A Better Look At The USS Kelvin From ‘Star Trek’
Nov 28, 2008 by Vic HoltremanIntel has a Star Trek movie tie-in page set up to promote the film and they’ve added a cool Flash-based look at the USS Kelvin, …
Intel has a Star Trek movie tie-in page set up to promote the film and they’ve added a cool Flash-based look at the USS Kelvin, the ship commanded by Captain Christopher Pike. I have a feeling they’ll be adding a lot of cool stuff to the site as the weeks go by – probably shuttlecraft, other ships (maybe even the USS Enterprise itself).
I took a few screen grabs and enhanced them to make it easier to make out details – you can see them below.
Side view of the USS Kelvin
Rear 3/4 view of the USS Kelvin
Top view
Bottom view
For a full 360 look at the ship, plus details about the bridge, warp engine and hangar bay head over to BoldlyGo.Intel.com and click on the “Starfleet Database” icon.
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The Kelvin is an interesting design, but the proportions don’t support the crew compliment that Captain Pike indicated were saved (800). The Constitution Class has a crew compliment of 430 ( 43 Officers and 387 Crew), George Kirk saved 800, now there were undoubtedly casualties that didn’t make it off the ship, this makes it closer to a Galaxy Class in compliment. This makes the Kelvin twice as large as Enterprise and she was the Flagship, and truly a Battle wagon.
That just doesn’t seem right to me.
Yeah, but isn’t the 430 crew compliment from the “real” Star Trek, and not the fake/alternate Star Trek? The alternate Enterprise was much bigger than the genuine article.
Besides, it takes two nacelles to create a warp bubble, and the Kelvin only has one.