11 Facts About Jefferies tube

Matt Jefferies tube designed the Enterprise for television, and its core components – a saucer-shaped primary hull, two offset engine nacelles, and a cylindrical secondary hull – persisted across several television and film redesigns.

Jefferies tube, who was not a science fiction fan, was the Enterprise's primary designer and he based his work on concepts from series creator Gene Roddenberry.

Jefferies tube imagined the ship's engines would be too powerful to be near the crew, requiring them to be set apart from the hull.

Jefferies tube had created a small model of this design that, when held from a string, hung upside-down – an appearance he had to "unsell".

Jefferies tube kept the hull smooth, with a sense that the ship's components were serviced from inside.

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Jefferies tube designed the Klingon starship seen in the third season by rearranging and changing the shape of the Enterprises basic modules: a main body, two engine pods, and a neck with a head on it.

Some of Jefferies tube' rejected design concepts – such as spherical hull sections and warp engines that encircle a ship – inspired future Star Trek vessel designs.

The second C was added because Soviet aircraft used Cs, and Jefferies tube believed a venture into space would be a joint operation by the United States and Russia.

Jefferies tube began with the original design and identified components, such as the engines, that would have been upgraded.

When Jefferies tube left the project, art director Richard Taylor wanted to start over with designing the Enterprise.

One distinct challenge was the hull: Jefferies tube' design featured a smooth hull, but the lack of features would appear too simple on modern high-definition displays.