Shortly before its decommissioning in , Kirk took the Enterprise -- against orders -- to the Genesis Planet to rescue a rejuvinated Spock. It was also here that the vessel was destroyed by Kirk when threatened by Klingon capture.
An email will not be created automatically. The email will only be created once you click on the "Send Email" button. Enter the email address associated with your account and we'll send you a link to reset your password. Search Submit. Copy to Clipboard. Fortunately, Spock, McCoy, and Uhura devised a plan to use a photon torpedo equipped with sensors capable of tracking ionization from the Bird-of-Prey's impulse engines.
It successfully hit Chang's vessel, knocking it out of the cloak and leaving it vulnerable to further torpedo volleys from the Enterprise and the Excelsior. Following the destruction of the Bird-of-Prey, Enterprise and Excelsior crew beamed down to the Khitomer Conference and apprehended the conspirators, preventing the assassination. Following the Khitomer mission, the Enterprise was ordered by Starfleet Command to return to spacedock to be decommissioned.
Captain Kirk ordered the ship on course to the " second star to the right To them and their posterity will we commit our future. They will continue the voyages we have begun and journey to all the undiscovered countries, boldly going where no man — where no one — has gone before.
The Enterprise -A remained mothballed as of Michelson also designed the sets for the first film, which were altered to become those of Star Trek: The Next Generation. In the first draft script of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home but not in the final version of that film, the "A" in this Enterprise 's registry was finished being painted on top of the primary hull just as the shuttle containing Kirk and his senior staff arrived; this scene was retained in the novelization of Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home.
Also, the same script described the ship being shown emerging from Spacedock, though that is not depicted on-screen. The scene instead cuts from the vessel being inside Spacedock to being outside the facility, already in space. It was painted white and the lighting scheme was slightly altered. In addition, okudagrams replaced the gauges and dials formerly seen on the ship. Only the back half of the bridge was modified, the front portion was left unchanged. The bridge had been irrevocably modified as various Starfleet bridges seen throughout the series, including the Enterprise -D battle bridge , and also became several science labs and alien interiors.
The turbolift alcoves were the only parts saved from the previous set, as they were removed during TNG's second season. Other Enterprise -D sets were reused for the film, specifically sickbay , the transporter room, and the corridors, in order to save money; much of the signage and graphics were left in place, and TNG-style door labels and control panels can be seen on the sets.
Director Nick Meyer wanted to give the vessels a much more militaristic feel, and incorporated metal flooring and some tactile control surfaces. Enterprise -D sets were used for engineering, sickbay, the transporter room, the officers' mess, Kirk's and Spock's quarters, and the corridors, but they were disguised better for this film, undergoing several changes. The bridge set was placed in storage at the end of production.
Star Trek: Captain's Chair. Captain Scott alludes to the ship being newly built in the ship's log of Star Trek V: The Final Frontier , stating " This new ship must have been built by monkeys ". The Ti-Ho was rechristened Enterprise after Kirk and his crew were exonerated.
According to the paperwork with the Bandai model kit, the Enterprise -A was mothballed into Memory Alpha 's museum fleet. Scott's comments in " Relics " would seem to support this. The vessel was later destroyed in the corona of Chal's sun during a battle with Klingon battle cruisers.
These events are later referenced in the novel Cast No Shadow. She was redesignated back to CVN the following year. Deployed mainly in the Pacific and Indian oceans during the late s and early s, she entered the Mediterranean in April to assist in Operation El Dorado Canyon, the bombing of Libya.
In , she successfully attacked Iraqi targets in Operation Desert Fox. To assist in the war against terrorism, she participated, beginning in , in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom and underwent further refurbishments and deployments until deactived in Enterprise was struck from the Naval Vessel Register on February 3, , and is currently awaiting nuclear recycling.
This model is temporarily removed for future display in the "Navy in the Nuclear Age" exhibit in the north end of the Cold War Gallery.
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 Sabotaged during a diplomatic mission to the Tellun system in , 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. 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 , up to ten Birds-of-Prey swarmed and pummeled the starship until Kirk's " corbomite " bluff inspired their withdrawal.
In , 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. Near Tau Ceti in the following year, Kirk employed the Cochrane deceleration maneuver , allowing the Enterprise to defeat a Romulan vessel.
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. In the late s to early s , 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 s 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.
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.
Following its refit, the Enterprise , in the early s, went on to be critical in defending the Federation from several external threats, including V'ger and Khan Noonien Singh.
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. 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.
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. 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.
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 Constitution s. In , 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 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.
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. 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 The Enterprise 's long history would be remembered for the next century.
Star Trek Generations. I should have known.
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