Star Trek: 10 Secrets About The 25th Century Fleet You Need To Know
3. Sovereign Rites
While the USS Enterprise NCC-1701-E might have been shoved in a shed until Geordi La Forge can buff out the dents and put new bulbs in the brake lights, the Sovereign Class as a whole has enjoyed a much longer shelf life than the former flagship, clocking in approximately 28 years as part of the fleet.
They've been extremely active with eight of their number forming part of the fleet in The Star Gazer from Picard's second season and a further 38 (according to Memory Alpha) included in the Frontier Day celebrations. Indeed, this places the Sovereign Class presence as the largest in the Picard event.
This may also make the Sovereign Class the most used design in Picard, after the copy-and-paste fleet of Inquiry class ships, though there were four iterations during that final skirmish. Sovereigns have turned up in both Lower Decks and Prodigy which also puts them among the most cross-series classes in modern Star Trek alongside the Akira.
Carrying on from the naming of the Van Citters in Lower Decks, another real-life member of the Star Trek family gained their own namesake and this time it was the graphics and LCARS legend that is Mike Okuda.