Curious about NX-01 vs. NCC-1701 nacelles

[Wingsley]

I'm curious about the overall size and shape of the warp nacelles of the TOS Enterprise in comparison to the ENT NX-01 Enterprise.

How would a typical nacelle on each class of starship compare, side-by-side?

Do both classes have the same aftward taper of the nacelle body's cylinder silhouette?

Any idea of the lengths and diameters of each classes' nacelles?

 

[Timo]

There is indeed taper in the NX-01 nacelle, too. The big differences would be the prominent "field windows" outboard, the presence of blue glow on both these and the inboard "windows", and the different styling of the "lip" structure that covers the aft end sphere (on NX-01, it features a vertical central ridge in addition to the surrounding "lip", thus bifurcating the sphere). The rest would seem to be simple styling: more of those "handlebar" cooling tubes, flux chillers or whatnot on the NX-01, four prongs holding the forward dome in place, and so forth.

While the two ships have roughly similarly sized primary hulls, the NX-01 nacelles would be only about 60% as long as the NCC-1701 ones, if the respective backstage-established lengths of 225 and 289 meters hold true.

http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/scans/stmagazine/nx-sfa.jpg

Timo Saloniemi

 

[Wingsley]

The Ex Astris Scientia link bounced. Could you link a page to jump to?

Thanks.

 

[kv1at3485]

With EAS image links, you need to copy and paste the address into your address bar.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

The Ex Astris Scientia link bounced. Could you link a page to jump to?

Thanks.

Right click the link in question, click properties and copy the URL. Paste the URL into your address bar and click enter.

 

[Wingsley]

Thanks it worked.

 

[AnyStar]

here's a side-by-side comparison, at full scale.

the TOS nacelles above are from Alan Sinclairs wonderfull 11' model drawings, the NX versions are from my 3d wip (sorry my end caps are effed up).

edit, here's a couple nicer pics of the nx nacelles

 

[Wingsley]

Very impressive.

Thank you for sharing.

 

[Ronald Held]

Yes a useful comparison.