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jcp26
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According to the lore, the Enterprise B disappeared while on assignment. It's been a long time since they have introduced a new mission. How about one about the Enterprise B. We've got Tholians, Time Ships, Borg Temporal Portals, and solar systems that are designated for time travel. It wouldn't be much of a stretch to investigate what happened to the B.
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How about a mission which places you in the Nexus with a T5 starbase, rep and embassy, LTS, infinite zen and dil and anything else you could possibly want... but you are doomed to spend the entire time there on your own.
Though by now, she would either A) Have a crew displaced in time, like the Enterprise-C, or
I also find this idea extremely intriguing as I loved the Enterprise-B when she was first introduced. She may be an Excelsior, but for some reason she doesn't look like the same fat flying pig that is Excelsior.
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And the mission involves finding out what happened to her.
I'm up for more adventures of the Ent-B.
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I believe after encountering 8472 singularities and an adventure in fluidic space, she was critically damaged but Data managed to get her back home safely, where she was retired.
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http://en.memory-alpha.org/wiki/USS_Enterprise_(NCC-1701-B)
and from Memory Beta:
"The ship's last commander was Captain Thomas Johnson Jr. who took command in the early 2320s. The ship's assignment under Johnson was patrol of the Cardassian border. The ship was therefore able to render assistance to Bajoran refugees in 2328 when Cardassia annexed Bajor. The following year the ship was lost in deep space shortly after the crew contracted some unknown infection. (ST reference: USS Enterprise Owners' Workshop Manual)
Note: that FASA RPGmodule: Star Trek: The Next Generation Officer's Manual has a different account of the 1701-B's demise. According the RPG Sourcebook, on reference stardate 2/9208.12, the Enterprise-B engaged two hostile battleships, a Klingon L24-class and a Romulan Z1-class, in the Triangle sector, about five parsecs from the space of the Imperial Klingon States. Both vessels were defeated, but the Enterprise was also lost with critical battle damage. The upshot of the encounter was the end of IKS activity in the area, as the rebel government could not afford to lose any more capital ships after two large scale vessels were claimed by the Enterprise battle."
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Don't recall him revisiting that idea since, but be nice if that was fleshed out.
I smell a foundry story.... can we use ST:II era uniforms in the Foundry?
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Hmm interesting but I doubt it would be published because it might infringe on IP or something if we were to take off from immediatly after Generations.
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And yes, definitely can make a Foundry story. In fact, I seem to recall one or two already available. So perhaps Cryptic could turn it into a contest and the best one gets chosen?
Subsequently retired due to "critical battle" damage. ROFL
How many times was the TOS Connie critically damaged? How many time have our in game ships been critically damaged or destroyed. Most of us should be acquiring a whole new alphabet to designate our ships.
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In the series... never that I recall. No serious compromises to the hull, no total failure of any key system. From a narrative perspective, they couldn't afford to. They couldn't afford to show the damage on the ship, so it was never really hurt that bad. Nothing Scotty couldn't at least field patch until they reached a starbase.
In the movies, the original was critically damaged against Khan, and limped home. If I remember right, they were going to mothball it after that, except Kirk and co. stole it to go after Spock and subsequently blew it up.
The Enterprise-A wasn't really damaged in V, the main conflict there was on the ground. In VI it got wrecked pretty good, hold punched right through the saucer. It's not clear how compromised it really was though, it seemed to be running better than its predecessor was after Khan got through with it. Regardless, it had been established at the beginning of the film that it was scheduled for deactivation.
As for the Enterprise-E, it was a brand new ship at the time of First Contact, and still pretty new at the time of Nemesis. It made sense to repair it, even considering the massive damage to the structure of the saucer. By the early 2400's, she would've been pushing 30. If damaged as badly as in Nemesis, Starfleet might have just found it more cost effective to scuttle her and commission a new Enterprise.
Basically they all perished due to stupidity.
In early drafts of Star Trek Generations and various merchandise released before the movie, the commanding officer of the Enterprise-B was called "Harry Johnson". In the Star Trek: The Next Generation Interactive Technical Manual, the computer refers to him as "James Harriman." - Memory Alpha
John Harriman was a Starfleet officer and captain of the Excelsior-class USS Enterprise NCC-1701-B.
Funny how almost every single Enterprise without a Kirk at the helm suffers a horrible demise. However; in this case, the demise of the Enterprise B was the result of an incompetent Captain.
There goes the TITANIC NCC 1701-B
I know the Star Trek books aren't canon but, have you read any? There is a good one called Serpents Among the Ruins . It details the events of the Tomed Incident that sent the Romulan Empire into isolationism prior to re-emerging in TNG. It takes place as Captain Harriman's career is winding down. By then he had become a quite capable and well respected captain. The events in Generations just seems to be an inexperienced captain with and inexperienced crew manning an ill equiped vessel. It really paints a bad picture for the character but, they had to keep James T Kirk looking good didn't they?
This has long been a pet peeve of mine in ST - whenever there's a grave danger, the Enterprise is the only ship in range - sloppy writing pure and simple - it also gives the impression that Starfleet has maybe 5 ships in service at any one time (and none in Earth orbit?) - even the battle of Wolf 359 was pitiful - gravest danger Earth has ever faced and the most they could come up with is 40 ships including mothballed Mirandas and Consitutions?
This I disagree with - since Chang's B'rel was cloaked, Kirk wasn't able to do any more than Sulu was until they fired the emission-seeking torpedo - besides, Sulu's 'target that explosion and fire!' was easily one of the best lines in the movie
Not so implausible - Kirk was seen performing repairs and other engineering tasks throughout TOS (read the entry on Memory Alpha) - and paunchy as Kirk was in his twilight years, I don't think Scotty would've been able to slide down ladders
Originally, Excelsior was meant to fire the emission torpedo, which is why they mentioned at the start of the film they were the ones with that gear onboard. From what I hear, Mr Shatner objected to having Kirk being saved by someone else, and thus the switch and continuity..... fudge of both ships having that gear (not a full error, since it is possible both ships had the gear for the same mission).
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Despite the Canon vs Story idea, I would love for STO to continue the E-B's trek. Just like it did to Data, the Luna Class (Non-canon), the Vesta class (non-canon), and the USS Fleming (which was a nod to the Countdown comic).
Picard was the only person with intimate knowledge of the Borg. The only officer to ever be assimilated into the Collective and retrieved. This would allow him to know exactly where to fire in order to quickly destroy the cube. Remember, Data says that the proposed targets do not appear to be of critical importance. It's the same thing with Tribble of Borg. Being in the Collective even for a short time provides the knowledge necessary to destroy the Borg. That wasn't the Enterprise riding in to save the day. That was Picard using the Collective's own knowledge against them. Seven did the same thing on several occasions.
And we the same sort of thing on Voyager "Endgame" when Starfleet detects the opening of a Borg transwarp conduit less then 1 light year away from Earth. Admiral Paris order all available ships to converge on that area.
Pretty sensible suggestion from Shatner if you ask me - or would you rather have had some ensign-no-name come up with the idea and spend 5 minutes doctoring a torpedo whilst Uhura, Spock, McCoy and Kirk sit around doing nothing?
There's no way those scenes could have worked from Sulu/Excelsior's perspective...
My issue is that Earth - the heart of the Federation only had a rag-tag fleet of ships nearby to defend it - that just seems dumb to me. With a threat like the Borg, the whole of the UFP should've been in on that battle - obviously there were budgetary restrictions for the show that made truly epic space battles impractical but that's why I see it as sloppy writing - you write around what you can do well.
Starfleet was far better prepared and took advance warnings seriously (enough time to put together the Typhoon Sector Task Force), still the Second Borg Battle was a long, brutal, and draw out fight for the UFP. The second cube (smaller than Wolf 359 Cube) managed to reach Earth albeit with extensive exterior damage.
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It can make some sense storywise, in 2367 (when wolf 359 was fought) the truce with Cardassia was also signed - perhaps most of their fighting ships were still at the Fed-Cardassia border and could not make it to Earth in time
I wish we knew more about the Typhon engagement and what happened while the Enterprise was dinking around at the Neutral Zone. The Cube took a lot of damage, and there's no way it could've gone from the Typhon expanse to Earth in such a short amount of time without using transwarp (It's an 8 day trip from Starbase 4 to Earth at Warp 9.99...), so I'm sure there's an interesting story there..