A recent issue of the Star Trek mag (which I was lucky enough to obtain through Borders) included several "new" (to me) sketches of this intriguing design.
They're pretty good, and could certainly inform someone enough to create a 3D mesh.

I'm afraid I forget the issue number (either 8 or 10 I THINK), but I'm sure some hi-tech American poster will be able to scan some and stick them up here for us. (Hint, Hint )

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Not without a fight!"

Of course, it's a "canon" ship anyway, having been spotted in ST:TMP. Perhaps the rotating sections were built for the exotic value of their "primitiveness", like some of today's luxury cruisers have semi-fake sails or even semi-fake paddlewheels? Or perhaps they do not rotate after all (the mounting of the central spire seems odd if rotation is really implied)?

Or perhaps the ship designer just wanted everybody to be able to enjoy the view from the rotating restaurant deck?

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"A few more calculations"

There was a picture of an earlier space ship named Enterprise in Star Trek: TMP. There was no information about this ship in the movie, but the Star Trek Space Flight Chronology lists what is apparently this same ship, as a Declaration class, 2123-2165 AD, While this ship's connection to "canon" is tenuous at best, the statistics are reproduced here:

Length - 300m
Diameter - 210m
Living section width - 28.7m
Mass - 52.7 million kg
Ship's Compliment:
- Crew and Service Personnel - 100
- Passenger Capacity - 850
- Total ship's compliment - 950

Performance:
Range - Standard = 350 light years Maximum= 1,200 light years
Cruising Speed - Warp 3.2 (32.8c)
Voyage duration - Standard 3 months Maximum 2.5 years

Systems:
Navigation - Celestial Warp Reader
Communication - Subspace Radio
Recreation - Null-grav gymnasium 5 dining rooms 3 theaters 3 nightclubs Forward and Rear stellar observatories
Life support: Gravity - .2 -1.2 g Atmosphere - 20% Oxygen, 11% humidity
Sustenance duration - Up to 40 years if outfitted for long-duration exploration

Engineering:
Advanced 2nd Generation Warp Drive
Fuel: 10:1 matter to antimatter [comments by Altair: WHAT?? no 1:1 ??]
Separated engine and living sections for improved efficiency

Improvements and innovations:
First class of ship equipped with sub-space radio
Most popular passenger carrier of its time

This original Enterprise was the first stellar spaceliner built specifically for the major Federation space lanes (such as Earth - Alpha Centauri). The travel demand that blossomed in the 22nd century resulted in 957 of these Declaration class ships being commissioned.

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"I know it is an old ship, but..."
KABOOOOMM!!
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Come Hither and Yawn...

This dosen't make the book Cannon but it does show us from where Rick may have started from. Didn't he work on TMP and the Enterprise Flight Manual?

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"The man on the top walks a lonely path. The chain of command is often a noose." Dr. Leonard McCoy --Obsession, Stardate: 3619.2

The original Jeffries sketches each show slight differences in the design of the forward "pod".
I don't think the pic in the enyclopaedia should be given too much weight. Recall the pic of the first warp ship in Okuda's original Chronology?

The round constructs do not look like they rotate to me. They may be some kind of dissipation units, or perhaps a huge solar panel, or even one big warp coil.

I'm afraid I still can't scan these pics myself, but they are much more enlightening than the tiny encyclopedia pic.

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"No way man!
I've served my time in hell, and I ain't going back...
Not without a fight!"

As for that Okuda "early warp ship", it's a canon design (having been seen in "In the Hands of the Prophets" as a tabletop model), so we'd better try and explain it away. It's obvious the Phoenix can't land in one piece. Perhaps just the forward pod landed in "First Contact", while the rest of the ship stayed in orbit? Afterwards, Cochrane would have gotten fame and fortune, and would have built a bigger pod that was then launched to dock with the warp engine. An erosion shield would also be added to the design in lieu of navigational deflectors. And voila, we have the "early warp ship", with which Cochrane would conduct further experiments. The differences in the drive section are minor, and would be due to later experimentation and expansion.

And since the ship is "in the Smithsonian" in the TNG era, it was probably eventually brought down to Earth (instead of the museum being moved to orbit). Naturally, it would have been brought down in its later, big-pod, erosion-shield configuration. Perhaps it was conserved in that configuration, explaining why it is always portrayed like that in model form?

It could, of course, be just a later sister ship to the Phoenix. But somehow the above explanation sounds more elegant...

Timo Saloniemi

After several nights - looking at Matt Jefferies designs in the Star Trek - Sketch Book - I do believe the circular sections rotate.

over at sci.space.tech - they mentioned that any ship to Mars with a rotating section would need a second rotating section moving in the opposite direction to balance the first ring/section

If you look at sketches of the DY-100 the aft 'engine' section looks SORTA like - the aft 'engines' on the SSE

Also - the weird 'head piece' of the SSE - looks remotely like the DY-100 and the Mariposa's front sections... (see Matt Jeffries' designs not the Encyc II picture, that was linked above - it takes some liberties - especially the front section) - the front section in the linked picture - found in the Encyc II - has been altered and looks like it has some sort of 'communications' or 'deflector' dishes at the very forward part.

OK - Chochrane didn't have gravity nets.

I don't believe that the SSE did either - the 'spoke' that connects the wheels, 1. Doesn't have to be from the relatively featureless designs we have - make it certain that the rings are firmly attached - maybe the top of the 'spoke' has a 'braket' that holds the two rings to the rest of the ship - but still allowing the rings - in the zero G environment - to rotate.

I believe that you would somehow hop down - proably on to increasingly slower minirings (that are in the body of the main ones to some how get to the zero G - ladder/lift/ of the 'spoke' which would take you down to the zero G 'tunnel' of the 'engine/head' section.

If it is a liner - it probably only ran with in the solar system at impulse or between nearby to Sol - stars - at low warp... - we don't necessarily have to see warp NACELLES - since the could be encorporated into the 'engine' section at the back.

Also - I think that there were several upgraded versions of Cochrane's warp ship - that preceeded his design - one of them being the Valiant... from WNMHGB/Encyc Chronology

I think that the liner was either a modification of older pre Phoenix ships, or a radical new design for larger numbers of 'passengers' or 'crew'.

The SS probably means that it predates the founding of the Federation.

I like to go by the MJ sketches rather than the 'altered' Encyc II pics.

Andrew

Also remember the Mars discussion we had a while back - Mars and even other solar systems could have had settlers even before WWIII.

They just had to get there without Warp.

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If so, it has been seen in a ST:VOY episode as well: http://w1.314.telia.com/~u31412332/startrek/malonmodelship.jpg

Let's try it anyway. Hmm. The Malon was some sort of a psychic and had seen a vivid dream of an Earth design? Keiko put the model in a trash bin which was then stolen by Maquis operatives in order to gain info on Starfleet activities, and the Maquis ship was captured by Caretaker while in badlands and then intercepted by the Malon? The model actually has miniature working warp engines and went out of control on her maiden flight, fell into a wormhole and was picked up by a Malon ship? Cochrane's original full-scale ship actually went across the galaxy in 47 seconds flat and visited the Malon homeworld, but Section 31 time-traveled to suppress the techology as "too advanced"?

Could the malon have "stolen" the model from some starfleet officer? I mean what with the equinox running all around the deltaquadrant and all, it isn�t so farfetched.