The Enterprise-A in PIC

[FederationHistorian]

It’s also possible the B was retired early for political reasons. Perhaps at this point Starfleet wanted a new Enterprise every 20 years or so as their new flagship. It certainly beats yet another Enterprise lost or destroyed in the line of duty.

Or maybe it was always intended to have a 30 - 40 year run, followed by retirement. And politics didn't factor into it.

It’s odd for Geordi to bring up the (non) possibility of the E being used if the entire crew already knew it was destroyed.

Maybe because the Ent-E was better armed than the Ent-D, and had been proven to defeat the Borg in battle before.

And, more importantly, they were having fun with Worf.

There’s a scene at the end of the battle where both the Enterprise-D and the Titan-A fly over the wreckage of an Odyssey class starship. I took this to be a foreshadowing scene for the Titan’s renaming, and that that wrecked ship was supposed to be the Enterprise-F.

You could.

Or you realize that there were thirteen Odyssey class starships present on Frontier Day, and Spacedock likely destroyed one of the other ones instead of the Ent-F.

 

[Dukhat]

Or maybe it was always intended to have a 30 - 40 year run, followed by retirement. And politics didn't factor into it.

We'll never know, because we don't know what happened to the B or when the C was commissioned.

Maybe because the Ent-E was better armed than the Ent-D, and had been proven to defeat the Borg in battle before.

How does that explain Geordi's statement that they couldn't use it?

And, more importantly, they were having fun with Worf.

By making a dumb joke at the expense of fans who would have liked to know what happened to the E?

You could.

Or you realize that there were thirteen Odyssey class starships present on Frontier Day, and Spacedock likely destroyed one of the other ones instead of the Ent-F.

You do understand what 'foreshadowing' means, don't you?

 

[Macintosh]

Maybe because the Ent-E was better armed than the Ent-D, and had been proven to defeat the Borg in battle before.

The Enterprise-E destroyed a Borg cube with the assistance of an entire fleet of post-Wolf 359 ships designed with fighting the Borg in mind. The Enterprise-D soloed the same cube that destroyed 39 ships at Wolf 359. Just saying...

 

[David cgc]

Well, in both cases, it was really Picard's Borgified brain that did it, the capabilities of the respective ships were ancillary at best.

(The -E did solo the Borg Sphere, though, albeit after it was stunned and its shields were down from passing through the time portal.)

 

[Macintosh]

(The -E did solo the Borg Sphere, though, albeit after it was stunned and its shields were down from passing through the time portal.)

One suspects only because the Borg allowed it to.

 

[Phoenix219]

If they didn't kill Kirk in Generations, you know at some point they'd have thought of something even more horrific for him. After all, who thought Spock would die all alone trapped in an alternate timeline with Steve Trevor and Sylar?

I know, right...... I honestly could not get over seeing Sylar every time I looked at Quinto-Spock.

I've wondered if Spock managed to spend any time with his family on Vulcan, posing as a cousin or uncle, like Yesteryear.

 

[passinglurker]

I've wondered if Spock managed to spend any time with his family on Vulcan, posing as a cousin or uncle, like Yesteryear.

Oof missed opportunity there to not have Kelvin Spock mistake Prime Spock as Selek

 

[Racefuel]

The Enterprise-E destroyed a Borg cube with the assistance of an entire fleet of post-Wolf 359 ships designed with fighting the Borg in mind. The Enterprise-D soloed the same cube that destroyed 39 ships at Wolf 359. Just saying...

While not seen on screen, probably due to the budget, the Enterprise-D was supposed to be in *really* rough shape following BoBW. Over a month and a half at Earth Station McKinley with all of the advanced tech of the Federation at that time.

I suspect had CGI been as prevalent then as it is now..we'd have seen the Enterprise-D pretty scoured up.

 

[Macintosh]

While not seen on screen, probably due to the budget, the Enterprise-D was supposed to be in *really* rough shape following BoBW. Over a month and a half at Earth Station McKinley with all of the advanced tech of the Federation at that time.

I suspect had CGI been as prevalent then as it is now..we'd have seen the Enterprise-D pretty scoured up.

A win's a win... and Starfleet's resources would have been stretched very thin in the days and weeks immediately after Wolf 359.