Talk:Starship Enterprise/sandbox

Memo dated 17th october 1986
Ok this a couple of quotes from a memo that GR wrote (I think from a copyright perpective it's a big dodgy for me to type out the whole thing - it's entitled 'Noah's arc' it's from pg 15 of the tribute book -

''there is one element which I always felt was lacking in our original series. although our ship was engaged in a 'five year mission', there were only crew members aboard. For the new series, we are postulating travel through space that could last for an even longer period of time. To expect people to leave everyone and everything they hold dear for such a long journey is, I think, unconscionable. why should the enterprise crew be denied the opportunity to live a full and rewarding life? therefore I propose that we have men, women and children on board throughout the whole series.''

later

what we would have then is, ideed, "wagon train to the stars".

and

This new approach to to STAR TREK would give us much the same sort of dramatic continuity that current shows like 'hill street blues" and "L.A. Law" have. 

So it's helpful to establish how the 1701-D was used to change some of the elements of the show? --Fredrick day 00:02, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Excelsior model used for generations
From page 218 of the tribute book

''The Starship Excelsior model, designed by bill george and built by ILM for Star Trek III. to transform this ship into the the enterprise-b for generations, a flare was added to the lower hull, creating a section that could show thw damage caused by the nexus without actually cutting into the original model'' --Fredrick day 00:08, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Enterprise as character
pg 237 of the tribute book ''another essential component of a star trek story laid out by Gene Roddenberry is that the enterprise must be considered a character,too.' --Fredrick day 00:12, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

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Enterprise D designed as single unit
pg 16 of the tribute book after designing the new enterprise to be an "organic whole," Probert was given an additional challenge when he was informed that this Enterprise would be shown seperating --Fredrick day 00:17, 30 June 2007 (UTC)