ALL The Refit Enterprise Features Explained! CG Model Breakdown 

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I love this version of the Constitution, and after watching this video, I was salivating. To me, this was the pinnacle of Starfleet ship design. It's sleek and elegant and wasn't overly complicated in its design. Thank you for going into a deep analysis breakdown of what the Refit offered to both Starfleet and to Star Trek as a whole.

The refit is my favorite. I was just around 9 when TMP came out. I was mesmerized. The shuttle scene made me fall in love.

The Re-fit Enterprise is the most beautiful of all starships. Watching her on full screen made her look real.

Andrew Probert is a designing genius.This and the Madkoifish Enterprises are my favourites.

The idea of night vision making edge or formation lighting obsolete is interesting. In real life, on military aircraft, there are light strips (formation lights/strips) that have a low lighting mode which specifically facilitates better viewing with NODS. Depending on the aircraft, the strips are located much in the way they are on the Refit.

Thanks for making this. I always wondered about some of those random objects protruding from the hull and just assumed their inclusion was just a form of "kit bashing" just to give the ship more detail. But actually, a lot of the stuff here seems to also be the result of function rather than just that it "looked cool". The refit is my favorite Star Trek vessel, and it's sad that TMP seems to be the one film that actually cares about what everything is or does. TMP was the only time we saw the low power level amber glow of the deflector dish (not including the reused footage of tWoK).

My Enterprise. I saw her at the age of 4 when I watched the longer VHS cut of The Motion Picture. This is a starship fit for a deep space explorer, through and through. You did a beautiful job, man. Seriously. This video is amazing, and I love it.

I'd love to see a break down of the Miranda and Excelsior classes like this. Great Video.

What a thorough, and interesting, study of the greatest ship in sci-fi history. Nicely done. She looks wonderful in this video.

Flux chiller and baffle plate are components of the B-17 engine's super charger, classified top secret during WW2.

I always loved the Constitution Class. It wasn't fancy or huge compared to the other ships after nor was it tiny either. It wasn't designed to carry crew families. It was built for it's primary purpose. Exploration, patrolling, diplomacy. It didn't house a lot, but enough to do long distance travel and built well to take any punishment thrown at it. :) When I play STO, this is my go to. ^_^ Great job with this rendering. Love the details. :)

This is, in my view, the finest ship Starfleet ever produced. The design is just beautiful.

The lower navigation lights on the saucer section should be red on the left (port) and green on the right (starboard). This allows someone on an approaching vessel to visually identify which end of a ship is facing them, the bow or the stern. In TOS, it was the top saucer lights that had the red/green navigational lights. Also, because of image flipping, in some scenes you may see green and red on the opposite sides.

I seen that you modeled them 3:50 is the shot, but you didn't point out the two dorsal phaser emitters above the shuttlebay. Beautiful model by the way.

I see the refit as a classical design of what would become a main-stay of traditional iconic Star Ship Enterprise. The design is minimally what logically follows an upgraded avant guard style of TOS, and builds technology into the same configuration, giving it a believable and pleasing aesthetic which has not been matched in any other design. It looks, feels and embodies something which is nautical and futuristic.

Fantastic! The refit is my favorite Ship in all media. Well done!

One of the most beautiful starships in sci-fi history

Protip: there are actually 7 shuttle pod docking ports. The first indication is when Kirk arrives: the announcer states "Shuttle pod available at Cargo 6." The 2 'missing' ports are on the underside of the saucer: spock and later Kirk use them while inside Vger. #1 behind the bridge 2&3: ventral saucer behind protective doors 4&5: torpedo bay 6&7: Cargo Bay

Never underestimate the usefulness of the Mark I Eyeball. Good Lord I'm including that in my common parlance when telling people to just look. Really great video on all the bits and bobs on the Refit! I'm with the crowd on this one, when I think the Enterprise, THIS is the ship I think of. Not even the post-Voyage Home one, I loved the quarters designs for Kirk and other Officers to be much more inviting than what you saw later on. A half way point between the very comfortable lived in style of the Galaxy class and the more spartan TOS or Undiscovered Country style.

I was to introduced to Star Trek via the original movies. I always thought the refit Enterprise felt more real than any of the others. It felt as real to me as the NASA space shuttle. These little details explain why that is. Because it was so tangible, you believed in a future like the one we were shown in the films.

The Refit Constitution is the single most elegant and majestic space ship in all of science fiction! Her only rival is the pre-refit TOS Connie. In context of the story, NCC-1701 received an extensive refit shortly after Kirk took command. The nacelle spikes weren't actually removed; those were brand new updated engines. Impulse also replaced. Lots of other new systems as well.

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This video is ofcourse imperfect compared to my vision - BUUUT it is only the beginning of our long relationship with this Enterprise; yall nerd out in the comments please! :) And YES I am now aware of the incorrect position of the reg numbers on the top of the saucer. :)

also there is a pod docking port on the saucers edge, the main computer core connects to the lower sensor the saucer and goes right up to below the bridge. The warp core (much like later designs) runs straight up the dorsal spine connecting to the impulse deflection crystal with a conduit heading back toward the nacelle pylons fuel storage is in the lower deck of the engineering section at the base of the warp core (as seen in ST II WofK.....at least they had a proper engineering and not a brewery!! Although I am sure Mr Scott had a still set up somewhere!!) I have a really nice poster from the AMT Star Trek V version of the 1701A kit that I turned into a Frigate (after dropping it during construction!) funnily enough I called it USS Discovery NCC-2115 after the ship from 2001 a Space Odyssey this was back in about 1987!! It is still hanging in formation with 1701 at my Dad's place facing off against 2 K'tinga class ( 1 built in 1986(ish) the other when ST6 came out)

back in the 90's, our old books were suggesting the reason the impulse dome was inline with the warp core was because it fed both the warp core and the impulse fusion reactor. That it conditioned deuterium for both. The next gen tech manual (that the writers used) said deuterium was stored as slush, and had to be preheated before injection. This makes sense. Some other sources suggest the dome is an orb, the actual fusion reactor itself

A feature that almost everyone misses: Maneuvering thrusters. There are four long rectangular depressions on the top of the secondary hull, facing aft, and four shorter ones on the front cap of the secondary hull, to the left and right of the torpedo tubes. These are maneuvering thrusters, which provide low sublight propulsion when the ship is moving in orbit, or docking, or rendezvousing with other ships or space stations. They provide the thrust forward or aft, and the reaction control thrusters (RCS) provide attitude changes (i.e. steering). These are used most prominently in Star Trek The Motion Picture, when Enterprise leaves the drydock and moves around in Earth orbit, before the impulse drive is engaged and the ship moves forward at a high fraction of light speed. They are also mentioned in Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country, when Kirk asks for one-quarter impulse to leave Spacedock, and Valeris reminds him that regs specify thrusters only. The thrusters don't light up, so they're not the most visually interesting feature of the ship, but they are a third complete propulsion system, after the warp and impulse drives, and a very important component of the ship's operations.

The Impulse drive is capable of 0.8 light speed. This is confirmed by Decker's line in TMP of the ship being at "Warp .8" after the Enterprise is freed from the artificial wormhole. It could be argued that 0.9 is possible. Want more? The tiny rectangular object underneath the shuttle bay is a tractor beam emitter. And unlike it's ToS version, the refit has an aft phaser bank above the shuttle bay.

This is great! I think there's a tractor beam emitter in the sloped section under the shuttle bay.

The funny thing about Photon/Quantum Torpedoes is, they're self-guided. You give them a target and they will travel to that target and explode. Very simple. So why does any ship need after Torpedo launchers? The strategic advantage of the few seconds gained by them not turning around is more than offset by increased construction costs and maintenance time.

Love it! Minor point: The registry number needs to shift one 'row' closer towards the bridge.

Another triumphant video! The detail and dedication to your art is outstanding!

Every time I watch your work, I get inspired to try and figure out Blender better. You do good things here, and I'm always excited whenever a new video drops.

I like the extra effort with the red pointers casting reflections on the hull. Absolutely did not need to do that but you did anyway.

I love the refit Connie, it strikes the perfect balance between curves and hard edges, I love the nacelle design, the way the nacelle pylons sweep back. I also feel that the Countach is the prettiest Lamborghini.

Something I've always found concerning about the Deflect Dish concept. It's a great idea, the faster you go even small objects can cause catastrophic damage to the ship, thing is, all these ships zipping about in space means there is a ton of debris that is flying through space and some of that may very well be on its merry way towards an inhabited planet. Going to suck when an asteroid wipes out your species because the Enterprise needed to get to Khitomer on time.

I love these videos from this and other creators. This 3D model is beautiful and what is even better,.... I learned something new here. I've always considered myself fairly educated in starship design but I never realized that the ship ran z deflector strip around the saucer section! Great video as always.

This ship is gorgeous. It was a labor of love and it shows.

I absolutely love this channel. Honest to goodness, everything about it is relaxing to me! (And interesting of course.)

The central dish is, in this era, a communications dish. The three navigational deflectors are positioned around it. The Miranda class Reliant has those same three navigational deflectors (which is why the Reliant was able to go at warp without a dish). It wasn't until the TNG era that these components were all combined into the "deflector dish." You've erroneously identified the navigational deflectors as "space energy attraction sensors."

Still the best looking ship. I always thought Galaxy class looked like garbage

While not my favorite design of the Enterprise as I have very fond memories of the TOS series this model and breakdown was amazing. Truly great not only explaining the techno babble but the real world science such as the various energy based shielding I once read the tech behind deflector shields and it was plasma based to repel cosmic bodies like asteroids and other debris. All in all I look forward to seeing this amazing design popup in future videos.

The first time I ever noticed the concave underside of the saucer, was from the cover of an issue of Nintendo Power, way back in the day. It took my child brain some time to come to grips with that, but I grew to love it. Andrew Probert is a legend. Every curve, line, angle and contour on that ship is flawless. There is simply nothing that can be improved upon. Another thing that makes it unique, is the white hull, which stands in contrast to all the gray ships that preceded and proceeded it. The pearlescent paint of the model was really only ever visible in The Motion Picture, and was absolutely gorgeous. Excellent model, and excellent vid! 🖖😀

Years ago there was a book or poster called Scotty's reference (or something) of the Enterprise, refit of course and had a lot of these references. Also, there was a book called Starfleet Prototype, I believe, that had a bunch more TMP era starship designs.

This is an amazing presentation, one of the best of its type I have seen. Would love where you would do other ships. Seriously, amazing job

Absolutely fantastic video! And your 3D model is spot on! Loved it! This is certainly my favorite starship hands down!

I don’t know, you make a compelling case but the original Enterprise owns my heart!

I realize I'm 7 months late, But as an old time Tekkie from the 60s and ultimate nerd, i must speak up... Now I understand how easy it is to assume that those groves or strips encircling the outer edge of the saucer section are part of the shield system. And that would make sense. Hell I use to think the same thing. But I have since learned years ago that those are actualy Sensor Bands, and that's what they were intended to be by the person who designed the the original filming miniature for the movies. That's also how they are listed on the aftermarket decals sheet for the model kits, Including the big 1/350 scale model by Polar Lights i recently completed.

We never got to see the main gangway hatch used on the Constitution Refit Class Enterprise the only docking ports we saw used was the one on the port side of the secondary hull and the one on the port side torpedo bay and the one on the backside of the main bridge when Spock came aboard.

Nice! Great work. Thanks for making this. The refit will always be my favorite Enterprise!

Beautiful, and after going through the details, which were many, the outtakes provides some good humor at the end, hope you had a nice weekend. For me it was/is to hot, well don´t like heat that much, need some cold comfort of space.

Great work. I love the Refit and happy to see it on the channel. Some critique of details. 1. You have the upper primary hull registry number in the wrong place. You have it on the third ring from the edge of the primary hull. It should be on the fourth ring from the edge. 2. It doesn't look like you have the registry and ship name aft of the officer's observation deck. 3. It looks like there's no markings to either side of the main gangway docking ports on the port and starboard edge of the primary hull. 4. You're lacking the ship name positioned forward of the interconnecting dorsal and aft of the ventral sensor dome/light array. 5. The forward flat leading edge surface of the side fins on the nacelles are sticking out a bit too far from the main nacelle. I think that distance should be somewhere closer to half that amount. It isn't a smooth join from the nacelle to the fin, but it is smoother than what you've got there. And a couple I'm not sure about. A. I can't tell if you got the phaser turrets above the shuttlebay. I see some detail there that might be them, but you didn't point them out even though you did point out the phaser banks at the base of the engineering hull. B. You have the "Magnatomic Amplification Crystals" on top of the warp nacelles lit up blue. This seems to be a fairly common thing modern 3D modelers of the Refit Enterprise do, but I can't recall that feature ever lighting up on the photographic miniature during the movies. The only shot I could think of was a single shot in TMP where the Enterprise is in the wormhole, and there is a little spot where it might be one of these lit up. It is NOT lit up in the Director's Edition top view as the Enterprise blows up the asteroid with a photon. So, I don't know. Can anyone point me to a moment in the films where this feature was clearly lit up? My only comment about the description elements provided in this video is a question about the the source of the different shades of plating of the hull being the deflector grid. As far as I know, the different shaded plating is not explained, but the grid pattern (controversial on the original Connie, but canonized on the Refit) is said to be the deflector grid. Although the only source I know for that is Mr Scott's Guide to the Enterprise. Regardless, despite it seeming like I'm picking your work apart, I loved the video. If the differences I've noticed are just artistic license, then it's all cool. I'd say the only serious one is that placement of the upper registry number on the saucer, as that one just jumps out and looks odd to someone like myself. Otherwise, I'm looking forward to seeing this beauty dance with some Romulan Winged Defenders!

I mean the Enterprise from Next Gen had plenty of detail, too. When it was being designed they came up with an entire set of blueprints for it. This is my favorite Enterprise but that has a lot to do with the fact it's the one I grew up with. Every iteration of this ship has had a lot of love put into it. Plus Andrew Probert designed this and the 1701-D so you can't say that didn't have the same amount of artistry and care invested in it.

Beautiful model well done. This has always been my favourite ship. Excellent video. 🖖

This is great, thank you. These videos you've made have really reawakened the trekkie in me :-)

I had no idea the Enterprise refit had an arboretum! I thought I knew everything about this ship. I saw all of the movies in the theaters. That’s how old I am haha. Great video!

Im a Safety/Health/ Environmental guy myself. Realizing this is a sci-fi, "space vessel", it seems logical that it would have all the "bells and whistles" that modern spacecraft/aircraft have. Of course there are catastrophic failures that no amount of safety gear can help (ie. Space Shuttles: Columbia, and Challenger). Navigation/ formation beacons, hazard avoidance placards and warning, strip markings, especially where hot/cold/high pressure vents/ports are located. Ejection ports, Automated warning and collision avoidance messages that are transmitted on standard communications frequencies, and in various languages, weapons safety pins, covers and ports, and emergency escape-hatch/pod bays, teather and life support anchor points, hand holds, and railings, parachutes. If you pay attention to military and even civilian vessels there a tons if safety, emergenvy, and hazard warning placards placed in very visible spots. On civilian vehicles it's color coded to match the surroundings and decor, but still provides visual reference. In workplace/industrial/military service, craft have them in bold typeface in yellow-green, orange, and red. Why? Because people are stupid and panicy. Industrial/military people recieve heavy emphasis training, but the regular public, not so much. Matter of fact, I'm surprised that ST in all if its incarnations, never showed the safety drills that must occur in military, or civilian craft. The movie "Alien" had a safety warning/evac-system messaging system on "Nostromo" (YOU HAVE...5... MINUTES...TO REACH SAFE ESCAP DISTANCE BEFORE SHIP DETONATION) along with audible alarms, flashing lights, and signaling beacons to show the route to the escape pods. The animated series had a "deux ex maquina" called and "environmental belt" that crew wore instead of PPE, or space environmental gear. That seemed to magically provide environmental, life support, and firce fueld sheilding from whatever environmental hazards were present. Perhaps that could have been adapted in TNG or beyond? It certainly would be a neat thing to have for off-shore, oil-well platform workers. But the general public will still bit*h and mian about the hassle. Pleasure cruise ships have life jacket safety drills that are required and passengers STILL bit*h and moan about them. You'd think all the publicized gruesome life taking accidents that happen would make folks hip, and accepting of them, but NOOOO.

Great job on the 3D model render! Awesome presentation!

The Constitution Class Refit is probably the sexiest starship ever. It's the perfect blending of form and function. One could easily see something like this design becoming a reality should any of the technology on which Star Trek is based come to fruition. I was born in 76, and the first projected film I can recall seeing was The Wrath of Khan. I was immediately smitten by the design of the Enterprise and the Miranda Class USS Reliant.

Love your design!! The "Connies" are a timeless design like the Iowa Class Battleships of WW2. Tough, durable, and could dish out a beating on any Klingon or Romulan Warship of the 23rd Century. And improved even further over the years. The decision to "refit" the Enterprise and her sister ships was a far better decision then trying to create more and more starships from clean sheet designs. It would be even fair to say that the Constitution Class has been Starfleet's greatest design. Flexible, and allowing for much larger and more powerful ships to be built on such a traditional design. And yes I know the basis of this design goes as far back as Archer's time, when the NX-01 refit gave the original Enterprise the secondary hull that is standard on many starships. But the Connie is timeless and it's influence even extends into the far future as seen on Discovery.

When i was a kid in the 80s my parents brought me home full size labeled orthos of the refit from a printing trade show and i memorized every inch of that ship. The greatest.

the crystals on top of the warp nacelles do not glow (at least I have never seen them glowing in any scenes). The Port and Starboard nav lights are red and green like a sea going ship

Thank you for your hard work. The Enterprise is a beauty.

8:26 I wish this detail of the deflector dish was kept throughout the movies. It seems that after The Motion Picture, the dish is consistently blue even when the ship is at low impulse power or even stationary. I guess the producers thought it looked better being always blue.

GORGEOUS model, and useful commentary. Thank you!!

Thank you so much for taking the time to research this information and explain it so well! I have always been a huge fan of the Constitution Class Refit and I love to see re-created with CG.

I've heard the argument that the bridge is also maintained on top in order to give the rest of the crew some assurance set the command is knowingly putting their own lives In Danger. Unfortunately there was no shortage of suicidal Maniacs in the TOs era

Alot of starship designs look like style over function and yet manage to look plain ugly. This ship is just about perfect, looks fantastic from every angle. Yet for something that is pure Science Fiction has a "real world" quality to it. For a design from the 1970's it still looks futuristic....its a genuinely brilliant Starship.

Saturday Night Live in the early 1980s did the hotel restaurant Enterprise joke. Shatner was in the sketch, and when the food doesn't come, he shouts 'Khan!' and then a false Khan shows up to take his order. Lol.

Great tribute and explanation video. The most beautiful starship every seen on the screen. Robert Abel & Associates did the majority of the redesign of the warp nacelles, before being fired by Paramount.

This is a beautiful model. Well done. And great video!

NOTHING can beat the Refit Connie!!!

Fantastic Vid! Thank You! The “Connie” is one the most beautiful things ever designed. Thanks for all your effort. 😎👍❤

Well done mate. Simply excellent!

For years, I have always had conflicts with the Movie version and the TOS version. I mean once you get past the gratuitous elements (admit it, the refit looks a little too much Art Deco) and understand the why things make more sense. My biggest problem has always been the nacelles. The federation always used tubes, the Klingons, on the other hand (hey those things look a lot like Klingon nacelles; just saying). But considering the TOS area where you weren't exactly sure where the weapons were located, this was a vast improvement.

If you read the original Technical Manual for the Constitution Refit, you'll know that there are at least 7 shuttle pod docking ports. The five you mentioned, plus at least 2 more recessed into the ventral side of the saucer section hidden behind doors that follow the contour of the outer hull.

Impulse drives the ship to .99c then the main engines engage and break into warp travel. Red/blue navigation lights should be in there as well. They were actually part of the TOS design but were hard to see with the way TV screens mangled subtle colors back then. If you look at the prop it has them. Later on they were forgotten on some designs like the Galaxy who had them and then didn't have them depending on the season and shot lol. The exhaust vents on the torpedo tubes are because torpedos are actually explosively launched with gas down the tube. Then their small warp coils energize by interacting with the ship's warp field, they act like capacitors for the warp field energy basically. This allows them to travel to their target and blow their matter/antimatter warheads. But they have no conventional drives, so they need a bump assist to start moving through the standing warp field and charge up, hence the explosive launch. This all means the exhaust has to go somewhere so they use (absurdly long?), exhaust tubes to dump it out aft.

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Wonderfully done. But remember, plasma is white hot, and is what is generated in the ship’s warp core and is visible. If you’ve ever read the Mike Okuda authored technical manuals, the main combat shields are called “graviton based deflector shields”, hence why they’re invisible unless impacted upon.

FANTASTIC VIDEO! Any chance of doing an "INSIDE" version of the Enterprise Refit?

The refit Constitution-class ships are my favorite Trek design, followed by those in the NX- and Constellation-classes.

One minor thing...your formation lights on the primary hull, aka the saucer, should be green on the starboard side and red on the port side. The same for the formation lights on the nacelles. Roddenberry's design for his ships used this lighting standard on all Starfleet ships, which he borrowed from real world boats, ships, and aircraft. In theory it allows a distant observer to determine roughly what part of the ship they were seeing from the front, rear or side of the ship. The same person could therefore determine if another ship was approaching them, moving away from them, or paralleling their own ship's course.

I know why this one's a favorite, it actually feels like a real ship, unlike the TOS model, no disrespect to that one, Gene used what he had at hand, but I'm soooo glad they leaned more toward this one for the Disco/SNT Enterprise.

Yup that is by far my absolute favorite ship in star trek, when I first saw the reveal in the movie I was blown away!

Great Video!!! Thank-You For Your Time And Dedication!

If the saucer has to be separated in an emergency it would need deflectors to protect itself from space particles while traveling. They could also supplement the main deflector at higher warp speeds.

WOW ! Loved this video and you did an amazing design and render of the refit Enterprise ! As for the explanation of the Space-Energy/Matter Sink, Magnatomic Amplification Crystal, First Stage Flux Constriction and Magnetomic Flux Chiller, I’d like to offer an explanation based on some cannon info and some plausible speculation on my part. The nacelle based warp drive of starfleet ships uses a Matter/Antimatter Reaction. Well diagrams show storage pods for antimatter, magnetic storage of antimatter as any normal matter the antimatter would come into contact with would instantly annihilate. But since hydrogen in the universe is ubiquitous and even in vacuum exist in quantity and density of about 40 atoms per cubic meter. Not a lot but if you are moving through it fast enough and using the “Bussard Ramscoops” of the Space-Energy/Matter Sink, which uses a massive magnetic field to funnel that near vacuum hydrogen into your MARA system so your ship only has to carry the anti hydrogen. Now I say anti hydrogen because it is a single positron like normal hydrogen is a single proton… no neutrons needed to hold a hydrogen/anti hydrogen nuclei together and it is heavy neutrons moving at relativistic speed that makes ionizing radiation. So using hydrogen/anti hydrogen means no radiation and less radiation shielding ! Now the first stage flux chiller acts like compressor blades of a real life jet engine. In Star Trek it’s probably magnetic fields that do that constriction. The magnetic flux chiller… I don’t know… uses another magnetic field system to expose the condensed scooped hydrogen from a hot plasma that would be induced when a starships Bussard Ramscoop operating at warp speed compresses that vacuum hydrogen. Then this massive amount of hydrogen is directed down the nacelle pylons to the rear of the engineering deck’s horizontal intermix chamber to mix with the antimatter in the vertical intermix chamber and the resultant super high energy plasma created in the Matter/Antimatter Reaction is diverted up the vertical intermix system to the impulse engine and it’s impulse deflection crystal and fusion reactors and rearward through the system back up the nacelle pylons to the warp nacelles proper where the warp field that envelops the ship is created. The Emergency Flush Vents are just that, able to either flush excess incoming hydrogen or to vent warp plasma in emergencies. Again, using documented diagrams and descriptions from Mr.Scott’s Guide to the Enterprise and other resources from online to the Star Trek Encyclopedia and TNG technical manuals and some educated speculation this is what I think is a plausible technobabble explanation for the labelled features of the engineering deck and warp nacelles and pylons of the Enterprise.

There is just something timeless and majestic about the connie refit.

First off...great video, and thank you for uploading it! Secondly, if I was to comment or add on a little about this beautiful ship model's details, it would take as long as the video itself to read. 😂 I had a plastic model kit when I was a kid(most people didn't have the means for CG models in 1989) I never quite completed(the warp pylons kept breaking off the hull) 😭 and I never even got it painted or all the decals on. However, I remember in the instructions it listed quite a few of the technical details you mentioned that some might just pass off as not really having a function. Even sadder, the model was half melted in a house fire years ago, so no chance of ever finishing it now. 😢 It's no wonder Starfleet ships explode all the time, all those plasma conduits running through the walls to power the various force fields/shields(I guess conventional armor is obsolete in the 23rd century-unless it's an alien alloy for plot complication). I guess that explains the console rocks, and maybe how some of the self destruct works, like in Star Trek 3, the front of the saucer just explodes(instead of the warp core overloading and the ship going up like a sun....destroying everything witin a parsec, but I digress). But yeah, I've already said too much and haven't gotten to just how totally awesome the refit Connie was, she was like my baby. Edit: It's too bad they never wrote a plot to use the ventral mounted phasers or the saucer section detatch(funny, I don't remember seeing their outlines for the landing feet in the tmp refit, only in the tos Enterprise, maybe I need to look closer?)

While the refit isn’t my favorite, this is surely gonna be a hit.

It looks fantastic! Great work!

Why it's a favorite. They got it right. The refit seems to be a little more real world than other science fiction vessels and it's just pretty.

Sort answer to all questions: They look cool.

The original 1701 and refit did not have a deflector dish. Those didn't happen until the TNG era. In the TOS and TMP era, the Enterprise had three navigational deflectors seen surrounding the communications/sensor dish. The Reliant had them too.

I feel the interior of TMP Enterprise is the best one, too. I feel all the design elements in TMP were fantastic and very unique to the rest of the franchise.

Refit is a work of art. Looks awesome at all angles.

In cannon, the bridge can be swapped out. I agree with Rodenbery. A sense of scare is necessary and really messes with you when you don't have it. My own head-cannon is that at least for the TOS era, what was standard was to place your ship so that people you're mad at are forward and below you. That way, the entire primary hull is between them and the bridge but also them and the nacels. But also, your own forward phasers, torbedo tubes, and I still suspect that the defector beam can aid the shields.

Beautiful! Needs the registry at the rear outboard of the nacelles and I'll call it good ;)

Absolutely my favorite version of this iconic ship! Maybe a show down with a Romulan V30 is in order….Please

I always wanted that vent on the back of the neck to be an aft facing torpedo tube. Perhaps shuttered most of the time and not as fully featured as the main tubes. It would also be handy for dropping probes behind the ship while at warp, perhaps analyzing one of those FTL anomalies that are so common. Also, a war fit version of the ship could have a full sized aft facing dual mount like the Miranda class.