Her incarnations as the Enterprise in the original series started the Trek ball rolling. She lived on in Trek movies 1-3, and as the Enterprise-A in movies 4-6. Then there's her 'missing' incarnation from the Phase II Trek series that never was.
I'll use this terminology on Constitution versions & variants, just to keep things straight:
Consitution I
Differences from Constitution II
Consitution II
Overall views of the ship:
This Old Starship, an Air & Space Magazine Article on the 1992 refurbishing of the 11-foot Enterprise model in the Smithsonian.
See CultTVman's SF Modeling Page for several photographs of the lady as she hangs in the Smithsonian.
The Trials & Tribble-ations Enterprise, saucer bow/topside shot (50k)
To Grid, or not to Grid...
Details on the
CG Rendered image (48k) from the 2001
"Ships of the Line" calendar. Seeing this, I'm ready for Paramount to
make special edition DVDs of some of the original episodes - The Ultimate
"Ultimate Computer," anyone?
Consitution III
This may be open to debate... but this image was on a 'Blooper Show' poster in 1981 or
'82.
Model Citizen Thomas Minihan wrote in with this bit of tid about the picture &
poster:
The starship design on the bloopers poster came from a Paramount promo film released to
theaters in either late 1978, or 1979. The film showcased upcoming movies from Paramount,
and STAR TREK-THE MOTION PICTURE was one of them. The ship was a painting that crossed the
screen from left to right.
There are also some images in the books, The Art of Star Trek and the Phase II book showing the partially-completed model. The bridge section appears similar to that later used for the U.S.S. Bozeman on TNG.
Consitution IV
Another debatable... some of the STMP publicity pictures released prior to the
first movie showed an Enterprise with considerably less detail than ended up on the
model actually used for STMP. It had (see image) a saucer
superstructure similar to Constitution II's and lacked the self-illumination ports around
the bridge & lower domes - shown in these images 1 | 2.
From Model Citizen Bob Mosley, comes this bits'o'tid:
Constitution IV: ...when Robert Abel's group was fired from the film - they'd only
completed *one* SFX shot in almost two years of production - Doug Trumbull was brought in
to get things back on track. A lot of the additional details were added by Doug's team,
including the bottom dome lights.
Consitution V
No debate here - this version definitely existed. The outside remained pretty much
unchanged throughout the movies, though the interior was constantly being upgraded.
These nine images are sections from a large poster photo of the TMP Enterprise:
Same links, for non-graphical browsers:
| Saucer Stbd |
Saucer Port |
Starboard Nacelle |
| Saucer Center |
Connecting Dorsal |
Nacelle Strut |
| Saucer Superstructure |
Secondary Hull |
Port Nacelle |
Also, here are images from the kit box of...
This is the CG version (49k) of the ship for the new upcoming special edition release of TMP.
Close-up on the secondary hull (50k)
Starboard Part of Saucer | Saucer Center
& Secondary Hull front | Port Part of Saucer
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