Star Trek: Every Starship Enterprise Ranked From WORST To BEST
1. NCC-1701-D
The Galaxy-class USS Enterprise NCC-1701-D was designed by Andrew Probert for Encounter At Farpoint, descending from the top of the screen to display its sheer size. This was a new beast for a new era of Star Trek, and it quickly established itself as one of the most recognisable ships in the entire franchise.
The Enterprise-D was effectively a floating town, equipped with hundreds of cabins for travelling dignitaries, powerful armaments to protect the Federation, and a saucer section that separated to provide an escape for most of the crew during battle. Though it was far from invulnerable, it was nothing if not enduring, so much so that it was the first Enterprise to die and come back to life without the aid of time travel.
The drive section of the ship was destroyed by the Duras Sisters in Star Trek: Generations, resulting in an explosion that saw the saucer section crashland on Veridian III. It was recovered and brought to the Starfleet Fleet Museum at Athan Prime, where over the course of two decades, Commodore Geordi LaForge lovingly restored it to something of its former glory.
After hundreds of missions, the Enterprise-D took one last flight to Jupiter, did battle with a Borg Cube, rescued her former crew, and flew alongside the USS Titan-A into the sunset, before finally taking pride of place at the museum, alongside two former Enterprises.
Simply put, there is a reason that this was the Enterprise brought back for Star Trek: Picard's final season. Its continuing mission was to explore strange new worlds, and to seek out new life and new civilisations. Having more than achieved its mission, it is forever placed in the collective memory as one of, if not the, greatest ships in Star Trek and Science Fiction in general.