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

10. Verity On High

But wait!

The arrival of the USS Enterprise-F isn't the first inclusion of an Odyssey Class in official Star Trek canon.

IDW's graphic novel prequel series to Picard includes the USS Verity NCC-97007. Assigned to Jean-Luc Picard as his flagship, the Verity provided the command post for the Romulan evacuation programme, which would be the precursor to the infamous supernova jump-off point for both the first season of Picard and Star Trek 2009.

As detailed in an article for IDW itself, Online's Thomas Marrone notes that the first two ships of the class were the Odyssey and the Verity. Their designs were (in STO) a reaction to the behemoth Reman Scimitar and would give Starfleet their own "super cruiser".

If we look into this further, the backstory indicates that the Odyssey was actually put on hold to focus on the Verity so that it could be used immediately as the command ship for the Romulan evacuation. This drew the resources from both construction projects into one however the subsequent failure of the evacuation and destruction of the Utopia Planitia Shipyards saw the Odyssey "forgotten" and the Verity mothballed.

This does provide two slightly divergent backgrounds depending on if you follow Online or Prime canon as to date the Enterprise-F remains the sole member of the class seen in any detail in episodic Star Trek.