Timeline for Starship Enterprise: Always flying left-to-right?
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| Jul 6, 2021 at 18:51 | comment | added | RobJarvis | As a side note because I don't think it's been mentioned yet, in TOS The Trouble With Tribbles episode, there is a shot inside Mr. Lurie's office where you can see the Enterprise outside his portal facing left. One of the AMT model kits popular at the time was used for this shot. | |
| May 6, 2021 at 3:21 | comment | added | Hypnosifl | @reirab - There's a site with transcripts called chakotya.net so if you google site:chakoteya.net along with stern or bow you can find examples of them using this terminology. For example in Star Trek VI at one point Uhura says "Klingon battle cruiser off the port bow" and elsewhere Spock says "This ship will be searched from bow to stern." | |
| May 5, 2021 at 13:05 | comment | added | Sixtyfive | What an amazing bit of trivia, thanks for this! | |
| May 5, 2021 at 7:27 | comment | added | fgysin | Thanks, this is exactly the real-world-based answer which I was looking for. | |
| May 5, 2021 at 7:26 | vote | accept | fgysin | ||
| May 4, 2021 at 14:46 | comment | added | Darrel Hoffman | This answers the question for the TV show - did the movies have the same limitation? I know they went through several Enterprises over the course of the original-cast movies (and of course in IV they were in a stolen Klingon ship), but did they continue to follow the left-to-right rule even then, when they had a larger budget and presumably better models? | |
| May 4, 2021 at 14:07 | comment | added | reirab | Does Star Trek actually use the stern/bow terminology? I don't think I've ever heard that used with an aircraft or spacecraft before. We do use 'port' and 'starboard' in aviation, but I've always just heard 'forward' and 'aft' for front/back. | |
| May 4, 2021 at 2:08 | comment | added | Euro Micelli | The model can be seen at an online exhibit at airandspace.si.edu/collection-objects/…. You can see the unfinished starboard side on e.g. photos 8 and 17. | |
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| May 4, 2021 at 0:57 | comment | added | Milwrdfan | As additional information, one of the original models is now at the Smithsonian in Washington DC, and went through a very thorough refurbishment. One of several videos documenting the refurbishment process is here: youtube.com/watch?v=CA8D5lK8guE In this video is a discussion of the myriad of lighting effects inside the original model, and how the connections were made on the port side of the model. | |
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| May 3, 2021 at 17:00 | history | answered | M. A. Golding | CC BY-SA 4.0 |