USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E)

"...I tend to think of this ship as home." – Jean-Luc Picard, 2063 (Star Trek: First Contact) The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701-E) was a 24th century Federation Sovereign-class starship operated by Starfleet. This ship was the sixth Federation starship to bear the name Enterprise.

Construction and Launch
On stardate 49827.5, the Sovereign-class Enterprise-E, seen as the pinnacle of Starfleet ship design, was launched from San Francisco Fleet Yards, with Captain Jean-Luc Picard in command once more. Much of the crew of the Enterprise-D had been reassigned there, including almost the entire senior staff. The sole exception was Lieutenant Commander Worf, who had already transferred to the space station Deep Space 9.

The ship's keel had been laid on stardate 47015.5, and construction finished on 48822.1. Full warp power tests were conducted for two months, using data coming from the USS Sovereign to improve warp field and other metrics. Similar to the Galaxy-class vessels, the Sovereign-class also features saucer separation.

Before the destruction of the USS Enterprise-D, the vessel was going to be named the USS Sentinel, however when news came in of the destruction of the Enterprise, the ship was renamed in her honor.

Service Record
The Enterprise-E underwent a shakedown cruise of approximately a year before its involvement in the Borg incursion into Sector 001 ("First Contact"). The ship was caught in the temporal wake of the Borg sphere, viewing an alternate timeline where the Borg had assimilated Earth. Once through the temporal anomaly, the ship destroyed the Borg sphere, but found itself infested with Borg, which were attempting to prevent First Contact with Vulcans.

The crew of the Enterprise were able to help Zefram Cochrane's flight occur on schedule, and defeat the Borg Queen, and return to the 24th century, allowing the timeline to be restored without significant alteration. The ship spent some time in spacedock before returning to active duty, distinguishing itself during the Dominion War and on diplomatic and exploratory missions in the Alpha Quadrant.

On stardate 50981.4, the USS Voyager was experimenting with a wormhole to the alpha quadrant, which went wrong, drawing the Enterprise into the Delta Quadrant, while also throwing Voyager 10,000 light years ahead of its journey, past Borg space. The Enterprise discovered it was going into Borg space, and that the Borg were fighting Species 8472. The crew agreed to work with the Borg, with a liaison from their ship, rather than subject themselves to neural transceivers, to help the Borg in their fight. The Borg sent Seven of Nine to speak for them.

Dr. Crusher was able to discover a way to reprogram the Borg nanites with Data's help to destroy the Species 8472 infestation, which had attacked Lt Kell Perim, their Bajoran helm officer. When it came time to give the Borg the nanites, the crew discovered the Borg had initiated the war, and was losing, and refused to decimate an innocent species. The liaison, Seven of Nine, sent the Enterprise into fluidic space, where the crew were forced to use the altered nanoprobes to defend themselves. Once they did so, they successfully emerged back into normal space, where Seven of Nine double-crossed them. At that time, Shelby gave a single command over her comm-badge, "Scorpion," to Lt. Cdr. Data, who successfully patched into Seven's link to the collective and used her individuality against her to sever her link, causing her to fall unconscious. Crusher and the medical crew confined her to the brig, while Geordi and the engineering crew worked on fixing the ship's damage sustained by both the Borg and Species 8472.

For three years, the Enterprise traveled the Delta Quadrant, finding a way to shortcut through Borg space to avoid that fight, and found out that Voyager was still out there ahead of them. Enterprise found a number of new species and conducted diplomacy with a number of races, leaving a positive view of the UFP in the Delta Quadrant. Over the course of those three years, Picard took on the role of a father figure to Seven of Nine, whom he practically ordered to use her human name, Annika Hansen. Data took great interest in teaching her the finer points of human behavior, and shared with her the perspective of an outsider to human culture. Eventually Annika Hansen decided to join Starfleet, and aced the OCS exam, and underwent the advanced training, becoming an ensign, working as a science officer in the astrometrics lab on the Enterprise. In 2376, the Enterprise found a way to return home through use of a Borg Transwarp Conduit, through a combined effort with the Voyager crew.

Once they returned to the Alpha Quadrant, the Enterprise underwent a refit before returning to duty, playing an integral part in the Romulan Revolt in 2379, where a clone of Picard launched a coup against the Romulan Senate, and nearly destroyed the Enterprise, when Data used B-4 to destroy the thalaron generator and the Romulan ship. The end of the coup resulted in a thawing of relations with the Romulans and a promise of friendlier relations. Once Enterprise returned to spacedock in orbit of Earth, Geordi LaForge accepted a position at Starfleet Engineering, and Lt. Annika Hansen accepted the position of Chief Engineer of the Enterprise-E.

Once the Enterprise was repaired, it journeyed towards the edge of Federation Space with the USS Titan, USS Utopia, and USS Thesis to explore the galaxy again. The crew was caught up in an Orion plot to plant sleeper agents on Starships, but managed to solve the crisis and rescue the hostages. Over the course of two years, the Enterprise discovered eight new species and mapped eighteen star systems.

Returning to Federation space, Enterprise journeyed through the early Earth colonies near Earth, visiting New France, the location of some of his own cousins, and helped save the planet from an oncoming asteroid they were not equipped to deflect. Engla III proved a welcome respite but needed assistance in mediating a dispute between the Heptarchy ruling the planet.

Technical Specifications

 * Length: 2248 ft
 * Saucer: 1150 ft
 * Nacelles: 1056 ft
 * Beam: 820 ft
 * Nacelle Span: 700 ft
 * Height: 290 ft
 * Decks: 26

Crew

 * Captain
 * Captain Jean-Luc Picard (2372-2386)
 * Captain Worf (2386-2390)
 * Captain Data (2390-2396)
 * Captain Shelby (2396-2407)
 * First Officer
 * Commander Elizabeth Shelby (2372-2376)
 * Captain Riker (2376-2378)
 * Commander Data (2378-2386)
 * Chief Tactical Officer
 * Lt Samantha Diedrich (2385-2390)
 * Chief Medical Officer
 * Doctor Crusher (2372-2379)
 * Doctor Kayla Rez (2379-2386)
 * Chief Engineering Officer
 * Lt. Cdr. Geordi LaForge (2372-2379)
 * Lt. Cdr. Annika Hansen (2379-2389)