Building and Flying the ENTERPRISE in KSP 2!

[@MattLowne]

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[@tom05011996]

I would love to see you try and make the Yamato

[@BrannonAerospace]

@@tom05011996Yes! Another Yamato fan! Matt, you need to. Please, it is so cool!

[@hey_how_are_ya]

Please ask ksp devs to fly the wackiest ships they have for a video please. If you want an explanation please watch the devs latest live stream video

[@clairekholin6935]

Use babbel until everyone gets a babbel fish in their ear?

[@BrannonAerospace]

Hi. Star Trek nerd here. In the first two Star Trek movies, you see the Enterprise being refit in the orbital spacedock. They hold the shot for like two hours, in which time you see crews welding and attaching components to the exterior of the ship.

[@A.P.P.L.E7]

🤓🤓🤓

[@HALLish-jl5mo]

It’s the same shots in both movies, because TMP went ridiculously over budget, and WOK had to be made on a shoestring with basically no new sets, only 2 new models, and lots of reused shots.

[@Snivy_1245]

​@@HALLish-jl5moand yet wok became one of the best ST movies

[@jordanbradford7729]

Ahhh, yes, Star Trek: The Slow Motion Picture!

[@Shadowkey392]

@@HALLish-jl5moincidentally, this is why the Enterprise on WoK has both its blue deflector dish and its white one from TMP.

[@csljr1]

As a Star Trek nerd; the answer to your question around the 1:15 timeframe: the lower section with the shuttlebay, made of of the mk 3 fuselage parts is known as the secondary hull/engineering hull; since that's where main engineering is located/where the warp drive connects to the nacelles via the pylons. The saucer section is also known as the primary hull; since that's primarily where the crew quarters are located. [Insert "The more you know" screen and sound effect]

[@TheHutchy01]

It was also according to the novels at least, built in space, unlike the saucer which was built outside San Francisco.

[@rollexpv1701]

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[@HoofmanJones030397]

So, fun fact, the big engine nacelles on the pylons only propel the ship during warp flight. There's another set of engines on the back saucer (on the original TOS model) that propel the ship at sublight speeds called the impulse drive. The lore says it is a newtonian drive that does obey the laws of physics, which would explain (scientifically) why the warp nacelles would be mounted above the saucer. So you could mount the nacelles higher and still have the craft relatively light without extra weight.

[@BlokeOnAMotorbike]

I figured the impulse engines being literally reaction mass drivers, powered by fusion reactors, would require them to fire through the centre of mass - hence them being mounted at the back of the saucer and the nacelles being higher than the saucer section to counterbalance the mass of the secondary hull. It wouldn't matter too much where the nacelles are as long as the warp bubble they create completely envelopes the ship (see also: Miranda class, NX class, Defiant class, Windrunner class, Intrepid class, or the runabouts, where all those ships either have blended secondary hulls or are flatter overall so don't need huge pylons for the nacelles)

[@BrannonAerospace]

According to Voyager, they are fancy ion engines. Weird discrepancy, but it’s not very surprising seeing as it’s Star Trek we’re talking about.

[@LeakyTrees]

Correction, they don’t propel the ship at all. Warp is called such because the way the ship travels in warp is by moving space from in front of the ship to behind it, so the ship isn’t actually propelled, it’s stationary and spacetime warps around it.

[@CalyPzol]

​@@LeakyTreesThey keep talking about how when they go into warp, they have a "Warp Bubble" as they said is Discovery S01. And the movie "Star Trek: Beyond",Kelvin timeline, the Enterprise kinda slicing through space like its water.

[@i3enj462]

You did so much verbal gymnastics to make that promo feel natural and it fully paid off! Whatever Babbel paid you, it isnt enough!

[@stormhawk4277]

The Firefly class transport from Firefly would be interesting to see your take on.

[@Hoolahups]

seconded

[@MechanicalGizmo]

Ooooh, yes please!

[@CoreyKearney]

Noo! not a crazy Ivan!

[@rode73]

Eventually Battlestar Galactica would be nice to see in KSP 2 😊

[@DeeboMorse-jo6hi]

Cylon basestar

[@Fred-gp2lm]

I was literally about to comment that when I saw your comment and I totally agree with you

[@Jungl3B0b]

I think it's time to reach next level. Death Star ftw!😆

[@leonhardh7927]

I immediately thought of that. That would be amazing

[@loveskngm31hstsdaily1]

Spacedock?

[@StarshadowStudiosRS]

*Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise, for ongoing mission, to explore strange new worlds. To seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldy go that no one has gone before*

[@BrannonAerospace]

Where no KERBAL has gone before. It’s KSP.

[@NarieltheTrue]

@tmuiuocrndqs”her continuing mission” and “where no one has gone before” is the TNG version

[@justtheflagguy727]

@@NarieltheTruethanks I was going to say the TNG version

[@OperationDarkside]

Goose bums

[@QuarkGamingLLC]

*crashes into the mun* Well fuck

[@TheJudge_GER]

You could try the Delta Flyer, any Runabout or also maybe the Defiant or the Archer Enterprise for some "small" Star Trek Ship Recreations

[@LeglessTurtle]

The Defiant would be cool

[@BrannonAerospace]

Delta Flyer is so cool. We need an SSTO of it.

[@callumwright7459]

An 'Intrepid'-Type Aeroshuttle is a good candidate for Trek in KSP

[@vicroc4]

Worf would like to talk with you about calling the Defiant "small." XD

[@jdotoz]

​@@vicroc4"Tough little ship."

[@chiralanomalous2904]

12:34 wow, he even included the turbo lift

[@MadPirateShin]

lol

[@ShaneScott69]

the Spaceballs Winnebago would be hilarious

[@thepolishtech1552]

As for replicas i would suggest The Rocinante from The Expanse

[@vicroc4]

Yes! Build a fictional spaceship that actually looks like a spaceship

[@_mosscat]

a tie fighter would be fun to see, using ion engines and solar panels on the wings like the "real life" version.

[@vaos3712]

My man here watches RED DWARF … absolute, freaking legend! Go to red alert! Are you sure sir? That does mean changing the bulb. 😂

[@archenemies32]

such a smeghead

[@flikre2133]

Forget red! Let's go all the way up to brown alert! Maybe Blue Midget instead of Starbug? Also, isn't Red Dwarf supposed to be like, five miles long? I'd love to see that getting launched 😁

[@ez_theta_z9317]

howdy vaos

[@roccov3614]

Ah, Red Dwarf. The memories.

[@SomeBritishDud1]

*smegging legend

[@IvanRodriguez-tl2zr]

I never expected you to reference the Forge from Duna Attacks!

[@BrannonAerospace]

Matt, I think it’s time for a Duna Attacks reboot. You could put in on Paramount along with all the Star Trek.

[@csljr1]

@@BrannonAerospace @mattLowne Oh yes! With 1000% more lens flare than the original KSP 1 version, a la J.J. Abrams in Star Trek 2009!

[@IvanRodriguez-tl2zr]

​@BrannonAerospace I remember in Matt's Green Harvest director's cut, he said that Green Harvest served as a soft reboot for Duna attacks. He said that he wanted to keep Duna Attacks the way it is, though it would be cool to see it again.

[@rogertxi]

this is something i didnt think id see in ksp2, well done matt!

[@Gaelic-Spirit]

Imagine my pain when making it months before the science update and autostruts, also made a bird of prey and Klingon D7

[@rogertxi]

@@Gaelic-Spirit there was this person who made a duna colony around a month before the science update, i can imagine the pain

[@GileadMaerlyn]

11:15 You want a suggestion for a ship recreation? I suggest a Ha'tak from Stargate. Good luck.😝

[@MinerBat]

10:44 ISV venturestar from avatar? (maybe that can better wait untill the interstellar update) hermes from the martian? endurance from interstellar?

[@xoABEONAxo]

The Hail Mary from Project Hail Mary by Andy Wier, hard sci-fi is simple to do in ksp

[@brenden-peters]

Either the Prometheus or Daedalus from SG1 would be wicked! Both have engines that are in-plane with the ship’s center of mass, and the silhouettes might be a fun challenge to capture

[@TheMachineGod966]

That was the single most smooth ad transition I have EVER seen

[@littletimelord2755]

As a huge Star Trek fan, everything here is ok. I will point out for future reference that the propulsion of the enterprise is not in the nacelles. Those create warp by bending space, but they don’t actually produce thrust. If you ever seen a red glowing element on the back of a saucer section, that is the propulsion. In universe, it’s just a really advanced RAIR (Ram Augmented Interstellar Rocket) engine. I’m not pointing this out to be annoying, because I actually really like the video. I’m more trying to be informative. I also am posting this because I feel like having the engine on the saucer and the nacelles above that and the engineering hull bellow that would balance the design without moving the nacelles. Great video!

[@jameshever1061]

the orville would be an amazing ship to make, the 3 curved engines would be a fun challenge

[@rikkicarrington-wass1708]

Love the whole mothership/ shuttle down the surface idea. You should build the Normandy SR-1 from mass effect 😊

[@astrobotnautics5291]

Absolutely fantastic, I love original silly builds like this. Nice recreation of the Original Series Movies at the end there too!

[@sashaemburey8802]

Been watching your vids for a couple years now, and seeing you make a star trek ship is amazing, would definitely like to see more fictional ships recreated! I grew up watching Star trek Voyager as well, and when you mentioned elite force I had to pause the video to go get it; had no idea it was even a thing. Looking forward to it, and will have to go back and watch your old Duna attacks film and compare it! Keep up the good work Matt!

[@AnonymousRedCat]

not what I thought when I saw 'starship updates' on my feed...

[@Physigist]

Might seem exceptionally silly, but trying to build a flyable TARDIS would be awesome to see

[@grunkaliciousnesss]

I would love to see a stock Axiom from Wall-E be done, love your videos

[@alessandrofeleppa8230]

Now, I know that is not an extremely famous show but I'd love to see a replica of the rocinante, the ship from the expanse (great show, if you didn't see it give it a shot)

[@progamer00006]

small ships with a somewhat similar design philosophy in star trek would be the Oberth Class and Nova class probably. A saucer seperation would have been pretty wicked on reentry.

[@sandsalpha]

I would love to see you build Red Dwarf, Starbug and Blue Midget! Aaaaaaaand while I type it, it is said.

[@sandsalpha]

Since red Dwarf is a mining ship, it would be perfect to make a refinery that can go everywhere with mining!

[@Kerbal_fever]

I absolutely love the barrage of words you get with a Matt Lowne video. Keep it up buddie :)

[@robinsteeden7466]

Serenity from Firefly please!!! Fly it out into the black, Heck it probably won't come back. Burn up on reentry, crash in the sea But you can't take the sky from me!

[@ThirdInLine]

The Rocinante from the Expanse would be pretty cool

[@ENTERtheCREATOR]

The NSEA Protector from Galaxy Quest would be awesome, and frustratingly difficult I imagine.

[@l_rudkin1185]

The razorcrest or the N1 from the mandalorian could be a cool ships to try and recreate

[@Juno_Solanaceae]

LOVE IT!!!!!!!! What a GORGEOUS recreation! Always a pleasure to see you upload Matt, hope you're doing well

[@alexbramley]

How about the Galactica from BSG?

[@_chickon]

The spinning really looks like in lower decks when the excelsior class ship losses power.

[@SomersetUpNorth]

firefly ship would be amazing

[@prolfinator]

Strange new worlds and below decks are a breath of fresh air

[@Raphpasdepic.]

Maybe the concorde or a mars attack vessel can be funny (I think a mars attack vessel on mars is better)

[@WhatsOnTheOtherEnd]

If you want a niche fictional ship to make that will make many people happy, make the Serenity.

[@EnderMalcolm]

Now that you have the Enterprise, building the Defiant sounds like a fun little challenge. It's smaller size will require some attention to detail in order to get it looking right, and mounting the engines correctly will certainly be a chore, but you should find this vessel much easier to mount on a boost stage for orbit. As a secondary option, building one of the Runabout shuttles would be a nice challenge. Bonus is that with some clever wing placement, it should be capable of atmospheric flight, perhaps using a mixture of jet and rocket engines for this purpose.

[@DasPuppy]

Somehow feels appropriate, that the Kerbals would build a Sci-Fi inspired ship to do their first Minmus mission XD LOVE IT!! 🖖

[@stuartyoung4182]

As a Trekkie from 1966 (I actually saw a few episodes on network TV when the Original Series was in production!), I really enjoyed this episode! As for a smaller-scale Trek ship, how about the "Franklin" from the JJ-verse "Beyond" movie - although it didn't have a lower ("secondary") hull. It seems like it would be a similar size to yours, IMHO.

[@BrannonAerospace]

Also, you have made replicas of the triple fuselage SSTO, and a bunch of other concepts, but not really any movie stuff. There was the thumbnail of you channel trailers, though.

[@SETTINGS512]

That was the smoothest promo I’ve ever seen.

[@Monn2754]

And yet matt lowne shocks me with another shocking build

[@karlemilobelsanvig487]

Can we please force him to make the borg ship? I want big square!

[@patrickbrooks9567]

make the Defiant from DS9

[@lugiakane470]

The Saturn V rocket was designed to carry a maximum payload of 140,000 kg to low Earth orbit. Therefore, it would take 1,214 Saturn V rockets to lift the USS Enterprise, assuming that the spacecraft weighs 170,000 metric tons and we are lifting it to low Earth orbit

[@andersm6651]

The Heart of Gold (H2G2)

[@RichMonkeYT]

Ngl, Matt is the funniest yet most helpful KSP KZbinr I can find 😂. I literally only got to the Mun because of him back in 2022 when I had just got the first game. Thank you Matt!

[@Endless_May]

Maybe you could try to make a Jool-capable Discovery One from 2001?

[@RM-rr3bo]

17:50 this is an actual plot point in Star Trek 5: The Final Frontier, so points for accuracy there Matt. Other ships I would suggest trying are accurate Thunderbirds 3 and 5 now that you have the custom wings and colours. Maybe Thunderbird 1 with its robotic wings, or Fireflash.

[@electricminecrafter]

21:29 Maybe the NX-01 but the ncells are attached to the disk

[@ccoder4953]

Some of the ships in TNG and VOY were build on the ground, at least partially. The Utopia Planitia shipyards on Mars were known to build significant parts of ships on the ground, possibly even entire ships. Also, USS Voyager could land and take off and was seen to do so on several episodes. It's just that Star Trek hand waves away alot of the physics with their impulse and warp engines, deflector dishes, structural integrity fields, and inertial dampers.

[@Hazmatt4700]

Kirk: My God, Bones, what have I done? McCoy: What you had to do; what you always do: turn death into a fighting chance to live.

[@Gojira-007]

a recommendation for another recreation: the hail mary from the book "project hail mary" by Andy Weir, the author of the martian. all its specs are in the book

[@Thorjolf]

Lovely Project. I would love to see a build of the Serenity of the TV-Show Firefly

[@manicpanda8741]

Welcome to the club of KSP Enterprise creators, I already wondered when you would eventually join our midst :D

[@GilWanderley]

I recreated the Messiah ship from Deep Impact and posted it to the Kerbal Reddit near exactly 10 years ago, but never was fully satisfied with it. How about that for a suggestion for a ship to recreate?

[@FlorianXXV]

For Star wars, the CR-90/Corellian Corvette/Blockade Runner would probably pretty nice to recreate, since the ship's shape should be pretty ok for centre of mass and centre of thrust

[@plainText384]

Can you do the MCRN Donnager from the Expanse TV series

[@arboreusmcclane1672]

Could try making the Heart of Gold from hitchhiker's guide....

[@AstronautMiller]

I think you should make an X-Wing and try to do the Bridge Challenge with it! I know the X-Wing is made for space but it would be cool to see it flying inside the atmosphere. Keep up the great work!

[@Cliffjumer]

The rociante from the expanse

[@jonathanlocke1593]

This was a fun and different build.l, nice to see it work in KSP2 condition. I challenge you to create the Fireflash from Thunderbirds! Such a unique design and if you can make work then kudos! This would also align with yiur plunderbird series (if it returns?) Next level challenge is to create all the vehicles from Thunderbirds! So 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 - pod vehicles - fireflash, Lady Penelopes car 😂 The gauntlet has now been laid! 😅 Otherwise have fun and keep up the fun videos 🎉

[@tanyaciccarone1231]

You should make the Endurance from Interstellar, complete with both Rangers and landers (and to top it all off, you could recreate the ever-famous docking scene, also I just want to say I've been watching your videos for years, and I love all of them, keep up the amazing work!).

[@Setyourhandle-b9n]

great build, however as you said you made the ship a bit smaller, and i think because of that it couldn't go too far, i think it would be better to build a large one in space and as you said they do build most of them in space. you smashed the design and even included a little shuttle. well done matt

[@ForzaCraft361]

Can you make the light cruiser from Star Wars

[@toadbumps9537]

You could exile so many kerbals on Eeloo with this guy!

[@BzKnz220]

The new Samsung Galaxy s24 aparently has AI tech that auto translates phone conversations to the users native language. So, id say a universal translator is going to happen relatively soon

[@lorenzbeumers1601]

Really cool idea with the escape pod didnt expect that at all. Maybe you would like to try ur hands at doing the slave 1 the ship of boba fett in starwars its very unique disign could pose quite the challnge

[@goldgamercommenting2990]

Ehhhh the impulse engines should be on the saucer section

[@vincentdermience1137]

Speaking of fast forward mode: my jetpack got empty while I was exploring the mystery signal on the Mun. I had to walk 7.1km on foot with my Kerbonaut to get back to the ship... I used fast forward and hopped along, but it still took something like 30 minutes to cover the distance. And now the guy is stranded anyway because I don't have enough fuel in my Mun lander to return. So I need to go back to VAB with enough R&D points to build a multi-Kerbal sized ship to recover the guy....

[@gslTM]

Can't believe you made such a perfect Star Wars ship recreation! Awesome job.

[@torjones1701]

DS9 had the Defiant, crew ~50, The Saber class had a crew of ~40. The Raven class had an official crew of 2, but probably could have crewed a couple of dozen people. The Oberth had an official crew of 80, but that always seemed quite high for such a tiny ship. If you want a real building challenge, you might try building the Andromeda Ascendant.

[@Noobaryaa]

Idk if it's even possible in KSP but you could try to build the RLS Legacy from the 2002 movie Treasure Planet. It's basically a sailing ship with solar sails and rocket engines. It also has a small hangar for flying boats on the underside of the hull.

[@teamruddy611]

Like that ship from that game with space shanties on it?

[@RDR911]

That’s ok Matt, voyager was the best one anyway!

[@lovehawks2814]

Quick bit of Starship Anatomy for you. The saucer section is the Primary Hull, the bottom section is the Engineering section, or Secondary Hull. The cigars on the end of the pylons are the Warp Nacelles. And the normal navigation, or Impulse Engines, are normally on the back of the Primary hull. Of course this is only with Federation ships. Then again, a B'rel could make a great SSTO. It's the ship class from Star Trek IV, and was extensively used in the TNG era series. Especially in the form of the IKS Rottaran. Think giant angry mechanized space goose.

[@ysglyfaeth]

When i start liking star trek you post about it, what a coincidence!

[@experiementalchannel1031]

Cool, Try doing Space Battleship Yamato on KSP 2. Love your space station videos❤

[@billdoor9038]

The heart of gold from hitchhikers guide to the galaxy

[@alistairjolly9913]

That was a TOP tier sponsor integration.

[@alexwilliams9900]

The ships from Craig Allen’s “ Expeditionary force” good luck and my skippy be with you.

[@moonprojections8414]

Star Trek Ground/Space Construction: In the "Main" Universe, ships are not built to experience or launch from planetary gravity. Even though they do it a few times for the plot, it is almost always a "this wasn't built to do this" moment. In the Kepler Universe (JJ Abrams films, which is technically an offshoot of the Main universe), ships are often in planetary gravity, sometimes even under water. Better Alloys in that universe, maybe.

[@philliphowell2684]

You should recreate the TARDIS next.

[@Snivy_1245]

With regards to your question about small ships that fit the classic profile: I'd say the most notable is the USS Protostar, an experimental ship that featured in the first season of Star Trek Prodigy and was powered by a captured sun. It's only about 100m long iirc.

[@electricminecrafter]

THAT WAS THE SMOOTHEST SPONSOR TRANSITION OF ALL TIME

[@Irenos27]

that was a nice "oui bien sûr" :) Hi from from Quebec

[@simulacrae]

The Rocinante from The Expanse of course! The best sci fi in the last 20 years.

[@Drazzuhmas]

I've always wanted to see the Halo Reach scene of the Pillar of Autumn launch with a bunch of solid rockets slapped on the side!

[@jdotoz]

The Enterprise from TNG is said to have been built at the Utopia Planetia Shipyard on Mars. The yard supposedly had surface and orbital parts, so "constructed in orbit" could be accurate. ETA: The TOS Enterprise was apparently built in San Francisco at a facility laid out similarly.

[@Viewmaster1994]

A star destroyer has entered the chat

[@roccov3614]

As an important ship, the Defiant comes to mind. Although it doesn't look like the Enterprise, it's an iconic shape fans should recognize. If there is a less important small Enterprise shaped ship maybe someone more trek nerdy than me can chime in.

[@jackie.p6891]

Intercept Games actually put out a live stream of them playing a duna mission, where they literally said they would love for you to collab with them, and play one of your classic blunderbirds missions. so you should watch it. Also, do a borg cube next for a fictional ship xD

[@johnnythunder4911]

The Space Battleship Yamato would be cool to see in KSP2!