USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E)

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USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E)
Image:Sovereign-1.jpg
Launched:	Stardate: 49827.5 October 30, 2372 San Francisco Yards
Commissioned:	Stardate: 49827.5 October 30, 2372
Status:	Operational
Operator:	United Federation of Planets: Starfleet
Specifications
Class:	Sovereign
Category:	Explorer
Mass:	3,205,000 t
Length:	685.1 m (2,248 ft)
Width:	250 m (820 ft)
Height:	88.3 m (290 ft)
Decks:	24 (however, 26 and 29 have been stated also)
Cargo capacity:	18,000 t
Propulsion and power:	Warp: 2 warp nacelles with 1 2000+ Mk II matter/antimatter reactor Impulse: 2 subatomic unified energy impulse units with 24 independent fusion reactors
Velocity (max.):	Warp 9.7+; 0.65 c Impulse
Complement:	855 officers and crew, 12,800 emergency limit
Armament:	16 type-XII phaser arrays; 8 or more photon/quantum torpedo launchers
Shielding:	10 shield generators
Auxiliary craft:	21: 8 type 15, 15A, and 16 shuttlepods; 4 type 6/7 shuttles; 8 work bees; 1 Sovereign type captain's yacht 194 escape pods
This information is compiled from canon (Star Trek: The Next Generation movies) and semi-canon (Star Trek Starship Spotter and Star Trek: The Magazine) sources.
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The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E) is a Sovereign class starship in the Star Trek fictional universe. It is the primary setting for three films starring the cast of the series Star Trek: The Next Generation – Star Trek: First Contact, Star Trek: Insurrection, and (with numerous modifications) Star Trek: Nemesis. It is one of many ships to carry the name Enterprise, and one of at least two starships so named in the late 24th century.

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Also known as the Enterprise-E to distinguish it from its predecessors, this vessel was launched on stardate 49827.5 (2372) from San Francisco Fleet Yards under the command of Captain Jean-Luc Picard, a year after the events of Star Trek: Generations and the destruction of the Enterprise-D, and a year before the events of Star Trek: First Contact and the Battle of Sector 001.

In 2373 the Borg attacked Earth leading to the Battle of Sector 001, which was seemingly ended with the arrival of the Enterprise and its commander Captain Jean-Luc Picard. When the invading Borg Cube was destroyed, it launched an auxilliary ship which travelled back in time to prevent Zefram Cochrane's historic warp flight. Enterprise followed it an in the ensuing conflict was partially assimilated. Their mission, of course, was successful, and the ship was quickly repaired.

In 2375, as depicted in Star Trek: Insurrection, the Enterprise-E prevented an attempted relocation of the Ba'ku people from their homeworld in the Briar Patch (an unstable region of space full of nebulas, gas clouds, plasma fields, and unusual space anomalies) of Federation space by the Son'a, an offshoot of the Ba'ku that left the homeworld a century earlier.

Four years later the Enterprise-E (slightly modified) was featured in Star Trek: Nemesis, when a renegade clone of Jean-Luc Picard took control of the Romulan Star Empire and threatened the destruction of Earth. During this mission, the Enterprise-E was severely damaged, including having its bridge exposed to space and part of its primary hull destroyed because of a collision with Shinzon's vessel, the Scimitar. This required the vessel to undergo extensive repairs afterwards.

Because of the fact that this Enterprise was launched and commissioned so quickly following the events of Star Trek: Generations and the destruction of the Enterprise-D, some fans speculate that this ship was originally a different vessel which was hastily renamed Enterprise while still under construction. However, this remains unconfirmed by any canon Star Trek film or show. According to the licensed (but non-canon) novels based upon Star Trek, original Enterprise engineer Montgomery Scott helped design the vessel, but this has not been suggested on-screen.

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