# Your favorite version of the USS Enterprise **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 31, 2019, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-version-of-the-uss-enterprise/834814 "2019-05-31T09:00:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![DorkVader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/73ab20/32.png) [@DorkVader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DorkVader)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-version-of-the-uss-enterprise/834814/1 "2019-05-31T09:00:48Z")
While the original NCC 1701 (and the subsequent -A) are always happy memories for me, I was always partial to Admiral Riker’s alternate version with the third warp nacelle and the super phaser-cannon. ---
**Author:** ![Acsenray](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/acsenray/32/4519_2.png) [@Acsenray](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Acsenray)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 10:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-version-of-the-uss-enterprise/834814/2 "2019-05-31T10:31:20Z")
The original is the only one for me. ---
**Author:** ![iiandyiiii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/iiandyiiii/32/7924_2.png) [@iiandyiiii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/iiandyiiii)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 10:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-version-of-the-uss-enterprise/834814/3 "2019-05-31T10:47:08Z")
Picard’s Enterprise-D is my favorite. Seemed like such an amazing place to work and live. ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-version-of-the-uss-enterprise/834814/4 "2019-05-31T11:06:44Z")
I like the NX-01 with grappling hooks and it’s polarized hull plating, but they are all cool. ---
**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 11:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-version-of-the-uss-enterprise/834814/5 "2019-05-31T11:30:09Z")
Discovery is the best, followed by D in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 11:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-version-of-the-uss-enterprise/834814/6 "2019-05-31T11:49:08Z")
The original was a beautiful, clean design that looked as though it could fly. Every cluttered-up “new and improved” version is an abomination. And no, I’ve never particularly cared for the “crouching jaguar” design of the -D model or any of its derivatives. ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 11:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-version-of-the-uss-enterprise/834814/7 "2019-05-31T11:59:41Z")
I may be the exception here, but I actually prefer the sleek, streamlined Enterprise-E. If only it had better movies. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-version-of-the-uss-enterprise/834814/8 "2019-05-31T12:17:30Z")
Quite frankly, I’ve always been disappointed with most of the other Starfleet vessels shown in the movies (and on TV) as well. A lot more thought could have been put into their designs; instead, it was clear they’d been cobbled together from modules already present in the UFP (and Paramount) lot. Of course, _ **TOS** _ was fortunate to have had Matt Jeffries as its production designer. He was both an aviator and an aviation artist, so he knew a thing or two about realistic designs. ---
**Author:** ![BlueInfinity](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9e8a1a/32.png) [@BlueInfinity](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlueInfinity)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-version-of-the-uss-enterprise/834814/9 "2019-05-31T12:45:09Z")
For nostalgic reasons TOS and TNG will always win, but on a more practical level I’m fond of the Constitution-class refit from the movies. ---
**Author:** ![Grey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b782af/32.png) [@Grey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grey)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-version-of-the-uss-enterprise/834814/10 "2019-05-31T13:07:57Z")
The movie version of the original and the Sovereign class E version. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 1:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-version-of-the-uss-enterprise/834814/11 "2019-05-31T13:12:51Z")
I prefer the CVN-65 USS _Enterprise_; specifically, after they removed the SCANFAR antennas and modified the superstructure (c. 1982). ---
**Author:** ![Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba9def/32.png) [@Just\_Asking\_Questions](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_Asking_Questions)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-version-of-the-uss-enterprise/834814/12 "2019-05-31T13:31:15Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I prefer the CVN-65 USS _Enterprise_; specifically, after they removed the SCANFAR antennas and modified the superstructure (c. 1982). “Kepten, it is…the Enterprise!” I always loved Checkov’s pure joy at seeing the “old school” ship in person.\* As to the OP, I prefer the TOS ship, followed by the TNG D. I hate the later melted designs for the movies, the E, the F 'n G, whatever, and I’m not a fan of the TMP refit, though it’s the best execution so far of “take what we have and do modest improvements organically”. It looked like it was the same basic hull with retrofits, not that abomination from V that had the decks going the wrong way (numbered bottom to top). I don’t know what that POS was, but it wasn’t an Enterprise. It made me smile when the TMP new shields held against V’Ger. It was like, “yeah that makes sense. Designs improve”. But it wasn’t like all of a sudden it was nano technology hull that came out of no where (Tony Stark, I’m looking at YOU.). \*only thing I liked in that movie ---
**Author:** ![bump](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7c8e57/32.png) [@bump](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bump)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-version-of-the-uss-enterprise/834814/13 "2019-05-31T13:36:29Z")
I like the JJ Abrams/Chris Pine movie version, and the NX-01. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-version-of-the-uss-enterprise/834814/14 "2019-05-31T13:39:35Z")
“NCC one seven O one. No bloody A, B, C, or D.” ---
**Author:** ![Death\_of\_Rats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a6a055/32.png) [@Death\_of\_Rats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Death_of_Rats)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-version-of-the-uss-enterprise/834814/15 "2019-05-31T13:42:10Z")
My personal favorite Enterprise is the refit from TMP and the -A version that replaced it. My favorite Starfleet ship is still the Miranda-class light crusier like the Reliant from TWoK, though. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-version-of-the-uss-enterprise/834814/16 "2019-05-31T15:15:31Z")
> [@Alessan](#): > > I may be the exception here, but I actually prefer the sleek, streamlined Enterprise-E. If only it had better movies. Me, too. Like the OP, I dig the Riker tri-warp pod version as well. ---
**Author:** ![simster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/simster/32/1047_2.png) [@simster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/simster)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-version-of-the-uss-enterprise/834814/17 "2019-05-31T17:38:25Z")
The Enterprise from Discovery has to be the best ‘new’ vision of the classic NCC-1701. I also liked the update(s) (re-rendering) of it in DS9 and the re-mastered series of TOS. Of all of the second place contenders - I think “E” is the best - but still remember fondly watching the beauty shots of TMP on the big screen back in '79. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 5:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-version-of-the-uss-enterprise/834814/18 "2019-05-31T17:41:33Z")
The model I built based on the original. Probably a Revell, circa 1969. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-version-of-the-uss-enterprise/834814/19 "2019-05-31T18:13:33Z")
> [@TriPolar](#): > > The model I built based on the original. Probably a Revell, circa 1969. AMT had exclusive marketing rights to _ **Star Trek** _ back then. I had the model too, along with one of the Klingon battle cruiser. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2019, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-version-of-the-uss-enterprise/834814/20 "2019-05-31T19:34:54Z")
[Here is a handy link](https://io9.gizmodo.com/all-11-versions-of-the-u-s-s-enterprise-ranked-1823170805) to all 11 versions of the USS Enterprise. My personal favourite is probably NCC 1701 A. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-version-of-the-uss-enterprise/834814.md?page=2)