We Could Build The Starship Enterprise (Maybe)

This is an idea I've read about before, and had a fairly long discussion about with some colleagues.

Long story short, even if you could potentially build a spaceship like the enterprise, for the same amount of money, you could build a fleet of better/more useful spaceships that weren't constrained to be like the enterprise. There are a significant number of flaws with this plan that make it both unworkable, and clearly the work of someone who doesn't have the technical skill to pull it off.

This thing just ain't gonna fly.

Are you saying that trekies don't know about rocket engineering?
Madness.

Such as...?

-1 for being no fun.
-10 for not living up to your name.

Mad Science doesn't have to be stupid science.

Me, that's my comment. You can cite me as it source.

Justify it.

That's not what a citation means. And this is the internet and you're talking about the feasibility of building an exploration vehicle... without any real capability to explore. First, you justify to me why it's worth building this ship without engines capable of making it go faster than a snail on marijuana. (cosmically speaking)

Why can't we just hollow out Mars' moons and make the Marathon?

It's perfectly capable of moving quickly, it's just go slow acceleration.

Slow acceleration?

So the crew will die before they get anywhere?

Honestly I'd like to see some development in sorta starfighter / Millenium Falcon kinda deals; small scale ships with only like 1-5 crew and high manoeuvrability.

Does the word "hydroponics" mean nothing to you?

Does human ageing mean nothing to you?

It's fine for travelling within the solar system.

I guess?

That's still a really crappy way to travel, in a inefficient ship design.

A star destroyer would be far more suitable.

Star Destroyer wouldn't give you gravity.

Neither would the Enterprise.

Yes it would. Do your research.

http://www.buildtheenterprise.org/gravity-wheel

Yes, I know, I deliberately said that because I knew that would be your response.

Because of course we would forget to build any kind of artificial gravity in a star destroyer.