How Much Would it Cost to Build an ENTERPRISE? | Star Trek

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  • In todays video we are working out what it would cost to build an ENTERPRISE Star ship in real life. A lot of the information in this video comes from the book Science of Star Trek. A book that I can recommend checking out if you're interested this type of stuff!
    #startrek #enterprise #reallifeenterprise

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  • @federationoutpost
    @federationoutpost  ปีที่แล้ว +5

    If you could have anything from Star Trek in real life, what would you have?

    • @phillipwalters7702
      @phillipwalters7702 ปีที่แล้ว

      Hey there Federation Outpost 1-11. If I could have anything from the Star Trek universe, I think that would probably have a tricorder from either The Next Generation version or the Deep Space 9/Voyager version.

    • @DenizenoftheAges
      @DenizenoftheAges ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Holodeck. Hands down.

    • @KaiCrafted
      @KaiCrafted ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Ooh, a site-to-site transporter! Or, even better, one if the tricorder/transporter/combadges from the 32nd century!

    • @Ivan_Ooze
      @Ivan_Ooze ปีที่แล้ว +1

      replicator from the promenade on ds9, i would love to try alien foods

    • @phillipwalters7702
      @phillipwalters7702 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Ivan_Ooze nicely said!

  • @paulk.dicostanzo2279
    @paulk.dicostanzo2279 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I haven’t looked up 1701-D’s schematics and blueprints in an age, so I cannot speak from that. But I am surprised that there would need to be as many berthings (rooms for living space) as there is a full crew and passenger compliment for such a vessel. Junior enlisted and junior officers on most military naval vessels live in shared berthing.
    Very engaging and fun video! You’ve got yourself a new subscriber.

  • @sirbatman7044
    @sirbatman7044 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is an interesting video

  • @peterzimmerman1114
    @peterzimmerman1114 ปีที่แล้ว

    Future construction and manufacturing methods probably cuts down on production costs considerably, probably a lot of drones and automation involved and other ways of producing materials cost efficiently.

    • @jamesbeemer7855
      @jamesbeemer7855 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We have the technology ! We can do it !

  • @chrisharknessdcfan
    @chrisharknessdcfan ปีที่แล้ว

    Loving this new channel of yours you make really good videos

  • @allenr316
    @allenr316 ปีที่แล้ว

    To be fair, the crew quarters on the Enterprise D always looked EXTREMELY extravagant for a quasi-militaristic vessel. I would personally think that something between Capt Archer's and Capt Kirk's Enterprise would be more realistic. If you chose to still permit individual quarters, then something akin to a very small studio apartment (bed, desk, a relaxing chair, and small attached bathroom) would be most reasonable, and would reduce cost and materials required to be brought into space. Of course, I suppose how luxurious of a ship you're building depends on how long we've been traveling in space by this point. :)

    • @peterzimmerman1114
      @peterzimmerman1114 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Enterprise D is more like a gigantic traveling Luxury cruiseliner that's moving it's scientists and explorers around as they explore the wonders of the universe. When they got into wars later they built smaller warships with more compact rooms sicne it was more efficient for a combat vessel to get more firepower and defences in a smaller volue with more avoidance and speed and manuverability that was harder to hit and took less resources to build. Though when you are not at war and you got vast wealth and resources as a civilization I can see why you would build very comfortable research and exploration platforms.

    • @allenr316
      @allenr316 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@peterzimmerman1114 I guess they always said the Enterprise was the 'flagship' of the Federation fleet... so I suppose it would make sense if it had a few extra luxuries.

    • @jamesbeemer7855
      @jamesbeemer7855 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Extravagant ?
      Look how long the Hollywood version was around . The enterprise D was tasked with DEPLOMACY ( fantasy ) but this fella asked the right questions in my mind . What would a REAL ENTERPRISE cost to build ?
      And CAN WE OFFORD IT ?
      What do you think ?

  • @the6thranger
    @the6thranger ปีที่แล้ว

    I better start saving...

    • @jamesbeemer7855
      @jamesbeemer7855 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I can wait 20 years , can you ?

  • @anthonylowder6687
    @anthonylowder6687 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Interesting video however you forgot one vital factor…..the Federation is composed of hundreds of membership worlds each contributing to the financial ability for Starfleet to be able to design, construct, and maintain a fleet of hundreds of vessels of different configuration and mission capabilities…..so financing just one starship wouldn’t be a problem at all.

    • @jamesbeemer7855
      @jamesbeemer7855 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He’s talking REALITY ! What we can build now !

  • @PeacelordApropos
    @PeacelordApropos ปีที่แล้ว

    What about the cost of setting up "earth spacedock"? Would the price of that have any effects on our "enterprise"?
    Also, for those of us who haven't read the tech manual in a few decades (sigh) what size is the comparison? More of the first or leaning towards the d?

  • @CtrlOptDel
    @CtrlOptDel 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    An old reference book listed the original Enterprise as costing 20 billion credits to construct. While there’s obviously no actual conversion rate, if we arbitrarily assume the intent of the author was for one Federation credit to equal the value of a US dollar at the time (the 1960s), then that would translate to approximately 200 billion dollars in contemporary money.

    • @jamesbeemer7855
      @jamesbeemer7855 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Chicken ! You don’t want to get away from it all for 5 years .

  • @phillipwalters7702
    @phillipwalters7702 ปีที่แล้ว

    Hello there Federation Outpost 1-11. I have to admit that this video was absolutely amazing and very interesting as well. The idea of actually building a Starfleet starship, like the Enterprise never really came to my mind, but that is what made this video so enjoyable.
    Anyways thank you so much for this video. It was interesting and entertaining with some great information. Hope that you have a wonderful day and can't wait to see more Star Trek related videos from you soon. Peace out to you and 🖖 too, Federation Outpost 1-11.
    P.S. I would like to ask if you would recommend the book that you mentioned in this video to fellow Star Trek fans?

    • @jamesbeemer7855
      @jamesbeemer7855 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Out post 1-11 , where is that , precisely ?
      How about OUR MOON ?

  • @ChancreSaurusRex
    @ChancreSaurusRex 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A WW2 Yorktown class carrier displaced only 26,000 tons.
    Do you always multiply your mass estimates by a factor of four?

    • @jamesbeemer7855
      @jamesbeemer7855 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Time passes . The Nimitz class carrier is small by comparison . The Gerald r ford is huge in comparison . Nimitz was coal to steem powered . A grand old ship indeed , but GRF is nuclear powered and moves like a bat out of hell when needed .

    • @Species5008
      @Species5008 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@jamesbeemer7855 I'm going to ask you to put down the crack pipe, lie on the ground and place your hands behind your back. Your spelling is criminal.

  • @jamesbeemer7855
    @jamesbeemer7855 หลายเดือนก่อน

    And we could build 4 of them ?!
    That is a bargain !
    A whole lot cheaper than 20 years of war !
    I think that congress needs to see this peace time ultimate project .
    Some of the Star Trek technology doesn’t exist yet , but we can compensate with what we have now .

  • @jamesbeemer7855
    @jamesbeemer7855 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Surprise ! Someone asked the right question ?
    How much would it cost in reality to build such a magnificent ship ?

  • @gatehouseauthor
    @gatehouseauthor ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm thinking adding in the cost of getting stuff from Earth's surface to outer space isn't really relevant. The ships are built in space, using materials mined in space. That cost would be considerably lower than launching millions of tons of material from the surface. But even if that wasn't the case, Starfleet has two major advantages that we don't: transporters and industrial replicators. With cargo transporters, they can transport things as large as a small building from the surface to space with almost zero cost. With industrial replicators, they can materialize almost anything, including parts of the ship's superstructure, with energy to matter conversion, for again almost zero cost. There are a few technobabble things that can't be transported or replicated, but you gotta figure at least 80% of the ship's material can be handled that way, meaning the cost of building the ship is mostly in labor.
    Plus, they don't use money, so they don't care how much it costs. ;)

    • @federationoutpost
      @federationoutpost  ปีที่แล้ว

      Yeah but all that defeats the point of this video? To figure out what this would cost to build in real life...

    • @jamesbeemer7855
      @jamesbeemer7855 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Injunuity , Mr Scott .

  • @mtheory85
    @mtheory85 ปีที่แล้ว

    Well, 94% of the final figure is just the cost of shipping all of the material to space by today's metrics. But, assuming that we have inertialess drives (else why build an Enterprise?), then presumably this cost would be orders of magnitude less. So, assuming that everyone is still using money, the final cost would be about 30 billion, which is the price of a handful of aircraft carriers.

    • @jamesbeemer7855
      @jamesbeemer7855 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Still a bargain if we build just one or two .

  • @HistoryofDragonBall
    @HistoryofDragonBall ปีที่แล้ว

    🔥🔥🔥

    • @jamesbeemer7855
      @jamesbeemer7855 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nay sayer !
      How dare you !

  • @DenizenoftheAges
    @DenizenoftheAges ปีที่แล้ว +1

    🖖

  • @johnpittsii7524
    @johnpittsii7524 ปีที่แล้ว

    Interesting

  • @neoshadowdukeofgames8223
    @neoshadowdukeofgames8223 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I appreciated the comparison of the Iraqi war to the cost of the enterprise.

    • @jamesbeemer7855
      @jamesbeemer7855 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That’s what surprised me .

  • @everettjohnson9374
    @everettjohnson9374 ปีที่แล้ว

    So what you're saying is...we need to have space elves show up and this will all be a lot easier!

  • @miker6385
    @miker6385 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A similar ship will be built once we develop a high speed propulsion system.

    • @jamesbeemer7855
      @jamesbeemer7855 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We need to work with what we have . Impulse engines .

  • @dogwalker666
    @dogwalker666 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    100 bricks of gold pressed latinum, Don't forget most parts are replicated.

  • @applejuicejunkie316
    @applejuicejunkie316 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Abrams Enterprise ship looked incredible!

    • @Species5008
      @Species5008 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Amazing what these idiots did with garbage, isn't it?

  • @star86703
    @star86703 ปีที่แล้ว

    Commanding uss enterprise ncc-1701-E

  • @jozebutinar44
    @jozebutinar44 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Not true 300 millions