USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E)

USS Enterprise

The Enterprise-E in Star Trek: First Contact
First appearance	Star Trek: First Contact
Affiliation	United Federation of Planets, Starfleet
Launched	October 30, 2372
References	Star Trek: First Contact Star Trek: Insurrection Star Trek Nemesis
General characteristics
Class	Sovereign
Registry	NCC-1701-E
Auxiliary craft	Shuttlecraft Captain's yacht Argo
Armaments	16 Phaser Arrays Phasers Photon torpedoes Quantum torpedoes
Defenses	Deflector shields
Propulsion	Impulse engines Warp drive RCS Thrusters
Power	Warp reactor
Mass	3,250,000 metric tons
Length	685.7 metres
Width	282 metres
Height	75 metres

The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E or Enterprise-E) is a Sovereign-class starship in the Star Trek franchise. It serves as the primary setting of the films Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, and Star Trek Nemesis. It is the sixth Federation starship to carry the name "Enterprise" and the seventh Starfleet ship to be named as such.

Origin and design

Ronald D. Moore, the co-writer of Star Trek Generations and Star Trek: First Contact, had suggested that construction of the Enterprise-E began in the final season of The Next Generation (2370), and that the ship was renamed USS Enterprise, which would become the latest flagship of the United Federation of Planets after the Enterprise-D had been destroyed.^[1]

Depiction

The Enterprise-E, a Sovereign class starship, launched in 2372 from the San Francisco Fleet Yards under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Picard and most of the key officers were from Enterprise-D.^[2] The non-canon novel Ship of the Line suggests the originally planned name for the vessel was USS Honorious, and that Montgomery Scott was part of the team of engineers that designed the Enterprise-E.^[3]

In the film Star Trek: First Contact, the Enterprise participates in the Battle of Sector 001, destroying a Borg cube, and subsequently travels back in time to stop the Borg from interfering with Zefram Cochrane's first contact with the Vulcans.^[2] The Borg hijacked and almost assimilated the ship until Captain Picard and Data reclaimed it. In Star Trek: Insurrection, the crew stops a Son'a attempt to forcibly relocate the Ba'ku people from their homeworld.^[2] In Star Trek Nemesis, the Enterprise is heavily damaged while stopping Shinzon from using a weapon of mass destruction to destroy all life on Earth.^[4] The ship returns to spacedock to undergo extensive repairs.^[4]

A designer's blueprints show that the Enterprise has new phaser banks and torpedo launchers in Star Trek Nemesis that were not present in Star Trek: Insurrection. It also shows the warp nacelles have been moved upwards and forward slightly.^[5] Star Trek: Ships of the Line, written by Star Trek's technical consultant Michael Okuda, states that the Enterprise can travel at up to warp 9.985.^[6]

Ship's officers

• Captain Jean-Luc Picard (Captain) Captain of the Enterprise from the ship's launch in 2372.
• Commander William Thomas Riker (Executive Officer) First officer of the Enterprise from its launch in 2372. Promoted to Captain in 2379, and left the Enterprise with his wife, Ship's Counselor Commander Deanna Troi, to take command of the USS Titan.
• Lieutenant Commander Data (Second Officer) Data was Ops officer and Science Officer from its launch in 2372, and was third in line of command, until his apparent death in 2379, at the end of Star Trek: Nemesis.
• Commander Deanna Troi (Ship's Counselor) Commander Troi was the ship's Counselor from its launch in 2372, until the end of Star Trek: Nemesis, when she departed with her new husband, Captain Riker, for the Titan.
• Lieutenant Commander Worf (Security Chief) After serving as Strategic Operations Officer on Deep Space Nine during the Dominion War, Worf was made an ambassador to Qo'noS, but eventually returned to Starfleet by the time of the film Star Trek: Nemesis, when he again served as Security Chief and Tactical Officer. Following Riker's departure at the end of that film, Worf was promoted to First Officer in the non-canonical 2007 novel Star Trek: The Next Generation: Resistance, and continues to serve in this role in the Destiny and Typhon Pact novels.
• Commander Beverly Crusher, M.D. (Chief Medical Officer) Crusher was the ship's Chief Medical Officer from its launch in 2372. In the non-canonical 2007 novel Death in Winter, she again took a position as head of Starfleet Medical, but returned to the Enterprise in the novel Resistance.
• Commander Geordi LaForge (Chief Engineer) Chief Engineer from the ship's acceptance into Starfleet service.
• Lieutenant Reginald Barclay (Diagnostics Technician) Present during the events of Star Trek: First Contact

References

1. ^ Ronald D. Moore (February 17, 1998). "Answers". Archived from the original on 2007-07-27. http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/6952/ron87.txt&date=2007-07-27+08:45:16. Retrieved 2006-12-31. 
2. ^ ^{a b c} Okuda, Michael; Okuda, Denise with Debbie Mirek (1999). The Star Trek Encyclopedia. Pocket Books. ISBN 0-671-53609-5. 
3. ^ Carey, Diane. Ship of the Line. New York, USA: Pocket Books. ISBN 0-671-00924-9. 
4. ^ ^{a b} Star Trek Nemesis.
5. ^ http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/articles/sovereign.htm ex-astris-scientia.org
6. ^ Okuda, Michael; Clark, Margaret with Doug Drexler (November 2006). Star Trek: Ships of the Line. Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group. ISBN 1-416-53243-9. 

External links

• USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E) at Memory Alpha (a Star Trek wiki)

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