• Captain Aggravated
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    7 months ago

    At least four or five according to on screen information.

    I believe the meme above refers to:

    1. Archer’s NX Class (NX-01)
    2. Kirk’s Constitution class (NCC-1701 with no suffix, heavily modified to Constitution refit class for feature films 1 through 3)
    3. Kirk’s Constitution refit class (started the letter suffix system with A)
    4. The Excelsior class seen briefly in Generations
    5. the Ambassador class seen briefly in an episode of TNG
    6. Picard’s Galaxy class
    7. Picard’s Sovereign class (the most recent in the series with a suffix of E)

    As the seven starships named Enterprise.

    There is an 8th that has been seen on screen; Archer is given a brief glimpse of the future Enterprise J by his fairy godmother Crewman Daniels. This implies that an F, G, H, and possibly I will be commissioned. I is sometimes skipped with registration numbers because it can be confused with the number 1. So if the show’s in-universe “present day” is where ST: Picard is, a few decades after the events of TNG, there are four, or possibly five, Enterprises implied or confirmed in canon to be built over the next ~250 years.

    • @SkybreakerEngineer
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      97 months ago

      To be fair, IRL there were 3 carriers, 3 sloops, 2 schooners, a patrol boat, a building, and a space shuttle

      • @SkyezOpen
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        37 months ago

        Can’t decide if being captain of the building enterprise is cool or lame.

      • Captain Aggravated
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        27 months ago

        3 carriers? I know of CV-6 and CVN-65. Are you counting the Ford class under construction?

        • @SkybreakerEngineer
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          47 months ago

          Yeah. To be fair, I was reading like the first 3 words for each bullet on Wikipedia

          • @FordBeeblebrox
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            17 months ago

            So we’re moving from steam to magnets, basically following the ENT intro. I hope to see the Phoenix launch in our time, but I guess we have to go through the Bell riots first.