Within the Star Trek Universe, we actually know how much it costs to build USS Enterprise: exactly zero dollars and zero cents. Star Trek takes place in a post-capitalist utopia that allocates money. Everyone is still working, but it is to improve, to better society or serve the others they care about. Thanks to Miracle Technologies, such as faster than light engines and replicas that can call food from slim air, no one wants for anything, and citizens are free to follow their passions. If you want to farm Kumati farms, you can farm Kumati. You may need to move to a planet that has a room to do so, but it can be arranged for you. Capitalists and collectors are villains.

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That's how it goes with the construction of arsevels. Starfleet ships are built in an object called Utopia Planitia, which orbiting Mars, and ships (probably) are made of specially mined ores, specially designed computers and engine parts and rescued pieces of other recycled ships. People who build ships are just focusing on making the best possible boat and equipping it with the best possible tools for its designated missions; For example, a research boat will have better scanning equipment. A transport ship would have more space for passengers.

Here in the 21st century, unfortunately, we still live under the yoke of capitalism and making a real "Starflit" ship as a "USS company" would cost a lot of money. Also, since we still do not have a utopia building building in the present in the present, we will also need to worry about the cost of producing the materials needed to make a star with modern means. Plus, there is a problem to take the pieces into space where you can collect.

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This ship will work a pretty penny.

The company, as seen in the original Star Trek, was about 288 or 289 meters long, or about 948 feet (according to various FAN websites). A comparable vehicle made on Earth in modern times can be an aircraft carrier. According to the web site Largest.orgThe world's largest class of aircraft carrier is the ERALARALD R. A vehicle of that size costs the US government $ 12,998 billion in construction, making it the most expensive warship in maritime history. GERALARALLD R. Ford was supposed to be waterproof, although it would probably be required to make the company airtight and convenient for space travel.

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ERALARALD R. Ford is much longer than the company, but the Starflit ship is much higher and is very spindle. Suppose the raw materials to be made by the company are about equal in modern dollars. Of course, we do not know the weight, density or volume of fictional metals from which the company is made in the Star Trek Universe, so we will have to miss a lot of this.

However, something to consider is how much it would cost to transport the raw materials of the company into space. If you think it costs a lot to build an aircraft carrier on the surface of the Earth, imagine you need to start every ounce of it in orbit using rockets. Suppose and for the time being that our company is being built in orbit around the Earth and will not have to be taken to the Utopia Plaziah around Mars. How much would it cost to start with an aircraft carrier in space? Heck of much more.

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In Jey Abrams's "Starwater Trails" in 2009It has been established that the USS company was built on Earth, probably intending to have fully operating engines before it took off. This was not true for the other orbed "Star Trek", and it also happened in a parallel universe, so we ignore the details for now. Suppose we must launch everything with a rocket.

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According to the web site Apolllo11space.comThe Pegasus XL rocket, launched in 2023, cost $ 165 million to launch. That rocket weighed £ 976, which means it cost about $ 169,057.38 a pound for launch. The weight of the aircraft carrier of Ericerald R. Ford (and we assume that the company would weigh as many) is about 100,000 tonnes, or £ 20m. Multiply that by $ 169,057.38 pounds, then it would cost about $ 3,381 trillion just to start the USS company pieces in space. That is in favor of the nearly $ 13 billion that will be needed for construction. Money digestion estimates that There are about $ 83 trillion on planet Earth Now, that's how we have money.

Of course, this is just how much it would cost to build a machine with the size of an aircraft carrier and start in space. This does not suit the price of unknown elements (transparent aluminum, distortion channels, gravity generators, photon torpedoes, etc.), nor the cost of stocking the enterprise with food and drink - and air - for its 430 crew members. Web site Red shirts always die Theorized that maintaining a machine as a company, using modern dollars for countries, will cost about $ 7 million a year. If Star Trek had to return to capitalism, and Starflit crew members had to be paid for their service, then it could get another $ 6 million a year.

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Of course, $ 13 million a year for a space mission is actually cheaper than running the ISS.