Why the 20 year gap in Enteprises?

[nx1701g]

USS Excelsior said:
Heck, there was an 84 year gap between the NX-01 and the first Enterprise.

It still amazes me that there was no ship (canonly) between those periods with the name Enterprise.

 

[Plecostomus]

There may have been but it never did anything of note. "These are the voyages of the mail-transport Enterprise... To boldly deliver packages where no packages have gone before!"

 

[USS Excelsior]

And not to mention the Enterprise that hauled away garbage, before it was hauled away as garbage.

 

[Son_of_Soong]

It still amazes me that there was no ship (canonly) between those periods with the name Enterprise.

Yet anyway, We once belived that Kirks Enterprise was the first, for all we know in hte next 20 years we will find htere were several Enterprises from that time... god that'd suck.

 

[Crewman47]

DumbDumb2007 said:
it made the drama for the ep yesterdays enterprise. no one had established onscreen what had happened to eiteht the enterpriseB or the enterprise c.
I would have thought tha thad star trek 5 been succesful then star trek 6 would have been set on an excelsior class Enterprise-B with Kirk in command of a larger and more complex ship. shame the tos cast was retired. it would have bene worthwhile seeing Kirk and Spock command and all new crew out there. The remaining cast had more milage left in them

That makes me think that if Kirk and co were either immortal or long lived then there'd be nothing to stop them commanding Enterprises' B-Z for the next 100-200 years or so. Could you imagine that happening?

 

[starburst]

The first space ship with the name is Virgins VSS Enterprise so why all the moaning about the NX-01 still

 

[Timo]

...Although canonically speaking, would Branson's little toy really get built in a timeline where we have had large interplanetary manned spacecraft since the early nineties at least?

Anyway, that timeline features a space shuttle named Enterprise, so that would come before Branson's tourist boat. And the Trek version of the shuttle seems fully capable of spaceflight, as suggested by the ENT opening credits where we see a spaceworthy orbiter with the name Enterprise photoshopped onto the hull.

Timo Saloniemi

 

[starburst]

More proof that what is supposedly canon really doesnt mean alot..as according to Trek 'Enterprise' is more than a display peice at NASA (or is that me adding weight to others ENT is not canon argument lol).

The Branson 'toy' was meant as a joke, in the future I hope the name gets tagged to a real ship of exploration, not to one of Bransons ideas as a PR stunt...ah well