Enterprise Has Seen Some Better Days [Pics]

I'm sure many people know that there was a model of the Enterprise-A (which was seen in Star Trek IV-VI) made in Alpha. This is different from the Enterprise-D which was made in Classic. Although definitely not a real-size replica, it still stands at some 70 meters tall by 100 meters long and 40 meters wide at the saucer. It has nine decks, and it takes some experience to get used to understand the layout. Well I'm sure it took a long time to build and was quite fun to complete. You know what else was quite fun, and much quicker?

Destroying it.

Using SSP commands and copious amounts of TNT I set out to destroy the ship to my heart's delight. Ironically, the warp core (according to the movies) should have been the most explosive part. But because the Minecraft model uses lava and obsidian for it, that's the most durable component. Let's view some pics, starting from the back of the ship. I took several images that seemed to be the most interesting and destructive.

This is the port warp nacelle, blown to shards:

The outside of the rear half of the Enterprise, not looking too good.

Formerly the warp core, now a lavafall:

These were the impulse engines...

The saucer section as viewed from above:

Another shot of the saucer. This view is directly below it and meant to reveal more detail of the damage:

As the title implies, the Enterprise has certainly seen better days. Even a couple Klingon birds of prey didn't do as much damage as a bored nerd with a lot of TNT:

I'd like to give shout outs to Mozzie who brought the Enterprise into Minecraft. You can see Mozzie's thread here: http://www.minecraftforum.net/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=52011 Thanks for letting me play on (and destroy) your ship!

Enterprise and Elohim

I spent this morning and part of this afternoon on the server that the Enterprise project is hosted on. Actually, I tried getting on it last night but none of the Classic servers would function, even when I tried using World of Minecraft (which is also being quite uncooperative). I did some studying up on the Enterprise schematics and got in the ship itself. It really is quite astounding.

They have a wiki for the project and one of the things I noticed was that, in the list of decks they have completed, they include deck 7, which as 220 rooms. There's also an invitation in parenthesis to choose one as your own. I don't know if that's sarcasm or not, but it gave me an idea. If/when the Elohim is completed and put on servers, people will be allowed to pick one out for themselves. Their own little chunk of the ship. The Elohim has twenty relatively large officer room, 25 two-man crew rooms, and 20 four-man rooms. Officer rooms are more complex in design and larger, whereas the other two types of rooms are smaller and more like what you'd find on a modern naval craft. Although designing the smaller rooms would be less feasible, getting an officer's room would mean you can design it however you want.

Along with that, each ship would have a roster of crew positions ranging from the obvious like commanding officer to the obscure like computer specialist. A person could pick one of those for themselves, preferably one that coincides with their housing. It would be a little strange for the chief surgeon to be in a bunk designed for enlisted crew, no? For each copy of the ship out there, I would initially serve as the commanding officer until someone took that position. I would have the ceremonial rank of Admiral and, although I wouldn't have much control over the ships except perhaps requesting server owners to ban certain people or do things with the ship itself, it's still kinda cool to have that level of recognition.

Currently, the ship is still well in the prototyping stage. I've barely put together the main engineering section and there are many other areas left to design. Integrating them all will be a heck of a time, but I'm sure I can do it!