Of all the wild and wonderful things to come out of the Star Trek franchise, one of the most iconic and most recognizable are the various spaceships. Whether it is an Enterprise or not, these vessels are arguably the most important bit of technology in the shows and movies. They allow for each and every episode to take place, as well as being a home for the show’s main array of crew. They make it possible to boldly go where no one has gone before.

Of all of these ships, the Enterprise-D is perhaps one of the most memorable, captained by none other than Patrick Stewart’s Jean-Luc Picard in The Next Generation. But despite its hype and iconography, there are a fair amount of problems with its overall design.

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The first issue is not necessarily specific to the Enterprise-D. Rather, it’s an issue that seems to plague many of the ships post Original Series. The issue is that of scale, and how Starfleet seems to be obsessed with making ridiculously unnecessary large ships, far bigger than is needed even for a large crew like that of the Enterprise-D. Picard’s ship measures up to approximately 642m in length, almost double the height of the Eiffel Tower (which measures 324m high). Not only is it long, but it is wide and deep. The ship has an estimated 9 million square feet of habitable living space, a whopping amount of room that would be nigh impossible to fill.

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