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The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) was a 23rd century Federation Constitution-class starship operated by Starfleet, and the first Federation starship to bear the name Enterprise. During its career, the Enterprise served as the Federation flagship and was in service from 2245 to 2285.
Lineage
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")
Robert April's command
The Enterprise was launched in 2245, under the command of Captain 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")
Christopher Pike's command
In 2250, April left the Enterprise and command was turned over to Pike. (DIS: "Brother")
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")
In 2254, Pike would obtain a half Human-Vulcan science officer, Spock, who served under him for over eleven years. (TOS: "The Menagerie, Part I")
Pike's missions included voyages to the Rigel, Vega, and Talos systems. (TOS: "The Cage", "The Menagerie, Part I")
At a point between 2254 and 2256, the Enterprise underwent a major refit, radically changing its appearance. During the refit, nearly every part of the ship was changed, looking similar but having a completely different design. (TOS: "The Cage"; DIS: "Will You Take My Hand?")
Federation-Klingon War
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 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")
A week later, Pike's first officer, Una Chin-Riley, 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
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.
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")
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")
Downtime and returned to service
Following the mission to Edrin II, the Enterprise returned to Earth where its crew was enjoying some much needed downtime. In 2259, the Enterprise was under scheduled maintenance in spacedock when Admiral April pulled Pike out of exile and the Enterprise out of spacedock when Una Chin-Riley and the USS Archer went missing during a first contact mission to Kiley 279. (SNW: "Strange New Worlds")
On stardate 2259.42, the Enterprise left Starbase 1 to continue its mission of exploration. (SNW: "Strange New Worlds")
At some point between 2259 and 2265, the Enterprise appeared to have undergone a refit, the design being reverted back to an older appearance from during 2254 however with different warp nacelles and impulse engines as well as the interior. (SNW: "Strange New Worlds"; TOS: "Where No Man Has Gone Before")
James T. Kirk's command
In 2265, after nearly twenty years of service aboard the Enterprise, Captain Pike would be promoted to fleet captain and command of the Enterprise would be transferred to James T. Kirk. The Enterprise would also be assigned to another five-year mission of deep space exploration. 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"); (TOS: "The Galileo Seven", "The Deadly Years")
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")
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 (which later prompted the ship to be refit and repaired, changing its appearance slightly for the rest of Kirk's mission) 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")
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")
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 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
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
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")
Return to spacedock
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.
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.
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 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.
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)
Final Mission
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.
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)
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)
Legacy
The Enterprise's long history would be remembered for the next century. (TNG: "The Naked Now"; DS9: "Trials and Tribble-ations"; VOY: "Flashback", "Q2"; PIC: "Penance", "Fly Me to the Moon") Captain John Harriman of the USS Enterprise-B would learn of Kirk's missions when he was in grade school. (Star Trek Generations)
In 2369, when Montgomery Scott was rescued from the crash landed USS Jenolen, and his surprise that he was found by the USS Enterprise, Scott's immediate response was "Enterprise? I should have known. I bet Jim Kirk himself hauled the old girl out of mothballs to come looking for me," even though he, along with Pavel Chekov and Kirk were on the USS Enterprise-B during its maiden voyage when Kirk was presumed killed. (TNG: "Relics"; Star Trek Generations)
In 2399, retired Starfleet admiral Jean-Luc Picard observed holographic images of the original Enterprise and the USS Enterprise-D in the central lobby of Starfleet Headquarters. (PIC: "Maps and Legends") Kirk's use of the slingshot manoeuvre using the Enterprise in order to travel through time was mentioned as an example by Picard as one of the methods for travelling back through time in order to repair changes made in 2024 by Q. (PIC: "Penance")
List of first contacts
Over its forty-years of service, the Enterprise made first contact with numerous species.
Christopher Pike's notable first contacts
- Kiley, 2259 (SNW: "Strange New Worlds")
- Shepherd, 2259 (SNW: "Children of the Comet")
- Talosians, 2254 (TOS: "The Cage"; DIS: "If Memory Serves")
James T. Kirk's notable first contacts
- 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")
- 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")
- Miri natives, 2266 (TOS: "Miri")
- 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")
- 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
- First officer
- Christopher Pike (2245–2250)
- Chief medical officer
- Sarah April (2245–2250)
Christopher Pike's command crew
- Commanding officer
- Christopher Pike (2250–early 2260s)
- Katrina Cornwell (2258)
- First officer
- Una Chin-Riley (2250s)
- La'an Noonien-Singh (2259) (acting)
- Chief engineer
- Chief medical officer
- Phil Boyce (2254)
- M'Benga (2259)
- Helmsman
- Una Chin-Riley (2250s-2259)
- Mann (2258) (acting)
- Erica Ortegas (2259)
- Communications officer/Operations officer
- Garison (2254)
- Nicola (2258)
- Nyota Uhura (2259)
- Christina (2259)
- Navigator
- José Tyler (2254)
- Amin (2258)
- Jenna Mitchell (2259)
- Una Chin-Riley (2259)
- Tactical officer
- Mann (2258)
- Science officer
- Lynne Lucero (sometime after 2250)
- Evan Connolly (2257)
- Kroad (2258)
- Spock (2254–2257, 2258–2260s)
- George Samuel Kirk (2259)
- Chief of security
- D. Nhan (2257)
- La'an Noonien Singh (2259)
James T. Kirk's command crew
- Commanding officer
- James T. Kirk (2265–2270; early 2270s, 2285)
- Robert April (2270)
- First officer
- Spock (2260s–2270, 2285)
- Chief engineer
- Montgomery Scott (2265–2270s, 2285) (also second officer)
- Chief medical officer
- Mark Piper (2265)
- Leonard McCoy (2266–2270, 2270s, 2285)
- Christine Chapel (2269) (acting)
- Helmsman
- Alden (2265) (acting)
- 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)
- Nyota Uhura (2266–2270s, 2285)
- John Farrell (2266)
- Palmer (2267–2269)
- Angela Martine (2267)
- Lisa (2269)
- 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)
- Security chief
- Tactical officer
- Hikaru Sulu (2266–2270)
- Pavel Chekov (2267–2270, 2285)
- Science officer
- Hikaru Sulu (2265)
- Spock (2265–2270, 2270s–2280s)
- Pavel Chekov (2285) (acting)
- Records officer
- Benjamin Finney (2267)
- A&A officer
- Carolyn Palamas (2267)
Will Decker's command crew
- Commanding officer
- Willard Decker (2270s)
- James T. Kirk (2270s)
- First officer
- Willard Decker (2270s)
- Chief engineer
- Montgomery Scott (2270s)
- Chief medical officer
- Christine Chapel (2270s)
- Leonard McCoy (2270s)
- Helmsman
- Hikaru Sulu (2270s)
- Communications officer/Operations officer
- Nyota Uhura (2270s)
- Navigator
- Tactical officer
- Pavel Chekov (2270s)
- Science officer
- Sonak (2270s)
- Spock (2270s)
- Willard Decker (2270s) (acting)
Spock's command crew
- Commanding officer
- Spock (2285)
- First officer
- Saavik (2285) (as a trainee)
Crew
Complement
The number of the Enterprise's 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")
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")
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)
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Appendices
Appearances
- TOS: (every episode, first appearance)
- TAS: (every episode, except "The Slaver Weapon")
- Star Trek films:
- 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:
- PIC: "Maps and Legends" (hologram only)
- PRO: "Starstruck" (digital image)
- SNW:
Background information
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 the 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 earlier.
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