Spoilers Starship Design in Star Trek: Picard
- Thread starter pst
- Start date
In the novels set in the First Splinter Timeline, the Enterprise-E remained in service up to 2387.
I like this idea. If we assume that Worf took over as captain of the E-E after the events of Nemesis then he was likely in Command of the ship when it and the rest of the Fleet intercepted the Protostar. If the ship was then totally destroyed by the virus then it would make sense that it wasn't his fault.
This then gives the E-F a ~20 year lifespan which I can accept, given that apparently it was only due to be decommissioned due to a computer fault/glitch. Why a new computer core just couldn't be swapped out is beyond me but it is what it is. And the F likely survived the Borg incident long enough to be properly decommissioned and pass the torch to ex-Titan A in that year time gap.
How bad was the damage to the Enterprise-E during the USS ProtoStar incident?
According to Memory Alpha and from what I can recall from Prodigy - Supernova Part 2, the E-F was seen thoroughly wrecked though still intact, with multiple large gashes in the hull and no power. So really it's up for debate whether it warranted decommissioning or not.
Other ships have been through worse and come back from the brink of death, the D being the obvious example. So it's arguable that the incident in Prodigy was the reason but it's a fun theory. Also simply the fact that some off-screen mishap caused the total destruction of the E-E is a bit funny, given the polarising opinions of the design that fandom seems to have on the Soveriegn.
Yeah, truly. The only thing I can think of is that the damage to the Enterprise-F's systems was so extensive that Starfleet decided to go the "Enterprise-A" route and just recall & retire the vessel and christen an existing ship as her successor. It may have been simply easier and quicker to do.
The Enterprise-F could still navigate at least on impulse power and presumably participate in the Borg-orchestrated attack on Spacedock, so she remained battle-capable, but perhaps only barely, IMO. Maybe her warp drive was shot or her overall systems performance was sluggish...
In addition to not recycling the same registry across multiple ships in the same episode, I really wish the PRO team had set a precedent to acknowledge the DS9 team's desire to overcome the budget limits which forced the renamed Sao Paolo to retain the Defiant's registry from the same model.
Like, seriously. Exact same name and registry? That's just ridiculous. And the PIC team clearly had the budget to make the fix!
The Museum people changed the Saratoga's registry from 1887 to 31911 so I'm pretending that they changed 75633 to 74205 as well.
Did they have time though?
They had the time to change the name and registry of the Titan, so…
Since I have no way of knowing one way or the other what priorities of rendering I will err on the side of giving them the benefit of the doubt.
It's the year 2402. If engineers and detailing teams can't repaint the hull of a starship with a new name and in very rapid time then Starfleet doesn't deserve to be out in deep space.
Well, they apparently paint the numbers before the ship is even finished. So it must be difficult.
Ronald D. Moore wanted it to be the Defiant-A, not keep the same registry as the Sao Paulo.
That would be contradicting canon though!
That would have required them to add the A to the end of the registry number, which they didn’t do because the scenes with the new Defiant were all stock footage of the old Defiant.
Yes, but that makes me think the plan was always to use the same Name and registry even if the budget had allowed for a change.
Oh sure, I think that was the idea as well. But I’m sure the thinking behind that was ‘we’ll just use stock footage because the audience is not smart enough to know the difference.’ Like the reuse of the exploding Bird of Prey in Generations.
