Aye! I want to see a limited series (17 to 22 episodes; one season may very well suffice) that takes place at the time of the XCV-330's rollout. Near the end of its commission, this ship is said to have achieved W3.2 (or was it 3.5?), before (or was it after?) Henry Archer developed a successful W5 engine.
A very cool and nice looking starship indeed for I myself own the Eaglemoss model of this ship, And it's the first starship named Enterprise. Any ways as always you guys have done a very great job informatively explaining and executing everything in every way and detail on this vessel indeed👌...
I love the small version. Engine to living space, the ratio just feels rockety and right, and the over all size on the cusp of what is reasonable. The cruise ship makes some sense as a way to get people to established interstellar colonies and solar colonies. It wouldn't be for going to alien worlds, or establishing colonies. The number of ships don't even seem all that outlandish if some colony worlds might have populations of millions or a billion in just a hundred years. Parallel technology also makes a lot of sense. Cars started with gas, but steam and electricity were serious competitors with gasoline until gasoline finally struck the right balance of ease and power. Steam was actually more powerful and faster, but took a lot to warm up the water, and electricity was extremely easy but had limited range and speed. It makes sense warp rings might have hit a development wall versus nacelles, even with the Vulcan example. Earth could have simply lacked key knowledge or industrial capability to make them work as well as the Vulcan examples.
With so many ships built, I'd assume over the course of production the design would change and there could be larger variations and include faster engines.
She was the first Starship Enterprise and already she had set the trend of being the ship to defy all the odds by beating not just her own class of starship and the newer ones in unexpected ways. NX, Constitution, and her generational line have much to be proud of when it comes to XCV-330. She was the small step that would lead to the giant leap for Enterprise.
15:18 if the story goes that 957 of those XCV ships were launched, it would make more sense for its length to be 300 _feet,_ rather than 300 _meters._ Where would they get the material to build the larger XCV ships as quickly? They probably had to scrape and scrounge around for material (even on the Moon or Mars) just to build the NX fleet 30 years later.
What are the odds that modern concepts for an Alcubierre drive look just like it! Matt Jeffries was 50 years ahead of his time. On another note, I’ll always wonder how’d it have been if TOS had gone with this aesthetic and the Enterprise flight suit look off the bat. I love the technicolor shirt look (kind of) but it would have been interesting if it had a more grounded look.
To my mind this design is essentially a warp sled with attached command module. The long neck or boom serves as a truss and main axial walk way to which modules are connected -similar to the trapezoidal segments bulking out the mid section of the DY-100 Botany Bay- radially outward but within the diameter of the warp rings. It's these interchangable modules that contain the cargo, crew, passenger and mission oriented habital space of the ship. Within the volume of the rings and depending on the size of the modules, a variety of configurations are possible, all carried through space utillizing this simple standardized warp propulsion unit.
This XCV-330 USS Enterprise Ring Ship should have had some flash back episodes on Star Trek: Enterprise (it is an earlier Earth vessel named Enterprise, so it would have fit in so nicely!). All pre-warp Earth ships should have had featured episodes on Star Trek: Enterprise. There was a lot of things pre-warp missing in Star Trek: Enterprise that should have been explored and explained which could have made the show much better. Instead the producers were too focused on turning the show into another 24TH Century Trek show by the 3rd season. By the 3rd season, Star Trek: Enterprise became the equivalent of watching Voyager, TNG or DS9. I still like the show but I was a little disappointed. I was also hoping to see more ships older than the NX-Class Explorer like the Conestoga, Freedom Class ships and etc. Also Alien Pre-Warp Civilizations, earlier technology and etc. It's quite a shame, to be honest with you.
well,there is not much "pre warp" ships to point out ...there is a referince in voiager,about ares module...remember,prewarp mean before ww3 and eugenics wars...and in those times,we just talk about trips to mars...what would be realy interesting would be to see more of the path between the cockrane flight and nx01...\
Great video @Trekyards. I was thinking, if you do another video on the XCV-330 USS Enterprise design, you can talk about the IXS Enterprise, intl.startrek.com/article/nasas-latest-warp-drive-design-looks-very-familiar , and do a comparison.
That larger XCV-330 model does _not_ look like a ship that can carry 900 people. The NCC-1701 had an internal volume that was undoubtedly more spacious, and could only carry 400.
Great watching these updates and vids always guys. I am currently 3D designing the Independence and Daedalus class ships to 3D print. I have printed out most of the Romulan Warbird TOS, and quite a bit of the Daedalus in 1/200 scale, but I am thinking for these 2 smaller ships to go more around 1/100 scale'
For a while now, I've thought that was an incomplete testbed, like a large nx alpha type. To be a fully equipped starship like Kirk's enterprise, they'd have to redesign a lot of the xcv lineage to satisfy cruise passengers ; passenger cabins, lounge windows, stuff that would likely bulk up the neck region, and a redesign of the sublight drive based on Vulcan philosophy, not the hexagonal single engine of the prototype.
Looking at that comparison chart, it once again refinforces my thought that the Conestoga would have made for a great Enterprise rather than the NX design.
The metatransit system appears to be a variation of the transporter. The difference between the two is that the metatransit system you walk through to the destination. Similar to what was seen in the TOS episode "All Our Yesterdays". This doesn't exactly provide for a high degree of security both biological and physical. But it is an alternative.
The weird thing is comparing this 60s design to an Alcubierre warp design ship with it's twin warp rings with the latter being at least based in actual, though somewhat speculative physics :D
Why didn't this ship meet the vulcans instead it had warp before the phoenix did ...And dose any one no of any bigger warp delta models are available I want one bigger...Got the tiny one coming next week but want a lager version if one exist ...
How would it work? Many multiple (likely small) warp nacelles kind of like the 'nacelles' on the saucer of the primary Hull of the USS Promethius) but more?
@@lkimberly2064 think a quad nacelle ship but each nacelle is curved and have forward and rear bussard ramscoops. In normal warp mode only the forward scoops are active but in ring mode all are active. to go to ring mode they simply rotate and pivot on their pylons to position.
As enormous as the Declaration scale might seem in terms of dimension and area of those rings, don't be fooled; the ship mass is still going to be rather low, the majority of the ship being its drive component. When one considers that the biggest ships in our world are oil tankers and container ships, dwarfing aircraft carriers, and 'battleships' have now shrunk due to needs and technologically superior weapons relative to the past, the idea that the 22nd Century human space might have been filled with hundreds of ring ships isn't so strange. The ring ships seem to have issues with overall mass and volume, limiting the amounts of cargo, crew and passengers they could carry. They might have had an early edge in warp speed, and were ideal for 'sailing' the well established trade routes, but fell into disfavor for their low carrying capacity and ultimately limited warp capacity. I think the key is their great EFFICIENCY. These ring ships might have been all the rage before the mechanisms of dilithium and antimatter were worked out. These ships might have been powered by fusion reactors and NEEDED to be highly efficient and limited to lower warp factors. It would have been worth the loss of carrying capacity to go from warp 1.3 to warp 2.2 or especially warp 3.2. For awhile, they were like the 'Concorde' way to travel next to ships like the Conestoga class colonizers or the trade ships. Scaling up to the Declaration class ships might have been necessary to get sufficient cargo and people hauling capacity out of them? It might have been necessary to get enough space to put a sufficiently large fusion reactor, or early dilithium and antimatter reactor on board? It was probably necessary to break into Warp 3 territory, maybe being a 'sweet spot' where scaling up helped, but before it became an issue. And the sheer scale WAS probably becoming an issue for what benefits could be gotten out of it. These ships probably weren't made out of fancy meta-materials like later starships or had advanced 'hull polarization' tech. One of the reasons why ships of these scale (but, again, not nearly as enormous in mass as they might seem) could be built. Ultimately, these ring ships are slender spires in a great big ring. They can't carry much, their ability to carry auxiliary crafts or have large internal spaces for storage, power plants, gymnasiums and so on are limited. They can't easily or quickly adjust vectors, their ability to carry weapons or defenses are limited, they'll be very vulnerable, exposed and fragile to simple pirates. Without antimatter reactions, there is simply a limit to the strength of a warp field that could be achieved. The ring ships were the blimps and zeppelins of their day, the rings being akin to the gaseous envelopes; very impressive to look upon, very efficient, even becoming commonly seen for awhile, but ultimately a dead end.
The scene beginning at 2:27 should have been on an episode or 2 of Star Trek: Enterprise! All the ships at 4:10 should have been featured on the show in more detail as well. What a shame.
I wonder how this theoretical ship in both power and tech (even considering how much more, even if slightly) more advanced it would be compared to if such was built in real life [I've seen a bulkier 'main hull' and possibly smaller rings or hull and rings are comparable in size potential design].
7:00 So, given the drawings that were made as the pilot episode was being written up in 1963-64, which dimensions should be considered canon? 300 _feet_ or 300 _meters?_ Quite frankly, I think _Trek_ canon has been corrupted out of existence because some of the so-called in-house gatekeepers were not at all concerned about it once Roddenberry died.
It’s a nice design / some people might not like it / I just don’t understand why this warp technology wasn’t used more by star fleet / bit of a lost opportunity
I could see there being a cvx type ship in the space oddysse 2001 and oddysee 2010 the year we made cancontact. I do also see the 2001 movie amf 2010 movie to be an alt earth universe combinding a lot of elements element of ratar trek and aliens universe and planet of the apes universes and babylon 5 all mixed together with a cranky computer called hal 9000 on board the uss discover 2001.
At last the first TRUE Enterprise(before the Connie)! This was the legitimate first Enterprise space fairing craft and not the bland upside Akira NX class.
