Star Trek: 10 MORE Secrets About The USS Enterprise-D You Need To Know 

Adam: Spends a good two minutes saying don't record yourself doing a crime. Also Adam: Admits via recording doing a crime.

Fun fact: The "new" 6 foot model from Generations was actually the original 6 foot model that was refurbished just for Generations, new lighting, new paint, new decals, and more detailed paint. There's a short on the Special Edition DVD explaining this.

I'm so happy to see Adam Cleary, again. I missed this dude like ya wouldn't believe.

When I built the model kit I had in the 90's I remember painting it blue as well. I used the sprue from the D and all of the other model kits I built to make a from scratch Borg cube because there wasn't an official "to-scale" model. You could say that in my bedroom the Borg had assimilated the Enterprise.

In relation to the bridge set being destroyed, there’s a moment in that scene where you see Troi take a seat at the helm/con which quickly cuts away before she fully sits down. The reason it cuts away so quickly is that Marina Sirtus sat on a burning ember from the pyrotechnics on set. They couldn’t reshoot the scene once the set was destroyed so they still used the footage.

The issue about colours looking different under studio lights was not limited to the Enterprise model. In TOS the command crew on sreen is wearing gold uniforms, yet the actual wardrobe was in fact lime. That's why Kirk's dress uniform and Wrap around, that were of a different fabric, were green and not gold.

I would have thought the Enterprise would have had a bumpersticker that says "Honk if you slept with Riker", or "Blonde Borg have the same fun", or something sponsored, like "Pepsi; the choice of the Next Generation".

“There’s still some milk in that teat, apparently.” - Adam Clery, 2022

Love the clip of Voyager you played that had Geneviève Bujold as Captain Janeway 🤣

Adam! Thanks for stopping by! Great to see ya in another great video!

Adam thanks for presenting again! I do enjoy seeing you present in your wonderful rambling speech.

It's not different models, it's the fallout of the constant time-travel shenanigans. 🤣

As much as I do enjoy Seán and Ellie and the others, (and I do,) it's good to see Adam again. As always, thank you so very much for the video.

Good to see Adam back! I totally felt that one about the Bridge being blown-up. I'd literally grown-up watching that set and it looked even more beautiful and amazing in Generations. So, I still always feel so sad seeing it get the absolute shit blown out of it.

Always good to see Commodore Clery get out from behind the desk and take the channel for a cruise.

The Enterprise D is truly now and will always be my favorite ship!!

10 Forward was the main hangout and Sick Bay was the hospital on the ship. But every section of every deck had a small medical station and a lounge. Theoretically you could never leave your area of the ship.

Makes sense that the Enterprise-D would have an absolutely *enormous* sick bay. It could well be the *only* medical facility available to the crew in a fairly large area of interstellar space.

Great to see another 10 things that I either knew or didn't know. Even greaterer to see Adam presentizing again. I love his randomness.

Technically, the Generations model was the original model, just repainted and stuff to make it appear more detailed for cinemetic presentation.

IMHO, of all the ships, the NCC-1701 is the most iconic but the NCC-1701-D is the most beautiful. I also love the Excelsior class for being the workhorse/Swiss army knife of Starfleet for 100 years.

Having a space with Null-g in Sick bay makes sense if you have ever seen people do aqua therapy (especially after being paralyzed or spinal surgery) or have seen the DS9 Episode "Melora" (where she had to use a wheel chair because she came from a planet with higher gravity) so when you are the Federation flagship and you travel to many uncharted worlds, you might encounter species with gravity different from Earth/Federation standard...you could see how that could be more useful than "saving you putting your feet up when you sprain your ankle."

Adam for some reason reminds me of Roy from The IT Crowd ... and im here for it!!

It's nice to see Adam again and his stream-of-consciousness style.

It's always nice to have Adam in a video.

I have the tech manual and the blue prints. So glad I bought them back in the day. 🖖✌️🐬

Nice to have Adam doing trek videos

6:41 If you count the decks on the model, Ten Forward should actually be on the upper edge of the saucer instead of the bottom. The way the windows curve on the set puts it on deck 11.

@Adam Cleary Nice to see you back in action again! You and @Sean Ferrick create some really great pods!!!

Technically, the solution to Cause and Effect was made by Riker in every loop, but Picard kept going with Data's wildcard option. I always thought it was odd that Riker made it sound more like an order, rather than a suggestion. Still, a good episode.

Here's something else about the Enterprise-D: I have a small die-cast model of the Enterprise-D that I got for my very first birthday. it was manufactured in 1986. I still have it...and the main deflector dish and the sides of the warp nacelles are painted gold. apparently the company that made the toy was given that design...but then the design was changed to what folks saw on the pilot at the last minute, but the toy company didn't get the memo in time haha.

It never occurred to me until seeing the 3D walkthrough of the main shuttlebay, but there were possibly dozens of people in the main shuttlebay when Data decompressed it.

They also built the 4-foot model because the 6-foot one was HUGE, weighed a ton and it was a pain in the ass to work with (the motion control cameras could hit the model if the operators weren’t extra careful). Fun fact: most of the lighting is from the inside, all the windows were holes and neon tubing was put inside the model shell. There was also a 2-foot model built for shots they couldn’t do with the 6-foot one.

I swear if Galaxy Quest comes true and aliens build a starship based on TV series they think is a documentary, it better be the Enterprise-D.

That explains why the little model I have of it was blue

The schematic of the Enterprise D that was illustrated in the Engineering Run is the one with the Bi Plane, Duck and a few other things. I was there from the beginning.

The fact about the blue hull color was really neat and something new I didn't already know!

Great to see Adam again! Love his presenting style!

Great to see you back Adam! Hope to be seeing more of you again 😁

I'm surprised when Adam was talking about the color blue, as a bit of tribute to Nichelle... It's Blue-ee ( from the Changeling)😛

Speaking of colouring, the command colours were not red but more burgundy.

Good to see you back Adam. You've been well missed!

I bought both Enterprise-D the tech manual and the Encyclopedia.

Missed you presenting, Adam! Hope you do more in the future!

It's so great to have Adam back!

Huge nerd admission. When the Technical Guide came out for the 1701D, I was in 7th grade. A few other guys and I would sit in the library and figure out how to move around in the Jefferies tubes. The worst part is that we each had ranks within the group. I was an ensign, and the others were admiral and fleet admiral. It is kinda sad when nerds pick on nerds.

Sad news, The Hollywood Entertainment Museum closed in 2007 😭 I just looked it up thinking did I miss a museum when I went in 2018 but it was already gone. Now a gym, supermarket and takeaway 😲 I know there is an Ent D bridge project on the go to bring one back on display through, they have an FB group I've been following. Think they are setting things up for a perm home soon

Maybe its because I genreally just watch treck cultre for ups and downs + cetacean observations but, I feel like its been a while since I have seen Adam and I have to say its good to see you again.

6:03 Ten Forward also isn't on deck ten. A simple counting of the external windows shows that the highest deck with windows on the angle shown in the Ten Forward set is deck twelve.

Adam: never broadcast your crime! Also Adam: confesses to school vandalism on camera. 😆

13:28 Genevieve Bujold in that unaired pilot. NICE!!!!

0:51 I had both of those as a kid! I loved pouring over the details.

I'm absolutely loving these Star Trek videos.

A long time ago I read an interview with the man who painted the original Enterprise model. He said the paint colour was called concrete, because Gene Roddenberry wanted it grey like navy ships. He then went on to say that the problem with concrete is that it's very good at absorbing the colours around it. The main colour near the original model? That was the blue screen it was shot in front of. So it absorbed the blue colour making the ship look duck egg blue.

Great to see Adam doing more content always cracks me up

Lol Adam is all subconscious about his presenting skills in this video, but you did fine mate. Happy to see you again, keep being awesome.

"Where was Seán that night? I would like an alibi." 😂🤣

Great to see you back, Adam :)

Social media (AOL chat rooms) in the late 90's could be toxic as hell, especially regarding Star Trek.

Interesting they went with a Geneviève Bujold clip for Voyager. (13:29)

I'm very happy to see Adam again, I was concerned he had left or been fired or something. Glad that's not the case. Hope you're doing well man! :)

Great video great view Star Trek 👍

Have to look out for the blueprints as have the technical manual.

In the episode “Lower Decks” Geordi and a Vulcan Ensign are conducting “tests” on a shuttle craft hull by firing a phaser rifle from an observation/control room one deck above the shuttle bay.

Decompress main shuttle bay in "Cause and Effect" was Riker's idea, NOT Data's.

Welcome back Adam! Always good to see your videos. :). I would love one on the Species 8472 bioships (Am I the only one who thinks they look like a combo of Vorlon and Drakh ships from B5?)

Good to have you back Adam.

I think they had a zero G ward if they lost gravity on the ship. So having a ward with separate power. Also for low- G alien surgery.

you guys should do an episode about the star Trek museum in Ticonderoga, NY, USA. This guy built the original trilogy sets and is now working on the Enterprise D Bridge.

Fun fact: The "gold" uniforms in TOS were actually greenish in color. But under the studio lights and on early color TVs they ended up looking yellow. Which was carried over to later series.

Feels like there was a lot of coffee consumed in the making of this. Great stuff as always!

Good to see you again.

You folks have created your own easter egg in this video. The 9th fact presented is they actually blew up / destroyed the Enterprise-D's bridge, during Generations & the space was given over to the Star Trek Voyager production. As Adam states this, @13:28 there's a shot of the Voyager crew coming from Capt Janeway's ready room, onto the bridge. But instead of Kate Mulgrew it is the actress 1st hired to portray Janeway, Geneviève Bujold!

Welcome back Adam!!

I'm assuming the bumper sticker on the dreadnought D is a reference to a near-identical one from the movie "Spaceballs".

This was a fun and interesting video.

The Generations bridge variant was the leftovers from All Good Things and the future-timeline Galaxy-X bridge, with the raised centre seating and extra consoles, but they took off the "future" bits to tame it back down to the "present" era style for Generations, and added the "oh shit!" handles everywhere as if the ship had received some refits post-AGT, I thought it looked pretty cool with those side panels finally opened up to be something useful, just a shame they trashed it all for the film, would have been neat to see it as a different Galaxy class ship, or even maybe on a Nebula, given they share components...

More like “more blood from that stone” or more “life from that corpse” The blue colour would explain why the plastic model one could buy was blue instead of silver white.

Mike Okuda talked about the CGI option. The problem wasn’t as much an issue of not looking good enough, but rather an issue of production schedule. As Okuda put it, the technology was untested for use with a weekly TV show. Even a small technical problem could derail show filming and cause enormous issues. So even though the lower price and capabilities were appealing, they stuck with the devil they knew (models) to ensure the show could be produced on schedule. Most everyone seems to agree that they made the right call for the time as they were just a _little bit_ too early for the technology.

welcome to trekculture, sean is pretty nice, ask him any questions while you learn the ropes.

Adam your a legend, great episode BTW.

I noticed the changes of TNG Enterprise, but shrugged it off as refits. The TOS enterprise actually went through something like five different changes, or refits, the last three minor but there. BTW, in 1960s through 80s TV the TOS enterprise looked white. In fact the 1970s Enterprise model kit had for the paint of the ship as white. The original TOS model was not duck egg blue but a slightly greenish mid grey. I saw in person the refurbished version (which I think was much more to what it would have looked like in the studio, without the studio lighting, inferior film, and TV broadcast changes). It was grey with a slight tint of green. Duck egg blue is much lighter than the ship was. The movie Enterprise's color parts (the rest was white with different shininess) were duck egg blue.

A 0g ward could be useful in such cases as spinal injuries, or other injuries that require microgravity to stabilize a patient.

The MSD Easter eggs, like the rubber duck and whatnot, were there throughout the series, not just in the last episode. Gotta love a good Okudagram.

Prime content, lads! I never noticed there were differences between models. We ❤ Uranus!

Adam, he’s back!👍👍👍👍

I got the Feringi joke..I was thinking it before you said it anyway. Thanks for the video

This was so cool, that I couldn’t not subscribe. This is so cool. I love Star Trek.

Ahhh, Ten Forward did change at least once. It became the president's office for The Undiscovered Country.

Adam insists you should not willingly incriminate yourself on video, then by the end, he does so himself. Well done, Adam. TrekCulture, I think Adam is trying to not be allowed to do episodes anymore. But I loved it. So, tough.

Well done 👍

I have a metal Enterprise-D toy that I got in the early 90's with a detatchable saucer that came slightly BLUE, which I thought was weird. But now I know why it was blue. Unfortunately I idiotically stripped the color off of it after the paint was taking play-damage. But I still have it. Fantastic!

It wasn’t Data, It was Riker who suggested opening the main shuttle bay door.

ten forward was redressed to be the President's office in ST: The Undiscovered Country. awesome video

I probably didn't NEED to know this stuff but it is still cool.

Having made a modelk of the Enterprise-D when I was young, I already knew about it being duck egg blue, which was a surprise to me at the time.

omg Adammmm I've missed your videos!

The Ten-Forward set was later redressed and used as the office of the UFP President in the movie STAR TREL VI: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTRY.

My biggest gripe with the bridge of the Enterprise for Generations was not that they added the side work stations or the stairs leading up to the captain's chair (or even the chair they finally gave to Worf), it was the lighting! It went from being so bright to looking like someone had lit it to be a gothic dungeon. That along with having the computer suddenly have a massive problem with reverb throughout the entire ship (including the bridge)... it really didn't work.

Where the hell ya' been, man?! Glad you're still kickin'. ;) 🍻