Star Trek: The Next Generation
Published Jun 19, 2014
NASA'S Latest Warp Drive Design Looks Very Familiar
NASA'S Latest Warp Drive Design Looks Very Familiar
By StarTrek.com Staff

Have you ever wondered what a real-life ship designed for faster-than-light travel might look like? Matthew Jefferies, legendary designer of Star Trek's Enterprise, took a pre-Enterprise stab at it in 1965, but NASA engineer/physicist Dr. Harold "Sonny" White recently joined forces with artist Mark Rademaker and longtime Star Trek graphic designer Michael Okuda to create a model -- using genuine mathematics -- of an updated version of such a ship. Oh, and guess what they called it?