Yeah. I was disappointed at first bc I wanted to see more post TNG era but I actually enjoyed the show. Even the crappy theme song. I acknowledge it’s a bit cheesy....still like it 🤷🏻♂️
So we are developing teleportation, forcefields And dont forget the Army is said to be testing a laser that is a million times stronger than our current HIIT able to discentegrate instead of merely melting the object I remember it stating, it could actually be a visible laser beam as well !!!
Its nice that Picard actually gave some love to the NX-01 Refit. It appears in a few background shots, especially in Episode 9. Its in the background, but its undeniably the NX-01 Refit. Also appears in S2 as a toy! So hey...20 years later...she finally made it onto our screens
Wasn't a bad episode... but to knock the main cast into secondary roles for the finale of the series? Yeah, I'd have felt pretty betrayed by both the producers and writers.
It was horribly horribly done and I was extremely angry with some of the story. Spoiler follows of you've not seen it!!!! I hate what they did to t'pol and trip. It ruined it in my opinion... they should have been allowed to be together...
@@vincewilson1 No, it was cancelled because fans hated and didnt watch it. Its sad but true. Most "Trekkies" were unsatisfied with the concept of a prequel. They wanted a continuation of the TNG-era after Voyager. In my opinion a prequel series was the right thing to do because the TNG era got "stuck" from a creativity point of view.
It just needed to make more of an impression out of the gate. The audience for Star Trek actually rose from Voyager's last season to Enterprise's first few episodes, so people were interested in a prequel. It had some strong episodes in the opening seasons but they were few. It suffered from being the flagship series of a new network, run by people who weren't taking chances or living up to the prequel idea. A lot of the shows could have been done on any series and some like Rogue Planet or Oasis, HAD been done before. It also had much more competition with shows like Stargate SG1, Battlestar Galactica, Farscape and even Doctor Who at the end. It does have some killer episodes in it's run that are some of the best of Trek.
Same here. I keep thinking the whole Y2K thing was just a few months ago. I have to keep reminding myself that I was still in Middle School at the time.
A perfect time to have upgraded the nx-01 would have been after season 3 and the start of 4 when the ship was so badly damaged, could have had it refit as part of its repair, would have been amazing to have seen it on screen, always enjoyed that show
A new series based on 20 years after Enterprise would actually be quite a good direction to go, you could have all this in it, a new crew of the NX-01 refit, and have the actors come back in roles such as Scot Bakula as the first federation president.
@Michael Davidson That sounds good, but not too many of those episodes, maybe one or two at most. It has clearly been established that the federation knew something about the borg before the events at system J-25, from the backstory of Seven of Nine, and I'm sure that after the events of Generations the Elurians would have told them of it. So a little bit more peripheral contact would be ok, as long as they remain an unnamed mystery, even if a little bit of contrivance is needed. One way to do it would be finding some borg ship wreckage, just a little bit say from a small scout ship, nothing containing any data, just stuff that looks borg, or maybe something like from the episodes running up to the first meeting with a cube where those colonies where scooped up in TNG. Then leave it as an unsolved mystery. The thing that people forget about the issue with the borg is that the contact in Ent is a long time before Picard, and if you ask a captain of a ship how many of them are going to know about something a captain encountered 200 years ago. Keep it vague enough and it'll be ok with canon as far as I care.
@Michael Davidson Perhaps have it as a section 31 had some form of contact with them, they're not exactly keen on sharing information even with starfleet if they don't have to, also there's no reason any encounter has to be with borg drones, it would make sense that long range probes would not be manned by drones, so maybe that's a way to encounter them but not upset the canon.
@@casbot71 I've seen an updated photo of an older T'Pol on a You Tube video somewhere. I still think her hai would've been a little longer-like the younger T'Pau, but not as old as her older self in 'E2'-or like her 'Mirror' self either. In "Rise if the Federation", Trip finishes his mission and returns to her. Thry even mentioned that their relationship was contentious-as Lorien was correct-in 'E2'.
🥺 20 years!! Unpopular opinion, but still my favourite Trek, and all-time favourite Archer quote "You have no idea how much I'm restraining myself from knocking you on your ass!" Might also be a suitable time for a certain other NX video? Wink, nudge 😁
🖖😎👍Very cool and very nicely well done and very well informatively explained and executed in every detail way shape and form possibly provided indeed, And I would of loved to have seen this refit on the screen during a 5th season of the show, Any ways I myself have a few model kits of this design and the Eaglemoss model of this beautiful ship indeed👌.
I like the look of it, and it is a natural and logical mid-way point between the NX class and the Constitution class, but I feel if they'd used it on the show, it would have been too soon. There's still 100 years before The Cage.
I don't think it would have been too much of a stretch. The first Constitution class ships were commissioned in the 2240s, and there is still a large technological gap between them and the NX-refits. Though the general hull structure is similar, so much of the internals are different. Like photonic torpedoes --> photon torpedoes, phase cannons --> phasers, upgrading speed from Warp 6 to Warp 8, better replicators, transporters, shields, etc.
@@MuruganNarayanan Even 80 years feels like too long a time for this design. The specs and tech also feel too early, like tractor beams and the like. The show itself had that problem in the last season, with universal translators and transporters already working almost flawlessly after a mere four years.
This is actually my favorite Star Trek tv show, because there so many episode i like here, plus it’s theme song is the best i actually heard, i have hope it had renew for another 3 season, i like this more than TNG, which is maybe a unpopular opinion, but i love it, the season 4 is the best along side season 1 and 2, i wanted to see the Earth-Romulan war where we see Andorian, Tellarite, and Vulcan battlegroup fight together against the Romulan armada, i hope Lower Decks make this refit make this canon if they do time travel in season 2, this show has the best doctor in the entire Star Trek
Wow 20 years ago. I’ve only just got around to watching the full sessions, I’m just on session 4. At first I really was against enterprise, but I’ve grown to love it, it’s a fantastic series.
Same here. Thought it was more like "DS9" at first when it came on and didn't watch it til I got Hulu and fell in love with it. I was mad at myself for not supporting it when it was cancelled like I did when "TOS" was cancelled. I want the actors to return and not let any new dir.assign new actors-and characteristics-to them as JJ Abrams did.
I have the eaglemoss model of the Enterprise Refit NX-01. According to Robert Meyer Burnett that Paramount has been sitting on a trilogy movie called Star Trek Beginnings which is about the Earth-Romulan War since 2006. The Star Trek Enterprise novels post season 4 fill in the blanks quite nicely such as Trip faked his own death to join Section 31 and the Earth-Romulan War. I have read in the past about script ideas from Manny Coto regarding season 5 Enterprise such as T’Pol was actually half Vulcan and half Romulan, a 5 episode arch in the Mirror Universe following on from the Season 4 Mirror Darkly episodes and how the Coalition of Planets dealt with the lead up to the Earth-Romulan War which would have begun in Season 6. I personally can’t watch Secret Hideouts interpretation of Star Trek since 2017. Hopefully when their Contract runs out in 2023 then Paramount will have full control of Star Trek again.
This is secretly my favorite star trek series and ship. The more realistic submarine inspired ship and hardships of being the first out there made it have a special atmosphere.
I remember back when I used to read the paperback novels for STAR TREK...that they would always explain or talk about things that I never say in regards to continuity in future shows or movies. As an example...they talked about how, every 20 years, the ships would be updated. They talked about "modular" designs of sections-- where entire things like the bridge module could be removed, replaced, and or updated in space docks to keep the technology current.
Would had been cool if the Columbia class has hardpoints for several Minotaur class warp fighters to be docked on it. The Columbia class would act as the long range carrier for the Minotaurs and it would be docked with hard points at two aft dorsal and two aft ventral and a couple docked between the neck of the secondary hull&saucer section. The Columbia class can travel past Warp7 while the Minotaur's warp engines can only go past Warp4. The hard points could also be used for cargo pods like for mines and troop carriers. The idea came from the Andorians using attack drones for their military ships.
I think it is cool how they retroactively create things like how the NX-01 morphs towards the Constitution class. How they explained Klingon forehead ridges also. That takes a new level of creative!
20th anniversary, damn I remember watching this show when I was a kid. Weirdly feels like just yesterday. Enterprise is definitely my 2nd favorite Trek show, after DS9.
LOL I was well into my 30s when this show came out. I went to every Trek film opening day through STVI. The only reason I missed the others up to 2000 was because I was deployed to various places. I was in Haiti when Generations was released. But Trek, like Star Wars, crosses generational lines, I am happy to see. I hope when you have kids, if you don't already, that you will bring them up loving Trek as well.
"TOS" is still my favourite since I grew up watching it first (" I'm not old. I'll only be 66 on my next birthday" as T'Pol said in 'Zero Hour'. So will I.) and "Enterprise" 2nd.
I wish they could make a new captains chair program that would show all aspects of each individual ship in the Star Trek universe I loved that program Doing a virtual tour of each ship and being able to play around with the controls
One of my favorite moments from Enterprise was when Duras attacked the Enterprise near Earth and they returned fire with a volley of missiles that did next to nothing and Enterprise had to be saved by several Star Fleet ships working together to drive away the Klingons. Afterward Enterprise received several important refits including enhanced hull plating and essentially an early version of photon torpedoes. The next time the Klingons attacked the new weapons managed to do significant damage to the Bird of Prey. It was cool to see that, slowly, bit by bit, Humanity was starting to catch up to the existing interstellar powers. It gave a sense of progression, of what would give rise to the Federation.
I love this design. The only improvement I would make would be to close up the original deflector dish on the saucer. It’s one of my favorite ships in STO-fast, agile and powerful.
Or use it as a weapon, much like in TNG where they fired it at the Borg. It would also have two phaser emitters to either side that would fire at a focal point about 100 yards in front, and combine with the beam from the deflector-dish, to create a super powerful, but short-lived, cutting beam that would rival even the (later) Enterprise-E’s phasers, similar to the creepy Shadow ships from Babylon-5. 🤗 It would have both a primary and secondary-fire mode. The primary-fire mode just fires the beam from the (modified) deflector array; this lasts about 5 seconds before you have to recharge. The secondary-fire mode combines the beam with those of the two phaser emitters to create a much more powerful beam, but it can only fire for about 1-1.5 seconds. You have to use the right-mouse button for this mode, though. 🤣 Too bad the NX-01 didn’t come standard with a laser mouse. 😭
Great looking ship, love the integration of the iconic secondary hull, demonstrating the ever-evolving ship design which would eventually culminate in the form factor we all know and love. With its graceful warp nacelles and pylons, the elegant saucer of the primary hull, all held together by the sturdy functionality of the secondary hull.
I'll always feel that 'Enterprise' went way before it's time, with only four seasons. Such a shame it was cancelled then, and what a shame we never saw the refit Enterprise NX-01 on screen.
That would've been nice. And in my preferance, skip a year (and the space Nazi's), make Archer an Admiral and promote Trip to Captain. The latter occured to me when he commanded Enterprise during the Vulcan crisis. He was very natural in the position and far more what I expected from a 22nd captain than Archer ever was.
The thing is that people always assumed that this ship evolved into constitution class. But remember the formation of the federation and the creation of the Constitution class was like 80+ years. I feel like it was one step in the right direction however. It always kinda bugged me that after NX01 was retired that there wouldn't be another Enterprise for decades to come. Oh well.
A shame there were only 4 seasons i personly would have loved it that the enterprise get the columbia upgrade to see her in action in the earth romulan war.
'Ever evolving golden age'? Those are...some words for modern trek, I suppose... >.> As for the Columbia class, absolutely love it, and Enterprise the series was severely under appreciated in its time.
First time I can recall Picard and Discovery called the new golden age.......... Columbia class is a nice bird, but a bit too on the nose, I'd have rather a nod to the ball and can Daedalus class and retaining the square deflector, even if an additional one.
*In Universe* it does make sense as a quicker way to upgrade the ship. Build the secondary hull separately, then _when completed_ attach it to the NX ship while doing the modifications needed on the NX's hull - the shuttle bay being converted into the attachment point and the original Warp Core being removed, plus all the rewiring. It would minimise the down time needed as most of the new systems are already built into the new module _that is the secondary hull._ BTW *in my headcanon,* the reason the Federation went with the Human design paradigm is not Political (or even that Humanity had the best design), but that Humans had designed their ships to be modular and easily upgradable, due to the knowledge that there was far more advanced technology locally and the expectation that they would be upgrading with it. As well, Human ships could readily fit in systems from other species, whereas trying to fit Tellerite or Andorian technology (or any other species that you came across… see Voyager) on a Vulcan ship would be a nightmare. They made their ships like desktop computers that could have components swapped out as soon as a new graphics card was released, and take advantage of spare PCIE slots, while other species built theirs like laptops/netbooks (with no user serviceable parts) since they were always built with the current state of the art and the assumption of slow technological progress. …And that is why completely changing the shape of the hull and fitting a new Warp Core is considered a _"minor refit"_ by Starfleet.
The NX ships were named "Columbia" class because the rest of the ships had received modifications after the NX-01 had launched and was already in deep space. The Enterprise had many aspects (phasers and torpedo launchers) built or adapted during the mission and many of those modifications were installed on the other ships during construction. The remaining ships were built on the same design as the second production
Of all the spacefaring ships of this eldest lineage, the NX-01 is the one that I love most. Given warp-technology, she is the one we could build now. She is the one that my great-grandchildren may yet serve on.
I'm one of the few people who's not a fan of the refit. I think a secondary hull would come along further down the line, along with getting deflector shields and tractor beams. I would also think with a secondary hull deflector that they would remove the saucer dish and replace it with more labs, storage, etc.
when they put the iconic secondary haul on the NX its more of a eps power and redundant systems upgrade. upgrades that focused mostly on the need to have better sensors than others and still having the dish on the saucer. a starfleet ships in piece can divide the use of the most advanced sensor tech without loosing any tactical awareness. during possible combat or war having redundant systems makes it so much harder to actually take a ship out of a fight without destroying it is what made starfleet so badass and why the secondary haul refit became iconic to future design!
I managed to not watch ST:Enterprise until a month ago. I am now watching the series for the 2nd time. I was a trekkie kid before becoming a workaholic and missing most of the Trekverse until the last few years. I love the NX01 and would love to see the refit version in a show.
STO player here. And guess what? I have the NX Refit. And the NX Refits used in STO were described as replicas, not the ships themselves. NX-02 never reentered service. And the Columbia designation actually goes to the Legendary Version of the ship, which is a 2280/90s ship that uses the design language of the NX and marries it to the Excelsior's styling.
And maybe the odd Daedalus class. Data states the withdraw date for the Daedalus class in TNG, which has the class still in service during the Strange New World's era.
No, unfortunately you won't see either. CBS would have to license these designs from Paramount or the creators themselves, and they've shown no inclination to do anything like that. It's the same reason why we never saw Nebulas or Akiras, etc in Picard and instead saw the USS Copy-Paste/USS Generic Star Warsy classes, and why the 'new' 1701 was a weird amalgam of the TOS, TMP and Discovery styles-- because licensed IP. ...also, all the CBS Treks exist in a different universe to TOS, TMP, TNG, etc. They have to, again, because of licensing. Even though they want the fans to believe so (most Trek fans aren't buying it), the lawyers at both studios have agree that, until the IP is licensed and paid for, it's not part of the Roddenberry universe.
@@Booyaka9000 CBS and Paramount are now part of one company, even if there were licensing restrictions before (there weren't, CBS owned Star Trek outright except for the movies) there aren't now.
Intro caught me off guard initially, but grew to love it and the show. Was definitely not given the credit it deserved. In my opinion, enterprise and voyager were the most "trek" shows out of them all. Love Piccard as one of, and arguably the best captain ever, but TNG was really just a sci fi soapy in my opinion. Voyager and Enterpise were the most "trek" oriented shows of "boldly going and exploring strange new worlds", but again, just my opinion. Janeway was my favourite captain, equally was piccard. Voyager was my favourite, followed by TNG which only just beats enterprise only because of piccard and the movies though.
I wish the Star trek online model adressed the shuttle bay doors issue. The game model still has the original hatches on it, meaning if you look at the underside there's clearly no way for anything to use those hatches to get in or out.
The only reason why the show was canceled was because every episode aired there was always a major sporting event happening (MLB) going on and the show couldn't complete with the ratings - Had the show been on a different network and new time slot I believe the show would had survived
I wish they would have done a 5th season to wrap it up instead of the rush at the end of the 4th. If they got the full 7 seasons it would have been great to get a full Romulon War and the founding of The Federation as well as seeing the refit in action.
Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't the first contact with the Trill covered in the Next Generation, therefore what's Tobin Dax doing sorting things out in this ship?
Yeah, on that one episode that I know of with Crusher falling in love with the trill and then finding out about the symbiote, but their face ridges were retconned out already. In DS9, I believe Dax said something about being with McCoy at some point. Could be like with Columbus "discovering" America when others had already been here.
I just wanted the NX-01 to get some rudimentary shields at some point... they really pushed how much punishment the polarized hull could take compared to later ships.
Great video. The problem with the design for me is that it's shown with the amazing warbirds. The new federation ship is okay. I could grow to like it. But those warbirds are sooooo friggin cool. Those engines just blow my mind.
Enterprise was my first Star Trek series that I was able to watch from start to finish. TNG could've been my first but it was only available on channel that requires a more powerful TV antenna to watch and as luck would have it my house is located just beyond any proper reception. The NX-01 Refit looks cool but I prefer if they spent 2-3 seasons more on showing the evolution of NX-01 into the Refit. I want to see the Enterprise to live up to it's NX names and get slapped with every piece of experimental technology they've acquired. It could get so bad for NX-01 that by the end of the series that they revealed a new class of ships to bear the name Enterprise and lead the Federation of planets. And the new class will look like the missing link between the Columbia and the Constitution.
I find it interesting that the refit is one of my top five favorite Starships, while I'm not particularly fond of the NX-01's original design. When I used to play StarMade (a Minecraft like space game) the NX-01 refit was my main ship. It even had usable pods. I'm glad that the model was released by Eaglemoss (sp?).
It was finally getting into it’s stride and going into the gaps of known startrek history. I was gutted when it was cancelled , even more so because it was politics not ratings driven!!
I find it interesting that in the books the ship never actually managed to get the refit. It was gets wrecked in the Romulan War and decommissioned as a museum, and it's all the other surviving NX classes that get the refit.
You know what? I'm suddenly realizing the one complication with addressing the Romulan/Federation war in Enterprise. When Kirk's Enterprise encountered a Romulan Warbird raiding border outposts, a major plot point of that episode was that they had no idea what Romulans looked like because the war of about 100 years prior was fought before visual communications was a thing, and all communication was made via old-fashioned radio. NX-01 Enterprise had visual coms just like all of the other series before it, and it would have been a complex bit of writing to try and make up an excuse as to why they could see the Tholians better than Kirk ever did, but why they wouldn't be able to have any visuals of Romulans, or any idea that they look like Vulcans.
Actually, I disagree. ENT had Romulans appear as antagonists twice, and both times Romulans simply didnt show their faces. All hails, if any, were audio only, and there is no reason for the Romulans to expose themselves during the Federation-Romulan war beyond showing their ships. The only way Romulans could end up showing their faces involuntarily would be ground combat, but I dont see the Romulans having any reason why they would participate in that in the first place.
@@builder396 That almost works, except that Spock hacked their ship to get a first-ever visual, very much without consent, and against their will, if they had ever learned about it. It's made to seem like visual tech didn't even exist the last time, but NX-01 was rather sophisticated that way. I'd forgotten about that, though, so we're getting closer! Thanks! :) (I haven't re-watched ENT, yet, so I haven't seen it since it aired.
@@c182SkylaneRG And I havent seen Balance of Terror in absolute ages, so we both have each other at a disadvantage in a way. But Im pretty sure we can agree that hacking into someones comm systems is probably best categorized as a fluke incident and it wouldnt be a stretch that noone would have even bothered to try that during the war.
@@builder396 True. Honestly, as I was typing it out, and even as I was watching it the last time, I was kinda thinking it was a stretch for it to have been so easy for Spock to hack in in the first place. How would he have known they even had cameras on the bridge, or that they were placed anywhere useful? Plot holes in both directions. :)
Some episodes were really poor, but they closed a lot of circuits in the total story. And now imagine archer sitting on earth in the office of the main design engineer giving him some practical experience how to even further improve the new ship...then you have a women with a kid entering the office, the kid seeing the ship and saying "dad, one day I will be captain of that ship"...they leave the office and you see the name tag on the door "pike"...the fans would have freaked out
There's a company in Washington state that is making STAR TREK Simulator Effects Boards using LEDs and Sound! They are priced very affordable. I ordered several phasers and Photon Torpedos kits and I am on the list for the new series of Simulators. The only thing is that you need to order LEDs separately in a few of the kits.
The show was such a mix of good ideas, unrealized potential, and occasional missteps or weirdness, and yet it had good stuff too. I wish we could've seen the refit in the show. I wish we'd seen more of the early civilian spacers, merchants, starbase and station people, colonists, researchers and explores, and the rogues and outlaws and so on. I sure wish we got a different ending. -- Who knows; with Strange New Worlds, maybe we could see the NX-01 refit at some point.
20 years since Enterprise. I feel old. A totally underrated tv show.
Yeah. I was disappointed at first bc I wanted to see more post TNG era but I actually enjoyed the show. Even the crappy theme song. I acknowledge it’s a bit cheesy....still like it 🤷🏻♂️
The first thing I thought when he said 20 years ago.. Damn I feel old.
Forcefields
Boeing Granted Patent for World's First Real-Life 'Force Field'
By
Bryan Nelson
Updated January 13, 2020
Beam me up? Scientists teleport first object ever from Earth into space
Doyle Rice
USA TODAY

So we are developing teleportation, forcefields
And dont forget the Army is said to be testing a laser that is a million times stronger than our current HIIT
able to discentegrate instead of merely melting the object
I remember it stating, it could actually be a visible laser beam as well !!!
Its nice that Picard actually gave some love to the NX-01 Refit. It appears in a few background shots, especially in Episode 9. Its in the background, but its undeniably the NX-01 Refit.
Also appears in S2 as a toy! So hey...20 years later...she finally made it onto our screens
I really liked this series. However, it had the worst series finale ever.
do agree.
Wasn't a bad episode... but to knock the main cast into secondary roles for the finale of the series? Yeah, I'd have felt pretty betrayed by both the producers and writers.
@@KMCA779 yeah I agree tbh I also didn’t like the fact that they made it seem we were just watching a holo novel
Well they had to rush the storyline and finale.. so God knows what things would have happened in between to make the finale make more sense.
It was horribly horribly done and I was extremely angry with some of the story.
Spoiler follows of you've not seen it!!!!
I hate what they did to t'pol and trip. It ruined it in my opinion... they should have been allowed to be together...
It still realllly sucks that the show got cancelled, it was a good show.
That's why it got canceled as most good shows wind up getting canceled too soon.
That's also why that UPN network got cancelled right along with it!
@@vincewilson1 No, it was cancelled because fans hated and didnt watch it. Its sad but true. Most "Trekkies" were unsatisfied with the concept of a prequel. They wanted a continuation of the TNG-era after Voyager. In my opinion a prequel series was the right thing to do because the TNG era got "stuck" from a creativity point of view.
It just needed to make more of an impression out of the gate. The audience for Star Trek actually rose from Voyager's last season to Enterprise's first few episodes, so people were interested in a prequel. It had some strong episodes in the opening seasons but they were few. It suffered from being the flagship series of a new network, run by people who weren't taking chances or living up to the prequel idea. A lot of the shows could have been done on any series and some like Rogue Planet or Oasis, HAD been done before. It also had much more competition with shows like Stargate SG1, Battlestar Galactica, Farscape and even Doctor Who at the end. It does have some killer episodes in it's run that are some of the best of Trek.
I'd seen it before, if we had a 5th season it would have been there. She's a great looking ship and shows the evolution of Starfleet vessels
You didn't watch the video, there was never any plan for this refit to be a part of the shoe.
When are you going to up grad the ships bigger and faster.
I always liked ST:Enterprise. Still do. I like it's slightly less "techno babble" content and focus on character development.
Star Trek Enterprise character is more develop than TNG, so i think you’re right
Way to make me feel old. You said it aired 20 years ago and I'm like "what do you mean that was like 2 years ago??"
Same here. I keep thinking the whole Y2K thing was just a few months ago. I have to keep reminding myself that I was still in Middle School at the time.
Yup.
@@c182SkylaneRG Don't feel bad. I was 4.5 Y/O when Niel Armstrong walked on the moon.
@@vincewilson1 Yeah. I can't imagine how my parents feel. They were 15 when that happened.
I know, right? 😞
The refit looks so great. I wish we would have seen it on the show.
I hope it appears on Strange New Worlds
Its in as the black unit of startrek in newer movies
A perfect time to have upgraded the nx-01 would have been after season 3 and the start of 4 when the ship was so badly damaged, could have had it refit as part of its repair, would have been amazing to have seen it on screen, always enjoyed that show
A new series based on 20 years after Enterprise would actually be quite a good direction to go, you could have all this in it, a new crew of the NX-01 refit, and have the actors come back in roles such as Scot Bakula as the first federation president.
How old does Jolene Blalock look these days?
Could she still pass as a slow aging Vulcan?
@Michael Davidson That sounds good, but not too many of those episodes, maybe one or two at most.
It has clearly been established that the federation knew something about the borg before the events at system J-25, from the backstory of Seven of Nine, and I'm sure that after the events of Generations the Elurians would have told them of it.
So a little bit more peripheral contact would be ok, as long as they remain an unnamed mystery, even if a little bit of contrivance is needed.
One way to do it would be finding some borg ship wreckage, just a little bit say from a small scout ship, nothing containing any data, just stuff that looks borg, or maybe something like from the episodes running up to the first meeting with a cube where those colonies where scooped up in TNG.
Then leave it as an unsolved mystery.
The thing that people forget about the issue with the borg is that the contact in Ent is a long time before Picard, and if you ask a captain of a ship how many of them are going to know about something a captain encountered 200 years ago.
Keep it vague enough and it'll be ok with canon as far as I care.
@Michael Davidson Perhaps have it as a section 31 had some form of contact with them, they're not exactly keen on sharing information even with starfleet if they don't have to, also there's no reason any encounter has to be with borg drones, it would make sense that long range probes would not be manned by drones, so maybe that's a way to encounter them but not upset the canon.
@@casbot71 Make-up is magic!
@@casbot71 I've seen an updated photo of an older T'Pol on a You Tube video somewhere. I still think her hai would've been a little longer-like the younger T'Pau, but not as old as her older self in 'E2'-or like her 'Mirror' self either. In "Rise if the Federation", Trip finishes his mission and returns to her. Thry even mentioned that their relationship was contentious-as Lorien was correct-in 'E2'.
Love that the refit was included in ST Picard!!
I love the NX-01, and this refit is indeed the perfect step towards the Constitution design. I like that they left the original deflector on there!
I remember when this was designed for the “Ships of the Line” calendar.
🥺 20 years!! Unpopular opinion, but still my favourite Trek, and all-time favourite Archer quote "You have no idea how much I'm restraining myself from knocking you on your ass!"
Might also be a suitable time for a certain other NX video? Wink, nudge 😁
It's one of my favorites as well
@@seanwolslau-holdren6731 and mine
A "Monty Python" fan (like me)? I guess you've seen the YT crossover "Star Trek"/"Monty Python" videos?
It would have been so cool to see this upgrade design on the series. Something that could have happened had the show lasted 7 years.
At least Picard gave it to us.
Well damn I’m old... in my brain this show was only ten years ago. Ugh... time is a relentless bastard!
"Time is the fire in which we all burn..." - some dude, probably.
🖖😎👍Very cool and very nicely well done and very well informatively explained and executed in every detail way shape and form possibly provided indeed, And I would of loved to have seen this refit on the screen during a 5th season of the show, Any ways I myself have a few model kits of this design and the Eaglemoss model of this beautiful ship indeed👌.
I play STO, and love the NX Refit, using the type 0 skin material, which is the standard TOS era look. It's a great ship to fly.
I like the look of it, and it is a natural and logical mid-way point between the NX class and the Constitution class, but I feel if they'd used it on the show, it would have been too soon. There's still 100 years before The Cage.
My thinking exactly. Maybe for a season 7 and as a difference class if ship that could then pass to a next generation:)
I don't think it would have been too much of a stretch. The first Constitution class ships were commissioned in the 2240s, and there is still a large technological gap between them and the NX-refits. Though the general hull structure is similar, so much of the internals are different. Like photonic torpedoes --> photon torpedoes, phase cannons --> phasers, upgrading speed from Warp 6 to Warp 8, better replicators, transporters, shields, etc.
Remember the Excelsior / Miranda class was used well into the Dominion war. I'm pretty sure its design was used well over 80 years.
I agree. I think the NX01 and its refit are nice looking ships, but they look too "advanced" for 100 years before TOS.
@@MuruganNarayanan Even 80 years feels like too long a time for this design. The specs and tech also feel too early, like tractor beams and the like. The show itself had that problem in the last season, with universal translators and transporters already working almost flawlessly after a mere four years.
The refit looks great , the saucer looks better sitting on the center nacelle rather than stuck out on the pylon.
This is actually my favorite Star Trek tv show, because there so many episode i like here, plus it’s theme song is the best i actually heard, i have hope it had renew for another 3 season, i like this more than TNG, which is maybe a unpopular opinion, but i love it, the season 4 is the best along side season 1 and 2, i wanted to see the Earth-Romulan war where we see Andorian, Tellarite, and Vulcan battlegroup fight together against the Romulan armada, i hope Lower Decks make this refit make this canon if they do time travel in season 2, this show has the best doctor in the entire Star Trek
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Wow 20 years ago. I’ve only just got around to watching the full sessions, I’m just on session 4. At first I really was against enterprise, but I’ve grown to love it, it’s a fantastic series.
Same here. Thought it was more like "DS9" at first when it came on and didn't watch it til I got Hulu and fell in love with it. I was mad at myself for not supporting it when it was cancelled like I did when "TOS" was cancelled. I want the actors to return and not let any new dir.assign new actors-and characteristics-to them as JJ Abrams did.
I have the eaglemoss model of the Enterprise Refit NX-01. According to Robert Meyer Burnett that Paramount has been sitting on a trilogy movie called Star Trek Beginnings which is about the Earth-Romulan War since 2006. The Star Trek Enterprise novels post season 4 fill in the blanks quite nicely such as Trip faked his own death to join Section 31 and the Earth-Romulan War. I have read in the past about script ideas from Manny Coto regarding season 5 Enterprise such as T’Pol was actually half Vulcan and half Romulan, a 5 episode arch in the Mirror Universe following on from the Season 4 Mirror Darkly episodes and how the Coalition of Planets dealt with the lead up to the Earth-Romulan War which would have begun in Season 6. I personally can’t watch Secret Hideouts interpretation of Star Trek since 2017. Hopefully when their Contract runs out in 2023 then Paramount will have full control of Star Trek again.
And good news, the NX-01 Refit has officially appeared on screen in Picard season 3.
This is secretly my favorite star trek series and ship.
The more realistic submarine inspired ship and hardships of being the first out there made it have a special atmosphere.
I remember back when I used to read the paperback novels for STAR TREK...that they would always explain or talk about things that I never say in regards to continuity in future shows or movies. As an example...they talked about how, every 20 years, the ships would be updated. They talked about "modular" designs of sections-- where entire things like the bridge module could be removed, replaced, and or updated in space docks to keep the technology current.
Would had been cool if the Columbia class has hardpoints for several Minotaur class warp fighters to be docked on it. The Columbia class would act as the long range carrier for the Minotaurs and it would be docked with hard points at two aft dorsal and two aft ventral and a couple docked between the neck of the secondary hull&saucer section. The Columbia class can travel past Warp7 while the Minotaur's warp engines can only go past Warp4. The hard points could also be used for cargo pods like for mines and troop carriers. The idea came from the Andorians using attack drones for their military ships.
I think it is cool how they retroactively create things like how the NX-01 morphs towards the Constitution class. How they explained Klingon forehead ridges also. That takes a new level of creative!
I doubt many are saying that this current run of star trek series is a new golden age for the franchise.
Kurtzman doesn't know trek at all.
update to this video it is cannon now cause the refit was used in star trek picard season 3 at the fleet museum
20th anniversary, damn I remember watching this show when I was a kid. Weirdly feels like just yesterday. Enterprise is definitely my 2nd favorite Trek show, after DS9.
LOL I was well into my 30s when this show came out. I went to every Trek film opening day through STVI. The only reason I missed the others up to 2000 was because I was deployed to various places. I was in Haiti when Generations was released. But Trek, like Star Wars, crosses generational lines, I am happy to see. I hope when you have kids, if you don't already, that you will bring them up loving Trek as well.
Eh, STNG is still my favorite
"TOS" is still my favourite since I grew up watching it first (" I'm not old. I'll only be 66 on my next birthday" as T'Pol said in 'Zero Hour'. So will I.) and "Enterprise" 2nd.
I liked the series.
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I wasn't crazy about it at 1st but it got better. The theme song killed me (I'm a little more use to that now too)
@@NALurking I liked that too XD
In STO, the Columbia class resembled an NX-Refit with Excelsior styling while the original refitted NX was just called NX-Refit.
I wish they could make a new captains chair program that would show all aspects of each individual ship in the Star Trek universe I loved that program Doing a virtual tour of each ship and being able to play around with the controls
That show should have run a few more seasons. I love that evolving Enterprise.
One of my favorite moments from Enterprise was when Duras attacked the Enterprise near Earth and they returned fire with a volley of missiles that did next to nothing and Enterprise had to be saved by several Star Fleet ships working together to drive away the Klingons. Afterward Enterprise received several important refits including enhanced hull plating and essentially an early version of photon torpedoes. The next time the Klingons attacked the new weapons managed to do significant damage to the Bird of Prey. It was cool to see that, slowly, bit by bit, Humanity was starting to catch up to the existing interstellar powers. It gave a sense of progression, of what would give rise to the Federation.
I love this design. The only improvement I would make would be to close up the original deflector dish on the saucer. It’s one of my favorite ships in STO-fast, agile and powerful.
Or use it as a weapon, much like in TNG where they fired it at the Borg. It would also have two phaser emitters to either side that would fire at a focal point about 100 yards in front, and combine with the beam from the deflector-dish, to create a super powerful, but short-lived, cutting beam that would rival even the (later) Enterprise-E’s phasers, similar to the creepy Shadow ships from Babylon-5. 🤗 It would have both a primary and secondary-fire mode. The primary-fire mode just fires the beam from the (modified) deflector array; this lasts about 5 seconds before you have to recharge. The secondary-fire mode combines the beam with those of the two phaser emitters to create a much more powerful beam, but it can only fire for about 1-1.5 seconds. You have to use the right-mouse button for this mode, though. 🤣 Too bad the NX-01 didn’t come standard with a laser mouse. 😭
Great looking ship, love the integration of the iconic secondary hull, demonstrating the ever-evolving ship design which would eventually culminate in the form factor we all know and love. With its graceful warp nacelles and pylons, the elegant saucer of the primary hull, all held together by the sturdy functionality of the secondary hull.
It was disappointing that the refit never made it onscreen. I do own the Eaglemoss model though.
I'll always feel that 'Enterprise' went way before it's time, with only four seasons. Such a shame it was cancelled then, and what a shame we never saw the refit Enterprise NX-01 on screen.
now we see the NX01 refit on the screen. in Picard season 3 final episode
OK, let's get the nx refit on SNW, like "Yesterdays Enterprise"
I have this ship in STO. It's my favorite
The NX refit is actually a really tough looking ship! LOVE the design! Too bad it hasn't been onscreen... yet 🤞
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We have now. The fleet museum in Picard
@@redhillstudios1701-F I caught that! Totally GEEKED OUT!
@@hankthepatriot3733 That, the Bounty, and Leonard Rosenman’s theme made my day
I'd would loved more interaction with Harrad Sar and the Orions, and also more missions with the Spec Ops MACO Unit.
I wished they unvealed it at the beginning of the Xindi arc.
this ship is cannon now with it being in the last episode of picard season 3
They should have done this refit for season 4
That would've been nice.
And in my preferance, skip a year (and the space Nazi's), make Archer an Admiral and promote Trip to Captain. The latter occured to me when he commanded Enterprise during the Vulcan crisis. He was very natural in the position and far more what I expected from a 22nd captain than Archer ever was.
The thing is that people always assumed that this ship evolved into constitution class. But remember the formation of the federation and the creation of the Constitution class was like 80+ years. I feel like it was one step in the right direction however. It always kinda bugged me that after NX01 was retired that there wouldn't be another Enterprise for decades to come. Oh well.
Still one of my favorite ship designs. might not be powerful but its unique and different. Always fun to bring out it STO even if it is underpowered.
The NX refit and the Prometheus are kinda my secret favourites, not my actual favourites but they definitely have a chance
I miss Enterprise and would've loved to see the refit version.
A shame there were only 4 seasons i personly would have loved it that the enterprise get the columbia upgrade to see her in action in the earth romulan war.
'Ever evolving golden age'? Those are...some words for modern trek, I suppose... >.>
As for the Columbia class, absolutely love it, and Enterprise the series was severely under appreciated in its time.
First time I can recall Picard and Discovery called the new golden age..........
Columbia class is a nice bird, but a bit too on the nose, I'd have rather a nod to the ball and can Daedalus class and retaining the square deflector, even if an additional one.
*In Universe* it does make sense as a quicker way to upgrade the ship.
Build the secondary hull separately, then _when completed_ attach it to the NX ship while doing the modifications needed on the NX's hull - the shuttle bay being converted into the attachment point and the original Warp Core being removed, plus all the rewiring.
It would minimise the down time needed as most of the new systems are already built into the new module _that is the secondary hull._
BTW *in my headcanon,* the reason the Federation went with the Human design paradigm is not Political (or even that Humanity had the best design), but that Humans had designed their ships to be modular and easily upgradable, due to the knowledge that there was far more advanced technology locally and the expectation that they would be upgrading with it. As well, Human ships could readily fit in systems from other species, whereas trying to fit Tellerite or Andorian technology (or any other species that you came across… see Voyager) on a Vulcan ship would be a nightmare.
They made their ships like desktop computers that could have components swapped out as soon as a new graphics card was released, and take advantage of spare PCIE slots, while other species built theirs like laptops/netbooks (with no user serviceable parts) since they were always built with the current state of the art and the assumption of slow technological progress.
…And that is why completely changing the shape of the hull and fitting a new Warp Core is considered a _"minor refit"_ by Starfleet.
The NX ships were named "Columbia" class because the rest of the ships had received modifications after the NX-01 had launched and was already in deep space. The Enterprise had many aspects (phasers and torpedo launchers) built or adapted during the mission and many of those modifications were installed on the other ships during construction. The remaining ships were built on the same design as the second production
Yes, more about Enterprise please. 🖖
"some of the best aspects of the series" My future wife Hoshi Sato comes to mind haha.
Yeah, but thanks to her, you and your boys can no longer speak in your secret language. Lol.
Empress Hoshi Sato, she puts the "ho" in Hoshi.
Of all the spacefaring ships of this eldest lineage, the NX-01 is the one that I love most. Given warp-technology, she is the one we could build now. She is the one that my great-grandchildren may yet serve on.
I'm one of the few people who's not a fan of the refit. I think a secondary hull would come along further down the line, along with getting deflector shields and tractor beams. I would also think with a secondary hull deflector that they would remove the saucer dish and replace it with more labs, storage, etc.
The Enterprise Refit is one of my favorite Eaglemoss models.
The COLUMBIA class of ship was a touching tribute to the real COLUMBIA shuttle we lost so tragically prior to the show.
Looks damn good, I wish there had been a 5th series even if I was mighty tired of two part stories by the end. Maybe I just miss Shran.
Thank you very much for using my images of the ship!
A show that was cut too short! I would of loved to of seen that Enterprise like that.
when they put the iconic secondary haul on the NX its more of a eps power and redundant systems upgrade. upgrades that focused mostly on the need to have better sensors than others and still having the dish on the saucer. a starfleet ships in piece can divide the use of the most advanced sensor tech without loosing any tactical awareness. during possible combat or war having redundant systems makes it so much harder to actually take a ship out of a fight without destroying it is what made starfleet so badass and why the secondary haul refit became iconic to future design!
I liked the ship until I got the Eaglemoss model and omg! This is one of my favorite ship designs ever!
I have the 1000 scale model kit from Polar Lights.
Upon completion of this refit, wouldn't the NX-01 have been renumbered NCC-01 just as the USS Excelsior NX-2000 would one day be renumbered NCC-2000?
I managed to not watch ST:Enterprise until a month ago. I am now watching the series for the 2nd time. I was a trekkie kid before becoming a workaholic and missing most of the Trekverse until the last few years. I love the NX01 and would love to see the refit version in a show.
Enterprise was so under-rated. Also, the guy who played Shran stole the show. He was amazing in every episode he was in.
Jeffery Combs was great as all his Star Trek characters.
STO player here. And guess what? I have the NX Refit.
And the NX Refits used in STO were described as replicas, not the ships themselves. NX-02 never reentered service.
And the Columbia designation actually goes to the Legendary Version of the ship, which is a 2280/90s ship that uses the design language of the NX and marries it to the Excelsior's styling.
Fingers crossed we'll see an NX-refit in Strange New Worlds. Surely there's still some of them rattling around the Alpha Quadrant?
And maybe the odd Daedalus class. Data states the withdraw date for the Daedalus class in TNG, which has the class still in service during the Strange New World's era.
No, unfortunately you won't see either. CBS would have to license these designs from Paramount or the creators themselves, and they've shown no inclination to do anything like that. It's the same reason why we never saw Nebulas or Akiras, etc in Picard and instead saw the USS Copy-Paste/USS Generic Star Warsy classes, and why the 'new' 1701 was a weird amalgam of the TOS, TMP and Discovery styles-- because licensed IP.
...also, all the CBS Treks exist in a different universe to TOS, TMP, TNG, etc. They have to, again, because of licensing. Even though they want the fans to believe so (most Trek fans aren't buying it), the lawyers at both studios have agree that, until the IP is licensed and paid for, it's not part of the Roddenberry universe.
@@Booyaka9000 CBS and Paramount are now part of one company, even if there were licensing restrictions before (there weren't, CBS owned Star Trek outright except for the movies) there aren't now.
lol at 1:11 I thought the paint on the saucer section said, "U.S.S. Schlong" hahaha
Would have loved to see this refit on screen! It’s a logical advance for the fleet and a beautiful ship to see!
Intro caught me off guard initially, but grew to love it and the show. Was definitely not given the credit it deserved. In my opinion, enterprise and voyager were the most "trek" shows out of them all. Love Piccard as one of, and arguably the best captain ever, but TNG was really just a sci fi soapy in my opinion. Voyager and Enterpise were the most "trek" oriented shows of "boldly going and exploring strange new worlds", but again, just my opinion. Janeway was my favourite captain, equally was piccard. Voyager was my favourite, followed by TNG which only just beats enterprise only because of piccard and the movies though.
I could have sworn we saw it on screen, only for a moment, during the final episode..
I'd love to see the refit of the NX-01. A new season 5 would be great
I wish the Star trek online model adressed the shuttle bay doors issue. The game model still has the original hatches on it, meaning if you look at the underside there's clearly no way for anything to use those hatches to get in or out.
So glad this design is finally getting some attention.
The only reason why the show was canceled was because every episode aired there was always a major sporting event happening (MLB) going on and the show couldn't complete with the ratings - Had the show been on a different network and new time slot I believe the show would had survived
Like Zack Snyder's Justice League, Enterprise deserve a mini series at least a season 5 ark!
I could see a cgi or animated continuation. Or like an audio comic of the series after season 4
I wish they would have done a 5th season to wrap it up instead of the rush at the end of the 4th. If they got the full 7 seasons it would have been great to get a full Romulon War and the founding of The Federation as well as seeing the refit in action.
Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't the first contact with the Trill covered in the Next Generation, therefore what's Tobin Dax doing sorting things out in this ship?
Yeah, on that one episode that I know of with Crusher falling in love with the trill and then finding out about the symbiote, but their face ridges were retconned out already. In DS9, I believe Dax said something about being with McCoy at some point. Could be like with Columbus "discovering" America when others had already been here.
I just wanted the NX-01 to get some rudimentary shields at some point... they really pushed how much punishment the polarized hull could take compared to later ships.
well... the first shields starfleet ever took in use was a shield tech based on the andorian tech, if they didnt just used the OG andorian shields.
@@jamescooper7878 yes, it would have been nice to see them receive the tech from Shran.
Great video. The problem with the design for me is that it's shown with the amazing warbirds. The new federation ship is okay. I could grow to like it. But those warbirds are sooooo friggin cool. Those engines just blow my mind.
Enterprise was my first Star Trek series that I was able to watch from start to finish. TNG could've been my first but it was only available on channel that requires a more powerful TV antenna to watch and as luck would have it my house is located just beyond any proper reception.
The NX-01 Refit looks cool but I prefer if they spent 2-3 seasons more on showing the evolution of NX-01 into the Refit. I want to see the Enterprise to live up to it's NX names and get slapped with every piece of experimental technology they've acquired. It could get so bad for NX-01 that by the end of the series that they revealed a new class of ships to bear the name Enterprise and lead the Federation of planets.
And the new class will look like the missing link between the Columbia and the Constitution.
I love this but it’s a shame the series didn’t get it’s due
I find it interesting that the refit is one of my top five favorite Starships, while I'm not particularly fond of the NX-01's original design. When I used to play StarMade (a Minecraft like space game) the NX-01 refit was my main ship. It even had usable pods. I'm glad that the model was released by Eaglemoss (sp?).
It was finally getting into it’s stride and going into the gaps of known startrek history.
I was gutted when it was cancelled , even more so because it was politics not ratings driven!!
I find it interesting that in the books the ship never actually managed to get the refit. It was gets wrecked in the Romulan War and decommissioned as a museum, and it's all the other surviving NX classes that get the refit.
You know what? I'm suddenly realizing the one complication with addressing the Romulan/Federation war in Enterprise. When Kirk's Enterprise encountered a Romulan Warbird raiding border outposts, a major plot point of that episode was that they had no idea what Romulans looked like because the war of about 100 years prior was fought before visual communications was a thing, and all communication was made via old-fashioned radio. NX-01 Enterprise had visual coms just like all of the other series before it, and it would have been a complex bit of writing to try and make up an excuse as to why they could see the Tholians better than Kirk ever did, but why they wouldn't be able to have any visuals of Romulans, or any idea that they look like Vulcans.
Actually, I disagree. ENT had Romulans appear as antagonists twice, and both times Romulans simply didnt show their faces. All hails, if any, were audio only, and there is no reason for the Romulans to expose themselves during the Federation-Romulan war beyond showing their ships. The only way Romulans could end up showing their faces involuntarily would be ground combat, but I dont see the Romulans having any reason why they would participate in that in the first place.
@@builder396 That almost works, except that Spock hacked their ship to get a first-ever visual, very much without consent, and against their will, if they had ever learned about it. It's made to seem like visual tech didn't even exist the last time, but NX-01 was rather sophisticated that way.
I'd forgotten about that, though, so we're getting closer! Thanks! :) (I haven't re-watched ENT, yet, so I haven't seen it since it aired.
@@c182SkylaneRG And I havent seen Balance of Terror in absolute ages, so we both have each other at a disadvantage in a way.
But Im pretty sure we can agree that hacking into someones comm systems is probably best categorized as a fluke incident and it wouldnt be a stretch that noone would have even bothered to try that during the war.
@@builder396 True. Honestly, as I was typing it out, and even as I was watching it the last time, I was kinda thinking it was a stretch for it to have been so easy for Spock to hack in in the first place. How would he have known they even had cameras on the bridge, or that they were placed anywhere useful? Plot holes in both directions. :)
Some episodes were really poor, but they closed a lot of circuits in the total story. And now imagine archer sitting on earth in the office of the main design engineer giving him some practical experience how to even further improve the new ship...then you have a women with a kid entering the office, the kid seeing the ship and saying "dad, one day I will be captain of that ship"...they leave the office and you see the name tag on the door "pike"...the fans would have freaked out
The two deflector dishes make it look silly.
In some alternate universe there is another me enjoying the seven year run with the refit and the romulan conflict. :-\
20 years？Oh my. Where have the years gone？
There's a company in Washington state that is making STAR TREK Simulator Effects Boards using LEDs and Sound! They are priced very affordable. I ordered several phasers and Photon Torpedos kits and I am on the list for the new series of Simulators. The only thing is that you need to order LEDs separately in a few of the kits.
The show was such a mix of good ideas, unrealized potential, and occasional missteps or weirdness, and yet it had good stuff too. I wish we could've seen the refit in the show. I wish we'd seen more of the early civilian spacers, merchants, starbase and station people, colonists, researchers and explores, and the rogues and outlaws and so on. I sure wish we got a different ending. -- Who knows; with Strange New Worlds, maybe we could see the NX-01 refit at some point.
I have this model kit and it's cool.
i printed one my brother took it home with him lol still need to print another
I love the refit. Damn shame the series was cut short. And much appreciation for not playing that horrible song