Hemmer might have known but died before he had the chance to tell anyone else, so Pellia may not have known, either.
Spoilers Strange New Worlds Episode 7 - Those Old Scientists
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Might be a construction tradition and not normally shared with the crew who takes the ship out.
Star Trek has always used the more civilian definition of Flagship. The best/most advanced/prestigious in the entire Starfleet. its often the Enterprise but not always.
Another big swing home run. I get that everyone won't love it, but I certainly did.
Changing the credits. The koala. Boimler doing the "Riker" on the saddle. Brilliant! And the Enterprise love from the SNW cast geeking in Mayweather, Hoshi, & grapplers was awesome.
Dare I dream of an Enterprise/SNW crossover? T'Pol could still be alive. Tripp is frozen.
Mariner & Boimler telling Una about "Ad Astra per Aspera" & her being on the recruiting poster & the reason he joined Starfleet hit me in the feels. As did Chapel's reaction to Boimler worrying about changing Spock.
Just wonderful.
The people who still rant about Boimler & Mariner not being "proper" Starfleet just amaze me. I mean, feel free to not like it, but that's the show. You gotta stop being surprised at some point. It would be disengenuous to have them be otherwise at this point.
Changing the credits. The koala. Boimler doing the "Riker" on the saddle. Brilliant! And the Enterprise love from the SNW cast geeking in Mayweather, Hoshi, & grapplers was awesome.
Dare I dream of an Enterprise/SNW crossover? T'Pol could still be alive. Tripp is frozen.
Mariner & Boimler telling Una about "Ad Astra per Aspera" & her being on the recruiting poster & the reason he joined Starfleet hit me in the feels. As did Chapel's reaction to Boimler worrying about changing Spock.
Just wonderful.
The people who still rant about Boimler & Mariner not being "proper" Starfleet just amaze me. I mean, feel free to not like it, but that's the show. You gotta stop being surprised at some point. It would be disengenuous to have them be otherwise at this point.
Like the construction folks signing their names on the inner walls of navy ships.
Or like several metal beams from the CVN-65 ENTERPRISE now being used in the construction of the new CVN-80 ENTERPRISE.
Or the anchor from CVN-65 now being used on the USS George Washington CVN-73.
When I was young, I didn't know there WAS a flagship.I always assumed the TOS Enterprise was the flagship when I was young so little or none of this has bothered me.
One thing I oike about SNW is the more episodic episodes permit tonal variance more easily. Comedy. Horror. Action. Character building. Plot.
The serialized stuff gets locked into a tone for the season andxahifts are harder to do & more jarring.
Having said that, I think Picard3 and Disco4 both bounced back nicely from wobbles the previous years. LD has been very good since mid S1. And SNW is killing it.
Too bad deplatforming the wonderful Prodigy is the 4th great stain on Trek. But at least it is off screen, and can hopefully still be fixed.
The other 3?
1) TOS cancellation. Fixed by movies & wonderful TUC bow.
2) Nemesis TNG ends an era of Trek. Fixed by PIC3 and the Discovery NuTrek rebirth.
3) These are the Voyages Enterprise closer. Still an open wound. If there is a fix, it has to be SNW.
The serialized stuff gets locked into a tone for the season andxahifts are harder to do & more jarring.
Having said that, I think Picard3 and Disco4 both bounced back nicely from wobbles the previous years. LD has been very good since mid S1. And SNW is killing it.
Too bad deplatforming the wonderful Prodigy is the 4th great stain on Trek. But at least it is off screen, and can hopefully still be fixed.
The other 3?
1) TOS cancellation. Fixed by movies & wonderful TUC bow.
2) Nemesis TNG ends an era of Trek. Fixed by PIC3 and the Discovery NuTrek rebirth.
3) These are the Voyages Enterprise closer. Still an open wound. If there is a fix, it has to be SNW.
I am hard pressed to remember any episode of the original 79 where the Enterprise was referred to as a "flagship." It wasn't even referred to as the best of the dozen. It was just one of the fleet. It would be make, if not first contact then first invitations to join the Federation, mostly because those planets were in the sector the Enterprise was assigned to.
It wasn't until TNG that the Enterprise was acting as a flagship.
I'm a middle-aged adult and I don't even know what a "flagship" is.
M'Benga called the Enterprise the flagship back in the first season.
The NX-01 may have been the flagship of the United Earth Starfleet during her ten years of service up until 2161. We don't know because I can't remember that term ever being used, but seeing as she was the only NX-class starship and Warp 5-capable vessel in service for nearly three years I imagine she was in spirit if not in name.
Deep Space Nine and Very Odd Yeet
It's the name of the station where everything happens and it's very odd that a godlike alien yeeted a starship into the Delta Quadrant.
VOY is already a canonical in-universe abbreviation for Voyager. Spoken many times in the episode of Lower Decks with Tom Paris in it.
IRL, a flagship is the vessel used by the Admiral of a particular fleet. It's where they plant their "flag".
For instance, during the Battle of the Binary Stars in DSC, the USS Europa was Admiral Brett Anderson's flagship, as it's where he commanded that fleet in battle against the Klingons.
This is of course assuming Trek treats the term 'flagship' as it should be treated. Which is rarely the case.
It applies to the commanding ship of a group of ships, not only ones with an admiral on it.
The only prime universe productions to call an Enterprise the flagship was TNG and DSC/SNW.
The NX-01 was only called the flagship in the mirror universe. No other (Prime) enterprise has been referred to as a flagship.
Its not like many people on the current crew were around when the ship was commissioned.
Which is why we need a Captain April flashback episode.
Yep, pretty much.
But you go right ahead and continue to float down that River Of The Pharaohs without a paddle.
You're already up to you neck in it's muddy waters.