The Enterprise-E in Star Trek: First Contact |
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| First appearance | Star Trek: First Contact |
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| Affiliation | United Federation of Planets, Starfleet |
| Launched | October 30, 2372 |
| References | Star Trek: First Contact Star Trek: Insurrection Star Trek Nemesis |
| General characteristics | |
| Class | Sovereign |
| Registry | NCC-1701-E |
| Auxiliary craft | Shuttlecraft Captain's yacht Argo |
| Armaments | 16 Phaser Arrays Phasers Photon torpedoes Quantum torpedoes |
| Defenses | Deflector shields |
| Propulsion | Impulse engines Warp drive RCS Thrusters |
| Power | Warp reactor |
| Mass | 3,250,000 metric tons |
| Length | 685.7 metres |
| Width | 282 metres |
| Height | 75 metres |
The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E or Enterprise-E) is a Sovereign-class starship in the Star Trek franchise. It serves as the primary setting of the films Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, and Star Trek Nemesis. It is the sixth Federation starship to carry the name "Enterprise" and the seventh Starfleet ship to be named as such.
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Ronald D. Moore, the co-writer of Star Trek Generations and Star Trek: First Contact, had suggested that construction of the Enterprise-E began in the final season of The Next Generation (2370), and that the ship was renamed USS Enterprise, which would become the latest flagship of the United Federation of Planets after the Enterprise-D had been destroyed.[1]
The Enterprise-E, a Sovereign class starship, launched in 2372 from the San Francisco Fleet Yards under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard. Picard and most of the key officers were from Enterprise-D.[2] The non-canon novel Ship of the Line suggests the originally planned name for the vessel was USS Honorious, and that Montgomery Scott was part of the team of engineers that designed the Enterprise-E.[3]
In the film Star Trek: First Contact, the Enterprise participates in the Battle of Sector 001, destroying a Borg cube, and subsequently travels back in time to stop the Borg from interfering with Zefram Cochrane's first contact with the Vulcans.[2] The Borg hijacked and almost assimilated the ship until Captain Picard and Data reclaimed it. In Star Trek: Insurrection, the crew stops a Son'a attempt to forcibly relocate the Ba'ku people from their homeworld.[2] In Star Trek Nemesis, the Enterprise is heavily damaged while stopping Shinzon from using a weapon of mass destruction to destroy all life on Earth.[4] The ship returns to spacedock to undergo extensive repairs.[4]
In the comic book "Star Trek: Countdown", which serves as the canonical prequel to the events of the 2009 Star Trek reboot film, The Enterprise-E, now under the command of Captain Data confronts Nero's ship, the Narada. At the end of the comic, the Enterprise-E bares witness to the Narada entering the blackhole, sending it back in time to be intercepted by the U.S.S. Kelvin.
A designer's blueprints show that the Enterprise has new phaser banks and torpedo launchers in Star Trek Nemesis that were not present in Star Trek: Insurrection. It also shows the warp nacelles have been moved upwards and forward slightly.[5] Star Trek: Ships of the Line, written by Star Trek's technical consultant Michael Okuda, states that the Enterprise can travel at up to warp 9.985.[6]
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