New Enterprise dedication plaque

Maybe the "San Francisco Fleet Yards" has multiple facilities. One in orbit, one in San Francisco, one in Riverside and for all we know, one in New Jersey.

 

"San Francisco Fleet Yards;" I think that's a little bit different; it could have been christened there and built in Iowa.

 

Can't wait for the new tech manual which will explain the Iowa/San Fransisco shipyards question, than again that Constitution class Starship we saw being built in Iowa may not have been the USS Enterprise. We'll learn the truth when the manual gets published.

 

Seconded.

 

The NCC-1701 on the nacelle as the shuttle takes off is a dead giveaway.

 

It's the Enterprise; that's what that whole scene with Jim Kirk stopping in the dark on his motorcycle was about. That's the moment he fell in love with the Enterprise. The literal light in his eyes is the reflection of the ship.

 

Well, they obviously copied it from the TOS dedication plaque.

 

So...there's a USS Starship out there?

 

Perhaps "Starship-type" would've been better... but you'd have to go all the way back to TOS to address what they were thinking of. Originally a starship was meant to be a type of big, fast, powerful, long-duration spacecraft set apart from all others - a type to which the Enterprise belonged. I don't think they were thinking of Navy-style class designations when they came up with it, as later came into use.

 

A little reminder

http://memory-alpha.org/en/wiki/Constitution_class




Also, from the movie's official site

 

Yup. Some nerd was paying attention!

 

Can anyone make out what the plaque says in the upper right corner?

As far as "San Francisco Fleet Yards" goes, it's been said before (and before and before and before), but why couldn't one of those yards be in Riverside, Iowa? Airbus has plants all over Europe. If an airbus airliner had "Airbus: Toulouse, France" on some kind of specifications sticker or plaque, we wouldn't automatically assume that's where the entire plane was built. It's a corporate headquarters thing.

Components for the Enterprise were probably built in places all over the world, and sent to Riverside for final assembly. It would all be part of the San Francisco Fleet Yards -- a world-wide conglomerate if you will.

 

Well this makes sense and actually fits in with my conjecture and theory since finding out the alternate-timeline Enty is built in Iowa...Iowa and other North American shipyard facilities fall within the jurisdiction and lines of San Francisco's authority.

 

I dunno. Was there one during TOS?

 

As inconsistent as many early TOS episodes were with the new canon and universe? Probably.

 

Fits the ship.

I hates them both.

 

That plaque looks like it belongs on the USS Relativity from the 29th century. I like the TOS-esque inscriptions and homage to the classic plaque, but its way too silver and angular.

 

We don't see direct evidence that the ship in the dark would be the Enterprise. She's merely a ship of that design.

We do see that the ship later seen in daylight is the Enterprise. But we could in theory say that after the fateful night, Kirk rode his bike all the way to San Francisco (he's the type to do that sort of riding), looked around to see where Starfleet might be, spotted the local shipyards (which had something like six of these babies under construction, including the Enterprise), drove there, and boarded the shuttle for the ride to the campus.

Timo Saloniemi

 

Because it doesn't look like your prrresssccious TOS-version?