Star Trek: Every Starship Enterprise Ranked From WORST To BEST

14. Honourable Mention: XCV-330

We begin with the XCV-330, affording it an honourable mention because it has yet to be seen on screen. To date, it has appeared in drawings, paintings, and even in the form of a model on a desk, but this ring ship hasn't taken flight in the Star Trek universe. 

OTOY have depicted in their short films, though that version was downed on a planet's surface, and the overall ring design served as the inspiration for the USS Beagle in Star Trek: Lower Decks. The ship was based on one of Matt Jefferies' original concepts for the USS Enterprise, but was discarded when the designer felt a studio model wouldn't hold up to the rigours of television.

It returned in The Motion Picture as a backlit transparency on the rec deck, then again in Star Trek: Enterprise. Its portrait hung in the 602 Club on Earth, suggesting it was launched before 2143. In the Kevlin timeline, there is a model of this ship on Admiral Marcus's desk. If the ships are arranged in order of their launch date, then in that universe at least, it departed Earth before the launch of the Phoenix.

The design inspired Doug Drexler when it came to the Vulcan ships on Enterprise, so its legacy lives on through variations and that famous name.