USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D)

The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) was a Galaxy-class starship launched in 2363, the fifth Federation starship to bear the name. It served as the flagship of Starfleet for the duration of its lifetime.

Construction
The Enterprise was built at Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards orbiting Mars in the Sol system. Construction was supervised by Commander Orfil Quinteros. Dr. Leah Brahms was responsible for much of the Enterprise's warp propulsion system design.

The ship's nacelle tube was the site of a multiple murder while it was still under construction at Utopia Planitia. A member of the construction team, Walter Pierce, became jealous of a former lover's new relationship. He killed the two officers, Marla Finn and William Hodges, then disposed of their bodies in the plasma stream. Pierce committed suicide in the same manner, leaving a telepathic imprint in a bulkhead that was not discovered until 2370.

Final systems completion and shakedown was conducted at Earth Station McKinley. Captain Jean-Luc Picard took command of the ship on stardate 41153.7 at the order of Rear Admiral Norah Satie.

Commanding officers
Although Picard commanded the Enterprise most of its life, his first officer, William T. Riker, was field promoted to captain in 2367, following Picard's capture by the Borg and assimilation as Locutus. In early 2369, the Enterprise was briefly commanded by Captain Edward Jellico, as Captain Picard was assigned to a covert mission on the Cardassian planet of Celtris III.

Technical info
With a total of 42 decks, the USS Enterprise-D was twice the length and had eight times the interior space of the Constitution-class ships of over a century earlier; it carried a combined crew and passenger load of about 1014. Crewmembers of ensign rank were required to share crew quarters, but were allowed their own quarters upon promotion to lieutenant, junior grade.

The bridge, captain's ready room, and conference lounge were on Deck 1, and were protected by redundant safety interlocks to prevent environmental systems failure. The main shuttlebay was on Deck 4, supported by several cargo bays on Deck 4 and Deck 18. Two additional shuttlebays were found on Deck 13. Deck 8 of the ship was a non-finished multi-purpose deck. Additional work spaces were set there when needed. It also contained the officers' quarters and the battle bridge. Ten Forward, the center of the ship's social activity, was located on the extreme forward end of Deck 10, offering the best view of space ahead of the ship. Holodecks could also be found on Deck 10. Deck 12 contained sickbay, while main engineering was located on Deck 36. Engineering took up twelve decks of the secondary hull, with the antimatter storage pods housed on Deck 42. The primary docking ports were located on either side of the torpedo launcher on Deck 25; the nacelle control room was also on that deck. According to Lieutenant Commander Nella Daren, the most acoustically perfect spot on the ship was the fourth intersect of Jefferies tube 25.

The Enterprise had a maximum sustainable speed of warp 9.6 for 12 hours. In 2369, the ship generated about 12.75 billion gigawatts of power, simply while in orbit of a planet. The warp core could generate a tremendous amount of energy at once if needed; the only device on the ship capable of channeling such energy all at once would be the main deflector dish.

The Enterprise-D carried twelve phaser arrays, three torpedo launchers, a complement of 250 photon torpedoes, and a high capacity shield grid; there are some 4,000 power systems in all on board the ship. It also had twenty transporter rooms.

Ship's directory

 * This contains USS Enterprise-D specific information; for more, see Galaxy-class decks.


 * Deck 2
 * Room 2713: Lieutenant Worf's quarters, 2370
 * Room 3653: Lieutenant Commander Data's quarters, 2370


 * Deck 7
 * Section 19, Room 1947: Lieutenant Edward Hagler's quarters
 * Section 25 Baker, Room: Lieutenant Worf's quarters, 2369


 * Deck 8
 * Room 0910: Commander Deanna Troi's quarters, 2368-2370
 * Room 0912: Commander William T. Riker's quarters
 * Room 2133: Commander Beverly Crusher's quarters, 2370
 * Room 3402: Counselor Deanna Troi's office
 * Room 3601: Captain Jean-Luc Picard's quarters
 * Section 4, Room 4711: Lieutenant Ro Laren's quarters, 2370
 * Marla Aster and Jeremy Aster's quarters, 2366


 * Deck 9
 * Room 0910: Counselor Deanna Troi's quarters, 2366
 * Room 0929: Ensign Maddy Calloway's quarters
 * Section 28: Commander Beverly Crusher's quarters, 2368

The crew

 * For full listing of Enterprise crew, see: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) personnel

In 2367, an average day aboard ship recorded by Lieutenant Commander Data included four birthdays, two personnel transfers, two chess tournaments, a secondary school play, four promotions, and at least one birth. The Enterprise normally ran on three duty shifts. Increasing to four duty shifts would cause many personnel scheduling problems, as when Captain Jellico ordered a change during his tenure in 2369. Crew evaluations were conducted every three months, and were usually supervised by Will Riker and Deanna Troi.

As of 2366, some thirteen species were represented among the ship's complement, at that time including Betazoid, Klingon, El-Aurian, Vulcan and human. Over the course of its mission, crew species included Bolian, Benzite, Bajoran, Napean, and an android. As of 2369, there were 17 crew members from non-Federation worlds. The ship also carried dolphins.

Although Starfleet crewmembers staffed the vital positions onboard the Enterprise, civilian crewmembers were allowed to hold important jobs in the ship's science and medical departments, as well as support areas like Ten Forward and the ship's school of the Arboretum.

In service
The Enterprise-D made first official contact with a number of species. (See below)

The Enterprise pushed its engines to the limit during the Farpoint mission in 2364, while fleeing from the entity known as Q; it also conducted the first high-warp saucer separation at that time. It would break warp 9.9 later that year, during warp experiments run by Kosinski. It was the first Federation starship to visit a distant galaxy.

Later in 2364, the Enterprise was hijacked from Starbase 74 by the Bynars. They intended to use the ship to repair the damaged computer on their homeworld. The Enterprise was returned to Captain Picard's custody following the incident, and the Bynars freely accepted the consequences of their actions.

During its first encounter with the Borg, sections 27, 28, and 29 on decks 4, 5 and 6 were removed for analysis by the Borg, killing eighteen people. During the Borg incursion of 2366 and 2367, the Enterprise suffered heavy damage. Deck 36, including main engineering, was decompressed after a cutting beam damaged the engineering hull, killing at least eleven, and possibly eight more.The main deflector dish was transformed into a last-ditch energy weapon, which failed due to the assimilated knowledge of Captain Picard. In the attempt, the deflector and warp core were overloaded, while several decks were flooded with radiation. Later, the saucer module sustained damage to its impulse drive and decks 23 through 25 were sliced open by the enemy during the final battle over Earth. The extent of the damage required a full refit at Earth Station McKinley, which lasted five to six weeks.

During that refit, the starship received a phaser upgrade as well as full damage repair and a new dilithium chamber hatch. The hatch malfunctioned later that year, causing extensive damage to the warp core. Although Romulan sabotage was initially suspected, it was later learned that undetectable flaws in the hatch were responsible.

The Enterprise was the command ship in Captain Picard's armada which blockaded Romulan assistance to the House of Duras during the Klingon Civil War. It coordinated a tachyon detection grid which was used to prevent cloaked Romulan ships from crossing the border.

The ship struck a quantum filament in early 2368, causing a loss of all power aboard ship and severe damage to most systems. Antimatter containment was nearly compromised; fortunately, repairs were made before the ship was destroyed.

The Enterprise was repeatedly destroyed in 2368, when the ship was trapped in a temporal causality loop near the Typhon Expanse. Each cycle ended in a catastrophic collision with the USS Bozeman. Feelings of deja vu allowed the Enterprise crew to gather clues which allowed them to send a message into the next loop and avoid the collision. The ship spent a total of seventeen days repeating the same interval of time.



The Enterprise was one of the first Starfleet vessels to dock at the newly commissioned Deep Space 9, where it offloaded most of the station's Starfleet contingent and its first complement of runabouts.

The Enterprise underwent its first baryon sweep at the Remmler Array in 2369. A stronger field was needed due to the Enterprise's heavy use of warp drive. During the sweep, a mercenary group nearly stole dangerous trilithium resin from the warp core, but was thwarted by the Enterprise senior staff.

One of the most important discoveries in the history of the Federation was made aboard the Enterprise-D; its crew pieced together Dr. Richard Galen's final research to decipher a message from the ancient humanoids, the first humanoid species in the Milky Way Galaxy.

Late in 2369, the Enterprise was damaged while rescuing the crew of a Romulan warbird. Its warp core had been colonized by lifeforms which mistook it for a genuine quantum singularity, causing severe disruptions in space-time. The Enterprise was nearly destroyed due to feedback from a power transfer beam, which was killing the lifeforms' young. Fortunately, several Enterprise crewmembers were returning to the ship at the time and were able to rescue the Enterprise and the Romulan crew.

A new warp core was tested aboard the Enterprise in early 2370. The core was installed at Starbase 84; several points of the power transfer conduits were replaced as well. The core and the conduits had been manufactured on Thanatos VII using interphase technology, attracting interphasic organisms which attached themselves to the crew and began to digest their cellular structures. An interphasic pulse was successful in destroying the creatures.

Also during 2370, Commander La Forge engaged in a friendly contest with Donald Kaplan, chief engineer of the USS Intrepid. They competed to have the best power conversion rates in the fleet, with the Enterprise frequently beating out the Intrepid.

The Enterprise became one of the few Federation ships to use a cloaking device in 2370, and perhaps the first to successfully use a phasing cloak. It had been retrieved from the wreckage of the USS Pegasus and was installed aboard the Enterprise to allow it to pass through an asteroid after a Romulan vessel sealed the ship inside.

While investigating a rogue comet in 2370, the Enterprise stumbled upon an archive of the lost D'Arsay civilization. The archive trapped the ship and used matter and DNA aboard to create artifacts from the D'Arsay culture. The Enterprise was later returned to normal.

Lieutenant Worf supervised an upgrade of the Enterprise's weapons systems in late 2370. The tests were interrupted after the ship was ravaged by Barclay's Protomorphosis Syndrome.

The Enterprise temporarily became sentient in 2370 when an emergent lifeform used the ship's systems to reproduce.

When Miles O'Brien, one of the ship's former transporter chiefs, was captured by the Cardassians, the Enterprise was sent to patrol the Demilitarized Zone as a warning to the Cardassian government.

In early 2371, the Enterprise received a number of refits to its internal spaces. Color and lighting schemes were slightly altered, and the bridge inherited a number of new consoles on the port and starboard sides. There were now four science stations, three along the starboard wall and one at the starboard side of the aft stations. Mission Ops was now the second station, followed by environmental control. Two engineering stations rounded out the aft area, while three communications stations were now present along the port wall. As well, the main floor (where the Captain's, Executive Officer's, and guest's chairs are) was slightly raised, and a chair was placed at the tactical station for the chief of security to sit while manning his/her console.

The Enterprise was lost in 2371 after an attack by a renegade Klingon bird of prey (commanded by the Duras sisters) caused extensive damage, leading to a warp core breach. Although the saucer section was safely separated before the breach, the shockwave from the explosion forced it into the atmosphere of Veridian III. Fortunately, Commander Deanna Troi was successful in maneuvering the saucer to a safe landing and losses were minimal. The ship, however, was unsalvageable and the crew was rescued by the USS Farragut, the USS Valiant and a Miranda-class ship. Commander Riker was upset over the loss of the Enterprise, as he hoped he would one day command the ship.  However, Picard expressed his doubt that the Enterprise-D would be the last vessel to carry the name.

In 2372, Captain Benjamin Sisko offered his condolences over the loss of the Enterprise to Lieutenant Commander Worf, saying the Enterprise was a good ship.

List of first contacts
In most cases, the date indicated is the first time open communication was initiated with at least one member of the species. Otherwise, it is the first known contact with the species.
 * 2364
 * The Aldeans
 * Armus
 * The Beta Renner cloud
 * The Edo
 * The Farpoint Station entities
 * The Ferengi
 * Microbrain
 * The neural parasites
 * The Q Continuum
 * 2365
 * The Borg
 * Nagilum
 * Ian Andrew Troi, Jr.
 * 2366
 * Gomtuu
 * Koinonian energy being
 * The Mintakans
 * The nanite civilization
 * The Zalkonians
 * 2367
 * The Cytherians
 * The Malcorians
 * 2368
 * The Crystalline Entity
 * FGC-47 lifeforms
 * Ux-Mal criminals
 * The Tamarians
 * 2369
 * The exocomps
 * The quantum singularity lifeforms
 * The Solanagen-based lifeforms
 * 2370
 * The Boraalans
 * Emergent lifeform

Alternate Enterprises
Numerous alternate timeline versions of the Enterprise have been observed.

"Time Squared"
One alternate version of the Enterprise was observed in 2365. A ship from several hours in the future was destroyed following an encounter with a spatial anomaly, which was later determined to be a sentient presence. There was a single survivor, Captain Picard, who was thrown back in time and picked up by the Enterprise. The other Picard was able to determine that the Enterprise needed to fly through the anomaly rather than attempt to escape it via the entrance, and the timeline was averted.

"Yesterday's Enterprise"
In another alternate timeline, following the disappearance of the USS Enterprise-C, and the destruction of the Klingon outpost at Narendra III, relations between the Federation and the Klingon Empire deteriorated into war.

The Enterprise-D in this alternate timeline was the first of the Galaxy-class warships constructed by the Federation, capable of carrying over 6,000 troops. The vessel was entirely militarized, with no civilian compliment or counselor. The bridge contained multiple redundant consoles, with a single command chair for the captain. Replicators throughout the ship were restricted to minimal power, and all available power was routed to the defensive systems.

In 2366, on combat date 43625.2, the Enterprise-D investigated a radiation anomaly near Starbase 105, where it encountered the Enterprise-C, transported through time by the anomaly, a temporal rift. As the Enterprise-D assisted in repairs, it was made clear that the Enterprise-C had to return through the rift, in order to prevent the chain of events that would lead to war. Enterprise-D crewmember Guinan was aware of the change to the timeline, and convinced Captain Picard to send the Enterprise-C back through the rift.

The Enterprise-D laid down cover fire in order for the Enterprise-C to return through the rift. Heavy casualties were suffered, and the vessel was on the verge of a warp core breach when the timeline was restored. However, the Enterprise-C crew retained memories of their encounter, and one Enterprise-D crewmember, Tasha Yar, went back in time with the Enterprise-C.

"Remember Me"
In 2367, the thoughts of Dr. Beverly Crusher after she was trapped in a warp bubble created a completely separate universe, in which people and objects began disappearing. At various points, the crew of the Enterprise was reduced to a normal operating contingent of about 300, then 100, then simply 2. All crew eventually disappeared, as the bubble began to collapse and the universe destroyed. This Enterprise was gradually erased from existence as the bubble collapsed.

"Future Imperfect"
When Commander Riker was captured on Alpha Onias III, he experienced an apparent future 16 years later. In this future, Riker was the Captain of the Enterprise-D, was married to then late-Minuet and had a son, Jean-Luc Riker. Data served as first officer. A Ferengi and several Klingons were on the ship and the bridge had a number more science stations. Jean-Luc Picard, then Admiral, served as an ambassador for the Romulan Empire, with which the Federation was about to sign a peace treaty, since Captain Riker rescued a severely damaged Romulan Warbird four years ago. The interior of the ship was slightly altered, but no hint as to the ship's exterior was given.

"Parallels"
Several thousand Enterprises from many different quantum realities spilled into a single universe in early 2370. This was due to Lieutenant Worf's encounter with a quantum fissure, and the attempts to return him to his proper universe. The fissure was eventually sealed and the ships returned to their proper universes, although one Enterprise, from a universe where the Borg had emerged victorious from the Battle of Wolf 359 and subsequent events, was lost as it attempted to prevent its return to its own reality. When Worf returned to his normal universe, time was reversed and these events no longer occurred.

"All Good Things..."
Several alternate versions of the Enterprise-D were seen by Captain Picard after encountering the anti-time eruption in the Devron system caused by the Q entity. All were part of separate closed timelines.

In the anti-time past of 2364, the Enterprise was not sent to Farpoint Station, but instead was diverted to investigate the anomaly, which was feared to be a new Romulan presence. In this time period, Picard did not inform his crew of his time shifts, worrying that it may influence the future. He initially ignored Starfleet's orders and proceeded to Farpoint, but then diverted the ship to the Devron system and began scanning the anomaly with an inverse tachyon beam. When it was discovered that the beam actually caused the anomaly and that the ship would need to create a static warp shell to contain the eruption, the crew was hesitant to accept the orders of their commander, who seemed to be making arbitrary decisions. After a quick reassurance from Picard, the crew cooperated and the ship joined the two other Enterprises in order to seal the breach. It was first to be destroyed after the stress from the static warp shell caused a warp core breach.

The second ship existed in the anti-time present 2370. Its history was identical to the real ship up until that point. It was also sent to the Devron system, and began to scan the anomaly with the inverse tachyon beam. Picard did tell this crew about his time shifts, and this ship was most drastically affected by the anomaly's effects. This Enterprise joined the two other ships inside the anomaly, but was also destroyed trying to maintain a static warp shell.

In the anti-time future, the Enterprise was not destroyed at Veridian III, but remained in service until at least the early 25th century, where Admiral Riker had saved the vessel from being decommissioned by making it his personal flagship based out of Starbase 247. In this alternate future, the ship had undergone several significant modifications, including the addition of a third nacelle, a cloaking device, and a large phaser weapon mounted underneath the saucer section. It single-handedly destroyed one Klingon battleship and forced another to retreat while rescuing the USS Pasteur crew, following their attempt to find the anomaly. Riker ordered the Enterprise back to Federation space, but Picard later convinced him to return to the Devron system and the ship arrived in time to watch the initial formation of the anomaly. It was the last ship to be destroyed in the attempt to seal the anomaly.

Command crew

 * Commanding officer (CO)
 * Captain Jean-Luc Picard (2364-2371)
 * Captain William T. Riker (briefly in 2366-67)
 * Captain Edward Jellico (briefly in 2369)
 * First officer/executive officer (XO)
 * Commander William T. Riker (2364-2371)
 * Lieutenant Commander Shelby (briefly in 2366-2367)
 * Lieutenant Commander Data (briefly in 2369)
 * Operations manager and science officer
 * Lieutenant Commander Data (2364-2371)
 * Lieutenant Worf (briefly in 2366)
 * Chief engineer
 * Lieutenant Commander Sarah MacDougal (2364)
 * Lieutenant Commander Argyle (2364)
 * Lieutenant Logan (2364)
 * Lieutenant Commander Leland T. Lynch (2364)
 * Lieutenant / Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge (2365-2371)
 * Tactical officer and security chief
 * Lieutenant Natasha Yar (KIA 2364)
 * Lieutenant / Lieutenant Commander Worf (2364-2371)
 * Chief medical officer (CMO)
 * Commander Beverly Crusher (2364, 2366-2371)
 * Commander Katherine Pulaski (2365)
 * Counselor
 * Commander Deanna Troi (2364-2371)
 * Flight controller (conn)
 * Chief Miles O'Brien (2364)
 * Lieutenant Junior Grade Geordi La Forge (2364)
 * Ensign Wesley Crusher (2364-2367, left for Starfleet Academy)
 * Ensign Ro Laren (2368-69)
 * Ensign Sariel Rager
 * Ensign Gates
 * Ensign McKnight
 * Transporter chief
 * Chief Miles O'Brien (2364-2369, reassigned to Deep Space 9)

See also: USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-D) personnel

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