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The starship Enterprise underwent several refits to upgrade of most systems and the replace the bridge and warp-drive nacelles. It appeared in the first three Star Trek movies: "Star Trek: The Motion ...

There have been many ships named Enterprise in the Star Trek franchise. Star Trek, always looking for a new spectacle, has destroyed many of them. Here’s how it happened… The Enterprise refit, the ...

Of all the versions of the Starship Enterprise, the one that has appeared the most times in Star Trek canon, is, by far, the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D. After 178 episodes of The Next Generation, half ...

The USS Enterprise, NCC-1701-D is one of the largest starships in the history of Star Trek: 642 meters long, 195 meters tall, and a whopping 4,960,00014 metric tons of corridors, EPS conduits, ...

The original USS Enterprise model, from the classic Star Trek TV series, has been restored by the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum and will move to a permanent display in the museum's Boeing ...

Sorry to disappoint Trekkies who still believe, but the actual USS Enterprise did not really take up much space. That famous starship of Mr. Spock and Capt. James Tiberius Kirk in the original Star ...