I was watching All Good Things and in the alternate future timeline Admiral Riker told Picard he ordered the USS Yorktown, which was never seen onscreen, to scan the Romulan neutral zone and my thought is that the USS Yorktown could be Sovereign Class and is the very same ship as the Enterprise-E in the normal timeline, just with a different name, registry and crew and never had Picard, Riker, Data, etc as officers since the Enterprise-D wasn’t destroyed. I assume that the Sovereign class was well in the planning stages and even in the early construction stages at the time of Generations and what become the 1701-E was originally intended to have a different name and was renamed Enterprise-E after the Enterprise-D was destroyed at Veridian II. I’d like to think that the Sovereign class Enterprise-E existed in the AGT future timeline, just with a different name and registry and that senior officers from the Ent-D didn’t serve onboard. Not to mention it’s conjectured that the Constitution refit 1701-A was originally named USS Yorktown. Of course Memory Alpha says that starfleet had an NCC-20045 USS Yorktown in service during the 24th century which I guess would be Excelsior class.
Soverign Class in All Good Things timeline?
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To this day I never understood that assumption. I figured the most obvious answer was that (as shown in the TNG era with other starship classes) that Starfleet had a number of Constitution II class cruisers in production at one time and they simply named the newest after the destroyed Enterprise.
If memory serves me, Yorktown would have been the actual name of the ship for STAR TREK, but for various reasons, we got the Enterprise. Frankly, a great decision.
I think this bit of information somehow got loose about the Enterprise-A as an homage to that original decision.
I think this bit of information somehow got loose about the Enterprise-A as an homage to that original decision.
Probably, and during Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home the Yorktown is mentioned. as one of the ships disabled by the Whale Probe. Its captain is shown onscreen saying that the engineer is trying to erect a makeshift solar sail (probably solar panels basically) to provide enough power for life support.
I know which like I said I never understood.
Roddenberry reportedly suggested it.
That makes sense, given Roddenberry's WWII service. Enterprise and Yorktown were two of the three carriers that fought at Midway, a decisive U.S. victory over the Japanese in the Pacific theater. Yorktown was the only US carrier we lost in that battle, so he might have suggested it as an homage to her.
Enterprise from World War Two was more famous though. Awarded more battlestars than any other U.S. Navy vessel IIRC.
In the Pocket Books novel continuity, the Enterprise E was originally named USS Honorius. In David Goodman's Captain Picard Autobiography, it was USS Sentinel.
That's from "Mr. Scott's Guide To the Enterprise" a nicely done but not very detailed look at the movie era Enterprise design.
IIRC, Gene Roddenberry (or his gofer, Richard Arnold depending whom you believe) did not like Todd Johnsons interpretation of things for the guide such as the idea that the Enterprise-A had Transwarp Drive. In the Guide, the Ti-Ho was the original name of the first Transwarp equipped Constitution II class ship and it was of course renamed Enterprise.
