Star Trek Blueprints

The Star Trek Blueprints (or Booklet of General Plans) are a detailed "Complete Set of 12 Authentic Blueprints" (sized 9 × 30 inches) of the USS Constitution (NCC-1700), a ship of the same class as the (NCC-1701). (The cover claims the blueprints are "of the Fabulous Starship Enterprise".)
==Summary==
The reader is warned in the General Notes that begin with Sheet 4 that the "Booklet Of General Plans" of which these blueprints consist are for familiarization purposes only, and are not to be confused with detail working plans of the actual on-board systems they depict.
===Sheet 1===
* Outboard Profile (Port Side View) with NCC registrations of fourteen vessels
===Sheet 2===
* Outboard Top Plan (Port Side Looking Down) with Ship's Complement listings, specifying the minimum grade needed to hold each post
===Sheet 3===
* Outboard Bottom Plan (Port Side Looking Up) and additional view of Starboard Side registration
===Sheet 4===
* Outboard Bow and Stern Elevations (Forward & Rear Views) with Overall Size Particulars and General Notes
===Sheet 5===
* Inboard Profile (Port Side Cutaway View) with additional General Notes
===Sheet 6===
* Deck Plans 0-1-2-3-4-5 (Top Side Views) as follows:
** Deck 0: Upper Sensor Platform
** Deck 1: Bridge (with enlarged detail)
** Deck 2: Science Laboratories – High Energy, Geology, Ion Study, Chemistry, Biology, Science Officer's Office, Physics [Upper Level]
** Deck 3: Science Laboratories – Botany, Communications, Special Studies, Cosmology, Physics [Lower Level]; Photon Torpedo Banks
** Deck 4: Junior Officers' Quarters; Fresh Water Tanks & Pumping Machinery
** Deck 5: Officers' Quarters; Saucer Section Emergency Battery Rooms; Upper Phaser Bank Rooms
===Sheet 7===
* Deck 6 Plan - Crew's Quarters and Engineering/Impulse Engines Power Units – Upper Section
===Sheet 8===
* Deck 7 Plan - Main Deck featuring:
** Ship's Computer and Emergency Bridge
** Impulse Engines Power Units – Lower Section
** Main Engineering (Impulse Engineering), Engineering Computer Banks and Maintenance Shops
** Medical Section (Sick Bay/OR/ICU/etc.)
** Standard Transporter Rooms 1-4
===Sheet 9===
* Deck Plans 8-9-10-11-12-13-14 as follows:
** Deck 8: Entertainment/Recreation Facilities: Gymnasium, Entertainment Center (Arboreum), Recreation Area; Emergency Transporters 1-3; Ship's Computer Core; Fresh Water Tanks; Ship's Laundry; Basic Food and Beverage Preparation Facility; Main Dorsal Saucer Section Attachment (for emergency Saucer Separation)
** Deck 9: (Saucer) Materials Fabrication & Reclamation Facilities (Organic, Metallic and Other); (Dorsal) Auxiliary Machinery Room
** Deck 10: (Saucer) Cargo and Supplies Storage; Cargo Transporter 1; (Dorsal) Observation Lounge
** Deck 11: (Saucer) Auxiliary Fire Control; Lower Sensor Platform; Forward Phaser Banks; (Dorsal) Observation Lounge
** Deck 12: (Dorsal Only) Observation Lounge
** Deck 13: (Dorsal Only) Observation Lounge
** Deck 14: (Dorsal Only) Observation Lounge
===Sheet 10===
* Deck Plans 15-16-17-18-19 as follows:
** Deck 15: Secondary Hull Strongback: Visicoms, Air Conditioning Machinery
** Deck 16: Medical/Warp Drive Engineering: Secondary Hull Backup Medical Facilities, Warp Drive Engineering, Engineering Computers, Turbolift Repairs, Support Pylons, Upper Shuttlecraft Hangar
** Deck 17: Crew's Quarters; Shuttlecraft Hangar Upper Central Level Observation Gallery; Hangar Control Towers; Botany Hi-Bay
** Deck 18: Crew's Quarters; Botany Section; Hydroponics Lab; Shuttlecraft Hangar Lower Central Level
** Deck 19: Auxiliary Bridge; Ship's Aux. Computer Banks; Security Section; Shuttlecraft Lower Level/Hangar Deck/Turntable/Elevator
===Sheet 11===
* Deck Plans 20-21-22-23 as follows:
** Deck 20: Recreation Facilities: Regulation Pool and Sun Deck, Gymnasium, Recreation Area, Showers and Locker Rooms; Shuttlecraft Maintenance Shops; Emergency Battery Rooms
** Deck 21: Food Preparation Center; Backup Materials Fabrication and Reclamation Facilities; Backup Food Prep. Facility; Bowling Alley
** Deck 22: Backup Fabrication Facilities
** Deck 23: Lower Cargo/Storage Facilities; Cargo Transporter 2; Tractor Beam Machinery Room
===Sheet 12===
* Tank Top - Miscellaneous featuring:
** Hull Bottom Cargo Holds and Storage Tanks
** List of Standard Abbreviations and Plan Symbols used in the Blueprints
** Production Record of the Blueprints
== Background information ==
* While much of the information included on these plans might now be considered non-canonical or as apocryphal at best, they were used as a source and reference for the first three . Excerpts from these, predominantly deck plans, were used as on screen displays in when V'ger was reading the Enterprises on-board database. The onscreen excerpts at least, remain considered canon.
* Based in part on a suggestion by Gene Roddenberry, an early, pre-publication version of these deck plans were donated to the Smithsonian Institution by Franz Joseph in April 1974. They were displayed along with the eleven-foot original model of the USS Enterprise in the Smithsonian's Air and Space Museum later that summer. Mounted behind Plexiglas on a wall underneath the ship, visitors to the "Life in the Universe" display were encouraged to fill out a form indicating whether they would want to see these and similar works published, as at the time, no publishing deal had been worked out; Random House's Ballantine Books division subsequently did indeed work out just such a deal.
==See also==
* Star Fleet Technical Manual
* Star Trek: The Motion Picture Blueprints
==External links==
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* - a timeline of Franz Joseph's activities related to this publication
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