USS ENTERPRISE (NCC-1701-C)

The 'USS ''Enterprise'' (NCC-1701-C)' (or '''Enterprise''-C') is a fictional starship that appears in the '' episode "Yesterday's Enterprise". This ''Ambassador''-class starship, under the command of Captain Rachel Garrett, is the fourth starship ''Enterprise'' commissioned since the Federation's founding.^[1] A model ''Enterprise''-C appears in the ''Enterprise''-D's conference room, although the shooting model built for "Yesterday's Enterprise" is slightly different from the conference room model.

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History

Novels

References

History

According to the ''TNG Technical Manual'', the ship was built at Earth Station McKinley.^[2] According to the non-canon , the ''Enterprise''-C was launched in 2332 under Captain Garrett's command.^[3]

In 2344, Romulans attacked the Klingon outpost at Narendra III; the ''Enterprise'' answered the distress call. The ''Enterprise'' engaged the Romulans, facing four warbirds. An exchange of fire between the Starfleet ship and the Romulans catalyzed the formation of a Kerr Loop, disrupting the space-time continuum. The ''Enterprise'' travels through the loop into the mid-2360s, creating an alternate timeline in which history records that the ''Enterprise''-C went missing and the Romulans destroyed the outpost. This series of events leads to a Federation-Klingon war, which in the 2360s the Federation is losing.¹
Displaced in time, the ''Enterprise''-C encounters the ''Enterprise''-D. The latter manages to repair most of the earlier ship's damage and treat its injured crew, 125 of whom have survived. Influenced by the time-sensitive Guinan, Captain Jean-Luc Picard persuades Garrett to return through the disruption, hoping that the sacrifice of one ship in defense of the Klingon outpost will prevent the war. Garrett is killed during a Klingon attack before the ship can restore the timeline. The surviving crew, under the command of helmsman Lieutenant Junior Grade Richard Castillo, along with the future timeline's Lieutenant Tasha Yar, take the ship back into the disruption. This act returns the ''Enterprise''-C to Narendra III in 2344 at the moment she had previously disappeared. The timeline is restored; the Federation and Klingons are not at war, and the ''Enterprise''-C is destroyed.¹
The Romulans captured several ''Enterprise''-C survivors, about which Starfleet heard unconfirmed rumors. Tasha Yar was one such survivor, and she went on to bear a Romulan general's child, Sela. Yar is executed after she is caught attempting to escape with four-year-old Sela.^[4]

Novels

Garrett and her crew appear in the Star Trek novels ''The Art of the Impossible'' and ''Well of Souls''. A short story featuring Garrett and her crew also appears in ''Star Trek: Enterprise Logs''.

References

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2. , Okuda, Michael and Sternbach, Rick, , , Pocket Books, 1991, ISBN 0-671-70427-3
3. Well of Souls, , Ilsa J., Bick, , ,
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