Star Trek: 10 Secrets Of The Enterprise D You Need To Know

4. The Computer Core Was Huge

If there's one thing I want you to take away from this article, it is that Picard's ultimate adversary was not the Borg, nor the Romulans, nor even Q, it was the all-consuming war that raged between the creative minds behind the show, and the men writing the cheques for it. So much of this ship never saw the light of day, because of that eternal conflict.

One thing they tried their best with though was the Enterprise's enormous computer core. It's referenced heavily in the show, depicted on all number of graphs and displays, and even physically shown in part, but never at the scale it was intended. The best we got was a small room that depicted the entry to the core, never the actual thing itself.

Original designs had the thing spanning entire decks, with members of the crew floating around various access points and terminals connected to it; not unlike how the human brain looks in Inside Out. The design of the ship had two of these enormous processers in the saucer section, with a further redundancy in the stardrive section.