

Figure 1: the Millenium Falcon, Alpha's Eagle, and Starfleet's Danube class Runabout The sizes of some ships are disputed strongly within fandom, notably those of the Millenium Falcon from Star Wars and the Eagle from Space: 1999. I prefer to use the size of the full-size exterior of the Falcon, and the EagleTransporter size derived by Roberto Baldassari, at 27.25 metres and 30.9 metres respectively. The Danube class Runabout is firmly established to be 23.1 metres in length. Various incarnations of the Enterprise compared with the version from the new movie Even more contentious is the debate over the size of the USS Enterprise NCC-1701 in the new 2009 Star Trek movie directed by JJ Abrams. Figures released by animators at ILM stated that it is 735 metres long. This is larger than the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-E's 685 metres length, but it still appeared to be detailed at a size matching the refit from the first six movies. It later turned out that the ship had been designed with a length of only 366 metres, and rescaled to match a single ambiguous FX shot. Luckily, Polar Lights chose a compromise scale for their model kit, due out in 2010. "Officially" 1/2500 scale, it works out to by nearly 1/1000 scale at the original design size.

The EAS Omega from Babylon 5 is about a mile long, compared to the refit Enterprise at 304 metres.