In a Quest

to find some starship to scale with some other starship, I turn to MicroMachines. Perhaps a small ship in "micro scale" (that is made to be about 3 inches long) might match a larger ship model kit in "box scale".

Star Trek

The Original Series:
Enterprise	Dia 127.1m	34mm	1: 3740	Source 1
Galileo	LOA 6.7m	41mm	1: 160	Source 2
Botany Bay	LOA 108 m	65mm	1: 1660	Source 3
Romulan	LOA 76 m	37mm	1: 2050	Source 4
	LOA 136 m	37mm	1: 3680	Source 5
Klingon	WOA 157 m	46mm	1: 3420	Source 1
The Movies:
Enterprise	Dia 141.7m	38mm	1: 3770	Source 6
Reliant	Dia 141.7m	38mm	1: 3770
Vulcan Shuttle	LOA 49.7m	56mm	1: 888	Source 6
Grissom (Oberth Class)	LOA 150 m	61mm	1: 2460	Source 7
Spacedock	WOA 2690 m	42mm	1:64140	Source 8
Excelsior	Dia 186 m	32mm	1: 5810
Klingon BoP	LOA 88 m	45mm	1: 1960	See Source 5
Next Generation/Deep Space Nine/Voyager:
Enterprise	WOA 470 m	43mm	1:10930	The Saucer Sep and All Good Things versions are the same.
Shttl Berman	LOA 6 m	37mm	1: 160	Source 9
Stargazer	WOA 140 m	37mm	1: 3780	See NOTE 5
Farragut (Nebula Class)	WOA 470 m	50mm	1: 9400	Yes, the saucer is visibly different from that of the Enterprise. What were they thinking?
Enterprise B	WOA 186 m	32mm	1: 5810	Source 9
Enterprise C	LOA 526 m	61mm	1: 8620	Source 9
Pasteur	LOA 280 m	56mm	1: 5000	Source 7
Ferengi	LOA 487.7m	40mm	1:12190	Source 10
	LOA 580 m	40mm	1:14500	Source 11
	LOA 270 m	40mm	1: 6750	Source 7
Warbird	LOA 1341 m	70mm	1:19160	Source 10
	LOA 455 m	70mm	1: 6500	Source 11
Rom Scout	LOA 60 m	53mm	1: 1130	Source 7
Klingon Vor'cha	LOA 300 m	64mm	1: 4690	Source 7
Klingon Negh'Var	LOA 870 m	58mm	1: 15000	Source 7
Cardassian	LOA 230 m	74mm	1: 3110	Source 7
Deep Space 9	Dia 1016 m	58mm	1:17520	Source 10
	Dia 1350 m	58mm	1:23280
	Dia 1451.8 m	58mm	1:25000
Runabout	WOA 14 m	25mm	1: 560	Source 10
Bajoran Sub-Impulse Raider	WOA 14 m	25mm	1: 560	Source 7
Defiant	LOA 170.6m	56mm	1: 3050
	WOA 97.5m	44mm	1: 2220
Voyager	LOA 344 m	93mm	1: 3700
Kazon Carrier	LOA 2040 m	57mm	1: 35800	Source 7
Playmate's Strike Force Away Team (Starfleet Personnel)	ht 1.8 m	30mm	1: 60
Other Enterprises:
CVN-65	LOA 335.9 m	91mm	1: 3690
Space Shuttle
Moonraker	Wngspn 24 m	38mm	1: 630	In the 007 set. Some inaccuracies around the tailfin and engines.
Space Transport System	Wngspn 24 m	27mm	1: 890	In the National Geographic Explorers set.

1. WalterM. Jefferies sketch of Enterprise and Klingon battlecruiser (seen in "The Enterprise Incident")

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2. Franz Joseph's Starfleet Technical Manual

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3. Geoffrey Mandel's U.S.S Enterprise Officer's Manual, "to approximate scale" drawings in the Encyclopedia agree

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4. Mike McMaster blueprints. Evidently based on comparing the 3-foot studio miniature with the 11-foot Enterprise

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5. FASA game source book, "to approximate scale" drawings in the Encyclopedia agree

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6. Star Trek: The Motion Picture Blueprints

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7. The "to approximate scale" drawings in The Star Trek Encyclopedia

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8. Guesstimate based on the Excelsior barely fitting through the doors (in the film, the Enterprise looks like a tight fit) One appeared in TNG that was large enough to allow the Enterprise-D in. Multiply scale by about 2.5 (if you assume the E-D barely fit through the doors.)

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9. Sternbach's and Okuda's Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual

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10. Model kit

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11. FASA gamebook

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Summarry:

The Original Enterprise is a close match to the original Enterprise (the nuclear powered carrier.) Also to the Klingon and Romulan and to those ships based on the Movie Enterprise saucer and to Voyager.

The shuttles Galilleo and Berman are in the same scale.

Comparing to model kits we have:

• The Botany Bay close to the 1:1600 Enterprise model in the Original Series three-pack kit (Enterprise, Klingon and Romulan.)
• The Runabout and Bajoran fighter close to the larger original Enterprise model kit and possibly to Voyager.
• The Grissom is very close to the 1:2500 scale of the Enterprise-nil, A and D three-pack (and the promised B, C, and E companion pack). The Defiant falls into this range and the Klingon Bird of Prey (which has been portrayed at several sizes) could be forced into this scheme.

The Other SF Franchise

Summary:

I don't have the Star Destroyer model kit or the Hoth diaramas which might be to scale with the Rebel Cruiser (or Medical Frigate) and the fighters, respectively.

A Millennium Falcon on the scale of most of the fighters would be on the order of 9 centimeters (3 5/8")
We could hope for a Rebel Blockade Runner model kit about 20 inches long and set up various battles from the X-Wing CD-ROM. (An Imperial Star Destroyer would be about 18 feet!)

Versus

If you don't mind mixing the Universes, note that the Falcon is about to scale with the large model Enterprise-nil kit and Voyager and the MicroMachine Runabout.
The Rebel Blockade Runner is to scale with the multiple Enterprises sets. All we need is a two-foot Star Destroyer!