10 Reasons To Greenlight Star Trek: United NOW

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So, will it be Star Trek: Enterprise 2? Of course, United should and would honour what came before. Sussman has said he’d like to open the series with a flashback featuring the entire crew of the NX-01, digitally de-aged and together 'one last time'. This immediately makes us wonder if the show would address that last-minute death in These Are The Voyages?

Would Trip Tucker be alive and well aboard the ship still? If so, how would this reconcile with the events of one of the most reviled finales in Star Trek's history? To temper expectations, Sussman says it’s unlikely anyone from the old show would be a series regular, though he’s open to a legacy character becoming part of the ensemble if there’s a story-driven reason for it.

The fate of at least one Enterprise character is already well-documented: the NX-01 herself. Decommissioned around the founding of the Federation, she’s likely already a museum piece by this era — as later glimpsed in Star Trek: Picard. Would the version we see in United sport the secondary hull, envisioned by designer Doug Drexler for the long-lamented fifth season? Quite frankly, this seems to be at least one solid requirement of the show. Federation One may be the hero ship on which President Archer travels the stars, yet there is nothing to suggest the NX class has been retired. 

The NX class also has the distinction of featuring in almost every iteration of Trek since its first appearance. A model of the ship sits on Admiral Marcus's desk in Star Trek Into Darkness, with another model on display in Chancellor Ahke's office in Starfleet Academy. The original ship appears in Star Trek: Picard. It receives several mentions in both Discovery and Strange New Worlds, as well as appearing on a display in Star Trek: Prodigy.