USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E)
The USS "Enterprise" NCC-1701-E (or "Enterprise"-E, to distinguish it from prior and later starships with the same name) is a fictional starship in the "Star Trek" franchise. A "Sovereign"-class starship, it appears in the films "", "" and "", where it serves as the primary setting. It is the sixth Federation starship to carry the name "Enterprise". The ship's captain during the 2370s and early 2380s was Jean-Luc Picard. He transferred to the Enterprise-E after the Enterprise-D was destroyed in "" spin-off movie "Star Trek Generations". Origin and design. Ronald D. Moore, the co -writer of "Star Trek Generations" and "Star Trek: First Contact", has suggested that construction of the "Enterprise"-E began during the final season of "The Next Generation" (2370), and that the ship was renamed USS "Enterprise", which would become the next flagship of the United Federation of Planets after the "Enterprise"-D had been destroyed. Depiction. The "Enterprise"-E, a Sovereign class starship, launched in 2372 from the San Francisco Fleet Yards under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, and most of the key officers from the "Enterprise"-D. According to the non-canon novel "Ship of the Line", the originally planned name  for the vessel was USS "Honorius", and Montgomery Scott was part of the team of engineers that designed the "Enterprise"-E. In the film "Star Trek: First Contact", the "Enterprise" participates in the Battle of Sector 001, destroying a Borg cube, and subsequently travels back in time to stop the Borg from interfering with Zefram Cochrane's first contact with the Vulcans. The Borg hijack and almost assimilate the ship until Captain Picard and Data reclaim it. In "Star Trek: Insurrection", the crew stops a Son'a attempt to forcibly relocate the Ba'ku people from their homeworld. In "Star Trek: Nemesis", the  Enterprise is heavily damaged while stopping Shinzon from using a weapon of mass destruction to destroy all life on Earth. The ship returns to spacedock to undergo extensive repairs. In the novels published by Pocket Books after "Nemesis", the "Enterprise"-E remains under the command of Picard as of 2385 in the 2013 novel miniseries "Star Trek: The Fall". Data was resurrected in the novels similarly to the comic miniseries "Countdown", but he decided not to re-enter Starfleet. A designer's blueprints show that the "Enterprise" has new phaser banks and torpedo launchers in "Star Trek: Nemesis" that were not  present in "Star Trek: Insurrection". It also shows the warp nacelles have been moved upwards and forward slightly. "Star Trek: Ships of the Line", written by "Star Trek"s technical consultant Michael Okuda, states that the "Enterprise" can travel at up to warp 9.995. Reception. In 2018, Io9/Gizmodo ranked the fictional spacecraft design shown in the films "First Contact", "Insurrection", and "Nemesis", the Enterprise-E, as the third best version of starship "Enterprise" of the "Star Trek" franchise. In 2019, SyFy ranked the fictional starship design, the NCC-1701-E "Enterprise" as the third best version of the starship in the  Star Trek science fiction universe.