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Actually, 15 years starting November.

I was thinking about Geordi's 20 year dedication of repairing the Enterprise-D's saucer section after it was salvaged from Veridian 3 due to the prime directive and him using engines and nacelles from the USS Syracuse to finish rebuilding the Enterprise.

I can understand knowing how long ago I first started working on this Enterprise after seeing the first release of the ship. I admit I didn't warm up to it at first, but a second viewing said I completely overreacted. Then I began experimenting with what if they reverse engineered the TMP Enterprise with TOS parts?

It was a mess, then I made some adjustments that included some features from JJ's Enterprise, and this was the first result:

www.deviantart.com/newdivide17…

Needless to say, I've made changes over time using one of my favourite Trek lines, "I know engineers, they love to change things," as a basis for the title.

Right along side, "There are four lights!!" and, "Fucking solids."

And then hopefully the final product:

www.deviantart.com/newdivide17…

But then I start to wonder, if the Enterprise's dead hulk from Star Trek 3: The Search for Spock (1984) bounced off the atmosphere and was clear when Genesis blew instead of burning up during reentry, what are the chances that Scotty would spend his retirement fixing up the old girl instead of buying a boat and retiring at Norpin Five?

I know there's a video on YouTube of Starfleet retrieving the Enterprise's wreckage from Genesis that somehow survived the crash like the USS Peregrine, returning it to Earth, refitting it and becoming the Enterprise-A, but I think he forgot that Genesis kinda blew up and killing any chance of the Enterprise being salvaged if it survived the crash.

As to the Enterprise-D that apparently could be repaired and brought back to service, remember the damage to the Enterprise's saucer was pretty extensive and it would probably be easier to building a new saucer instead of fixing the old one, probably with decks 11-16 compacting into deck 10 like Voyager's decks 9-14 are now deck 10 on, "Timeless." So it made more sense to write off the Enterprise-D, and having a nearly finished Sovereign class starship renamed it Enterprise-E. Added they were building up for a possible Dominion confrontation, so they couldn't exactly divert resources to recovering the Enterprise and repairing her, and hope they have a spare stardrive section to replace the one that blew up.

So Geordi's 20 year quest to restore the Enterprise-D.

But one thing I am hoping for on, "The Last Generation," that the dreadful Enterprise-F meets her maker -- as I hated that ship to begin with, and the hatred kept getting worse -- and the Enterprise-D is refitted to become the Enterprise-G like how the USS Discovery becomes the Discovery-A.

But already preparing for the possibility that the Enterprise-D is lost once again, and Data finally becoming human is short lived. Which I hope never happens.

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I thought about the canon issue as how on Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan (1982) lists the Enterprise as Enterprise class:

movies.trekcore.com/gallery/al…

Then the mistake of listing the Enterprise-A as Constitution class that began with the Star Trek: The Next Generation; Technical Manual:

movies.trekcore.com/gallery/al…

That later moved to, "The Bounty."

From the episode, "All Those Who Wander," has the Sombra class looking almost indistinguishable from the Constitution class, only with a crew of 99 and being fast. The major refit to the Enterprise has the Enterprise being the first ship with the new design that lists it as Enterprise class, and the Constitution 2 was another class that had a very similar design as the Enterprise class, but was built from the keel up with several significant differences including the shuttle bay no longer being a massive compartment that was shared with the cargo bay.

movies.trekcore.com/gallery/al…

movies.trekcore.com/gallery/al…

Besides, the Titan-A was Neo-Constitution class.

Description

Actually, 15 years starting November.

I was thinking about Geordi's 20 year dedication of repairing the Enterprise-D's saucer section after it was salvaged from Veridian 3 due to the prime directive and him using engines and nacelles from the USS Syracuse to finish rebuilding the Enterprise.

I can understand knowing how long ago I first started working on this Enterprise after seeing the first release of the ship. I admit I didn't warm up to it at first, but a second viewing said I completely overreacted. Then I began experimenting with what if they reverse engineered the TMP Enterprise with TOS parts?

It was a mess, then I made some adjustments that included some features from JJ's Enterprise, and this was the first result:

www.deviantart.com/newdivide17…

Needless to say, I've made changes over time using one of my favourite Trek lines, "I know engineers, they love to change things," as a basis for the title.

Right along side, "There are four lights!!" and, "Fucking solids."

And then hopefully the final product:

www.deviantart.com/newdivide17…

But then I start to wonder, if the Enterprise's dead hulk from Star Trek 3: The Search for Spock (1984) bounced off the atmosphere and was clear when Genesis blew instead of burning up during reentry, what are the chances that Scotty would spend his retirement fixing up the old girl instead of buying a boat and retiring at Norpin Five?

I know there's a video on YouTube of Starfleet retrieving the Enterprise's wreckage from Genesis that somehow survived the crash like the USS Peregrine, returning it to Earth, refitting it and becoming the Enterprise-A, but I think he forgot that Genesis kinda blew up and killing any chance of the Enterprise being salvaged if it survived the crash.

As to the Enterprise-D that apparently could be repaired and brought back to service, remember the damage to the Enterprise's saucer was pretty extensive and it would probably be easier to building a new saucer instead of fixing the old one, probably with decks 11-16 compacting into deck 10 like Voyager's decks 9-14 are now deck 10 on, "Timeless." So it made more sense to write off the Enterprise-D, and having a nearly finished Sovereign class starship renamed it Enterprise-E. Added they were building up for a possible Dominion confrontation, so they couldn't exactly divert resources to recovering the Enterprise and repairing her, and hope they have a spare stardrive section to replace the one that blew up.

So Geordi's 20 year quest to restore the Enterprise-D.

But one thing I am hoping for on, "The Last Generation," that the dreadful Enterprise-F meets her maker -- as I hated that ship to begin with, and the hatred kept getting worse -- and the Enterprise-D is refitted to become the Enterprise-G like how the USS Discovery becomes the Discovery-A.

But already preparing for the possibility that the Enterprise-D is lost once again, and Data finally becoming human is short lived. Which I hope never happens.

**************************************************

I thought about the canon issue as how on Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan (1982) lists the Enterprise as Enterprise class:

movies.trekcore.com/gallery/al…

Then the mistake of listing the Enterprise-A as Constitution class that began with the Star Trek: The Next Generation; Technical Manual:

movies.trekcore.com/gallery/al…

That later moved to, "The Bounty."

From the episode, "All Those Who Wander," has the Sombra class looking almost indistinguishable from the Constitution class, only with a crew of 99 and being fast. The major refit to the Enterprise has the Enterprise being the first ship with the new design that lists it as Enterprise class, and the Constitution 2 was another class that had a very similar design as the Enterprise class, but was built from the keel up with several significant differences including the shuttle bay no longer being a massive compartment that was shared with the cargo bay.

movies.trekcore.com/gallery/al…

movies.trekcore.com/gallery/al…

Besides, the Titan-A was Neo-Constitution class.