Spoilers 31st/32nd Century Ships Revealed

We actually see it moved twice – in "Q-Less" it's drawn towards the wormhole by the gravitational anomaly of the week, and while it's not under its own power we definitely see it moving during that episode. And of course it must have moved itself back to its usual position in time for the next episode, although it's possible it did that with assistance from starships.

 

Well there goes my head canon that it was the first of the new shipyard starships. It's an old one!

 

Well, no. The artist's intent was for it to be an old ship they refitted, like the Discovery. Hence the low registry number. Except that goes against the 32nd century rationale of adding a suffix letter to a ship they refitted, like the Discovery. And it was never used as that old ship, as the artist mentions. It was used as a completely different ship, the Credence, although the low registry number survived.

I choose to believe it was a new ship, and that 32nd century Starfleet has gone back to using 4 digit registries because they were getting into the 300,000's and they were becoming too high.

 

They should do what car registries did in the UK. Just go the other way. A-1701 instead of 1701-A

 

Someone on Tumblr called them "Rayman ships" and now they'll always and forever be that

 

My head canon is that when it lands on a planet it turns into a battle mech

 

https://roddenberry.x.io/3190-uss-enterprise-32nd-century/

So the Roddenberry Archive notes a Starship Enterprise possibly existing in the late 32nd Century, in accordance with others about the ambiguity of Saru's lines.

 

Yikes! It's held together by rubber bands!

 

Naw, it's gotta be duct tape.

So of course the captain would have to be Red Green.

 

Personally I think DS9's Frankenfleet had more thought put into the designs. The Enterprise J looked like a future Starfleet vessel - these look like people just doodled for an afternoon and nobody talked to each other...

 

If this Enterprise-P turns out to be true, then Enterprise-J would be the largest Enterprise by far and more proof that future iterations of the USS Enterprise does go down in size.

 

The way Starfleet goes through Enterprises, it would probably be the DD by this point.

 

Yeah. They went through four Enterprises in a century (NCC-1701, -A, -B, and -C) and have now gone through four more (-D, -E, -F, -G) in less than forty years.

Let's hope the Enterprise-G lasts a good, long while.

 

I don't think we get an exact year for the Enterprise-J, but we know it was in the 26th century. So they have to go through G, H, and I between 2402 and 2599/2600 (let's not get into that debate). Let's say the J is mid-26th Century, there's a good chance the G will last a while, seeing as how that's only 4 ships in 150 years compared to 7 in ~140 years.

Assuming there's no long gaps between Enterprises, as there was between the C and the D (roughly 20 years if we go from the C's destruction in 2344 and the D's commissioning according to the second dedication plaque in 2263), it does bode well for a long service record for the G.

 

Maybe they need less reckless Captains in the future to get better mileage out of their starships Enterprise...

 

With the current powers that be, twenty years, tops.