Enterprise Blueprints

They are remodeling the Product Engineering & Document Control room next door to me at work. To make room for an additional employee they are removing the old flat file cabinets that hold all our old large paper drawings. While almost all of the drawings are already in computer form, there are still a few old drawings on paper that are useful history and will be kept. When they were going through deciding what to keep today one of the engineers brought over something that he found he thought I might like. A blueprint of the second Constellation Class Starship built, the Enterprise NCC-1701.

Way back in the 80’s, not long before Al Gore invented the Internet, I talked the powers that be at ASCO into getting me a Compuserve account so I could stay up to date on computer drafting through an AutoCAD area they had. A 300 baud modem with a login name of something like brian237 and I was off exploring the outside world. Soon I was downloading AutoLisp programs to help me automate my daily chores, instead of painstakingly retyping the macros and code snippets from my monthly AutoCAD magazines. But as you can imagine, it was not all seriousness out there in cyber space. Someone with a lot more talent, free time and dedication than I had drawn up some plans of the Enterprise in AutoCAD with a fancy title block and everything. Probably 30 minutes of downloading later, I opened the drawing and sent it to our D-sized pen plotter. I hung it on my cubical wall. Once word got around I bet I printed out another half dozen or so fr the rest of the Trekkies in the building.

I went looking to see if I could find that drawing again now that the Internet is 6.0×10³² bigger that it was then. So guess what, I couldn’t find the exact one that I have a plot of, but I did find about 6.0×10³² different Star Trek related blueprints here: The Star Trek LCARS Blueprints Database