#ncc 1701

[justastartrekkie]

you're gonna pretend the lines are clean

[gaytricorder]

my ride’s here

[stra-tek]

This is one of the greatest things ever. Walk around every single version of the U.S.S. Enterprise in photorealistic 3D in your browser, from the Roddenberry Archive. On a phone you just see wraparound 3D pics. On a PC or laptop you get the full 3D interactive experience. They NEED to make this VR compatible, it'll be beyond words.

There are more Enterprises here than Tumblr will allow me photos of, and more will likely be added.

Here's the TOS Enterprise, which appears in several incarnations ("The Cage", "Where No Man Has Gone Before" and TOS proper as well as TAS with the second turbolift!), has the correct original graphics and is perfect.

This is the bridge from the unmade Star Trek: Phase II series (whose pilot episode "In Thy Image" was rewritten to become Star Trek: The Motion Picture), with it's legendary big comfy command sofa seat and tactical display bubble!

The Motion Picture, such an accurate recreation that there's even a very faint flicker on the rear-projection animated screens as seen in the movie.

Enterprise NX-01, looking exactly as it did in "Broken Bow"

Recognise this? It's the briefing room of Discovery season 2's version of the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701. Although at the front of the saucer on the "real" ship, here it's off the second bridge door which may well be where the set was IRL.

I wasn't expecting modern Trek to be represented equally as the originals in this project, but it is. This is the Enterprise from Strange New Worlds, with Pike's Ready Room located just off the bridge.

Star Trek V: The Final Frontier. My favourite version of the classic bridge, as a kid I drew all these control panels and stuck them on my bedroom walls. And now I can look around and look at them all close-up! They've even replicated the noticable TVs stuffed into the panels for the more complex animated screens.

The Enterprise-C bridge from "Yesterday's Enterprise". This one has always fascinated me, being a low-budget TV set (formerly the Enterprise-D battle bridge, originally built from the rain-damaged TMP set's back wall and redressed endlessly though TNG) representing TNG's immediate predecessor. In the episode they mostly shoot the back wall and imply the consoles make a huge circle, but here you can see the set's real dimensions and the weirdness of the classic movie helm/nav console in front of the TNG con/ops panels. I love it.

You know how much I love the Kelvin movies, so seeing this was amazing. For some reason the consoles don't have their screens lit (hopefully this'll be fixed soon), but you can see the saucer under the window and it's shiny and amazing.

The last thing I expected was the U.S.S. Titan-A/Enterprise-G bridge, but it's here. And the lights are on.

Other bridges available to explore which I'm out of pictures to show: The Enterprise-D (of course), Enterprise XCV-330 (the ringship, based on concept art for the unmade non-Trek series "Starship"), the Planet of the Titans U.S.S. Enterprise (again, based on concept art for a cool multi-levelled set) and the "launch" U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 (based on the very first piece of TOS bridge set concept art), the Enterprise-E, the Enterprise-F (seen on viewscreen for all of 2 minutes in Picard) and the U.S.S. Voyager NCC-74656!

Take a bow lads, you've done good. Now just add VR support!

That link again.

[epitome-of-an-openbook]

Listen I've been preaching this forever but I will preach it once again - if you really want to understand, if you really want to get it. If you are ever sitting there like "I wonder why we're like this?" In regards to fandom you need to just sit down and watch Star Trek, not The Alternate Original Series movies, not Deep Space Nine, not Voyager, not Next Gen (though they all do have their place). Sit down and watch the original series.

Where did this come from? - Have you watched Star Trek?

Why do we do this? - Have you watched Star Trek?

Who invented this trope? - Have you watched Star Trek and then interacted with Old Star Trek fan material?

It's not the worst, it's not the best, and despite what many people may say or think it's not even the longest lasting - but it is foundational - and where you are now with your fandom(s) of choice would likely not exist the way it does without it.

[zizirobinson]

A beautiful lady

[lesbian-of-nine]

I MET A CELEBRITY TODAY AAAAAAA

[leveragehunters]

The Enterprise NCC-1701...made out of the Millennium Falcon! A most excellent MOC design by CreationCaravan (who can turn it into almost any ship). I added the red front plate and some trans-red tiles on the nacelles, but everything else came out of the lego set.

[askcosplaysenpai]

First go at linocut. My delusions of grandeur demand i make a giant ds9 print next.