USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) Guide, Meaning , Facts, Information and Description
In the fictional universe of Star Trek, the USS Enterprise, NCC-1701 was a Starship-class (and later, Constitution class) ship that is theorized to have been commissioned in 2245. During the 1966-1969 run of the show, the ship's dedication plaque listed it as Starship class. However, a episode later told audiences that the ship was a Constitution class starship.
It was the ship of Kirk, Spock et al. in the original NBC TV series '. It is established in the 1979 movie ' that this vessel has been out of commission for some time, undergoing an extensive rebuild and upgrade while in dry-dock orbiting Earth under the command of Willard Decker. The registry number (1701) of the ship was chosen to be easily visible at a glance. "NCC" was chosen by analogy to modern civil aircraft identification codes.
While never seen on film, it is generally accepted that the first commanding officer of the Constitution-class Enterprise was Robert April. Christopher Pike was seen as commanding officer of the Enterprise for at least one, and possibly two, five-year missions of the ship before Kirk's fabled voyages.
In , Khan Noonien Singh stole the USS Reliant and used her to disable the Enterprise. Kirk employed a strategy to equally disable the Reliant. Khan planned to use a weapon called Genesis to destroy the Reliant and the Enterprise, but the Enterprise and her crew were able to survive, partly due to the self-sacrifice of Mr. Spock.
In , Starfleet decided to scrap the ship, thinking that the age of the ship wouldn't make a repair worthwhile. Nevertheless, the command crew stole the ship and took it to the Genesis planet, to bring Spock's body back to Vulcan. At the Genesis planet, the Enterprise was beaten by a Klingon crew under the command of Capt. Kruge. Despite being able to inflict some damage on the Klingons, the control systems began to fail, and a torpedo from the Klingons disabled them completely. Faced with being captured by a Klingon boarding party or being killed, Kirk, Chekov, and Scott set the ship to self-destruct. The primary hull was blown apart, and the secondary hull fell into the Genesis planet's atmosphere and was incinerated.
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