She is an Exploration Vessel Not a Battle Ship. Designed for Scientific and Diplomatic use. Most Likely Built as were the Mercury Rockets by the lowest Bidder.

that is the only real objection. The originals were shot with 1960s Tech. On a low working budget for TV They had to reuse sets not create new ones for each episode.

Parsecs being a Measure of Distance One parsec is the distance at which one astronomical unit subtends an angle of one arcsecond About 3.26 light-years (31 trillion kilometres or 19 trillion miles) Making 12 parsecs the distance of 40 light years. Warp 1 is Light speed. It would take the Enterprise 40 years at Warp…