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I put off this particular upload for about a week, since there was a lot to (potentially) discuss about it.
First, there's the obvious observation; it's a chart of all the space ships named Enterprise. Duh!
Or is it? It doesn't take eagle eyes to notice that one particular ship is missing.
So where's the NX-01?
Well for those of you who do look through my gallery (and actually read these descriptions), this shouldn't be that shocking an omission. Quite simply put, I don't believe the ship fits. At least, not within the established lineage. In fact, I'm making up another chart of an alternate timeline of Enterprises for that particular vessel. So yes, I do believe "Enterprise" itself does take place in an alternate timeline created by the convoluted Temporal Cold War.
The next controversy is the size, and here's where the lengthy description comes in.
First off, I do not believe in taking official sizes at face value. My inspiration was twofold. First was Bernd Schneider's re-measurement of the Excelsior at Ex Astris Scientia. Unfortunately, despite his conclusions, he decided to toe the line and stick with the official size given. He has a history of doing that, and I believe it was quite foolish. Throwing away something you have conclusive evidence for just because it's not what's stated officially? It makes me wonder, sometimes...
The second source that got me thinking was the forums in which the participants discussed what the ship's sizes should be based on whether or not the sets in question would fit within the dimensions officially given. The answer was no, and I obviously looked into it myself. I found different conclusions than some of the ones they stated (for instance, I found nothing to support a TOS Enterprise of 433 meters!), but new sizes nonetheless. What also separates me from the others is that I do not believe in limiting a resize to one ship. If I find one is a different size, then it makes more sense to me that all the others will change in size as well. Hence the reason why they remain consistent in their size differences with respect to each other (except the Enterprise-A and -B).
So, first off, why is the Enterprise-B so much bigger than the -A?
Well, as I said earlier, Bernd Schneider wrote an excellent essay where he proved that the Excelsior was clearly supposed to be approximately twice the size of the Enterprise-A. Furthermore, a measurement of the individual decks for the Excelsior, as applied to the physical model (with window placement and the like being considered) shows that each one couldn't be much more than 6' tall! That means most people would be bumping their heads on the ceilings! Clearly, despite official claims, the Excelsior was meant to be at least twice the size of the Enterprise-A. And clearly this resize would also apply to the Enterprise-B.
But that's only one ship, what about the rest?
True, with the Excelsior resized (and following my earlier idea of a universal resizing), the Enterprise-D, for example, would only be 839 meters long. So what happened?
Well, a few pieces fell into place. For one thing, there's the fact that the Enterprise-A (or rather, the refit) could not possibly house a rec deck with dimensions on all sides of roughly 21 meters. It would require a ship approximately 50 meters longer.
Second, and more importantly, there's the Enterprise-D's Ten Forward lounge, which clearly fits in the lower lip of the ship's saucer (right below the sensor strip). At 642 meters, this cuts into said sensor strip, and there's nothing on the Ten Forward set to indicate that, nor is there anything on the Enterprise-D model to account for that serious overlap. After wrestling with it for some time, I found that the size of 976 meters perfectly accommodated at Ten Forward lounge of a minimum of 6 meters (that's ~9 feet) tall. FYI: the smallest possible size is, ironically, 839 meters!
This re-measurement, along with the double-sized Enterprise-B, fit perfectly with the new size for the Enterprise-A. Coincidence? Maybe so. But it fit too well for me to ignore. So I went with it. Even though I'm still not comfortable with the idea of an Enterprise-D that's larger than a Victory-Class Star Destroyer.
Lastly, you're all probably wondering about the SS Enterprise (the ring-ship). Honestly, I don't know where people constantly got such small sizes from. It makes no sense, especially if one uses the revised concept that it was an experimental ship utilizing the Vulcan's warp drive (and therefore, the rings are the warp engines). There simply isn't enough room for much of anything at the most commonly stated size of 85 meters. So, I simply decided to base a resize on the forward module being about the size of the TOS Enterprise's secondary hull. And why not? It makes more sense this way.
Also, I had to redraw a lot of these, since most drawings I found on the internet/DeviantArt seemed to have things I couldn't account for when looking at my models.

And that's it. Quite a mouthful, but at least I got it out (I'll probably be revising it later).
Stay tuned for charts based on alternate universes (like the NX-01).

Description
I put off this particular upload for about a week, since there was a lot to (potentially) discuss about it.
First, there's the obvious observation; it's a chart of all the space ships named Enterprise. Duh!
Or is it? It doesn't take eagle eyes to notice that one particular ship is missing.
So where's the NX-01?
Well for those of you who do look through my gallery (and actually read these descriptions), this shouldn't be that shocking an omission. Quite simply put, I don't believe the ship fits. At least, not within the established lineage. In fact, I'm making up another chart of an alternate timeline of Enterprises for that particular vessel. So yes, I do believe "Enterprise" itself does take place in an alternate timeline created by the convoluted Temporal Cold War.
The next controversy is the size, and here's where the lengthy description comes in.
First off, I do not believe in taking official sizes at face value. My inspiration was twofold. First was Bernd Schneider's re-measurement of the Excelsior at Ex Astris Scientia. Unfortunately, despite his conclusions, he decided to toe the line and stick with the official size given. He has a history of doing that, and I believe it was quite foolish. Throwing away something you have conclusive evidence for just because it's not what's stated officially? It makes me wonder, sometimes...
The second source that got me thinking was the forums in which the participants discussed what the ship's sizes should be based on whether or not the sets in question would fit within the dimensions officially given. The answer was no, and I obviously looked into it myself. I found different conclusions than some of the ones they stated (for instance, I found nothing to support a TOS Enterprise of 433 meters!), but new sizes nonetheless. What also separates me from the others is that I do not believe in limiting a resize to one ship. If I find one is a different size, then it makes more sense to me that all the others will change in size as well. Hence the reason why they remain consistent in their size differences with respect to each other (except the Enterprise-A and -B).
So, first off, why is the Enterprise-B so much bigger than the -A?
Well, as I said earlier, Bernd Schneider wrote an excellent essay where he proved that the Excelsior was clearly supposed to be approximately twice the size of the Enterprise-A. Furthermore, a measurement of the individual decks for the Excelsior, as applied to the physical model (with window placement and the like being considered) shows that each one couldn't be much more than 6' tall! That means most people would be bumping their heads on the ceilings! Clearly, despite official claims, the Excelsior was meant to be at least twice the size of the Enterprise-A. And clearly this resize would also apply to the Enterprise-B.
But that's only one ship, what about the rest?
True, with the Excelsior resized (and following my earlier idea of a universal resizing), the Enterprise-D, for example, would only be 839 meters long. So what happened?
Well, a few pieces fell into place. For one thing, there's the fact that the Enterprise-A (or rather, the refit) could not possibly house a rec deck with dimensions on all sides of roughly 21 meters. It would require a ship approximately 50 meters longer.
Second, and more importantly, there's the Enterprise-D's Ten Forward lounge, which clearly fits in the lower lip of the ship's saucer (right below the sensor strip). At 642 meters, this cuts into said sensor strip, and there's nothing on the Ten Forward set to indicate that, nor is there anything on the Enterprise-D model to account for that serious overlap. After wrestling with it for some time, I found that the size of 976 meters perfectly accommodated at Ten Forward lounge of a minimum of 6 meters (that's ~9 feet) tall. FYI: the smallest possible size is, ironically, 839 meters!
This re-measurement, along with the double-sized Enterprise-B, fit perfectly with the new size for the Enterprise-A. Coincidence? Maybe so. But it fit too well for me to ignore. So I went with it. Even though I'm still not comfortable with the idea of an Enterprise-D that's larger than a Victory-Class Star Destroyer.
Lastly, you're all probably wondering about the SS Enterprise (the ring-ship). Honestly, I don't know where people constantly got such small sizes from. It makes no sense, especially if one uses the revised concept that it was an experimental ship utilizing the Vulcan's warp drive (and therefore, the rings are the warp engines). There simply isn't enough room for much of anything at the most commonly stated size of 85 meters. So, I simply decided to base a resize on the forward module being about the size of the TOS Enterprise's secondary hull. And why not? It makes more sense this way.
Also, I had to redraw a lot of these, since most drawings I found on the internet/DeviantArt seemed to have things I couldn't account for when looking at my models.

And that's it. Quite a mouthful, but at least I got it out (I'll probably be revising it later).
Stay tuned for charts based on alternate universes (like the NX-01).