What REALLY Happened To Star Trek's Most Powerful Enterprise? We Found Out

The final fate of Star Trek's biggest movie starship, the Enterprise E, has til now been totally unknown. Now, we think we’ve figured it out. We’ll prove it by showing you six different pieces of evidence and then put it all together to explain the final fate of the Enterprise E.

CLUE 1: Worf Did It
CLUE 2: Studio Info
CLUE 3: The Timeline
CLUE 4: Beta Canon
CLUE 5: Who Is That Klingon?
CLUE 6: Terry Matalas

[captainbryce]

In the US Navy, ships and boats are referred to with female pronouns (she/her) as shorthand to distinguish them from Russian vessels, which are usually referred to by male pronouns (he). In Russian all inanimate objects are gendered male. An American submarine sonar tech might say "Sir, he's coming around", which would communicate what the Russian boat/ship is doing. Conversely, the tech saying something like "she's running silent" would indicate that they're talking about their own boat or another American vessel.

[skyserf]

I really like the Enterprise-E it deserved a series to get used to it.

[masere]

Geordi saying "we can't use the Enterprise E" suggests it was out of action, not destroyed.

[CYCO]

JTVFX will probably tell the story in spectacular fashion. Can't wait for those guys to finish the Wolfe-359 saga!

[minionofgozer]

Picard ignored the advice that Kirk personally gave him "dont let them promote you, don't let them transfer you, don't let them do anything that takes you off the bridge of that ship"

[lraszewski]

Given Worf's earlier comment about the superiority of Klingon cloaking technology, I like to imagine that the Enterprise-E was given special permission to receive a cloaking device, and Worf simply forgot where they parked it.

[schwartzritterx]

In all honesty, the likely fate was far more mundane. Referring to Star Trek III as a precedent, it is likely that Enterprise-E took a beating in its last mission, but survived. When returning to Earth Spacedock for repair and refit, Starfleet made the executive decision to retire Enterprise-E because it was far more economical and less time consuming to commission Enterprise-F than go through the expense of repairing an inferior ship whose life expectancy and spaceframe had been greatly reduced by the extreme stress of multiple dangerous operations. The rest of the TNG crew clown on Worf about it. Both TNG and DS9 made it a thing that the other main characters rag of Worf because of how serious he is. The joke is that Worf got the Enterprise-E retired, not destroyed. Retirement is shameful to Klingons, thus Worf's reaction.

[GlennBurgess]

My completely made up guess is that the E got accidentally thrown into the future by something on that last mission. It's perfectly fine but they can't get at it until it reappears in 200 years, or something.

[sergioaccioly]

According to some secondhand information that came to my hands (I can't confirm any of it right now), the Enterprise-E andthe Defiant were both present during the massacre in ST: Prodigy's season 1 finale, with the implication that she was destroyed there. Again, I can't confirm.
And Worf would have left Starfleet after accidently killing an innocent woman.

[richardkohlhof]

The one thing about Worf that bothers me, is that he should not be aging, but in comparison a few years compared to everyone else. Klingons don't age at the same rate as humans.

[Rangerone]

When you don't read your Star Trek source material, you fail to understand the connection between Star Trek TV and Star Trek Online.

Star Trek Online was the true cannon along with Star Trek Countdown in 2009.
CBS had to bring continuity between STO, Picard, Data, Worf, and the Enterprise-E.

Data was the Captain of the Enterprise-E

[CoyoteFallsForge]

When did we see the Enterprise B die on screen? We saw it take some damage in "Generations", but it was not destroyed.

[TheCombatEditor]

My theory is that Good old Enterprise-E is still in commission unofficially as Worf's secret command ship during his work in Starfleet Intelligence. if it was officially decommissioned due to an 'incident above Kellar Prime, ' and was then outfitted with a cloaking device, it would be an ideal spy battleship, perfect for Worf and his classified missions. would love to see a spin-off show where he's secretly helping to stabilize the weakened Klingon Empire, keep the Dominion from coming back to power, or trying to find a way to bring back Captain Sisko. (Or, maybe, even find a way to time-travel in order to save Jadzia from death.)

[motaz]

i think a movie or a three part mini series based on that mission with captain Worf would be fantastic.

[Teletran]

Thank you for this hopefully one day we might get the full story

[erics]

They've built up the mystery so much that no answer to the question will be satisfactory.

[jakexou]

Your explanation of it is actually the most realistic. In real life, great ships and aircraft rarely go down in a blaze of glory. Sometimes, they just can't be fixed and need to be "written off" even earlier than expected. Besides that, when the USS Voyager returned from the Delta Quadrant she brought with it knowledge of new 'alien' uh, foreign, uh, exotic yeah, exotic technologies and soon after she returned we see a great change in the way starships look and function. Perhaps alot of that new tech also happened to be incompatible with the Sovereign Class, and whatever it is that Worf's mission did to the Enterprise-E happened to correspond roughly to the time frame when these tech advances were coming to fruition. Anyway, that's my interpretation just to tack-on to your explanation ;)

[TomD]

Prodigy S2 has a scene with Traveler Wesley and his secret locker that has a Sovereign Class ship hanging in it. Since he never served aboard her, perhaps it's a shrunken down Enterprise E he's safekeeping.

[karlmajerus]

How about E became interphasic, trapped in an interdementional corridor where it can be seen, but not touched

[wargodsix]

We should of got more enterprise e movies