• The iron maiden grand winner kicks ass

• Ha. I did actually think that. Oh well.

• Similar, but it had those distinct nacelle holders that the Enterprise-D had later, straight up and down and right angles instead of jutting out sideways.

• I'm a newbie Trekker, so I don't feel too bad about admitting that I thought this was a wonky office chair.

• I quite like the look, in fact. It's like if the Enterprise was left out in the sun too long.

• I'm glad to see the nerds who did this have their priorities straight. We have a laser that can carve things that can only be seen with an electron microscope. Try to make some sort of nanotechnology that could be useful in medicine or something? Hell no. Make a scale model of the enterprise? Hell yes.

• Remember those anomalies that would warp matter in the Xindi expanse in Enterprise? Yeah, me neither...you are a bunch of huge nerds.

• What kind of nerd are you when you not only thing yeah it looks like its melting but then say "so glad they screwed up the enterprise rather than the millenium falcon". Because a melting millenium falcon (or serenity) would have made me sad.

• It looks closest to Ambassador class, but yes Rob you are right. I was thinking how fucked up it looked. In fact, I didn't recognize it as a Federation Starship until I read the title...

• Second. And it probably would have been more accurate.

• Would have been so much better if they had made a miniature Millenium Falcon.

• The Reliant's design was already quite similar to that of the Enterprise.

• Hmm... My posting failed. Anyway, I too, am a huge, huge nerd.

• <----- Huge, huge nerd.

• Ditto. Im not a trek fan at all, I mean the new movie was cool but I've barely seen any trek before that. Having said that, the enterprise is recognizable enough in pop culture that anyone who looked at it would probably think it's kind of a dumpy star trek ship made of deflating mushrooms or something.

• I hate to say it, but I fall into the "huge, huge nerd" category.

• Definitely the Enterprise-D, you can tell from the nacelles. It actually looks a lot like the USS Reliant, Khan's ship from Star Trek II, only flipped upside-down.

• "Fun fact: If you thought anything even slightly like "Sure it's a 1:1,000,000,000-scale, but it's kind of a shitty 1:1,000,000,000-scale Enterprise" upon seeing this, you are a huge, huge nerd." I don't even really watch Star Trek, and that was my first thought.

• Looks like they went Next Gen. Bold choice.

• Bollocks. It's a tube, not an oval like the Enterprise-D.

• And THAT is the nerdiest comment I've read anywhere in a long time. *nerd salute*

• You mean the Navigational Deflector? Pretty impressive for the scale and the tools they are using, Not entirely accurate though, it's sort of a mash-up betwixt NCC-1701 C and NCC-1701 D.:-B

• It should be pointed out that this is the Enterprise-D. Horrible saucer section, but a swell stardrive section!

• Sure it's shitty, but we all know we have to wait for the after-market accuracy kits anyway. And I am so not looking forward to trying an Aztec pattern on it.

• okay so in agreement..we're mostly huge, huge nerds here? right? alright.

• I can do that but I don't wanna.

• Yes, it is. Think of what you can be done with that kind of precision engineering. The only limit is imagination, or lack thereof. <blockquote>The work represented in the submitted micrographs covered a wide range of fields including micro mechanical, photonic, and integrated circuit fabrication, chemical and dry etching, laser optics, genetic experiments, carbon nanotube structures, carbon nanotube growth experimrnts, biological samples, material science experiments and, of course, e-beam, ion beam, x-ray, and photo lithography experiments.</blockquote> http://www.zyvexlabs.com/EIPBNuG/2003MicroGraph.html#Ion I would also like to point out that the competition from which this entry dates from 2003, yet only now seems to be making the rounds of the web. The link above has the other winners. Remember - this was made as a competition entry, to showcase how precise micro-structures could be made.

• I am a huge, huge nerd...

• All they need now is a tiny Enterprise crew and JJ Abrams could make the first ever movie filmed entirely through a microscope!

• 'Fun fact: If you thought anything even slightly like "Sure it's a 1:1,000,000,000-scale, but it's kind of a shitty 1:1,000,000,000-scale Enterprise" upon seeing this, you are a huge, <em>huge</em> nerd.' Yep, that was indeed the first thing that popped into my head. Damn.

• Ok, so the Starfleet Insurance Company adjusters might call it totaled... But it is still drivable! Look, the nacelles are in perfect condition, and the sensor array barely has a scratch!

• Looks more like an <i>Apollo</i> class, if you ask me.

• That's... umm... what does it do exactly? will they build tiny people picards or kirks and co next to fly in the tiny enterprise inside of your computer.. or maybe inside of you body to fight cancer or something? the really weird possibilities are endless of what they can do with this microscopic ship technology... really... its scarier than the idea of the gundam to come get us.. now they can mass produce microscopic space ships to invade our bodies and tack us over from withen! the end is now! Ahhhhhhhhhh!

• 'Fun fact: If you thought anything even slightly like "Sure it's a 1:1,000,000,000-scale, but it's kind of a shitty 1:1,000,000,000-scale Enterprise" upon seeing this, you are a huge, huge nerd. ' I was too busy saying 'holy crap' over and over again, but now that you mention it....

• SLIGHTLY dented? The Enterprise looked better than that after it got rammed by the Scimitar.

• I guess I'm a huge, huge nerd then.

• No, no... They (the scientists) are still bigger nerds than anyone who might point out the slightly dented saucer section. Besides, the rest of us huge nerds can just say it was warped in a space-time anomaly. Regardless: That is pretty sweet.

• great use of grant money

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