I thought it was multiple, but I don't remember where I saw that and might be misremembering, so two it is. So either the D & E or D & F. All the grades I didn't want to get when I was in school.
Since we don't really know the E-B's fate (although, based on Harriman's performance in GEN it's probably ashes) I would like to see at least one Enterprise sitting intact at a starship museum. Maybe have the E-E sitting next to the E-A.
Matalas said we'd see a bunch of different starships, but not specifically lots of different Enterprises. Maybe you're thinking of that.
It was Patrick Stewart that said there were multiple Enterprises and that it “gets a bit confusing” (for him at least). So I’d say there’s definitely potential for more than 2 to appear.
So not looking forward to when a thread gets hijacked for 10 pages, complaining about how Kirk's Enterprise looks.
You can have captains serving on a ship and not being the "captain." In the real world it's not uncommon for the first officer of an aircraft carrier to also be a captain. And in Star Trek Scotty was a captain serving as chief engineer. If Starfleet were more like the real-world then the smaller ships in the fleet wouldn't have a captain leading them, but maybe a commander or lt commander.
That is a weird rank. Garth of Izar was a hero, and so was Pike, so maybe it's an honorific rank? In the real world it was a captain who served an admiral as chief of staff. We saw Sisko doing that in DS9 when he was planning entire fleet movements for Admiral Ross. Also, Sisko having the authority to direct more than one ship would have made him a commodore. Commodore is no longer a rank, but a position held by captains who have authority over more than one vessel.
I expect will see the NX-01 in addition to the D’s saucer, the E and the F. it would be nice to see the A. Maybe get some confirmation that it wasn’t just scrapped after TUC.
Jumping back in to wild speculation. We get introduced to the F and Seven becomes her Captain (paving the way for the Seven spinoff). We also see Worf as Captain of a special task force or DS9 (not sure which I prefer). My bet is Geordi is assuring Worf. The Enterprise D's Saucer is in a museum mated with a new to her star drive / secondary hull (maybe from a Galaxy Glass that lost her saucer). Plot wise, they gonna do something nuts and send the Next Gen Crew out with a bang or huge victory.
Picturing Jeri Ryan intoning, "Space ... The Final Frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise ..." Someone is going to get the axe (either Worf or Riker).
Well Levar said they only shot on the Ent-D bridge for 3 days. So it's not a big part of the season, unless it was a bunch of different scenes shot in those 3 days.
I'm really curious how damaged the saucer will still look, if they tried to keep it untouched, or completely restored it. Who knows what museums of the future prefer to do
Probably completely restored it. I think they'd want to show off the Enterprise-D as it was, not how it ended up.
I think that was just Stewart's way of saying he can't keep track of which enterprise is which so he couldn't name the letter and people just misinterpreted that to mean we'd see multiple Enterprises in season 3.
Levar Burton also confirmed that we will see the Ent-D bridge, and Terry has also hinted we might see the Enterprise-F, so either way.
I think we will see all the Enterprises in some form (minus the J), and the grand finale will be the unveiling of the F.