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July 22, 2003
Enterprise designer dies
Walter Jefferies, the man who designed the USS Enterprise, has died. I can do no better than to quote MetaFilter user George_Spiggott from the related MetaFilter thread:
I'm no rabid Trekkie/Trekker, but there's no denying the iconic status of the original USS Enterprise.A beautiful and iconically unforgettable design which makes absolutely no sense in terms of actual or made-up physics. Preposterous and materials-inefficient surface-to-volume ratio, peculiar and inexplicable deck orientation, a spindly design seeming to consist entirely of weak spots and completely unsuited to the stresses of acceleration, tidal forces or gravity wells.
But I love it anyway. [...]
Posted by John at July 22, 2003 09:49 PM
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