I was recently watching some youtube videos that have showed off the official scales for some Discovery and Kelvinverse ships compared to other ships from previous shows and it leaves the TOS-Enterprise looking very out of place in the modernized fleet 23rd century fleet.
In TOS we were led to believe that the Enterprise represented the cream of the crop for the era. During ST3 when the Excelsior was introduced they made a big deal about how much bigger it was than the Enterprise, indicating that this was supposed to represent a major technological leap.
Now in Discovery and Kelvinverse-movies, most ships in the fleet are in the Excelsior to Galaxy class size ranges, which leaves the TOS-Enterprise as being kind of a runt in comparison. That being said however, the scale of the TOS Enterprise has always been a little odd for its mission profile.
People have always touted the size of the Enterprise as being similar to an aircraft carrier, generally glossing over all the negative space in the design and citing only its overall length. If you ignore the nacelles (which aren't habitable space) the ships loses almost a third of its length. Going by just the saucer the ship's habitable space isn't that much bigger than the DS9 Defiant. Which really doesn't fit with being a deep space explorer intended to operate on its own for five years at a time.
So that leaves me with the question, are the larger ships shown in Discovery to big or is the TOS-Enterprise simply to small?
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Discovery nipped this in the bud and scaled to the 1701 to something like 450 meters, which offers a bit more fudge factor, and also matches the interior scale of the Defiant's interior diagram seen in "In a Mirror Darkly".