100-570: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) , or Enterprise -D , to distinguish it from other vessels with the same name , is a starship in the Star Trek media franchise. Under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard , it is the main setting of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994) and the film Star Trek Generations (1994). It has also been depicted in various spinoffs, films, books, and licensed products. The Next Generation occurs in
200-410: A Declaration -class ship launched in 2123. Its length is given as 300 metres (980 ft), and it has a capacity of 100 crew and 850 passengers. The Star Trek Maps by New Eye Photography Editors, also published in 1979, listed this ship as a fusion drive probe that was Earth's first attempt to explore another star system. The Making of Star Trek: The Motion Picture , published in 1980, describes
300-535: A Star Trek: The Next Generation reunion without [...] the Enterprise ." There was not much construction information available for production designer Dave Blass and art director Liz Kloczkowski to recreate the bridge set, and they created a wall of set photos and screen captures for reference. Blass hired Denise and Michael Okuda , from the Next Generation production team, to assist. Construction of
400-412: A 12-foot (3.7 m) saucer section model to "crash" into an 80-foot (24 m) planet surface model. An 18-inch (46 cm) model of the saucer's forward edge was used for close-ups of the crashed ship. Despite resistance due to budget and time, Star Trek: Picard executive producer Terry Matalas insisted on the Enterprise appearing in the show's third season (2023): he said they could not "have
500-471: A Mirror, Darkly " features a Mirror Universe version of NX-01 Enterprise . This ship is equipped with a cloaking device, deflector shields, a tractor beam, a prototype agony booth, and different exterior markings. It is commanded by Captain Maximilian Forrest, although for a brief time his first officer, Commander Jonathan Archer, takes command following a mutiny. This Enterprise is destroyed by
600-419: A combined international effort, thus he invented the combined designation NCC. The 1701 had two functions, it represented the first (01) ship of a 17th federation cruiser design, and that the digits were unlikely to be misread, unlike 6, 8, or 9. In Gene Roddenberry's original Star Trek pitch, the starship is described as a "United Space Ship", and in two episodes of The Original Series (TOS), Kirk refers to
700-401: A conference room adjacent to the bridge, and an open bridge design formed. Probert designed a transporter to be near the bridge, but Roddenberry preferred that it be further away so characters could have conversations on their way to the transporter room. Knowing the bridge would need to match up with the exterior design, Probert pinned up a "what if?" painting he'd made shortly after finalizing
800-615: A flashback to Captain Pike's command in the episode " The Menagerie " (1966), the ship's bridge featured a transparent dome ceiling that was absent for the rest of the Original Series. A significantly redesigned version of Captain Pike's Enterprise appears in Star Trek: Discovery ' s second season , set several years after the events of "The Cage". The new design for the Enterprise , which more closely matches
900-578: A four-foot (1.2 m) miniature for the third season that was more detailed than the first two. Production designer Herman Zimmerman had more freedom for Star Trek Generations (1994) than he had on previous Star Trek films. Producers wanted to ensure Generations stayed true to the television series while also taking advantage of the film production's scope and budget. Interiors were relit and received several cosmetic changes, such as redesigned consoles, metallic accents, and replacing backlit displays with monitors. Some changes, like enhanced detailing and
1000-543: A magazine every six weeks instead of quarterly. O'Quinn was the magazine's editor. One of the magazine's milestones was its 100th issue, published in November 1985. It featured the 100 most important people in science fiction as determined by the editors. This included exclusive interviews with John Carpenter , Peter Cushing , George Lucas , Harlan Ellison , Leonard Nimoy , and Gene Roddenberry . In 1985 and 1986, Starlog teamed with Creation Entertainment to produce
1100-424: A magazine that would cover science fiction films and television programs. (O'Quinn and Norman Jacobs had gotten their start in creating and publishing a soap opera magazine.) O'Quinn came up with the idea of publishing a one-time-only magazine on the Star Trek phenomenon. Houston's editorial assistant, Kirsten Russell, suggested that they include an episode guide to all three seasons of the show, interviews with
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#17327823999951200-509: A new Star Trek series in October 1986. Because the Enterprise had been "just as important to [the original Star Trek ] as Kirk , Spock , and McCoy ," the new ship was critical. Whereas Captain Kirk led a five-year mission, the new crew would be outfitted for a mission of at least 10 years. To sustain such a journey, the new vessel would be twice as long, eight times the volume, and include
1300-411: A redesigned bridge ceiling, were necessitated by the film cameras' higher resolution. The increased budget allowed for the creation of sophisticated new sets, such as the stellar cartography lab. John Knoll led ILM's visual effects for the film, including an all-CGI warp jump effect for the Enterprise . ILM rewired and updated its six-foot Enterprise model for the saucer separation sequence. ILM made
1400-577: A second "C" because he thought it looked better. The Franz Joseph Blueprints , the book The Making of Star Trek , and a handful of Star Trek novels speculate that NCC is an initialism for "Naval Construction Contract". In an interview with the BBC, Jefferies explained that NC is the designation for U.S. civil aircraft and civil aircraft in the Soviet Union used the designation CCCC. He concluded that any major future space projects would likely be
1500-1035: A series of conventions called the Starlog SF, Horror & Fantasy Festival. The first show was held March 30–31, 1985, at the Boston Sheraton in Boston. Others were held June 15–16, 1985, at the Center Hotel, Philadelphia, and May 10–11, 1986, at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City. The magazine's 200th issue repeated the format of the 100th issue, but this time interviewed such notable artists as Arthur C. Clarke , Tim Burton , William Gibson , Gale Anne Hurd , and Terry Gilliam . The last issue of Starlog, issue 374, published in April 2009 features more modern science fiction media including
1600-787: A series of illustrations depicting ships named Enterprise . It also appears as a model in Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), together with models of the Wright Flyer , a V-2 rocket , a Bell X-1 , a Vostok-3KA capsule, a Space Shuttle orbiter , and some Star Trek universe starships. A painting of this ship hangs on the wall of Earth's 602 Club in flashbacks that appeared in the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " First Flight " (2003). Non-canon sources give more details: The 1979 Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology describes this "first interstellar liner" as
1700-483: A sister site to Fangoria magazine's official site, with a new web address tied to Fangoria . Simultaneously, production was halted on issue #375, scheduled for May 2009. New content began to appear on the Starlog website on April 7, 2009, after the site briefly returned to its original Starlog.com domain. The folding of the print edition was officially announced on April 8, 2009, with the unpublished issue promised in
1800-403: A two-foot (0.61 m) model and a six-foot (1.8 m) model that separated into the saucer and engineering sections. The models were made of fiberglass and cast resin over aluminum frames, and neon lights and incandescents provided the models' interior lighting. ILM created several stock footage shots and effects, including the Enterprise 's jump to warp. The warp jump was featured in
1900-524: A warehouse operated by Kable News, in Oregon, Illinois , which contained all back issues of Starlog and Fangoria magazines, was destroyed by fire. As back issues of Starlog are not re-printed, the only remaining back issues are now housed in private collections or those available on the secondary market. Starlog publisher Creative Media, including eight affiliates, filed for bankruptcy in March 2008 in
2000-617: Is a large auxiliary starship built into the design of several Federation starship designs including the Galaxy -class and Sovereign -class. It was docked to the underside of the saucer section. On USS Enterprise -E, the name of the captain's yacht is the Cousteau . In 2375, the crew of USS Enterprise -E used the Cousteau to travel to the surface of the Ba'ku homeworld, in the film Star Trek: Insurrection . Designer Andrew Probert came up with
2100-466: Is in the Next Generation episode " Yesterday's Enterprise " (1990). It was destroyed attempting to defend the Klingon outpost Narendra III from Romulan attack. Survivors included Tasha Yar ( Denise Crosby ), whose alternate timeline version from "Yesterday's Enterprise" travels with the ship back in time to the battle over Narendra III. The actions of the Enterprise -C's crew became a catalyst for
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#17327823999952200-499: Is returned to the Fleet Museum the following year. Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E) Class: Sovereign Service: 2372–2384 (12 years) Captains: Jean-Luc Picard (Patrick Stewart) The main setting for the films Star Trek: First Contact (1996), Star Trek: Insurrection (1998), and Star Trek: Nemesis (2002). She also appeared in the season 1 finale of Star Trek: Prodigy (2022), set in
2300-577: Is shown during its construction phase at the Riverside Shipyard in Iowa during the first film. A brief shot of the NCC-1701 is seen as the shuttlecraft carrying Kirk and the new recruits into space departs the shipyard later on in the movie. At the end of Star Trek Into Darkness , Enterprise started its five-year mission. The ship was later destroyed by Krall and his alien swarm attack during
2400-684: Is similar to that of the USS Excelsior , which first appeared in the 1984 film Star Trek III: The Search For Spock. Differences between the Enterprise -B and the Excelsior include: flarings on the outside of the secondary hull, additional and larger impulse engines, and slight differences between the nacelles as well as the bridge modules. Non-canon information concerning the Enterprise -B includes several licensed Star Trek novels in which Demora Sulu, daughter of Hikaru Sulu, followed Harriman as captain. There are also licensed guides, such as
2500-504: Is the main setting of the original Star Trek series (1966–1969) and Star Trek: The Animated Series (1973–74). Having undergone an extensive rebuilding and refitting, Enterprise then appears in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979), Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan (1982), and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984) in which the starship is destroyed by its crew to escape capture. Depictions of
2600-801: The Star Trek science fiction franchise. The most notable were Captain James T. Kirk 's USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) from the original 1960s television series , and Captain Jean-Luc Picard 's USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) from Star Trek: The Next Generation . Two spacecraft with the name Enterprise predate the United Federation of Planets in Star Trek ' s fictional timeline. Registry: USS Enterprise (XCV 330) Class: Declaration Service: circa 2130s Captain: Unknown This USS Enterprise (XCV 330) appears in Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979) among
2700-599: The Blu-ray (BD) version of the movie gives the length as 2,379 feet (725 m), which would be larger than the Next Generation D and E versions, making it the largest USS Enterprise in the franchise history (not counting the pre-Federation era Enterprise (XCV 330) , seen only as a model). This would result in a height of 167m, and a beam of 339m. Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A) Class: Constitution Service: 2263–ongoing Captains: James T. Kirk (Chris Pine) Enterprise -A first appears at
2800-407: The Enterprise ' s replacement, an identical starship given the name Enterprise and registry number NCC-1701-A. Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-A) Class: Constitution II Service: 2286–2293 (7 years) Captains: James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ) This ship first appears at the conclusion of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986) and is the main setting in
2900-413: The Enterprise made occasional appearances in later Star Trek series, before being reintroduced as the main setting of the prequel Star Trek: Strange New Worlds , portraying the ship's missions in the decade prior to The Original Series . Details of the ship's appearance differed in the various series and films in which it appears. In the 1965 pilot episode " The Cage ", whose footage was reused for
3000-416: The Enterprise redesign for 1979's Star Trek: The Motion Picture as a referent. Unbeknownst to Probert, story editor David Gerrold took the image to a producers meeting. The producers liked the design and directed Probert to make it the basis for the new vessel. The sleeker lines and rounded contours that informed the interior design also influenced the exterior. The ship's many windows are meant to allow
3100-442: The Enterprise that had appeared in the Star Trek franchise. By contrast, in 2019, SyFy ranked the refit design of the Enterprise (NCC-1701 and NCC-1701-A) as the franchise's best, ranking the original design as only the fourth best version of the starship. Time described each iteration of the Enterprise as "a character in its own right". Over many decades, the starship has influenced real-life activities of NASA and
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3200-751: The Haynes Enterprise Manual , in which a list of the ship's captains includes Demora Sulu, William George, and Thomas Johnson Jr. Three ships named Enterprise are featured in Star Trek: The Next Generation television series and four TNG -era films. Two additional Enterprise ships appear in the third season of Star Trek: Picard , in which TNG ' s command crew are reunited. Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-C) Class: Ambassador Service: 2332 –2344 (12 years) Captains: Rachel Garrett ( Tricia O'Neil ) This ship's first and only appearance
3300-576: The Starship Enterprise in science fiction TV series and movies, beginning with Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The Next Generation , inspired the Alexa virtual assistant . Starship Enterprise Enterprise or USS Enterprise , often referred to as the Starship Enterprise , is the name of several fictional spacecraft , some of which are the main craft and setting for various television series and films in
3400-489: The Tholians . Registry: ISS Enterprise (NCC-1701) Class: Constitution Service: 2260s Captains: Christopher Pike, James T. Kirk (William Shatner), Spock (Leonard Nimoy) A Mirror Universe Enterprise appears in the original Star Trek episode " Mirror, Mirror ". The ship is equipped with an agony booth and the mirror in the captain's quarters conceals Captain Kirk's deadly Tantalus device. ISS Enterprise
3500-457: The U.S. Navy : Celebrity astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson has spoken highly of the influence and legacy of the original Enterprise on other fictional spaceships. Drawing a parallel to comparing athletes between eras, he said of spaceship design, "What matters is not what they look like now, but what they looked to others at the time that they prevailed... There is only one spaceship that's earlier than [the original Enterprise ], and that's
3600-457: The United Federation of Planets , it is on a mission "to boldly go where no one has gone before." The crew explores the galaxy and makes first contact with several new species, including the Q Continuum and the Borg . A pair of two-part episodes depict a shift in command—to William Riker in " The Best of Both Worlds " and Edward Jellico in " Chain of Command "—but leadership reverts to Picard at
3700-728: The United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York , intending to reorganize. By April 2008, it was confirmed that Creative Media was unable to reorganize, and announced that its operations would be sold. and, in June 2008, sold its assets to a group led by private equity firm Scorpion Capital Partners LP. Starlog and Fangoria and all related assets were purchased by The Brooklyn Company, Inc. in July 2008. In March 2009, Starlog became
3800-425: The massively multiplayer online role-playing game Star Trek Online . Its design is based on the entry submitted by Adam Ihle for the 2011 "Design the next Enterprise " contest, a joint venture between Cryptic Studios, CBS, and Intel, which ran shortly before the game went "free to play". Enterprise -F made its first appearance in the mission "Boldly They Rode", at the point where USS Enterprise -F appears to help
3900-529: The new USS Enterprise , with registry NCC-1701- A , at the conclusion of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (1986). A February 1987 revision to the Next Generation writers' manual specified the show's Enterprise as the NCC-1701-D , carrying a crew of 907 and their families; by March, the crew complement was 1,012 and specified the show occurring 78 years after the original Star Trek . Artists Andrew Probert, Rick Sternbach , and Michael Okuda were among
4000-483: The "United Space Ship Enterprise ". In 1976, before Star Trek: The Motion Picture , Paramount had planned a Star Trek film to have been named Star Trek: Planet of the Titans . Early in the production, Ralph McQuarrie had been hired to redesign the Enterprise . The major feature of the redesign was to replace the cigar-shaped secondary hull with a larger, triangle-shaped " delta wing " section. McQuarrie's design
4100-524: The 1970s through the early 1990s. Not only did the magazine cover media, the way it was created, and by whom, but they also attended conventions such as the "Ultimate Fantasy" convention in Houston, Texas in 1982 (which was a legendary flop) and kept fans updated on the current events in their respective sci-fi fandoms. Starlog itself followed the marketing strategy of labeling it "the most popular science fiction magazine in publishing history", which allowed
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4200-408: The 24th century, beginning 78 years after the adventures in the original Star Trek (1966–1969). Andrew Probert 's Enterprise -D updates Matt Jefferies ' iconic 1960s Enterprise design , depicting a ship supporting a larger crew on a longer mission "to boldly go where no one has gone before ." Paramount Television Group and Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry announced the development of
4300-805: The 26th century. In this timeline, Enterprise -J participated in the Battle of Procyon V, a climactic battle in which the Federation successfully drove the invasive trans-dimensional beings known as the Sphere Builders back into their own realm. The ship's crew included a descendant of the Xindi scientist Degra . Registry: UEF Enterprise Class: Constitution Service: circa 2259 Captain: James T. Kirk (Paul Wesley) The "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow" episode of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds introduces an alternate timeline where Earth
4400-474: The 32nd century, as mentioned in the Star Trek: Discovery episode " Stormy Weather ", a starship Enterprise noted heated plasma while closing on a subspace rift. No further detail about this ship was provided. Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) Class: Galaxy refit Service: circa 2395 Captain: Full Admiral William T. Riker ( Jonathan Frakes ) In " All Good Things... ",
4500-749: The ISS Enterprise returns in the episode "Mirrors" where it is found stuck in interdimensional space, having been used by refugees fleeing the mirror universe (after the death of the Terran High Chancellor) who subsequently abandoned ship when it got stuck. The Enterprise is freed by the USS Discovery and sent to Federation Headquarters for storage. The crew of the Discovery learns from Federation databases that most of this Enterprise crew had survived and found new lives in
4600-593: The Starfleet Museum. io9 ranked the Enterprise -D as the fifth best version of the franchise's Enterprise s, with Popular Mechanics calling it the third best and SyFy ranking it the second best. Space.com said the Enterprise 's brief appearance is the highlight of the opening scene of Star Trek: Picard 's first episode (2020). Vulture described the Enterprise 's return in Picard 's third season as "perfect", and Collider compared
4700-459: The aeroshuttle and the waverider, respectively. As on the Enterprise -D, however, these vessels were only depicted on technical schematics and never seen in operation or referred to in dialog. Gizmodo 's Io9 blog ranked the original design of the USS ; Enterprise (NCC-1701) as the best version of the Enterprise , characterizing the original as still superior to 11 later versions of
4800-466: The aesthetic of Discovery , debuted in 2018 at the conclusion of the season 1 finale , and would go on to become the main setting of the series Strange New Worlds . When the Enterprise was reintroduced in the 1979 film Star Trek: The Motion Picture , the ship had just completed an extensive refit and redesign that included new slimmer warp nacelles, connected to the secondary hull by angled winglike struts. The updated design would be reused later for
4900-494: The alliance between the Federation and the Klingon Empire. Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) Class: Galaxy Service: 2363–2371 and 2401–2402 (9 years) Captains: Jean-Luc Picard ( Patrick Stewart ), William T. Riker ( Jonathan Frakes ), Edward Jellico ( Ronny Cox ) The main setting of Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987–1994). During Star Trek Generations , Enterprise -D
5000-519: The bridge set took three months and involved approximately 50 people. The large wooden arch in the middle of the bridge was the most difficult part of the build, but remaking the chairs and recreating the carpet was also challenging. Changes in cameras and cinematography required a new approach to lighting the set. The Enterprise is itself a protagonist in The Next Generation . Each episode's opening voiceover, which states that "these are
5100-420: The cast, and previously unpublished photographs. During this brainstorming session, many questions were raised, most notably legal issues. Houston contacted Star Trek creator Gene Roddenberry with the intention of interviewing him for the magazine. Once they got his approval, O'Quinn and Jacobs proceeded to put together the magazine, but Paramount Studios , which owned Star Trek , wanted a minimum royalty that
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#17327823999955200-531: The concept of the captain's yacht while designing the USS Enterprise -D . Although it was never seen in use, it is labeled on the master systems display screen in main engineering, docked at the bottom of the saucer section almost directly opposite the main bridge. Probert suggested possible ways for the yacht to be used during the first season, including not showing the yacht but mentioning it in dialogue, but his ideas were rejected. The producers almost used
5300-612: The creators to home in on their fanboy market and use that advertisement strategy to their advantage. In later years many of its long-time contributors had moved on. In April 2009, Starlog officially ended its time in print, moving 33 years of material (374 issues) into the Internet Archive . All of the files had been removed from the Internet Archive by no later than 2022. In the mid-1970s, Kerry O'Quinn and his high school friend David Houston talked about creating
5400-405: The crew to be in touch with their environment. The new Enterprise retains the hallmarks of Matt Jefferies' design for the original Enterprise : a saucer section, engineering section, and a pair of engine nacelles. Probert did this in part to assuage skeptical fans who were concerned about the original Enterprise being "replaced". The design instead shifted placement and proportion: for example,
5500-415: The crew's families. Roddenberry also wanted the ship to depict an improved quality of life for its crew: it would be brighter, less militaristic, and have sleeker and more refined interfaces than the original Enterprise . He wanted the Enterprise to convey a harmony between science and quality of life. The Enterprise ' s registry was originally NCC-1701-7 . The 7 became a G to be consistent with
5600-409: The crew's reunion on the bridge set to "a fever dream." In October 2006, the six-foot Enterprise model was auctioned at Christie's , along with other models, props, costumes, and set pieces from the Star Trek franchise. Its projected value was $ 25,000 to $ 35,000, but the final sale price was $ 576,000—the most expensive item in the auction. The computer voice and conversational system on board
5700-480: The design's growth in size during early production of the film: "Once we got the ship built and started putting it in environments it felt too small. The shuttle bay gave us a clear relative scale – shuttlecraft initially appeared much bigger than we had imagined – so we bumped up the Enterprise scale, which gave her a grander feel and allowed us to include more detail." A special feature on starships in
5800-400: The earliest Next Generation hires, and they had worked on Star Trek films. Probert, a concept artist, focused first on the bridge because that would be a frequent filming location. Roddenberry envisioned the bridge as having a forward viewscreen four times larger than in Star Trek , and for there to be a conference table on the bridge. As production design continued, the table was shifted to
5900-503: The end of Star Trek Beyond after the destruction of the original Enterprise when the crew resume their five-year mission. Sean Hargreaves stated that he was given the brief to "beef up the neck and arms" on the Ryan Church design, but went further to give the ship echoes of Matt Jefferies' original design. According to The Star Trek Encyclopedia , the registry number NCC-1701 was devised by Matt Jefferies , art director of
6000-606: The end of both arcs. In 2371, as depicted in Star Trek Generations , the Duras sisters attack and heavily damage the Enterprise . A warp drive coolant leak causes an explosion that destroys the stardrive section. The saucer section crash lands on the surface of Veridian III. The final two episodes of Star Trek: Picard 's third season (2023) reveal that the saucer section was later recovered from Veridian III, after which Geordi La Forge spent twenty years restoring
6100-460: The events of Star Trek Beyond . Measurements of this ship's length have ranged from 295 meters to 910 meters. In an article about the 2009 film's visual effects, Cinefex wrote, "The reconfigured ship was a larger vessel than previous manifestations – approximately 1,200 feet (370 m) long compared to the 947 foot (289 m) ship of the original series", and quoted Industrial Light & Magic art director Alex Jaeger discussing
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#17327823999956200-514: The final Enterprise episode " These Are the Voyages... ". It appears in a dream sequence in the pilot of Star Trek: Picard , and after its saucer section was retrieved and placed in the Fleet Museum, it is revealed to have been reconstructed in full by Geordi La Forge as a working ship in the penultimate episode, set in 2401. In the final episode, Enterprise -D engages the Borg one last time and
6300-412: The final episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation , Enterprise -D was shown in an alternate future where it had not crashed during the events of Star Trek Generations , and instead had been made Admiral William T. Riker's personal flagship. A third warp nacelle allowed the ship to reach at least Warp 13, and the Enterprise -D had also been equipped with a spinal phaser lance, large phaser cannons on
6400-465: The first Star Trek series, inspired by an old science fiction cover that Gene Roddenberry liked, with a starship flying through space. Jefferies, who was a pilot, based NCC on United States aircraft pre-1949 registration codes . In such pre-1949 usage, an "N" first letter refers to an aircraft registered in the United States. A "C" for a second letter refers to a civil aircraft. Jefferies added
6500-430: The first season, the observation lounge's windows were covered with carpet to become the sickbay; a new lounge set was created for the second season. A multipurpose set that served as the cargo bay, shuttlecraft bay, holodeck , and gymnasium was built from scratch. While the bridge "seems immense," the set had the same 38-foot (12 m) width as the original series bridge and was 2 feet (0.61 m) longer. A lounge set
6600-446: The first-season conference room starship models, had been saved and were reused for the flashback scenes. Sets for the future scenes reused props from other episodes that posit the Enterprise ' s appearance further in the future. Producers were aware that audiences had grown accustomed to the cinematic quality of models and effects in the franchise's films. They considered using only CGI models and effects, but anxiety about whether
6700-508: The flying saucer from The Day the Earth Stood Still . So, what matters here is, what did [the Enterprise ] look like at the time it came out (1966) compared with anything that had been imagined before? And when you consider that, that is the most astonishing machine that has ever graced the screen." On the ship's influence upon scientists, Tyson wrote, "The Enterprise was the first ever spaceship represented in storytelling that
6800-658: The founding of several proto-Federation alliances. Enterprise had significant engagements with the Klingons , Suliban , Xindi and the Romulans and played a central role in the "Temporal Cold War". It is also featured as a model in Star Trek Into Darkness . As of 2401, an NX class which is heavily modified, is displayed at the Starfleet Museum above Athan Prime, in season 3 of Star Trek: Picard (2023). Three ships named USS Enterprise are featured in
6900-591: The mid-2380s. As a Sovereign -class vessel, it was the most advanced vessel in Starfleet , and an active participant in the Battle of Sector 001 and the Dominion War . Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-F) Class: Odyssey Service: 2386–2401 (15 years) Commanding officer: Fleet Admiral Elizabeth Shelby ( Elizabeth Dennehy ) This ship appeared in season 3 of Star Trek: Picard (2023). In
7000-440: The near future as a web-only publication. but no such publication ever appeared. By the end of 2009, readers could only access back copies through the Internet Archive ; while this worked until at least 2016, the Internet Archive removed the data from its service by no later than 2022, replacing previous links with the statement "This item is no longer available." In April 2014, Fangoria announced that Starlog would return in
7100-535: The original Star Trek television series and the first through seventh Star Trek films. Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) Class: Constitution I, later refit as Constitution II Service: 2245–2285 (40 years) Captains: Robert April ( James Doohan [voice], Adrian Holmes ), Christopher Pike ( Jeffrey Hunter , Sean Kenney , Anson Mount ), James T. Kirk ( William Shatner ), Willard Decker ( Stephen Collins ), Spock ( Leonard Nimoy ). The Federation 's first Enterprise
7200-769: The original series as an alternate reality where the militaristic Terran Empire exists in place of the regular universe's United Federation of Planets (" Mirror, Mirror "). A montage in the opening credits of the Star Trek: Enterprise episode " In a Mirror, Darkly " shows the Terran Empire logo in use by at least World War II, with licensed novels putting the divergence before Shakespeare, or even classic Greek literature. Registry: ISS Enterprise (NX-01) Class: NX Service: 2150s Captains: Maximilian Forrest ( Vaughn Armstrong ), Jonathan Archer (Scott Bakula) The Star Trek: Enterprise episode " In
7300-621: The player defeat the Dominion fleet surrounding Deep Space Nine. In 2018, the in-game appearance of the ship was changed to that of a "Yorktown Class" vessel, after the ship was damaged and refit as part of the game's story. The original, Odyssey class version of the ship would later appear in Season 3 of Star Trek: Picard in February 2023, making the Enterprise -F part of the official Star Trek canon. The Mirror Universe first appeared in
7400-564: The prime universe. The 2009 Star Trek film takes place in a new reality created when the Romulan Nero traveled through time via an artificial black hole created by red matter . Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) Service: 2258–2263 (5 years) Captains: Christopher Pike ( Bruce Greenwood ), James T. Kirk ( Chris Pine ) The main setting for the films Star Trek (2009), Star Trek Into Darkness (2013), and Star Trek Beyond (2016). Enterprise
7500-462: The saucer section was enlarged and the warp nacelles shifted lower. Slanting the nacelle support pylons forward conveyed a sense of intense forward movement. The July 1987 issue of Starlog included the first public depictions of the ship. Probert's design did not originally include the ability for the saucer and engineering sections to separate, and producers rejected his initial concepts for incorporating it. Probert said his biggest design challenge
7600-403: The saucer section, and cloaking ability, making it one of the most powerful starships seen in the Star Trek franchise. Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-J) Class: Universe Service: 26th century The " Azati Prime " episode of Star Trek: Enterprise involves time travel and features a scene in which Enterprise -J appears. Enterprise -J operates in a possible timeline during
7700-529: The ship as "the very first starship U.S.S. Enterprise ". Registry: Enterprise (NX-01) Class: NX Service: 2151–2161 (10 years) Captain: Jonathan Archer ( Scott Bakula ) United Earth Starfleet's Enterprise is the main setting of Star Trek: Enterprise (2001–2005). Enterprise was the first Earth-built starship capable of reaching Warp 5 . The ship was commanded by Captain Jonathan Archer and played an instrumental role in
7800-659: The ship was mothballed at the Memory Alpha ship museum, and the Shatnerverse novel The Ashes of Eden (1996), which depicted Enterprise -A's removal from the mothball fleet before being destroyed defending the planet Chal. Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-B) Class: Excelsior -class refit Service: 2293–2329 (36 years) Captains: John Harriman ( Alan Ruck ), Demora Sulu (portrayed in Generations by Jacqueline Kim ) The Enterprise -B
7900-498: The show's opening sequence, but most of the other shots were too static and "didn't pan out." New Enterprise shots were created as necessary for each episode, and effects supervisor Robert Legato had over 350 such shots in his library by the seventh season. Legato disliked filming the six-foot model: its size made it hard to shoot for long shots , and its lack of surface details—some of which were drawn with pencil—made it difficult to use in close-ups . Jein supervised construction of
8000-399: The subsequent Star Trek movies which use the original crew. The ship is ordered " decommissioned " at the end of Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991). As of 2401, it resides at the Starfleet Museum above Athan Prime, appearing in season 3 of Star Trek: Picard (2023). Non-canon information concerning this ship includes paperwork included with the model kit, which indicated
8100-569: The television show Fringe , the American movie Push , and the animated stop-motion film Coraline . After the entire magazine industry took a serious tumble in 2001, Starlog Group was eventually purchased by Creative Group, Inc., which continued to publish Starlog and Fangoria , and expanded its franchises into the Internet, satellite radio , TV, and video. Starlog published its 30th-anniversary issue in 2006. On December 5, 2007,
8200-441: The vendor could consistently deliver high-quality work led to that idea's rejection. The producers turned to Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), who had worked on the Star Trek films, for the " Encounter at Farpoint " pilot. In March 1987, an ILM team led by Greg Jein and Ease Owyeung began building filming miniatures based on Probert's designs. They created two models for US$ 75,000 (equivalent to about $ 201,000 in 2023):
8300-433: The vessel as part of his role as curator of the Starfleet Museum. La Forge used parts from another Galaxy -class ship to rebuild the Enterprise . The older Enterprise is the only vessel not tied to Starfleet's Borg-compromised mainframe, and Picard and his crew use the ship to defeat the Borg threatening Earth, ending the Borg threat once and for all. The series finale shows the fully-restored Enterprise has become part of
8400-419: The voyages of the starship Enterprise ," frames the narrative as belonging to the ship rather than the crew. Jonathan Frakes , who played first officer William Riker, said, "When we negotiate our contracts, Paramount's company line is that the ship is in fact the star of the show!" Starfleet commissions the Galaxy -class USS Enterprise in 2363 under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard . The flagship of
8500-465: The work that went into these creations. The magazine examined the form of science fiction and used interviews and features with artists and writers as its foundation. Science fiction fans, such as those who follow the television channel Syfy , have voiced that Starlog is the science fiction magazine most responsible for cultivating and exhibiting fan culture in America during the magazine's heyday in
8600-668: The yacht in the episode " Samaritan Snare ", but decided to use an "executive shuttlecraft" due to budgetary constraints. According to Patrick Stewart, the yacht would have been called the Calypso . Producer Ronald D. Moore noted in the Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual that real-life naval tradition would insist on calling such a craft the captain's gig , rather than the captain's yacht. Rick Sternbach later designed similar craft for USS Voyager and USS Equinox , known as
8700-585: The year 2401, the ship was originally designated as the USS Titan (NCC-80102-A) under the command of Captain Liam Shaw. By 2402, the Titan -A was renamed and rechristened as the Enterprise -G, in honor of the crew of the USS Enterprise -D, for their contributions in battle against the Borg, with Seven of Nine taking over as captain. Registry: USS Enterprise Service: circa 3190 In
8800-612: The year 2401, the ship was set to be decommissioned following the Frontier Day festival. The ship first appeared in the non-canon video game, Star Trek Online , and was designed by artist and graphics designer Adam Ihle as part of a fan competition. Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-G) Class: Constitution III Service: 2396–2401 (as USS Titan ), 2402– (as USS Enterprise ) Captains: Liam Shaw ( Todd Stashwick ), Seven of Nine ( Jeri Ryan ) The Enterprise -G appeared in season 3 of Star Trek: Picard (2023). In
8900-520: Was an American monthly science fiction magazine that was created in 1976 and focused primarily on Star Trek at its inception. Kerry O'Quinn and Norman Jacobs were its creators and it was published by Starlog Group, Inc. in August 1976. Starlog was one of the first publications to report on the development of the first Star Wars movie, and it followed the development of what was to eventually become Star Trek: The Motion Picture (1979). Starlog
9000-613: Was attacked by Romulans, and the United Federation of Planets subsequently never formed. The UEF Enterprise (United Earth Ship Enterprise ) was constructed at the Luna Shipyards on Luna as part of the United Earth Fleet. Registry: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-F) Class: Odyssey ( Yorktown refit) Service: 2409– Captain: Va'Kel Shon One version of USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-F) appears in
9100-459: Was born out of the Star Trek fandom craze, but also was inspired by the success of the magazine Cinefantastique which was the model of Star Trek and Star Wars coverage. Starlog , though it called itself a science fiction magazine, actually contained no fiction. The primary focus of the magazine, besides the fact that it was mostly based on Star Trek fandom, was the making of science fiction media — books, films, and television series - and
9200-587: Was chosen. ( Fantastic Films was later used as the title of a competing science fiction magazine published by Blake Publishing.) The first issue of Starlog , scheduled as a quarterly, was dated August 1976. While the cover featured Captain Kirk , Spock , and the Enterprise , and the issue contained a "Special Collector's Section" on Star Trek , other science fiction topics were also discussed, such as The Bionic Woman and Space: 1999 . The issue sold out, and this encouraged O'Quinn and Jacobs to publish
9300-447: Was created in unused soundstage space after the first season: producers realized their existing sets were workspaces, and they wanted an area to depict the crew at rest. The production crew did everything possible "within reason" both to recreate first-season sets and to imagine futuristic upgrades for the series finale, " All Good Things... " (1994), which presents the ship in three different time periods. Some props and details, such as
9400-493: Was creating a ship that looked as good in two pieces as it did in one piece. He had meant to add landing gear to the saucer's underside as he had with the film franchise Enterprise , but he got "distracted" and never added them. In October 1986, producers began planning the show's sets, including efforts to reuse props and materials from the film franchise. The films' engineering, sickbay , corridor, crew quarters, and bridge were redressed for The Next Generation . To save money in
9500-459: Was discarded in favor of keeping the general shape of the Enterprise intact for the redesign unveiled in Star Trek: The Motion Picture . Three decades later, the McQuarrie design for the Enterprise was adopted as the basis for the design of the USS Discovery in Star Trek: Discovery , a 2017 series that takes place ten years earlier than the original Star Trek . The captain's yacht
9600-452: Was greater than the startup's projected net receipts, and the project was shelved. O'Quinn realized they could create a magazine that featured only Star Trek content, but without its being the focus, and thereby circumvent the royalties issue. He also realized this could be the science fiction magazine he and Houston had talked about. Many titles for the new magazine were suggested, including Fantastic Films and Starflight , before Starlog
9700-467: Was launched at the beginning of the film Star Trek Generations (1994). During the ship's maiden voyage, prior to it being properly fitted with essential systems, the crew encountered an energy ribbon known as the Nexus, through which James T. Kirk – captain of the two former Enterprise starships, NCC-1701 and NCC-1701-A – was officially declared missing and presumed dead. The design of the Enterprise -B
9800-416: Was lost in 2371 after an attack by the Duras sisters ' renegade Klingon Bird-of-Prey which caused extensive damage, leading to a warp core breach. Although the saucer section was safely separated before the breach, the shock wave from the exploding engineering hull threw it out of control, and caused it to crash-land on Veridian III. The ship also appears in the first Deep Space Nine episode " Emissary " and
9900-506: Was not designed to go from one place to another; [it was] only designed to explore. It was revolutionary in terms of what we would think space would, and should, be about." NetDragon Websoft , a gaming and mobile Internet company in Fuzhou , China, based the architectural design of its headquarters building on the Next Generation -era Enterprise (primarily the Enterprise -E), under an official license from CBS. Starlog Starlog
10000-468: Was originally the same shooting model as the regular Enterprise . The remastered version of "Mirror, Mirror" includes a CGI version of Enterprise with "ISS" markings on the hull and minor physical differences from USS Enterprise , such as a larger deflector dish, a taller bridge, and altered nacelle details. The ship was also shown orbiting the planet in the opposite direction (clockwise instead of counter-clockwise). In Star Trek: Discovery season 5 ,
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