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"Star Trek", science fiction's
most influential franchise
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has been around longer
and traveled further
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than any other.
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Let's jump.
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[Crashing]
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And it's all thanks
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to a seemingly infinite
armada of starships.
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Nothing is more
important than my ship.
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From the original enterprise
to its most distant relative
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"Star Trek" has been
designing starships
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almost as long as NASA.
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Lift-off.
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What started with plastic models
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has evolved into computer
generated wizardry.
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And throughout it all,
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an unmistakable design language
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has been written in the stars.
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The story of how those
designs came to be
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and came to be loved
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literally spends time and space.
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Warp drive, Mr. Scott.
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[Whooshing]
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[Clapper board clicks]
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So, beam aboard
and hold on tight
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as we boldly explore the
starships of "Star Trek".
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And you can see
it all from here,
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in the center seat.
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All I ask is a tall ship
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and a star to steer her by.
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The vessel that
virtually defined
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the look of a spaceship
for generations began
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where "Star Trek" began
with gene roddenberry.
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Roddenberry knew
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that the ship was an
important character.
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It had to be distinctive,
it had to be believable.
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He knew if you
didn't buy the ship,
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you weren't gonna
buy the series.
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But the enterprise was
hardly the first starship.
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The word "starship"
had been around
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before "Star Trek" in books.
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The first visualizations
of spacecraft
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were mostly saucers, or
distinctly tobacco themed.
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"Outer limits",
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which was a couple
years before Star Trek,
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and it's a
cigar-shaped rocket...
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[Buzzing]
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against a black duvetyne
with pinpricks in it for stars.
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Rockets for the rocket age.
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Lift-off.
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But with the space
age now dawning,
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gene wanted something
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that would take
the audience further.
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Gene didn't want it to
look like those rocket ships
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that everybody knows about.
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He wanted it to be different.
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To let our
imaginations take flight,
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gene brought in a man
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who had experience
of exactly that.
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Roddenbery, he brought on
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the art director Matt
jeffries, very early on
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to start conceptualizing
the ship.
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Roddenberry, all he
said was several don'ts.
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No flames, no fins, no rockets.
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And one do was, "make
it look like it's got power."
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And he walked out.
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Well, gene could afford
to be a little short with Matt.
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He knew he had
real world experience
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with magnificent
flying machines.
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Matt jeffries was a
flight engineer on a b-17.
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Gene roddenberry was a
pilot on a b-17 in the pacific.
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He worked on a lot of
war movies, drew ships,
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designed a lot of airplanes
for movie productions.
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So he was an excellent choice.
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He knew aircraft
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and he kept up with
space technology.
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Gene and Matt combined
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their own experience
of military aircraft
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with ideas emerging
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from america's new
national obsession...
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The space race.
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When man steps
into his rocket ship
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and leaves the earth behind,
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he must be well equipped
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to survive in the hostile
realm of outer space.
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One of the things that
Matt and gene looked at
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there was a series
of television shows.
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Now here's a model.
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My design for a four
stage orbital rocket ship.
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The top section will
consist of 10 crew members
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plus equipment.
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And Collier's magazine did a
very famous series of articles
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about how we're
going to go to the moon.
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But gene wanted something
to take the audience further
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in their imaginations
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than science could
hope to go in space.
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It needs to look powerful,
it needs to look futuristic,
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and it needs to look functional.
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Like there is a sense
behind this design.
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So he went through a
painstaking iterative process.
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Old science fiction magazines
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that had spaceships on the cover
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different looks,
different kinds,
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and roddenberry would
look at them and say,
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"how about we try
this but do this with it?"
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And Matt will come
up with something.
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It had to be instantly
recognizable,
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which meant I was
looking for a shape,
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but I didn't know what
the shape looked like.
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So Matt tried new
combinations of familiar shapes.
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You know, shiny
saucers and the dome...
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He started with those
sorts of shapes and textures.
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And roddenberry would
say, "I don't like that.
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This looks goofy. I
like a little bit of this."
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That process was hit or miss.
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But even Matt jeffries
rejected designs
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were ahead of their time,
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Matt Jeffrey's original shapes,
actually, instead of a saucer
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had a sphere out front.
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Uh, the best shape
for a pressure vessel
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is a sphere.
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And roddenberry
looked at that and said,
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"oh, yeah, you know,
I like this. I like that.
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I don't think I like
the sphere so much."
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That guy changed it to a
saucer but the saucer was
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on the bottom of
the engineering hull.
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But the breakthrough
that made the enterprise
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was anything but technical.
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Gene, I think,
took and flipped it.
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Even upside down
or from whatever angle
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Matt's design was majestic.
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The ship didn't
look like the typical...
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You know, silver swept
back wing kind of spaceships.
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The enterprise was
something way different.
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[Beeping]
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The enterprise is
not a want or a desire.
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It is a mechanical device.
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No, it's a beautiful
lady and we love her.
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We do indeed.
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Gene finally had what he wanted.
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The enterprise would be a
mix of the old and the new.
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They came up with this
incredibly original design
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by combining elements
of science fiction ships,
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that had become tropes,
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and turn them into
something new.
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You know, the nacelles
and the secondary hull,
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every much like your
standard cigar-shaped rocket.
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And then they used the saucer,
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a flying saucer like we
saw in "forbidden planet".
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But it wasn't just a hodgepodge
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that happened to look good.
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Matt's design
work on "Star Trek"
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was coming from somebody
who understood aeronautics
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and space structures.
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So he was able to put together
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something that
was more believable
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than say some other designers.
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So after dealing
with the outside
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of this soon to
be iconic starship,
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gene turned his
attention to the inside.
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[Beeping]
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Because they didn't have money
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they couldn't go out and
buy expensive surplus
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to make their switches
on the consoles
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and things like that.
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They came up with the idea
of taking novelty ice cube trays
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with all different shapes
and coloring epoxy,
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pouring it in the trays.
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And when you sat
popping them out,
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and then you had
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all these really unusual
looking colored buttons.
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They almost looked like candy.
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But they would catch
the light from overhead
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and they looked lit up.
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Well, when television viewers
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caught their first glimpse of
the USS enterprise in 1966,
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eyes lit up and
imagination sparked.
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That's...
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The enterprise.
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She truly has stood
the test of time.
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Something they designed in 1964
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still stands as an icon
of science fiction design.
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Who doesn't know
what the enterprise is,
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that famous silhouette?
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It could be the size of a dime
and you knew what it was.
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The starships of
enterprise "next generation",
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"deep space nine"
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and every star ship to
take to the heavens since
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owe something to the mothership.
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Everything, it
looks like a family.
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There's a lineage.
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Well, in 1979, the
enterprise went somewhere
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no starfleet ship was
ever designed to go...
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All the way to Hollywood,
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as "Star Trek" took
to the silver screen
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for the first time.
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Steady as she goes.
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And for this new
era, a new enterprise.
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Production illustrator
Andrew probert
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was among those charged
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with improving on "Star
Trek's" most emblematic design.
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It was my first task
on the enterprise
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to supply some
detailing for the ship.
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Collaborating with production
designer Richard Taylor,
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Andrew's first instinct was
to go big for the big screen.
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And I told Richard, I said,
"let's go big with this thing."
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And Richard said, "no."
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Richard Taylor wanted to stick
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to Matt Jeffrey's original
enterprise concepts
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for a "Star Trek" show
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that would show the
evolution of the enterprise
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but never quite evolved itself.
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Phase two.
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You could see
the original series
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enterprise evolve
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into the motion
picture enterprise.
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[Chirring]
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The reimagined enterprise
would receive a new bridge,
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observation deck,
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and what any
taxpayer expects to see
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in fancy new military hardware.
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We need more power.
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More firepower.
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I was actually able to
make the saucer bigger.
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Richard said, "okay, now
let's come up with a paneling."
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For the big screen
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small detailing would
give the ship a texture
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making sure the enterprise
was ready for her close-up.
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She would look
like it's put together
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with little pieces just
to give it some scale
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and help define the shape.
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And I came up with what
they call an aztec pattern
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for the saucer,
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which is these
interlocking pieces
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that I thought would create
this kind of a tensile strength
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keeping this whole
thing together.
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And propelling this whole thing
was a redesigned powerhouse.
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Richard Taylor actually
wanted to do the engines himself
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he said, "I know
you're designing this
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but I want to do the engines
because I have this idea."
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Richard's big idea
was to reshape
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the enterprise's
trademark nacelles.
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As Richard designed
those new warp engines,
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which I think are amazing...
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The engines were bigger,
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but the most appreciated
upgrade was more subtle.
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It's also set the visual style
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for the rest of the ship,
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which was this kind
of an art deco look.
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The motion picture enterprise
is so gorgeous, so elegant,
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still reflects that respect
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for engineering
and believability.
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It is the most exquisite model
of spaceship I've ever seen.
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With all of these
beautiful lines
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accentuating parts
of the ship even more.
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The interior of
the new enterprise
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opened up a whole
world of new possibilities.
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The carbon units. Use
this area for recreation.
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Then the script
called for a "rec deck."
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Floor to ceiling windows
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that would offer a never
before seen starfield.
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The production
designer at Paramount
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wanted there to be this
kind of a grandiose vision
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out the back of the ship
264
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and he says, "I want it
in the rim of the saucer."
265
00:10:22,831 --> 00:10:24,789
But Andrew wasn't letting
grand designs proceed
266
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without acknowledging
certain engineering realities.
267
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And, I said, "if you put
the "rec deck" there,
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people are going
to get really tan
269
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because that's where
the impulse engine is."
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To avoid the new enterprise
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becoming a warp
speed capable sunbed,
272
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the design was changed.
273
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Scotty would have been proud.
274
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I am responsible for
the safety of this ship.
275
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Speaking of health and safety...
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If you look at the engine room,
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they had people in
anti-radiation scenes
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near the warp core.
That's a forced perspective.
279
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And they put
children in uniforms
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down towards the end of it
281
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so that it looked like
it was a long distance.
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The "Star Trek" motion pictures
283
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not only gave us a deeper look
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into previously unseen
corners of the enterprise,
285
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they also ushered in a
plethora of new starships.
286
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The "Star Trek"
films filled our screens
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with a range of new
23rd century starships,
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expanding starfleet
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in ways we had
never seen before.
290
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The reliant ncc 1864.
291
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[Chirring]
292
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The unassuming reliant
293
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was strangely familiar,
and yet radically different.
294
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We really had
never seen a starship
295
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that wasn't the configuration
296
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of a constitution
class starship before.
297
00:11:41,660 --> 00:11:43,260
Coming up with a
new "Star Trek" starship
298
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is always a challenge.
299
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It needs to fit into something
300
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that feels like it's part of
the family of enterprise.
301
00:11:49,543 --> 00:11:52,293
But it also needs to
have a distinct identity.
302
00:11:52,379 --> 00:11:55,004
It retains the idea
of the enterprise
303
00:11:55,090 --> 00:11:56,748
the two warp nacelles...
304
00:11:56,842 --> 00:11:59,259
But this humble
ship was about to turn
305
00:11:59,386 --> 00:12:01,594
the world of "Star Trek"
vessels on its head.
306
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What's neat about it
307
00:12:03,098 --> 00:12:05,306
is it's actually upside
down in the movie,
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based on its original design.
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It was supposed to be
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where the nacelles
were above it.
311
00:12:10,897 --> 00:12:12,605
Which was all every
trekker had ever known
312
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about a star ship.
313
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Until that is, as you
might remember,
314
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producer Robert salen
had his way with it.
315
00:12:19,573 --> 00:12:21,453
Yeah, I just flipped the
enterprise upside down.
316
00:12:21,908 --> 00:12:23,742
And so instead of having
the nacelles up here,
317
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nacelles where down here.
318
00:12:25,537 --> 00:12:26,444
Which wasn't just
a flippant decision,
319
00:12:26,538 --> 00:12:27,662
so to speak.
320
00:12:27,748 --> 00:12:29,080
We have a good guy and bad guy.
321
00:12:29,166 --> 00:12:30,886
I said I wanted to be
an obvious difference.
322
00:12:32,794 --> 00:12:35,503
With the unprecedented
success of the motion pictures,
323
00:12:36,006 --> 00:12:38,131
it seems the bigger
the movies got,
324
00:12:38,258 --> 00:12:39,957
the bigger the starships became.
325
00:12:40,594 --> 00:12:41,968
Would you look at that.
326
00:12:42,095 --> 00:12:43,553
And none was bigger than...
327
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The excelsior.
328
00:12:45,515 --> 00:12:47,682
In the third movie
"the search for Spock",
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we introduced this
ship, the excelsior.
330
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[Chirring]
331
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The excelsior, which
is supposed to be
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the flagship of the federation.
333
00:12:55,233 --> 00:12:57,233
My god, that's a big ship,
334
00:12:57,319 --> 00:12:59,143
which is a big
monster of a ship.
335
00:12:59,237 --> 00:13:01,646
The final design of this monster
336
00:13:01,740 --> 00:13:04,741
was literally put in the hands
of director Leonard nimoy.
337
00:13:04,826 --> 00:13:06,618
The excelsior, there
was versions of it,
338
00:13:06,703 --> 00:13:08,787
and we were making
changes on the model.
339
00:13:08,872 --> 00:13:11,206
Leonard would say, "let's
try this, this, and this on this.
340
00:13:11,291 --> 00:13:12,957
They take it away,
break it apart,
341
00:13:13,043 --> 00:13:14,834
bring it back in, make
another few changes.
342
00:13:14,961 --> 00:13:17,712
And finally, we had
an absolute final model.
343
00:13:18,131 --> 00:13:21,007
The excelsior needed
serious power under the hood,
344
00:13:21,134 --> 00:13:23,092
which was easily
achieved in the script
345
00:13:23,178 --> 00:13:25,929
by adding a single
word to "warp drive."
346
00:13:26,014 --> 00:13:27,806
She is supposed to
have transwarp drive.
347
00:13:27,891 --> 00:13:29,057
Aye.
348
00:13:30,435 --> 00:13:32,727
And if my grandmother had
wheels, she'd be a wagon.
349
00:13:32,813 --> 00:13:35,021
Prepare for warp speed,
standby transwarp drive.
350
00:13:35,148 --> 00:13:36,681
We wouldn't learn
351
00:13:36,775 --> 00:13:39,692
about the details of
transwarp power until later.
352
00:13:39,820 --> 00:13:42,028
But we did learn that
not starfleet vessels
353
00:13:42,155 --> 00:13:44,072
are built for speed.
354
00:13:44,157 --> 00:13:46,023
Federation science
vessel Grissom arriving.
355
00:13:46,117 --> 00:13:48,785
[Music playing]
356
00:13:48,870 --> 00:13:51,287
The augur class
is a fun little ship.
357
00:13:51,373 --> 00:13:53,623
You had the saucer
and you had the nacelles
358
00:13:53,708 --> 00:13:55,458
and you had that unusual...
359
00:13:55,544 --> 00:13:57,224
A secondary hull that
was like a boat hull.
360
00:13:57,337 --> 00:13:59,629
And it was
dramatically different
361
00:13:59,714 --> 00:14:01,464
but you still
went along with it.
362
00:14:01,550 --> 00:14:04,217
Everyone barring the klingons,
363
00:14:04,344 --> 00:14:06,261
who sadly took exception
to the oberth class.
364
00:14:06,346 --> 00:14:07,637
[Photon torpedoes whizzing]
365
00:14:07,722 --> 00:14:09,806
[Exploding]
366
00:14:12,352 --> 00:14:15,228
But, of course, when it
comes to starships exploding,
367
00:14:15,355 --> 00:14:17,105
there's one in particular
368
00:14:17,190 --> 00:14:19,524
that even gene roddenberry
didn't approve of.
369
00:14:19,609 --> 00:14:22,318
Computer, destruct sequence one.
370
00:14:22,404 --> 00:14:24,395
In the film, "the
search for Spock",
371
00:14:24,489 --> 00:14:26,564
kirk destroys the
enterprise to save his crew...
372
00:14:26,658 --> 00:14:28,908
[Ship exploding]
373
00:14:29,035 --> 00:14:31,903
leaving us all with
just one question.
374
00:14:31,997 --> 00:14:33,288
What have I done?
375
00:14:33,373 --> 00:14:35,290
No, that's not the question.
376
00:14:35,375 --> 00:14:37,041
What do you think
of the enterprise d?
377
00:14:37,127 --> 00:14:38,293
That's the one.
378
00:14:40,046 --> 00:14:41,941
With the return of "Star
Trek" to television in 1987,
379
00:14:41,965 --> 00:14:44,173
the enterprise was
once again reborn
380
00:14:44,259 --> 00:14:46,134
for a new age and
a new audience.
381
00:14:46,219 --> 00:14:47,927
[Chirring]
382
00:14:48,054 --> 00:14:51,389
The first live action TV
series since the original,
383
00:14:51,474 --> 00:14:53,933
"next generation"
was set much later
384
00:14:54,060 --> 00:14:57,145
and introduced us to
picard's enterprise d.
385
00:14:57,230 --> 00:14:59,147
My enterprise is far superior.
386
00:14:59,733 --> 00:15:01,816
The enterprise
almost didn't make it
387
00:15:01,902 --> 00:15:03,359
to the "next generation"
388
00:15:03,445 --> 00:15:05,320
for the unlikeliest of reasons.
389
00:15:05,405 --> 00:15:06,613
One day, gene said,
390
00:15:06,740 --> 00:15:08,105
"what if we don't
have a starship,
391
00:15:08,199 --> 00:15:10,107
but just use long
distance transporters?"
392
00:15:10,577 --> 00:15:13,703
I said, "oh, hell no. The star
of the show is the enterprise.
393
00:15:13,788 --> 00:15:15,371
You got to have that starship."
394
00:15:15,457 --> 00:15:18,708
I was absolutely adamant.
So gene dropped the idea.
395
00:15:19,085 --> 00:15:21,619
Nope. The enterprise
wasn't going anywhere,
396
00:15:21,922 --> 00:15:23,254
except out there.
397
00:15:23,924 --> 00:15:24,956
Engage.
398
00:15:25,050 --> 00:15:27,216
[Ship whizzes]
399
00:15:27,302 --> 00:15:29,052
This new enterprise presented
400
00:15:29,137 --> 00:15:31,971
its own unique
design challenges.
401
00:15:32,098 --> 00:15:34,223
How do you redesign
the enterprise
402
00:15:34,309 --> 00:15:36,225
for a new TV series,
for "next generation"?
403
00:15:36,311 --> 00:15:37,435
How do you do that?
404
00:15:38,772 --> 00:15:40,355
The "next
generation's" starships
405
00:15:40,440 --> 00:15:42,139
were conceived
more than 20 years
406
00:15:42,233 --> 00:15:44,484
after the original
series enterprise.
407
00:15:45,153 --> 00:15:46,819
But in the "Star Trek" timeline,
408
00:15:46,947 --> 00:15:49,447
they arrived almost
a century later,
409
00:15:49,532 --> 00:15:52,033
which created a
problem for designers.
410
00:15:52,869 --> 00:15:54,953
Because the enterprise
again is so recognizable
411
00:15:55,038 --> 00:15:56,788
and so beloved.
412
00:15:56,873 --> 00:15:58,893
You know, what kind of
changes you're going to make?
413
00:15:58,917 --> 00:16:01,250
Before he was even hired
on the "next generation",
414
00:16:01,336 --> 00:16:03,670
senior illustrator
Andrew probert
415
00:16:03,797 --> 00:16:05,838
was already working
on that problem.
416
00:16:05,966 --> 00:16:08,332
Andy came to me said,
"I've done some sketches
417
00:16:08,426 --> 00:16:11,010
on what the enterprise
could look like in 'next gen',
418
00:16:11,137 --> 00:16:12,577
but I'm afraid gene
won't like them."
419
00:16:15,809 --> 00:16:16,849
Oh, that's a new ship.
420
00:16:16,977 --> 00:16:17,767
For the "next generation"...
421
00:16:17,852 --> 00:16:19,012
But she's got the right name.
422
00:16:19,479 --> 00:16:20,799
It wouldn't just be a new look,
423
00:16:21,022 --> 00:16:22,166
but also a new
form for enterprise.
424
00:16:22,190 --> 00:16:24,107
I made it organic because I feel
425
00:16:24,192 --> 00:16:27,193
that an organic shape
is structurally more sound
426
00:16:27,320 --> 00:16:30,029
than geometrics that
are stuck together.
427
00:16:30,156 --> 00:16:33,524
In my head it's made up
of plastics and ceramics,
428
00:16:33,618 --> 00:16:36,035
it's not steel, you know.
429
00:16:36,162 --> 00:16:37,370
And who knows, in the future,
430
00:16:37,497 --> 00:16:39,580
they're going to have
other... Other materials.
431
00:16:39,666 --> 00:16:42,834
And it's not welded together,
it's Sonic, Sonic blended,
432
00:16:42,919 --> 00:16:44,368
it's not welded.
433
00:16:44,462 --> 00:16:46,537
The result was a
sleeker looking vessel
434
00:16:47,048 --> 00:16:49,132
to be known as enterprise d.
435
00:16:49,926 --> 00:16:51,737
And something else that I
did was I took the engines
436
00:16:51,761 --> 00:16:53,720
that were high on
the original enterprise,
437
00:16:53,847 --> 00:16:55,880
and I dropped them
down to the center of mass,
438
00:16:55,974 --> 00:16:59,058
because they would have
a better propulsion balance
439
00:16:59,185 --> 00:17:00,268
than being at the top.
440
00:17:01,521 --> 00:17:03,165
And from what I've seen,
you've got a fine ship,
441
00:17:03,189 --> 00:17:05,064
a real beauty here.
442
00:17:05,191 --> 00:17:08,526
Andrew was letting
his imagination run free.
443
00:17:08,611 --> 00:17:11,612
But what he was dreaming
up didn't come for free.
444
00:17:11,698 --> 00:17:13,564
And gene didn't want to pay.
445
00:17:13,658 --> 00:17:19,746
I designed the ship for a crew
between 3600 and 4600 people.
446
00:17:19,873 --> 00:17:22,239
And I told that to
gene and he said,
447
00:17:22,333 --> 00:17:23,750
"no, we don't have enough money
448
00:17:23,877 --> 00:17:26,002
to afford the extras
that would actually reflect
449
00:17:26,087 --> 00:17:27,587
that number of crew."
450
00:17:27,714 --> 00:17:29,634
So let's say that the crew
has 1100 people on it.
451
00:17:29,716 --> 00:17:31,632
Despite budget constraints,
452
00:17:31,718 --> 00:17:34,343
Andrew did have one
very enterprising idea
453
00:17:34,429 --> 00:17:35,803
for his enterprise.
454
00:17:36,473 --> 00:17:37,950
We'll show them with
his baby can do, sir.
455
00:17:37,974 --> 00:17:41,267
The ship has a battle section
that separates out off the hull.
456
00:17:41,394 --> 00:17:43,094
What if the enterprise
could make itself
457
00:17:43,188 --> 00:17:44,604
a smaller target
458
00:17:44,731 --> 00:17:47,023
by dividing itself into two?
459
00:17:47,108 --> 00:17:51,527
Starship separation,
five, four, three...
460
00:17:51,613 --> 00:17:54,363
This battle section
as part of the saucer,
461
00:17:54,449 --> 00:17:56,866
I even did a drawing showing
the engineering hull going off
462
00:17:56,951 --> 00:17:58,159
to protect the saucer.
463
00:17:58,745 --> 00:18:00,703
Separation successful, sir.
464
00:18:00,789 --> 00:18:03,539
When it came to
breaking up the enterprise,
465
00:18:03,625 --> 00:18:05,792
producers had
separation anxiety.
466
00:18:05,919 --> 00:18:07,284
And they said, "no.
467
00:18:07,378 --> 00:18:10,379
The engineering hull
is the battle section.
468
00:18:10,465 --> 00:18:12,465
The saucer separates
to protect the crew."
469
00:18:12,592 --> 00:18:14,592
Which sounded reasonable,
470
00:18:14,677 --> 00:18:16,719
but Andrew had a
much more radical idea.
471
00:18:16,805 --> 00:18:18,471
I said, "additionally,
what you could do
472
00:18:18,598 --> 00:18:20,890
is just cloak the saucer
so it could go invisible."
473
00:18:20,975 --> 00:18:22,455
And they said, "no,
we can't do that."
474
00:18:23,812 --> 00:18:25,612
Well, if the enterprise
couldn't be invisible,
475
00:18:25,939 --> 00:18:26,771
that just meant
more opportunities
476
00:18:26,856 --> 00:18:28,689
to admire its features.
477
00:18:28,775 --> 00:18:31,275
Which included a new
way to shoot the enemy.
478
00:18:31,361 --> 00:18:32,902
File all weapons.
479
00:18:32,987 --> 00:18:34,979
[Torpedoes swishing]
480
00:18:35,448 --> 00:18:37,815
When I did the phasers for
the "next generation" ship,
481
00:18:37,909 --> 00:18:39,984
I created that
whole phaser strip
482
00:18:41,121 --> 00:18:42,807
that could actually follow
what they were shooting at.
483
00:18:42,831 --> 00:18:44,497
[Torpedoes swishing]
484
00:18:44,624 --> 00:18:45,873
It is the most lethal weapon.
485
00:18:45,959 --> 00:18:47,917
There was the art of war,
486
00:18:48,002 --> 00:18:50,327
then there was
the art on the wall.
487
00:18:50,421 --> 00:18:53,506
The set decorator wanted
to flesh out picard's office.
488
00:18:53,633 --> 00:18:55,277
So we thought, well, let's
have a painting of the ship...
489
00:18:55,301 --> 00:18:57,334
[Bell clings] Like all
captains usually do.
490
00:18:57,428 --> 00:18:59,095
So Rick and I came up with this.
491
00:18:59,180 --> 00:19:01,055
I did the ship and he
did the background.
492
00:19:01,141 --> 00:19:02,849
Speaking of home decorating,
493
00:19:02,976 --> 00:19:06,177
there was the small
matter of the new bridge.
494
00:19:06,271 --> 00:19:09,680
Gene wanted a full
overhaul, telling designers...
495
00:19:09,774 --> 00:19:13,693
"I want this to be simple
and elegant and minimalistic
496
00:19:13,820 --> 00:19:15,945
to show how advanced this is,
497
00:19:16,030 --> 00:19:17,947
to show how far
technology has come
498
00:19:18,032 --> 00:19:20,616
since the days of captain kirk."
499
00:19:20,702 --> 00:19:22,952
And so cool
mid-century, minimalism
500
00:19:23,037 --> 00:19:24,954
became a little
more touchy feely.
501
00:19:25,039 --> 00:19:26,455
[Whooshing]
502
00:19:26,541 --> 00:19:29,041
I think that the
enterprise d bridge
503
00:19:29,169 --> 00:19:31,210
is as classic as the
original series Bridges.
504
00:19:31,337 --> 00:19:34,297
With redesigned workstations,
505
00:19:34,382 --> 00:19:36,966
Andrew's bridge still retained
a touch of business class
506
00:19:37,051 --> 00:19:38,342
for the captain.
507
00:19:38,428 --> 00:19:40,261
"What have they
done to my ship now?"
508
00:19:40,346 --> 00:19:43,055
Picard's command chair
originally I designed it
509
00:19:43,183 --> 00:19:44,974
so that it had little screens
510
00:19:45,059 --> 00:19:46,559
that would pop up
out of the armrests.
511
00:19:46,686 --> 00:19:48,311
So all I had to do is tap them
512
00:19:48,396 --> 00:19:49,812
and then these
things would pop up.
513
00:19:50,190 --> 00:19:52,398
I remember kirk walking
around in the original series
514
00:19:52,525 --> 00:19:53,724
with a cup of coffee.
515
00:19:53,818 --> 00:19:55,484
Board readings Mr. Spock?
516
00:19:55,570 --> 00:19:57,987
So, cupholders
for the center seat?
517
00:19:58,072 --> 00:20:00,114
So therefore I put
two food replicators...
518
00:20:00,200 --> 00:20:01,824
[Bell clings] On the bridge...
519
00:20:01,910 --> 00:20:03,734
[Bell clings] Which
they never used.
520
00:20:03,828 --> 00:20:06,787
Oh, and just some
housekeeping before we move on.
521
00:20:06,873 --> 00:20:08,581
There is a bathroom
on the bridge.
522
00:20:08,708 --> 00:20:10,352
If you look at the bridge
from the view screen,
523
00:20:10,376 --> 00:20:12,501
the head is over on
this side... [Bell clings]
524
00:20:12,587 --> 00:20:14,337
opposite the door
525
00:20:14,422 --> 00:20:16,413
that goes back into
the conference lounge.
526
00:20:16,507 --> 00:20:17,915
[Toilet flushing]
527
00:20:18,218 --> 00:20:20,927
Yep, picard's enterprise
seem to have it all.
528
00:20:21,054 --> 00:20:24,096
And just in case we forgot
how starships used to roll
529
00:20:24,224 --> 00:20:26,098
"the next generation"
also introduced us
530
00:20:26,226 --> 00:20:27,850
to yet another enterprise.
531
00:20:27,936 --> 00:20:30,937
[Music playing]
532
00:20:31,064 --> 00:20:33,898
The enterprise c that we
see in yesterday's enterprise,
533
00:20:33,983 --> 00:20:37,026
it has been pulled
from a different time,
534
00:20:37,111 --> 00:20:40,780
but it is not a different
stylistic starfleet ship.
535
00:20:43,117 --> 00:20:45,943
Andy probert had done
some early sketches
536
00:20:46,037 --> 00:20:48,120
of what the scene
could look like.
537
00:20:48,248 --> 00:20:51,707
We added new graphics
to the overhead panels.
538
00:20:51,793 --> 00:20:55,127
The enterprise c was
certainly a new step
539
00:20:55,255 --> 00:20:57,088
in starship evolution.
540
00:20:57,173 --> 00:20:59,131
The enterprise c
541
00:20:59,259 --> 00:21:01,801
really has a way of
bridging the gap design-wise
542
00:21:01,928 --> 00:21:03,928
between the enterprise b
543
00:21:04,013 --> 00:21:06,430
which we see in "Star
Trek generations."
544
00:21:06,516 --> 00:21:08,683
And then of course
with the enterprise d.
545
00:21:08,768 --> 00:21:10,559
Which was picard's ship.
546
00:21:10,645 --> 00:21:13,020
And if all these
designations are forcing you
547
00:21:13,106 --> 00:21:16,774
to relearn your abcs...
Relax, you're in good company.
548
00:21:16,859 --> 00:21:19,151
One-seven-oh-one.
549
00:21:19,279 --> 00:21:25,616
No bloody a, b, c, or d.
550
00:21:25,702 --> 00:21:27,868
A, b, c, or, d,
551
00:21:27,954 --> 00:21:30,663
the enterprise has
remained unmistakable.
552
00:21:30,790 --> 00:21:33,040
"Star Trek" had a very
good batting average
553
00:21:33,126 --> 00:21:36,660
of making the ships feel
germane to the universe
554
00:21:36,754 --> 00:21:38,671
and to design consistency.
555
00:21:38,798 --> 00:21:40,840
It may surprise you to learn
556
00:21:40,967 --> 00:21:42,666
that not all starships
make it to space.
557
00:21:42,760 --> 00:21:44,385
Please, sit down.
558
00:21:44,470 --> 00:21:46,595
Some just take up
space in the background.
559
00:21:46,681 --> 00:21:49,515
[Bell clings] Like this
one, the stargazer,
560
00:21:49,642 --> 00:21:51,508
whose travels we only see
561
00:21:51,602 --> 00:21:53,122
through the memories
of captain picard.
562
00:21:53,146 --> 00:21:54,979
In the ready room,
563
00:21:55,064 --> 00:21:57,732
we built a model of captain
picard's previous command.
564
00:21:57,817 --> 00:21:59,984
But even a fragment of the past
565
00:22:00,069 --> 00:22:01,861
needs to embody
566
00:22:01,988 --> 00:22:03,696
the "Star Trek"
design tradition.
567
00:22:03,823 --> 00:22:05,906
So we put together a
model of what we thought
568
00:22:05,992 --> 00:22:07,803
this deep space science
vessel might look like.
569
00:22:07,827 --> 00:22:09,285
It's the stargazer.
570
00:22:09,370 --> 00:22:11,362
[Chirring]
571
00:22:11,456 --> 00:22:13,530
In a world before sgi,
572
00:22:13,624 --> 00:22:16,417
these starships
were still hand crafted.
573
00:22:16,502 --> 00:22:19,036
Literally people
taking model kits,
574
00:22:19,130 --> 00:22:21,422
and throwing them together
and creating new ships.
575
00:22:21,507 --> 00:22:23,374
I would give almost anything
576
00:22:23,468 --> 00:22:25,551
to command the stargazer again.
577
00:22:25,678 --> 00:22:28,596
Which gave designers like
Rick a chance to experiment.
578
00:22:28,681 --> 00:22:31,140
There were only two
plastic kits out there.
579
00:22:31,225 --> 00:22:33,550
One was the original
series enterprise,
580
00:22:33,644 --> 00:22:36,562
which was deemed
too old in design.
581
00:22:36,689 --> 00:22:39,190
So I took two copies
and the refit kit.
582
00:22:39,275 --> 00:22:40,983
Four nacelles,
583
00:22:41,069 --> 00:22:43,486
you know, added
some new parts to it,
584
00:22:43,571 --> 00:22:46,322
and our set decorator
put it on the set.
585
00:22:46,783 --> 00:22:50,493
Just as the stargazer model
sits inside the enterprise
586
00:22:50,578 --> 00:22:52,745
all starfleet starships stand
587
00:22:52,872 --> 00:22:54,663
in the shadow of the enterprise,
588
00:22:54,749 --> 00:22:58,084
the mother of all mother ships.
589
00:22:58,211 --> 00:23:00,336
As "Star Trek"
and the enterprise
590
00:23:00,421 --> 00:23:01,921
continued to evolve,
591
00:23:02,048 --> 00:23:04,256
so too did the storylines.
592
00:23:04,384 --> 00:23:07,418
During one of starfleet's
war torn chapters,
593
00:23:07,512 --> 00:23:10,388
federation ships came
under unprecedented attack
594
00:23:10,473 --> 00:23:11,514
by the borg.
595
00:23:11,599 --> 00:23:14,100
Resistance is futile.
596
00:23:14,769 --> 00:23:17,269
Fortunately, one
"Star Trek" writer
597
00:23:17,397 --> 00:23:19,814
initially for the series
"deep space nine"
598
00:23:19,899 --> 00:23:21,482
came up with something new
599
00:23:21,567 --> 00:23:23,025
to bolster starfleet's defenses.
600
00:23:23,111 --> 00:23:25,277
We can and will
defend ourselves.
601
00:23:25,405 --> 00:23:26,445
The defiant.
602
00:23:26,572 --> 00:23:28,197
Tough little ship.
603
00:23:28,282 --> 00:23:31,909
It could put the borg and
anyone else in their place.
604
00:23:31,994 --> 00:23:34,495
I decided that it was
a prototype warship
605
00:23:34,580 --> 00:23:36,205
that the federation abandoned
606
00:23:36,290 --> 00:23:37,559
because they don't
really build warships.
607
00:23:37,583 --> 00:23:38,727
It's not really
what they're about.
608
00:23:38,751 --> 00:23:39,450
But they had built this one.
609
00:23:39,544 --> 00:23:41,001
It's over gone
610
00:23:41,087 --> 00:23:43,045
and overpowered
for a ship its size.
611
00:23:43,131 --> 00:23:45,297
And it was in danger
of pulling itself apart.
612
00:23:45,425 --> 00:23:46,841
And I got to name it
613
00:23:46,926 --> 00:23:48,946
so I named it after the
starship from "the tholian web."
614
00:23:48,970 --> 00:23:50,010
The defiant.
615
00:23:50,096 --> 00:23:52,221
[Chirring]
616
00:23:52,306 --> 00:23:54,640
She may have flaws
but she has teeth.
617
00:23:54,767 --> 00:23:56,467
To have a ship that
was a board buster
618
00:23:56,561 --> 00:23:57,601
was exciting.
619
00:23:57,687 --> 00:23:59,478
Living up to its name
620
00:23:59,605 --> 00:24:02,940
that defiant defied
starfleet design conventions.
621
00:24:03,025 --> 00:24:04,808
It didn't have the
traditional configuration
622
00:24:04,902 --> 00:24:06,819
of a federation starship.
623
00:24:06,946 --> 00:24:10,239
Maybe because this starship
was based on a mckee fighter,
624
00:24:10,324 --> 00:24:13,367
originally designed
for ds 9 by Jim Martin.
625
00:24:13,453 --> 00:24:14,596
You couldn't find an airlock,
626
00:24:14,620 --> 00:24:15,911
you couldn't find
a phaser strip,
627
00:24:15,997 --> 00:24:17,830
you couldn't find
anything recognizable.
628
00:24:17,957 --> 00:24:20,541
It was up to us to turn it
into a federation starship.
629
00:24:20,626 --> 00:24:23,627
Doug and his colleagues
gave the defiant
630
00:24:23,713 --> 00:24:26,172
the unmistakable
stamp of the federation.
631
00:24:26,299 --> 00:24:27,939
We would do that by
putting the name on it
632
00:24:27,967 --> 00:24:29,333
in a distinctive way
633
00:24:29,427 --> 00:24:31,502
that circular manner
that it is on the saucer
634
00:24:31,596 --> 00:24:33,596
to have the red stripes
635
00:24:33,681 --> 00:24:35,848
with the starfleet
arrowheads on it.
636
00:24:35,975 --> 00:24:37,516
But the new shape
637
00:24:37,643 --> 00:24:39,560
had some defensive
design elements
638
00:24:39,645 --> 00:24:42,188
not normally seen
on federation vessels.
639
00:24:42,315 --> 00:24:46,317
The fact that the nacelles
are not mounted on pylons,
640
00:24:46,402 --> 00:24:48,235
you want to shield those things.
641
00:24:48,321 --> 00:24:50,696
So they are within enclosures.
642
00:24:50,823 --> 00:24:54,024
A more militaristic
vessel than the enterprise
643
00:24:54,118 --> 00:24:56,869
and the original series
or "next gen" or "voyager".
644
00:24:56,996 --> 00:24:58,954
The military industrial complex
645
00:24:59,040 --> 00:25:01,457
had finally caught up
with starfleet hardware.
646
00:25:03,336 --> 00:25:06,337
Likewise, starfleet
hardware had to catch up
647
00:25:06,422 --> 00:25:09,039
with "Star Trek's"
increasingly war torn storylines.
648
00:25:13,638 --> 00:25:16,630
With the battle of wolf
359 it was all hands on deck
649
00:25:16,724 --> 00:25:18,516
to build enough starship models
650
00:25:18,601 --> 00:25:21,143
for one of the franchise's
biggest conflicts.
651
00:25:21,270 --> 00:25:23,303
And you start to get
to these episodes,
652
00:25:23,397 --> 00:25:25,305
with these massive
space battles...
653
00:25:25,733 --> 00:25:28,108
The fight does not
go well, enterprise.
654
00:25:28,194 --> 00:25:30,402
We're attempting to
withdraw and regroup.
655
00:25:30,488 --> 00:25:34,323
In an age before sgi,
each starship required
656
00:25:34,450 --> 00:25:36,659
a physical model to
be built and filmed.
657
00:25:36,786 --> 00:25:38,202
They're still
shooting miniatures,
658
00:25:38,287 --> 00:25:39,495
so they are literally going,
659
00:25:39,622 --> 00:25:41,989
"let's find every
spaceship we've ever built
660
00:25:42,083 --> 00:25:43,916
that we can throw
into this shot."
661
00:25:44,001 --> 00:25:44,875
Fire.
662
00:25:44,961 --> 00:25:46,252
[Torpedoes whizzing]
663
00:25:46,337 --> 00:25:48,254
[Exploding]
664
00:25:48,339 --> 00:25:51,924
[Screaming]
665
00:25:53,135 --> 00:25:56,679
By the time of "voyager",
calm had been restored.
666
00:25:56,806 --> 00:25:58,764
And after all that chaos,
667
00:25:58,849 --> 00:26:01,225
it was a case of I
want my mothership.
668
00:26:02,770 --> 00:26:03,561
It's the voyager.
669
00:26:03,646 --> 00:26:05,396
[Chirring]
670
00:26:05,481 --> 00:26:07,147
Believe it or not,
671
00:26:07,233 --> 00:26:09,692
this imperious
intrepid class vessel
672
00:26:09,819 --> 00:26:12,519
began life, like so
many good ideas,
673
00:26:12,613 --> 00:26:14,187
as a doodle.
674
00:26:14,282 --> 00:26:17,366
I started just doodling
and doodling and doodling.
675
00:26:17,493 --> 00:26:20,369
And I eventually
started evolving
676
00:26:20,496 --> 00:26:23,030
the shape of what we
were calling the prototype.
677
00:26:23,124 --> 00:26:24,865
We had to come up
678
00:26:24,959 --> 00:26:26,959
with a distinct
look for voyager.
679
00:26:27,044 --> 00:26:29,169
And Rick sternbach was
probably most responsible
680
00:26:29,255 --> 00:26:31,872
for changing the
configuration of voyager
681
00:26:31,966 --> 00:26:34,133
from what we were familiar with.
682
00:26:34,218 --> 00:26:36,510
He really came up
with the distinctive look.
683
00:26:36,596 --> 00:26:38,762
Voyager really
could be thought of
684
00:26:38,848 --> 00:26:41,765
as the galaxy classes
younger sibling,
685
00:26:42,685 --> 00:26:45,561
"Star Trek" is often
its own inspiration.
686
00:26:45,688 --> 00:26:46,979
What I did on the runabout,
687
00:26:47,064 --> 00:26:49,565
I was actually
borrowing bits and pieces
688
00:26:49,692 --> 00:26:51,650
with the pylons
and the nacelles.
689
00:26:51,736 --> 00:26:53,736
But voyager borrowed a little
690
00:26:53,863 --> 00:26:56,405
from something a long
way from deep space.
691
00:26:56,532 --> 00:26:58,907
In fact, from deep water.
692
00:26:59,035 --> 00:27:00,826
I made the nacelles
nice and long,
693
00:27:00,911 --> 00:27:02,870
almost like it was
one of those ice boats
694
00:27:02,955 --> 00:27:05,831
that you see on
a lake slip fast.
695
00:27:05,916 --> 00:27:08,709
But voyager's final shape
would have something to do
696
00:27:08,794 --> 00:27:11,462
with a design built not
for speed, but for comfort.
697
00:27:11,881 --> 00:27:14,048
Jerry Taylor pulls me aside
698
00:27:14,133 --> 00:27:16,342
and says, "can you
make it a little curvier,
699
00:27:16,427 --> 00:27:18,251
kinda like a Lexus?"
[Car horn honking]
700
00:27:18,346 --> 00:27:20,804
Jerry Taylor wanted to
work some of that sensibility
701
00:27:20,890 --> 00:27:23,015
into the design of the voyager
702
00:27:23,100 --> 00:27:25,100
in order to make it look a
little more contemporary
703
00:27:25,227 --> 00:27:26,587
and a little bit
ahead of its time.
704
00:27:26,646 --> 00:27:28,103
Welcome aboard.
705
00:27:28,230 --> 00:27:30,022
But producers wanted voyager
706
00:27:30,107 --> 00:27:32,691
to do something no
starship or Lexus...
707
00:27:32,777 --> 00:27:34,379
[Car horn honking]
Had ever done before.
708
00:27:34,403 --> 00:27:36,195
One of the initial notes
709
00:27:36,280 --> 00:27:39,948
was that something on
the ship had to articulate.
710
00:27:40,076 --> 00:27:42,442
And this was not about
warping the design.
711
00:27:42,536 --> 00:27:44,453
It was about warp speed.
712
00:27:44,580 --> 00:27:46,016
We'll get more power
to the warp drive.
713
00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:47,559
We're all gonna have
to get out and push.
714
00:27:47,583 --> 00:27:50,918
Each nacelle
generates a warp field
715
00:27:51,003 --> 00:27:53,671
that bends space and time
and creates this warp bubble.
716
00:27:53,756 --> 00:27:57,174
You know, the idea
behind the pivoting nacelles
717
00:27:57,259 --> 00:27:59,126
was that the
strength of the field
718
00:27:59,220 --> 00:28:00,678
is what determines
how fast you go.
719
00:28:00,763 --> 00:28:03,722
And maybe there are some ways
720
00:28:03,808 --> 00:28:06,225
of changing the distance
between the nacelles
721
00:28:06,310 --> 00:28:08,969
that will make it easier
to achieve a higher speed.
722
00:28:09,063 --> 00:28:11,313
- You're cleared for launch.
- Aye, captain.
723
00:28:11,440 --> 00:28:13,899
See you at warp ten.
724
00:28:13,984 --> 00:28:15,976
Unlike this trans-warp
enabled shuttle,
725
00:28:16,070 --> 00:28:18,237
voyager couldn't
quite reach warp ten,
726
00:28:18,322 --> 00:28:20,814
but it was the fastest
starship in the fleet.
727
00:28:20,908 --> 00:28:23,659
Besides, in space
you can go too fast.
728
00:28:23,786 --> 00:28:25,152
Traveling at infinite velocity
729
00:28:25,246 --> 00:28:27,246
accelerated the natural
human evolutionary process
730
00:28:27,331 --> 00:28:29,164
by millions of years.
731
00:28:29,291 --> 00:28:32,918
That's right. There was
something very fishy
732
00:28:33,003 --> 00:28:36,004
about Tom Paris dabbling
with trans-warp drives.
733
00:28:36,132 --> 00:28:38,006
There are traces of human DNA.
734
00:28:38,134 --> 00:28:39,842
But I have to admit,
735
00:28:39,969 --> 00:28:41,510
I'm not sure which
one is the captain.
736
00:28:41,637 --> 00:28:44,221
Not only could it go faster,
737
00:28:44,306 --> 00:28:46,473
voyager could also do something
738
00:28:46,559 --> 00:28:49,342
no previous starfleet
vessel ever really needed to.
739
00:28:49,437 --> 00:28:51,353
We could land the ship.
740
00:28:51,480 --> 00:28:53,147
Are you sure that's necessary?
741
00:28:53,232 --> 00:28:56,567
For the longest time it wasn't,
thanks to this contraption...
742
00:28:56,652 --> 00:28:57,776
Energize.
743
00:29:00,364 --> 00:29:02,698
Originally conceived
to save money
744
00:29:02,825 --> 00:29:04,867
by enabling quick transition.
745
00:29:04,994 --> 00:29:06,952
The ship won't land,
746
00:29:07,037 --> 00:29:09,997
but we'll transport
several people down.
747
00:29:10,082 --> 00:29:11,540
Well, that's...
A little difficult
748
00:29:11,667 --> 00:29:12,708
for you to understand.
749
00:29:12,835 --> 00:29:15,461
Their beloved transporter
750
00:29:15,546 --> 00:29:18,005
was finally made
redundant on voyager.
751
00:29:18,090 --> 00:29:20,799
Landing on a planetary
surface with voyager
752
00:29:20,885 --> 00:29:24,720
was something that came in
with some of the writers notes.
753
00:29:24,847 --> 00:29:26,213
Prepare the ship for landing.
754
00:29:26,307 --> 00:29:28,599
Captain, I think
I should tell you
755
00:29:28,684 --> 00:29:31,560
I've never actually
landed a starship before.
756
00:29:31,687 --> 00:29:33,896
That's all right,
lieutenant. Neither have I.
757
00:29:34,690 --> 00:29:36,890
Now we weren't going
to see it for a while,
758
00:29:36,984 --> 00:29:40,569
but I had to make sure
that the landing gear hatches
759
00:29:40,696 --> 00:29:43,405
were at least in
the proper place.
760
00:29:43,532 --> 00:29:45,908
[Rumbling]
761
00:29:46,035 --> 00:29:46,900
We're down.
762
00:29:46,994 --> 00:29:49,569
Not bad for a beginner.
763
00:29:49,663 --> 00:29:52,915
As "Star Trek" has evolved
with each new chapter,
764
00:29:53,042 --> 00:29:56,210
its writers have set
out to break the rules.
765
00:29:56,295 --> 00:29:59,421
USS prometheus
experimental prototype
766
00:29:59,548 --> 00:30:01,673
designed for deep space
tactical assignments.
767
00:30:01,759 --> 00:30:03,675
[Chirring]
768
00:30:03,761 --> 00:30:06,261
And in the case of
the USS prometheus
769
00:30:06,388 --> 00:30:07,888
to break the mold.
770
00:30:07,973 --> 00:30:09,598
The USS prometheus
771
00:30:09,725 --> 00:30:12,309
as a super advanced
starfleet ship,
772
00:30:12,394 --> 00:30:14,478
their secret stolen
by the romulans.
773
00:30:14,563 --> 00:30:15,938
[Chuckles]
774
00:30:16,065 --> 00:30:17,773
Engage the multi
vector assault mode.
775
00:30:17,900 --> 00:30:19,650
Some of the writer notes
776
00:30:19,735 --> 00:30:21,610
talked about the ship
breaking into five parts.
777
00:30:21,737 --> 00:30:24,104
Auto separation in ten seconds.
778
00:30:24,198 --> 00:30:26,615
Oh, you mean like
transformers. [Laughs]
779
00:30:26,742 --> 00:30:28,867
Transformers combine.
780
00:30:30,621 --> 00:30:32,538
And they knocked it
back to three parts.
781
00:30:32,623 --> 00:30:34,540
Because breaking
the mold doesn't mean
782
00:30:34,625 --> 00:30:36,708
you can ignore all the rules.
783
00:30:36,794 --> 00:30:38,502
A ship in three parts
784
00:30:38,587 --> 00:30:40,754
still has to conceivably
hold together.
785
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:42,714
Quite a fun task
786
00:30:42,800 --> 00:30:45,217
to try to match up
the whole sections
787
00:30:45,302 --> 00:30:47,469
with, you know,
turbolift connectors
788
00:30:47,596 --> 00:30:50,430
and utilities connectors
789
00:30:50,516 --> 00:30:52,724
and, you know, matter,
anti-matter and conduits
790
00:30:52,810 --> 00:30:54,450
and all that kind of
thing. But it worked.
791
00:30:54,770 --> 00:30:56,353
Starfleet ships
792
00:30:56,438 --> 00:30:58,981
may have their long standing
features to accommodate,
793
00:30:59,108 --> 00:31:01,400
but there's a whole other
category of starships.
794
00:31:01,485 --> 00:31:03,643
The alien ship is not pursuing.
795
00:31:03,737 --> 00:31:05,320
For these ships,
796
00:31:05,447 --> 00:31:07,814
"Star Trek" designers
threw out the rulebook.
797
00:31:11,245 --> 00:31:12,369
Alien frequencies open, sir.
798
00:31:13,747 --> 00:31:15,547
If "Star Trek" would
have us believe anything,
799
00:31:16,125 --> 00:31:18,083
it's that we are not
the only ones out there.
800
00:31:18,210 --> 00:31:20,294
If you're established
in the "Star Trek" world,
801
00:31:20,379 --> 00:31:22,504
you know, spacefaring
civilizations,
802
00:31:22,590 --> 00:31:24,276
they've traveled from
one star system to another.
803
00:31:24,300 --> 00:31:26,258
Resistance is futile.
804
00:31:26,385 --> 00:31:29,052
And those many alien species
we've met over the decades
805
00:31:29,138 --> 00:31:32,264
have their own take on
what makes a good starship.
806
00:31:32,391 --> 00:31:34,975
That fine vessel was ferengi.
807
00:31:35,728 --> 00:31:38,812
Every culture that has
come up with a spaceship
808
00:31:38,898 --> 00:31:40,647
has a slightly different look.
809
00:31:41,108 --> 00:31:44,651
And as impressive and advanced
as these designs may appear...
810
00:31:44,737 --> 00:31:46,987
Klingon looks different,
romulan looks different,
811
00:31:47,072 --> 00:31:48,772
cardassian looks different.
812
00:31:48,866 --> 00:31:50,616
At the end of the day
813
00:31:50,743 --> 00:31:54,036
their starships were
designed by plain old humans.
814
00:31:54,121 --> 00:31:55,787
How boring.
815
00:31:55,915 --> 00:31:59,458
Well, not boring humans.
Brilliantly inventive ones.
816
00:31:59,585 --> 00:32:02,252
Doing alien versions of things
817
00:32:02,338 --> 00:32:05,297
required me to kind
of think differently.
818
00:32:05,424 --> 00:32:07,591
We don't want everything
to look like starfleet.
819
00:32:07,676 --> 00:32:11,178
Cardassian worships,
galor class type III.
820
00:32:11,263 --> 00:32:14,056
Cardassians are
a bit more brutal.
821
00:32:14,141 --> 00:32:17,392
Cardassians are like
timberwolves, predators.
822
00:32:17,478 --> 00:32:18,644
[Dramatic music playing]
823
00:32:18,771 --> 00:32:20,228
[Buzzing]
824
00:32:20,314 --> 00:32:24,274
If we look at the cardassian
galor class cruiser,
825
00:32:24,360 --> 00:32:25,141
it's different.
826
00:32:25,235 --> 00:32:26,860
They don't have
827
00:32:26,946 --> 00:32:29,321
the same nacelles
that starfleet does.
828
00:32:29,448 --> 00:32:31,073
To find an aesthetic
829
00:32:31,158 --> 00:32:33,784
that was both
extraterrestrial and familiar,
830
00:32:33,869 --> 00:32:35,953
"Star Trek's" designers
turned to nature.
831
00:32:37,498 --> 00:32:39,373
Some of these are
inspired by animal shapes.
832
00:32:39,458 --> 00:32:41,500
[Chirring]
833
00:32:41,627 --> 00:32:43,251
They needed a ferengi ship.
834
00:32:43,337 --> 00:32:44,856
It's like what's this
going to look like?
835
00:32:44,880 --> 00:32:46,107
Well, he described
it a little bit
836
00:32:46,131 --> 00:32:48,999
and then the, the
writer herb Wright said,
837
00:32:49,093 --> 00:32:51,501
"well, maybe it should
look like a horseshoe crab.
838
00:32:51,595 --> 00:32:53,345
A big dome with
these little legs
839
00:32:53,472 --> 00:32:54,472
and stuff underneath."
840
00:32:54,556 --> 00:32:56,556
So I started with that.
841
00:32:56,642 --> 00:33:00,352
And then I gave it an extension
with a forward pointy area,
842
00:33:00,479 --> 00:33:04,189
which reminded me of earwigs
or pincher bugs, you know,
843
00:33:04,316 --> 00:33:05,524
which I thought were creepy.
844
00:33:06,068 --> 00:33:08,360
Some aliens took
their inspiration
845
00:33:08,487 --> 00:33:10,020
from higher up the food chain.
846
00:33:10,114 --> 00:33:11,780
A bird of prey.
847
00:33:12,825 --> 00:33:14,449
Klingon bird of prey
848
00:33:14,535 --> 00:33:16,201
became one of the
most significant ships
849
00:33:16,328 --> 00:33:18,194
in the history of the franchise.
850
00:33:18,288 --> 00:33:20,038
This isn't a
federation starship.
851
00:33:20,165 --> 00:33:22,249
This is a klingon bird of prey.
852
00:33:22,334 --> 00:33:24,367
We could have
had an easy victory.
853
00:33:25,379 --> 00:33:27,315
The bird of prey had to look
like it was a different society
854
00:33:27,339 --> 00:33:28,755
and different everything.
855
00:33:28,841 --> 00:33:31,049
And it had to look alien,
but not terribly alien,
856
00:33:31,176 --> 00:33:32,592
because it has to feel
857
00:33:32,678 --> 00:33:34,845
like it belongs in that
world that we're creating
858
00:33:34,930 --> 00:33:37,180
klingon bird of prey, sir.
She's arming torpedoes.
859
00:33:37,266 --> 00:33:38,306
Fire, Mr. Scott.
860
00:33:38,392 --> 00:33:40,517
[Torpedoes whizzing]
861
00:33:40,602 --> 00:33:42,644
[Crackling and buzzing]
862
00:33:42,730 --> 00:33:44,730
The klingons were
not the only ones
863
00:33:44,857 --> 00:33:48,025
that imagined themselves
as ruthless galactic hunters.
864
00:33:48,110 --> 00:33:49,985
What will a romulan
ship look like?
865
00:33:50,070 --> 00:33:52,070
They're painted like
a giant bird of prey.
866
00:33:52,197 --> 00:33:54,823
On the TV show, the romulans
actually had a bird of prey
867
00:33:54,908 --> 00:33:57,492
painted on the
bottom of their ship.
868
00:33:57,578 --> 00:33:58,763
So I thought, "well,
I'll just carry that
869
00:33:58,787 --> 00:34:00,370
into the "next generation."
870
00:34:00,456 --> 00:34:02,238
Romulan warbird
decloaking, directly ahead.
871
00:34:02,332 --> 00:34:06,001
When "Star Trek" returned
to television in 1987
872
00:34:06,086 --> 00:34:08,628
it brought starships
that we hadn't seen fly
873
00:34:08,714 --> 00:34:10,672
since the original series.
874
00:34:10,758 --> 00:34:12,132
And times had changed.
875
00:34:12,217 --> 00:34:14,426
[Chirring]
876
00:34:14,553 --> 00:34:16,178
I thought the warbird
877
00:34:16,263 --> 00:34:18,513
should actually be
a vertical design.
878
00:34:18,599 --> 00:34:21,141
So keeping the two
warp engines visible
879
00:34:21,226 --> 00:34:24,019
through these supports
that actually went around
880
00:34:24,104 --> 00:34:26,763
and supported them
all with a bird's head.
881
00:34:26,857 --> 00:34:29,099
And I thought if you had
an enemy that was vertical,
882
00:34:29,193 --> 00:34:30,984
there would be a visual conflict
883
00:34:31,070 --> 00:34:32,611
in addition to
the way it looked.
884
00:34:32,738 --> 00:34:34,321
And Rick berman, the producer
885
00:34:34,406 --> 00:34:36,031
said, "no, we'll
keep it horizontal,
886
00:34:36,116 --> 00:34:37,949
but make the head
look more like a bird."
887
00:34:38,077 --> 00:34:39,943
So it's more like a seagull
888
00:34:40,037 --> 00:34:42,779
or, you know, kind of a
parrot beak kind of face.
889
00:34:42,873 --> 00:34:45,624
With a romulan ship it's
more of an art deco look.
890
00:34:45,751 --> 00:34:47,459
But it is much bigger.
891
00:34:47,586 --> 00:34:49,294
It's like 4000 feet long
892
00:34:49,421 --> 00:34:51,301
instead of the 2000
feet that the enterprise is,
893
00:34:51,423 --> 00:34:52,923
so it's a much larger ship.
894
00:34:53,509 --> 00:34:56,009
Big screen "Star Trek"
delivered starships
895
00:34:56,095 --> 00:34:58,720
on a scale we've
never seen before.
896
00:34:58,806 --> 00:35:01,297
Designs first imagined
for the original series
897
00:35:01,391 --> 00:35:03,967
by Matt jeffries were scaled up
898
00:35:04,061 --> 00:35:06,311
to take advantage of
the big screen real estate.
899
00:35:06,688 --> 00:35:08,438
Shall we raise our
shields, captain?
900
00:35:09,942 --> 00:35:11,191
Never been this close.
901
00:35:11,276 --> 00:35:13,944
And this bigger footprint
was made believable
902
00:35:14,029 --> 00:35:16,154
by the smallest of details.
903
00:35:16,281 --> 00:35:19,116
The fiber optic lighting that
was in the klingon warship
904
00:35:19,201 --> 00:35:21,679
all the little points of light
all over the surface of the hull
905
00:35:21,703 --> 00:35:23,411
and in the areas
906
00:35:23,497 --> 00:35:24,808
that were supposed
to be the bridge
907
00:35:24,832 --> 00:35:26,873
were a single source,
illuminating rods.
908
00:35:26,959 --> 00:35:29,492
It made the scale of
the ship look very large.
909
00:35:29,586 --> 00:35:33,338
Inside the battle cruiser
Andrew probert imagined
910
00:35:33,465 --> 00:35:35,924
how klingons might
design their defenses.
911
00:35:36,009 --> 00:35:39,136
I've been asked to
create concept designs
912
00:35:39,221 --> 00:35:42,097
for the klingon bridge
under Doug trumbull.
913
00:35:42,182 --> 00:35:43,974
And trumbull wanted
the klingon bridge
914
00:35:44,059 --> 00:35:46,342
to be all kind of dark
and greasy and smoky
915
00:35:46,436 --> 00:35:48,344
and have this suspension system,
916
00:35:48,438 --> 00:35:50,147
so like if the ship
is hit really hard,
917
00:35:50,232 --> 00:35:53,525
then the suspension kind
of shock absorbs hard hits.
918
00:35:53,652 --> 00:35:54,693
[Rumbling]
919
00:35:56,155 --> 00:35:57,696
So that's why you have
920
00:35:57,823 --> 00:35:59,865
these big piston looking
things on that bridge.
921
00:35:59,992 --> 00:36:01,783
Which may have
been a klingon idea,
922
00:36:01,869 --> 00:36:04,411
but due to budget
constraints, it was borrowed
923
00:36:04,496 --> 00:36:06,863
to form the torpedo
bay of the enterprise
924
00:36:06,957 --> 00:36:08,698
in the "wrath of Khan".
925
00:36:08,792 --> 00:36:11,001
Fortunately, the klingon
seemed to be cool with it.
926
00:36:11,086 --> 00:36:13,461
Give me Genesis.
927
00:36:13,547 --> 00:36:17,465
Whatever the starship,
alien or federation,
928
00:36:17,551 --> 00:36:19,467
"Star Trek" has
always endeavored
929
00:36:19,553 --> 00:36:21,887
to make the fantastic
feel plausible.
930
00:36:25,934 --> 00:36:27,704
Evolving bad guys starships
over the years is one thing,
931
00:36:27,728 --> 00:36:29,686
but in the early 2000s,
932
00:36:29,771 --> 00:36:32,272
designers had a most
unusual challenge.
933
00:36:32,357 --> 00:36:33,957
A ship is not only
from another universe,
934
00:36:34,026 --> 00:36:35,308
it's from another time.
935
00:36:35,402 --> 00:36:36,902
About 100 years into the future.
936
00:36:36,987 --> 00:36:39,738
For enterprise,
the prequel series,
937
00:36:39,823 --> 00:36:42,490
the task of making a
new starship believable
938
00:36:42,618 --> 00:36:44,659
was made even more difficult
939
00:36:44,786 --> 00:36:46,328
by the fact that this enterprise
940
00:36:46,455 --> 00:36:48,914
pre-dated kirk's original.
941
00:36:48,999 --> 00:36:51,491
How do you make a
show look both 150 years
942
00:36:51,585 --> 00:36:53,335
in our future,
943
00:36:53,462 --> 00:36:55,670
but 80 or 90 years
before the original series?
944
00:36:55,797 --> 00:36:58,498
[Chirring]
945
00:36:58,592 --> 00:37:02,928
This was the challenge faced
by the designers of the nx-01.
946
00:37:03,013 --> 00:37:06,181
This is captain Jonathan
Archer of the starship enterprise.
947
00:37:06,308 --> 00:37:07,641
We've come from earth.
948
00:37:08,644 --> 00:37:12,354
It became my and
Herman's job to make it
949
00:37:12,481 --> 00:37:14,847
as much like the original
series enterprise as we could.
950
00:37:14,942 --> 00:37:16,358
This vessel...
951
00:37:16,485 --> 00:37:20,195
I give, she takes...
952
00:37:21,156 --> 00:37:24,824
Kirk's enterprise nx-01
had a military pedigree.
953
00:37:24,910 --> 00:37:27,285
Targeting scanner
still can't get a lock.
954
00:37:27,371 --> 00:37:29,098
I mean I'll have to do
this the old fashion way.
955
00:37:29,122 --> 00:37:30,122
Dive. Dive.
956
00:37:30,207 --> 00:37:32,165
[Siren blaring]
957
00:37:32,251 --> 00:37:33,959
So Rick and Brandon
and Herman Zimmerman
958
00:37:34,044 --> 00:37:35,702
toured a nuclear submarine
959
00:37:35,796 --> 00:37:38,538
prior to starting
to design nx-01.
960
00:37:38,882 --> 00:37:41,049
Captain, can I have
a word with you?
961
00:37:41,176 --> 00:37:43,051
Taking design cues
962
00:37:43,178 --> 00:37:46,554
from the Ohio class submarine
USS Florida was a nod
963
00:37:46,682 --> 00:37:48,974
to gene's original
vision of the enterprise
964
00:37:49,059 --> 00:37:51,017
which also drew on naval themes.
965
00:37:51,103 --> 00:37:52,330
[Siren blaring] We
wanted to make this ship
966
00:37:52,354 --> 00:37:53,886
look less comfortable
967
00:37:53,981 --> 00:37:56,481
because that tells you
it's more primitive, right?
968
00:37:56,566 --> 00:37:59,192
Touches like in
Archer's ready room,
969
00:37:59,278 --> 00:38:00,610
he has to duck under a beam.
970
00:38:00,696 --> 00:38:03,238
We have the
evidence to back it up.
971
00:38:03,365 --> 00:38:04,864
They haven't quite got
972
00:38:04,950 --> 00:38:06,908
that spacious captain
picard enterprise yet.
973
00:38:07,035 --> 00:38:08,994
This was right around the time
974
00:38:09,079 --> 00:38:10,912
that flat screen tvs
were becoming popular.
975
00:38:11,873 --> 00:38:13,873
And they said, we'll put
flat screen tvs, you know,
976
00:38:13,917 --> 00:38:15,250
throughout the bridge...
977
00:38:15,377 --> 00:38:17,297
- Move into a stationary orbit.
- All right, sir.
978
00:38:17,337 --> 00:38:19,504
And let's take graphics
979
00:38:19,589 --> 00:38:21,109
that are sort of inspired
by the original series...
980
00:38:21,133 --> 00:38:22,465
Ah, yes.
981
00:38:22,551 --> 00:38:24,509
And project those
on those screens.
982
00:38:24,594 --> 00:38:26,586
And that suggests both
the past and the future.
983
00:38:27,472 --> 00:38:31,016
I bet we had $4 million
worth of TV equipment
984
00:38:31,101 --> 00:38:32,350
all over the bridge
985
00:38:32,436 --> 00:38:34,019
and any other place
that we needed.
986
00:38:34,354 --> 00:38:36,896
It was a culmination,
in my mind,
987
00:38:36,982 --> 00:38:39,441
of all the kinds of
things that I've done
988
00:38:39,568 --> 00:38:42,435
and been exposed to in
the "Star Trek" universe.
989
00:38:42,529 --> 00:38:43,653
[Rumbling and shooting]
990
00:38:45,073 --> 00:38:46,473
Drawing from real
world war machines
991
00:38:47,409 --> 00:38:48,889
has always given
"Star Trek's" writers
992
00:38:49,953 --> 00:38:52,454
a jumping off point for flights
of fancy about fancy flight,
993
00:38:52,581 --> 00:38:54,614
and how it might one day happen.
994
00:38:54,708 --> 00:38:56,958
The scientific
and technical help
995
00:38:57,085 --> 00:38:59,711
that they got from
the aerospace field
996
00:38:59,796 --> 00:39:02,955
gave them an actual
propulsion system,
997
00:39:03,050 --> 00:39:04,549
where you started to hear
998
00:39:04,634 --> 00:39:06,885
about things like
matter and anti-matter.
999
00:39:06,970 --> 00:39:09,637
Matter and anti-matter
have a tendency
1000
00:39:09,765 --> 00:39:11,639
to cancel each
other out, violently.
1001
00:39:11,767 --> 00:39:13,975
Ever since the
original enterprise
1002
00:39:14,102 --> 00:39:16,644
starfleet ships of all kinds
have always been powered
1003
00:39:16,772 --> 00:39:18,971
by one very powerful idea.
1004
00:39:19,066 --> 00:39:21,399
Starfleet specialty
is anti-matter power.
1005
00:39:21,485 --> 00:39:25,362
Starfleet propulsion systems
involve matter and anti-matter
1006
00:39:25,447 --> 00:39:28,531
reacting inside this
big armored chamber.
1007
00:39:28,617 --> 00:39:31,493
And the energy is then
fed out to the nacelles.
1008
00:39:31,620 --> 00:39:34,245
And while it certainly
served the federation well,
1009
00:39:34,331 --> 00:39:37,123
science tells us
there's a speed limit.
1010
00:39:37,209 --> 00:39:39,270
"You cannot change the
laws of physics", I told them.
1011
00:39:39,294 --> 00:39:42,170
So according to the
special theory of relativity,
1012
00:39:42,297 --> 00:39:44,177
you cannot travel faster
than the speed of light
1013
00:39:44,257 --> 00:39:45,498
in the universe.
1014
00:39:45,592 --> 00:39:47,342
The closer you
get to that speed,
1015
00:39:47,469 --> 00:39:49,168
the more your mass increases,
1016
00:39:49,262 --> 00:39:50,782
and it will take an
infinite amount of energy
1017
00:39:50,806 --> 00:39:52,726
to accelerate to that
point... So you can't do it
1018
00:39:52,766 --> 00:39:54,702
because there's not enough
energy in the universe.
1019
00:39:54,726 --> 00:39:57,435
But that's kind of
an inconvenient truth,
1020
00:39:57,521 --> 00:40:00,105
when you need to
boldly go somewhere.
1021
00:40:00,190 --> 00:40:02,440
So "Star Trek"
needed to find a way.
1022
00:40:02,526 --> 00:40:05,351
And it did with just
two simple words.
1023
00:40:05,445 --> 00:40:06,853
Warp drive standing by.
1024
00:40:06,947 --> 00:40:09,823
Warp drive, that was
just made up, of course.
1025
00:40:09,908 --> 00:40:11,199
We don't know
what warp drive is.
1026
00:40:11,326 --> 00:40:13,201
It may happen, but we
don't know what it was.
1027
00:40:13,662 --> 00:40:16,538
Humans have discovered
how to travel faster than light.
1028
00:40:16,665 --> 00:40:18,039
It just made it
faster than light,
1029
00:40:18,166 --> 00:40:20,500
which was what we needed
to do to go through our galaxy,
1030
00:40:20,585 --> 00:40:21,876
which is vast.
1031
00:40:22,003 --> 00:40:24,003
And we used to
sort of cheat Einstein.
1032
00:40:24,089 --> 00:40:26,339
Fortunately for
starfleet, it only required
1033
00:40:26,425 --> 00:40:28,675
one little word to achieve that.
1034
00:40:28,760 --> 00:40:29,884
- Engage.
- Engage.
1035
00:40:31,304 --> 00:40:32,887
And while this may
look like a stretch
1036
00:40:33,014 --> 00:40:34,389
to non-believers,
1037
00:40:34,516 --> 00:40:36,224
there is actual
scientific theory
1038
00:40:36,351 --> 00:40:39,310
about just that - a stretch.
1039
00:40:39,396 --> 00:40:41,688
Space itself can
expand or contract
1040
00:40:41,773 --> 00:40:43,389
much faster than
the speed of light.
1041
00:40:43,483 --> 00:40:46,693
And there is a way to
expand space behind,
1042
00:40:46,778 --> 00:40:48,653
you would say 100
times the speed of light,
1043
00:40:48,738 --> 00:40:51,406
contract it in front of you,
100 times the speed of light.
1044
00:40:51,867 --> 00:40:54,701
So maybe, just maybe,
1045
00:40:54,786 --> 00:40:57,495
"Star Trek" has been
ahead of its time all along.
1046
00:40:57,581 --> 00:40:59,141
Within your little
bubble of space time,
1047
00:40:59,207 --> 00:41:00,707
you may not be moving at all.
1048
00:41:00,792 --> 00:41:02,750
But the space
around you is moving.
1049
00:41:02,878 --> 00:41:05,837
So in effect, you've traveled
from point a to point b
1050
00:41:05,922 --> 00:41:07,589
at 100 times the speed of light.
1051
00:41:07,966 --> 00:41:10,425
Well, whatever the science,
1052
00:41:10,552 --> 00:41:12,919
when it comes to the
starships of "Star Trek",
1053
00:41:13,013 --> 00:41:15,263
there's one simple fact.
1054
00:41:16,725 --> 00:41:18,558
Wow, this is a starship.
1055
00:41:18,643 --> 00:41:22,520
That's really [indistinct]
a beautiful ship, isn't it.
1056
00:41:22,606 --> 00:41:24,856
Most people had never seen one.
1057
00:41:24,941 --> 00:41:27,859
Now millions of us
have seen starships
1058
00:41:27,944 --> 00:41:29,903
and they have become
part of the furniture
1059
00:41:29,988 --> 00:41:31,613
quite literally.
1060
00:41:31,740 --> 00:41:34,282
The enterprise is displayed
in the Smithsonian institute,
1061
00:41:34,409 --> 00:41:36,117
in the air and space museum.
1062
00:41:36,244 --> 00:41:38,119
The enterprise is quite a ship.
1063
00:41:38,246 --> 00:41:40,279
They also continue to inspire us
1064
00:41:40,373 --> 00:41:42,207
to reach for the stars.
1065
00:41:42,292 --> 00:41:44,417
The model from "Star
Trek" motion picture
1066
00:41:44,503 --> 00:41:47,670
is at blue origin right
now, in their lobby.
1067
00:41:47,756 --> 00:41:50,173
"Star Trek", even though
it's a fictional future,
1068
00:41:50,258 --> 00:41:53,218
it inspired astronauts
and inspired engineers.
1069
00:41:53,303 --> 00:41:56,179
And judging by
their own starships,
1070
00:41:56,264 --> 00:41:59,349
the next explorers
of the final frontier
1071
00:41:59,935 --> 00:42:02,936
may finally be catching
up with "Star Trek's" vision.
1072
00:42:03,021 --> 00:42:04,437
We're going through
the troposphere.
1073
00:42:04,523 --> 00:42:05,897
Might get a little bumpy.
1074
00:42:07,400 --> 00:42:09,960
So their real world implications
to the spaceships in "Star Trek"
1075
00:42:10,654 --> 00:42:12,779
that have transcended the show
1076
00:42:12,864 --> 00:42:16,148
and are part of the
reality that we live in.
1077
00:42:16,243 --> 00:42:18,651
"Star Trek" is saying
we're all going to the stars.
1078
00:42:18,745 --> 00:42:20,912
This dream belongs
to every human being.
1079
00:42:21,456 --> 00:42:23,122
It unites humanity in a way
1080
00:42:23,208 --> 00:42:24,666
that no one ever
thought possible.
1081
00:42:24,793 --> 00:42:27,669
That's the magic of
"Star Trek's" appeal,
1082
00:42:27,796 --> 00:42:30,255
because it says, "we're
all in this together."
1083
00:42:31,174 --> 00:42:34,759
Together, floating
through deep space
1084
00:42:35,637 --> 00:42:37,554
on the ultimate mothership.82640
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