Star Trek: 10 Times Canon Got In The Way
6. Daunting Prospect
Speaking of Enterprise carving through canon like a wrecking ball outfitted with chainsaws, let us turn our collective Trek attention to something that has been hammered home time and time again by writers in the very words of their scripts down the years. The "A/B/C" suffix to a starship registry firmly indicates that this is a vessel worthy of extra merit.
It's the gold star of registries if you will, confirming that the namesake has performed above and beyond, securing a near legendary status in the annals of Starfleet history. Notables on the list include USS Enterprise (you may have heard of that one), USS Voyager (glimpsed in Discovery's third season up to the letter J), and the recent introduction of the USS Titan-A.
In Voyager's fourth season closer, Hope and Fear, the crew are led to what appears to be their golden ticket back home in the form of the quantum slipstream-endowed USS Dauntless NX-01-A.
Hold up! What's that? The NX-01-A?
Canon certainly wasn't an issue for the creators of Enterprise when they dropped the registry of NX-01 onto their hero ship however it contradicted everything that has been rubber stamped before and since that episode of Voyager. If viewers are to take canon as "fact" (let's embolden those air quotes) then the crew of the lost starship should have spotted the ruse before the end of the first act.