Star Trek 10 Secrets About The USS Enterprise-G You Need To Know

N-C-C-1-7-0-1. No bloody A-B-C-D-E-F, but there is a G

We are now diving into the Constitution 3 or Neo-Constitution class, Enterprise G

I am Sean Ferrick for Trek Culture, and here are 10 secrets of the Enterprise G you need to know

Number 10. Word up, G. The arrival of the Enterprise G has meant that some parts of the expanded canon are now very firmly not canon anymore

Let's start with the Enterprise F. In Star Trek Online, that gets an upgrade from Odyssey class to Yorktown class

That now doesn't happen as it's retired in the early 25th century after the Monfet Gambit

As it stands now, the G has not been made available on Star Trek Online

Speaking of Star Trek Online, the Titan continued on with the Luna class

which showed the Titan, Titan A, and, once that was destroyed, the Titan B also continuing on in that frame as well

Star Trek Fleet Command has now actually shown the Constitution 3 class

with the Titan A crossing over onto its platform in the Kelvin timeline as part of that ongoing story

The now defunct fan series Frontiers, not to be confused with the Wizards game of the same name

showed the Enterprise G turning up there as an Excalibur class. That was designed by Stephen Davis, but now actually most of that would focus more on the Enterprise H

Unfortunately, it's difficult to find from that, but you can still see images of that online

Number 9. Marvelous Medical Among some of the most impressive sets built for the Titan A was, in fact, the Medical Bay

which Dave Blass, production designer, went into a lot more detail about

You never really know what action is going to take place there. Usually it's one person in a bed, but it's a huge ship, so you really need 10 to 12 beds

But that's a giant waste of space and money. Then you need a surgery bed and somewhere to sit and talk, as well as somewhere to look at medical readouts

So sickbait was just wrangling of the time and money beast and making it as big yet interesting

as possible. Costs were further reduced actually for this set by the introduction of these kind of

large OLED holographic type tubes. This holographic was very, very deliberate as Blast said that it was

able to give a more technological feel to the room without actually upping the budget considerably

Number 8. Pursuit Krauss. The design of the Enterprise-G was based on the Shangri-La class

and also inspired by the designs of Trek fan and designer Larry Miller in the 1980s, as Bill Krauss

explained. Originally, the idea for the Shangri-La class was something that could both stand out

but also very much blend in with some of the original series movies as well. In fact, Krauss

looked to Andrew Probert's designs so that it would be something that you could see, theoretically, becoming part of the lineage of Starfleet

Miller Hornet design was also used as a bit of inspiration for what would turn up as the USS Intrepid as well Krauss actually never expected this design to play as pivotal a role as possible Terry Mattalis found these designs via Krauss Instagram account

and commissioned Krauss to build a model for him. He thought it might show up in the background of an episode here or there

not in the, well, hero form it ended up taking in season three

Number seven, set pieces. 18 new sets were built for the Titan A

which of course would go on to be the Enterprise G. You might have noticed that the lower section of La Sirena

was reused as the bridge of the Shrike whereas, well, the standing set of the Stargazer's bridge from Season 2

became the skeleton of what would become the Titan A's bridge in Season 3

New OLED screens were added to the Titan A bridge along with some more panels, platforms, and stations, including the one that Picard used to

fire torpedoes at one point. The observation lounge as well was given a bit of a touch-up from what we

saw in season two, with the addition of, of course, the new models away from the Stargazer and Sagan

class moving towards the Constitution 3, and of course the Luna class as well. With all of these

new sets being designed, and the previously mentioned medical bay being the most complex of

them. This was a massive undertaking at a time when a lot of what we see on screen is computer

generated. Number six, Shangri-La-La-La-La. The Enterprise-G can trace its design lineage back to

the 23rd century with the original USS Titan being a Shangri-La class under the command of Captain

Savick. It's a blink and you'll miss it moment but the shuttle that Riker and Picard borrow to go

over to the Ilios XII, is in fact named the Savik after the captain of the first Titan

The Constitution III class was effectively a 25th century update of that original Shangri-La class

with the Luna class sort of slipping in the middle, if you like. Let's call that the grunge

phase in the middle of their upbringing, and that, by the way, is not a word against Sean

Tarango's design of the Luna class, which I love. While the overall design of the Constitution III

is based heavily on the Shangri-La class. The actual nacelles were borrowed from Season 2's

Sagan-class USS Stargazer, with this difference being that they could be opened and tinkered with

by some captain-level grease monkeys. Number five, downsizing in the move. If you trace things from

the original Enterprise right up to the Enterprise F, you can see that there is a trend of Enterprises

tend to get bigger and bigger and bigger. You had crews of about 400 back in Kirk's day

right up to over 1,000 in Picard's day. You might think that, well, hold on

the Enterprise E didn't have anything like that complement, and you would be correct

although the Sovereign class is quite a bit longer than the Enterprise D's Galaxy class

so we're continuing that trend. Having said that as well, the Sovereign class was just over 600 metres

where the Odyssey class Enterprise F is about a kilometer long. So we're getting a bit ridiculous at that point

That's not even taking into account the Universe class Enterprise J. The Constitution 3 class actually brings everything down again

And this was a conscious decision by Terry Metallus who explained in an interview with Inverse that he wanted to bring this ship back to the exploratory nature of Starfleet that had been sort of

After Wolf 359, we'd started to see the introduction of a more militaristic side of Starfleet

which, you know, led to ships like the Defiant, the Enterprise E, the Akira-class

The Constitution 3 Enterprise G was a deliberate attempt to go back to science vessels and exploring vessels

and, in Metallus' own words, would have its absolute ass kicked in the wrong situation

Number four, what's in a name? The path to the Enterprise G is not actually quite as straightforward as you'd think

Shangri-La class designer Bill Krause explained that they would start as the Titan but end as the Picard

which would follow the overall arc of the season and ironically leave the show named after the ship

but just retroactively. The moment, however, in The Last Generation, which sees the shuttle come up over the bow of the now Enterprise-G to reveal the new name

is a direct parallel to the tease at the end of Star Trek IV The Voyage Home

when Sulu says, actually, I'm counting on Excelsior, and then they rise up over the Excelsior to see the newly christened Enterprise-A

There was a fun parallel in this as well. You see, originally, for the next generation, we were going to have NCC-10017

However, the choice to alphabetise the new Enterprise in Star Trek IV The Voyage Home

meant that we were going to not do the additional number at the end, but rather a letter

It was going to be the NCC-1701G. Now, this was brought down to 1701D to be more in line with the 78-year gap

between the end of Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country and, of course, the beginning of Encounter at Farpoint

Number three, reconstituted. The decision to make the Enterprise-G a Constitution III class was a very deliberate decision

and when the reveal happens, it makes quite a lot of sense

You see, there's a parallel in the end of the voyage home, which sees the Enterprise A revealed as a Constitution class as well

Depending on which version of Beta Canon you follow here, you could either believe that it was renamed from the USS T. Ho

in the 1980s book, Mr. Scott's Guide to the Enterprise, or renamed for the, well, now Coffin Ship, USS Yorktown

But either way, it was a renamed existing starship. Terry Metallica said as well that season 3 of Star Trek Picard was an origin story of the G

which is why when you look at episodes, particularly The Bounty and The Last Generation

you see the Enterprise G, A, NX-01, and the Enterprise D, and the Enterprise F all on screen

Quite frankly, that's a lot of Enterprises. Number two, not so new, new ship

There were a lot of theories around the arrival of a new hero ship for Picard's

third season. Of course, enter the Titan A, the Neo-Constitution class ship, there

was quite a surprising reveal in that this was, in many ways, the exact same

ship Luna that a certain Captain William T Riker had commanded Yes it was revealed that the Luna class USS Titan was heavily heavily refit into the Neo class There a couple of

gags here and there where Shaw said he had to free up a few thousand gigabytes by trying to delete

Riker's entire jazz library from the computer systems as well. Now, it's not the first time

that we've seen a massive refit of a starship. I mean, look at the constitution to the constitution

refit of the motion picture. While perhaps not as drastic, it is still effectively a new ship

built around the frame of the last one. In this, a lot of the computer systems, the nacelles, and the

warp coils were directly held over, even if they did receive quite a bit of tinkering and changes

This also goes away toward explaining the addition of the A to the USS Discovery's registry after it too goes under a significant refit in the third season of Star Trek Discovery

It also helps to hide it in time as well. Number one, Captain's Prerogative

The paint is barely dry on the hull and yet the Enterprise-G already has quite the lineage behind it

Now, technically, if we're taking the physical ship into account here, there's already been three commanders of the Enterprise-G

So, first of all, from the Luna class, we have Captain William T. Riker

Then, of course, you've got Liam, no, Shaw taking over for the refit and for what ends up being the last five years of its life

Riker does take over again for a little while when Shaw's incapacitated. But as we see, when the ship is officially designated Enterprise G, you've got Captain Seven of Nine in the big seat

While we are still waiting on Star Trek Legacy to show us more of Seven in the captain's seat

it's actually not the record for the amount of commanders of an Enterprise. Look at the original one

You've got April, you've got Pike, you've got Kirk, you've got Commodore Decker

you've got his son, Will Decker, you've got Spock as well. and then, you know, varying kind of like here and there

it's all the way in between. The Enterprise D had Picard a few times, we had Jellicoe

Now, the difference there is that that did stay the Enterprise D

and although the original Enterprise had quite a few commanders, the Enterprise A sort of, you know, kind of oscillates between Kirk and Spock

depending on the afternoon. What I'm saying is that it's a privilege to be a captain of the Enterprise

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