Star Trek: 10 Secrets Of The USS Enterprise E You Need To Know

The Enterprise-E was introduced in Star Trek's 1990s Golden Era, when The Next Generation cast was trekking on the big screen and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine and Voyager were exploring strange new worlds on the small one. Still, while the TV series crossed over from time to time, The Next Generation cast and the Enterprise-E were reserved for the special events that were the motion pictures.

Notoriously absent during Deep Space Nine's Dominion War arc, the Enterprise-E did turn up once on Star Trek: Voyager in the most limited of capacities: As a blank wall on a computer screen.

Recently drafted to take part in Voyager's Barclay / Pathfinder storyline, the Enterprise-E's own Deanna Troi cropped up in the series in three episodes to counsel Reg and remind viewers of the amazing exploits of Captain Picard and the Enterprise occurring somewhere off screen. In the season six episode, "Life Line" however, Deanna appears via subspace communications in a generic Starfleet environment that's some location, somewhere aboard the Enterprise-E.

This very plain wall behind Deanna Troi is the only appearance the Enterprise-E (or the interior of the Enterprise-E) in one of the television series and remains the only time the ship appeared outside of Star Treks First Contact, Insurrection, or Nemesis – stock footage in Star Trek: Picard's "The Impossible Box" notwithstanding.