USS Enterprise ( XCV 330 ) The USS " Enterprise " ( XCV - 330 ) was an Earth spacecraft that was in service prior to 2143 . A painting of this ship and the mission patch appeared on the wall of the 602 Club on Earth in 2143 . ( ) A similar painting was on display on a wall in Admiral Maxwell Forrest ' s office on Earth in 2154 . ( ) This " Enterprise " was honored with an illustration on the ' s recreation deck after its refit in the early 2270s . ( ) " In the alternate reality , a small model of this ship was displayed on Admiral ' desk in 2259 , together with other historical aircraft , spaceships and starships . " ( ) Appendices . Background information . Origin of the design . The had this to say about the ship , " " This design is based on one of Matt Jefferies ' earliest concepts for the " Enterprise " , back in . Jeffries discarded the design back then because he felt that a filming model would not have been strong enough to support itself . Years later , he resurrected the sketch for a television series project developed by Gene Roddenberry after the run of the original " " . Unfortunately , the series was never produced . Later , at Roddenberry ' s request , the ship made a cameo appearance as a painting on the recreation deck of the refit " Enterprise " in " Star Trek : The Motion Picture " . In that painting , the ship bore the registry number XCV - 330 . " " The following is from a Lincoln Enterprises catalog , describing some elevations of the ship that could be purchased through the company : " " Gene Roddenberry ' s imagination brings you " Starship " . The vessel of the future as only he could picture it . This could be the forerunner of a new TV series , a Starship operated by an enormous computer which is a lifeform itself . Each Human on board is a genius , a highly trained science specialist , part of a team of Galactic trouble shooters . A brand - new concept in future space travel . We also have three different views of the " Metatransit " system , side elevations of the systems analysis unit , and the " Metaflier " section of the Starship . Imagine yourself on a mission in space aboard this luxury cruiser . You ' ll be spellbound ! " " Star Trek appearances . A legible version of the photograph of the " Enterprise " from the set of " Star Trek : The Motion Picture " was reproduced in " " . The photograph shows both the name " USS " Enterprise " " and the registry number XCV 330 clearly . The book describes the ship as " the very first starship U . S . S . " Enterprise " " . Based on appearance of the painting and mission patch and the events in " First Flight " , the " Enterprise " was launched sometime before 2143 and if it was equipped with warp drive , it was presumably limited to warp factor 2 , as the episode documents the first Earth ships to surpass warp 2 . In ( ) , Doug Drexler stated that the " Enterprise " was one of the inspirations for his design of the Vulcan starship . The ring - shaped configuration was solidified for other Vulcan starships in the series . Following the release of , internet rumors speculated that the portrait of the XCV 330 seen in " Star Trek : The Motion Picture " might be replaced by in the " " , but this did not come to pass . The Artisan prop and model shop of Quantum Mechanix , QMx FX Cinema Arts , was asked to illustrate the history of space flight with models for " Star Trek Into Darkness " . They constructed fourteen models in total . According to the site , the " Enterprise " was Earth ' s first sublight , interplanetary , and interstellar space vehicle . The " Enterprise " had not been given a specific launch date in canon . However , the gallery of models in " Star Trek Into Darkness " appeared to be in chronological order of launch . The " Enterprise " was placed after the Ares V and before the " Phoenix " , suggesting that it was a pre - warp ship and had a launch date somewhere between the 2020s and 2063 . Prefix and history . " Star Trek Encyclopedia " ( 3rd ed . , p . 137 ) called this ship " S . S . " Enterprise " " . The " Enterprise " is presumed to have a conjectural type of warp drive called the annular warp drive by the " Star Trek Encyclopedia " ( 4th ed . , vol . 1 , pp . 30 & 243 ) . Instead of conventional nacelle s , a ship equipped with this drive would have a large hoop - shaped field generator . The ship ' s designer Matt Jefferies , on one of the drawings of this ship , labeled the large ring as a " dynertia " propulsion system . The patch for the " Enterprise " , along with other symbols , is displayed in the " Star Trek Encyclopedia " ( 4th ed . , vol . 2 , p . 350 ) . Chart B of the " Star Trek Maps " featured a side - view drawing of the " Enterprise " . On that drawing , the ring - pylon was marked " 7 " . The long " neck " of the ship was marked " ENTERPRISE " . The drawing was captioned : " " Starliners . Earth ' s first attempts at manned interstellar probes were launched during the 2050s at various target stars within fifteen light years of Sol . Only one , the UESP " Enterprise " , reached its destination – the sunlike binary pair of Alpha Centauri – before they were overtaken by the new faster - than - light spacecraft . The 120 - meter - long Starliners had a crew complement of 35 . " " The UESP - prefix presumably stood for " United Earth Space Probe " , which would make " Enterprise " a ship of the United Earth Space Probe Agency . According to " " ( p . 7 ) and the " Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology " , the " Enterprise " was an interstellar liner launched in 2123 . The " Spaceflight Chronology " featured a side - view drawing and a detailed painting of the " Enterprise " . This however might not even be the same ship . Only the overall shape was similar . It should also be noted that in the timeline of the " Spaceflight Chronology " , for example , the Federation was incorporated in 2087 and the USS " Enterprise " ( NCC - 1701 ) was launched in 2188 . So in the canon timeline , this version of the " Enterprise " would have to be placed somewhere in the very late 22nd to the early 23rd century , well after the time of " Star Trek : Enterprise " . The " Spaceflight Chronology " included the following descriptions : " USS " Enterprise " - Declaration Class 2123 - 2165 . Length : 300 m , Weight : 52 . 7 mil . kg , Ship ' s complement : 950 . Propulsion : Adv . Second Generation Warp Drive . A total of 957 of these warp 3 . 2 starliners were built for the Cultural Exchange Project of the United Federation of Planets . The " Enterprise " was the first ship to be equipped with a subspace radio and was the most popular passenger carrier of its time . " Apocrypha . According to the novel " " , this " Enterprise " was only an unused prototype based on Vulcan ships of the same period . The " " calendar listed in its center spread a comparison of the " Enterprise " ( NX - 01 ) and the " Enterprise " ( XCV - 330 ) and carried the following description : " The " XCV ENTERPRISE " was a radical reinvention of warp technology based on Vulcan design principles . It proved to be 17 % more efficient than Vulcan ships , but had trouble turning at high warp speed , thus making it impractical for exploration where sudden course changes would have to be made . It was considered a technological dead - end in Earth Starship Design . " An updated version of the common paintings of this design is the January image in the calendar . The artwork was composed by artist Mark Rademaker .