On Star Trek, a TV series that aired in the late 1960s, more than 400 crew members explored the galaxy aboard the USS Enterprise, which had a length of 947 feet and weighed 190,000 tons.

When "TNG" brought back "Star Trek" to television, it did so with its own distinct version of the Enterprise, the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D. Set approximately a century after the events of "TOS ...