Who designed the Starship Enterprise? Do they get royalties every time Star Trek is shown?
Art Director Matt Jefferies designed the original Enterprise. The first miniature built for the pilot episode “The Cage” was unlit and approximately 3 feet (91.4 cm) long. It was modified during the course of the series to match the changes eventually made to the larger miniature, and appears on-set in “Requiem for Methuselah”. The second miniature built for the first pilot measures 11 feet 2 inches (3.4 m) long and was built by Richard Datin. Initially, the model was static and had no electronics. For the second pilot, “Where No Man Has Gone Before”, various details were altered, and the window ports and running lights were internally illuminated, except on the port side of the model, which was left unfinished. When the series was picked up and went into production, the model was altered yet again. These alterations included the addition of translucent domes and blinking lights at the forward ends of the engine nacelles, smaller round domes at the stern end of the engine nacelles, a s
