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SOVEREIGN CLASS
LAUNCHED: 2372
U.S.S. ENTERPRISE
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NCC-1701-E
LENGTH: 685 METERS
NUMBER OF DECKS: 24
NCC -1701- E Contents U.S.S. ENTERPRISE NCC-1701-E
04: PROFILE: U.S.S. ENTERPRISE NCC-1701-E SPECIFICATION
08: INTERNAL LAYOUT
18: ON SCREEN
Stand assembly:
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CLASS: Sovereign
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CONSTRUCTED: San Francisco Yards, Earth
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Final position LAUNCHED: 2372
DECKS: 24
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SHIP PROFILE
T
he U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701-E was a state-of the most advanced starship in the fleet. 685 meters
the-art Sovereign-class vessel that entered long, she packed an extraordinary amount of
service in 2372. It replaced the Galaxy-class equipment, systems and material onto her 24
Enterprise-D, which had been destroyed at decks. The Sovereign class was designed with the
Veridian III, becoming Starfleet’s new flagship and threat of a Borg invasion in mind and when the
the sixth Federation vessel to bear the name Enterprise launched she was armed with 12
Enterprise. Type-XII phaser strips, each of which had an output
The new Enterprise was constructed at the San of 7.2 megawatts. The phasers had been designed
Francisco ship yards on Earth and at the time was so they could be set to automatically remodulate,
making them more effective against the Borg’s
U.S.S. ENTERPRISE adaptive shields. The Enterprise was also fitted with
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five torpedo launchers, each of which could fire a
spread of 12 torpedoes. In addition to regular
photon torpedoes, the ship carried the latest
evolution of torpedo design – the quantum
torpedo, which used zero-point energy to create a
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SHIP PROFILE NCC-1701-E PROFILE SHIP PROFILE
u Picard disobeyed
orders and joined the
Battle of Sector 001,
where the E took
command of the fleet and
Picard’s understanding of
the Borg provided the key
to defeating them.
Like the Enterprise-D, high energy yield. The Enterprise’s shields were also diplomatic shuttle, known as the Captain’s Yacht, assimilate the Enterprise, the vessel’s EMH was mission together the ship was nearly destroyed by The Enterprise
the Enterprise-E was designed to automatically remodulate, making which was normally docked to the underside of used to provide a distraction, allowing the the Romulan leader Shinzon and Picard took the survived her collision
fitted with a Captain’s with the Scimitar and
them more resistant to Borg weapons fire. In 2376, the saucer. It also had the ability to separate the medical team and patients to escape sickbay. radical step of ramming his enemy. The Enterprise returned to spacedock
Yacht, which was docked
to the underside of the the Enterprise underwent a refit, which included saucer section from the main engineering hull. Although the Enterprise-E had the same basic then returned to spacedock where she underwent where she underwent
saucer section. This large adding a further four phaser arrays, and five more mission parameters as her predecessor, she didn’t substantial repairs and took on a new first officer, substantial repairs.
and somewhat luxurious torpedo launchers. LIVING COMPUTERS carry any civilians or family members. Instead, she Commander Martin Madden, before resuming her
shuttle was designed for
diplomatic missions.
The ship was fitted with redesigned warp The computer systems featured advanced was crewed entirely by Starfleet personnel, who mission of exploration.
engines and nacelles that were superior in speed bio-neural circuitry, which used synthetic cells to were charged with exploring space and seeking
to the design used on the Galaxy class. The new process data as opposed to optical technology. out new life and new civilizations.
design allowed the ship to maintain a cruising This semi-organic system could process 6,200 DATA FEED
velocity of warp 8, while its high warp velocity was kiloquads of data per second, but was still in its DISTINGUISHED CAREER
Although Captain Picard remained
around 9.95. Emergency plasma purge vents in the infancy and was vulnerable to attack or even an Initially, the Enterprise-E had substantially the same in command of the Enterprise-E
nacelle support pylons provided engineers with a infection. Accordingly, it worked in concert with command crew as her predecessor. Captain throughout its career, several members
secondary safety buffer by allowing them to bleed a conventional Optical Data Network (ODN). Picard assumed command on launch and was of his senior staff eventually left the ship.
off heated plasma before it reached warp field The Enterprise-E was also one of the first vessels instrumental in defeating the Borg invasion of 2373 Commander Riker was promoted to
coils, in some circumstances obviating the need to to be fitted with an Emergency Medical Hologram, and resolving the Ba’ku crisis. By 2379, many of Captain and assumed command of
his own ship, the U.S.S. Titan, while
shut down systems or eject the warp core. which was designed to provide short-term the crew were ready to move on, when the first
Commander Data was lost in the
As had become standard practice by the late assistance by replacing medical officers during officer William Riker was promoted to Captain and final battle with Shinzon.
24th century, the Sovereign class carried a emergencies. During an attempt by the Borg to given command of the U.S.S. Titan. On their final
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Internal layout
T
he Sovereign class was a long compact design of ship, sickbay, stellar cartography, security offices, transporter while Deck 14 was dedicated to engineering systems and deuterium could be quickly dealt with, or, at the very least,
with 24 decks (later reconfigured to 29 decks). As with systems, and the main shuttlebay. Upper phaser banks could also housed the lower sensor platform. Decks 15 through contained.
almost all Starfleet vessels, the main bridge was located be found on Deck 4 with main phaser banks on Deck 5. 18 comprised the main navigational deflector array and
on the top of the saucer section on Deck 1, which also auxiliary bridge also known as the Battle Bridge. AUXILIARY VEHICLES
housed, an observation lounge, the captain’s ready room ESSENTIAL SYSTEMS Engineering and its related systems – such as the EPS The Enterprise carried a new design of shuttlecraft as well as
and an airlock with an attached cabin and equipment The ship had two independent, but linked, computer cores, power taps, the central matter/antimatter reaction chamber, numerous other forms of transportation including a Captain’s
locker. Also located along the perimeter of Deck 1 were two one in the saucer section, running between Decks 6 and 9, and support labs were spread out over Decks 14 through Yacht known as the Cousteau. The yacht was installed in the
turbolifts that linked the bridge with the rest of the ship. An and one in the engineering hull running between Decks 17 18. Main Engineering was split into three levels, and was saucer section with the launch and retrieval mechanism
emergency Jefferies tube provided access through the and 19. normally accessed from Deck 16. The main warp core on Deck 16. The yacht was lowered out by a series of
floor of the bridge. Deck 10 through to 14 completed the primary hull of the assembly, which filled the majority of the main engineering gantries until its engines extended to operational position, at
Deck 2 encompassed the first of many levels of crew Enterprise and also encompassed forward and aft cargo bays area, ran vertically from Deck 10 at the top of the which point it was free to maneuver clear of the ship.
quarters and provided rooms for the highest ranking on Decks 10 and 11 together with phaser systems. Deck 10 engineering hull down to Deck 24, where a hatch allowed it Escape pods were located throughout the Enterprise’s
command staff together with an officer’s mess hall. More also contained the Ten Forward lounge. to be ejected in case of emergency. In the event of a primary and secondary hulls with two rows of pods on the
crew quarters were to be found on Deck 3 through Deck 9, as Sensors and the secondary navigational deflector could be plasma breach, emergency doors sealed Main Engineering dorsal side of the command saucer and two on the
well as forward and aft viewing lounges, science labs, main found on Deck 12. Deck 13 contained deuterium fuel tanks off from the rest of the ship. Once sealed, fires or burning ventral side.
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Bussard collector
Anno
Ship’s registry
REGULAR REFITS
During its operational life, the Enterprise-E
Shuttlebay
underwent a number of refits and
upgrades that increased the amount of
weaponry she carried and enhanced
the efficiency of her engines. The first refit
involved repairing damage inflicted by
the Borg and upgrading the weaponry
by adding more torpedo launchers.
A second refit involved moving and
QUANTUM TORPEDOES
shortening the nacelles, reducing the
The Enterprise-E
ship’s length from 685 to 673 meters.
carried both standard
photon torpedoes and
Ship’s registry Main bridge Shuttlebay quantum torpedoes.
The latter generated
high-yield explosions
by creating miniature
Impulse engine version of the “big
Main bridge
bang” event.
NAME CHANGE
The ship that became
the U.S.S. Enterprise
NCC-1701-E was
originally slated
Captain’s Yacht to have a different
Main navigational deflector registry number, but
this was changed
Shuttlebay after the Galaxy-class
Enterprise-D was
destroyed at Veridian III.
DOMINION WAR
The Enterprise-E did see
service in the Dominion
War, but was principally
assigned to other
duties and she was not
Ten Forward lounge Impulse engine
involved in any of the
major conflicts such as
the Battles of Chintoka
Shuttlebay or Cardassia.
DESIGNING THE
ENTERPRISE-E
The finished model created by
ILM followed John Eaves’ designs
but embellished on them. Eaves
had been a modelmaker himself
and not only valued, but planned
for, their contributions.
The second STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION movie called for a how to configure those into some kind Eaves got to work stretching the impression of speed and power.”
of new architecture.” engineering hull to give it a more Although Zimmerman needed
new, tougher Starship Enterprise that was fit to fight the Borg. Eaves’ initial approach was to take extended shape, drawing inspiration sketches as soon as possible, Eaves
the Enterprise-D and stretch it out. At this from his own work modifying the refused to submit any work until he was
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hen work started on STAR TREK: been greenlit so there was no script and this or not’. And, after building that point the script for FIRST CONTACT Excelsior class to create the Enterprise-B. comfortable with the direction he was
FIRST CONTACT, production Eaves had very little in the way of a model I realized that there were only a became available. It described the E However he was still puzzling over what taking. When he did put his designs in,
designer Herman Zimmerman brief. He started by thinking about how few angles it could be filmed from.” as a more advanced, faster ship that to do with the saucer. “I went through they met with a positive response. Until
handed John Eaves the biggest this new Enterprise would differ from its So one of Eaves’s guiding principles – most importantly – was designed to the whole gamut of shapes. I thought that point he admits that he had been
challenge of his career. He asked him to predecessor. He’d been involved with was that the new ship should look good fight the Borg. “To me the shapes on the I’d start with the round saucer just to see cautious. Now he began to explore
design a new Starship Enterprise. It was building the shooting model of the from as many angles as possible. He Enterprise-D looked as if they couldn’t how it would look on a sleeker kind of more radical changes such as
only when Eaves got home and started Enterprise-D, and he admits to having was also determined not to deviate too handle the type of speed needed for body frame. But that was almost going extending the nacelles. “I’d loved the
sketching that the enormity of the task reservations about its design. “It was so far from Matt Jefferies’ original design. “I the E,” explains Eaves. “So I thought too far back in time with the design. The older look with the long nacelles and I
sunk in. As he says, “Designing the different to what I was used to thinking knew that the primary shapes had to be that it definitely needed to be sleeker oval had been established and I thought that, with the new technology
Enterprise is every school kid’s dream.” an Enterprise would be,” he explains. “I used – the body, the nacelles and, of looking and I definitely wanted it to be thought at least that shape should carry behind it, a longer and sleeker nacelle
At this point the film hadn’t actually remember thinking ‘I don’t know if I like course, the saucer. So it came down to faster looking at the same time.” on. So I rotated it around to give the would balance the craft better.”
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Eaves drew up views like new look. The most obvious change Eaves also suggested making the
this to make sure the ship
involved the neck section, which nacelles move when the ship went
looked good from every angle.
connected the engineering and saucer to warp as they do on the U.S.S.
section. He worked to blend this into the Voyager. But Berman was keen for
body of the ship in order to create a the Enterprise-E to have a distinct
more compact shape. identity, so any similarities to Voyager
“This was a special Enterprise, one or other Starfleet ships was off the
The final approved design, again
that had been specifically designed for agenda. shown from a number of angles.
fighting the Borg, so it was important to Next, Eaves turned his attention
take away any vulnerabilities,” Eaves to the surface textures, drawing
recalls. “I’d always thought that the inspiration from the STAR TREK: THE
neck was a prime target. When the MOTION PICTURE Enterprise. “If you
Enterprise was attacked in The Wrath Of look at old boats or airplanes, the
Khan I remember thinking ‘Man, if they heavier the paneling, the slower they
had hit it for a few more seconds it would go. The [TMP] Enterprise was
Eaves’ original concepts show the immediately approved Eaves’ new would have snapped right off and that beautiful and I wanted that same
nacelle struts swept back. Now he tried approach. “Basically, Mr. Berman was would have been the end of the ship.’ smooth look for the E.”
sweeping them forward, feeling that it looking for something that was new and On the D I’d thought that the neck was
implied a sense of lunging that gave very, very different, together with a nice too heavy and I was determined to find SENSE OF MOTION
the ship an impression of forward shape and a cutting edge design.” a way to get it to blend. In the end, it Eaves did add some surface detail
motion. He produced drawings showing turned out that eliminating the neck – triangular wedge shapes on the top
the difference between the two TOUGHENING UP altogether and tapering the scoop of and bottom of the saucer. “I was
approaches which were submitted to Eaves was now able to focus on other the deflector dish all the way up to the thinking about warp technology –
producer Rick Berman, who areas that he felt could benefit from a torpedo launcher worked best.” that at high speeds it would act sort
of like a warp flow. It’s also an old art
school thing. As an artist you’re
determining where the viewer’s eye
goes and the shape gives you a sense a framework around the front end of
of speed. I was trying to demonstrate the Bussard, which I thought was
speed no matter where you looked.” fantastic. ”
As the design evolved, Fritz ILM also suggested changes to
Zimmerman, one of the set designers, the way the struts connected to the
pointed out that the forward sweep on nacelles, having them taper to the
the nacelle struts made the ship look like body on a parallel line with a more
‘a turkey sitting in a pan’. After that graceful angle.
no-one could look at the ship without For Eaves the best thing about the
having the same thought and, as a design for his Enterprise is that although
result, the nacelles were soon swept it is new and different it still has many
back. traces of Matt Jefferies’ original design.
The ‘almost final’
When Rick Sternbach’s blueprints “It looks more like the original
design, complete with
moving nacelles, and were sent to ILM, Eaves held off on Enterprise than originally intended. I
‘turkey leg’ nacelle struts. giving too much information wanting to think what they did for THE MOTION
By this point the basic
leave from the ILM team to be creative. PICTURE was a perfect kind of
shapes were in place but
there was still work to be “In the version I sent them the whole modification on an existing design.
done refining the details. front end of the nacelle was a big That’s what I wanted to do – not
Berman even had Eaves Bussard collector,” says Eaves. “It was change it completely but modify it. The
produce another round of
this open ended glowing orb. Then the basic lines of the original Enterprise were
drawings showing more
alternatives before signing blue light went all the way to the back perfect and getting close to that is all
off on the design. uninterrupted. ILM suggested they build you could want.”
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FILMING THE SHIP
T
he Enterprise-E has the distinction of being ILM scanned their physical model to create a
the last Enterprise to be built as a practical CG version which was used for shots where the
model. When STAR TREK: FIRST CONTACT was ship was only seen in the distance, in particular for
being filmed, ILM were on the cusp of making the sequence where it enters the time vortex.
the transition to digital effects, but they weren’t The effects for STAR TREK: INSURRECTION were
ready to completely abandon studio models. A produced by Santa Barbara Studios, who only
CG version of the Enterprise-E was made but the worked in CG. They created a new CG model,
majority of the film was made using a ten-and-a- once again by scanning the ILM studio model. The
half-foot physical model that was built by a team ship gained some subtle alterations that included
led by John Goodson. aft firing torpedo launchers (which were required
After John Eaves had finished his concept by the script and had been missing in FIRST
drawings, Rick Sternbach drew up a set of CONTACT ) and some changes to the underside of
blueprints that were sent over to ILM. Eaves the saucer to accommodate the Captain’s Yacht.
deliberately left areas on the drawings vague, so Yet another version of the Enterprise was created
that ILM could fill in many of the details, including for STAR TREK: NEMESIS, this time by VFX house
the exact design of the escape pods and Digital Domain. Eaves took the opportunity to
deflector dish. ILM were also keen to make the finesse the design, making some changes that he
surface of the model as interesting as possible, had wanted since he saw the finished model. Most
and they and production designer Herman significantly, the nacelles were moved slightly up
Zimmerman agreed on a warmer and more and forward and the lines were changed where
contrasting paint scheme than had been used the saucer blended into the engineering hull. Yet
on previous Enterprises. another practical model was made of the saucer
The studio model was very detailed and ILM for the sequence that showed the Enterprise
even put tiny pieces of slide film with photographs ramming the Narada.
of the Enterprise-D sets in behind the windows to Eaves had more changes in mind that would
create the impression that the ship was like a giant have been made for a fifth TNG film, but the
skyscraper. The model was even used for some of opportunity never came and we last saw the
the shots in the sequence where the crew fought Enterprise-E being repaired in spacedock ready
the Borg on the underside of the saucer. to take on a new crew.
FILMING THE
NCC -1701-E ILM’s studio model under construction. It was one of the last great filming miniatures ever likely to be made and has a remarkable level of
detail, using skills that are no longer needed in this era of CG visual effects.
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Remarkably, Captain Picard’s pet fish,
Livingston, survived the destruction of the
Enterprise-D and joined him about the
Enterprise-E. However, the Lion Fish, which
was named for producer David Livingston,
didn’t appear in STAR TREK: INSURRECTION
or STAR TREK: NEMESIS, implying that it
may have met a nasty fate at the hands of
the Borg.
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