USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)

The **USS *Enterprise*** (**NCC-1701-D**), sometimes referred to as the ***Enterprise*-D**, was a Federation *Galaxy*-class starship in service to Starfleet in the 24th century. Under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, the *Enterprise* served as the Starfleet flagship for seven years. In addition to being the Federation flagship, the *Enterprise* was also the flagship of the Starfleet 16th Fleet, and it, along with the ship, was based out of Starbase 310. In 2371, the *Enterprise* was destroyed in a military engagement over Veridian III. Due to her storied career, the *Enterprise* secured a place as a famous starship in Federation history

## Specifications

### Crew:

1,012 (standard), 200 (visiting), 15,000 (max. capacity)

### Maximum speed:

warp 9.6 (standard), warp 9.8 (emergencies)

### Auxiliary craft:

4 workbees, 8 shuttlecraft, 8 shuttlepods, 1 captain's yacht

## Service history and disposition

### Construction

The *Enterprise* was commissioned in 2363. The ship was built in the Sol system at the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards in orbit over Mars; the vessel's warp drive was designed by Dr Leah Brahms with Commander Orfil Quinteros supervising the overall construction. While under construction, the starship's warp nacelle was the site of multiple murders which were not discovered until 2370.

The *Enterprise* transferred to Earth Station McKinley for final systems completion and shakedown, there on stardate 41153.7 Captain Jean-Luc Picard took command of the ship at the order of Rear Admiral Norah Satie.

### 2364

Following her 2364 launch, the *Enterprise* proceeded via Starbase 52 to Farpoint Station to pick up the rest of the crew. En-route, the omnipotent being Q made first contact with the vessel and challenged the crew to prove their worth in being so deep into space by solving the mystery of Farpoint, the crew succeeded in discovering the station was in fact an alien lifeform, which they promptly freed.

Just as the *Enterprise* departed, a Borg sphere arrived through a temporal gateway from 2376 during the Battle of Unimatrix 01. The sphere prepared to attack, but was destroyed by the newly-arrived USS *Premonition*. The *Premonition* departed immediately to prevent further damage to the timeline. Captain Picard remembered this encounter for 12 years.

Following the Farpoint incident, the *Enterprise* embarked on its mission to explore strange new worlds and seek out new life and new civilizations. During its first year, the *Enterprise* was transported a billion light years from the Milky Way Galaxy by an alien known as the Traveler.

Later that year, the *Enterprise* made official first contact with the Ferengi, and later was hijacked by a group of Bynars who took the starship to their homeworld to use the starship’s large computer core to backup their planetary computer.

On stardate 41590.8, the *Enterprise* visited Tigan, under the invitation of Chancellor Lomac, unfortunately Lomac was knocked from power shortly after the Enterprise arrived and the new administration was less happy to have the Federation visit the planet so fired a gravimetric pulse at the *Enterprise*. The pulse generated a gravimetric wave which pushed the *Enterprise* across the galaxy at high velocities. The *Enterprise* was only able to break free and return to Tigan to rescue its away team by using the slingshot effect to jump back in time and re-enter orbit before they could be fired on.

Before the end of the year, the *Enterprise* returned to Earth to thwart an alien conspiracy to take control of Starfleet HQ.

Following this successful mission, the *Enterprise* made its way to the Romulan Neutral Zone to investigate the destruction of several Federation outposts. Initially, their destruction was assumed to be the work of the Romulans, however after making contact with the Romulans for the first time in 53 years, they discovered both sides installations had been attacked. These incidents were later found to be the work of the Borg Collective.

### 2365

On stardate 42317.1, the *Enterprise* was sent to The Armada, on the Maltese asteroid belt, to investigate a series of crop failures which threatened the food supply to the surrounding sector.

Later, the *Enterprise* transported Ambassador Fenton Lewis to the planet Lorca, to stop a Ferengi takeover of the planet. An away team led by Captain Picard was lost, and a second one, led by Commander William T. Riker, was sent down to the planet. Lieutenant Geordi La Forge was placed in command of the *Enterprise*. Both away teams were successful in their missions and the Ferengi left the planet.

Also in this year, the *Enterprise* with the USS *Yamato* discovered the Iconian homeworld and destroyed an Iconian Gateway - to prevent the technology falling into the hands of the Romulans.

However, by far the most notable event of the year was official first contact with the Borg, courtesy of Q

### 2366

Towards the end of 2366, the Borg returned to Federation space and the *Enterprise* was dispatched to try and hold off their vessel while Starfleet mustered its forces at Wolf 359. In an apparent stroke of fortune, the Borg seemed fixated in pursuing the *Enterprise* so that they might achieve their goal of assimilating Captain Picard. For some time the *Enterprise* was able to hide from the Borg in the Paulson Nebula, however the Borg eventually drove the ship out using magnetometric guided charges. Soon there after, the Borg succeeded in capturing Picard and assimilating him, giving him the designation Locutus.

The crew of the *Enterprise* attempted to stop the Borg by modifying their starship's deflector dish to fire a high energy pulse. Unfortunately, Picard was aware of this plan and the Borg had already adapted. As the *Enterprise* fell behind, the cube (endowed with Picard's knowledge of Starfleet defenses) proceeded to Earth, easily defeating the fleet of thirty nine Starfleet vessels awaiting them.

The *Enterprise* was eventually able to catch up with the cube and rescue Picard. Using his link to the Collective, Data was able to implant the command 'sleep' into the Borg drones on the ship causing them to regenerate en masse, in turn causing the cube to self destruct over Earth.

### 2367

Following the battles with the Borg, the *Enterprise* returned to Earth Station McKinley for refit and repairs while the crew took some much deserved shore leave in early 2367

On stardate 44429.6, following a brief engagement with the Cardassian ship CDS*Trager*, the *Enterprise* worked with the Gul of that ship, Akellen Macet, to track down a rogue Federation starship, the USS *Phoenix*, which had been attacking Cardassian vessels.

Later that year, on stardate 44614.6, while Dr. Leah Brahms visited the ship, the *Enterprise* became the temporary adopted mother of a space-borne lifeform.

Towards the end of the year, the *Enterprise* led an armada of ships to create a tachyon detection grid to prevent cloaked Romulan ships delivering supplies to factions in the Klingon civil war.

### 2368

On stardate 45156.1, the *Enterprise* collided with a quantum filament, resulting in severe damage and a loss of all power. Fortunately, the crew were able to restore power before antimatter containment was lost - which would have destroyed the ship.

On stardate 45208.2, the crew of the *Enterprise* fell victim to a Ktarian mind controlling game and almost handed the ship over to Ktarian control. Fortunately, through the efforts of Lieutenant Commander Data, Ensign Robin Lefler and Wesley Crusher, the Ktarian plan was thwarted.

In mid-2368, the *Enterprise* was shortly captured by Romulans from the experimental warbird IRW *Syrinx*. The Romulans took the *Enterprise* to the quarantined world Hermeticus II, where the crew rediscovered the USS *Independence*, which was lost 30 years earlier. Hermeticus II was revealed being a starship inhabited by the Ambimorph, who saved the crew of the *Enterprise* and destroyed the Romulan ship.

On stardate 45494.2, the Satarrans also attempted to take control of the *Enterprise* with somewhat more success, using the *Enterprise* to destroy a Lysian destroyer before the crew of the *Enterprise*, whom the Satarran agent on board had induced a state of amnesia in, regained their memories and retook control of the ship.

Towards the end of the year, on stardate 45959.1, the *Enterprise* once more returned to Earth, to investigate the discovery of a duplicate head of Lieutenant Commander Data.

### 2369

Early in the year 2369, the *Enterprise* was charged with transporting Kommandant Ghud to trial on the planet Wyath. Due to strict rules in Wyath law on the timing of trials, Ghud had to arrive in a tight schedule, so when the shuttlecraft *Goddard* failed to make its rendezvous with the *Enterprise*, the starship had to continue onto Wyath regardless. Fortunately, Ghud volunteered his engineering expertise to help find the shuttle; devising a system which triangulated the sensors of the *Enterprise*, Starbase 172 and the sensor array on Wyath to pinpoint the unique materials the shuttle crew had in their possession - Worf's baldric, Ro Laren's earring and Geordi La Forge's VISOR. Upon detecting the shuttle, Commander Riker was dispatched in another shuttle to retrieve the away team, while the *Enterprise* continued on schedule for Wyath.

On stardate 46125.3, the *Enterprise* tracked a distress call from the USS *Jenolen*, to find the crashed ship on the outside of a Dyson sphere. There the crew rescued Captain Montgomery Scott, suspended in the transporter beam for the previous 75 years.

On stardate 46357.4, Edward Jellico temporarily took command of the *Enterprise* while Captain Picard conducted a covert mission to Celtris III.

On stardate 46379.1, the *Enterprise* delivered crew and a complement of *Danube*-class runabouts to the newly re-christened starbase Deep Space 9. Later that year on stardate 46578.4, the *Enterprise* returned to DS9.

On stardate 46682.4 the *Enterprise* travelled to Arkaria to undergo a Baryon sweep in the Remmler Array.

### 2370

On stardate 47111.1, the *Enterprise* was sent to intercept a Garidian Scoutship, which was about to cross the Neutral Zone. The *Enterprise* arrived just in time to save a group of Garidian fugitives who were escaping the Garidian government and were pursued by the Garidian Warbird *Asiram*. Captain Picard answered their request for asylum, and convinced the Garidian captain named Pentara, who was the mother of one of the fugitives, to return to their territory.

Soon after that, the *Enterprise* received a distress call from Mertens Orbital Research Station orbiting Cymkoe IV. The *Enterprise* arrived in time to save the station from a power core breach and faced its attacker, a mysterious probe with would later be discovered as Chodak technology.

After the incident at Cymkoe IV, Admiral Reddreck ordered the *Enterprise* to Morassia to investigate the mysterious disappearance of a Federation scientist, Dr. Vi Hyunh-Foertsch. The crew managed to reveal illegal activities of one of the planet's inhabitants. Furthermore they managed to get a trace on the Garidian fugitives' trail for the Fifth Scroll, an ancient artifact that could change Garidian politics forever.

The *Enterprise* discovered the Fifth Scroll on Frigis, after discovering a colony of Garidian descendants of the Followers of the Lawgiver. Shortly after the Garidians left the Enterprise to return home with the artifact, a Romulan fleet entered Federation space, attacking several outposts and apparently heading towards the Z'Tarnis Nebula. The *Enterprise* encountered several Romulan warbirds and engaged at least one ship after responding to a distress call from the USS *Ayers*.

Starfleet Command ordered the *Enterprise* to investigate the Romulan invasion. The crew discovered that the Romulans were looking for an ancient Chodak weapon, known as the Unity Device, which they believed was hidden in the Z'Tarnis Nebula.

After the first wave of the Romulan invasion, another hostile force crossed the Neutral Zone, once more destroying Federation outposts. The *Enterprise* intercepted one of the alien ships and discovered that the Chodak were behind the second attack.

First Contact with the Chodak was established on their former homeworld Allanor, where Captain Picard was able to locate the position of the Unity Device. The *Enterprise* arrived in the Z'Tarnis Nebula to make sure the ancient weapon would not fall into wrong hands. Soon after that, Captain Picard was able to send the Unity Device into another dimension.

While on patrol, the *Enterprise*-D was contacted by Montgomery Scott aboard the *Goddard*, who requested access to their library computer. While aboard in guest quarters, Scott accessed logs from the original *Enterprise* crew, including Spock's calculations for time travel aboard a *B'rel*-class Klingon bird-of-prey. After departing the *Enterprise* under false authorization, Scott's vessel, nicknamed the *Bounty 2* utilized the Arhennius star to slingshot back in time, with the *Enterprise* following, where they discovered an alternate timeline, mistakenly caused by Scott when he rescued James T. Kirk from the USS *Enterprise*-B before he was drawn into the Nexus.

The *Enterprise* met the *D'Zidran*, commanded by that timeline's Tal who was advised by Guinan. The *D'Zidran* put out an Alliance fleet-wide alert and located Scott and Kirk aboard the *Wisdom*, under the watch of Supreme Arbiter of the Alliance Sarek. The *Enterprise* was able to avoid the threat of the Borg Collective, who now controlled much of the Alpha Quadrant, including the Sol system, and with the assistance of Guinan, determined that they needed to return Kirk to the Nexus. The *Enterprise* transported Kirk back moments before a fleet of Borg cubes destroyed the *Enterprise*, but the timeline corrected itself and everyone awoke back in the normal flow of space-time without knowledge of the events in the alternate timeline.

On stardate 47310.2. *Enterprise* issued a warp embargo throughout Starfleet and other governments, based on findings by Hekaran astrophysicists. This resulted in a local velocity limit of warp factor 5, bringing daily spacefaring and commute somewhat back to the 22nd century; major starship redesigns were made, including the *Intrepid*-class vessels. For this reason and rifts generated in areas of space, "environmentally friendly" provisions were made. For example, the *Enterprise-D*, in the following year, before her loss, reduced power output while orbiting Amargosa. Internal shipboard lights were lowered or altogether deactivated, allowing solar light to shine through decks with the windows, reflected from the nearby observatory.

On stardate 47457.1, the *Enterprise* was sent to the Devolin system to try and recovered the wreckage of the USS *Pegasus* before the Romulans succeed in achieving the same goal. Racing against the IRW *Terix*, the *Enterprise* located the *Pegasus* but was forced to use an illegal prototype interphasic cloaking device the *Pegasus* had been the test bed for to escape an asteroid the *Enterprise* had been trapped in.

On stardate 47630.1 the Enterprise was assigned to map the Bandor system which had recently fallen under Federation jurisdiction. In that remote location it was attacked by an unidentified hybrid starship, made from Federation, Romulan and Borg components. In the first attack, the ship took out the Enterprise's warp and impulse engines and reduced shields to twenty-four percent, as well as causing crew injuries, near fatal ones to Counsellor Deanna Troi. The attacker then departed for a short time. When it returned, Troi had recovered enough to warn the ship had no crew, it was remote controlled. With this knowledge, the crew were able to find a solution, creating an inter-receptive network blocking the subspace communications controlling the aggressor. Cut off from its controllers, the vessel self destructed. The *Enterprise* called in at a nearby Starbase following this incident.

### 2371

In 2371, the *Enterprise* was undergoing some refits at the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards at the time that the USS *Voyager* was undergoing final construction.

After the disappearance of *Voyager*, the *Enterprise* participated in the search for the missing Starfleet vessel in the Badlands.

On stardate 48650.1, the *Enterprise*-D met its end during a confrontation with a Klingon Bird-of-Prey under command of the Duras sisters. The sisters had previously captured Geordi La Forge and while under their captivity had Tolian Soran (a scientist they were working with) modify La Forge's VISOR to transmit a video stream to them. Upon his return to the *Enterprise*, they used this data to discover the *Enterprise*'s deflector shield frequencies and adjusted their disruptor frequencies accordingly to fire through the *Enterprise's* shields. While the *Enterprise* was able to destroy the bird of prey they were using, the *Cha'Joh*, the damage inflicted during the battle caused a warp core breach. The crew managed to evacuate to the saucer section and separate before the stardrive section exploded.

The shock wave created by that explosion did, however, knock the saucer off course, causing it to crash land on the planet Veridian III below. Most of the crew survived, but the *Enterprise* herself was not salvageable and a small group of Starfleet vessels arrived shortly after to retrieve the *Enterprise's* crew.

Commander Riker later revisited the crash site to head up a team to dismantle the remains of the ship, so that if and when the natives of Veridian IV ever achieved spaceflight and visited Veridian III, they would not discover the crashed starship. After a Romulan attack, Riker activated the saucer's auto-destruct sequence, leading to the ship's final destruction. While the blast totally obliterated the surrounding area, Riker decided that it would be less harmful for explorers from Veridian IV to find a huge crater rather than the remains of the *Enterprise*-D.

Much of the *Enterprise*-D's crew later transferred to the new *Sovereign*-class USS *Enterprise*-E. Morgan Bateson would reveal that the bridge science station and forward support struts have minor damage because they are from the wreckage of the *Enterprise*-D; the officer’s lounge table was also reclaimed from the *Enterprise*-D. Bateson had them installed, he said, because of these artifacts, the crew of the *Enterprise*-E would always know of the legacy of her predecessor.