The Enterprise will now ne one of the oldest ships in Starfleet

[YARN]

Seeing as how the fleet was obliterated by a mining ship at the planet Vulcan, the Federation is going to have to start building new ships.

The Enterprise will now be one of the oldest ships in the fleet.

 

[Merky]

lol actually, only four or six ships were obliterated by a mining ship.

The other ones were at the Luracwhateverthefuck Plotdevice System. They probably won't bother building new ships.

 

[M'Sharak]

[another animated thread bomb - impressive collection you've got there, really]

lol actually, only four or six ships were obliterated by a mining ship.

The other ones were at the Luracwhateverthefuck Plotdevice System. They probably won't bother building new ships.

Oh, they might build a few (gotta keep the folks at the Riverside shipyard busy, you know) but yeah: a total of seven Starfleet ships destroyed at Vulcan by Narada, with the bulk of the fleet caught well out of position and "engaged" in unspecified activities at a distant location called the Laurentian System. Until there's reason given to think otherwise, I'd figure that either those ships will be ready for duty just as soon as they return from that plot device which kept them out of the first movie, or there'll have to be a new emergency cobbled up to sidetrack them again so that Enterprise can save the day.

 

[Merky]

I actually have about like... over 50 of them. They come in handy on imageboards, tumblr, live blogging, and free for alls on livejournal 8D

I don't even think it was ever established that the Enterprise wasn't the only ship in production, rather it was the flagship. Meaning, it was the most important and/or symbolic of the fleet.

 

[C.E. Evans]

Nah, if the movie takes place not too long after the last one, the Enterprise will still be a young girl in the fleet.

 

[YARN]

lol actually, only four or six ships were obliterated by a mining ship.

The other ones were at the Luracwhateverthefuck Plotdevice System. They probably won't bother building new ships.

You don't build ships unless you need them. That they built those ships in the first place implies that they need them. Since we have no reason to believe that this need was abated at the end of the film (indeed, meeting so powerful an enemy indicates that they need more of then), we must conclude that they will, in all probability, replace them.

We know that the Farragut was destroyed. Whatever the other ships were, they appeared to be of a piece with the Enterprise. They were all shiny and new with the new nacelle design of the Enterprise (and looked nothing like the older Kelvin style design).

Starships are said to be a rather rare commodity. There are only 12 ships like the Enterprise in the TOS. Alien races always make a big noise about Federation starships. That the Enterprise herself is supposed to be a genuine technological accomplishment (the latest and the greatest) and that the sister ships at Vulcan strongly resembled the Enterprise indicates that the ships lost were quite valuable themselves.

Whatever the quantity and quality of the ships tied up in the Laurentian system, the ships lost at Vulcan were more than a few and of more than average value (they were Starships).

New ships will be built and when they are, the Enterprise will find herself relatively aged in her sorority of Starships.

 

[Merky]

We do not know what those ships were for, how old they were, or any other details to come up with solid conclusions as to the state of the Enterprise's status as a new ship as well as the value of those lost. Also, we can not necessarily say that the ships that went off into the battle were of the same generation as the Enterprise. There was a 25 year gap between the Kelvin and the development of the Enterprise -- who knows what changes in design happened in-between then.

It's already established it takes four or more years to develop a Constitution class starship as the Enterprise. Who knows how many other ships they have in shipyards across Earth as well as on other planets and who knows how long it takes to build these Starships... The Enterprise will not be the oldest in Starfleet, it will still be among the youngest in the fleet. I do not see Starfleet increasing their production on ships because they lost five in battle nor do I see the development of any new ships to threaten the Enterprise's status as a brand new Starship.

 

[Gojira]

I just wonder will we see other Constitution class star ships in the next movie?

 

[Andymator]

We know that the Farragut was destroyed. Whatever the other ships were, they appeared to be of a piece with the Enterprise. They were all shiny and new with the new nacelle design of the Enterprise (and looked nothing like the older Kelvin style design).

I'm not sure if maybe I'm misunderstanding you... but all of the other starfleet ships shown in the movie looked very much like the older Kelvin style. They were in fact, "kitbashes" of the Kelvin.

 

[Dac]

We know that the Farragut was destroyed. Whatever the other ships were, they appeared to be of a piece with the Enterprise. They were all shiny and new with the new nacelle design of the Enterprise (and looked nothing like the older Kelvin style design).

I'm not sure if maybe I'm misunderstanding you... but all of the other starfleet ships shown in the movie looked very much like the older Kelvin style. They were in fact, "kitbashes" of the Kelvin.

This. In fact every other federation ship was a kitbash of the Kelvin. None of them shared aesthetics with the Enterprise.


http://www.ex-astris-scientia.org/scans/trekxi1.htm

 

[F. King Daniel]

They were indeed all Kelvin kitbashes. The early script at IMSDB has a scene where nameless cadets are arguing over whether they're "old" or "classic" designs.

On the other hand a few had numbers higher than the Enterprise.