Star Trek -- Phase II Enterprise

[@demorcef]

The refit Enterprise NCC-1701 is in my opinion the most sleek and striking form of the ship. I love how those big angled warp nacelles sweep back. When the ship passes by it looks like speed...

[@jtkirkfan2002]

That was good. I especially liked where you had Enterprise rescuing an original Constitution Class vessel. One of the bugs I had with the movie was no visual continuity with the series until the DE when Foundation Imaging inserted a TOS shuttlecraft into the tram station.

[@jerobriggs5109]

Still love that theme after all these years. Jerry Goldsmith was awesome!!!

[@qudskabp]

I so much remember waiting for this series. James Doohan went on a speaking tour in 1977, and one of his stops was my home town, just 10 days before shooting was to begin on the first episode, "In Thy Image", which is my preferred name for the first movie. Come April 1978, I wondered where the show was, since I hadn't heard about the change of plans.

[@tiberius1701]

South Bend Toys had the licensing for ST II and produced a few toys, one being the USS Enterprise, which they eventually released as the Enterprise from ST/TMP with all of the inaccuracies contained within.

[@gordonholmes7]

A beautiful ship. Thank you for the lingering look. The refit was great, but so was this ship. It's nice to see her in the new phase 2.

[@feenix219]

you are correct! the early 80s had a lot of fan-ideas and manuals being written and this is a very familiar old piece of info from what i can tell - that the refit class was, at the very least, "nicknamed" Enterprise class.

[@seanwolslau-holdren6731]

This was one of the first videos I ever watched as a kid.

[@manchesterbadger]

Thanks! It's interesting to see Matt's Pahse II Enterprise. It really is a 'half-way House' between the original Enterprise and the movie Enterprise. Nice work!

[@skyblazer7]

Very nice. The phase 2 Enterprise is sometimes referred to as the refitted Constitution class, while TMP Enterprise was the first of the new Enterprise class.

[@wylloughbye]

Also, it should be noted that Sets were built, costumes made or in the process of being made (James Cawley has purchased a majority of the costumes in various stages of completion for use in his Phase II endeavour) and that the show was about 2 to 3 weeks from Principal Photography when it was decided to make a film. There is even test footage in the Engine Room set. Most of the sets were reworked for TMP, and in Trek 2, the Engine itself became the Girders of the Regula 1 lab Balcony.

[@thedondo]

Very nicely done in both context and animation. A real pleasure to watch

[@LMac1970]

Lovely work! The effects here are much better than the original would have been if it had been made!

[@wyattmann8157]

I dig the Phase II Enterprise. It actually looks like a Constitution class ship that was refit...instead of a totally new ship like in TMP and later films.

[@Dunes]

Wow--that was cool to see. I sure wish they did come up with a Phase II series,it would've been great.

[@carlosmuniz5753]

Awesome!!!!! Love how the Enterprise looks.

[@jnichols3]

I remember the news report that the Star Trek series was going back into production. I was about 10 at the time. I am 42 now, but I remember that little blurp on the news one night. Kept waiting for it come on myself. Next thing I know I started hearing more and more about a movie. Too bad that could not keep the Enterprise closer to the original. The Phase II Enterprise still had that 'Naval' ship look to it, that it had in the TOS.

[@DesiluTrek]

This really brings it to life ... would love to see you "recreate" Phase II opening credits! One thought: don't know how much you were hewing to the preproduction art, but the painting you have here from Starlog has the NCC-1701 ship's registry on the underside of the saucer in one big sweeping arc toward the front, similar to the TMP markings.

[@JohnPaulSaylor]

ah.. I love seeing that type of starbase.

[@markallan3842]

Very cool

[@brunoescaler3585]

I think Matt Jeffries designed this beauty also besides the original & to me it gave birth to my favorite 1701 the refit & the A. Thanks for posting.

[@ACLTony]

A hearty thums up to this:-). I wish this clip had been longer. This was very well made and does show a realistic cross between the original Constitution class Enterprise and the refitted version. IMHO, the "J.J. Abrams" enterprise was a very sad version as was the movie, although the special effects were good. Even the engineering section looked more like a textile mill's boiler room compared to the engineering section shown in ST the movie and Wrath of Khan.

[@hossola77]

Thank you. Nice video! I've always liked the CGI work for 'New Voyages' and 'Phase II'. IMO, much better than than what Paramount gave us for 'Star Trek Remastered'.

[@Avindair]

There's a wonderful book out called "Star Trek Phase II", that discusses the aborted TV show. In it there are wonderful pieces of concept art, as well as pictures of the original miniature under construction. (Some of those pics are included in this video.) There are also Matt Jefferies' own plans for this model available online. So yep, this was indeed the design that was planned for the 1978 TV show.

[@MaxWriter]

Fantastic. Loved it. Thanks. Especially the asteroid and drifting Constitution Class shot - and Star Fleet Command and the U.S.S. Saladin. Great, great stuff.

[@jtkirkfan2002]

The ship you're talking about was a concept model for a movie that was to be entitled "Star Trek: Planet of the Titans that would have been release around 75 or 76 before Star Wars. Ralph McQuarie designed that ship. He also designed the Star Destroyers. It was scrapped since it took Trek in a dead end direction. Phase II came later and did indeed have sets built and most of the casting done. It's all explained in the ST:TMP DVD.

[@hughbreidenbach]

Hey, in the background you've got the starbase from the "technical manual" blueprints. The frisbee + 6 spheres version wasn't in the series. I wouldn't be surprised if that's the first time its reached the screen.

[@twentysevenlitres]

You can see where the refit took shape from this design. Nice work! (The D7 in the early shot looked a bit small to me... I could be wrong!)

[@carnivalofsouls2047]

Nice film of what could have been. Thank you for uploading!

[@dirkblockwood]

Avindair, nice work on the cg models and animation!

[@trunks072185]

very nice, i like the model work done at the end

[@bingbongstar]

I must say I really like this enterprise...it looks more of a transition between the one in tos and the one in the movies!!

[@LSOK38]

James Cawley bought some of the phase 2 scripts and filmed them. He also had a short video showing the launch of the phase 2 Enterprise. They're available on KZbin.

[@seanwolslau-holdren6731]

I love both the Phase Two Enterprise and the Refitted Enterprise in TMP.

[@bingbongstar]

Bravo! I love this video. Looking at this Enterprise and reading about Phase II, I really think this could have been a great series. Kind of counterfactual but none the less cool to imagine.

[@rannekk]

looks great! spectacular!

[@TRUMPER007]

Brilliantly done!

[@bullitt3980]

very nice work Tony

[@Avindair]

S Findlay Thanks so much!

[@DarkTau]

@Sulaco516 Technically you are both correct. Gene was actually planning on using the McQuarrie design initially, but switched over to the design above as it was more recognizable as the Enterprise. Roddenberry actually went so far as to have a Scale Model of the McQuarrie design constructed, but it's on-screen debut was made nearly 20 years later, as a victim of the Battle of Wolf 359. However, iirc, a "painting" of it can be seen along with the Ring-Drive Ent. in the Movie.

[@JesseBath86]

"All I ask is a tall ship, and a star to steer by." Very nice job. by the way, probably the first time I ever see the Phase II Enterprise take flight. :D

[@Actionguy1]

Very well done! I always wondered what the "Phase 2" Constitution Class trefit would have looked like in action.

[@LarryLeeMoniz]

Excellent! I have an original Star Trek: The Motion Picture t-shirt from '79 that actually has this ship on it instead of the Movie Enterprise!

[@Precept53]

Very well done, nice work!

[@ChrisMurphyChrisTheJeweler]

awesome shield effect witht the klingon ship!

[@wildstar145]

very nicely done

[@kaiyne316]

this is NCC-1701-A used in the motion picture.... may have been tried for "Phase II"

[@scar2783]

Awesome job!!!

[@kfs025]

bloody excellent !

[@Roadracer987654321]

@MrPaladino It was a Dennis Bailey that Red did the Enterprise for the Motion Picture ? I saw that Film at 11:10 Am on Opening Day in 1979. Little did I know as a kid I was witnessing Sci-Fi History taking Flight Once Again. at the Time i didn't know who Horatio Hornblower was or what the HMS Indefatigable was or the HMS Victory. or even the Bonhomme Richard of the Continental Navy. I was watching the Now Admiral Hornblower going aboard the HMS Victory Once again.T'was Film History

[@JGG1701]

Nice work!!!

[@JulianGamboa]

nice intro "until now..." sweet

[@ttdt]

Very,very well done. wonderful rendition. If I could just ask of one thing more, it would be perhaps some slower flyby's so that we could savour the work you have done. Thanks.

[@MrPaladino]

@ProjectFlashlight612 Actually, this render is spot on for the upgraded Jeffries design. Quite a few differences. The pylons, the length of the warp nacelles, the configuration of the dorsal torpedo launcher, a simpler bridge dome, simpler deflector grid pattern, the navigation dome would have looked exactly like the TOS version. There's a diagram of it in one of the "Ships of the Starfleet" books from Mastercom Data Center. I'm fairly certain they named it the Endeavor Class for giggles.

[@jtkirkfan2002]

@Xurcan In the ST universe, it stands for "Naval Contact Code". In the real universe, Matt Jeffries, who was a civilain pilot, added an extra "C" to the "NC" which always proceeded the registration number for civilian aircraft.

[@Xurcan]

@CATTOBAR Close.. but if you look all star ships have NCC on them not just the Constitution class... It actually stands for Naval Construction Contract . . . NCC 1701. the number designation is the plan or contract to build number of the ship.

[@LarryLeeMoniz]

I still have a t-shirt I bought in 1979 that has Spock in the ST:TMP uniform on, he's on the bridge, but in the background it is clearly the Phase II Enterprise! They must have started the marketing before the model was 'retro-fitted'.

[@JMChladek]

Only minor bit I can see is the script bible called for the phasers to fire from the neck region on the Phase 2 ship (what became the photon bay on the movie Enterprise ship) according to the Phase 2 book that Pocket Books published many years ago.

[@AtomicCyborg]

Nice work!

[@ogservicelast4799]

This is the music when Scotty gave Kirk his "grand tour" of the ship in Space Dock. Lots of close ups of Shatner looking this way and that.

[@PatriciaCross]

Only FASA referred to the refit as the Enterprise class, and even then if you read the actual Starfleet Recognition Manual is clear it is still a Constitution class vessel. The Enterprise was just the test ship for the refits and it was thus referred to as the Enterprise Refit. The movie era Enterprise and Enterprise A are Constitution Class vessels, Enterprise refits.

[@dboymax1]

One thing I like the TMP version over this is that they got rid of the old dish style of the deflector dish and put the glowing one to replace it...

[@cabbievonbump]

@MrGrevy To answer the first, no, it was between the two ("The Questor Tapes," I just wiki'd it). The second, yes, Tasha Yar, during the TNG episode "The Naked Now."

[@Blanke94]

Awesooome!

[@Jodie842]

Brilliant!!!

[@PatriciaCross]

I remember that book. Way I would look at it is Scotty's pride. It was his ship, and in his mind being the first that had the refit made it the Enterprise class.

[@Avindair]

Yep! My son and I saw the Darren Dochterman interpretation of the Phase II design on the NV site some time ago. It'll be interesting to see how it looks in their upcoming episodes. My personal favorite take on the Phase II Enterprise was done by a modeler named "NBTrekkie" on TrekBBS. Sadly, those pics appear to have been pulled down.

[@Avindair]

Oh, yeah. We had a blast. Truth be told, the older I get, the happier I am that the show wasn't made. I don't think I could have handled a version of "Star Trek" that was marinated in seventies TV juices. :)

[@THEOUTCASTSCREATIVE]

Nice job guys

[@mbnp1701]

phase ii was more than just a concept, as sets had been constructed, stories for the entire first season scripted (some of which were recycled later, e.g. tng's "the child"), even a model of the enterprise had been halfway built - it was work in progress. the drawing of the ship with a bowed out "deflector" is from 1964 and was a design study (crayon on black cardboard, if i'm not mistaken). sorry, but you're still wrong.

[@btflash55]

i remember those shirts. thats cool!

[@Avindair]

@phillyvegas: This was never intended to be taken as being from the 1977-78 era. It was something we knocked together in a couple of weeks a few years back using LightWave3D. That being said, we were the first people to animate this particular model of the "Enterprise. Thus the video.

[@doctorclu]

AWESOME!!!!

[@EvandroBarra]

good video! congratulations!

[@MrPaladino]

@Roadracer987654321 That's because Matt Jeffries himself designed the upgraded Phease II Enterprise, if I recall correctly. The Jeffries redesign is a far more logical "upgrade" or "refit" as it would not have required them to totally redesign the spaceframe of the aging starship.

[@AWriterWandering]

@JarJar88forever Season two's "The Child" and and season four's "Devil's Due" were recycled from PII scripts of the same name. Elements/themes from "Kitumba" and "To Attain the All" appear in various TNG episodes.

[@dommz51795]

The deflector was to be glowing orange while at low thruster power, but with impulse and warp it was to be blue.

[@TheAmazing424]

whoa this is cool!

[@Guidogregotti]

I know there was a "Phase II" of "Star Trek" and it was never been played (some episodes of this series would have been used in other series) but I never knew there was a theme song about it. Guido.

[@Sulaco516]

@originalgrimbear Actually, it IS the Phase II Enterprise (which was the basis for the Enterprise for movies 1 thru 6) that was designed by Walter Matthew Jefferies in the video that was rendered in LightWave. You're talking about the rejected Ralph McQuarrie design with the triangular hull.

[@pwc7475]

Love it!

[@jtkirkfan2002]

This design is soon to (finally) appear on screen. Fan production, ST New Voyages is changing its name to "Phase II". The current storyline (in Kirk's fourth year of the original mission), has the Enterprise badly damaged. The ship is going to be refitted and will appear as the Phase II 1701. It is intended to be a transision to the TMP version.

[@dexoearth9167]

Space, The Final Frontier. These Are the Voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Her new five year mission: to explore strange new words, to seek out new life and new civilizations. To boldly go were no one has gone before.

[@tripsadelica]

Excellent work!!! I wonder if the original plastic model shown in the slide photo still exists, seeing that Paramount sold off all its Trek sets and models a couple of years back.

[@Techrat3D]

Some of the original Phase II episodes were then re-written so they could be used for TNG. The one where Deanna becomes pregnant from an alien "glow ball" was one of them.

[@masterluke1986]

I absolutely LOVE the main theme fanfare! I wish it could have appeared in Star Trek: Generations or something!

[@Sulaco516]

@parrot998 Absolutely right. Matter of fact, the Phase II Enterprise proportions were adapted for the refit seen in Star Trek: TMP.

[@Nonsensei436]

@tewkewl Isnt transwarp the thing the borg use to move about the galaxy?

[@mbnp1701]

actually, it was 13 stories. and the model was built using bluebrints and paintings, they didn't just make it up while they were building it. the cgi ship in this video is based one those same blueprints and paintings, so it shows quite acurately what the phase ii enterprise would have looked like. and the paintings do have the dish. graphics of the phase ii model were even used as computer readouts in the first three movies...

[@monsterhobbiesonlinestore]

When Lenard Nimoy said he wasn't coming back as Spock, Roddenburry came up with a total Vulcan youth character named Xon who was suppose to be looking for an emotional side, eventually becoming more human as the show progressed. In ST: TNG, Data the android became what Xon was suppose to be.

[@donboy65]

I would have loved to have a model or toy version of this bad boy! :) As Scotty would say, "Ah, she's a beauty for certain!"

[@MartinFarrell1972]

I believe the first episode of this new series was called "Robot's Return", and this became the story of Star Trek The Motion Picture.

[@jnichols3]

Oh, what might have been.

[@Sulaco516]

@GarageFriend No, it's not. It is the original Enterprise 1701 with the Phase II upgrade.

[@tripsadelica]

Bravo...well done. A fantastic job! I wish the TV series had been undertaken instead of the movies. Don't get me wrong, I liked TMP but a series would have gone an even longer way to revive Trek.

[@jtkirkfan2002]

The impulse engines are the Enterprise's original with larger vents.

[@tewkewl]

@skyblazer7 wrong. TMP enterprise is still constitution class. It's a refit. there is no new enterprise class. the enterprise A was a constitution class fitted with transwarp drive, the enterprise b was an excelsior class, enterprise C was an ambassador class, enterprise d was a galaxy class, and enterprise e is a sovereign class.

[@semethis]

very very nice

[@amiserable]

Anyone know if we can get a look at some of these scripts?? Awesome to think of more Shatner stories -- best Trek Captain evah!11

[@monsterhobbiesonlinestore]

It would eb kool to run a fan-based ST film using this ship and the TMP uniforms.

[@Roadracer987654321]

The Phase 2 Starship Enterprise that "Never Was " looks Retro-Comic Book Cool & Closer to the Original Series than what ended up in the Motion Picture. Any Chance a Model Kit could be made of the Phase 2 Enterprise ?