Star Trek: Inside the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-A/Refit (Deck A-J) 

Still one of the best designs ever put to screen.

I used to have the old blueprints they sold for the original Enterprise. There's a lot more space inside that ship than I originally thought.

Ever since I first saw Star Trek and the movies I have imagined the scale of the ship and what its like inside. To see interior space and how people would have moved around the ship fascinates me. The detail is incredible, your videos are incredible and I thank you as I am sure all your viewers are for your dedicated work.

All I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer her by. Such a beautiful lady she was. Thank you again my friend. I appreciate all the work you put into these.

Wow this brings a tear 😢to my eye. I miss her. She was a good ship. She was the legend.

I love seeing Docking ports on Star Trek ships, it shows how they are very much still needed even with transporter technology.

Oh man, look at the curves of that baby! There is just something so sweet about the Star Trek ship designs of the late 70s and 80s. The Excelsior, the Reliant, the Grissom, and the Bird of Prey. Above them all the Enterprise refit and Enterprise A. So beautiful!!!

I love when u add in images from the shows for specific areas. Helps for people like me who have hard time imagining 3d spaces

Never fails to amaze me the amount of empty space inside the Enterprise. Even the crew quarters are huge.

The "A" was not destroyed over Genesis. That was the original Refit. The NCC-1701A flew all the way to the sign off at the end of The Undiscovered Country

The USS Enterprise NCC-1701A was originally the USS Yorktown. The refit Enterprise was destroyed in Star Trek 3.

You seem a bit confused about these two versions of the Enterprise. The original refit as shown in the first three movies was the original Constitution class Enterprise completely remodeled and upgraded. There was no 'A" as it still was the original ship. The Enterprise A did not come along until later. It was a completely new vessel from keel to bridge. Nothing of the original Enterprise was part of the A. In point of face the A was originally going to be have a different name but because of the heroics of Kirk and his crew the ship was renamed Enterprise-A and given to Kirk to command. Hope this helps the confusion. Your graphics are absolutely fantastic and I really enjoy watching your videos.

I love these videos. It always blows my mind how larger these ships look on the inside than the outside

An awesome presentation! Thank you Halfscreen. Your channel is truly a Gem.

As usual, that was amazing work you did! So much detail! Astounding.

By the extent of chances we can say with confidence that this "refit" was conducted by carefully detaching and lifting up the name and replacing the ship underneath. ;)

The ship looks absolutely beautiful on the outside, with so much detail packed into the inside! Good choice of video clips from the movies too - Kirk declaring "that's all we know" made me chuckle, as if he's responding to your commentary 😁

Love your animations. They're full of so much functional information and it really brings the ships to life!

This is like a dream....to know better inside the 1701 A. It's like the real size model. The Star Trek Universe is my fav entertaiment for so long. Fantastic job. Thank you.

EDIT: Forgive me! I did not remember correctly. This does line up with the -A as it did not have a weapons station per movies 4/5/6, though Spock’s position is on the starboard side and not behind Kirk. The book Mr Scott’s Guide to the Enterprise does still show the -A bridge as having the Weapons & Defence console as per the Refit even though it is not there in the movies. 🖖 Amazing work! Though at 4:47 the science station location is correct for the Refit as shown in ST:TMP, but it was relocated to the starboard side as of ST:TWOK onwards. The weapons section is missing on the port side.

I've been waiting for this video to exist for about 43 years. THANK YOU!!

Refit is a beautiful ship.

So much detail! Great animation and a very good tour. Thanks.

The best Enterprise of them all! Well done! Thanks for the tour.

Ahhhh THIS!!!! Is my Enterprise! Great work!

Excellent, the best detailed information on the Enterprise I’ve ever seen .., Ever! Thank you! You’ve explained things that’s could never be explained before with a brilliant comprehensive digital animation!

As someone who is a casual fan of the Star Trek universe (Fan of the the first six movies barring that one, actually likes the 2009 film and Beyond, watched episodes of The Original and Next Generation on Netflix before they became Nonceflix and rightfully blacklisted Kurtzman's Reign of Fucking Terror), The Enterprise Refit/Enterprise A is honestly my favourite design in the Enterprise series. I also like the D from Next Generation (which coincidentally was being made and aired around the same time as the last three TOS cast films), but dammit as a movie buff who considers Wrath of Khan the film that made him love films, the Refit is absolutely perfect.

Beautiful The Connie refit is the most beautiful of the fleet. Can’t wait for the Miranda and the Excelsior class….

Great Video! Thanks for giving us a better understanding of this wonderful spaceship.

This is some absolutely outrageous detail!!

Cool Presentation! Seeing the deck plans in 3-D, really gives a feel of the ship.

I love your work and I LOVE this ship… The TOS Movie Era is MY Star Trek (what I grew up first seeing) and this is my favorite ship design ever… Thanks for doing this! One issue/thought. On Deck One you do a good job with that docking port (that confused me so much as a kid in ST:TMP), and you always find a logical space where the head could go. However, I paused and rewatched the various views and could see no way that one could get INTO or OUT OF that area… But it does seem that if the port turbo lift had a second door facing aft, it could access that area. And one could imagine putting that lift into standby mode, where both doors would hold open and it could serve as an access way to/from the bridge. I’m almost embarrassed about my level of interest in something so small, but then I think I’m just inspired by your work! 😊👍🏼

Incredible and loved it as this is my fave version of the beauty. Looking forward to seeing further renderings of the other areas of this ship.

This is incredible. Cheers to you! Keep up your outstanding work.

Okay, this is awesome. Great work! I will definitely be referencing this on the crazy day I actually break down and start writing one of my million fanfic ideas!

Wow, just this already is freaking awesome. I have such a love of this ship (built two lighted models and have this ship literally tatted to my arm) and I genuinely enjoy these videos where I can tell the love is universal. This will always be the superior Enterprise for me.

Enterprise A was always my favorite!

I never knew there was a bowling alley. Your videos always add new info; thanks

in case anyone is interested, I leave my opinion here: The USS Enterprise NCC-1701 first appeared in the 1964 pilot chapter, in the 1966-1969 TOS, in The Motion Picture, T'he Warth of Kahn, and The Search of Spock on, after the argument suggested that the federation considers it a ship too old, it is sadly destroyed. The Voyage Home (1986) first features The Enterprise NCC-1701-A. replacing the modernity effect of the Excelsior ship only in the last scene. At that time Mr. Michael Okuda begins collaborating on the franchise. At the same time, in 1987, Gene Rodenberry, who was once again in power, pushed The Next Generation, which is slowly beginning to become familiar with a new Enterprise and new crew. In 1989, with a period of changes at the top of executives Paramount Pictures, The Final Frontier was finally released, with constant script changes and budget cuts; this is where we first see the U.S. Enterprise-A. ship of which we know very little. Only at the beginning of the film do we see that it has many operating problems. On a novel somebody explains that a team of engineers reconstructed a prototips on parallel Tomé to the ship "Excelsior", but it is Novel of the expanded universe, reliable to a certain extent- if we look at details of the 1989 production we see that they share corridors and sets of the set of TNG .. (with different lighting) Something similar happens with The Undiscovered Country .. where we see the Enterprise NCC 1701-A again In short, the Enterprise NCC 1701 has two eras: that of TOS, and that of the Movies of 1979, 1982 and 1984 where the internal distribution changes. (Memorable and sublime 7-minute scene from R.Wise's movie and Jerry Goldsmith's suite). and from the 1989 and 1991 Enterprise NCC-1701-A films, it is the least known spacecraft in the entire ST universe.

Incredible work! Thanks for this, its a gift.

Thank you for the comment. By the way, I showed the video to my friend who is a very long time fan and he said the plans look like they're from the Star Trek:phase 2 Enterprise. Charles, that's my friend,says that's much more rare 🤯

Amazing video! Finally one that shows every detail! Incredible!!

Great animation, thanks so much for sharing your work!

Incredible work! Thank you!

Thank you for sharing your work - incredible

Excellent video of the Enterprise-A layout, possibly the best I've ever seen. Thank you... 😏

really love these deck by deck views!

Very detailed 3D model of the Enterprise A! Fantastic animation!

Amazing video! Thank you for all your work!

Brilliant video! Thanks for all the hard work!

Another amazing job. Thank you for your hard work and imagination

Excellence dude! These are so cool!

I like the "bling" bright chrome deflector and yellow bussard collectors on your TOS model!

Excellent sir, you did a great job.

Phenomenal! Thanks for this, I someday hope to walk through one of these in VR, that would be a treat!

Okay, I had a little chill just now… the original 1701 is around the same height as the Obel Tower in Belfast and I’ve abseiled that apartment block. But now I have a real world sense of scale. Thank you!

Dang, refit 1701 has WAY more transporter rooms than I expected. I wonder how many people they could transport per minute, we'd occasionally see mass use of ship's transporters like that in the TNG era.

Great job as always brother. You followed up the Enterprise 1701 with this 1701 A version. Going to go back and watch the 1701 video again.

Just amazing work and detail into all this. I wish my father was still alive, he's be so excited.

This is a great 'explanation' of just "why" the federation kept it's 'saucer' main-crew are in a bunch of concentric circles. Officers, even while 'in bed', were but a few seconds (or, maybe minutes, by way of Jeffries Tubes) from their Bridge Stations. Any crew needed for Weapons, Shields, Environmental Control, or Sensor/Nav/Science were also able to 'get across' from one end to the other of the Saucer by way of 'pie-cut' corridors. Always near a Station, always able to move aside-of Light Damage done. This uses your Manpower assets in 'bad times' the best, where, a Klingon D-6 or K'Tinga D-7 would have, um, whom-ever there-is-left, in the Bridge Boom Section after hard fire. Also, since the Saucer, if reasonably Intact, can be a separate Sub-light space vessel, and, again-if-intact, be an Atmospheric Glider/Lifeboat. While frail-looking at first glance, the Federation design ethos has some validity in dealing with the harsher realities of space travel, while being 'just comfy-enough' for long-haul journeys.

The refit was my favorite even though I grew up watching TOS in its first syndication run in the 70s. I can’t wait to see the second part with the secondary hull and its cavernous hangar bay/cargo hold.

This is amazing. Great work.

Another fantastic video, please keep these up!

Favorite ship design.

Amazing graphics, a very well put together video of the Enterprise A.

My favorite Enterprise!!!

This was great to watch.

This made my day needed something good to watch

The Enterprise A is still my favorite design.

You always do such a great job!

In the novel by William Shatner called "Ashes to Eden," Starfleet sold the decommissioned Enterprise-A to the forces of planet Chal.She was then destroyed Klingon ship while in the Corona of Chal's sun. Good book. She died fighting. My favorite version.

Fascinating!….. thanks for the insight! 🙋‍♂️👍🖖🏻

Brilliant! Really detailed.

I loved Star Trek I read all the books when I was a kid back in the early 70s and I find this video fascinating with all the detail and involved it brings me back to the original book I had way back then called the making of Star Trek how they gave dimensions of the ship and everything like it was real I find the author of this video fascinating in the way he narrates this as though it were real keep in mind it's all just fantasy

Constitution class refit was always and will always be my favorite.

Beautiful work!

Love your Star Trek stuff.

Fantastic work again!

Nicely done, thank you.

Great job. looking forward to part 2. Subscribed

Amazing work !! Congrats!! Awesome !!!

*La mejor nave espacial de la Federacion. Gracias!. Saludos desde Montevideo Uruguay.*

Thank you for showing us where the Toilet is on the Enterprise. They never show it in movies or on TV shows. People always wondered where the crew go to the washroom or maybe they just hold it.

Great stuff! Constructive recommendation: you should make the little white lines used to point out features thicker and a different color (maybe green) so they are easier to spot quickly. Often, the video would move on while I was still trying to locate the previous thing being pointed to!

You know I still can't believe that the Constitution Refit Class was built with both dorsal and ventral phaser arrays on the saucer section and we only got to see the usage of the ventral arrays during Star Trek 2:The Wrath of Khan the first time was the forward arrays after Kirk and Spock were able to lower the Reliant's shields and during the Battle of the Mutara Nebula when the Reliant opened fire and damaged the Enterprise's port side torpedo bay the Enterprise returned fire with the port side ventral phaser arrays hitting the Reliant in the aft area of her bridge and we then saw the Enterprise use her forward ventral phaser arrays again when she snuck up on the Reliant from behind destroying the Reliant's port side warp nacelle before it was completely blown off from a photon torpedo.

Great work dude.

This is awesome!!! Thank you!

love it thanks so much for doing this and sharing

Love this!

Such a classic design

I love these videos!

Another GREAT video.

Brilliant!

AWESOME VIDEO !!

Just to let the people who made this video know I saw a video on the Constitution Refit Class where it was mentioned that after the Enterprise underwent the 18 month Refit took too long and was resource intensive so instead Starfleet had decommissioned all the original ships of the Constitution Class and built all those ships according to the Refit design specs from what they learned of the Refitted Enterprise and it was said the Enterprise A was originally the U.S.S. Yorktown that was freshly out of the San Francisco Shipyards and was undergoing a shakedown cruise till the Whale Probe incident.

Very nice presentation!

Very awesome video.

I bet the most challenging is figuring out where that huge recreation deck fits in there. In the movie it feels like more than 2 decks tall. Looking forward to part 2 and my other favorite feature, the very busy shuttle/cargo bay.

Keep up the great work..love the videos!

The Constitution class is the best designs of the series/franchise, the Refit is the sleekest and best. Too bad they did show them in DS9 or TNG. Great Video, thanks 👍