10 Star Trek Events OTOY & The Roddenberry Archive Should Explore Next

9. The First Flight Of The Enterprise

It feels odd typing this in 2025 but the launch of the original Enterprise has never been depicted on-screen. The closest that the audience has come to seeing it was in Star Trek, though of course that was an alternate reality. As the 60th Anniversary of the franchise approaches, when is there a better time to launch the ship that started it all?

OTOY's short film 765874 shows the Enterprise (as it appeared in The Cage and Where No Man Has Gone Before) parked in San Francisco, serving as a museum. For this to fit in established canon, then this must occur before the refit the audience sees in The Motion Picture. 

Having already depicting an ending (of sorts) for this ship, depicting its beginning feels like a natural next step. Will we see the keel being laid on Earth, as suggested in Star Trek, or will the entire ship be built in orbit? Will Scott Bakula return for a guest appearance, fulfilling the prophecy, so to speak, teased in In A Mirror, Darkly?

Nostalgia is a powerful force alive and well in the franchise today. Showing us the beginning of it all would be a treat for the ages.