Star Trek Blueprints

The Star Trek Blueprints (or Booklet of General Plans) are a detailed "Complete Set of 12 Authentic Blueprints" (sized 9-by-30 inches) of the USS Constitution (NCC-1700), a ship of the same class as the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701). (The cover claims the blueprints are "of the Fabulous Starship Enterprise".)
They were used as a source and reference for the first three Star Trek movies. Excerpts from them were used as on screen displays in Star Trek: The Motion Picture when V'Ger was reading the Enterprise's on-board database. 
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 of 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 (a publishing deal not having yet been worked out). 
It was followed when TNG came out by Star Trek: The Next Generation USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D Blueprints
Memory Alpha as usual has a way too detailed list of the contents.
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I geeked to this SO HARD when they came out. I still have the set even if the vinyl envelop is toast. 
I also hate the damn things because every fan made blueprint set slavishly copied the awkward 9" x 30" format. A format doubtless imposed so Ballantine could get them on the shelf with minimum folding. Franz Joseph being an aerospace designer by trade would not have used that size paper. 32" x 24" is a standard size for blueprints. Tesral (talk) 05:57, November 24, 2016 (UTC)
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