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

7. The Enterprise-J Moves A Colony

OTOY and The Roddenberry Archive have already teased us with this one. Their gorgeous update of Doug Drexler's design, glimpsed so briefly in Azati Prime, finally revealed the ship's original mission: moving colonies through the galaxy.

The Universe-class Enterprise-J's immense size wasn't a simple evolution of 'every Enterprise (bar the G) gets bigger as we go' but rather it served an updated version of the Enterprise-D's mission. The Galaxy-class vessels were big enough to move colonists for a short period of time, as well as host conferences, dignitaries, and the like. 

The Universe-class was no short term solution. They could move thousands of people across vast distances, effectively serving as a starting point for any new colony. We may have seen a hint of this in 765874: Unification, as the garden in which Kirk walks may well be aboard the J. If this is the case, then we have seen the inside of the ship - let us now see the exterior of this graceful beast flying through across the stars.