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[edit] NX name

I don't think NX is a pre-Federation class ship...does it not just refer to experimental ships? The USS Prometheus in Voyager's "Message in a Bottle" was also an NX ship, for example (I'm sure there have been other on-screen examples of NX ships as well). Also, is "NX" really a class? It's just a registry prefix, if anything. Adam Bishop 02:32, 25 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Yeah, 'NX' is a prefix for experimental ships in Starfleet, but also in the 2100s it was the name of a class of pre-Federation Earth ship. You can see one as the title ship in Star Trek: Enterprise, whose registry, NX-01, according to the scheme at the time meant 'first ship of the NX class'. -- Djinn112 03:21, Mar 25, 2004 (UTC)

What is the NX ship the Enterprise NX-01 runs into in season 3 episode 21 e2 ? - 'madddness' Velster@hotmail.com

Actually that ships is ALSO the NX-01. The ship had been thrown back in time 100 years due to some glowing energy thing it passed through and had spent the next hundred years roving around waiting for it's earlier self to appear.

Wait, I thought the NX-01's class was Enterprise, in keeping with the tradition that the name of the first of a class is the name of the whole class. --Atlastawake 16:25, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
Nevermind. I just read the section below. --Atlastawake 16:39, 20 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] ship naming

I heard that they were being named in order of shuttle produced not the operating code number, resulting in Enterprise (NX-01), Columbia (NX-02), Challenger (NX-03), and Dicovery (NX-04). Fix?---Ricimer

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[edit] Possible future NX class starships

Since the first two NX ships, Enterprise and Columbia, are both named after space shuttles, and in the same order that the shuttles were made, fans speculate that future NX ships may also bear the names of space shuttles. If the pattern holds, future NX-class ships would most likely be:

  • NX-03 Challenger
  • NX-04 Discovery
  • NX-05 Atlantis
  • NX-06 Endeavour


However, with the cancellation of Star Trek: Enterprise in February 2005, it is likely that this theory could only be tested in future Enterprise novels.

As these are pure speculation... the should not be on the article page.

Also, there is alot of fan speculation that the order will be based on Shuttle order, not flight order.

  • NX-03 Discovery
  • NX-04 Atlantis
  • NX-05 Endeavour
  • NX-10 Constitution
  • NX-99 Challenger

At any rate, this should not be on the main article page. 132.205.15.43 04:59, 13 May 2005 (UTC)


I've never heard of the Space Shuttle named "Constitution" and Challenger was built before Discovery infact it was a test Shuttle like the Enterprise and was refited to fly in space

Constitution was the original name for the prototype Enterprise. See: http://www.hq.nasa.gov/osf/shuttle/orbiters.html Hawaiian717 18:24, 14 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] NX Class????!!!!!

The class of a ship comes from the name of the first model built, shouldn't it be Enterprise class? Dudtz Image:Kardos.jpg 9/30/05 6:21 PM EST

No Earth's Starfleet names are not the same as UFP Starfleet: the NX-01 Enterprise is the first (01) prototype Warp 5 ship of the NX Class Earth Starship,The other NX Starship in ST:Enterprise are:

NX-Alpha, Prototype warp 2 ship -- destroyed in "First Flight"

NX-Beta, Prototype warp 2 ship -- "Stolen" by Archer and Captain A.G. Robinson

NX-Delta, Prototype warp 3 ship piloted by Duvall.

NX-01 Enterprise, Earth's first warp 5 ship, Capt. Archer

NX-02 Columbia, Earth's second warp 5 ship--with upgrades from Enterprise's voyages, Captain Erika Hernandez

NX-09 ISS Avenger under the command of Admiral Black.(mirror universe, but one might be made in the real universe)

After the last ST: Enterprise episode "These are the Voyages..." all of the NX warp 5 ships are retired to make way for warp 7 AKA: The Daedalus-class starships with the registry number of the USS Daedalus as NX-150 (from books not on TV) that NX is for prototype ships, the UFP might use NX as a nod to the NX Class Earth Ships since all of the NX ships are "Prototype" --Marc 23:35, 19 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] The Desctruction of the Avenger

The article says that the Defiant destroyed the Avenger but in the episode (In the Mirror, Darkly Part I) the Defiant didn't even have weapons ready when the Avenger was destroyed. It was the Tholians that destroyed the Avenger.


That was the Mirror NX Enterprise that was destroyed by the Tholians.Mirror Archer destroyed the Avenger with the Defiant.

[edit] Naval eXperimental

NX stands for Naval eXperimental. NX is not a class of starships as this article claims. There are many more NX starships mentioned throughout the Star Trek series then those in Enterprise. for example USS Excelsior (NX-2000) - Star Trek III and Defiant (NX-74205) - DS9 Series.

should I change this accordingly, or anyone have any comments about it? - —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ulf Magnusson (talk • contribs)

You certainly should not because of the following reasons.
  • There is abosolutely no canon or even semi-canon information that suggests it stands for Navy Experimental.
  • The Earth Starfleet and the UFP Starfleet are two different entities, with different naming and numbering conventions.
    • The UFP Starfleet uses NX simply as an indicator that a vessel is experimental - it is only seen on the pathfinders of each class.
    • The Earth Starfleet uses NX to classify and number its featured starship class. This class is called the NX Class. Archer refers to it as such himself.
- Hayter 09:21, 17 March 2006 (UTC)


      • There doesn't NEED to be Star Trek canon on that - NX IS a designation of Naval eXperiment, NOT a Stak Trek Designation - The NX-2000 was a nod to that tradition, continued with the Defiant on DS9, and the NX "class" of starship is just another example of Rick Berman's complete lack of grasp of everything —Preceding unsigned comment added by Captain Kwirk (talk • contribs)
I don't dispute that NX currently stands for Navy Experimental; indeed I neither know nor care. USS currently stands for United States Ship - that doesn't mean it must (or does) mean the same in a fictional universe, and the same is true for NX. - Hayter 12:18, 19 March 2006 (UTC)
      • As I recall Archer only referred to this as a class of starships in the episode where they try to fool an enemy into believing there are more ships. If this is the case, the statement that NX is a class may have been said just to fool the enemy. Was this mentioned anywhere else? Ulf Magnusson 17:07, 25 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] NX is not a class

I agree that this article is incorrect. NX is the prototype ship for a new class. The name of the first ship in the class is the name of that class. i.e. U.S.S. Excelsior is NX-2000 (later re-designated to NCC-2000) is an Excelsior class star ship.

Capt. Archer stated on screan (Which is considered canon BTW by Paramount) that Enterprise is of the NX class. Aeon 23:18, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Also, on the dedication plaque, it says "NX Class" or something to that effect. The NX is both a class (in the 2150's and 2160's) and a designation for prototypes (from there after). Just leave it alone. TerranRich 03:51, 4 July 2007 (UTC)