Star Trek question

[morkinva]

Is the Enterprise always the Federation's Flagship?

 

[JC]

Yes.

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: morkinva
Is the Enterprise always the Federation's Flagship?

Depends, what generation are you talking about?

 

[silverpig]

Starfleet's flagship? Yeah.... I think so.

 

[morkinva]

In any Enterprise incarnation. Remember when the Excelsior captain was laughing at the supposedly inferior Enterprise (The Search for Spock)? Why would you have an inferior, outdated ship as the flagship?

 

[NFS4]

Ummm, in ST-III I thought that the Excelsiur sp? was the new flagship as the Enterprise was being decomissioned. The Excelsiur was bigger, faster, and more powerful than the NC1701

 

[Yomicron]

Originally posted by: morkinva
In any Enterprise incarnation. Remember when the Excelsior captain was laughing at the supposedly inferior Enterprise (The Search for Spock)? Why would you have an inferior, outdated ship as the flagship?

At that time the Excelsior was just a prototype, the Constitution class was the most current in prodcution ship.

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: morkinva
In any Enterprise incarnation. Remember when the Excelsior captain was laughing at the supposedly inferior Enterprise (The Search for Spock)? Why would you have an inferior, outdated ship as the flagship?

That was like a prototype thing. And remember it didn't work... wouldn't want that as your flagship would ya?

 

[JC]

He was bragging about his unproven-technology ship. And it bombed.

 

[NFS4]

He was bragging about his unproven-technology ship. And it bombed.

That's b/c Scotty broke it

Anyway, the NC1701-B was an Excelsiur class ship so I'll stick with by my original statement

 

[silverpig]

holy people thinking/posting the same thing at the same time batman!

 

[Yomicron]

Originally posted by: NFS4
Ummm, in ST-III I thought that the Excelsiur sp? was the new flagship as the Enterprise was being decomissioned. The Excelsiur was bigger, faster, and more powerful the the NC1701

Its possible that after the Excelsior finsihed testing it could have become the flagship, the USS Sovereign was renamed USS Enterprise-E after it completed trial runs.

 

[BMdoobieW]

I'd say yes

 

[ScrapSilicon]

what became of the dreadnought class ..?

 

[JC]

Originally posted by: NFS4

He was bragging about his unproven-technology ship. And it bombed.

That's b/c Scotty broke it

Anyway, the NC1701-B was an Excelsiur class ship so I'll stick with by my original statement

True, but they never mention the Transwarp drive again...

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: JC

Originally posted by: NFS4

He was bragging about his unproven-technology ship. And it bombed.

That's b/c Scotty broke it

Anyway, the NC1701-B was an Excelsiur class ship so I'll stick with by my original statement

True, but they never mention the Transwarp drive again...

And it is ALL Scottie's fault

 

[dc]

yeah, the transwarp drive/engine didn't work. so it was eventually given traditional warp engines instead.

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: dc
yeah, the transwarp drive/engine didn't work. so it was eventually given traditional warp engines instead.

Whatever happened to the Excelsior after that? Was it renamed the Enterprise-B (1701-B)?

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: dc yeah, the transwarp drive/engine didn't work. so it was eventually given traditional warp engines instead.

Whatever happened to the Excelsior after that? Was it renamed the Enterprise-B (1701-B)?

I believe it remained in service for the better part of a hundred years (in the books). The Enterprise was a different ship of the same class ( B that is)

 

[NFS4]

Originally posted by: Hayabusarider

Originally posted by: NFS4

Originally posted by: dc yeah, the transwarp drive/engine didn't work. so it was eventually given traditional warp engines instead.

Whatever happened to the Excelsior after that? Was it renamed the Enterprise-B (1701-B)?

I believe it remained in service for the better part of a hundred years (in the books). The Enterprise was a different ship of the same class ( B that is)

That's right, b/c wasn't "Captain" Sulu at the helm of the Excelsior in ST-VI ??

 

[Hayabusa Rider]

Sulu was captain of the Excelsior. Enterprise B made it's debut afterwards in Generations. That is where Kirk was supposedly killed on it's shakedown cruse (I can't believe I know all this trivia).

 

[AvesPKS]

Just like the USS Galaxy was the first Galaxy Class Starship, and the Enterprise NCC-1701-D, while not the first Galaxy Class Starship, was the flagship of the fleet, the 1701-B, while not the first Excelsior Class Starship, still became the flagship.

 

[NokiaDude]

Yes it is. I SO wish I had the money to nuy a prebuilt Enterprise-E model from a local AnandtechForum member

 

[notfred]

The Enterprise C was destroyed 30 yeas before the Enterprise D was launched.

 

[RbSX]

Originally posted by: NFS4
Ummm, in ST-III I thought that the Excelsiur sp? was the new flagship as the Enterprise was being decomissioned. The Excelsiur was bigger, faster, and more powerful than the NC1701

Excelsior was a test bed for transwarp drive, unfortunately it didn't pan out properly.

A constitution class is faster and not as well armed, while the excelsior is significantly slower and has a better armament. It was a trade off pretty much, I don't know. Remember the Galaxy Class starship wasn't the best in TNG, bigger and badder ships were being made.