Very ambitious! An engineer says we could have a working starship Enterprise within the next 30 years.

One teeny-tiny drawback: this would not actually be a starship:

This “Gen1” Enterprise could get to Mars in ninety days, to the Moon in three, and “could hop from planet to planet dropping off robotic probes of all sorts en masse – rovers, special-built planes, and satellites.

For a ship longer than the Burj Khalifa is tall, those speeds sound a little on the pokey side, don’t they?

On the one hand I think it would very cool indeed if we had such large manned interplanetary craft operating in the next few decades. On the other hand, what is described is no starship enterprise. I don’t care if it’s a little smaller, but to be effective it’s going to need to be quite a bit faster.