USS Enterprise (NCC-1701)
The USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) was a 23rd century Federation  starship operated by Starfleet, and the first Federation starship to bear the name Enterprise. During its career, the Enterprise served as the Federation flagship and was in service from 2245 to 2285.

Lineage 
See Enterprise history

Service history

Construction 

In the early- to mid-23rd century, at least twelve heavy cruiser-type starships, the , were commissioned by the Federation Starfleet. () Constructed at the San Francisco Fleet Yards in San Francisco, California, the Federation vessel registered NCC-1701 was christened "the Enterprise" in a long line of ships of the same name. (; ) Captain Robert April oversaw construction of the ship's components as well as its initial trial runs. His wife, Sarah April, designed several tools for the ship's sickbay. () Larry Marvick was one of the designers of the Enterprise itself, while Doctor Richard Daystrom designed its computer systems. ()

Robert April's command 

The Enterprise was launched on April 11, 2245, under the command of Captain April. () Sarah April served as the ship's first chief medical officer, with Christopher Pike serving as Captain April's first officer. (; ; )

Christopher Pike's command 
In 2250, April left the Enterprise and command was turned over to Pike. ()

One deep space cruise took it within half a light year of 99 Pegasi. ()

At one point, the Enterprise visited Pragine 63, where science officer Lynne Lucero was transferred to the , to serve as its new captain. ()

In 2254, Pike would obtain a half Human-Vulcan science officer, Spock, who served under him for over eleven years. ()

Pike's missions included voyages to the Rigel, Vega, and Talos systems. ()

At a point between 2254 and 2256, the Enterprise underwent a major refit, radically changing its appearance. During the refit, nearly every part of the ship was changed, looking similar but having a completely different design. (; )

Federation-Klingon War 
In late 2256, Michael Burnham encouraged Cadet Sylvia Tilly to improve her physical conditioning so that she would stand out amongst her peers and be assigned to the Enterprise or one of its "sister ships." () 

At that time, the Enterprise was on a five-year mission under Pike. With the  underway, Starfleet elected not to recall the starship and leave the vessel as an instrument of last resort, so ordered Pike and his crew to remain out of the fighting. () 

Pike later accused Starfleet Command of not recalling Enterprise because they knew he would steadfastly remind them of Federation values, but Vice Admiral Katrina Cornwell, the only Starfleet Command representative present to hear the accusation, countered that they "wanted the best of Starfleet to survive," if the war was lost, and they had deemed that to be Enterprise. ()

The red bursts 

Following the conclusion of the war in 2257, the Enterprise was dispatched by Starfleet to investigate one of a series of unidentified signals detected throughout the galaxy. () En route, the ship suffered multiple catastrophic systems failures, leading Pike to issue a priority 1 distress call.

The call was received by the , en route to . () Pike and two senior officers transferred to Discovery to continue their mission, while a team was dispatched to tow the Enterprise back to Spacedock for a diagnostic, where the damage was assessed as severe, with no estimate for repair. ()

A week later, Pike's first officer, Una Chin-Riley, reported to Pike that the holographic comm system was the source of the failures, which had compromised primary systems. Pike ordered Una to tell Chief Engineer Louvier to strip the system from the ship in favor of viewscreen communication. ()

Battling Control 

After the Discovery acquired data from a  that would ultimately lead to the evolution of Section 31 artificial intelligence Control which would threaten all sentient life in the Milky Way Galaxy, Pike was left with no other option but to set the Discoverys auto-destruct system and call the Enterprise for immediate evacuation of the ship's crew. ()

On stardate 1051.8, the Enterprise finally rendezvoused with the Discovery and began taking on the ship's crew. When all personnel were fully evacuated, Captain Pike ordered Discoverys destruction. However, the Sphere intelligence utilized Discoverys defensive systems to block the Enterprises torpedo volley. Unable to eliminate Discovery, the crew determined that sending the Discovery into the future was the only method to secure the Sphere data from Control.

With the appearance of a fifth red burst, both ships traveled to the planet Xahea, which was ultimately the position Cornwell and Pike decided to fight Leland/Control's armada. ()

After the decision was made to destroy Discovery to prevent its capture by Control, the ship deployed evacuation corridors to transfer its crew to Enterprise. ()

During a decisive battle with Control, the Enterprise lost a significant portion of her saucer section when an undetonated photon torpedo penetrated it and later detonated. Admiral Katrina Cornwell was killed while sacrificing herself to stop the torpedo from destroying the entire ship. As the Discovery traveled into the future, the Enterprise and a fleet of Klingon and Kelpien reinforcements provided covering fire against the attacking Section 31 drone ships and then finished them off when  neutralizing Control left the enemy ships dead in the water. Following the battle, the Enterprise underwent extensive repairs in orbit of Earth while the crew lied to Starfleet that the Discovery had been destroyed. ()

New Voyages 
Following the repairs to the Enterprise, the ship resumed its mission of exploration, once again under the command of Christopher Pike. Their first stop was to a new moon that was discovered at Edrin II. ()

Downtime and returned to service 

Following the mission to Edrin II, the Enterprise returned to Earth where its crew was enjoying some much needed downtime. In 2259, the Enterprise was under scheduled maintenance in spacedock when Admiral April pulled Pike out of exile and the Enterprise out of spacedock when Una Chin-Riley and the  went missing during a first contact mission to Kiley 279. ()

On stardate 2259.42, the Enterprise left Starbase 1 to continue its mission of exploration. ()

After witnessing an alternate timeline version of the Neutral Zone Incursion, Captain Pike took an interest in James T. Kirk for the crew, recognizing that he had the potential to be a good captain for the Enterprise. However, Number One was arrested after being discovered to be an Illyrian. ()

At some point between 2259 and 2265, the Enterprise appeared to have undergone a refit, the design being reverted back to an older appearance from during 2254 however with different warp nacelles and impulse engines as well as the interior. (; )

James T. Kirk's command 

In 2265, after nearly twenty years of service aboard the Enterprise, Captain Pike would be promoted to fleet captain and command of the Enterprise would be transferred to James Kirk. The Enterprise would also be assigned to another five-year mission of deep space exploration. The ship's primary goal during this mission was to seek out and contact alien life. Captain Kirk's standing orders also included the investigation of all quasars and quasar-like phenomena.

Beyond its primary mission, the Enterprise defended Federation territories from aggression, aided member worlds in crisis, and provided scientific expeditions and colonies in its patrol area with annual examinations and support. (); ()

Discoveries 
From 2265 to 2270, the Enterprise visited over seventy different worlds and encountered representatives of over sixty different species. More than twenty of those were first contacts with beings previously unknown to the Federation, including stellar neighbors like the First Federation and Gorn, voyagers from the Kelvan Empire in distant Andromeda, and powerful non-corporeal entities like the Thasians, Trelane, and the Organians. () Two discovered species were the first known examples of silicon-based lifeforms: the Horta and the Excalbians. ()

The Enterprise was the first Federation vessel to survive an encounter with the galactic barrier. The ship's warp drive and other systems, however, were critically damaged (which later prompted the ship to be refit and repaired, changing its appearance slightly for the rest of Kirk's mission) and casualties totaled twelve crewmembers and officers. By stardate 4657.5, the Enterprise was traveling through space in a region hundreds of light years further than any Earth starship had explored. ()

The reality of time travel, externally influenced, had been known for over a century, but following two accidental temporal displacements, the Enterprise became the Federation's first deliberately-controlled timeship. Observing the death-throes of Psi 2000, the crew suffered from polywater intoxication and the Enterprise nearly lost orbit after an engine shutdown. A previously untested "cold start", via controlled matter-antimatter implosion, saved the ship, but the high-speed escape from the planet's gravity well caused the ship to travel three days into the past. ()

In 2267, while escaping the gravitational pull of a black star, the Enterprise was hurled through space and time to Earth of 1969. The crew developed and executed a method to return to their own time, by warping around the sun's gravity well in a slingshot maneuver. A year later, the Enterprise was ordered to repeat the recently proven slingshot effect, and returned to Earth's past on a mission of historical observation. ()

Some missions of discovery confronted Enterprise with entities and mechanisms that threatened great swaths of Federation and neighboring space.

An ancient "planet killer", fueled by the consumption of planets it destroyed with its antiproton weapon, approached Federation population centers in 2267. It required the combined efforts of the Enterprise and its "sister ship", , to destroy the invader. ()

One year later, in 2268, a single-cell organism of colossal scale emitted negative energy, toxic to humanoid life, killing the entire Vulcan crew of the . The Enterprise penetrated the  interior and destroyed the organism before its imminent cell division threatened to overwhelm the rest of the galaxy. ()

Battles 

The nature of its mission of exploration meant the Enterprise was frequently the only Federation military asset in a little-known, otherwise undefended frontier. When called into harm's way, the ship regularly did so with little chance of immediate support against previously unknown enemies and threats.

Happily, the Enterprises earliest engagement of its five-year mission, against a deceptively powerful starship called the Fesarius, ended with an amicable first contact with the First Federation in 2266. () Following the destruction of a colony on Cestus III, a surprise attack – from a previously unknown species – led the Enterprise to battle and pursue an evenly matched Gorn starship in 2267. ()

The Enterprise played the fox for four of its "sister ships" in a war games problem on stardate 4729.4, as part of a series of M-5 drills. Equipped with the new M-5 multitronic unit computer and stripped of most of its crew, the Enterprise became a killing machine – crippling the  and killing its entire crew – before Kirk could re-assert control. ()

Klingon engagements 

Warships of the Imperial Klingon Fleet were frequent opponents of the Enterprise. Commander Kor held the Enterprise and Kirk in high professional regard, and relished the prospect of battle. Lower ranks chose to mock the starship; on one such occasion, Korax compared the vessel to a "garbage scow" before he corrected himself, adding, "It should be hauled away as garbage." ()

While Starfleet rallied its forces at the outbreak of a  in 2267, the Enterprise was sent forward to secure a border region anchored by the planet Organia. The vessel destroyed a Klingon ship and prepared to engage an approaching Klingon fleet, before the Organian Peace Treaty precluded a full-scale war. ()

The Enterprise sporadically engaged Klingons throughout its voyage. A warship failed in an attempt to blockade the Enterprise from Capella IV in 2267. Sabotaged during a diplomatic mission to the Tellun system in 2268, the ship successfully fought off the assault of a harassing D7. The same year, the Enterprise was forced to destroy a battle cruiser that Kang had commanded but had recently abandoned, and the rescued Klingons (influenced by the Beta XII-A entity) subsequently made an unsuccessful attempt to wrest control of the Enterprise from Kirk. ()

Romulan engagements 

The Romulan Star Empire re-emerged from a century of isolation to antagonize the Federation with the Neutral Zone Incursion of 2266. The Enterprise responded and was victorious against a new Romulan Bird-of-Prey, which was equipped with a cloaking device and a plasma torpedo system. ()

In later encounters, the Romulan fleet used strength of numbers in their efforts to overwhelm the Enterprise. When Commodore Stocker took temporary command and violated the Neutral Zone in 2267, up to ten Birds-of-Prey swarmed and pummeled the starship until Kirk's "corbomite" bluff inspired their withdrawal. ()

In 2268, the Enterprise again violated the Neutral Zone – for the purpose of espionage – and was quickly surrounded by three Romulan  battle cruisers. The Enterprise escaped by becoming the first Federation vessel to install and successfully utilize a (stolen) Romulan cloaking device. ()

Near Tau Ceti in the following year, Kirk employed the Cochrane deceleration maneuver, allowing the Enterprise to defeat a Romulan vessel. ()

In the final year of Kirk's original mission, the ship was ambushed by a trio of Romulan battle cruisers while on a routine survey. The Enterprise managed to escape through an energy field that adversely affected the ship's main computer. The malfunctioning systems were corrected by another pass through the field, this time with the Romulan ships in pursuit. The attackers then became incapacitated by the same computer malfunctions, and the Enterprise managed to escape. ()

Return to spacedock 
In the late 2260s to early 2270s, the Constitution-class starships underwent a major refit program. The actual refitting took eighteen months of work, and essentially a new vessel was built onto the bones of the old, replacing virtually every major system. This ensured their continued service for the next several years, enabling the USS Enterprise to continue to serve in its prominent role.

System upgrades with new technologies after long deployments were far from unusual in the ship's history. However, the Enterprises overhaul of the early 2270s became a nearly keel-up redesign and reconstruction project.

The very heart of the ship was replaced with a radically different vertical warp core assembly, linked to new and heavier warp engine nacelles, atop swept-back pylons and integrated with the impulse engines. The new drive system allowed for an expanded cargo hold in the secondary hull, linked to the shuttlebay.

Weapons system upgrades included nine dual-phaser banks with power channeled directly from the warp engines. A double photon torpedo/probe launcher was installed atop the secondary hull.

Multiple egress points now included a port-side spacedock hatch, dual ventral space walk bays, four dorsal service hatches, and a standardized docking ring port, which was aft of the bridge on the primary hull. Also included were four more docking ring ports, paired on the port and starboard sides of the launcher and secondary hulls respectively, and service hatch airlocks on the port and starboard sides of the hangar bay's main clam-shell doors.

A new bridge module reflected the modern computer systems, operating interfaces, and ergonomics that ran throughout the ship.

Following Kirk's promotion to rear admiral and posting as Chief of Starfleet Operations, his successor, Captain Will Decker (whom Kirk himself picked to succeed him), oversaw the refit, assisted by chief engineer Commander Montgomery Scott. ()

Following its refit, the Enterprise, in the early 2270s, went on to be critical in defending the Federation from several external threats, including V'ger and Khan Noonien Singh. (, )

V'ger 
After eighteen months in spacedock for refit, the Enterprise was pressed into service, weeks ahead of schedule, in response to the V'ger crisis, once again under Kirk's command.

Decker was temporarily demoted to commander and posted as an executive officer because of his familiarity with the new design. Incomplete systems had to be serviced during the vessel's shakedown en route to V'ger, including the first test of the new warp engines.

Shortly after launch, a matter/antimatter intermix malfunction ruptured the warp field and led to the Enterprise entering into an unstable wormhole. Commander Decker belayed an order from Admiral Kirk to destroy an asteroid in their path, which had been dragged into the ruptured warp field along with them, with phasers. The refitted phasers now channeled power directly from the main engines at a point beyond the dilithium/magnatomic-initiator stage. 

Because of this refitted function, both the intermix malfunction and the resultant antimatter imbalance within the warp nacelles caused automatic cutoff of the phasers, a design change of which Kirk had not been aware. Decker ordered the use of photon torpedoes, instead; as a backup, they had been designed to draw power from a separate system in case of a major phaser loss. Commander Spock arrived at a timely point and brought correction to the intermix problem. ()

Once the V'ger threat was averted, Captain Decker was listed as "missing in action", and the Enterprise remained under Admiral Kirk's command for an interim period. () At some point, Kirk passed command on to the newly promoted Captain Spock. (, )

The new designs and components tested and proven aboard the Enterprise influenced a generation of starship design, from the  to the , as well as other retro-fitted Constitutions. (; )

Khan's return 
In 2285, the Enterprise was in a low-tempo training cycle, based in the Sol system. Admiral Kirk boarded his old command to observe a cadet training cruise.

Meanwhile, Khan Noonien Singh had escaped from exile on Ceti Alpha V and hijacked the , after which he stole the Genesis Device from the Regula I space station.

The Enterprise was tasked to investigate, and Spock deferred his command to Admiral Kirk. Subsequent engagements with Reliant left the ship badly damaged, with cadet and crew deaths, including Captain Spock. ()

Final Mission 

Upon the Enterprise returning to Earth, Starfleet Commander Fleet Admiral Morrow announced that the starship, at that point forty years old, would be decommissioned. When Morrow denied Kirk requesting permission to return to the Mutara sector, Kirk conspired with his senior officers and stole the Enterprise from Earth Spacedock, in order to recover Spock's body from the Genesis Planet – to bring it and Spock's katra, the latter possessed by Leonard McCoy, to Mount Seleya on . As part of the plan, Kirk had Scott rig up an automation system to run the Enterprise so easily that "a chimpanzee and two trainees" could have handled the craft.

At the Enterprises destination, the ship was attacked by a Klingon Bird-of-Prey operated by Klingon Commander Kruge, an assault that left the Enterprise disabled; Scotty's automation system was not designed for combat and overloaded when the ship was attacked. After setting the auto-destruct sequence, Kirk and his crew abandoned the ship for the surface of the Genesis Planet. Demolition charges in place on the bridge, and elsewhere throughout the ship's saucer section, exploded, killing a Klingon boarding party. The secondary hull (with what was left of the saucer) fell from orbit and blazingly streaked across the planet's atmosphere. ()

Being forty years old at the time of its destruction, the Enterprise had surpassed its designer's original projected eighteen-year endurance by twenty-two years, when the ship was launched back in 2245. (–graphic display) The next USS Enterprise, a refit  heavy cruiser , was launched a year later. ()

Legacy 

The Enterprises long history would be remembered for the next century. (; ; ; ) Captain John Harriman of the  would learn of Kirk's missions when he was in grade school. () 

In 2369, when Montgomery Scott was rescued from the crash landed , and his surprise that he was found by the , Scott's immediate response was "Enterprise? I should have known. I bet Jim Kirk himself hauled the old girl out of mothballs to come looking for me," even though he, along with Pavel Chekov and Kirk were on the USS Enterprise-B during its maiden voyage when Kirk was presumed killed. (; )

In 2399, retired Starfleet admiral Jean-Luc Picard observed holographic images of the original Enterprise and the  in the central lobby of Starfleet Headquarters. () 

Kirk's use of the slingshot maneuver using the Enterprise in order to travel through time was mentioned as an example by Picard as one of the methods for travelling back through time in order to repair changes made in 2024 by Q. ()

Alternate timelines and realities
 In an alternate timeline in which Captain Christopher Pike managed to avoid his crippling fate, he was still in command of the Enterprise in 2266 during the Neutral Zone Incursion while James T. Kirk was the captain of the  instead. In this timeline, the ship suffered heavy damage from the Romulan warbird and took on the Farraguts survivors before Pike negotiated a cease fire between the two sides. When the Romulans showed up with a full armada in response to the perceived weakness of the Federation, the Enterprise barely escaped, taking severe damage to several more decks. The incident resulted in an endless war between the Federation and the Romulans before the Pike of this future traveled back in time and showed his past self the consequences of avoiding his fate. ()
 In an alternate timeline created by the death of Spock at the age of seven, Thelin served as the first officer and science officer of the Enterprise. Upon learning of the damaged timeline that Kirk and Spock decided to correct, Thelin was supportive. Upon hearing that, Spock wished Thelin a long and prosperous life in whatever circumstances the corrected timeline placed him in. ()

List of first contacts 
Over its forty-years of service, the Enterprise made first contact with numerous species.

Christopher Pike's notable first contacts 
 2254
Talosians (; )
 2259 
Gorn () Note: First contact was not made until 2267; all that was seen of the Gorn were their ships ()
Kiley )
 ()

James T. Kirk's notable first contacts 
In most cases, the date indicated is the first time open communication was initiated with at least one member of the species. Otherwise, it is the first known contact with the species.
 2266
Balok's species ()
Miri natives ()
Thasians ()

 2267
Greek gods ()
Guardian of Forever () Note: While the Guardian is not necessarily a species, the Enterprise did make first contact with the Guardian of Forever
Horta ()
Keeper's species ()
Metrons ()
Organians ()
Ornithoids ()
Trelane's species ()
Vaalians ()

 2268
892-IV natives ()
Beta XII-A entity ()
Cheron natives ()
Fabrini ()
Gem's species ()
Gorgan ()
Kelvans ()
Melkots ()
Platonians ()
Providers ()
Arretan ()
Scalosians ()
Sigma Draconis VI natives ()
Vians ()

 2269
Aquans ()
Excalbians ()
Lactrans ()
Matter-energy cloud ()
Megans ()
Phylosians ()
Sarpeidon natives ()
Theela's species ()
Zetarians ()

 2270
Delta Theta III aborigines ()
Kukulkan's species ()

Command crew

Robert April's command crew 
 Commanding officer
Robert April (2245–2250)
 First officer
Christopher Pike (2240s–2250)
 Chief medical officer
Sarah April (2245–2250s)

Christopher Pike's command crew 

 Commanding officer
Christopher Pike (2250–early 2260s)
Katrina Cornwell (2258)
 First officer
Una Chin-Riley (2250s–2259)
La'an Noonien-Singh (2259) 
 Chief engineer
Louvier (2257)
Hemmer (2259)
 Chief medical officer
Phil Boyce (2254)
Joseph M'Benga (2259)
 Helmsman
Una Chin-Riley (2250s-2259)
Mann (2258) 
Erica Ortegas (2259)
 Communications officer/Operations officer
Garison (2254)
Nicola (2258)
Nyota Uhura (2259)
 (2259)
Shankar (2259)
Zuniga (2259) 
 Navigator
José Tyler (2254)
Amin (2258)
Jenna Mitchell (2259)
Una Chin-Riley (2259)
La'an Noonien-Singh (2259) 
 Tactical officer
Mann (2258)
Zuniga (2259)
 Science officer
Lynne Lucero (sometime after 2250)
Evan Connolly (2257)
Kroad (2258)
Spock (2254–2257, 2258–2260s)
George Samuel Kirk (2259)
 Chief of security
D. Nhan (2257)
La'an Noonien-Singh (2259)

James T. Kirk's command crew 

 Commanding officer
James T. Kirk (2265–2270; early 2270s, 2285)
Robert April (2270)
 First officer
Spock (2260s–2270, 2285)
 Chief engineer
Montgomery Scott (2265–2270s, 2285) 
 Chief medical officer
Mark Piper (2265)
Leonard McCoy (2266–2270, 2270s, 2285)
Christine Chapel (2269) 
 Helmsman
Alden (2265) 
Gary Mitchell (2265)
Hikaru Sulu (2266–2270s, 2285)
Leslie (2266-2267)
 (2267)
Hadley (2267–2268)
DePaul (2267)
Spinelli (2267)
Kyle (2268)
Rahda (2268)
Walking Bear (2270)
 Communications officer/Operations officer
Alden (2265)
Nyota Uhura (2266–2270s, 2285)
John Farrell (2266)
 (2267–2269)
Angela Martine (2267)
 (2269)
M'Ress (2269–2270)
 Navigator
Lee Kelso (2265)
Dave Bailey (2266)
John Farrell (2266)
Kevin Riley (2266)
 (2266)
Hadley (2267–2269)
DeSalle (2267)
DePaul (2267)
Osborne (2267)
Leslie (2267)
 (2267)
Pavel Chekov (2267–2269)
Jana Haines (2268)
Arex (2269–2270)
 Security chief
 (2267)
Giotto (2267)
Freeman (2268)
Pavel Chekov (2270s, 2285)
 Tactical officer
Hikaru Sulu (2266–2270)
Pavel Chekov (2267–2270, 2285)
 Science officer
Hikaru Sulu (2265)
Spock (2265–2270, 2270s–2280s)
Pavel Chekov (2285) 
 Records officer
Benjamin Finney (2267)
 A&A officer
Carolyn Palamas (2267)

Will Decker's command crew 

 Commanding officer
Willard Decker (2270s)
James T. Kirk (2270s)
 First officer
Willard Decker (2270s)
 Chief engineer
Montgomery Scott (2270s)
 Chief medical officer
Christine Chapel (2270s)
Leonard McCoy (2270s)
 Helmsman
Hikaru Sulu (2270s) 
 Communications officer/Operations officer
Nyota Uhura (2270s)
 Navigator
Ilia (2270s)
DiFalco (2270s)
 Tactical officer
Pavel Chekov (2270s)
 Science officer
Sonak (2270s)
Spock (2270s)
Willard Decker (2270s)

Crew

Complement 
The number of the Enterprises crew complement more than doubled over the duration of its service. 

In 2254, the Enterprise had a complement of 203, this stated following the loss of three crewmembers at Rigel VII. ()

In 2257, scans showed the entire crew complement was also stated to be 203, yet in a display graphic specifically stated that the crew compliment was 430; 43 officers and 387 enlisted.

In 2265, the Enterprises complement consisted of "almost a hundred women." ()

In 2266, Captain Ramart commented to Charlie Evans that the Enterprise was "like a whole city in space," compared to his ship, the , which had a relatively meager complement of twenty. Ramart further explained that there were "over 400 in the crew of a starship," which was clarified by Kirk as actually "428, to be exact." ()

Jadzia Dax observed to Benjamin Sisko, after they transported aboard the Enterprise, that "they really packed them in on these old ships." ()

Casualties 
Service aboard the Enterprise proved to be hazardous duty. Between 2265 and 2269, individuals who were killed while assigned to the ship included at least fifty-eight officers and crew. Nine crew members were killed when the Enterprise encountered the galactic barrier in 2265. Gary Mitchell, Lee Kelso, and Elizabeth Dehner later died on Delta Vega. ()

Two of seven crewmembers assigned to study Murasaki 312 on the shuttlecraft  – Latimer and Gaetano – both met an unfortunate end, by the hand of a large creature on the planet Taurus II. ()

In 2267, Enterprise security officers Hendorff, , Mallory, and Marple were killed on planet Gamma Trianguli VI. () Further incidents with multiple fatalities included four security guards killed by Nomad in 2267, as well as five security guards killed by a dikironium cloud creature on Argus X in 2268. () An outbreak of Rigelian fever, in 2269, killed three crewmen and imperiled the rest until a source of ryetalyn could be obtained. ()

As well, two Enterprise security officers were beamed out into open space while the ship was under the control of Gorgan. () Lieutenant Galloway was vaporized by Captain Tracey on Omega IV, () but later was somehow resurrected. () Yeoman Thompson was reduced to a dry cuboctahedron solid. She was killed when the Kelvan Rojan crushed the object in his hand. ()

In the mid-2270s, Commander Sonak and an Enterprise officer were killed in a transporter accident while beaming to the ship. ()

Appendices

Appearances 
  
  
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Background information 

The Enterprise and its interiors were designed primarily by Matt Jefferies. A three-foot demonstration model was completed in  by the Howard Anderson Company to show to Gene Roddenberry. After getting his approval, an eleven-foot model was then constructed by Richard C. Datin, Jr., Mel Keys, and Vern Sion at Volmer Jensen's model shop, and was finished in . The eleven-foot model was modified for  and again for the regular series effect shots. Re-used footage of all three stages of the eleven-foot model's appearance are shown mixed together in TOS.

In the final draft script of , the Enterprise was somewhat poetically described thus; "Sleek… efficient… the look of man in space… tooled… equipped…"

For , the color of the Enterprise was limited. D.C. Fontana commented, "For the purposes of animation you can't do the light white, silver kinds of colors. So they made the Enterprise gray and it came off all right." ()

Some distinctive effects shots of the Enterprise from TOS were recreated in animation for Star Trek: The Animated Series. Depicting the ship performing any new, impressive maneuvers would have been too costly for TAS and would have taken the animators too long to show, despite frequent TAS Director Hal Sutherland later implying that a desire to portray the ship doing "barrel rolls and that kind of thing" was quite common. ()

The refit of the Enterprise depicted in the films , , and  was designed by Richard Taylor and Andrew Probert, based on designs for the vessel made by Matt Jefferies for the undeveloped television series Star Trek: Phase II. The design for the movie refit was the basis of a design patent issued by the US Patent and Trademark Office.

The Enterprise was to have appeared in Star Trek: The First Adventure, which would have revealed that the design of the ship in TOS was actually a refit; the original design resembled , though that vessel was created years earlier.

The Enterprise was recreated as a new physical model for the DS9 Season 5 episode . The ship's interior was represented with sets built on Paramount Stage 11. (Information from Larry Nemecek) The CG model of  , created for , was relabeled as the Enterprise for the final scene of , the last episode of .

A new CG model, built from caliper measurements of the original eleven-foot physical model, was created for use in the remastered and recreated version of  (for more detailed treatises on the studio models used, see the appropriate articles:  and ).

Visual effects artist Gabriel Koerner created a re-imagined version of the pre-refit Enterprise. The design is more contemporary, while keeping the design of the original ship. A video showing the ship from various angles can be seen on YouTube. The model was also featured as the August image for the , as well as in the Ships of the Line coffee-table book, placed between TOS and TMP images, which included text from Michael Okuda suggesting it as one of the ideas on how to refit the ship.

The Enterprise was pictured on three paintings during the Star Trek franchise: on a painting in the recreation deck of the refitted vessel, in ; on a painting in the waiting area of the sickbay aboard the , in the  fifth season episode ; and on a painting on the wall of Kirk's kitchen in the Nexus, in .

Upon preparing to view the bridge of the Enterprise in the first draft script of , Montgomery Scott specified, "Show her the way she was before Stardate 5928," referencing the stardate on which TOS series finale  takes place. Consequently, this line of dialogue would have established that the holographic simulation of the Enterprises bridge in "Relics" was definitely contemporaneous with the exact setting of TOS. Scott did not specify that in the final draft of the script, however.  The line is also not spoken on screen.

The Enterprise was to have been referenced in the first draft script of , in connection with its near-destruction at Eminiar VII. However, all mention of the vessel was eliminated from the episode by the time the final draft of the script was written.

A new CGI model was created for the appearance of the USS Enterprise in the Season 1 finale of , . This model updated the appearance of the USS Enterprise to better match the style of other Starfleet ships depicted in the show, most noticeably changing the Enterprises warp nacelles to have visible, glowing blue cutouts on the inner surface. The impulse engine was also different, and the nacelle pylons were swept back with openings in their centers similar to the refit configuration. The new model also had a longer "runway" before the shuttlebay doors.

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