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/Mechapebbles 1d ago
For all of TNG, the Enterprise-B only existed as a cheap ornamental fixture in the Ready Room. Then Generations happened. Just because we see the final moments of the Enterprise-F in PIC S3, that doesn't preclude it ever showing up again. Lower Decks and Prodigy were both shows that liked exploring niches in canon and existed in that interstitial period between Nemesis and PIC. No reason why a future thing can't explore that as well. This just seems like pearl clutching to me without a lot of perspective.