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From: evan@petfe.UUCP (Evan Marcus)
Newsgroups: net.startrek
Subject: Re: Sizes
Message-ID: <306@petfe.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 28-May-85 17:14:16 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 28 17:14:16 1985
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I will not question the source of those sizes, but looking at them makes me
think that they're a little small...let's look again:

> The Star Fleet Technical Manual has this to say about
> the Enterprise:
> 
	> Length Overall				288.6 m
	> Breadth Overall				127.1 m
	> Height Overall				72.6  m
	> Primary Hull Diameter				127.1 m
	> Secondary Hull Length				103.6 m
	> Secondary Hull Maximum Diameter		34.1  m
	> Propulsion Unit Length			153.6 m
	> Propulsion Unit Diameter			17.3  m

Housing 430 crewmembers plus engines and all those facilities (rec rooms,
sick bay, etc.)?  This all seems really too small.  Remember the comment
made by Captain Christopher in Tomorrow is Yesterday? He was the fighter 
pilot who gets beamed aboard the E.  He says it looks like a city in the
sky.  Now I come from a small city, but please!...   :-)   

--Evan Marcus
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