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Mikey T
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Hmm, you're right. And after counting my Enterprise-C model, I think that I would say the ship has between 30-35 decks.

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Watch TMP. When Spock is going up the turbolift shaft on those rocket boots, he passes numbers on the wall. I think one says 40-something. Apparently, the Galaxy class has 42 decks, or so Encyclopedia 1 states.
(I know about the much-debated canon-ness (?) of it, especially #1, so that number may be wrong.

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Um, Veers...

Spock's rocket boots up the turbolift shaft was in STAR TREK V: THE FINAL FRONTIER. Not Star Trek: The Motion Picture. Spock goes up 78 decks (an utter impossibility).

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Siegfried
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The number of decks on the Enterprise-D is canonical set at 42, so there's no debate on that. In "Yesterday's Enterprise," Tasha Yar tells Lt. Castillo of the Enterprise-C that her ship has 42 decks.

Canonically speaking, the Enterprise-A has at least 78 decks. The turbolift scene in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier confirms that the decks are also numbered in reverse fashion with 78 being at the top of the shaft and 1 being at the bottom. Also canonically speaking, there are two deck 48s on the Enterprise-A. This is one of those times we I say to hell with canonicity and that we just ignore this part of The Final Frontier.

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Veers
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Oh. Sorry. I need to brush up on Star Trek feature films.
So, I guess that the Enterprise would be rather tall with 78 decks.

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That was an in-joke. There's one deck for every episode of the Original Series.

Don't you just looooove Shatner?


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Siegfried
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I guess that 78 comes from combining "The Menagerie" as one episode? Hmm... never noticed that before. Of course, I've always said 79 original episodes.

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Yes, I think that's how they got it. Or maybe they left out "Where No Man Has Gone Before" since it was the pilot and not a regular episode.
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Siegfried
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Do you think that the numbers along the turboshaft we saw clearly were William Shatner's favorite episodes?

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Two quick facts that I know

1. Sickbay is on deck five of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701. "Amok Time"
2. There are 42 decks. "11001001"


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In DS9's "Trials and Tribbleations", when the crew start searching for the bomb on the Enterprise, Miles and Bashir start from the bottom of the ship and work their way up. In the episode one of the characters clearly states that they start from deck 21. So this means that the 1701 has at least 21 decks but it also implies that deck 21 is the bottom of the ship.

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Veers
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Actually, it's the number of episodes Kirk gets into a fight. 78.

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One point though with the counting of the visible rows of windows on the Ambassador - is it not possible that some decks will have no visible windows at all? This would push the deck count even higher. The Connie may have 20 some decks, but they are not all windowed. One relevant area on the Ambassador which may have no visible windows could be deck positions connecting the saucer to the neck, and the neck to the secondary hull. Also right at the bottom, in the bowels of the ship. We really may need a line of dialogue to set the record straight on this.

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These are the conclusions I came to. If you look at the model, its only reasonable to assume that the decks are even in height. Doing this, you come to thirty or so decks.

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Just because a deck doesn't have windows does not mean that window based counting won't work. Infact, it works just the same. If you have three rows of windows you can measure the middle ground between the middle and top one then the middle and bottom one. This gives the measure of one standard deck--- a good estimation.

Even if you assume that there is always anotehr deck between those three rows of windows: Another way of counting is using standard heights, something around 4 meters per deck.

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