The History Of The Starship Enterprise Explained

It takes more than mirror dimensions, jumps through time, and crash landings to stop the Enterprise's legacy. The Federation flagship's history goes deeper than you may realize.

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Pioneering Enterprises | 0:00
Warp 5 | 1:17
Kirk's classic Enterprise | 2:30
The big screen | 3:23
The successor | 4:46
The lost warrior | 5:44
Picard's Enterprise-D | 6:51
Sovereign | 8:07
Odyssey | 9:10
Kirk's Enterprise reborn | 10:26
JJ's ample Enterprise | 11:37
Enterprises of the Future | 12:39
Alternate Enterprises | 13:59

Voiceover by: Jesse Connell

[Looper]

Which iteration of the starship Enterprise is your favorite?

[thbthttt]

The TOS Enterprise design did allow for saucer separation, the special effects budget did not.

[tomaya]

The carrier used in "The Voyage Home" was the U.S.S. Ranger. My brother was serving onboard at the time and got a 2 second showing in the movie.

[starshipsofgreatness]

I love all the Starships, I did enjoy the Refit U.S.S. Enterprise, I love watching the motion picture because you get to see the ship up close and get to just enjoy the music and seeing each view of the starship.

[cwaldrip]

When he first saw the concept for the Enterprise, Roddenberry thought it’d look better upside down from how we know it. The saucer section was detachable in the original version as well, but they never used that feature. That’s part of why it was detached so soon in TNG, to make sure they used that feature they never got to use in the original series.

[capnsalty]

I loved the episode on Next Gen were Scotty put himself in a transporter loop and came back on the Enterprise and went into the holodeck and asked for the original Enterprise and he said no bloody A, B, C or D.

[nicholasmorsovillo]

And it was known that the Enterprise J was a Universe Class Starship making it the largest Enterprise ever built at nearly 3 kilometers long.

[ChrisRoth]

The refit Star Trek MP Enterprise is so beautiful along with Star Trek First Contact’s Enterprise .Strange New Worlds Enterprise looks more like the Original by a long shot than Abrams

[acerjuglans]

The Motion Picture Enterprise is still king!!!

[christiancampagna]

Retrofit from The Motion Picture was the first Enterprise I had ever seen before. My parents took me to see the first film when I was six. I had never seen reruns of Star Trek: TOS before. Excellent video. I really enjoyed it.

[JasonKelleya]

When it was going over the various early versions of the Enterprise, it skipped from the HMS Enterprise to the Nuclear powered Aircraft Carrier USS Enterprise CVN-65, it made no mention to the earlier aircraft carrier by the same name Commissioned in May 1938 and remained in service through every single bit of World War II, finally being decommissioned in February 1947, scraped in 1958.

[frglee]

I'm very fond of the Excelsior class, so I'd vote for the Enterprise B.
Was really nice to see Sulu captaining the USS Excelsior, as well as seeing this class still in general service in the ST-TNG era.

[charlesbailey]

The fans who demanded the first shuttle be named Enterprise really screwed the pooch on that one. It was a prototype, so it never went into space, they should have waited for number 2

[MickeyKnox]

I don't know what it is, but I always had a soft spot for the Enterprise C, even though it's only shown once.

[kepszlok]

Excellent collection, not a single one is left out! Nice work!

[weshurst]

Nx is in a fleet museum; so will we be getting a cameo on Picard; they did state we will be seeing multiple enterprises

[JonathanKobler]

FYI, you said first nuclear carrier (that would be hull number CVN-65) but I think you showed the WWII Enterprise CV-6. It wasn't the nuclear one though. That was a very distinctive ship. I served on it.

[dinomonzon]

Great video. My fave design of the Enterprise was the refitted NCC-1701 from 1979’s Star Trek: The Motion Picture.

[cynmann]

Excellent video! Thoroughly enjoyed it.

[alfredjudokus]

Jonathan Archer's Enterprise and Crew was the best Star Trek series. Just my opinion.
Travis Mayweather, Phlox, Hoshi Sato, T'Pol, Trip Tucker.
I don't understand why this wasn't more successful.