Star Trek: 80 Secrets About The Enterprise You Need To Know 

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I do miss Adam Clery. He was one of the reasons I started subscribing to this channel.

I love that ship (NX-01). They succeeded in making it look futuristic but at the same time more primitive than the other versions of the Enterprise. Love it!

Data didn't originally come up with the idea to decompress the main shuttlebay, that was Riker. He just realised Riker's solution was the one that could work

RE: Enterprise D "You could quite easily and quite conceivably spend all day walking around the ship attending to your various duties and not see one single other person." Sounds perfect.

Funniest thing is that upside down Enterprise is how we got the Zeon Musai-class. They tweaked it a bit but look at the shape. In universe, it makes sense for certain parts of ships to look the same. In real life, militaries do this all the time to simplify logistics. It makes sourcing spare parts easy.

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That support craft on the sovereign class looks like a defiant. I think that would be a great idea for more hostile times.

Great to see Adam again! One may say someone is "their captain" or "their Doctor..." Adam is my TrekCulture!

My thoughts are that they HAD to kill off the Enterprise-D. Since they needed new sets for Voyager, they had to destroy the E-D sets. It would make no sense for the interior of the E-D to change so radically in the next movie. But a new Enterprise-E interior would logically look similar to the concurrent Voyager.

i cant tell how much i love the nx01 and its secondary hull refit and the fact that the season 5 of enterprise did happend thanks to picard season 3 where she is at the fleet museum

Did you know that before Star Trek The Next Generation was released, TV Guide did a short article with a picture of the new Enterprise. But the picture was upside down. Yup, saucer and two tubes were on the bottom and the main body was sticking up.

Here's my retcon: People only occupy the outer layer. That's why everyone has a window in their quarters. The full thickness of ship is creamed full of machinery, supplies, and power generators. It Takes a lot of power to fire those weapons and generate warp bubbles and run transporters. So it wasn't enough it only had a thin layer of environmentally useful space:

I'm probably not the first person to post this, but duck eggs aren't blue; they are off-white. I believe you are thinking of robin eggs. Those are definitely blue.

A nice bit of Naval history is the USS Enterprise CV-6 during WW2 was a Yorktown class fleet carrier and her sister was USS Yorktown CV-5 so having the refit Connie be USS Yorktown and rechristened to Enterprise A is a nice nod to the ships connection in history. And yes, USN did have a number of ships that were lost in the Pacific theater and would rename ships under construction or ships just coming into service to replace the lost ship. USS Yorktown CV-10 was an Essex class fleet carrier originally named USS Bonhomme Richard. It turned out to have a real effect on the IJN especially. They'd sink a ship to have it pop back up again. The thing is ships like Enterprise earned the nickname "The Grey Ghost" from the Japanese because as far as they were concerned they'd sunk her up to 6 times but she kept coming back for more! While they did kick the living crap out of her, they never did actually manage to put her down. Imagine the morale hit when you throw so much at your enemies ships and they keep coming back from the dead and you can't tell, did they just build a new one or is it actually the same bloody ship?

Our bodies replace every single cell in about seven years, so we all have to deal with the "Ship of Theseus" question. It becomes a point of design and function, rather than material and substance. Also, you missed the joke about the toilet seat at <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2249">37:29</a> "Do not use while in space dock". I don't know if it is still the case, but back the 90's lots of trains had the message "Do not use in the station" over the toilets because they literally emptied straight down onto the tracks.

According to Gene Roddenberry's preface to the novelization of the motion picture. Despite the 90+ losses Kirk suffered during his 5 year mission. He was still considered successful because it's a low number compared to other ships. The idea being, space travel was and always will be insanely dangerous.

I listen to ups and downs while I'm working or cooking so this is a trip out of town let's go. Be safe and be well you guys all my best to the editors

There is actually 4 destruct codes, the final code 0-0-0-destruct-0, which initiated the 1 minute countdown until self destruction of the Enterprise.

Please continue to make videos! Looking forward to more retro ups and downs!

Ship of Theseus rant: All living things are a "Ship of Theseus" when you get down to it. We're all constantly replacing our own matter as we live out our lives, presumably every 7 years. But we are still us. Why? Because the information of who we are is still in our heads. Information transcends matter, so long as it doesn't degrade due to damage.

You failed to mention the signage on the Toilet in the Brig. " DO NOT USE WHILE IN SPACEDOCK " This goes back to old days in railroad passenger cars. The toilets had a sign that said " Do Not Flush in Station". That was because the toilets emptied out onto the tracks.

This will nicely fill my afternoon, cheers guys 👌

I have to say for me the F is my favorite Enterprise. It is just a really well thoughout design.

OH MY KIRK! IT'S ADAM! I was starting to think you'd left TrekCulture.

There is no way that i break in to a star trek set and NOT take pictures, I wouldnt upload them to the internet, but any of us would definitely have pictures or videos of us in the chair saying "make it so" "engage" "Fire photon torpedoes". Its the posting to the internet that was idiotic. Lol

"Logical faults in the plot are ok because it adds drama" yup this is exactly who this show was made for.

Fun fact. Most fire stations I’ve worked at prevent the use of the pole unless an emergency is called in. Like a real one. Mostly due to the ankle damages that occur when over used. Use the stairs or lifts to prevent injury… now having that said they did have the medical know how to fix and y injuries but it is still an unneeded risk

I’d say the E-A WAS a previous starship, probably already retired (the predecessor to the Yorktown mentioned in the movie). The E-E was a new ship, not yet launched, with a name change.

Visually, the E-D Battle Bridge from season 1 was the Enterprise-A from Star Trek 4. The E-D Battle Bridge in season 4 was the replacement “cheap set” used as the courtroom, the <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2161">36:01</a> Hathaway, the E-C, Data’s lab, the Pasteur, etc. Later DS9 and Voyager guest bridges were from the Excelsior/E-B.

I knew the majority of these secrets, I love knowing about the BTS & Beta Canon of Trek; as for the NX-01, I even read about the firemans pole years ago, but there wasn't any concrete information about it, so I thought it might've been a joke

"Archer to T'Pol, to the pole T'Pol, that's an order."

With the pole idea... If the ship lost power, folks could move freely from the bridge to engineering and that pole would also help in zero G setting... I could see something happening to the gravity generator and that pole would be the life line from the 2 main compartments...

Enterprise G is available on Star Trek Online, it's listed as a Constitution III, but can only be obtained through the infinity lock box, during a select time period.

OK,I have come to this late, but my explanation for the increased damage from TWOK to TSFP was 'latent damage' as you note. The Enterprise was hit hard on critical and fragile systems. Systems that were barely holding on... stopped holding on after the Mutara incident. Things started blowing up, interior emergencies akin to the damage inflicted on Voyager from "Year of Hell." The Enterprise was pretty old and only intended as a trained ship by that point anyway and the stresses placed on the aged vessel called all manner of systems to fail with, with the vacuum of space 'sucking' at the the pressure of the ship could lead to a lot of damage and the crew literally fire fight-ing (careful of YT's auto-censoring here!) all the way home. This explains the desire to see the Enterprise scrapped - it NEEDS to be be - and why Scotty could not hold the ship together at Genesis in the end. That theory would make the 'limping back' into the starbase all the more poignant too.

Oh yes there was a episode of enterprise where they showed the 2 walk ways to the bridge by the view screen when Malcom reed and travis tried to get control of the bridge from some aliens that took over the ship. i think it was the andoriens. the sliding pole they didn't show though. but i seen the sliding pole used in the enterprise A in star trek the undicoverd county when lutient vularies slide down to scotty and spock in the torpeo bay area she kind of hit the wall hard when she slide down lol

RE: Enterprise D number 9 (<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2772">46:12</a>) When discussing the emptiness of the Enterprise D, Adam mentions that the ship had a crew of "just over a thousand people" which is also mentioned on the show and many other numerous places. I feel like it was referenced in an early episode ... and, if I remember correctly, in a technical manual somewhere... that crew member's families were also aboard the ship to ease the pain of being separated from your family over the course of he 5-year missions. This could possible double... triple... or even greater expand the number of total people (Starfleet personnel plus their families ((spouses and children)) plus civilians to support people forthose families ((teachers, doctors, etc.)) which would in effect fill out the rest of at least the saucer section. Is not this the whole reason they say that the saucer section separates from the main drive section... so those families and civilian personnel can hopefully escape danger while the Starfleet crew fight off whatever the apparent danger is in the main drive section. I love these videos, so this is not a correction or criticism as much as I would like someone to speak to this topic to further the discussion and clarify this as I have heard this "mostly empty" theory elsewhere. Thanks again. Keep these videos coming.

Admiral Robert April actually appears in Star Trek Strange New Worlds several times. Albeit he doesn't look quite like he did when he made his appearance in Star Trek The Animated Series, it is still the same character.

Time stamps / Chapters would be nice.

Regarding how empty the Enterprise-D was, it should also be mentioned that there was an entire deck in the saucer section that was unused and implied to have not even been completed! I think it was deck 12

I'm a Star Trek apologist so I make up bs to explain those occasional incompletely thought out concepts in Star Trek. For the turbo lift issues on the 1701 bridge being at the back and center...The interior of the bridge must spin. As the turbo lift reaches the bridge, the whole bridge spins over slightly so that the door lines up with the lift. Once the lift becomes unoccupied and the doors close, the bridge spins back to its forward facing position. This made up explanation makes me feel better. Because I do indeed want the bridge to be facing forward but I have to explain the lift being center aft. So do you like it? XD

LOVE that Adam Clery is back!!!!!! He's AWESOME!!!!

Bro, your takes are Wild. 50% solid takes, 50% completely confusing.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="3246">54:06</a> - CHECK the text in the title at position 2. I was reminded of the voiceovers at the beginning of each episode of tv show, 'Police Squad'.

I want to headcanon that the different Enterprise D models were actually various refits. I don't think it's creatively impossible to imagine this, especially since the main bridge was redesigned twice over the series, including in Star Trek: Generations, and after all, this is the flagship of the Federation, so it would make sense to me anyway... for them to keep it up to code with the various improvements in technology during its 7+ years of service, which was happening in the story with other things such as the aforementioned bridge refits.

This is the BEST channel on RU-vid I shall not be disuaded

I love the videos where you have Mr Doug Drexler. DEFINITELY a stone cold legend! His look and style are cool as hell too! Rhe black tank top, New York accent and clean shaved head just radiate "bad boy of design!

Ahhhhh the episode that we have all been waiting for, fan-flippin-tastic!!!!!!!

While watching this video, right when Adam says “…a single time traveling Romulan…”, RU-vid cut in with an advertisement for Fabreeze so the quote becomes “…a single time traveling Fabreeze!”

the bridge changed in every film and we looked forward to it changing lol thats one of those differences in the fan culture from then and now. Back then we wanted things to advance and get cooler. In the 80s we were not saying "I hope they use those 1960s effects and sets" lol

On the subject of criminal activity on the set of the Enterprise D, I once heard that the original Enterprise D captain's chair that was used in I think just the first two seasons of the show was stolen at some point and apparently never retrieved.

The damage report console in the second movie showed exrensive damage to both sides of the secondary hull. Maybe they added the visual damage to fall in line with the visual damage report console. Also, 10 forward was used as the presidents office in the undiscovered country.

With the Whales and Dolphins on the Enterprise D, it makes total sense. I mean, one alien probe crippled Starfleet and nearly destroyed Earth because they didn't have a Whale onhand. So, Starfleet learned from their mistake.

This really stroked my tribble, thank you.

You're right that pole was such a loss in possible stories.

The Enterprise-E does not follow the trend of larger and larger multi-mission flagship classes, because although it was an Enterprise, it was not of a flagship class; the Sovereigns were the replacement for the 90 year old Excelsior Class auxiliary ships.

Data’s science lab was based on the courtroom/Hathaway/E-C/2nd E-D Battle Bridge/Pasture bridge set, not the original Enterprise bridge set. (This goes back to whether it’s the same set if you’ve replaced most of it.)

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="71">1:11</a>:12 the mouse, duck, etc. are also in the profile in the Technical Manual. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="79">1:19</a>:10 it was called _The Ship_ when I bought it. Did they change the title? Good book.

I always presumed turbolifts were used both for speed and inconsistent gravity. Perhaps a pole would raise some of those questions, (particularly in a series which highlighted such an inconsistency in pilot)?

This is torture, watching a guy explain something, then hearing the guy he heard it from, like the actual video he saw, then hearing him explain it again. It's like 30 mins of entertainment crammed into two hours

A BIG empty ship can transport an entire colony at once I would think. 🤔🧐

About Robert April, i read the novel Final Frontier wrote by Diane Carey, and also the animated series.

I think there was a distinct lack of toilets on Kirks Enterprise. I can make this observation as when I was at Lancaster railway station, one of the things written on the wall was "Stardate 2735.6 Spock and I have beamed down for a cr*p"

I like this guy (Adam) way more than other hosts.

I *knew* the NX-01 had a pole, i saw Adam's mum dancing on it🙅🙅💯

That video of people breaking into the Star Trek set was also available on compilation videos at conventions in the mid-90s. One of the guys at the convention, when he announced that said he had no idea how thar got out!

Wait, in nx-01, have they ever shown engineering where the BOTTOMS of the fire poles are, like the batcave does? That could have sold the "where do they slide from?"

Where IS Adam anyway?

I knew the color of the Enterprise-D aztec panels as Duck Egg Blue because... the model kits (circa the early 90s) specified that color. I thought it was odd at the time and left it off. Transparent red for the Bussard collectors, transparent blue for the warp nacelle panels (sides). If memory serves, what I did for the deflector was use a very vivid orange and a bright white for the deflector dish. I painted the back of it that bright orange and did the bright white ring on the front to give it the appearance of being lit without lightning (since the models in those days didn't have it). Also, Memory Beta is, as you mentioned, definitely *not* canon. In fact, the Pocket-verse (what it was originally called) for books was recently destroyed (renamed the First Splinter, a timeline created, interestingly enough, by the Borg following the Enterprise-E on the way back to the future from 2063). So, none of that timeline exists any more. Decades worth of books and comics had their entire existence vanish in a Descartes like "I think not". Regarding Enterprise-F, neither IDW nor STO are definitive for their detail. STO does not follow the Prime Universe timeline. It has its own stories which allow players to play ships of any era in the 2410 timeframe. (9 years later than Picard is set) Star Trek tends to only allow shows and movies to be canon. Nothing written is presently considered canon except novelizations of movies. So, it's not considered "extended canon" - and never has been by Paramount or the show runners. That's entirely fan fiction.

Ooh... a compilation to nitpick! Just make my day... ;-P

Adam, thank you very much on your thoughts and research about Star Trek, but I have to watch this at 0.75 speed to pick you WITH SUBTITLES.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="3490">58:10</a> Hmm, so we only saw the main shuttle bay once in Cause & Effect? Thing is we also saw it in Best of Both Worlds part 2 when Data & Worf were in a shuttle to rescue Picard. In that scene you clearly see the edge of the main shuttle bay and then after departure the secondary hull appears in the distance so it was definitely from the main bay. Just had to recheck that part of the episode before writing this it refresh my memory

The gallery ties into old ships of the line where access to critical areas of the hull and should get there correct name: The Carpenters Walk.

The extra damage on the Enterprise in Star Trek 3 technically isn't an error. In Star Trek 2 Spock and Kirk look over the damage report screen and you can see that the ship was hit in the areas that showed damage in the third movie so in actuality it was the model in the second movie that was in error.

I noticed that it works like old trains they had a sign that said "Do Not Use While Train Is In The Station"

The Enterprise D was not a Ghost ship, just a lot of deck space had to be dedicated to house the Whale Navigator's Saltwater tanks (not a joke!)

Great Video, Youngsters. And I have my own 'Bet you didn't know...' bit to add- I bet you didn't know that Sci-Fi writers of all stripes, from professional authors, to Scriptwriters to RU-vid creators, don't know when to properly use the term- 'Intergalactic' (And just as much- 'Universe'). While there were specific episodes of the shows that dealt with traveling to other Galaxies, as a general rule, the Federation's Warp Technology was way, way, WAAAY too slow to be effective at traveling from one galaxy to another. (The Enterprise-D could travel about 2,744x the Speed of Light. The Andromeda Galaxy, our CLOSEST Neighbor is about 2,500,000 Light-Years away. So at Max Warp, it would take about 911 years to reach it. Better pack a few extra trail bars.) Another example of a gross misapplication of scale terms would be when Dr. McCoy says that the Genesis Project would result in 'Universal Armageddon.' The actual fact is that we are told the Universe is SO big that the entire Milky Way galaxy (One of Billions) could blip out of existence (and all its billions of stars & planets) and the Universe wouldn't even NOTICE. As Douglas Adams so Sagely put it- “Space is big. You just won't believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it's a long way down the road to the chemist's, but that's just peanuts to space.” If you consider yourself an informed Sci-Fi Nerd, use your terms properly.

The SCORCH. YOU FORGOT ABOUT THE SCORCH. And there was as another peace from NX01 THAT WENT FORWARD.

NX-01 is still my favorite ship

I love the NX-01. Beautiful Ship.

It was full of cat $hit twice?! LOL! Didn't catch that error even the second time around?! Just teasing... we love ya!

I haven't seen these before; thanks for the repost compilation.

Adam and Marcus are superb Keep them coming.......

One of the most secretive things we've had is Adam Clearly, we love his enthusiasm and I love how much I've seeing him. (No disrespect to Sean or Ellie)

I am a fan of Star Trek Enterprise. All of the series had great, not bad, okay, and terrible episodes. The best Enterprise episodes were great.

I had that TV Guide… Loved Enterprise.

I knew about the NX01 pole because I watch @TrekYards. 😎

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1155">19:15</a>... T-Pol series 🤔

Your doing great as a host, do more.

That explain everything. Changing a ships name is bad luck. That's why it always get fired on and/or blown up.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="451">7:31</a> “Instrumentation.” <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="957">15:57</a> I can’t imagine deciding whether to watch a show based on the first look of a starship that is a forerunner of the Enterprise of ToS? Oh. The argument of NX-01 inspiring the Akira class, it likely inspired ALL future designs with revisions and improvements, becomes more valid. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1311">21:51</a> I’d forgotten about Robert April. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="2464">41:04</a> Shatner was a visionary. Before Abrams, he created the Sybok Universe. The big change? The Enterprise exterior is the same size, but the crew is a smaller scale which meant more decks in the interior. Conveniently shunting the fifth movie into a parallel universe. The Mirror verse… where it was immediately destroyed… by a displaced Enterprise of the same exterior sized but with five proportionally sized individuals… and one hamster running the warp engines. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="3124">52:04</a> That’s because so much of the budget went into cleaning up cat shit every season. And, the accent had me believing you said Spock had mutinied and crapped everywhere. <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="94">1:34</a>:44 The “packed in” crew of the original Enterprise might be explained by the idea that original designs for it were based on the vague description “big enough for 150-250 crew members.” Possibly the original plans by Starfleet meant Constitution class ships were big enough to be comfortable for the 250, but refits over a few years may have required more crew, but not enough to require a larger hull, but internal changes to accommodate a larger crew, but with less space. Considering the calculations of the amount of space allowed to “D” crew and family, perhaps more or slightly less than doubling the original number Roddenberry had in mind wouldn’t have taxed interior room allotted for a larger number.

Thank you for a wonderful video and congrats on le/la bébé!!

The deck count in 5 is worse, they count up, on a ship where the bridge at the top is deck 1.

Question for Doug Drexler, seeing the Lost In Space robot behind him, did he ever make a practical design for the Jupiter II?❤😂

For the decks thing, I kind of assumed that there are 2 different things referred to a decks there, one of which is the entire deck and the other being stop points for the turbolifts/areas designed for faster location there for communications purposes.

yes, i often wonder, where and the bogs are, you would expect just to see a door in a corridor saying "poo deck" or "the head" as that is a navy term.

I prefer Poberts Enterprise to the actual galaxy design. The secondary hull always looked like a great big flying vagina to me (I know I have problems). The proportions of the secondary hull are way off imho. Firstly the attributed size is pointless even if it has room for emergency transport and transporters, Disaster relief equipment and supplies, quarantine bays, the "mall" the arboretum (which should have used an outside location as it set) and more uses of space its still too big. One of the key issues I have is with mater replication and holo-decks you dont need the space. The idea is flying around with prefab colony buildings and engineering equipment and areas left for evacuation efforts goes some of the way to explaining the need for size and I'd have liked for that to be addressed (for example in the Narendra array episode if they said they had spare array panels in inventory and spare computer nodes etc that would have made sense of the scale.

it makes sense that bridges change in every film. Why? It’s the future. Tech progresses as a geometric rate. I would think with traveling around the universe they are exposed to new technologies and new discoveries every few months. If that’s the case, equipment would need to be updated constantly on the ship to detect, manipulate and use the new tech…right?

inaccurate. I knew about the pole. Drexler has talked about it before. Maybe this is a rerun.

I thnk the Enterprise-A with it being the Yorktown was only just finished before it was re-christened as the Enterprise. Otherwise why would Scotty have to rebuild it? Also the same with the enterprise-E...pretty sure it was the first ship sovereign class just being finished that wss re-christened to the E....Maybe. That would make more sense as it's not a shake down cruise for the crew but the ship.....