The NCC-1701-A USS Enterprise Would Cost $480 Billion If Built Today

[Initech]

How Much Would It Cost to Build the Starship Enterprise?

So you want to build the Enterprise. Don't we all! Well good news: according to some quick, messy, napkin math, it's possible. Kind of. The bad news? It's going to be stupid expensive. But not unfathomably so! Start scrounging up your space-pennies.
One little constraint

Since we can't predict the future, or even come close to gauging the cost of development for revolutionary new inventions or substances like warp and impulse drives, shields, and teleporters, we're going to stick to what we know. It might not make us a real Enterprise, but it's about as close as you're going to get.
So where do we start?

First we have to pick our Enterprise. Obviously, with Star Trek: Into Darkness coming out, we're going to go with the one from that universe, from a size perspective anyway. According to some stats we got back when the original Star Trek reboot came out a few years ago, we know the new Enterprise—or as the Star Trek wiki calls it: USS Enterprise (Alternate Reality)—is 725.35 meters, 2379.76 feet, or roughly half a mile long. So, huge. And while the exact measurements vary, other sources give us a height of 625 feet, and a saucer diameter of 1,000 feet. She's a big girl.

http://gizmodo.com/how-much-would-it-cost-to-build-the-starship-enterprise-506174071

[catnhatnh]

1. Yeah....

But with the DOD in charge of the project, what's the cost WITH overruns?

[krispos42]

2. **pulls out Starfleet Technical Manual**

Class 1 Heavy Cruiser
Constitution-Class starships

Deadweight tonnage - metric: 180,000
Length overall - meters: 288.6 (947')
Breadth overall - meters: 127.1 (417')
Height overall - meters: 72.6 (238')


Hey!

[AverageJoe90]

3. It's certainly possible(in fact, inevitable at some point), but.....

I'm not sure if we'd be necessarily willing, or even able to, build a ship like the Enterprise during this century; we've got some shit to sort out before we can head for a future that resembles anything like Star Trek.

[liberal N proud]

4. Beam me up.