2 Mar 2018

Size of the new U.S.S. Enterprise - Kelvin Timeline

The Kelvin-Timeline USS Enterprise NCC-1701 was a 23rd century Federation Constitution-class starship, under the command of Captain James T. Kirk.

  • The premise for all my deck calculations: a deck is 2.5m + 0.5m for EPS cables, power cables, ... = 3m height for a deck.
  • My calculations follow a purely mathematical approach. I do not compare bridge modules or disk heights with each other. I always pull in decks based on the rows of windows and then calculate a physically plausible room height.

As size reference I used screencaptures of the USS Enterprise from Star Trek (2009) and Star Trek Into Darkness:

screencapture by trekcore.com

Lt. Uhura (actress Zoe Saldana) is 1.69m tall. This results in a height of 2.45m for the corridor.

screencapture by trekcore.com

The Enterprise has 25 decks.

source Alexander Klemm

With this information I have calculated a length of 466m.

source Alexander Klemm

The size of the ship is also reflected in the size of the bridge, which extends over one and a half decks (a human is between 1.80 and 2.00 meters tall).

screencapture by trekmovie.com

The only inconsistency is the oversized shuttle bay.