Ok, from the info I have, the various Enterprises break down into these classes…
Enterprise (Archer) - NX Class
Enterprise (Kirk) - Constitution Class
Enterprise-A - ???
Enterprise-B - Alaska (I heard this once but have no confirmation)
Enterprise-C - ???
Enterprise-D - Galaxy
Enterprise-E - Soverign
Anyone one know if these are right and what the A and C are? Thanks.
Enterprise-C was an Ambassador class.
Enterprise-A was also a Constitution class, just refitted.
Enterprise-B wasn’t an Alaska, but an Excelsior.
According to some sources, the refitted Constitution class is supposed to be called the “Enterprise class”, since the U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 was the first starship with those refits.
The Enterprise-B was always an Excelcior class, but the C was called an Alaska class for a time in some fan publications, including a poster that my friend had on his wall. Here is a subspace transmission on the matter.
**jayjay **is right about the ships listed in the OP but there’re five other Enterprises unaccounted for: the E-F; E-G; E-H; E-I; and E-J.
All classes are unknown though and probably always will be.
Which is just wrong. For one, there’s absolutely no precedent for a starship refit to be the basis for a new ship class. Otherwise, the Excelsior class would be an Enterprise class too… the ship in Generations different from Sulu’s Excelsior.
Ignore that “for one” at the beginning of my reply to tracer. I was originally going to post a couple reasons why it’s wrong but decided my stated reason alone was enough.
But was it just a refit? Deckard tells Kirk: “She has been completely redesigned you don’t know her a tenth as much as I do.”
Kirk even find himslef wandering down wrong hallways. At what point is it merely a refit or a completely new design? I meant they added turbolifts and switched around hallways!
Do you consider the White House to be the same building today as it was a hundred years ago? If I remember correctly, Truman had the interior completely revamped and the exterior is the only thing that’s the same. To me, they’re the same.
To use a less extreme example, would you consider a building that’s had elevators added, wiring completely revamped, and offices moved from floor to floor the same? I would.
Decker was never on the “A”. He’d already melded with the bald woman and the machine before the 1701-A was unveiled.
The sequence is:
ST:TMP, STII, STIII: The original NCC-1701 Enterprise from the TV show, with snazzier trappings to show off new SFX technology.
STIV: The NCC-1701-A is unveiled at the end. The majority of the movie the crew is flying a Klingon bird-of-prey.
STV: 1701-A
STVI: 1701-A
STGenerations: The maiden voyage of the 1701-B (it gets delivered Thursday).
STTNG episode “Yesterday’s Enterprise”: 1701-C Ambassador class.
STTNG ibid, ST:Generations: 1701-D Galaxy Class, destroyed in Generations.
ST: First Contact, ST: Insurrection, ST: Nemesis: 1701-E Sovereign Class
We were talking about the refit, not the E-A.
Augh! You’re right. My misreading…
Novels, or somewhere else?
This paragraph makes no sense to me. Enterprise B was an Excelsior class, not the other way around.
Enterprise. Crewman Daniels takes Archer to the 26th Century in the final episodes of S3 to show just how fucked up the current timeline is. They are on board the E-J and if there’s a J, there has to be an F, G, H, and I.
And the second paragraph was me refuting the theory that tracer mentioned. If the Enterprise refit and E-A are going to be *Enterprise *Class simply because the Enterprise was the first ship to recieve such a major upgrade, then the E-B, which is different from the original Excelsior in appearance, should be an *Enterprise *Class as well. Or something else entirely if the E-B wasn’t the first to get the upgrade.
To rename ships based on refits is madness.
I thought he took Archer to what the future was supposed to be. For instance, he tells Archer that there are Xindi officers serving on the Enterprise-J, which is in the middle of a pivotal battle against the sphere-builders.
He did. That’s what I meant by him showing how fucked up the current (ENT S3; the Earth/Xindi War) timeline is. Sorry if I was too vague.
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Not nececelery. They might’ve skipped “I”. What with it looking too much like a “1” and all. I’ve seen ampitheater seating where they skip right from H to J.
The original Enterprise was identified as simply “Starship Class”, by the dedication plaque on the bridge. Bjo Trimble has supposedly claimed credit for suggesting to Gene Roddenberry in 1968 that the other “classes” of ship likely existed within the Star Trek universe, though whether she or Roddenberry or a third party came up with “Constitution” is unclear.
Okay, giving myself away as an incredible star trek geek here… (big surprise,) but…
The final section of the ‘enterprise D technical manual’ talks about future plans, and speculated that the next enterprise after D would be Nova class (IIRC), which was just on the drawing board. Presumably that didn’t come to pass because enterprise-D was totalled so unexpectedly in ‘generations’ and Picard used his connections to get them to christen a sovereign-class as Enterprise-E.
so maybe Enterprise-F will be Nova class??