The Enterprise Alphabet

[Markonian]

The Enterprise-J is the most distant, advanced USS Enterprise we've seen on screen. Everything beyond was hard to imagine - until DSC S3 established Starfleet's style for mid-31st to the late 32nd century. Now, it's a little easier to imagine the alphabet of ships named Enterprise, and speculatively fill in some gaps!

-1st: Enterprise NX-01
* class: NX class (original), Columbia class (refit)
* times active: 2151-2161
* notes: Earth ship, from ENT

0th: USS Vol'Rala AG-7-10
* Kumari class
* c. 2140s to 2165
* Andorian for "enterprise", from Rise of the Federation

1st: USS Enterprise NCC-1701
* Constitution class (original), Enterprise class (refit)
* 2245-2285
* appears in DSC

2nd: Enterprise-A
* Enterprise class
* 2285-2293, destroyed in 2300
* destroyed in Shatnerverse novels

3rd: Enterprise-B
* Excelsior class (upgraded)
* 2293-2319
* precise fate uncertain - ship lost according to FASA

4th: Enterprise-C
* "Narendra" class (at launch, according to ST: Trexels), Ambassador class (refit)
* 2332-2344
* from "Yesterday's Enterprise"

5th: Enterprise-D
* Galaxy class
* 2363-2371
* from TNG

6th: Enterprise-E
* Sovereign class
* 2372-2408
* decommissioned in STO

7th: Enterprise-F
* Odyssey class (orig), Yorktown class (refit)
* from 2409, active by 2411
* potentially the Enterprise active during the Second Romulan War in the 2460s (Strange New Worlds anthology story "Guardians of Forever")
* from STO

8th: Enterprise-G
* uncertain and unestablished
* active in the mid/late 25th century
* replaces the F after the war?

9th: Enterprise-H
* uncertain and unestablished
* active late 25th to early 26th century
* Perhaps like in the abortive Star Trek: Final Frontier, the Federation goes through a period of contraction around the 8th and 9th Enterprises, explaining the lack of access to the Iconian gateway, Dyson sphere and transwarp networks (from STO) in later centuries (DSC).

10th: Enterprise-I
* Bismarck class
* launched 2516, active by 2528
* from Star Trek: Final Frontier (unproduced animated series), relatively small battleship. Captain Alexander Chase and his crew bring an end to the period of contraction.

11th: Enterprise-J
* Universe class
* launched in the 2540s, participating in Temporal War in 2554; in total active for over 100 years
* based on ENT "Azati Prime" (alternate version seen) and STO (prime version). Another golden age for the Federation. Largest Federation Enterprise ever.

12th: Enterprise-K
* uncertain and unestablished
* active in the 27th century

13th: Enterprise-L
* uncertain and unestablished
* active from the late 27th to early 28th century
* perhaps contemporary around 2677, when Kal Dano works on the Tox Uthat on Lirss Prime (STO: "Vorgon Conclusions")

14th: Enterprise-M
* uncertain and unestablished
* active in the 28th century, around 2769, when the Temporal Accords are signed by Galactic Union members and associates at New Khitomer (STO: "Temporal Reckoning")

15th: Enterprise-N
* when playing, I use the XIndi Narcine class (XIndi Aquatic ship) flying backwards to represent the curvilinear/arrowhead Starfleet style of this era. Let's call it the World class.
* active in the 29th century, when another period of contraction begins

16th: Enterprise-O
* Dreadnought class - when playing, I use the white-colored GamePrint 5" model, with Starfleet markings, of the Kelvinverse's Vengeance/Dreadnought class, because it seems like a good precursor shape for the Kirk class
* active in the 30th century during the Temporal Wars, decommissioned in 2999

17th: Enterprise-P
* Kirk class (31st century Constitution class)
* 2999-3069, major refit in 3022, destroyed in the Burn
* Why Kirk class? Because it's the most typically Enterprise-looking of the era.
* Why P? Meta, the Voyager-J is a reference to Janeway, so perhaps there's a Defiant-S (warships wouldn't last as long) for Sisko, and the P for Picard.

18th: Enterprise-Q
* to be established in DSC
* launched in or after 3190s
* Why Q? Because Q follows P(icard)!

Bonus: Enterprise-∞
* Mega-Federation starship (malleable sphere, 200 km in diameter)
* launched in 12.265, active by 1.012.260
* from SNW anthology story "Our Million-Year Mission"

How would you fill out the Enterprise alphabet?

 

[Markonian]

Doing the same for Voyager is a little more difficult.

 

[STEPhon IT]

The Enterprise-J is the most distant, advanced USS Enterprise we've seen on screen. Everything beyond was hard to imagine - until DSC S3 established Starfleet's style for mid-31st to the late 32nd century. Now, it's a little easier to imagine the alphabet of ships named Enterprise, and speculatively fill in some gaps!

-1st: Enterprise NX-01
* class: NX class (original), Columbia class (refit)
* times active: 2151-2161
* notes: Earth ship, from ENT

0th: USS Vol'Rala AG-7-10
* Kumari class
* c. 2140s to 2165
* Andorian for "enterprise", from Rise of the Federation

1st: USS Enterprise NCC-1701
* Constitution class (original), Enterprise class (refit)
* 2245-2285
* appears in DSC



Bonus: Enterprise-∞
* Mega-Federation starship (malleable sphere, 200 km in diameter)
* launched in 12.265, active by 1.012.260
* from SNW anthology story "Our Million-Year Mission"

How would you fill out the Enterprise alphabet?

So in continuity, the Starship Class version of the Enterprise from TOS was actually a refit based the DISCO/ STRANGE series Enterprise???

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

So in continuity, the Starship Class version of the Enterprise from TOS was actually a refit based the DISCO/ STRANGE series Enterprise???

I guess that makes sense, StarFleet Bureaucracy hadn't decided to start appending letters to the end of the registery until they get to NCC-1701-A with the Re-Fit Enterprise.

Every major bureaucratic decision in a large organization like StarFleet has to start some where, and before that point in time, StarFleet never felt the need to append letters when making major changes to their StarShip.

And the USS Enterprise is the first "Mega-Star" of a StarShip where it's tales of it's exploits are told across the UFP.

 

[Markonian]

Enterprise class would refer to the Art Deco-2270s-era refit variant of the Constitution class.

 

[STEPhon IT]

DISCO-prise plague is Constitution Class, so in continuity sake, why did StarFleet Bureaucracy changed the plaque to STARSHIP CLASS when TOS came along in the timeline???

 

[Markonian]

For poetic reasons?
The Freedom-class USS Franklin also has Starship Class on it’s dedication plaque after the Federation’s founding.

 

[publiusr]

I might put a Daedalus class in there somewhere.

 

[STEPhon IT]

For poetic reasons?
The Freedom-class USS Franklin also has Starship Class on it’s dedication plaque after the Federation’s founding.

So this is the JJ-verse. Makes a lot more sense.

 

[Commander Troi]

The Enterprise-J is the most distant, advanced USS Enterprise we've seen on screen. Everything beyond was hard to imagine - until DSC S3 established Starfleet's style for mid-31st to the late 32nd century. Now, it's a little easier to imagine the alphabet of ships named Enterprise, and speculatively fill in some gaps!

-1st: Enterprise NX-01
* class: NX class (original), Columbia class (refit)
* times active: 2151-2161
* notes: Earth ship, from ENT

0th: USS Vol'Rala AG-7-10
* Kumari class
* c. 2140s to 2165
* Andorian for "enterprise", from Rise of the Federation

1st: USS Enterprise NCC-1701
* Constitution class (original), Enterprise class (refit)
* 2245-2285
* appears in DSC

2nd: Enterprise-A
* Enterprise class
* 2285-2293, destroyed in 2300
* destroyed in Shatnerverse novels

3rd: Enterprise-B
* Excelsior class (upgraded)
* 2293-2319
* precise fate uncertain - ship lost according to FASA

4th: Enterprise-C
* "Narendra" class (at launch, according to ST: Trexels), Ambassador class (refit)
* 2332-2344
* from "Yesterday's Enterprise"

5th: Enterprise-D
* Galaxy class
* 2363-2371
* from TNG

6th: Enterprise-E
* Sovereign class
* 2372-2408
* decommissioned in STO

7th: Enterprise-F
* Odyssey class (orig), Yorktown class (refit)
* from 2409, active by 2411
* potentially the Enterprise active during the Second Romulan War in the 2460s (Strange New Worlds anthology story "Guardians of Forever")
* from STO

8th: Enterprise-G
* uncertain and unestablished
* active in the mid/late 25th century
* replaces the F after the war?

9th: Enterprise-H
* uncertain and unestablished
* active late 25th to early 26th century
* Perhaps like in the abortive Star Trek: Final Frontier, the Federation goes through a period of contraction around the 8th and 9th Enterprises, explaining the lack of access to the Iconian gateway, Dyson sphere and transwarp networks (from STO) in later centuries (DSC).

10th: Enterprise-I
* Bismarck class
* launched 2516, active by 2528
* from Star Trek: Final Frontier (unproduced animated series), relatively small battleship. Captain Alexander Chase and his crew bring an end to the period of contraction.

11th: Enterprise-J
* Universe class
* launched in the 2540s, participating in Temporal War in 2554; in total active for over 100 years
* based on ENT "Azati Prime" (alternate version seen) and STO (prime version). Another golden age for the Federation. Largest Federation Enterprise ever.

12th: Enterprise-K
* uncertain and unestablished
* active in the 27th century

13th: Enterprise-L
* uncertain and unestablished
* active from the late 27th to early 28th century
* perhaps contemporary around 2677, when Kal Dano works on the Tox Uthat on Lirss Prime (STO: "Vorgon Conclusions")

14th: Enterprise-M
* uncertain and unestablished
* active in the 28th century, around 2769, when the Temporal Accords are signed by Galactic Union members and associates at New Khitomer (STO: "Temporal Reckoning")

15th: Enterprise-N
* when playing, I use the XIndi Narcine class (XIndi Aquatic ship) flying backwards to represent the curvilinear/arrowhead Starfleet style of this era. Let's call it the World class.
* active in the 29th century, when another period of contraction begins

16th: Enterprise-O
* Dreadnought class - when playing, I use the white-colored GamePrint 5" model, with Starfleet markings, of the Kelvinverse's Vengeance/Dreadnought class, because it seems like a good precursor shape for the Kirk class
* active in the 30th century during the Temporal Wars, decommissioned in 2999

17th: Enterprise-P
* Kirk class (31st century Constitution class)
* 2999-3069, major refit in 3022, destroyed in the Burn
* Why Kirk class? Because it's the most typically Enterprise-looking of the era.
* Why P? Meta, the Voyager-J is a reference to Janeway, so perhaps there's a Defiant-S (warships wouldn't last as long) for Sisko, and the P for Picard.

18th: Enterprise-Q
* to be established in DSC
* launched in or after 3190s
* Why Q? Because Q follows P(icard)!

Bonus: Enterprise-∞
* Mega-Federation starship (malleable sphere, 200 km in diameter)
* launched in 12.265, active by 1.012.260
* from SNW anthology story "Our Million-Year Mission"

How would you fill out the Enterprise alphabet?

Am I correct that you're pulling in books, games, basically all Trek media here?

 

[Markonian]

Yes, plus I’ve filled in some of the gaps with my own imagination. Now that we know what the worlds are like into the 32nd century, we can make assumptions on the ships within that framework.

 

[Kamen Rider Blade]

Yes, plus I’ve filled in some of the gaps with my own imagination. Now that we know what the worlds are like into the 32nd century, we can make assumptions on the ships within that framework.

I already checked your Enterprise lineage with official canon, borrowed small bits of your head canon, and adjusted the lineage of the Enterprises in my Universe thanks to some Timey Wimey Wibbley Wobbley Time Travel shenanigans.

 

[Dukhat]

I believe there's also an Enterprise-F commanded by Data in an alternate future from Peter David's novel Imzadi.

 

[Tim Thomason]

The Enterprise-J is the most distant, advanced USS Enterprise we've seen on screen. Everything beyond was hard to imagine - until DSC S3 established Starfleet's style for mid-31st to the late 32nd century. Now, it's a little easier to imagine the alphabet of ships named Enterprise, and speculatively fill in some gaps!

-1st: Enterprise NX-01
* class: NX class (original), Columbia class (refit)
* times active: 2151-2161
* notes: Earth ship, from ENT

0th: USS Vol'Rala AG-7-10
* Kumari class
* c. 2140s to 2165
* Andorian for "enterprise", from Rise of the Federation

1st: USS Enterprise NCC-1701
* Constitution class (original), Enterprise class (refit)
* 2245-2285
* appears in DSC

2nd: Enterprise-A
* Enterprise class
* 2285-2293, destroyed in 2300
* destroyed in Shatnerverse novels

3rd: Enterprise-B
* Excelsior class (upgraded)
* 2293-2319
* precise fate uncertain - ship lost according to FASA

4th: Enterprise-C
* "Narendra" class (at launch, according to ST: Trexels), Ambassador class (refit)
* 2332-2344
* from "Yesterday's Enterprise"

5th: Enterprise-D
* Galaxy class
* 2363-2371
* from TNG

6th: Enterprise-E
* Sovereign class
* 2372-2408
* decommissioned in STO

7th: Enterprise-F
* Odyssey class (orig), Yorktown class (refit)
* from 2409, active by 2411
* potentially the Enterprise active during the Second Romulan War in the 2460s (Strange New Worlds anthology story "Guardians of Forever")
* from STO

8th: Enterprise-G
* uncertain and unestablished
* active in the mid/late 25th century
* replaces the F after the war?

9th: Enterprise-H
* uncertain and unestablished
* active late 25th to early 26th century
* Perhaps like in the abortive Star Trek: Final Frontier, the Federation goes through a period of contraction around the 8th and 9th Enterprises, explaining the lack of access to the Iconian gateway, Dyson sphere and transwarp networks (from STO) in later centuries (DSC).

10th: Enterprise-I
* Bismarck class
* launched 2516, active by 2528
* from Star Trek: Final Frontier (unproduced animated series), relatively small battleship. Captain Alexander Chase and his crew bring an end to the period of contraction.

11th: Enterprise-J
* Universe class
* launched in the 2540s, participating in Temporal War in 2554; in total active for over 100 years
* based on ENT "Azati Prime" (alternate version seen) and STO (prime version). Another golden age for the Federation. Largest Federation Enterprise ever.

12th: Enterprise-K
* uncertain and unestablished
* active in the 27th century

13th: Enterprise-L
* uncertain and unestablished
* active from the late 27th to early 28th century
* perhaps contemporary around 2677, when Kal Dano works on the Tox Uthat on Lirss Prime (STO: "Vorgon Conclusions")

14th: Enterprise-M
* uncertain and unestablished
* active in the 28th century, around 2769, when the Temporal Accords are signed by Galactic Union members and associates at New Khitomer (STO: "Temporal Reckoning")

15th: Enterprise-N
* when playing, I use the XIndi Narcine class (XIndi Aquatic ship) flying backwards to represent the curvilinear/arrowhead Starfleet style of this era. Let's call it the World class.
* active in the 29th century, when another period of contraction begins

16th: Enterprise-O
* Dreadnought class - when playing, I use the white-colored GamePrint 5" model, with Starfleet markings, of the Kelvinverse's Vengeance/Dreadnought class, because it seems like a good precursor shape for the Kirk class
* active in the 30th century during the Temporal Wars, decommissioned in 2999

17th: Enterprise-P
* Kirk class (31st century Constitution class)
* 2999-3069, major refit in 3022, destroyed in the Burn
* Why Kirk class? Because it's the most typically Enterprise-looking of the era.
* Why P? Meta, the Voyager-J is a reference to Janeway, so perhaps there's a Defiant-S (warships wouldn't last as long) for Sisko, and the P for Picard.

18th: Enterprise-Q
* to be established in DSC
* launched in or after 3190s
* Why Q? Because Q follows P(icard)!

Bonus: Enterprise-∞
* Mega-Federation starship (malleable sphere, 200 km in diameter)
* launched in 12.265, active by 1.012.260
* from SNW anthology story "Our Million-Year Mission"

How would you fill out the Enterprise alphabet?

There's also the original USS Enterprise NCC-1701 commanded by Captain April in 2229, and the Declaration class USS Enterprise of the late 22nd century (but that probably wasn't Starfleet).

 

[Tim Thomason]

Doing the same for Voyager is a little more difficult.

I did some of the legwork based on Mariner's odd reference to a Voyager-D in Lower Decks:

Voyager-A was launched in 2372, a renamed Intrepid in memory of her lost sister ship. She was destroyed in battle during the Dominion War.

Voyager-B, a Defiant class, was launched in 2374, but destroyed due to computer malfunction.

Voyager-C was launched, as "Voyager-B", so the Dominion didn't realize that Starfleet had lost another ship. She was renamed back to Voyager-C, then to Valiant-A, after Starfleet learned that Voyager-Nil was still around.

Voyager-D, an Intrepid refit, was launched as Janeway's personal flagship after the original Voyager was retired as a museum ship.

 

[Dukhat]

I think she was making the ship up.

 

[Tim Thomason]

I think she was making the ship up.

She was. That was a joke.

 

[Markonian]

I presume Voyagers last longer than the early Enterprises. While waiting for the Eaglemoss Voyager-J, I used STO’s Intrepid-class variant to get custom models from GamePrint:
USS Voyager NCC-74656-A, Bellerophon class. That one could be launched in the 2420s, when the original is finally, gracefully retired.

That or the Pathfinder-class Voyager-B may be active during the Second Romulan War (SNW anthology “Guardians”) in the 2460s.

Next one over is the Dyson-class Voyager-C, from the 26th century.

Mind you, all these ship classes are already active in 2409 in the game. Perhaps major refits keep them top of the line?

And on the horizon, STO establishes the Defiant-C is a Nachthexen-class battlecruiser participating in the Battle of Procyon V…

 

[yotsuya]

So in continuity, the Starship Class version of the Enterprise from TOS was actually a refit based the DISCO/ STRANGE series Enterprise???

For those of us who consider The Cage the origin of all continuity, that is not the case. Not to mention that the original dimensions appear on screen in Discovery making them canon. As far as I'm concerned, that ship exists in a different universe and has nothing whatsoever to do with the TOS Starship class ship (note - Constitution Class comes from TOS production sources, even if it wasn't readable on screen until Star Trek VI).

 

[Tuskin38]

So this is the JJ-verse. Makes a lot more sense.

No it isn't. Discovery is Prime, and the USS Franklin is Prime, it existed before Nero changed the timeline. Plus the Enterprise in Discovery looks nothing like the Kelvin Enterprise.

The USS Defiant in Enterprise had the plaque read Constitution class.

Strange New Worlds:

Spoiler

The new dedication plaque for that show says "Starship Class: Constitution"
I think they were just trying to be clever and have both on it