• southsamurai
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    8 months ago

    I always thought of the tos enterprise as being an unusually large submarine. The biggest of those irl is impressive enough, and it fits the way tos handles a lot of things.

    But, I still thought it was bigger than what this picture shows. I thought of it being about the same length as a cargo vessel built to pass the panama canal, which is, I think what this ship is built for size wise.

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      8 months ago

      panama canal, which is, I think what this ship is built for size wise.

      Panamax is the largest vessel size that can traverse the Panama Canal. The dimensions for a Panamax ship max out at 290 meters in length, 32m in width. The Enterprise (no bloody abc or d) is 228m long, 121m wide, and 72m tall.

      So this is probably not a Panamax ship but the ship dimensions in the photo appear to be incorrect for Enterprise so I’m not 100% sure.

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        8 months ago

        The ship dimensions are correct for Enterprise NCC-1701A. That’s obviously what it is, the nacelles are pretty distinctive.