"He's dead, Jim" - designer of original Enterprise dies

[FeathersMcGraw]

Story at BBC News

 

[Amused]

That picture in the article isn't even of the original Enterprise.

 

[Aves]

Originally posted by: Amused
That picture in the article isn't even of the original Enterprise.

lol, I noticed that.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: Amused
That picture in the article isn't even of the original Enterprise.

Haha, of course an AT'er would notice the "A".

 

[Derango]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: Amused
That picture in the article isn't even of the original Enterprise.

Haha, of course an AT'er would notice the "A".

That and the design is noticeably different.

EDIT: bah to spelling 😉

 

[Analog]

🙁

 

[Aves]

Originally posted by: Derango
That and the design is notisably different.

Yep

 

[fyleow]

It looks the same to me, I guess I'm not much of a Star Trek fan. Watched Voyager but that was it.

 

[vetteguy]

Sad, but I was more concerned about this article that was also linked.

 

[Electric Amish]

Originally posted by: fyleow
It looks the same to me, I guess I'm not much of a Star Trek fan. Watched Voyager but that was it.

The original has an actual deflector dish, whereas the "A" has a glowing orb.

 

[Zim Hosein]

R. I. P. Walter Jefferies 🙁

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: Electric Amish

Originally posted by: fyleow
It looks the same to me, I guess I'm not much of a Star Trek fan. Watched Voyager but that was it.

The original has an actual deflector dish, whereas the "A" has a glowing orb.

The top and bottom of the saucers have differences that you can see. The original is thicker, smaller in diameter, and has more of a point at the top and bottom center. The ncells (sp?) on the original were round and all one color, not squished from either side with a black streak running down the inside and outside. Also, the engines had "glowing orbs" on the front end of the each ncell and were cut off diagonally on the back end.