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

For all three of her big screen appearances, the Enterprise-E was slightly modified between movies.

As the script for Star Trek: Insurrection called for the appearance of the Enterprise-E's captain's yacht, the Cousteau, designer John Eaves was given the opportunity to flesh out part of the ship that had previously been left relatively vague. With the traditional docking point for an auxiliary craft taken up by the Enterprise-E's torpedo launcher, Eaves modified the launcher to accommodate the Cousteau, utilizing the lines of the weapon to serve as the underside of the yacht.

Before her next and final appearance in 2002's Star Trek Nemesis, Eaves yet again reworked the Enterprise-E, smoothing out the transition between the saucer section and secondary hull and adding several new photon torpedo launchers and phaser strips for her eventual battle with the Scimitar. Eaves also revised the ship's warp nacelle pylons, giving them a more dramatic upward and forward sweep.

Despite all these changes, Eaves had one more round of revisions planned for the aftermath of the Enterprise's battle with Shinzon. As Star Trek Nemesis was originally intended to end with the Enterprise-E returning to service for more films, Eaves planned a new paint scheme and redrew parts of the ship's hull to bring it more in line with his drawings for Star Trek: First Contact.

While John Eaves produced concept artwork depicting this re-revamped Enterprise-E, the producers decided to end Star Trek Nemesis with the ship still in dry dock and the updated paint scheme and configuration ultimately went unused.