Star Trek: 10 Secrets About The Kelvin Enterprise You Need To Know 

I heard that the in universe reason the new Enterprise was so much larger was the fact that the ship the Romulans used was so massive. When the Federation saw the size of the Romulan ship they said "We're going to need a bigger boat" and started making star ships larger from that point on.

Lol, loved the montage of Enterprise destructions.

“..Which is heartbreaking, because they never destroy Enterprises, they never do that. It’s a *terrible* thing to do..” …And then we roll on the carnage; the music was an exceptionally spot-on choice, outstanding upload. Tears running down both cheeks, simply hysterical!

The ignition facility is a freaking experimental FUSION REACTOR!!! That is way cooler than just a beer brewery.

The lab used for the warp core in ST into darkness, is a working fusion lab, trying to generate power from nuclear fusion. That is as close to a warp core as there is in real life, at this time.

Technically speaking, Scotty ejects the Antimatter storage tanks

Although they do destroy Enterprises all the time now, you need to remember it took 18 years from the OG series to Star Trek III for an Enterprise to be destroyed. It was a really big deal to see that in theaters for the first time.

It’s funny to me how many people hate this ship while I’m one of the few people who consider it to be my all time FAVORITE enterprise of them all. But this was the first enterprise I was ever exposed to first when I was taken to see into darkness when it came out, so that probably influenced me. XD

I love the Kelvin Enterprise. It’s modern while still respectful of the original series.

I think it’s cool that you shouted out the writer. Thanks Paul!

Multiple warp cores makes sense. If one or a few get compromised you can ditch them and not disable your ship.

"Isn't it remarkable how the starship engine room looks absolutely nothing like the Budweiser plant in California?" -Austin Powers

I remember that early teaser and it BLEW MY MIND. I was just getting more into TOS Star Trek and I was SO HYPE FOR THIS MOVIE. Only to be angry when they went with an alternate universe, but it grew on me

Perhaps I am missing something but the Enterprise refit from the first motion picture was slightly larger than the ToS one but we didn't have problems with it being too small for the cinema screen.

No need to apologize for calling Budweiser average. That's a huge compliment to that piss even.

The Hall of the Mountain King scored Enterprise destruction montage is pure gold.

The National Ignition Facility is an experimental fusion reactor located at the Lawrence Livermore Labs in California.

They ejected the antimatter containment pods. Not the warp core.

Can you please make that compilation of Enterprise destruction a video all its own? That was great!

My major complain about the Kelvin Enterprise was the bent pylons. The nacelles look too close to each other.

Calling Budweiser average is being way too generous.

Epic enterprise destruction montage. I'd love a video of just that.

"In the Hall of the Mountain King" is the absolutely perfect score for all the Starship Go Boom moments

Considering the chief engineer's drinking habits, it makes perfect sense for engineering to look like a brewery!

During the darkness movie they said it was the "core" and refered to as a reactor. It wasn't the warp core it was a fusion reactor that powers the ship systems.

Still loved the Kelvin Connie.

The return of the Dolphin Series, with Adam Clery *and* the Space Jacket! Thank you Paul for the research, and Kris for the "Deaths of the Enterprise" segment.

Designwise, the refitted USS Enterprise NCC-1701 from 1979’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture remains the best for me, followed by the Ambassador-class Enterprise C , Jonathan Archer’s NX-01 Enterprise & the Sovereign class Enterprise E. The 1960s TV series & ST:TMP had the best Bridge layout and design.

I saw this movie in the cinema. I had only seen the Enterprise on TV. It is just mind blowing to see it on the big screen.

That enterprise destruction sequence 😆

The reason the warp core is different is because they went through a refit after the nero incident, i believe they say that in canon.

The National Ignition Facility is the laser lab at Lawrence Livermore.

The Enterprise destruction montage had me DYING

This is my favorite ship in Star Trek online... thing refuses to die.

I think it’s pretty fitting that the reboot enterprise went through it’s own design evolution like the original series. It’s really something every series has to go through.

The Enterprise destruction montage was pretty solid

Hello Adam! Keep making these kinds of videos! You, Seán and Markus help keep this show fresh and fun for us true and new fans! Keep up the outstanding work! 🖖🏻👨🏻‍🦲👍🏻

All hail Kris Thompson, editor extraordinaire! 🙌🏻

I loved the new look. In fact I want a model of it. It’s gorgeous.

This guy is so funny .more of this guy

Great to see Adam again for this one.

I went to highschool near the Budweiser plant in Northridge and it actually smells really good for several blocks around. On the other hand I hear that it smells lousy around the Sierra Nevada plant in Norcal.

You actually got Eero Saarinen's name right the first time you pronounced it. And yes, I am an architecture nerd.

I love the kelvin enterprise!!! It's for sure the best enterprise!

That's what upset me the most about J.J. Abrams and the Kelvin Timeline. Ever since Mr Scott's Guide, the people behind Star Trek when to a huge effort to make everything about the Enterprise's design seem believable. Then along comes J.J. Abrams who apparently didn't give a bleep. The fact that a 21st century brewing plant stood in for Engineering was painfully obvious. Not to mention the other huge set in the second (?) movie that was a circular well at least a football field in diameter, with a narrow crossover bridge spanning it at one point. I could go on, but I don't want to get badly wound up, right before bed.

One thing i didnt like was the fact it was refitted all the time I personally liked the 2009 look the best

I laughed when I saw the "Kelvin Enterprise" for the first time. The nacelles look like the original type 2 phasers.

I have issues with Abrams' questionable choices. Overall the Enterprise was fine but I thought the secondary hull needed to be shifted forward (a tad). When I first saw the shuttle bay, I was like "how huge is this ship!?". Bridge looks like an Apple store, I'm good with that. My main gripe was the lower decks/engine room, in cinema all my friends (including myself) thought "why is there a giant brewery on the Enterprise?". Also, there was a Rihanna music video tie-in with Beyond!? This is the first time I'm hearing about it.

I personally always loved how JJ found it necessary to basically change everything we knew about the Enterprise and Star Trek starships in general for no real reason but to turn around and remain so faithful to the Millennium Falcon and the Star Wars vessels. It’s so awesome

Funny you mention the Budwiser plant. The Classic Doctor Who episode "The Pirate Planet" the Engine room of the titular planet was actually filmed in a real nuclear power plant.

"We're not nerds, we only work at ILM..." XD XD XD XD

I'm old and saw ST in the early 70s for the first time. And ST The Motion Picture (79) was the 3rd movie I was ever taken to in the theatre, I love the refit. TNG/DS9/Voyager have deeply affected my teens and tweens. Even if I have always been a huge fan of Star Wars and Galactica as well. I loved the Kelvin version of the ship as it was so new, so retro, with its 50s lines. I liked the cast very much, so I was disappointed that the old fans did not take as well to the new incarnation as I did. Personally, if I had that kind of money and influence, we would see a few more movies really fast.

The STO actual SHOOTING miniature model hangs suspended from the ceiling in the SMITHSONIAN MUSEUM! THE NACELLES ARE TURNED ON AND YRS, THEY'RE BRIGHT RED!!!

How could you hate the Kelvin Enterprise? It’s so beautiful.

I love the Kelvin ship. I'm just a bit surprised that they made the bridge so bright. Especially since we all know how fatiguing on the eyes a bright computer screen is.

You know i thought this video was going to be more about in universe secrets we didn't know such as how this Enterprise was so advanced because Starfleet bacwards engineered tech from Neros ship left behind by the destruction of the Kelvin or how Starfleet ships had fully functioning Transwarp drives instead of normal Warp drives but all these behind the scenes facts were great too

Very informative, thanks! 🖖

"We didn't question it at the time, because we had such great time watching the movie" I had time, i picked both '09 and Darkness apart, "This is stupid", "makes no sense" etc. etc. God I'm glad we will never see this universe ever again. It can be mentioned, i don't care. Back in the day i really wanted the reboot to succeed, i loved the first tease...but after that everything was falling apart. I think the only part i do enjoyed was the beginning, with the USS Kelvin (THIS WAS A GREAT DESIGN)

Just to point out, you do not see multiple warp cores being ejected in the first film. You are seeing the antimatter pods being ejected.

The only one of the destroyed enterprises that held any emotional weight was in the ST3 self destruct scene.

I loved the Enterprise being destroyed montage.

I kinda want to see a next generation kelvin time line design of ships

I heard from somewhere that the brewery tanks in engineering were supposed to be storage tanks deuterium and dilithium.

Didn’t know it was a brewery being used as the engine room. Assumed it was some sort of water plant with the tanks and whatnot but makes sense now it’s been pointed out. As for the multiple warp cores it could literally be tech evolving? Like the tech in the ‘early’ days of Kelvin verse came in multiple parts, and as it developed became a singular entity in one room. Maybe the events of Star Trek 09 triggered the redesign - that if a ship needs to eject it’s core, it takes to long time/ risk of system failure on one of the multiple ejection sequences could damage the ship. Downscaling to one simplifies the process.

Thanks to that montage,I keep picturing the cold open to cause & effect and giggling

I like the design in general, but the nacelles were too chunky at the front, also, it was supposed to be hot rod-esque, but Gene Roddenberry specified that that was what he DIDN'T want the Enterprise to be like!

The Enterprise ejecting its warpcore(s) to escape the black hole created by the destruction of the Narada via Red Matter was a homage to the novel Prime Directive where Captain Kirk ordered Spock to eject antimatter into a wormhole created when the Enterprise went to warp in the atmosphere of Talin IV.

The only thing I really dislike about the Kelvin universe Enterprise is the engineering section - the repurposed brewery was just odd.

I thought those where anti-matter pods not warp cores. Also, Starfleet hasn’t always used the long tube cores we start seeing in TMP and on. You have the anti matter pods and then there is the actual core where the matter/antimatter mix. That’s where Kirk was in the 2nd movie.

This is where the fun begins

So very many sci-fi TV shows and movies use breweries to represent the insides of ships or space docks or similar. I live with a professional brewer and just about every industrial-looking thing in shows set in space are a shot of beer fermenters or serving tanks.

Way to go Paul, good job, this thumbs up is for you

Great to have you back, Adam! You were missed. ☺️

Ooh the Abe Lincoln episode is on the telly box right now. Going to be good. The Savage Curtain

ROFLMAO @ the destruction montage you put on hahaha

Everybody craps on Beyond but it was actually the fun one.

I like when the list videos take their time

What’s cool is that on the special hot wheels Star Trek ship collection that was released (I 100% recommend yall get some of the ships), on some of the boxes that show the Kelvin timeline enterprise (and both it and the TOS model are pretty rare btw), the product image has the orange buzzard collectors, so I can confirm that some of the merch does indeed show this pre- color change design.

When you think of it, the front of the Enterprise looks a bit like an.......Umbrella, eh eh eh eh eh eh! The Star Trek Beyond song is, out of this world!

Not gonna lie, that montage of the dying Enterprises really made me, ahem, excited. Excellent work!

I love the Kelvin Enterprise design.

That wasn't the warp core being ejected, it was the matter and Antimatter tanks...

They never destroy Enterprises. All Good Things: Hold my beer.

I actually knew that the National Ignition Facility thing. BTW, the NIF is used for fusion reaction experiments.

I definitely loved the Kelvin timeline, it so showed me how awesome the Kirk crew was. I needed to see that...

Fantastic video! Absolutely love this series! Keep up the great work TrekCulture! 😁🖖

the bussard Collectors of the Enterprise B were Blue (excelsior Refit class)

Sean! I LOVE your jacket!

THANK YOU , very help ~ full use ~ full , interesting ;

On another side note the montage is awesome!

🖖😎👍Very cool and very nicely well done and very well informatively explained and executed in every way shape and form and every detail possibly provided indeed, But unfortunately I have a problem with the ships nacelles on being so far back on the struts I keep waiting to see them snap off while the Enterprisei is at warp!,🤔.

Interesting to learn that they had to alter the design of the ship to make it look structurally weaker in order to prove their claim that the design was structurally weak. That's intellectual integrity right there.

love watching these videos

I loved the Kelvin timeline Constitution-class (enterprise). Except for the lens flares.

THIS is why we need people that care about the franchise! And not more lens flares and color changes because they think it looks better.

The ship has no sensor array, it was replaced with observation dome

Nimitz class aircraft carriers have more than one nuclear reactor onboard. It make sense for the enterprise to have multiple cores. Perhaps there's one main reactor for propulsion and the rest are auxiliary reactors that provide power to the other ship systems.

Wait a minute…how long had the Enterprise-D been flying by “Generations”? Surely it wasn’t much longer than the Enterprise by “Beyond”.

@14:49 looking at that time lapse of her construction its very reminiscent of Enterprise D's design for saucer separation.

That's hilarious brother because you're right Budweiser is very average beer or if you're looking for something to give you a headache