Likely not, but that’s the pre-production blueskying phase for you.
Instead of the Enterprise F or G in the...less than savory newer shows, they should have just used the E.
To me, it doesn't make sense to have a ship, then never show use it much. At that point they could have just had the D get a refit instead of making the Enterprise E.I like the 'F'.
My two favorite bridges remain the TOS one — easy visibility, and it’s instantly clear where everyone is — and the TNG one, for simple visual comfort and lack of distraction.
I raise you a refitted Enterprise-A in TNG, and keep with that all the way through.
The way modern Trek treats refits means it could look like anything by the time Picard rolls around
They should have shown the E at Frontier Day instead of the F. That would have provided great closure to the TNG movie era ship, rather than something designed for a video game a decade before that nobody is sentimental for.
I like the 'F'.
There is something seriously wrong with you.
The Enterprise F did nothing except get immediately corrupted by the Borg, not exactly a great send off for the E. Then again basically the same thing happened in Prodigy.
Also there's probably quite a lot of overlap between Star Trek Online players and Picard viewers!
The Enterprise-E went out in a blaze of glory saving Earth from the Borg. Or at least that's how it should have gone down. Instead we got the F destroyed off-screen.
Had the Enterprise E been used in the Picard finale, in addition to providing proper closure to that ship (which, like it or not is still a part of TNG and deserved to be a part of TNG's last ride) they could have also made things poetic. The E has been lost, but here comes the D, rising from the ashes like the proverbial phoenix to avenge the loss of its successor. It could have been something. But alas.
They could've had the E as the hero ship for the whole of season 3 instead of the Titan, then blown it up at the end doing something useful and heroic.
Or even just had it continue on as the hero ship for the "Legacy" teaser, where between the repair work and the damage to the rest of the fleet, it went from being a past-its-prime showhorse in the hands of a martinet caretaker to being renewed and ready for a new mission under Captain Seven and the rest of the beloved[citation needed] new crew from PIC. Plus, there'd be a -D/-E team-up at the end, which has its own nostalgia/coolness factor. I know that for canon-only fans, the -D is overwhelmingly the TNG ship, especially in the DVD and streaming era where you can have all the Trek you can eat, but as someone who followed the novels, plus the occasional comic and video game, the Enterprise-E was the active and incumbent version of the ship for more than twenty years. It's like the Eighth Doctor Who, he's either a blip or the longest-running one, depending on your perspective.
Anyway, while I'd have rather had the -E in place of the Titan-A for any number of reasons, in the show we got, I'm glad the -F is the one went down somewhat ignominously and the -E's final fate, whatever it may be, was left open for another, better story. Possibly several, if it isn't immediately covered in a TV show or movie, giving novels, comics, and video games (never mind fan works) all their own chances at a suitably epic conclusion.
You're wrong about that.
Who is sentimental about it?
Probably because they didn't want to have the -F be new after losing the -E in PIC and the -D going back to the museum. If the story is an origin for an Enterprise, Seven and crew would have been riding the -F the entire show, and it's a monster is size. The -G is a more manageable ship for a show. Thereby leaving the Star Trek Online fans with the -F being canon, just early. It wasn't confirmed destroyed in the battle but was being decommissioned because of serious computer problems and now damage. It is entirely possible Starfleet will work on the ship to get it running again. Give the Enterprise-G an eight year mission, then recommission the -F in 2409 or so to fit with the Star Trek Online cannon, and either retire the -G, or revert her name to the Titan-A (or give her yet another name if the Titan-B is flying around).
I don't need that much convolutedness. If the goal was to make the Titan-A the next Enterprise (which in and of itself is already too convoluted for me), then just make it the Enterprise-F. We didn't need the Enterprise-D, a lame joke and complete lack of information about the fate of the E, some blink-and-you'll-miss-it display about the F's decommissioning just to find out it got destroyed anyway offscreen, and finally the reveal that the Titan-A was the Enterprise-G all along. That's like first-draft material right there.
Which pretty much sums up that entire season.
Based on what has come out from folks on the production side of season 3, the Titan-A was supposed to become the USS Picard at the end, and the bridge's dedication plaque was made as such. The Odyssey-class Enterprise-F wasn't supposed to be there at all, as the E was intended to have been recently decommissioned or destroyed. That ship was supposed to be the USS Sulu, but of a different class than the Odyssey.
Like so many things in season three, these needless changes done in post-production were incredibly under-baked and only helped to muddy the show's "plot" even further. Changing the Picard to the Enterprise-G nullified one of the season's central storylines regarding Picard not needing or wanting a legacy. That's a cardinal sin for any writer, and a move like that only erodes what little respect I had left at the bottom of the barrel for Terry Matalas.
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