit. However, doing that for most episodes would have slowed down the pace of the show. When the idea of the matter "Transporter" came along, it allowed a much faster change of scenes, getting the crew down to a planet in just seconds instead of minutes of film time. And that is why Roddenberry used it. Beam me up Scotty!
I bought the plans when they came out and during college Xmas break back in around 81, I built a model of it out of balsa wood 1:1 scale to the drawings.. Still have over 40 years later! Came out great...
Great job! I've always wanted to see the decks of the original USS Enterprise.
Hope you enjoyed it Randy!
Totally excellent 3D model and also other explanations, you can actually see the real possibility of the enterprise, great work.
Cool, thanks!
@@Halfscreen yes sir I subscribed keep them coming do all of 3D space crafts if you can...even the Death star..haha 😂
5:00 I've always wondered where the toilets are. THANK YOU
Spectacular job. Thank you
Many thanks!
This is just awesome, just awesome, can't wait for part 2.
Amazing stuff. Thanks for doing this!
No problem!
This is really well done. Great job putting all this together!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video man! Keep up the great work.
Appreciate it!
This was really well done. I used to have most of the blueprints for Star Trek, this really brings them to life. Now I can hope for a version so I can walk through wearing my occulas 2
Damn, this is awesome..... I just geeked out... Thank you sir!
No problem and thanks for watching.
As a ten-year old, I enjoyed these drawings as much as I enjoyed the rest of "The Making of Star Trek" by Steven E. Whitfield and Gene Roddenberry, and I took special delight in the drawings, as I had finished my seventh grade drafting class, and these increased my appreciation for the work Franz Josephs accomplished. Decades later after being in the USNavy and working in the shipyards for a couple more decades, I completely understood the drawings, at best, would be a snapshot in time detailing the ship as it was in one iteration and understanding upgrades, refits and minor changes would cause some lazer variations could surprise the actual users. To me, this was the canon behind the canon and would, of course, be open to to change.
So very cool. This makes the ship seem alive and, in a sense, "real"....kudos for sharing
Glad you liked it!
Wow! This is amazing, it's like I envisioned as a 12 year old when the blueprints first came out. Thanks for all the work.
Glad you liked it!
Extraordinary. Exceptional presentation.
Glad you liked it!
During the self destruct of the Enterprise refit, i noticed that the warpcore wasn't triggered to overload. Kinda looked like the emergency banks exploded then triggered a cascade that took out most of the forward saucer section.
Thank you for your video and have a blessed day today 🙏
Thank you too
I found a copy of those Franz Joseph schematics in the library back in the 1980s and looked them over. I noticed the 'saucer separation' feature described but had interpreted it as a kind of 'once done can't easily be undone' explosive maneuver.
Yep. Unlike the Galaxy class, the Constitution class' saucer separation required a repair dock to reconnect.
They used that feature at least once in the Star Trek movies.
Didn't you see it done ?
Wonderful video! I loved the Franz Joseph Blueprints when I was a kid, and it's great to see them brought to life in your work here! Looking forward to Part 2!!!
Glad you enjoyed it!
The most detailed 3d model of the Enterprise I've seen was in a mod for Avorion on steam, wherein they layered in every bulkhead and sheet of armor. That said, this one's pretty cool.
You did an exemplary job! This project that you undertook was a labor of love, and I commend you for it!
Thanks, I can't do this much work if I don't love it.
I built this thing so many times in Minecraft to a 1to1 scale that I can tell you, she is a lot larger than you'd think given the dimensions listed for her. You should check out the new on being made on the TrekCraft minecraft Star Trek game server. Those folks are nailing the details out of the park. Looks like you are actually walking on the ship. Amazing work.
The detail in your video really is quite astounding!
thanks!
Very nice job. I see you've put quite an effort into researching. I'm already excited to see the second part.
Working on it!
Outstanding work and explanation! Thanks for sharing Cap'n!
Thank you kindly!
Impressive! I've been hoping to see something like this based on the Franz Josef blueprints ever since I first purchased them in a Cole's bookstore in or around 1977.
Wow! I didn't know how many of my audiences actually have a copy of the blue print back in the 1977.
Kick ass!!! Fine, detailed, work.
So fun! I used to pour over those blueprints in the 70s! BTW, its not strange that there are some differences between the prints and the show -- the prints are for the original Constitution design -- each ship built would have its own modifications. Oh, and I think you missed the science station on the bridge -- it appeared in several episodes ;)
Good points. In fact it makes sense to assume that the interiors of all 12 Constitution Class ships may perhaps have had some significant differences from each other!
I've been waiting for this since around 1983...You're amazing!! Thanks!!!
You're very welcome!
You get to enjoy seeing the Enterprise saucer section separate in film with the Star Trek Continues series right here on TH-cam.
Thank you for posting this. I’ll have my bearings when next I watch the Original Series.
Beautiful job! Well done! You're not the first to attempt to build the whole ship from Franz Joseph's plans!
Thank you very much, however I have looking for the Franz Joseph on TH-cam and can't seem to find it, but thanks for watching.
There were several decks done for a mod for STV:Elite Force game. The Argass Effect mod and the Reck Deck mod for EF's multiplayer
@@Halfscreen I did 3D virtual reality modeling of the whole ship using the Franz Joseph deck plans.
@@brookestephen Wow. that must have taken a lot of work!
@@Halfscreen it was a long time ago, and I never finished. Can you walk around in your model in real time?
Amazing detailed tour. Thanks for sharing. I agree with you, this saga ships are more reallistic. With these videos your are sharing we can know the porpuse of every part of it.
Glad you like them! I have seen many videos describing the exteriors of the ship, weapons, ect, but rarely the interior, which is far more interesting imo.
I hope to see videos on the other Starship classes that carried the name Enterprise from the NX Class to the Constitution Refit Class to the Excelsior Refit Class to the Ambassador Class to the Galaxy Class to the Sovereign Class and other ship classes like the Defiant Class.
To Halfscreen: Excellent work!! Looking forward to more.
Awesome! Thank you!
This is just marvelous. A vast improvement over the original video! ☺
Thanks a lot 😊
Excellent video!! My favorite ship!
Thank you very much!
WOW! Please more of that! I can only imagine how much work and effort it takes to make such a video. But I'd highly enjoy it if you made such videos for the Enterprise D and E too!
It's a lot of work, that why I split it into two parts.
You don't see the second part of the ship in this video just the saucer section he did say that in the video that there would be a part two
Outstanding presentation. Very thorough
Glad you liked it!
Dude, this was awesome beyond words! Thank you for posting this!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Dude, do people really use that word.
I thought it was only something that Valley girls would use on the West Coast surf's up dude
Wow, you really knocked it out of the park! Awesome video!!
Thank you! Cheers!
Thank you, good sir.
Very welcome
If I ever decide to recreate such a ship in Space Engineers, this is gold.
Nice. Interesting cutaway. If you do a feature on the constitution refit (Enterprise A), please do a comparrison on the OG constitution and the refit. Want to see if the refit is a "totally new enterprise" as quoted by decker
This is amazingly accurate engineering information about the technology behind the Star Trek series. That is well-thought too. All this could be real.
(science fiction)
Sergeant Tim from Enterprise landed on a moon with a shuttlecraft, for recon. 20 percent oxygen, almost 70 percent nitrogen. Nice atmosphere, plus 20 degrees Celcius ambient temperature. Beautiful.
Tim sat down and lit a cigarette. He noticed that an alien ship - saucer-shaped - landed nearby. It was not a large ship. More like a scout too. Tim was not too alerted but made sure that his sidearm, Marsec Autogun had its safety off.
A lithe alien - female I reckon - approached. She had grey scaled skin and some sort of dark shades protecting her large eyes. She said to Tim,
- Hey.
- Hey stranger. Why are you here?
- For interest. You are from that interstellar starcraft, right?
- Yep.
- You know that it left already. Warped.
- Yeah, I know. That is our job.
- But they left you here?
- They will come back for me if they need me 🙂
- Oh, I did not know that.
- Well, they are really fast. They know that I love to be left alone. And besides, I cannot smoke on board. I could at the biospheres, and the plants would like it, but it would not be good advertising.
- Right, Tim. I understand.
- Thank you, alien 🙂
- No problemo, Tim.
- By the way, you have a beautiful spacecraft.
- You like it, Tim?! It is faster than your scout landing craft.
- I figured out that much too. Do you have any armament within it?
- It is a bit hard to describe, Tim.
- Try me, please.
- Well, it has a defense system. If someone fires at it, it will return the projectiles - for example - back at the one who fired at it first. It is automatic. The operator - like me - does not even need to select the response time or the target.
- Wow! Awesome stuff! Amazing. You people rule!
- Yeah, well, I do not know about the ruling so much, Tim. But that is how it works.
- I am in love with your scientists and engineers already 🙂
- Okay, I will deliver the message. I am pretty sure they would like your review comment.
Tim asked from the obviously friendly alien female scout,
- Are you in a hurry to leave?
- No way, Tim. I have all the time. I am 300-years old.
- Cool 🙂Would you like to taste Estonian canned fish and Australian red wine? The wine has alcohol content. If you drink it, you cannot fly.
- I would love to taste them both. But I have to warn you that I am not very durable with alcohol.
- it is totally fine 🙂I have a tent for us. You will be warm and cozy.
- Tim, are you trying to seduce me?
- Maybe? Are you trying that?
- I think I am, Tim. I am so sorry!
- Please do not be sorry, darling. You are doing great. You are succeeding too 🙂
- You mean you could be in love with me?
- I think I already am, darling. May I call you Gwendolyn? It is a very old female name in Britannia. It is fantasy.
- Sure! I love that name, Tim. May I call you Tim? It is my current fantasy 🙂
- I can live with that name too, Gwendolyn 🙂
- Awesome. Are we married now?
- Not yet, my love. It will require some more time and us to get more to know each other, for instance. I am in love with you already though.
- Thank you, Tim. I appreciate your patience. I cannot wait though 🙂
- Heaven's sake. Fine, I am in love with you. I always was.
- Me too. Weird stuff. The space is an amazing environment. It bringeth all things.
- Tell me about it, Gwendolyn. Well, I love you, darling. That is all that matters right now.
- I agree. I want to have babies.
- That might not be possible. You are from a different planet. We are not necessarily compatible at all.
- You are right. Damn it. Okay, let's see what transpires.
- Good idea, Gwendolyn.
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I wonder if the connecting section between the 2 hulls should indeed be decks with living space, or is it more of a structural part to keep the 2 hulls together. Logically it should be very strong, not living much space for anything else, other than an elevator.
Wiring, GNDN conduits, pipes, latches, turboshafts... not much room left! Did he show the Finney ion pods? the phasers? Khan showed a drawing of a phaser emitter...
@@Pygar2 yeah but this model shows regular floors with rooms…
@@juzoli A man can dream...
Awesome! Looking forward to the next video!
Coming soon!
I love the idea that the Enterprise did have a battle bridge deep in the middle of the saucer, but Kirk never used it, because Kirk had the biggest swinging pair in all of Starfleet.
Another great video,It has been awsome looking at the layout,cant wait for the next one...
Thank you very much!
You know it's crazy that the Constitution Class had that many transporter rooms and another thing I was surprised about is that it had a laundry room onboard but I guess it's no surprise I mean the ship would really stink if the crew was walking around in dirty uniforms and like the military of the 20th century that had laundry rooms on they're naval ships the starships of the U.F.P. would need the same thing and that the Constitution Class also had a battle bridge that was 6 decks below the main bridge.
Yeah, they would be rather smelly to say the least.
Actually, the in universe idea of the fancy "uniforms" were, that they are "futuristic materials" that not only help regulate temperature, but also were hygienic and won't allow bacteria to grow (what creates the smell)... actually they had a limited budget, as it was a TV show.
they'd probably also need a tailor shop for every time Kirk tore his shirt.
@@danandtab7463 beat me to it....
You know it's funny that unlike with the Romulan D'Deredex Class Warbird ships of the United Federation of Planets had ships bigger than most ships of other major powers of the Alpha and Beta Quadrants.
I actually got these blueprints for my birthday one year back in the 70s. I think I was 10 or 11 years old. And I still have them! They live right next to my TNG Tech manual.
Sensacional, a muito tempo eu queria ver como era o interior da nave detalhadamente, parabéns 🖖
Very nicely done. It amazes me how much love and creativity are still lavished on a little TV space opera whose episodes originally aired a lifetime ago.
I had one of the 500 original sets of blueprints that Franz Joseph had hand-printed, purchased at Equicon ‘74 before the rights were acquired by Pocket Books, which went on to sell about a trillion of them. They were ambrosia to us nerds back then, though I somewhat ‘de-canonized’ them in my own mind when a cutaway poster came out about a decade later locating Main Engineering just forward of the shuttle bay; much more logical than Joseph’s placement of it at the rear of the saucer. I still have that poster, somewhere, but the blueprints are long-lost to posterity. I miss them, in spite of the inconsistencies (and they’d probably be worth a fortune), though not so much as I miss my youth.
Seem like many of my audience have collected the old blueprint back in the 70s.
@@Halfscreen Again, I had one of the original sets that Joseph had printed himself, not the Pocket Books version. (Though there were only minor differences such as the “Starfleet font” between the two IIRC.). I’ll bet not too many of your posters can claim that! 😊
Not a huge fan of Star Trek but the 3D modelling is fantastic!! Love it!!! These vids make me wanna know more!
Glad you enjoyed it!
Excellent work on this model! It looks amazing!
Thanks a lot!