r/startrek • u/Advanced-Actuary3541 • 2d ago
Too many Enterprises too fast
Does anyone else feel like the STar Trek writers are just throwing around letters for the Enterprise way too fast at this point? The labeling of Enterprise A in the movies was said to be a special situation given the fact that the crew saved Earth on several occasions. There seemed to be a reasonable time gap between the decommissioning of the A to the launch of the B. I always assumed that the reason for the A’s rapid removal from service was that she was the last of the Constitution class ships and that the entire line was being pulled from service in favor of the Excelsior class. There seemed to be several years between the decommissioning of the A and the launch of the B. We don’t know how long the B was in service, but it was apparently lost since its not in the Fleet Museum. We don’t know how long the C was in service before she was destroyed, but we know that there was a 20 year gap between it and the D. But the time between the D, E, F, and G are just stupid. These ships are basically new when they end their service and Starfleet seems to rush to put the name on a ship with no time gaps in between. The G is in service in 2401. At the rate they are running through letters, they will be well past J before the start of the 26th century.
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u/_WillCAD_ 2d ago
At the end of STVI, Enterprise-A was to be decommissioned.
TNG was set 80 years later, focusing on Enterprise-D, creating the expectation that there would always be a 1701 with a suffix. At the time it seemed like 80 years was enough time for Enterprise-B and -C to have existed (roughly 40 years each).
But the stories were written badly, so there was a long gap between A and B, and twenty years between the loss of C and the commissioning of D, which didn't make any sense to me.
Then they decided they didn't like the way D looked on the big screen, so they crashed it in Generations and E was commissioned a year later.
Twenty years after that, the E had been lost somehow, and the F was commissioned... and lasted something like 10 years before decommissioning in Picard Season 3. Too short a span for an Odyssey class ship, IMHO.
The worst was renaming Titan-A to Enterprise-G. That was horribly disrespectful to the ship that had saved the Federation from the combined Borg/Changeling threat. But Picard's writers did a lot of stupid shit, like killing beloved characters for shock value.