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Topic: To Boldly Go... Build The Enterprise
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cjh5801
Member Posts: 185
From: Lacey
Registered: Jun 2009
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posted 05-30-2012 10:39 PM
   
Build The Enterprise The BuildTheEnterprise (BTE) website describes how to build the first USS Enterprise spaceship, based on technologies within our reach, over the next twenty years. You read that right. It’s possible for the United States of America to build the first generation of USS Enterprise given the national will to do so. But before digging into how to design and build this ship, you may first want to consider Our Space Problem and how this leads to Visions of Enterprise. You know, this is crazy enough that it just might— No, it's just crazy. But I applaud the enthusiasm. |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1031
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 05-30-2012 11:04 PM
I call science officer. |
APG85
Member Posts: 306
From:
Registered: Jan 2008
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posted 05-31-2012 02:25 AM
I want to be Captain Pike. On second thought...no. |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 05-31-2012 06:40 AM
I believe the title of the book is "Letters to Star Trek," and in the mid-70s someone wrote Gene Roddenberry wanting plans of the Enterprise (this was before Franz Joseph did his) as well as use of William Shatner as Kirk. The plan was to use the space shuttles to assemble a fully-functional Enterprise and set off for Alpha Centauri within 10 years of construction start, with a crew of 430 people (a quarter of them women.) I have to find the book but I believe it was going to be publicly funded - that is, a referendum was going to be placed in all 50 states. There needed to be X number of voters to approve it, and since there were more than that number of students in California, the letter writer did not think there was going to be a problem. Shatner as Kirk was going to do commercials for the real life Space Federation, as the venture was called. |
jimsz
Member Posts: 616
From:
Registered: Aug 2006
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posted 05-31-2012 10:55 AM
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Originally posted by cjh5801:
You know, this is crazy enough that it just might— No, it's just crazy. But I applaud the enthusiasm.
No, it's just plain scary crazy. Anyone explain to these people that Klingons are not real, there is no Yoda and Dorothy really didn't land her house on a witch?!?! |
Cliff Lentz
Member Posts: 655
From: Philadelphia, PA USA
Registered: Mar 2002
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posted 05-31-2012 12:24 PM
Maybe it's just me, but I'm sort of burned out by the whole Star Trek thing! I don't blame anyone who still hangs on every rerun word, but I think the current direction of all the space programs is far more compelling than any made up space future! |
p51
Member Posts: 1642
From: Olympia, WA
Registered: Sep 2011
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posted 05-31-2012 12:30 PM
It's just pie-in-the-sky wishful fan dreaming. You'd have heard this concept voiced at any sci-fi convention since the 1970s. The only difference is now, others can easily ready about it online. quote:
Originally posted by Cliff Lentz:
Maybe it's just me, but I'm sort of burned out by the whole Star Trek thing!
It's not just you. I'm a big sci-fi fan and I have seen all the movies and watched most of the series (I never could get into Voyager or Deep Space 9). But I too think there was a market saturation of the concept and people in general are quite burned out. Heck, go to a sci-fi convention and you won't find hardly anyone in Trek garb or Star Fleet uniforms anymore. Even the fans are tired! |
Saturn V
Member Posts: 176
From: Golden, Colorado, USA
Registered: Nov 2006
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posted 05-31-2012 12:33 PM
No, Klingons are not real. But the Borg are and someone needs to tell these people that they are flirting with disaster...  |
ilbasso
Member Posts: 1522
From: Greensboro, NC USA
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 06-01-2012 08:15 AM
Work is apparently already underway, if you can believe the internet. After all, we know that photos can't be faked! |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1031
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 06-01-2012 09:02 AM
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Originally posted by p51:
Heck, go to a sci-fi convention and you won't find hardly anyone in Trek garb or Star Fleet uniforms anymore. Even the fans are tired!
You must be going to the wrong conventions.
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MrSpace86
Member Posts: 1618
From: Gardner, KS, USA
Registered: Feb 2003
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posted 06-01-2012 11:47 AM
Star Wars > Star TrekWhy not build the Millennium Falcon? |
ilbasso
Member Posts: 1522
From: Greensboro, NC USA
Registered: Feb 2006
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posted 06-01-2012 12:59 PM
Recruiting for the astronauts to fly the Millennium Falcon would be interesting. I've only seen her commanded by scoundrels, with the copilots being either Wookiees or whatever Nien Nunb is supposed to be. |
cjh5801
Member Posts: 185
From: Lacey
Registered: Jun 2009
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posted 06-01-2012 03:06 PM
Why not both? We're only talking a trillion dollars apiece here. It isn't like we're talking real money.Since the Millenium Falcon is disc shaped, you could use the same centrifuge technology in both ships. There's some economy for you right there. |
Hart Sastrowardoyo
Member Posts: 3445
From: Toms River, NJ
Registered: Aug 2000
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posted 06-01-2012 03:35 PM
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Originally posted by Fezman92:
You must be going to the wrong conventions.
Sez you. One of the last cons I went to I wore my NASA flight suit. An attendee asked when my panel was.But yeah, the market has been oversaturated for a while, with all the new shows and merchandise. That's why it took so long for a new Star Trek film which was a reboot, not a continuation. When I first went to cons it was $25 a day to hear Marina Sirtis and a chance, if you were willing to wait in a lonnnng line, for an autograph (included in the price.) The last? $250 a weekend, with guaranteed autographs from some stars and having to pay extra for others. Now look at people like Auberjonois, a talented star on Broadway as well. He's sharing space at cons with B-level movie and TV stars and child stars from the '50s. |
Fezman92
Member Posts: 1031
From: New Jersey, USA
Registered: Mar 2010
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posted 06-01-2012 04:34 PM
Well I haven't been to a con in 6 years or so. |
issman1
Member Posts: 1042
From: UK
Registered: Apr 2005
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posted 06-02-2012 05:50 AM
I personally believe that future human space vehicles will be more-or-less similar to those depicted in 2001: A Space Odyssey, Sunshine and Prometheus than Star Trek or Star Wars.But this will likely depend upon what is happening today with commercial space companies rather than international space agencies. |
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