Enterprise Scale

[waxmurderer]

2 things; the average height of a human male is 5'8". Also, the length of the original Enterprise, as stated in ALL original references(including "The Making of Star Trek") is 947 ft. Somehow she seems to have lost 11 ft to the metric system. Otherwise a great vid...PS

[FantasticBob7000]

It's really not a big ship for 400 people to be cooped up in for 5 years.

[hawk2495]

@FantasticBob7000 Well She's not much smaller than a Nimitz class aircraft carrier, and they have a crew compliment of a little over 5000. 3200 crew, plus 2400+ for the air wing.

[FantasticBob7000]

@hawk2495 Carriers don't stay underway for more than 6 months

[informant007]

Love the perspectives. Great stuff. What program did you model the Enterprise in?

[lisfan71]

Really puts things in perspective?

[Thunderchild2604]

Cool Vid. 5*

[porkandbeans1991]

Great video, thanks for posting...

[SGFanFiction]

great job

loved the minimal sound effects

[KelpiusDotCom]

Hey I was the lucky 47th person to rate this cool video a 5 star no doubt. Thanks it helped me gain a better scale of the ship.

[DoomTay]

holy bondoli, that model of the Enterprise looks EXACTLY like the original! How is that possible!?

[SajuukHackwrench]

@ DoomTay: The easiest way to make it possible

is to look at the (study) the desing as good as you

can and then to build it with an 3d Program like

for example "Blender". ;)

Wonderful animation there Tallguy!

[phantassm]

Great video-very imaginative.

[SpockBoy]

Your use of sound effects is perfect.

The only thing that bothered me is the fact that the average height for a human is around 6 feet. 6.5 feet means 6 foot 6!

That's a basketball player.

Besides it makes the ship look smaller.

Fantastic job though.

[TallguyProductions]

Thanks, SpockBoy. 6'6" also happens to be my height. :)

[motion2005]

I agree the height of a person should have been 5'10 or 6' but great video regardless.

[robotwookie]

I'm not sure six inches would change the size of the man to the relation to the ship. Either way, that's one big ass beast....

[jongman321]

@SpockBoy ... yea but star trek is based 200 years in the future... so u kno...

people do get taller by the generation sooo yea there is some sense of logic to this 6'6" issue =)

[SpockBoy]

@jongman321

LOL- well you've got me there.

I remember seeing medieval armor and noting how small the men must have been back then. :)

[zipsrule]

@SpockBoy The armor is "larger" when someone is wearing it. When it has been put on gaps are created to allow range of motion and movement. The gaps would have been covered by mail or articulated plates. Also, some of the armor displayed in museums etc... are 4:5 or 3:4 scale models that were used by armourers to attract customers. Much of the armour we see was unused and or display pieces that were never intended to be worn.

[SpockBoy]

@zipsrule What "armor" are you talking about? Do you mean a spacesuit? If so I don't think he intended that. He just used the silhouette he uses for his business "Tall Guy Productions" :)

[zipsrule]

@SpockBoy I am refering to the medieval armor in your comment last year.

[SpockBoy]

@zipsrule (LOL) oh right,.last year. My mistake :)

[Jacena]

Enterprise D is more like twice the length - 7-8 times the *size*

Star Destroyer is 5 1/2 lengths easily... whoa =)

[wodanowitz]

Imagine what would happen, if the US would have one or even two of them. There would be no near nore middle east conflict no more !!!

[benjrh]

And to think that the Enterprise D is twice the size!!

[Aryakanta]

Ooh, contrasting the Enterprise with a known landmark would be way cool... the Statue of Liberty, the Eiffel Tower, the Kremlin, the Council Chambers on Kronos... ;)

[OsvaldoMX]

siempre quise saber qué tan grande era el Enterprise comparado con un humano, y jamás tube la esperanza de que existiera un video donde se mostrara esto, pero ahora ya lo ví y estoy muy agradecido..... extraordinario y genial!!! gracias

[Delenko]

How come there aint no fat people in the future?

[KevinJC1989]

have you ever seen scotty?

[chris14S]

Cool video. I always wondered how big a human is compared to the Enterprise.

[biffmercury]

awesome!

[SpockBoy]

brilliant work.

You actually give the ship scale, unlike CBS digital

[TrekBBSClassicFan]

Hey, Tallguy.

Nice to see this after all the discussions on TrekBBS about scaling the enterprise.

Nicely done.

Chris (Classic Fan)

[marklfoster]

This is great, nice job. Now take the ship and put it next to a terrestrial landmark (e.g. Statue of Liberty) to really show the scale as a whole.

[KJOSCOT]

VERY NICE! I liked the extreme close ups! Very well made. There is one other ship that NCC-1701 should be compared side by side to, and that is NCC-1701-D. That is another 'first,' and it was the largest of the lot. Ah heck, just do them all, and lets see. With work like this, that would be a marvel to see.

[16FEET]

Who cares which is first. The video is great!Excellent work on the scale. Why did you choose 6.5 feet as the scale in stead of just 6 ft? Like to see more scale perspectives on other Star Trek ships. Hope yoo produce a DVD.

[blendercross]

Exelent Work! Well done!

[brookestephen]

I have the inside, you have the outside... hmmm...

I know - sounds like the start of a Reese's ad

[maurafaygroup]

cool

[nebby6]

I really like how you got right in there and showed it from a human perspective. It isn't easy getting the CG camera in close like that. Well done!

[gimama59]

That was probably the best 1701 render I have seen yet. Nice job!

[Powerpatti]

But I think we should start with building the NX-01. One step after the other...

[JamesBond77]

The NCC-1701 will always be first. Never forget that.

[JamesBond77]

After, the NCC-1701, we have the A, B, C, D and E. After that, I see no other Enterprise.

[Powerpatti]

You are absolutely right, She's the first! But your favorite videos seem to tell something else. And as the older one of us two I migth tell you that the most important message in al "Star Treks" is to be tolerant and have a weak mind.

[JamesBond77]

You are talking about the Enterprise NX-01 video I have in my videos list. I just have this video because of the music, not because of the ship. I don't love the "Akiraprise". I consider the NX-01 design and name as inconsistencies. And I don't consider ENT as Star Trek. So for me, the NCC-1701 is the first starship to bear the name ENTERPRISE.

[Powerpatti]

Aye, Sir. Thats your opinion. O.K. I hope you can respect my one as I respect yours. They (the ships) might be the real stars of the shows but I think it is still about the people and how they handle each other

[destructive1]

its time some fans got together and build this thing for real

[JamesBond77]

Amazing !!!

[GrahamNificent]

Great idea!

[thematster]

brilliant...great idea buddy...nice and simple and very effective :o)

[juise15]

wow

[Dreamweaver2098]

Not accurate!

[billhpc]

Burned in my brain, courtesy of Mr. Franz Josef:

288.686 meters.

Being American, I don't know meters from...er...kelicams, but I'm almost certain that it comes to 947 feet.

[vulpixgrant]

One Meter is Exactley 3.28 Feet.

Anyhew, that was a very nice video!  Gotta favorite that man!

[Dalbert342]

Nice,and I agree it was a typo...no way Enterprise and Enterprise A were 970 meters long...thats almost a kilometer lol

[TallguyProductions]

Actually, the Enterprise was almost 1000 FEET long (the A was 1000 ft. even). 300 something meters. 1/3 of a kilometer.  I wasn't off by THAT much! :)

[Tiberiansam]

Simply genious and amazing!

[salter1701]

Wow that was great. Nice idea.