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That depends: does this include inside the transporter buffers?
No.
Can we pulp the Worfs down into more of a Worf slurry and fill the Enterprise with that? We can give each of them a warrior's death first if we need to.
How many can you compact into just the transporter pattern buffer? 🤔
According to Lumo:
The Enterprise‑D’s interior volume is about 5 000 779 m³, which converts to roughly 176 million ft³.
If we treat a human body as having roughly the density of water, Michael Dorn’s mass (≈ 100 kg) corresponds to a volume of about 3.5 ft³ (100 L ≈ 0.10 m³ ≈ 3.5 ft³). Using a mid‑range estimate of 3.75 ft³ per person gives a convenient round‑off for calculations.
\frac{176,000,000\ \text{ft}^3}{3.75\ \text{ft}^3/\text{person}} \approx 46.9\ \text{million people}If we use the lower bound of 3.5 ft³ per person:
\frac{176,000,000}{3.5} \approx 50.3\ \text{million people}So, roughly 47 – 50 million “Michael Dorn‑sized” individuals could theoretically fill the interior space of the USS Enterprise‑D.
(Of course, this is a purely geometric exercise—real‑world considerations such as furniture, equipment, structural bulkheads, air, and the need for circulation would drastically reduce any practical capacity.)
The LaTeX formulas make me chuckle so hard.
Assuming a spherical shaped Worf with a volume of 0.1 m^3^ and a spherical shaped Enterprise D with an internal volume of 5,820,983 m^3^ i get somewhere between 1 and 43,657,372.5 Worfs for the answer.
Sphere packing is hard and I suck at math.
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