The Star Trek franchise features many spacecraft. Various space vessels make up the primary settings of the Star Trek television series, films, and expanded universe; others help advance the franchise's stories. Throughout the franchise's production, spacecraft have been depicted by numerous physical and computer-generated models. Producers worked to balance often tight budgets with the need to depict convincing, futuristic vessels.
143-776: Enterprise or USS Enterprise , often referred to as the Starship Enterprise , is the name of several fictional spacecraft , some of which are the main craft and setting for various television series and films in the Star Trek science fiction franchise. The most notable were Captain James T. Kirk 's USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) from the original 1960s television series , and Captain Jean-Luc Picard 's USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) from Star Trek: The Next Generation . Two spacecraft with
286-408: A Declaration -class ship launched in 2123. Its length is given as 300 metres (980 ft), and it has a capacity of 100 crew and 850 passengers. The Star Trek Maps by New Eye Photography Editors, also published in 1979, listed this ship as a fusion drive probe that was Earth's first attempt to explore another star system. The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture , published in 1980, describes
429-505: A " Star Wars -like" battle in " Preemptive Strike " (1994) between numerous Maquis fighters and a Cardassian ship. According to Sternbach, there usually wasn't enough time to create and make a new ship each week; nevertheless, producers created numerous new spacecraft for The Next Generation . Dan Curry said that to conserve the budget for use on ships to be seen in close-up, small "worker bee" vessels not requiring significant detail were made out of cheap, everyday objects. Additionally,
572-527: A British war film once more: Count Five and Die (1957). In October 1957, Hunter started shooting for his role in the Universal film If I Should Die (later Appointment with a Shadow ), but collapsed following his first day on the set, and was replaced by George Nader . He was off the screen for 14 months while ill with what was diagnosed as hepatitis . John Ford cast him in another film, The Last Hurrah (1958), starring Spencer Tracy . He had
715-471: A Mirror, Darkly " features a Mirror Universe version of NX-01 Enterprise . This ship is equipped with a cloaking device, deflector shields, a tractor beam, a prototype agony booth, and different exterior markings. It is commanded by Captain Maximilian Forrest, although for a brief time his first officer, Commander Jonathan Archer, takes command following a mutiny. This Enterprise is destroyed by
858-737: A Western shot in Spain for Sidney W. Pink , The Christmas Kid (1967). Hunter appeared in Custer of the West (1968), also shot in Spain. In Hollywood, Hunter supported Bob Hope in The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell (1968). He returned to low-budget films such as Find a Place to Die (1968), a spaghetti Western , although in the lead role. He appeared in Italian films such as Sexy Susan Sins Again (1968) and Cry Chicago (1969), and
1001-1324: A big-screen appearance. Mike Minor , Joe Jennings , Harold Michaelson, Andrew Probert , Douglas Trumbull , and Richard Tyler redesigned the USS Enterprise while retaining the television series ship's overall shape. The Motion Picture introduced the rubberband -like "snap" effect for starships going to warp speed . Like the Enterprise , the Klingon vessel retained a design reminiscent of its television appearances. Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982) and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) introduce models—Klingon bird-of-prey, Federation starbase, merchant ship, USS Excelsior , USS Grissom , and USS Reliant —that would be reused in at least one Star Trek television spin-off. These models were created by Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), which would continue to generate models and assist with special effects for subsequent films and spin-offs. Producers still used some cost-saving measures when depicting some spacecraft, such as reusing footage from previous films. William Shatner 's and Leonard Nimoy 's demands for "sky-high salaries" for Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) caused
1144-756: A broken arch bone suffered in a high-school football injury. After the war, he attended Northwestern University , from which he graduated in 1949. Here, he was a member of Phi Delta Theta fraternity. In college, Hunter appeared in two NU stage productions, including Ruth Gordon 's Years Ago (as Captain Absolute). He also acted with the NU Theatre summer-stock company at Eagles Mere, Pennsylvania, in 1947, appearing in Too Many Husbands, The Late George Apley, Payment Deferred, The Merchant of Venice , and Fata Morgana. He did radio work with
1287-522: A cameo as himself in the Pat Boone musical at Fox, Mardi Gras (1958). Hunter then made a war film, In Love and War (1958), co-starring with several other Fox signees such as Wagner. It proved popular. Hunter formed a production company, Mexico Films, and made a film in Mexico, The Holy City, The Sacred City . It struggled to find a release. John Ford used him for a third (and final) time as
1430-418: A combined international effort, thus he invented the combined designation NCC. The 1701 had two functions, it represented the first (01) ship of a 17th federation cruiser design, and that the digits were unlikely to be misread, unlike 6, 8, or 9. In Gene Roddenberry's original Star Trek pitch, the starship is described as a "United Space Ship", and in two episodes of The Original Series (TOS), Kirk refers to
1573-473: A copyright date of 1964). Hunter declined to appear in a second Star Trek pilot requested by NBC in 1965 in order to concentrate on film roles. He told the press, "I was asked to do it, but had I accepted, I would have been tied up much longer than I care to be. I have several things brewing now and they should be coming to a head in the next few weeks. I love doing motion pictures and expect to be as busy as I want to be in them." Later in 1965, Hunter filmed
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#17327719977851716-446: A distance, and that speed could be conveyed by the ship starting small in the background and growing as it accelerates toward the camera. Jefferies imagined the ship's engines were so powerful they would be dangerous to be near, hence the pair of external warp nacelles. Jefferies initially designed the habitable portion of the ship as a sphere, but it conflicted with the need to suggest the ship's speed. Although Jefferies wanted to avoid
1859-462: A documentary, The Living Swamp. Hunter also began appearing regularly on television, having particular success in an episode of Climax! he made with Margaret O'Brien . Back at Fox, he supported Anthony Quinn in Seven Cities of Gold (1955). He was lent to United Artists along with fellow Fox contract players Wagner and Joanne Woodward for A Kiss Before Dying (1956). Wagner had
2002-614: A flashback to Captain Pike's command in the episode " The Menagerie " (1966), the ship's bridge featured a transparent dome ceiling that was absent for the rest of the Original Series. A significantly redesigned version of Captain Pike's Enterprise appears in Star Trek: Discovery ' s second season , set several years after the events of "The Cage". The new design for the Enterprise , which more closely matches
2145-421: A larger, brighter, and less-sterile USS Enterprise than the ship in the original Star Trek . Probert's design of the new Enterprise was based on a "what if?" painting he created after designing the refit Enterprise for The Motion Picture . It suggested a merging of technology and design into a sleeker ship, yet retained the overall shape of a saucer section, engineering hull, and warp engine nacelles from
2288-587: A long-term contract. The young actor agreed and the studio changed his name to "Jeffrey Hunter" on June 1, 1950. Fox started off Hunter in a small role in Fourteen Hours (1951), shot in New York City for director Henry Hathaway ; Debra Paget and he were two young people who connect while watching a man about to jump off a ledge. He had a two-minute scene in Call Me Mister (1951) and
2431-570: A lot of pictures on the lot, but I wasn't cast in any of them and I couldn't understand why, particularly since I started out with such a terrific lot of luck." Fox lent him out, along with Debra Paget, to Allied Artists to play the abolitionist Owen Brown in Seven Angry Men (1955), with Raymond Massey in the lead. Hunter then played an Indian chief in the Western, White Feather (1955), essentially supporting Robert Wagner. It
2574-421: A month from people who saw me in that film and share the beauty and inspiration I derived from it with me. There are some things that can't be measured in dollars and cents and how can anyone put a price—even the price of a million-dollar career—on the role of the greatest Being this mortal world has ever known?" When Hunter returned to Hollywood, he deliberately selected parts that were different, such as that of
2717-426: A multiyear mission. Roddenberry insisted the ship not have fins or rockets; Jefferies also avoided repeating fictional designs from Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon , along with the real-world space exploration work done by Boeing , Douglas Aircraft Company , Lockheed Corporation , NACA , NASA , and Northrop . With Roddenberry's speed requirement, Jefferies decided the ship needed to be instantly recognizable from
2860-672: A program called Those Who Serve , playing a G.I. After graduating from high school in 1945, Hunter joined the United States Navy . He completed a naval radar course at the Radio Technical School and was assigned to Communications Division, Headquarters of the Ninth Naval District in Great Lakes, Illinois . Although he served during World War II , he did not see any battle duty because of
3003-539: A psychopathic killer in an episode of Checkmate and as the lead in a heist thriller Man-Trap (1961), directed by actor Edmond O'Brien . At Universal, Hunter starred in No Man Is an Island (1962), the story of George Ray Tweed . He joined an all-star cast in the Fox World War II battle epic The Longest Day . Hunter provided a climactic heroic moment playing a sergeant who is killed while leading
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#17327719977853146-424: A registry number of "NCC-1701". Jefferies combined the "NC" of American civilian aircraft registration codes with the "CC CC" of Russian aircraft, deriving "NCC". The "1701" digits were chosen for their readability on television screens. Although initially lacking internal lighting, the tight budget ultimately allowed the model's starboard side to receive illuminated windows. The show's limited budget also affected
3289-576: A second "C" because he thought it looked better. The Franz Joseph Blueprints , the book The Making of Star Trek , and a handful of Star Trek novels speculate that NCC is an initialism for "Naval Construction Contract". In an interview with the BBC, Jefferies explained that NC is the designation for U.S. civil aircraft and civil aircraft in the Soviet Union used the designation CCCC. He concluded that any major future space projects would likely be
3432-410: A ship's traditional shape. ILM was given "tremendous" leeway in creating the ship. Concept artist Ryan Church 's initial designs were refined and developed into photo-realistic models by Alex Jaeger's team at ILM. ILM's Roger Guyett recalled the original Enterprise being "very static", and added moving components to the film's model. ILM retained subtle geometric forms and patterns to allude back to
3575-469: A show set on an immobile space station. Seven weeks went into the creation of the ship's cockpit—however, when an episode of The Next Generation needed to depict the runabout's living quarters, designer Richard James and set decorator Jim Mees had only nine days to both design and build the set. Martin also designed the USS Defiant under the direction of Gary Hutzel and Zimmerman. The Defiant
3718-413: A shuttle is " Coming of Age " (1988); for this story, Probert designed a shooting model and set-designers built one-quarter of the interior space—additional sections were built as the budget allowed. Because the angular interior did not match Probert's curved vessel, a more angular shuttlepod vessel was introduced in " Time Squared (Star Trek: The Next Generation) " (1989). A full-scale shuttle that matched
3861-547: A shuttlecraft to be destroyed; the large number of shuttlecraft reserves the stranded starship seemed to have amused some people and bothered others. Eventually, Sternbach and James collaborated to create the Delta Flyer , a more resilient shuttlecraft. Doug Drexler took four months to design the eponymous Enterprise for the fifth spinoff, Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005). A predecessor to Jefferies' original Enterprise , some elements of this ship were inspired by
4004-589: A solar observatory, along with a 12-foot (3.7 m) model of the Enterprise ' s saucer section. Scenes involving the Enterprise -B and the Lakul in the Nexus energy ribbon were all computer-generated—in fact, no shooting model was ever made of the ill-fated El-Aurian refugee ship. Shots of the Enterprise -D going to warp were also computer-generated. The trend toward using digital models increased with subsequent films. Star Trek: First Contact (1996) introduces
4147-532: A starring role as circuit-riding Texas lawyer Temple Lea Houston , the youngest son of Sam Houston , in the NBC series Temple Houston (1963–1964), which Hunter's production company coproduced. Temple Houston did not survive beyond 26 weeks, and in 1964, Hunter accepted the lead role of Captain Christopher Pike in " The Cage ", the first pilot episode of Star Trek , completed in early 1965 (with
4290-649: A successful attempt to breach the defense wall atop Omaha Beach in Normandy . He traveled to Italy to make Gold for the Caesars (1963) with director Andre de Toth . He was set to costar with Spencer Tracy and James Stewart in The Long Flight when he received an offer to appear in a television show. Having guest-starred on television dramas since the mid-1950s, Hunter was offered a two-year contract by Warner Bros. studio head Jack Warner that included
4433-617: Is a large auxiliary starship built into the design of several Federation starship designs including the Galaxy -class and Sovereign -class. It was docked to the underside of the saucer section. On USS Enterprise -E, the name of the captain's yacht is the Cousteau . In 2375, the crew of USS Enterprise -E used the Cousteau to travel to the surface of the Ba'ku homeworld, in the film Star Trek: Insurrection . Designer Andrew Probert came up with
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4576-472: Is in the Next Generation episode " Yesterday's Enterprise " (1990). It was destroyed attempting to defend the Klingon outpost Narendra III from Romulan attack. Survivors included Tasha Yar ( Denise Crosby ), whose alternate timeline version from "Yesterday's Enterprise" travels with the ship back in time to the battle over Narendra III. The actions of the Enterprise -C's crew became a catalyst for
4719-499: Is returned to the Fleet Museum the following year. Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E) Class: Sovereign Service: 2372–2384 (12 years) Captains: Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) The main setting for the films Star Trek: First Contact (1996), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998), and Star Trek: Nemesis (2002). She also appeared in the season 1 finale of Star Trek: Prodigy (2022), set in
4862-577: Is shown during its construction phase at the Riverside Shipyard in Iowa during the first film. A brief shot of the NCC-1701 is seen as the shuttlecraft carrying Kirk and the new recruits into space departs the shipyard later on in the movie. At the end of Star Trek Into Darkness , Enterprise started its five-year mission. The ship was later destroyed by Krall and his alien swarm attack during
5005-683: Is similar to that of the USS Excelsior , which first appeared in the 1984 film Star Trek III: The Search For Spock. Differences between the Enterprise -B and the Excelsior include: flarings on the outside of the secondary hull, additional and larger impulse engines, and slight differences between the nacelles as well as the bridge modules. Non-canon information concerning the Enterprise -B includes several licensed Star Trek novels in which Demora Sulu, daughter of Hikaru Sulu, followed Harriman as captain. There are also licensed guides, such as
5148-523: Is the acme of young American manhood. Why, he looks like he just stepped off a college campus. He's extremely handsome, but this is not what impresses me. He has sort of — well, an all-encompassing type of magnetism. And he's a walking advertisement for marriage. You can't be with Jeff more than two minutes without realizing that he takes his marriage seriously, and adores his wife and child. He talks about them constantly, and with extreme pride ... You would be certain to guess, even without knowing, that Jeff
5291-502: Is the main setting of the original Star Trek series (1966–1969) and Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973–74). Having undergone an extensive rebuilding and refitting, Enterprise then appears in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) in which the starship is destroyed by its crew to escape capture. Depictions of
5434-513: Is the real athletic type. He likes to ski especially, and can you think of anyone who would look better soaring down a mountain? Fox gave Hunter his first starring role in Lure of the Wilderness (1952), a remake of Swamp Water , directed by Negulesco and opposite Jean Peters. After Dreamboat (1952), where Hunter supported Clifton Webb and Ginger Rogers , he was given his best role yet,
5577-561: The Wright Flyer , a V-2 rocket , a Bell X-1 , a Vostok-3KA capsule, a Space Shuttle orbiter , and some Star Trek universe starships. A painting of this ship hangs on the wall of Earth's 602 Club in flashbacks that appeared in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " First Flight " (2003). Non-canon sources give more details: The 1979 Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology describes this "first interstellar liner" as
5720-527: The Akira class in First Contact , and its overall compactness was inspired by Deep Space Nine ' s Defiant . Eden FX created computer-generated models for all four seasons of Enterprise . Producers of the 2009 Star Trek film balanced between paying homage to established Star Trek lore while also reinvigorating the franchise. The redesigned Enterprise has a " hot-rod " look while retaining
5863-599: The Blu-ray (BD) version of the movie gives the length as 2,379 feet (725 m), which would be larger than the Next Generation D and E versions, making it the largest USS Enterprise in the franchise history (not counting the pre-Federation era Enterprise (XCV 330) , seen only as a model). This would result in a height of 167m, and a beam of 339m. Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A) Class: Constitution Service: 2263–ongoing Captains: James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) Enterprise -A first appears at
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6006-407: The Enterprise ' s replacement, an identical starship given the name Enterprise and registry number NCC-1701-A. Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A) Class: Constitution II Service: 2286–2293 (7 years) Captains: James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ) This ship first appears at the conclusion of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) and is the main setting in
6149-404: The Enterprise ' s support craft: Jefferies wanted to give the show's shuttlecraft a more aerodynamic look than the Enterprise itself, but it was too expensive to build a life-size filming model with a curved hull. Ultimately, toy model company AMT paid for the construction of the shuttle design in exchange for the rights to sell a model toy. The shuttlecraft became a key plot element in
6292-412: The Enterprise made occasional appearances in later Star Trek series, before being reintroduced as the main setting of the prequel Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , portraying the ship's missions in the decade prior to The Original Series . Details of the ship's appearance differed in the various series and films in which it appears. In the 1965 pilot episode " The Cage ", whose footage was reused for
6435-495: The Enterprise that had appeared in the Star Trek franchise. By contrast, in 2019, SyFy ranked the refit design of the Enterprise (NCC-1701 and NCC-1701-A) as the franchise's best, ranking the original design as only the fourth best version of the starship. Time described each iteration of the Enterprise as "a character in its own right". Over many decades, the starship has influenced real-life activities of NASA and
6578-436: The Enterprise . The new shots depict more dynamic lighting and clearer senses of scale than the original release. In September 2006, CBS began airing remastered episodes of Star Trek . The remastered series, directed by Mike Okuda , includes updated special effects shots. For example, the alternate universe Enterprise in " Mirror, Mirror " was originally depicted by the "regular" Enterprise filming model; however, in
6721-750: The Haynes Enterprise Manual , in which a list of the ship's captains includes Demora Sulu, William George, and Thomas Johnson Jr. Three ships named Enterprise are featured in Star Trek: The Next Generation television series and four TNG -era films. Two additional Enterprise ships appear in the third season of Star Trek: Picard , in which TNG ' s command crew are reunited. Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-C) Class: Ambassador Service: 2332–2344 (12 years) Captains: Rachel Garrett ( Tricia O'Neil ) This ship's first and only appearance
6864-627: The National Air and Space Museum curator said "there is no other fantasy more pervasive in the conceptualization of space flight than Star Trek ". The Next Generation was nominated for an Emmy for its depiction of the Borg cube in " Q Who ". Star Trek: The Experience included a shuttlecraft ride simulator. Spacecraft filming models made up nine of the ten highest-bid items in Christie's Star Trek : The Collection auction. AMT 's model of
7007-454: The Next Generation team used models from the first three Star Trek films; the Excelsior , Grissom , and Reliant models were redressed to become various Excelsior -, Oberth -, and Miranda -class starships, respectively. The visual effects shot of the "USS Pegasus" spacecraft was a re-dress of the Oberth class model. The VFX model auctioned off in 2006 by Christie's . The Oberth-class
7150-514: The Sovereign -class Enterprise -E , conceived by production designer Herman Zimmerman and illustrator John Eaves as a larger, sleeker, faster-looking ship. Based on blueprints created by Sternbach, ILM's John Goodson created a 10.5-foot (3.2 m) shooting model. Goodson also created a model of the Phoenix ship, and a physical Borg cube model was needed for close-up shots. First Contact
7293-503: The Star Trek franchise: an intrepid, diverse crew traveling through space and encountering the unknown. Matt Jefferies designed the crew's spaceship, the USS Enterprise . Jefferies' experience with aviation led to his Enterprise designs being imbued with what he called "aircraft logic". Series creator Gene Roddenberry wanted the ship's design to convey speed, power, a "shirt sleeve" working environment, and readiness for
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#17327719977857436-537: The Starship Spotter , a collection of images of various spacecraft in Star Trek . Since 2002, Star Trek illustrator and designer Doug Drexler has led development of an annual Ship of the Line calendar featuring images and information about various spacecraft from the Star Trek franchise. Jeffrey Hunter Jeffrey Hunter (born Henry Herman McKinnies Jr. ; November 25, 1926 – May 27, 1969)
7579-538: The Tholians . Registry: ISS Enterprise (NCC-1701) Class: Constitution Service: 2260s Captains: Christopher Pike, James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Spock (Leonard Nimoy) A Mirror Universe Enterprise appears in the original Star Trek episode " Mirror, Mirror ". The ship is equipped with an agony booth and the mirror in the captain's quarters conceals Captain Kirk's deadly Tantalus device. ISS Enterprise
7722-457: The U.S. Navy : Celebrity astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has spoken highly of the influence and legacy of the original Enterprise on other fictional spaceships. Drawing a parallel to comparing athletes between eras, he said of spaceship design, "What matters is not what they look like now, but what they looked to others at the time that they prevailed... There is only one spaceship that's earlier than [the original Enterprise ], and that's
7865-485: The University of California at Los Angeles to get his master's degree in radio. In 1950, he was appearing in a college production of All My Sons (in the role of Chris) and was spotted by talent scouts from 20th Century Fox and Paramount. Paramount tested him - doing two scenes from All My Sons with Ed Begley . They were impressed and offered him an option; Darryl F. Zanuck of Fox heard about this and offered him
8008-666: The William Conrad thriller Brainstorm (1965), the Western Murieta (1965), the spy film Dimension 5 (1965), the Hong Kong-filmed but unreleased Strange Portrait (1966) and A Witch Without a Broom (1967), a comedy fantasy set in Spain. He guest-starred on Insight , Daniel Boone and The F.B.I. After a cameo in A Guide for the Married Man (1967), Hunter took the lead role in
8151-425: The massively multiplayer online role-playing game Star Trek Online . Its design is based on the entry submitted by Adam Ihle for the 2011 "Design the next Enterprise " contest, a joint venture between Cryptic Studios, CBS, and Intel, which ran shortly before the game went "free to play". Enterprise -F made its first appearance in the mission "Boldly They Rode", at the point where USS Enterprise -F appears to help
8294-483: The "United Space Ship Enterprise ". In 1976, before Star Trek: The Motion Picture , Paramount had planned a Star Trek film to have been named Star Trek: Planet of the Titans . Early in the production, Ralph McQuarrie had been hired to redesign the Enterprise . The major feature of the redesign was to replace the cigar-shaped secondary hull with a larger, triangle-shaped " delta wing " section. McQuarrie's design
8437-804: The 26th century. In this timeline, Enterprise -J participated in the Battle of Procyon V, a climactic battle in which the Federation successfully drove the invasive trans-dimensional beings known as the Sphere Builders back into their own realm. The ship's crew included a descendant of the Xindi scientist Degra . Registry: UEF Enterprise Class: Constitution Service: circa 2259 Captain: James T. Kirk (Paul Wesley) The "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds introduces an alternate timeline where Earth
8580-474: The 32nd century, as mentioned in the Star Trek: Discovery episode " Stormy Weather ", a starship Enterprise noted heated plasma while closing on a subspace rift. No further detail about this ship was provided. Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) Class: Galaxy refit Service: circa 2395 Captain: Full Admiral William T. Riker ( Jonathan Frakes ) In " All Good Things... ",
8723-501: The Borg cube for The Next Generation , collaborated over several months to design the Intrepid -class USS Voyager . As with Star Trek and The Next Generation , the show's budget did not immediately allow for the creation of a new shuttlecraft; initially, the show used one of The Next Generation ' s shuttle miniatures and interiors, with minor alterations to make it look Voyager -specific. Many Voyager plot lines called for
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#17327719977858866-501: The Deep Space Nine, which was used for the final shot of the series finale. Digital Muse and Foundation Imaging also contributed toward Deep Space Nine ' s special effects and computer modeling. Although the production designers gave the new spin-off a distinct look, Deep Space Nine used numerous ship models created for The Next Generation and, later, Star Trek: First Contact (1996). Even as The Next Generation
9009-749: The ISS Enterprise returns in the episode "Mirrors" where it is found stuck in interdimensional space, having been used by refugees fleeing the mirror universe (after the death of the Terran High Chancellor) who subsequently abandoned ship when it got stuck. The Enterprise is freed by the USS Discovery and sent to Federation Headquarters for storage. The crew of the Discovery learns from Federation databases that most of this Enterprise crew had survived and found new lives in
9152-667: The NU Radio Workshop and Radio Guild, and worked summers with the NBC Radio Institute in Chicago . Hunter's first film role came in 1949. While at NU, he was one of a number of students who were cast in David Bradley 's version of Julius Caesar (1950). The movie is best remembered today for starring a young Charlton Heston as Mark Antony . He graduated from NU on August 26, 1949, then moved to
9295-536: The Nile (1954) was an "Eastern" with Debra Paget in the title role. It was not particularly successful, either, and Hunter did not manage to transition into being a top-line star. The title role in Prince Valiant, which had been mentioned for him, was given to Robert Wagner. "It was a terrible disappointment to me," said Hunter later. "I just didn't know what to do. It seemed my career was over. They were making
9438-402: The Romulan warbird designed for The Next Generation . In designing the ship, Eaves revisited the Klingon bird-of-prey concept created for Star Trek III , retaining the "hawklike head". For the smaller Scorpion fighter, Eaves instead took inspiration from an F-18 fighter. Although the film largely used computer-generated models, Digital Domain used physical models to depict the collision between
9581-404: The aeroshuttle and the waverider, respectively. As on the Enterprise -D, however, these vessels were only depicted on technical schematics and never seen in operation or referred to in dialog. Gizmodo 's Io9 blog ranked the original design of the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) as the best version of the Enterprise , characterizing the original as still superior to 11 later versions of
9724-464: The aesthetic of Discovery , debuted in 2018 at the conclusion of the season 1 finale , and would go on to become the main setting of the series Strange New Worlds . When the Enterprise was reintroduced in the 1979 film Star Trek: The Motion Picture , the ship had just completed an extensive refit and redesign that included new slimmer warp nacelles, connected to the secondary hull by angled winglike struts. The updated design would be reused later for
9867-428: The alliance between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) Class: Galaxy Service: 2363–2371 and 2401–2402 (9 years) Captains: Jean-Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ), William T. Riker ( Jonathan Frakes ), Edward Jellico ( Ronny Cox ) The main setting of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994). During Star Trek Generations , Enterprise -D
10010-553: The angular interiors was introduced in " Darmok " (1991). Writers had hoped to depict the designed-but-not-built captain's yacht for " Samaritan Snare " (1989), but the budget instead led to the use of a shuttlecraft (That specific craft type's appearance would eventually appear in Star Trek: Insurrection ). Several shuttlecraft names are in homage to figures from science, such as Marie Curie , Farouk El-Baz , Ferdinand Magellan , and Ellison Onizuka . Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993–1999) began production as The Next Generation
10153-500: The battle-damaged Enterprise and Scimitar ; Digital Domain's Mark Forker said building battle-damaged models was at least twice as hard as creating models of pristine starships. By the time production began on Star Trek: Voyager (1995–2001), advances in computing allowed designers to create rough digital three-dimensional models of starships. Until that point, designers could submit only sketches to executive producer Rick Berman and other staffers, but "sketches can be deceiving";
10296-411: The best role —as a killer—while Hunter had the more conventional leading-man part. (The movie was shelved for a year before being released.) A loan-out to co-star with John Wayne in the title roles of the now-classic Western The Searchers (1956) began the first of three pictures he made with director John Ford, followed by The Last Hurrah (1958) and Sergeant Rutledge (1960). Hunter's career
10439-428: The cliche of a "flying saucer", the saucer-shaped upper portion of the hull eventually became part of the final design. Jefferies kept the exterior as plain as possible, both to allow light to play across the model and to suggest that the ship's vital equipment was on the interior, where it could be more readily maintained and repaired. Looking at an early balsa and birchwood model of the Enterprise , Roddenberry thought
10582-468: The concept of the captain's yacht while designing the USS Enterprise -D . Although it was never seen in use, it is labeled on the master systems display screen in main engineering, docked at the bottom of the saucer section almost directly opposite the main bridge. Probert suggested possible ways for the yacht to be used during the first season, including not showing the yacht but mentioning it in dialogue, but his ideas were rejected. The producers almost used
10725-462: The description in the New Testament . At the time of His death, He was robust, and not a delicate man." It was a difficult part, met by critical reaction that ranged from praise to ridicule because of Hunter's youthful, matinee-idol appearance. However, the film was a box-office hit and remains one of Hunter's best-remembered roles. Hunter later said: "I still get an average of 1,500 letters
10868-403: The design team of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1986–1994) were Probert, Rick Sternbach , and Michael Okuda . The three had not only worked on the Star Trek films, but also had experiences working in science and aerospace. Roddenberry envisioned the new series occurring in an era when people were preoccupied with improving the quality of life, and he emphasized this point in calling for
11011-479: The design's growth in size during early production of the film: "Once we got the ship built and started putting it in environments it felt too small. The shuttle bay gave us a clear relative scale – shuttlecraft initially appeared much bigger than we had imagined – so we bumped up the Enterprise scale, which gave her a grander feel and allowed us to include more detail." A special feature on starships in
11154-503: The end of Star Trek Beyond after the destruction of the original Enterprise when the crew resume their five-year mission. Sean Hargreaves stated that he was given the brief to "beef up the neck and arms" on the Ryan Church design, but went further to give the ship echoes of Matt Jefferies' original design. According to The Star Trek Encyclopedia , the registry number NCC-1701 was devised by Matt Jefferies , art director of
11297-584: The episode " The Galileo Seven " (1967). The show's tight budget meant, more often than not, producers recycled models and footage, used cheaper animation techniques, or simply omitted the appearance of spacecraft. As with the Enterprise ' s design, alien spacecraft design in Star Trek —such as the Klingon starships ' resemblance to a manta ray with a bulbous prow, and Romulan vessels' bird-of-prey markings and nomenclature—influenced future television and film productions. Several years after Star Trek
11440-454: The events of Star Trek Beyond . Measurements of this ship's length have ranged from 295 meters to 910 meters. In an article about the 2009 film's visual effects, Cinefex wrote, "The reconfigured ship was a larger vessel than previous manifestations – approximately 1,200 feet (370 m) long compared to the 947 foot (289 m) ship of the original series", and quoted Industrial Light & Magic art director Alex Jaeger discussing
11583-463: The final Enterprise episode " These Are the Voyages... ". It appears in a dream sequence in the pilot of Star Trek: Picard , and after its saucer section was retrieved and placed in the Fleet Museum, it is revealed to have been reconstructed in full by Geordi La Forge as a working ship in the penultimate episode, set in 2401. In the final episode, Enterprise -D engages the Borg one last time and
11726-412: The final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation , Enterprise -D was shown in an alternate future where it had not crashed during the events of Star Trek Generations , and instead had been made Admiral William T. Riker's personal flagship. A third warp nacelle allowed the ship to reach at least Warp 13, and the Enterprise -D had also been equipped with a spinal phaser lance, large phaser cannons on
11869-491: The final, composite effect. However, the composite prints did not scan well in high definition , leading to the creation of new effects elements. In contrast, Paramount Studios maintained a thorough archive of Next Generation film elements, allowing most of those to transition to Blu-ray with minimal, if any, alterations. Nearly all of the spacecraft elements in the Next Generation Blu-ray will be from
12012-464: The first Star Trek series, inspired by an old science fiction cover that Gene Roddenberry liked, with a starship flying through space. Jefferies, who was a pilot, based NCC on United States aircraft pre-1949 registration codes . In such pre-1949 usage, an "N" first letter refers to an aircraft registered in the United States. A "C" for a second letter refers to a civil aircraft. Jefferies added
12155-507: The flying saucer from The Day the Earth Stood Still . So, what matters here is, what did [the Enterprise ] look like at the time it came out (1966) compared with anything that had been imagined before? And when you consider that, that is the most astonishing machine that has ever graced the screen." On the ship's influence upon scientists, Tyson wrote, "The Enterprise was the first ever spaceship represented in storytelling that
12298-722: The following morning at the age of 42. Hunter's funeral was held at St Mark's Episcopal Church in Van Nuys on May 31. He was interred at Glen Haven Memorial Park in Sylmar . For his contribution to the television industry, Hunter has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 6918 Hollywood Boulevard. I am told you have decided not to go ahead with Star Trek . This has to be your own decision, of course, and I must respect it. You may be certain I hold no grudge or ill feelings and expect to continue to reflect publicly and privately
12441-725: The founding of several proto-Federation alliances. Enterprise had significant engagements with the Klingons , Suliban , Xindi and the Romulans and played a central role in the "Temporal Cold War". It is also featured as a model in Star Trek Into Darkness . As of 2401, an NX class which is heavily modified, is displayed at the Starfleet Museum above Athan Prime, in season 3 of Star Trek: Picard (2023). Three ships named USS Enterprise are featured in
12584-423: The frame created for The Motion Picture . The Enterprise -D was filmed with one of the original 6-foot (1.8 m) models created by ILM, although it was stripped down, rewired, and resurfaced to depict the level of detail needed for film. The antagonists' Klingon bird-of-prey previously appeared in Star Trek , as did the rescue shuttles and orbiting rescue ships at the film's end. Producers created new models of
12727-461: The game. Star Trek Online executive producer Daniel Stahl said Ihle's design inspired the creative team, presenting a familiar silhouette yet evolving the franchise's ship design. Similarly, Simon & Schuster held a contest to design the USS Titan , a science vessel commanded by William Riker about whom a series of novels has been published. Sean Tourangeau's design won the contest, which
12870-469: The lead in the Western legal drama Sergeant Rutledge (1960) starring Woody Strode , and the film was not a big success. Hunter was in an urban thriller, Key Witness (1960), directed by Phil Karlson . After making the film, Fox did not renew its contract with Hunter. Hunter's next film was with Karlson; he played Guy Gabaldon in the Allied Artists film Hell to Eternity (1960), which
13013-591: The mid-2380s. As a Sovereign -class vessel, it was the most advanced vessel in Starfleet , and an active participant in the Battle of Sector 001 and the Dominion War . Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-F) Class: Odyssey Service: 2386–2401 (15 years) Commanding officer: Fleet Admiral Elizabeth Shelby ( Elizabeth Dennehy ) This ship appeared in season 3 of Star Trek: Picard (2023). In
13156-422: The movie franchise; the development of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine also saw resources being shared across the two television series. ILM created a catalog of effects shots, which they thought would help the show save money. In practice, however, the catalog was insufficient to meet the show's needs, and using catalog footage as an element in a shot placed constraints on the movement of shooting models added to
13299-604: The name Enterprise predate the United Federation of Planets in Star Trek ' s fictional timeline. Registry: USS Enterprise (XCV 330) Class: Declaration Service: circa 2130s Captain: Unknown This USS Enterprise (XCV 330) appears in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) among a series of illustrations depicting ships named Enterprise . It also appears as a model in Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), together with models of
13442-418: The new ships had to be consistent with Star Trek precedent, such as a saucer section and pair of warp nacelles, but also could not look so similar as to be confused with the new Enterprise . With these requirements in mind, Jaeger reduced 16 initial designs down to four, and created computer-generated models of the Akira -, Norway -, Saber -, and Steamrunner -class ships. ILM was not available to support
13585-416: The next two films, Star Trek: Insurrection (1998) and Star Trek Nemesis (2002). Santa Barbara Studies created CG models of the Enterprise and other new ships for Insurrection , while Digital Domain worked on Nemesis . John Eaves designed new ships for Nemesis , with Doug Drexler doing computer-generated models. The antagonist's Scimitar ship was initially conceived to be a massive upgrade to
13728-532: The original Star Trek television series and the first through seventh Star Trek films. Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) Class: Constitution I, later refit as Constitution II Service: 2245–2285 (40 years) Captains: Robert April ( James Doohan [voice], Adrian Holmes ), Christopher Pike ( Jeffrey Hunter , Sean Kenney , Anson Mount ), James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ), Willard Decker ( Stephen Collins ), Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ). The Federation 's first Enterprise
13871-519: The original Enterprise ' s shuttlecraft sold over one million units. In 1989, Ertl released a model kit that included The Next Generation ' s Ferengi marauder, Klingon bird-of-prey, and Romulan warbird. AMT released a Vor'cha -class model in 1991. Galoob created Micro Machines of various Star Trek starships from 1993 to 1997, and Hallmark created Christmas ornaments of the original series shuttlecraft, Romulan warbird, and Klingon bird-of-prey. In 2011, Simon & Schuster published
14014-408: The original Enterprise . The computer model's digital paint recreates the use of "interference paint", which contains small particles of mica to alter the apparent color, used on the first three films' model. The 2001 Director's Edition of The Motion Picture includes 90 new and redesigned computer-generated shots produced by Foundation Imaging, many of which include a computer-generated model of
14157-455: The original film, and there will be few corrections to production or effects errors. Several Star Trek board, roleplaying, and video games take place on and allow players to control various spacecraft. Star Trek Online (2010) developers invited fans to design the Enterprise -F, successor to the USS Enterprise -E from the Next Generation -era films. Adam Ihle submitted the winning design, an Odyssey -class starship that will appear in
14300-769: The original series as an alternate reality where the militaristic Terran Empire exists in place of the regular universe's United Federation of Planets (" Mirror, Mirror "). A montage in the opening credits of the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " In a Mirror, Darkly " shows the Terran Empire logo in use by at least World War II, with licensed novels putting the divergence before Shakespeare, or even classic Greek literature. Registry: ISS Enterprise (NX-01) Class: NX Service: 2150s Captains: Maximilian Forrest ( Vaughn Armstrong ), Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) The Star Trek: Enterprise episode " In
14443-483: The original television show. The final Enterprise -D design was revealed to the public in a July 1987 column in Starlog . After rejecting the idea of using CGI for special effects and shooting miniatures, the producers hired ILM—which worked extensively on the Star Trek films—to build a pair of Enterprise models. Six modelmakers, led by Star Trek film veteran Greg Jein, built the models for $ 75,000. Another model
14586-533: The pilot for another NBC series, the espionage thriller Journey into Fear , which the network rejected. With the demise of the studio contract system in the early 1960s and the outsourcing of much feature production, Hunter, like many other leading men of the 1950s, found work in B movies produced in Italy , Hong Kong and Mexico , with an occasional television guest part in Hollywood. His films included
14729-618: The player defeat the Dominion fleet surrounding Deep Space Nine. In 2018, the in-game appearance of the ship was changed to that of a "Yorktown Class" vessel, after the ship was damaged and refit as part of the game's story. The original, Odyssey class version of the ship would later appear in Season 3 of Star Trek: Picard in February 2023, making the Enterprise -F part of the official Star Trek canon. The Mirror Universe first appeared in
14872-564: The prime universe. The 2009 Star Trek film takes place in a new reality created when the Romulan Nero traveled through time via an artificial black hole created by red matter . Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) Service: 2258–2263 (5 years) Captains: Christopher Pike ( Bruce Greenwood ), James T. Kirk ( Chris Pine ) The main setting for the films Star Trek (2009), Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), and Star Trek Beyond (2016). Enterprise
15015-567: The remastered version, the alternate Enterprise has different markings and hull features. In contrast, Okuda said CBS' release of The Next Generation on Blu-rays would see "sharper [and] clearer" effects shots, but no significant changes. Part of the disparity between the treatment of effects shots for the remastered Star Trek and the Blu-ray release of The Next Generation is due to film archiving. The studio did not store film from each individual effect element in Star Trek ; it stored only
15158-571: The same part. Frogmen , and Hunter's role in it, received favorable reviews and he moved into leading roles with Red Skies of Montana (1952), billed third in a film about smokejumpers with Richard Widmark. He had a more conventional male juvenile lead in Belles on Their Toes (1953), a sequel to Cheaper by the Dozen , which reunited him with Crain. Marilyn Monroe later gave an interview where she discussed Hunter's appeal: To me, Jeff
15301-402: The saucer section, and cloaking ability, making it one of the most powerful starships seen in the Star Trek franchise. Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-J) Class: Universe Service: 26th century The " Azati Prime " episode of Star Trek: Enterprise involves time travel and features a scene in which Enterprise -J appears. Enterprise -J operates in a possible timeline during
15444-528: The ship as "the very first starship U.S.S. Enterprise ". Registry: Enterprise (NX-01) Class: NX Service: 2151–2161 (10 years) Captain: Jonathan Archer ( Scott Bakula ) United Earth Starfleet's Enterprise is the main setting of Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005). Enterprise was the first Earth-built starship capable of reaching Warp 5 . The ship was commanded by Captain Jonathan Archer and played an instrumental role in
15587-463: The shot. By the end of the first season, the producers moved away from that catalog. Robert Legato, who supervised the show's in-house visual effects, was eventually able to enhance the appearance of shooting models by using a moving camera for its effects shots, allowing objects in a shot to move in relation to each other. When The Next Generation depicts combat between spacecraft, it is usually single ship-on-ship; however, there are exceptions, such as
15730-518: The starring part in a war film, Sailor of the King (1953), based on C. S. Forester 's book, Brown on Resolution . Although financed by Fox, it was essentially a British film, with British talent — Hunter was cast as a Canadian to explain his accent (his casting led to some difficulties with British film unions). Sailor of the King was a minor success, as was a Western Hunter made with Mitzi Gaynor , Three Young Texans (1954). Princess of
15873-575: The studio re-signed him, while giving him the right to make one "outside" film a year. He supported Robert Ryan in a Western, The Proud Ones (1956). Hunter went over to Universal Studios and supported another older star, Fred MacMurray , in another Western, Gun for a Coward (1957), in a role originally meant for James Dean . Back at Fox, Hunter was reunited with Wagner as the James brothers in The True Story of Jesse James (1957), directed by Nicholas Ray (Hunter played Frank ); it
16016-409: The studio to plan for a new television series. The seven-year production of Star Trek: The Next Generation overlapped with those of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier (1989) and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)—and while those two films made heavy use of Next Generation sets, few spacecraft model assets were shared between the television and film projects. Among the first to join
16159-407: The subsequent Star Trek movies which use the original crew. The ship is ordered " decommissioned " at the end of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). As of 2401, it resides at the Starfleet Museum above Athan Prime, appearing in season 3 of Star Trek: Picard (2023). Non-canon information concerning this ship includes paperwork included with the model kit, which indicated the ship
16302-450: The use of 3D modeling removed a degree of guesswork from the process. Sternbach said the most important change in the process of creating spacecraft for the franchise was the increasing availability of CGI software and access to better-performing computers. Digital Muse, Foundation Imaging, and Eden FX contributed toward Voyager ' s computer modeling; the latter two also worked on Enterprise . Sternbach and Richard James, who designed
16445-412: The vessel would look better upside down, and a TV Guide cover once depicted it as such; ultimately, however, the show used Jefferies' arrangement. The saucer module, engineering hull, and twin warp nacelle design influenced producers' designs of Starfleet vessels throughout the franchise's spin-offs and films. The filming model's constituent parts cost under $ 600. The Enterprise is depicted with
16588-665: The yacht in the episode " Samaritan Snare ", but decided to use an "executive shuttlecraft" due to budgetary constraints. According to Patrick Stewart, the yacht would have been called the Calypso . Producer Ronald D. Moore noted in the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual that real-life naval tradition would insist on calling such a craft the captain's gig , rather than the captain's yacht. Rick Sternbach later designed similar craft for USS Voyager and USS Equinox , known as
16731-576: The year 2401, the ship was originally designated as the USS ; Titan (NCC-80102-A) under the command of Captain Liam Shaw. By 2402, the Titan -A was renamed and rechristened as the Enterprise -G, in honor of the crew of the USS Enterprise -D, for their contributions in battle against the Borg, with Seven of Nine taking over as captain. Registry: USS Enterprise Service: circa 3190 In
16874-612: The year 2401, the ship was set to be decommissioned following the Frontier Day festival. The ship first appeared in the non-canon video game, Star Trek Online , and was designed by artist and graphics designer Adam Ihle as part of a fan competition. Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-G) Class: Constitution III Service: 2396–2401 (as USS Titan ), 2402– (as USS Enterprise ) Captains: Liam Shaw ( Todd Stashwick ), Seven of Nine ( Jeri Ryan ) The Enterprise -G appeared in season 3 of Star Trek: Picard (2023). In
17017-649: Was mothballed at the Memory Alpha ship museum, and the Shatnerverse novel The Ashes of Eden (1996), which depicted Enterprise -A's removal from the mothball fleet before being destroyed defending the planet Chal. Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) Class: Excelsior -class refit Service: 2293–2329 (36 years) Captains: John Harriman ( Alan Ruck ), Demora Sulu (portrayed in Generations by Jacqueline Kim ) The Enterprise -B
17160-604: Was a Republican . While in Spain in November 1968 to film Cry Chicago (¡Viva América!) , a story about the Chicago Mafia , Hunter was injured in an on-set explosion when a car window near him, which had been rigged to explode outward, accidentally exploded inward. Hunter sustained a serious concussion. According to Hunter's wife Emily, he "went into shock" on the flight back to the United States after filming and "couldn't speak. He could hardly move." After landing, Hunter
17303-473: Was a "campus Casanova" in a Jeanne Crain drama, Take Care of My Little Girl (1952), directed by Jean Negulesco . Hunter then was given a bigger part in the all-male war movie The Frogmen (1951) for director Lewis Milestone , supporting Richard Widmark and Dana Andrews ; among his fellow support players was Robert Wagner , another young actor under contract to Fox at the time. The two would appear in several movies together and were often rivals for
17446-418: Was a hit at the box office. Gabaldon later named one of his sons Jeffrey Hunter Gabaldon. Nicholas Ray cast Hunter in the role of Jesus Christ in the $ 8 million epic King of Kings (1961), produced by Samuel Bronston . "I've broken my shackles at last," said Hunter at the time. He told Louella Parsons , "Christ was a carpenter and 33 years old, and I am 33, and I suppose my physical measurements fitted
17589-400: Was a moderate hit at the box office. Hunter said after it, "I had no immediate pictures scheduled ... Nothing seemed to be coming up. I wasn't thinking of leaving my studio — it's important having a major studio behind you. It was just that I was restless, and nothing seemed to be happening." With a friend, Bill Hayes, he set up a production company, Hunter Enterprises. They produced
17732-529: Was an American film and television actor and producer known for his roles in films such as The Searchers and King of Kings . On television, Hunter is known for his 1965 role as Captain Christopher Pike in the original pilot episode of Star Trek: The Original Series . Hunter was born in New Orleans , Louisiana, the son of Edith Lois (née Burgess) and Henry Herman McKinnies. His family
17875-613: Was attacked by Romulans, and the United Federation of Planets subsequently never formed. The UEF Enterprise (United Earth Ship Enterprise ) was constructed at the Luna Shipyards on Luna as part of the United Earth Fleet. Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-F) Class: Odyssey ( Yorktown refit) Service: 2409– Captain: Va'Kel Shon One version of USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-F) appears in
18018-429: Was canceled, Roddenberry and other producers began work for a new series, Star Trek: Phase II . Paramount Pictures , recognizing the market for science-fiction films after the success of Star Wars (1977), instead approved the production of Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979). Many of the film's designs and models came from Phase II , although they were recreated to provide the higher level of detail needed for
18161-471: Was created midway through the third season. ILM also created the distinct "rubberband" effect of the Enterprise going to warp speed—an effect initially created for The Motion Picture . The new series' creators were concerned that budget constraints for The Next Generation could be even more of a problem for them as they had been for the original Star Trek . To help avoid them, the producers reused and recycled sets, models, props, and footage created for
18304-432: Was designed by David Carson, and built at Industrial Light & Magic . The model was made for the 1984 theatrical film Star Trek III: The Search for Spock , where it depicted a ship called the "USS Grissom". As with the original Star Trek , budget concerns delayed the construction of a full-scale shuttlecraft set until a script made the shuttle an important part of the story. The first Next Generation story to use
18447-458: Was discarded in favor of keeping the general shape of the Enterprise intact for the redesign unveiled in Star Trek: The Motion Picture . Three decades later, the McQuarrie design for the Enterprise was adopted as the basis for the design of the USS Discovery in Star Trek: Discovery , a 2017 series that takes place ten years earlier than the original Star Trek . The captain's yacht
18590-487: Was ending, the actors and many of the production crew were preparing for their first film, Star Trek Generations (1994). This film saw the widening adoption of—but not sole reliance on—computer-generated vehicle models in the film franchise. The USS Enterprise -B in Generations is a reuse of the Excelsior model in Star Trek III , and its surrounding spacedock a reconstruction—with some flattening alterations—of
18733-476: Was ending. The eponymous Deep Space Nine space station took Sternbach and Herman Zimmerman several months to design. The show's producers insisted that it look "weird" and distinctly non-Starfleet. Every episode of Deep Space Nine includes shots of the 6-foot (1.8 m) shooting model. Sternbach and Jim Martin designed the show's runabout vessel, conceived as a way to allow the station's crew to continue with Star Trek ' s main themes of exploration in
18876-454: Was introduced in the third season to give the show's character greater range and capabilities when leaving the station. Starting with the show's third season, spacecraft exteriors began to be computer-generated. The studio VisionArt created computer models for several Deep Space Nine ships, including the Defiant , the runabouts, and Jem'Hadar vessels. VisionArt also created a CGI model of
19019-414: Was launched at the beginning of the film Star Trek Generations (1994). During the ship's maiden voyage, prior to it being properly fitted with essential systems, the crew encountered an energy ribbon known as the Nexus, through which James T. Kirk – captain of the two former Enterprise starships, NCC-1701 and NCC-1701-A – was officially declared missing and presumed dead. The design of the Enterprise -B
19162-466: Was lost in 2371 after an attack by the Duras sisters ' renegade Klingon Bird-of-Prey which caused extensive damage, leading to a warp core breach. Although the saucer section was safely separated before the breach, the shock wave from the exploding engineering hull threw it out of control, and caused it to crash-land on Veridian III. The ship also appears in the first Deep Space Nine episode " Emissary " and
19305-641: Was mildly popular, although considered a critical disappointment. Fox gave him a leading role in The Way to the Gold (1957), another Western. It was a low-budget production, but proved profitable. He was one of several leads in Fox's look at young people, No Down Payment (1957) - not a big hit, but the early work for director Martin Ritt received some critical acclaim. Fox sent Hunter to Britain to be an American star in
19448-835: Was not designed to go from one place to another; [it was] only designed to explore. It was revolutionary in terms of what we would think space would, and should, be about." NetDragon Websoft , a gaming and mobile Internet company in Fuzhou , China, based the architectural design of its headquarters building on the Next Generation -era Enterprise (primarily the Enterprise -E), under an official license from CBS. Spacecraft in Star Trek Beyond their media appearances, Star Trek spacecraft have been marketed as models, books, and rides. Filming models have sold for thousands of dollars at public auction. The original Star Trek television series (1966–1969) established key tenets of
19591-585: Was of Scottish ancestry. After 1930, he was reared in Milwaukee , Wisconsin, where he graduated from Whitefish Bay High School . He was involved in school sports and began acting in local theater and radio in his early teens. From 1942 to 1945, he spent his summers appearing in small roles for a touring summer-stock theater company from New York called the Northport Players. He made his professional radio debut in his senior year in high school on
19734-466: Was originally the same shooting model as the regular Enterprise . The remastered version of "Mirror, Mirror" includes a CGI version of Enterprise with "ISS" markings on the hull and minor physical differences from USS Enterprise , such as a larger deflector dish, a taller bridge, and altered nacelle details. The ship was also shown orbiting the planet in the opposite direction (clockwise instead of counter-clockwise). In Star Trek: Discovery season 5 ,
19877-951: Was revitalized when he successfully lobbied John Ford to cast him as the second lead in The Searchers (1956), supporting John Wayne. Disney borrowed him to play William Allen Fuller in the Civil War action movie The Great Locomotive Chase (1956), opposite Fess Parker . Ironically, according to Parker's Archive of American Television interview, Ford had originally wanted to cast Parker in Hunter's role in The Searchers , but Disney refused to lend him out, something Parker did not hear about until years later; Parker referred to this lost opportunity as his single biggest career setback. The success of The Searchers and The Great Locomotive Chase reignited Fox's interest in Hunter and
20020-441: Was scored on originality, execution, consistency with the publisher's concept notes, and consistency with Star Trek ' s established Starfleet style. Several other Star Trek novel lines have been created that take place on ships and stations other than those depicted in the franchise's film and television fiction. The basic design of the original Enterprise "formed the basis for one of sci-fi's most iconic images". In 1992,
20163-431: Was set to make A Band of Brothers with Vince Edwards when he died. Hunter's first marriage from 1950 to 1955 to actress Barbara Rush produced a son, Christopher (born 1952). From 1957 to 1967, Hunter was married to model Dusty Bartlett. He adopted her son Steele, and the couple had two other children, Todd and Scott. In February 1969, just three months before his death, he married actress Emily McLaughlin . Hunter
20306-671: Was taken to Good Samaritan Hospital in Los Angeles, but doctors could not find any serious injuries except for a displaced vertebra and a concussion. On the afternoon of May 26, 1969, Hunter suffered an intracranial hemorrhage while walking down stairs at his home in Van Nuys, California . He fell, knocked over a planter and struck his head on the banister, fracturing his skull. He was found unconscious by his visiting friend Frank Bellow and taken to Valley Presbyterian Hospital , where he underwent brain surgery. He died at about 9:30
20449-400: Was the last Star Trek film to make heavy use of physical models, and many ships in the film are depicted by computer models. In addition to the physical model, the Enterprise was also built as a computer model. John Knoll worked with visual effects art director Alex Jaeger to design and create a variety of new ships to populate the opening battle against the Borg. Knoll and Jaeger decided
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