A little short for a starship, isn't he?
this post was submitted on 12 Oct 2023
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I remember many years ago seeing a size comparison between an aircraft carrier and the TOS Enterprise. The aircraft carrier was bigger. I didn't even know how to process that because of how big the Enterprise seemed to me.
305m is 1000 feet. The USS ENTERPRISE was 342m or 1,123 feet.
A modern day FORD class carrier is 1092 ft or 333m.
For personnel comparison, ENTERPRISE held ~5000 people and a FORD class has between 4-5000 people.
The fact that NCC-1701 only had like 1000 people is...a big difference.
I can understand that on a mathematical level, but on a more emotional one, it's hard to process. Just like I know that the speed of light is 186,000 mps, but I can't really fathom how fast that actually is.
I think the scientific term is "very".
It's actually "most"