Enterprise (NX-01)
USS Enterprise | |
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First appearance | |
Last appearance | |
Information | |
Affiliation | Starfleet |
Launched | April 12, 2151 |
Decommissioned | 2161 |
Auxiliary vehicles | 2x Shuttlepods 2x Workpods |
General characteristics | |
Class | NX |
Registry | NX-01 |
Armaments | Spatial torpedoes Warp 5.06 (maximum speed)5.2 (emergency) |
Enterprise (NX-01) is the fictional
Its final regular appearance occurred in "
Background
In the original pitch for Star Trek: The Original Series by creator Gene Roddenberry, the vessel that the series was set on was called the SS Yorktown.[2] The starship was subsequently renamed USS Enterprise before the start of the series because of the growing real world fame of the world's first nuclear-powered aircraft carrier, recently launched by the U.S. Navy as the USS Enterprise (CVN-65).[3] The name Enterprise has been linked with Star Trek since.
Following the end of
Concept and design
The first season was originally intended to be based around the construction of the ship. However, UPN wanted a more typical ship-based Star Trek series and so the ship was presented as almost finished in the pilot episode, "Broken Bow".[13] Before the start of the series, the ship was referred to as the SS Enterprise.[14]
An early design was for a version with a secondary hull, but it appeared to be too similar to the ship seen in The Original Series.[15] That throwback styling had been partially inspired by Berman viewing the throwback concept in the 2002 Ford Thunderbird, itself a modern update of the original Thunderbird. Following that concept, the designers took the styling of the USS Enterprise from The Original Series and updated it, but ultimately it looked too much like a simple update to the same vessel.[16]
The second design concept was similar to the Akira-class starship as seen on television in the
Exterior design
Our first full view of the majestic ship as it clears the dock and moves into open space. More rocketship than starship, Enterprise is lean and masculine - yet its deflector dish and twin warp nacelles suggest the shape of Starfleet vessels to come.
Excerpt from "Broken Bow" script, Rick Berman and Brannon Braga.[21]
Enterprise NX-01 was designed by Doug Drexler,[22] and based on the features of the Akira-class.[23] The new class itself was designated as NX by the producers, but Drexler referred to it as the Enterprise-class due to the naval tradition of naming the class after the first vessel.[24] Drexler had intended for the ship to be similar in design to the Daedalus-class starship with a sphere-shaped primary hull, but the producers wanted a flat saucer-shaped hull as it was more immediately recognizable as a Star Trek vessel.[17] Drexler deliberately attempted to insert references to The Original Series into the ship. One of these was narrow struts leading from the body of the ship to the warp nacelles – however Dan Curry wanted them made bulkier as seen in ships of later series. Drexler included a leading edge at the front of the nacelles, and later described that the original struts would have been around a third more than those.[24]
Drexler also wanted the
The exterior model was created in CGI rather than as a physical model, with the production done by Pierre Drolet from Foundation Imaging using LightWave 3D. Two versions were created – a high definition version that was created for use in the television series itself and a lower resolution, which was also referred to as the "approved model". The low-res model was used for promotional purposes while work was conducted on the television model.[18] The exterior of the ship made its debut in a centerfold spread in the July 14, 2001 edition of TV Guide using the approved model. This version looked smaller as the windows on the ship were larger than used on the television version, and the hull had a bronze tint. Regarding this change in coloration, Drexler later said that he didn't know when the change was made as both he and Zimmerman approved the prior version.[18]
Following this initial usage, the approved model was only used as a stand-in for the production version in the previews in the fourth season.[18] The drawing of the exterior of Enterprise in the captain's ready room was created by John Eaves in less than 24 hours alongside four other drawings of earlier incarnations of the name.[25] The shuttlecraft on the show were directly inspired by the Lockheed Martin X-33, with Zimmerman saying that the re-entry vehicles used now will be the same technology used in the time of Enterprise because up until then they won't have had the technological push that comes from developing the advanced technology seen being introduced for the first time on the show.[26] These were referred to as shuttlepods in the show; Enterprise was equipped with two of them.[27]
Season 5
Doug Drexler had intended for Enterprise to undergo a major refit if a fifth season had been produced, and the series had not been cancelled at the end of the
This refit design of the NX-class made its television debut in the background of Star Trek: Picard's third season as a decommissioned ship docked at the Starfleet Museum.
Interior design
The interior of the vessel was designed by Zimmerman, who visited
Zimmerman and his team took feedback from the directors of previous Star Trek series to make the new space easier to film. Whereas in other series there have been purpose-built sets for briefing rooms, following the feedback this area was built into the bridge itself as the directors had stated that it proved difficult to make several people sitting around a table seem interesting.[34] The transporter design was intended as a reference to the original series design that was created by Matt Jefferies, with Zimmerman including certain design elements such as the wall patterns around the transporter itself.[35] The design of the engineering deck was overhauled from previous series with the intention for it to look like the engine room of a nuclear submarine.[35] Zimmerman described it saying, "You're going to see a very powerful engine that looks like a very powerful engine."[36]
Appearances
Deep space exploration
The ship first appeared in the pilot of
The exploration mission was temporarily cancelled in the final episode of the first season, "Shockwave", following the destruction of a colony after a shuttlepod from Enterprise ignited the atmosphere. The ship was recalled to Earth, but after an investigation showed that the Suliban were responsible, the mission resumed.[44][45] In "Minefield", Enterprise suffered a hull breach from a Romulan mine,[46] but the crew was informed of a nearby repair facility where the breach was repaired in "Dead Stop".[47] Following the failure of a plasma injector in the warp drive, the ship had to make a detour to the Kreetassan homeworld in "A Night in Sickbay".[48]
The Delphic Expanse
In the episode "
While investigating a possible location of the superweapon in "
After locating the Xindi weapon in "
The Coalition of Planets and the Romulan War
Following the Xindi mission, Enterprise undergoes repairs and upgrades in "
Enterprise returns to Earth once more and Commander Tucker transfers to the USS Columbia in "
The Romulan war was not seen on screen, but instead has been described in the non-canon novel
Other appearances
Enterprise appeared in the video games
Reception and commentary
There was a negative fan reaction to the design of Enterprise, and criticism of the efforts of Drexler and the other designers. When questioned about this, Geoffrey Mandel stated in an interview, "Having been around then, I also know that Doug Drexler and John Eaves did EXACTLY what the producers asked them to: Rick and Braga had very strong opinions, and knew exactly what they wanted."[15]
Allan Johnson, while writing for the Chicago Tribune, said that Enterprise looked "sleeker and less cheesy than the original 'Trek'."[79] Johnson added that although it contained technology that wasn't as advanced as that seen in the earlier Star Trek series set in the 24th century, it "still maintains a techno-savvy, post-1960s 'Trek' flair."[79] David Kronke in the Los Angeles Daily News, said that the sets were "largely gun-metal gray, representing a sort of retro-futurism – sort of what might've happened if '50s sci-fi design cliches had had today's technology to work with" and that the consoles had a "simpler mechanical feel".[1] In his review of "Broken Bow" for The Washington Post, David Segal described Enterprise's speed of warp 4 as slower than a Hyundai.[80]
In 2018, Io9/Gizmodo ranked the NX-01 fictional spacecraft design shown in this episode, as the 7th best version of starship Enterprise of the Star Trek franchise.[81] They felt that it both felt familiar as an Enterprise design, but also had its own look.[81]
In 2019, SyFy ranked the fictional starship design, the NX-01 Enterprise as the 8th best version of the starship in the Star Trek science fiction universe.[82]
Models and toy lines
The initial 7-inch (18 cm) figure range by
Enterprise has also been released as part of model lines. These include a 350:1 scale replica of the CGI model by
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References
- ISBN 0-7434-4862-6.
- ISBN 0-7434-5798-6.
- ISBN 0-671-89804-3.
- ISBN 978-0-7434-5376-9.
- ISBN 978-1-4357-0256-1.
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