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"It's possible to build a large ship like this with modern technology, but the idea of making it look like the Enterprise is unnecessary," he said. "You will spend huge amounts of money trying to get it a certain shape and there's no way it's going to have warp drive."
A better idea would be to build a space station resembling one of Star Trek's starbases, like Deep Space Nine.
"That's much more realistic than the Enterprise," he said.
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It is totally unnecessary to built a spacecraft that looks like the Enterprise.
The iconic shape of the Enterprise was more to make it look different than the flying saucers and V1 shaped rockets of 1960's sci fi. It has very little actual engineering value IRL.
It would be far more sensible to build a spacecraft that resembles the ships in 2001 and 2010.
But I would agree to name the next major spacecraft we build the
Enterprise.