USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)

USS Enterprise
Class:	Constitution-class (later refit)
Registry:	NCC-1701
Owner:	United Federation of Planets
Operator:	Starfleet United Earth Space Probe Agency
Status:	Destroyed (2285)

For the alternate reality counterpart, please see USS Enterprise (NCC-1701 alternate reality).

For the mirror universe counterpart, please see ISS Enterprise (NCC-1701).

For the Gideon replica, please see USS Enterprise (replica).

"All I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by."

– James T. Kirk, 2268 ("The Ultimate Computer")

The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) was a 23rd-century Federation Constitution-class starship operated by Starfleet. In the course of its career, the Enterprise became the most celebrated starship of its time. It was later identified as "the original Enterprise" or "Kirk's ship". (DS9: "Trials and Tribble-ations"; ENT: "These Are the Voyages...")

In its forty years of service and discovery, through upgrades and at least two refits, the Enterprise took part in numerous first contacts, military engagements, and time-travels. The vessel achieved its most lasting fame from a five-year mission (2265-2270) under the command of Captain James T. Kirk. (Star Trek: The Original Series; Star Trek: The Motion Picture; VOY: "Q2")

The Enterprise was destroyed over the Genesis Planet in 2285, when Kirk activated the ship's auto-destruct sequence to prevent the Enterprise from falling into the hands of the Klingons. (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock) It was soon replaced by the USS Enterprise-A. (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)

Lineage

See Enterprise history

Service history

Construction

In the early- to mid-23rd century, at least twelve heavy cruiser-type starships, the Constitution-class, were commissioned by the Federation Starfleet. (TOS: "Tomorrow is Yesterday") Constructed at the San Francisco Fleet Yards in San Francisco, California, the Federation vessel registered NCC-1701 was christened "the Enterprise" in a long line of ships of the same name. (DIS: "Brother"; TAS: "The Counter-Clock Incident") Captain Robert April oversaw construction of the ship's components as well as its initial trial runs. His wife, Sarah April, designed several tools for the ship's sickbay. (TAS: "The Counter-Clock Incident") Larry Marvick was one of the designers of the Enterprise itself, while Doctor Richard Daystrom designed its computer systems. (TOS: "Is There in Truth No Beauty?", "The Ultimate Computer")

According to The Making of Star Trek, the Enterprise was built on Earth but assembled in space.

Robert April's command

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Early specifications, including launch date, and duration of April's command

The Enterprise was launched in 2245, under the command of Captain Robert April. (DIS: "Brother") Sarah April served as the ship's first chief medical officer, with Christopher Pike serving as Captain April's first officer. (TAS: "The Counter-Clock Incident"; DIS: "Brother")

Prior to the Enterprise's launch date of 2245 eventually being made canon in the DIS episode "Brother", multiple production sources, including an unseen display screen intended for use in ENT: "In a Mirror, Darkly, Part II", the Star Trek Encyclopedia, and The Making of Star Trek, gave the same launch date.

According to a computer display that was created by production staff of Star Trek: Enterprise but never used on screen, Jonathan Archer was present at the Enterprise's launch and died the next day. This information remains non-canon, because it was never photographed on film.

In TAS: "The Counter-Clock Incident", it is stated that Sarah April's service on the Enterprise was the first time a medical officer served on a starship equipped with warp drive. However, it is established in Star Trek: Enterprise that warp-capable starships had medical personnel prior to the time of her service.

According to Star Trek: Federation - The First 150 Years, the Enterprise was launched on April 11, 2245.

In the Star Trek: Discovery novel Drastic Measures, the Enterprise aided the Tarsus IV colony in the aftermath of Kodos the Executioner's infamous massacre in 2246.

Christopher Pike's command

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The Enterprise in 2254

As captain, Christopher Pike commanded the Enterprise from 2250 to 2265. (DIS: "Brother"; TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I") His missions included voyages to the Rigel, Vega, and Talos systems. (TOS: "The Cage"; TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I") One deep space cruise took it within half a light year of 99 Pegasi. (ST: "Q&A")

At one point, the Enterprise visited Pragine 63, where science officer Lynne Lucero was transferred to the USS Cabot, to serve as its new captain. (ST: "The Trouble with Edward")

Pike had a half-Vulcan science officer, Spock, who served under him for over eleven years, and ultimately became the starship's longest-serving officer. (TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I")

According to the novel Desperate Hours, the Enterprise fell under Admiral Brett Anderson's jurisdiction, along with the USS Shenzhou.

In late 2256, Michael Burnham encouraged Cadet Sylvia Tilly to improve her physical conditioning so that she would stand out amongst her peers and be assigned to the Enterprise or one of its "sister ships." (DIS: "Lethe") At that time, the Enterprise was on a five-year mission under Pike. With the Federation-Klingon War underway, Starfleet elected not to recall the starship and leave the vessel as an instrument of last resort, so ordered Pike and his crew to remain out of the fighting. (DIS: "Brother") Pike later accused Starfleet Command of not recalling Enterprise because they knew he would steadfastly remind them of Federation values, but Vice Admiral Katrina Cornwell, the only Starfleet Command representative present to hear the accusation, countered that they "wanted the best of Starfleet to survive," if the war was lost, and they had deemed that to be Enterprise. (DIS: "Project Daedalus")

The Enterprise and Discovery rendezvous in 2257

The red bursts

Following the conclusion of the war in 2257, the Enterprise was dispatched by Starfleet to investigate one of a series of unidentified signals detected throughout the galaxy. (DIS: "Brother") En route, the ship suffered multiple catastrophic systems failures, leading Pike to issue a priority 1 distress call.

The call was received by the USS Discovery, en route to Vulcan. (DIS: "Will You Take My Hand?", "Brother") Pike and two senior officers transferred to Discovery to continue their mission, while a team was dispatched to tow the Enterprise back to Spacedock for a diagnostic, where the damage was assessed as severe, with no estimate for repair. (DIS: "Brother")

The Enterprise being towed to Spacedock

A week later, Pike's first officer, Una, reported to Pike that the holographic comm system was the source of the failures, which had compromised primary systems. Pike ordered Una to tell Chief Engineer Louvier to strip the system from the ship in favor of viewscreen communication. (DIS: "An Obol for Charon")

Battling Control

The Enterprise taking on Discovery's crew

After the Discovery acquired data from a Sphere that would ultimately lead to the evolution of Section 31 artificial intelligence Control which would threaten all sentient life in the Milky Way Galaxy, Pike was left with no other option but to set the Discovery's auto-destruct system and call the Enterprise for immediate evacuation of the ship's crew. (DIS: "Through the Valley of Shadows")

On stardate 1051.8, the Enterprise finally rendezvoused with the Discovery and began taking on the ship's crew. When all personnel were fully evacuated, Captain Pike ordered Discovery's destruction. However, the Sphere intelligence utilized Discovery's defensive systems to block the Enterprise's torpedo volley. Unable to eliminate Discovery, the crew determined that sending the Discovery into the future was the only method to secure the Sphere data from Control.

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The Enterprise and Discovery engage Section 31 vessels

With the appearance of a fifth red burst, both ships traveled to the planet Xahea, which was ultimately the position Cornwell and Pike decided to fight Leland/Control's armada. (DIS: "Such Sweet Sorrow")

After the decision was made to destroy Discovery to prevent its capture by Control, the ship deployed evacuation corridors to transfer its crew to Enterprise. (DIS: "Such Sweet Sorrow")

The Enterprise undergoes repairs in 2258

Following a decisive battle with Control, and the loss of a significant portion of the saucer section, the Enterprise underwent extensive repairs in orbit of Earth. (DIS: "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

New Voyages

Following the repairs to the Enterprise, the ship resumed its mission of exploration, once again under the command of Christopher Pike. Their first stop was to a new moon that was discovered at Edrin II. (DIS: "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2")

James T. Kirk's command

The Enterprise in orbit, 2267

In 2265, the Enterprise was assigned to another five-year mission of deep-space exploration, and command passed to James T. Kirk. The ship's primary goal during this mission was to seek out and contact alien life. Captain Kirk's standing orders also included the investigation of all quasars and quasar-like phenomena.

Beyond its primary mission, the Enterprise defended Federation territories from aggression, aided member worlds in crisis, and provided scientific expeditions and colonies in its patrol area with annual examinations and support. (TOS: "Balance of Terror", "The Man Trap", "The Cloud Minders", "Journey to Babel", "The Galileo Seven", "The Deadly Years")

Despite 2270 being given as the year Kirk's first five-year mission in command of the Enterprise came to an end (in the Star Trek: Voyager episode "Q2"), many production resources – including the booklet for the TOS Season 1 DVD set – continue to use the Star Trek Chronology's date of 2264 as the starting point of the mission. It is possible, however, that the mission ran from 2264 through 2269 and that the Enterprise did not return to Earth until 2270.

According to a line from the script of Star Trek but removed from the final draft, the crew of the Enterprise came together in a time of "ultimate crisis", much like their alternate reality counterparts did. [1]

According to a line of dialogue from the final draft script of "Mudd's Women", the Enterprise was located two years, five months, twenty-two days, and seven hours from a starbase at impulse speed in that episode.

Discoveries

From 2265 to 2270, the Enterprise visited over seventy different worlds and encountered representatives of over sixty different species. More than twenty of those were first contacts with beings previously unknown to the Federation, including stellar neighbors like the First Federation and Gorn, voyagers from the Kelvan Empire in distant Andromeda, and powerful non-corporeal entities like the Thasians, Trelane, and the Organians. (TOS: , "The Corbomite Maneuver", "Arena", "By Any Other Name") Two discovered species were the first known examples of silicon-based lifeforms: the Horta and the Excalbians. (TOS: "The Devil in the Dark", "The Savage Curtain", "That Which Survives")

In the barrier void in 2265

The Enterprise was the first Federation vessel to survive an encounter with the galactic barrier. The ship's warp drive and other systems, however, were critically damaged and casualties totaled twelve crewmembers and officers. By stardate 4657.5, the Enterprise was traveling through space in a region hundreds of light years further than any Earth starship had explored. (TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before", "Return to Tomorrow")

The reality of time travel, externally influenced, had been known for over a century, but following two accidental temporal displacements, the Enterprise became the Federation's first deliberately-controlled timeship. Observing the death-throes of Psi 2000, the crew suffered from polywater intoxication and the Enterprise nearly lost orbit after an engine shutdown. A previously untested "cold start", via controlled matter-antimatter implosion, saved the ship, but the high-speed escape from the planet's gravity well caused the ship to travel three days into the past. (TOS: "The Naked Time")

Orbiting 1960s Earth

In 2267, while escaping the gravitational pull of a black star, the Enterprise was hurled through space and time to Earth of 1969. The crew developed and executed a method to return to their own time, by warping around the sun's gravity well in a slingshot maneuver. A year later, the Enterprise was ordered to repeat the recently proven slingshot effect, and returned to Earth's past on a mission of historical observation. (TOS: "Tomorrow is Yesterday", "Assignment: Earth")

Originally, "The Naked Time" and "Tomorrow is Yesterday" were planned to be back-to-back stories, with the events in "Tomorrow is Yesterday" happening as a result of the "cold start" of the warp drive in "The Naked Time". A change in production plans resulted in the two stories being de-linked and slightly reworked to stand alone.

The space amoeba in 2268

Some missions of discovery confronted Enterprise with entities and mechanisms that threatened great swaths of Federation and neighboring space.

An ancient "planet killer", fueled by the consumption of planets it destroyed with its antiproton weapon, approached Federation population centers in 2267. It required the combined efforts of the Enterprise and its "sister ship", USS Constellation, to destroy the invader. (TOS: "The Doomsday Machine")

One year later, in 2268, a single-cell organism of colossal scale emitted negative energy, toxic to humanoid life, killing the entire Vulcan crew of the USS Intrepid. The Enterprise penetrated the cell interior and destroyed the organism before its imminent cell division threatened to overwhelm the rest of the galaxy. (TOS: "The Immunity Syndrome")

Battles

The Enterprise fires a proximity blast

The nature of its mission of exploration meant the Enterprise was frequently the only Federation military asset in a little-known, otherwise undefended frontier. When called into harm's way, the ship regularly did so with little chance of immediate support against previously unknown enemies and threats.

Happily, the Enterprise's earliest engagement of its five-year mission, against a deceptively powerful starship called the Fesarius, ended with an amicable first contact with the First Federation in 2266. (TOS: "The Corbomite Maneuver") Following the destruction of a colony on Cestus III, a surprise attack – from a previously unknown species – led the Enterprise to battle and pursue an evenly matched Gorn starship in 2267. (TOS: "Arena")

The Enterprise played the fox for four of its "sister ships" in a war games problem on stardate 4729.4, as part of a series of M-5 drills. Equipped with the new M-5 multitronic unit computer and stripped of most of its crew, the Enterprise became a killing machine – crippling the USS Excalibur and killing its entire crew – before Kirk could re-assert control. (TOS: "The Ultimate Computer")

Klingon engagements

The Battle of Organia in 2267

Warships of the Imperial Klingon Fleet were frequent opponents of the Enterprise. Commander Kor held the Enterprise and Kirk in high professional regard, and relished the prospect of battle. Lower ranks chose to mock the starship; on one such occasion, Korax compared the vessel to a "garbage scow" before he corrected himself, adding, "It should be hauled away as garbage." (TOS: "Errand of Mercy", "The Trouble with Tribbles")

While Starfleet rallied its forces at the outbreak of a Federation-Klingon War in 2267, the Enterprise was sent forward to secure a border region anchored by the planet Organia. The vessel destroyed a Klingon ship and prepared to engage an approaching Klingon fleet, before the Organian Peace Treaty precluded a full-scale war. (TOS: "Errand of Mercy")

The Enterprise sporadically engaged Klingons throughout its voyage. A warship failed in an attempt to blockade the Enterprise from Capella IV in 2267. Sabotaged during a diplomatic mission to the Tellun system in 2268, the ship successfully fought off the assault of a harassing D7. The same year, the Enterprise was forced to destroy a battle cruiser that Kang had commanded but had recently abandoned, and the rescued Klingons (influenced by the Beta XII-A entity) subsequently made an unsuccessful attempt to wrest control of the Enterprise from Kirk. (TOS: "Friday's Child", "Elaan of Troyius", "Day of the Dove")

Romulan engagements

Ventral view of a Romulan Bird-of-Prey during the Neutral Zone Incursion of 2266

The Romulan Star Empire re-emerged from a century of isolation to antagonize the Federation with the Neutral Zone Incursion of 2266. The Enterprise responded and was victorious against a new Romulan Bird-of-Prey, which was equipped with a cloaking device and a plasma torpedo system. (TOS: "Balance of Terror")

In later encounters, the Romulan fleet used strength of numbers in their efforts to overwhelm the Enterprise. When Commodore Stocker took temporary command and violated the Neutral Zone in 2267, up to ten Birds-of,Prey swarmed and pummeled the starship until Kirk's "corbomite" bluff inspired their withdrawal. (TOS: "The Deadly Years")

In 2268, the Enterprise again violated the Neutral Zone – for the purpose of espionage – and was quickly surrounded by three Romulan D7 class battle cruisers. The Enterprise escaped by becoming the first Federation vessel to install and successfully utilize a (stolen) Romulan cloaking device. (TOS: "The Enterprise Incident")

Near Tau Ceti in the following year, Kirk employed the Cochrane deceleration maneuver, allowing the Enterprise to defeat a Romulan vessel. (TOS: "Whom Gods Destroy")

In the final year of Kirk's original mission, the ship was ambushed by a trio of Romulan battle cruisers while on a routine survey. The Enterprise managed to escape through an energy field that adversely affected the ship's main computer. The malfunctioning systems were corrected by another pass through the field, this time with the Romulan ships in pursuit. The attackers then became incapacitated by the same computer malfunctions, and the Enterprise managed to escape. (TAS: "The Practical Joker")

Later years

Refits

In the late 2260s to early 2270s, the Constitution-class starships underwent a major refit program. The actual refitting took eighteen months of work, and essentially a new vessel was built onto the bones of the old, replacing virtually every major system. This ensured their continued service for the next several years, enabling the USS Enterprise to continue to serve in its prominent role.

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The refitted Enterprise in spacedock, 2270s

System upgrades with new technologies after long deployments were far from unusual in the ship's history. However, the Enterprise's overhaul of the early 2270s became a nearly keel-up redesign and reconstruction project.

The very heart of the ship was replaced with a radically different vertical warp core assembly, linked to new and heavier warp engine nacelles, atop swept-back pylons and integrated with the impulse engines. The new drive system allowed for an expanded cargo hold in the secondary hull, linked to the shuttlebay.

Weapons system upgrades included nine dual-phaser banks with power channeled directly from the warp engines. A double photon torpedo/probe launcher was installed atop the secondary hull.

Multiple egress points now included a port-side spacedock hatch, dual ventral space walk bays, four dorsal service hatches, and a standardized docking ring port, which was aft of the bridge on the primary hull. Also included were four more docking ring ports, paired on the port and starboard sides of the launcher and secondary hulls respectively, and service hatch airlocks on the port and starboard sides of the hangar bay's main clam-shell doors.

A new bridge module reflected the modern computer systems, operating interfaces, and ergonomics that ran throughout the ship.

Following Kirk's promotion to rear admiral and posting as Chief of Starfleet Operations, his successor, Captain Will Decker (whom Kirk himself picked to succeed him), oversaw the refit, assisted by chief engineer Commander Montgomery Scott. (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)

Following its refit, the Enterprise, in the early 2270s, went on to be critical in defending the Federation from several external threats, including V'ger and Khan Noonien Singh. (Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)

V'ger

After eighteen months in spacedock for refit, the Enterprise was pressed into service, weeks ahead of schedule, in response to the V'ger crisis, once again under Kirk's command.

Making contact with V'ger

Decker was temporarily demoted to commander and posted as an executive officer because of his familiarity with the new design. Incomplete systems had to be serviced during the vessel's shakedown cruise en route to V'ger, including the first test of the new warp engines.

Shortly after launch, a matter/antimatter intermix malfunction ruptured the warp field and led to the Enterprise entering into an unstable wormhole. Commander Decker belayed an order from Admiral Kirk to destroy an asteroid in their path, which had been dragged into the ruptured warp field along with them, with phasers. The refitted phasers now channeled power directly from the main engines at a point beyond the dilithium/magnatomic-initiator stage.

Because of this refitted function, both the intermix malfunction and the resultant antimatter imbalance within the warp nacelles caused automatic cutoff of the phasers, a design change of which Kirk had not been aware. Decker ordered the use of photon torpedoes, instead; as a backup, they had been designed to draw power from a separate system in case of a major phaser loss. Commander Spock arrived at a timely point and brought correction to the intermix problem. (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)

Once the V'ger threat was averted, Captain Decker was listed as "missing in action", and the Enterprise remained under Admiral Kirk's command for an interim period. (Star Trek: The Motion Picture) At some point, Kirk passed command on to the newly promoted Captain Spock. (Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)

The new designs and components tested and proven aboard the Enterprise influenced a generation of starship design, from the Miranda-class to the Constellation-class, as well as other retro-fitted Constitutions. (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan; ^{(citation needed • edit)})

Khan's return

In 2285, the Enterprise was in a low-tempo training cycle, based in the Sol system. Admiral Kirk boarded his old command to observe a cadet training cruise.

The Enterprise, engaged with the hijacked Reliant

Meanwhile, Khan Noonien Singh had escaped from exile on Ceti Alpha V and hijacked the USS Reliant, after which he stole the Genesis Device from the Regula I space station.

The Enterprise was tasked to investigate, and Spock deferred his command to Admiral Kirk. Subsequent engagements with Reliant left the ship badly damaged, with cadet and crew deaths, including Captain Spock. (Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan)

Last flight of the Enterprise: Return to Genesis and destruction

The Enterprise, heavily damaged, leaving the Spacedock orbiting Earth

Upon the Enterprise returning to Earth, Starfleet Commander Fleet Admiral Morrow announced that the starship, at that point forty years old, would be decommissioned. When Morrow denied Kirk requesting permission to return to the Mutara sector, Kirk conspired with his senior officers and stole the Enterprise from Earth Spacedock, in order to recover Spock's body from the Genesis Planet – to bring it and Spock's katra, the latter possessed by Leonard McCoy, to Mount Seleya on Vulcan. As part of the plan, Kirk had Scott rig up an automation system to run the Enterprise so easily that "a chimpanzee and two trainees" could have handled the craft.

"My God, Bones… what have I done?" – Admiral James T. Kirk

At the Enterprise's destination, the ship was attacked by a Klingon Bird-of-Prey operated by Klingon Commander Kruge, an assault that left the Enterprise disabled; Scotty's automation system was not designed for combat and overloaded when the ship was attacked. After setting the auto-destruct sequence, Kirk and his crew abandoned the ship for the surface of the Genesis Planet. Demolition charges in place on the bridge, and elsewhere throughout the ship's saucer section, exploded, killing a Klingon boarding party. The secondary hull (with what was left of the saucer) fell from orbit and blazingly streaked across the planet's atmosphere. (Star Trek III: The Search for Spock)

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The Enterprise burning in Genesis' atmosphere

Being forty years old at the time of its destruction, the Enterprise had surpassed its designer's original projected eighteen-year endurance by twenty-two years, when the ship was launched back in 2245. (DIS: "Brother"–graphic display) The next USS Enterprise, a refit Constitution-class heavy cruiser USS Enterprise-A, was launched a year later. (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)

Film writer Harve Bennett justified the destruction of the Enterprise via an analogy to the USS Niagara. According to Bennett, "Oliver Hazard Perry of the U.S. Navy scuttled the Niagra [sic] at the battle of Lake Erie and won the battle as a result and took command." He added, "Perry happens to be one of James T. Kirk's great heroes. So, the scuttling of the ship to achieve the greater good is a tactic." (Great Birds of the Galaxy: Gene Roddenberry and the Creators of Trek) A supporter of the decision to blow up the Enterprise was Nicholas Meyer, who commended Bennett for the idea in a letter between them (dated 24 September 1982).

There is a difference in the appearance of the Enterprise between Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock; in Star Trek III, the ship's external appearance appeared to have deteriorated around some areas damaged by Khan's attacks (and repaired in others), while other areas of the ship that had not been damaged by Khan's attack had battle damage, including the starboard secondary hull, both nacelles, and the top of the saucer. This extra damage was explained in non-canon Star Trek literature as having occurred in spars with Klingon warships between the second and third movies. The aggressive move to attack the Enterprise was explained by the secrecy of the Genesis Planet and the overall uneasiness it created. This could also explain the Klingon aggressiveness displayed throughout the third movie. [2]

In Scene 43 of The Search for Spock, Morrow justified the mothballing of the Enterprise by stating, "The Enterprise is twenty years old. We think her day is over." At that point in time, this constituted a continuity error, as it did not line up with either the then-generally-assumed launch year 2245 or the refit in the early 2270s. However, with information much later provided in DIS: "Brother" (which included the launch year), it can in retrospect be argued that Morrow was referring to the time-span Enterprise had exceeded its life expectancy.

List of first contacts

The Enterprise made first contact with numerous species, including:

• 892-IV natives, 2268 (TOS: "Bread and Circuses")
• Aquans, 2269 (TAS: "The Ambergris Element")
• Balok's species, 2266 (TOS: "The Corbomite Maneuver")
• Beta XII-A entity, 2268 (TOS: "Day of the Dove")
• Cheron natives, 2268 (TOS: "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield")
• Delta Theta III aborigines, 2270 (TAS: "Bem")
• Earth Two natives, 2266 (TOS: "Miri")
• Excalbians, 2269 (TOS: "The Savage Curtain")
• Fabrini, 2268 (TOS: "For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky")
• Gem's species, 2268 (TOS: "The Empath")
• Gorgan, 2268 (TOS: "And the Children Shall Lead")
• Gorn, 2267 (TOS: "Arena")
• Greek gods, 2267 (TOS: "Who Mourns for Adonais?")
• Guardian of Forever, 2267 (TOS: "The City on the Edge of Forever") Note: While the Guardian is not necessarily a species, the Enterprise did make first contact with the Guardian of Forever
• Horta, 2267 (TOS: "The Devil in the Dark")
• Keeper's species, 2267 (TOS: "Shore Leave")
• Kelvans, 2268 (TOS: "By Any Other Name")
• Kukulkan's species, 2270 (TAS: "How Sharper Than a Serpent's Tooth")
• Lactrans, 2269 (TAS: "The Eye of the Beholder")
• Matter-energy cloud, 2269 (TAS: "One of Our Planets Is Missing")
• Megans, 2269 (TOS: "The Magicks of Megas-Tu")
• Melkots, 2268 (TOS: "Spectre of the Gun")
• Metrons, 2267 (TOS: "Arena")
• Organians, 2267 (TOS: "Errand of Mercy")
• Ornithoids, 2267 (TOS: "Catspaw")
• Phylosians, 2269 (TAS: "The Infinite Vulcan")
• Platonians, 2268 (TOS: "Plato's Stepchildren")
• Providers, 2268 (TOS: "The Gamesters of Triskelion")
• Arretan, 2268 (TOS: "Return to Tomorrow")
• Sarpeidon natives, 2269 (TOS: "All Our Yesterdays")
• Scalosians, 2268 (TOS: "Wink of an Eye")
• Sigma Draconis VI natives, 2268 (TOS: "Spock's Brain")
• Talosians, 2254 (TOS: "The Cage")
• Thasians, 2266 (TOS: "Charlie X")
• Theela's species, 2269 (TAS: "The Lorelei Signal")
• Trelane's species, 2267 (TOS: "The Squire of Gothos")
• Vaalians, 2267 (TOS: "The Apple")
• Vians, 2268 (TOS: "The Empath")
• Zetarians, 2269 (TOS: "The Lights of Zetar")

Command crew

Robert April's command crew

• Commanding officer
  • Robert April (2245–2250; briefly in 2270)
• First officer
  • Christopher Pike (2245–2250)
• Chief medical officer
  • Sarah April (2245–2250)

Christopher Pike's command crew

The crew of the Enterprise under the command of Christopher Pike in 2258

• Commanding officer
  • Christopher Pike (2250–early 2260s)
  • Katrina Cornwell (2257)
• First officer
  • Una (2250s)
• Chief engineer
  • Louvier (2257)
• Chief medical officer
  • Phil Boyce (2254)
• Helmsman
  • Una (2250s)
  • Mann (2257) (acting)
• Communications officer/Operations officer
  • Garison (2254)
  • Nicola (2257–)
• Navigator
  • José Tyler (2254)
  • Amin (2257–)
• Tactical officer
  • Mann (2257–)
• Science officer
  • Lynne Lucero (sometime after 2250)
  • Evan Connolly (2250s–2257)
  • Kroad (2257)
  • Spock (2254–2257; 2258–2260s)

James T. Kirk's command crew

The crew of the USS Enterprise enjoy a jovial moment with Captain Kirk

• Commanding officer
  • Robert April (briefly in 2270)
  • James T. Kirk (2265–2270; early 2270s, 2285)
  • Stocker (2267)
  • Matt Decker (2267)
  • Will Decker (2270s)
  • Spock (2285)
• First officer
  • Spock (2260s–2270; 2285)
  • Will Decker (2270s)
  • Saavik (as a trainee) (2285)
• Second officer
  • Spock (2270s)
  • Montgomery Scott (2266–2270s)
• Chief engineer
  • Montgomery Scott (2265–2270s, 2285)
• Chief medical officer
  • Mark Piper (2265)
  • Leonard McCoy (2266–2270, 2270s, 2285)
  • Christine Chapel (2270s)
• Helmsman
  • Gary Mitchell (2265)
  • Hikaru Sulu (2266–2270s, 2285)
  • Leslie (2266-2267)
  • Hansen (2267)
  • Hadley (2267–2268)
  • DePaul (2267)
  • Spinelli (2267)
  • Kyle (2268)
  • Rahda (2268)
  • Walking Bear (2270)
• Communications officer/Operations officer
  • Alden (2265)
  • Uhura (2266–2270s, 2285)
  • John Farrell (2266)
  • Palmer (2267–2269)
  • Angela Martine (2267)
  • M'Ress (2269–2270)
• Navigator
  • Lee Kelso (2265)
  • Dave Bailey (2266)
  • John Farrell (2266)
  • Kevin Riley (2266)
  • Stiles (2266)
  • Hadley (2267–2269)
  • DeSalle (2267)
  • DePaul (2267)
  • Osborne (2267)
  • Leslie (2267)
  • Painter (2267)
  • Pavel Chekov (2267–2269)
  • Jana Haines (2268)
  • Arex (2269–2270)
  • Ilia (2270s)
  • DiFalco (2270s)
  • Saavik (2285)
• Security chief
  • Giotto (2267)
  • Pavel Chekov (2270s, 2285)
• Tactical officer
  • Hikaru Sulu (2266–2270)
  • Pavel Chekov (2267–2270)
• Science officer
  • Hikaru Sulu (2265)
  • Spock (2260s–2270, 2270s–2280s)
  • Will Decker (2270s)
  • Pavel Chekov (2285) (acting)
• Records officer
  • Benjamin Finney (2267)
• A&A officer
  • Carolyn Palamas (2267)

Crew

Complement

The number of the Enterprise' crew complement more than doubled over the duration of its service.

In 2254, the Enterprise had a complement of 203, this stated following the loss of three crewmembers at Rigel VII. (TOS: "The Cage", "The Menagerie, Part I")

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Enterprise's file

In 2257, scans showed the entire crew complement was also stated to be 203, yet in a display graphic specifically stated that the crew compliment was 430; 43 officers and 387 enlisted.

In 2265, the Enterprise's complement consisted of "almost a hundred women." (TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before")

In 2266, Captain Ramart commented to Charlie Evans that the Enterprise was "like a whole city in space," compared to his ship, the USS Antares, which had a relatively meager complement of twenty. Ramart further explained that there were "over 400 in the crew of a starship," which was clarified by Kirk as actually "428, to be exact." (TOS: "Charlie X")

Jadzia Dax observed to Benjamin Sisko, after they transported aboard the Enterprise, that "they really packed them in on these old ships." (DS9: "Trials and Tribble-ations")

The 203 crew count originated from an initial Star Trek is... pitch (p. 9), which Gene Roddenberry wrote while devising Star Trek in March 1964, whereas he had revised the number upwards to 430, "approximately one-third of them female," in a 17 April 1967 third draft of the Star Trek Writers/Directors Guide (p. 7). The latter number was adopted by Franz Joseph for his 1975 Star Trek Star Fleet Technical Manual, whose "Class I Heavy Cruiser – Constitution Class Starships" specifications, in turn, became the source for most of the information visible on the Enterprise graphic display in DIS: "Brother".

Casualties

Service aboard the Enterprise proved to be hazardous duty. Between 2265 and 2269, individuals who were killed while assigned to the ship included at least fifty-eight officers and crew. Nine crew members were killed when the Enterprise encountered the galactic barrier in 2265. Gary Mitchell, Lee Kelso, and Elizabeth Dehner later died on Delta Vega. (TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before")

Two of seven crewmembers assigned to study Murasaki 312 on the shuttlecraft Galileo – Latimer and Gaetano – both met an unfortunate end, by the hand of a large creature on the planet Taurus II. (TOS: "The Galileo Seven")

In 2267, Enterprise security officers Hendorff, Kaplan, Mallory, and Marple were killed on planet Gamma Trianguli VI. (TOS: "The Apple") Further incidents with multiple fatalities included four security guards killed by Nomad in 2267, as well as five security guards killed by a dikironium cloud creature on Argus X in 2268. (TOS: "The Changeling", "Obsession") An outbreak of Rigelian fever, in 2269, killed three crewmen and imperiled the rest until a source of ryetalyn could be obtained. (TOS: "Requiem for Methuselah")

As well, two Enterprise security officers were beamed out into open space while the ship was under the control of Gorgan. (TOS: "And the Children Shall Lead") Lieutenant Galloway was vaporized by Captain Tracey on Omega IV, (TOS: "The Omega Glory") but later was somehow resurrected. (TOS: "Turnabout Intruder") Yeoman Thompson was reduced to a dry cuboctahedron solid. She was killed when the Kelvan Rojan crushed the object in his hand. (TOS: "By Any Other Name")

In the mid-2270s, Commander Sonak and an Enterprise officer were killed in a transporter accident while beaming to the ship. (Star Trek: The Motion Picture)

See also: Redshirt

The Starships Enterprise United Earth: XCV 330 • NX-01 • Enterprise Federation: NCC-1701 • NCC-1701-A • NCC-1701-B NCC-1701-C • NCC-1701-D • NCC-1701-E NCC-1701-F • NCC-1701-G • NCC-1701-J Terran Empire (mirror universe): NX-01 • NCC-1701 Federation (alternate reality): NCC-1701 • NCC-1701-A

Constitution-class starships USS Constellation • USS Defiant • USS Enterprise • USS Excalibur • USS Exeter • USS Hood • USS Intrepid • USS Lexington • USS New Jersey • USS Potemkin • NCC-1700 • Unnamed Mirror universe: USS Defiant • ISS Enterprise Alternate reality: USS Enterprise • USS Enterprise-A • Unnamed Alternate timeline: UEF Enterprise

Appendices

Appearances

• TOS: (every episode, first appearance)
• TAS: (every episode, except "The Slaver Weapon")
• Star Trek films:
  • Star Trek: The Motion Picture
  • Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
  • Star Trek III: The Search for Spock
  • Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home (recording only)
• TNG: "Relics" (bridge shown on holodeck)
• DS9:
  • "Trials and Tribble-ations"
  • "What You Leave Behind" (corridor shown in montage)
• ENT: "These Are the Voyages..." (closing montage)
• DIS:
  • "Will You Take My Hand?"
  • "Brother"
  • "If Memory Serves" (archive footage only)
  • "Such Sweet Sorrow"
  • "Such Sweet Sorrow, Part 2"
• ST:
  • "Q&A"
  • "The Trouble with Edward"
  • "Ask Not"
  • "Ephraim and Dot"
• PIC: "Maps and Legends" (hologram only)

References

• TAS: "The Slaver Weapon"
• TNG: "The Naked Now"
• VOY: "Q2"
• DIS:
  • "Lethe"
  • "New Eden"
  • "Point of Light"
  • "An Obol for Charon"
  • "The Sound of Thunder"
  • "Project Daedalus"
  • "Through the Valley of Shadows"

Background information

The CG Enterprise from the "remastered" opening credits

The Enterprise on a painting aboard the Enterprise-D

The Enterprise and its interiors were designed primarily by Matt Jefferies. A three-foot demonstration model was completed in November 1964 by the Howard Anderson Company to show to Gene Roddenberry. After getting his approval, an eleven-foot model was then constructed by Richard C. Datin, Jr., Mel Keys, and Vern Sion at Volmer Jensen's model shop, and was finished in December 1964. The eleven-foot model was modified for TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before" and again for the regular series effect shots. Re-used footage of all three stages of the eleven-foot model's appearance are shown mixed together in TOS.

In the final draft script of TOS: "The Naked Time", the Enterprise was somewhat poetically described thus; "Sleek… efficient… the look of man in space… tooled… equipped…"

For Star Trek: The Animated Series, the color of the Enterprise was limited. D.C. Fontana commented, "For the purposes of animation you can't do the light white, silver kinds of colors. So they made the Enterprise gray and it came off all right." (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 1, Issue 16, p. 68)

Some distinctive effects shots of the Enterprise from TOS were recreated in animation for Star Trek: The Animated Series. Depicting the ship performing any new, impressive maneuvers would have been too costly for TAS and would have taken the animators too long to show, despite frequent TAS Director Hal Sutherland later implying that a desire to portray the ship doing "barrel rolls and that kind of thing" was quite common. (Star Trek: The Magazine Volume 1, Issue 16, pp. 63 & 64)

The refit of the Enterprise depicted in the films Star Trek: The Motion Picture, Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan, and Star Trek III: The Search for Spock was designed by Richard Taylor and Andrew Probert, based on designs for the vessel made by Matt Jefferies for undeveloped television series Star Trek: Phase II. The design for the movie refit was the basis of a design patent issued by the US Patent and Trademark Office.

The Enterprise was to have appeared in Star Trek: The First Adventure, which would have revealed that the design of the ship in TOS was actually a refit; the original design resembled Enterprise NX-01, though that vessel was created years later.

The Enterprise was recreated as a new physical model for the DS9 Season 5 episode "Trials and Tribble-ations". The ship's interior was represented with sets built on Paramount Stage 11. (Information from Larry Nemecek) The CG model of Constitution-class USS Defiant, created for "In a Mirror, Darkly", was relabeled as the Enterprise for the final scene of "These Are the Voyages...", the last episode of Star Trek: Enterprise.

A new CG model, built from caliper measurements of the original eleven-foot physical model, was created for use in the remastered and recreated version of Star Trek: The Original Series (for more detailed treatises on the studio models used, see the appropriate articles: Constitution-class model (original) and Constitution-class model (refit)).

Visual effects artist Gabriel Koerner created a re-imagined version of the pre-refit Enterprise. The design is more contemporary, while keeping the design of the original ship. A video showing the ship from various angles can be seen on YouTube. The model was also featured as the August image for the 2007 Ships of the Line calendar, as well as in the Ships of the Line coffee-table book, placed between TOS and TMP images, which included text from Michael Okuda suggesting it as one of the ideas on how to refit the ship.

The Enterprise was pictured on three paintings during the Star Trek franchise: on a painting in the recreation deck of the refitted vessel, in Star Trek: The Motion Picture; on a painting in the waiting area of the sickbay aboard the USS Enterprise-D, in the Star Trek: The Next Generation fifth season episode "Ethics"; and on a painting on the wall of Kirk's kitchen in the Nexus, in Star Trek Generations.

Upon preparing to view the bridge of the Enterprise in the first draft script of TNG: "Relics", Montgomery Scott specified, "Show her the way she was before Stardate 5928," referencing the stardate on which TOS series finale "Turnabout Intruder" takes place. Consequently, this line of dialogue would have established that the holographic simulation of the Enterprise's bridge in "Relics" was definitely contemporaneous with the exact setting of TOS. Scott did not specify that in the final draft of the script, however. [3] The line is also not spoken on screen.

The Enterprise was to have been referenced in the first draft script of VOY: "Flashback", in connection with its near-destruction at Eminiar VII. However, all mention of the vessel was eliminated from the episode by the time the final draft of the script was written.

A new CGI model was created for the appearance of the USS Enterprise in the Season 1 finale of Star Trek: Discovery, "Will You Take My Hand?". This model updated the appearance of the USS Enterprise to better match the style of other Starfleet ships depicted in the show, most noticeably changing the Enterprise's warp nacelles to have visible, glowing blue cutouts on the inner surface. The impulse engine was also different, and the nacelle pylons were swept back with openings in their centers similar to the refit configuration. The new model also had a longer "runway" before the shuttlebay doors.

External links

• USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)
• USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) at Wikipedia
• USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) at Memory Beta, the wiki for licensed Star Trek works
• USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) at the Star Trek Online Wiki