USS Enterprise NCC-1701

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Schak'Irra Timeline

Name

USS Enterprise

Registry Number

NCC-1701

Class

Constitution

Type

Experimental cruiser

Affiliation

NATO, Special Fleet

Construction

2011-2023

Construction Site

NATO starbase

Commissioned

2024

Theoretical Warp Factor

Warp 3.5

Initial Command

Captain Agnes Rodriguez

The Enterprise is the second major type of spacecraft developed by humanity in the Schak'Irra Timeline, after the Nauvoo-class craft. It uses the plans of the real USS Enterprise NCC-1701 from Starfleet, preserved in the data of the Schak'Irra wreck and studied for decades at Area 51.

Like the Nauvoo and Class F shuttles, this model belongs to a set of plans old or accessible enough to be reproduced by 21st-century engineers. The result remains a human adaptation: a Constitution inspired by a 23rd-century model, built with the materials, methods, and limits of its era.

Its official vocation is exploration, warp testing, and opening routes toward exoplanets. In practice, it very quickly receives a much broader role: protecting the survivors of the nuclear crisis, carrying the former core crew of the Mercator, and facing threats no one had really planned for such a young prototype.

Captain

Agnes Rodriguez

First Officer

Angie Chen

Pilot

Eric Corda

Operations

Charlene Savea

Communications

Emilie Flores

Weapons

Eros Vitos

Security

Robert Gomard

Sickbay

Dr. Victor S. Calpel

Civilian Personnel

Manu

After the Earth-Moon crossing, the Mercator can no longer return to service. The Enterprise then becomes Agnes' new ship, with Angie as first officer and a significant part of the former crew transferred aboard.

The transition is not merely administrative. Agnes and Angie arrive on a new ship, almost too clean, where everything still has to be made their own. The discovery of the command chair, judged unusable by Agnes, gives that taking-possession a very concrete color: the ship is modern, but it still has to become theirs.

The transfer of the Mercator's chair to the Enterprise bridge sums up this handoff. The prototype thus inherits an object from the first ship, but also a command memory forged in the evacuation of Brussels.

Read after Book I - Episode 40.

The Enterprise's first official mission begins on July 24, 2024, when the ship leaves spacedock as the flagship of the Special Fleet. Its mission is to secure Earth orbit while Nauvoo-class ships regain control of the satellites.

The departure mostly shows that the mission unfolds under different conditions from the Mercator's Earth-Moon crossing. The Enterprise leaves the starbase with the still-operational Nauvoo and reaches Earth orbit in less than an hour, within a fleet prepared for this intervention.

This entry into service nevertheless turns into combat. The USS Washington is destroyed by a shot of unknown origin, then the Enterprise faces the craft already seen during the Brussels evacuation. Agnes' choices, Eric's piloting, and Eros' offensive systems make it possible to create a breach in the opposing shield.

The victory remains fragile, but it establishes the Enterprise as a reaction ship: a prototype designed to explore, suddenly forced to absorb and respond.

Read after Book I - Episode 45.

The distress signal detected on the Moon leads the Enterprise to the Apollo 11 site. The team led by Angie then discovers Tal'Kyr and Tarsi, the first presence directly linked to the 26th century to enter the ship's life.

The shuttle bay, decontamination chamber, and quarantine quarters become the first places where the Enterprise stops being merely an experimental Earth ship. It becomes a contact point between the Special Fleet, Starfleet, temporalities, and the secrets Tarsi carries with her.

Read after Book I - Episode 78.

During the special operation in Russia, the Enterprise remains in orbit while the Class F shuttles descend toward Moscow. The ship serves as a command base, return point, and sickbay ready to receive survivors, prisoners, and wounded.

After Putingrad, that role becomes brutally concrete. Agnes returns severely wounded aboard Herbie 53, with Tarsi and Eros trying to keep her alive during the trip. The Enterprise then receives the weight of the mission: human losses, Russian prisoners, freed Vulcans, the extracted French president, and Angie's acting command.

From that moment on, the ship is no longer only Agnes' ship. It also becomes Angie's trial, forcing her to inhabit a command she still inwardly refuses.

Read after Book I - Episode 87.

The words Agnes leaves in her coma lead Angie, T'Met, Tarsi, Gomard, and Eros to Area 51. There they find the wreck of the Schak'Irra, reactivate Lingua, and obtain the right to recover components from that 26th-century ship to reinforce the Enterprise.

This return from the mission precedes the destruction of the lunar starbase. Under Angie's acting command, the Enterprise faces an impossible situation: scrambled communications, absent or destroyed Nauvoo ships, an enemy armada, and Tarsi's temporal warnings.

When Agnes wakes from her coma and orders the warp escape, the ship exceeds its theoretical limits. T'Met manages to stop the runaway course, but the Enterprise is now drifting far from Earth, cut off from its original infrastructure.

Read after Book I - Episode 93.

Lost in the Alpha Quadrant, the Enterprise reaches Tellar Prime thanks to Tal'Kyr, then Herbie 53 and the other Class F shuttles. The ship arrives damaged, patched up, dependent on improvised solutions and negotiations unlike those of the Special Fleet.

From Zorek onward, its story becomes that of a craft kept alive far from its bases. Gornok's repairs, the technical objections from Charlene, the funding difficulties, and the Orion pirate attack show that the Enterprise must now survive in a political, commercial, and cultural space that is not its own.

Read after Book I - Episode 109.

After recovering components from Area 51, T'Met installs Lingua in a Cocoon fitted aboard the Enterprise. The ship then becomes a more fragile and more fascinating assembly: a 21st-century structure, reinforced with elements from the Schak'Irra and inhabited by an intelligence from another era.

Episode 109 reveals that this integration is not limited to an improved onboard computer. Lingua retains sensitive memory zones linked to the Schak'Irra case, and the Enterprise becomes the place where those traces begin rising to the surface.

Read after Book I - Episode 115.

When the crew votes to correct the temporal contamination, the Enterprise travels through time with Tal'Kyr to July 15, 1954. The jump immediately reveals its limits: the ship was not designed to cleanly absorb temporal fluctuations, and the crew suffers the effects.

Facing Tarantula, the Enterprise sustains major damage. Its shields are pierced, its saucer torn open, its nacelles ripped away. Yet the ship remains the center of the tactical response: coordination with Tal'Kyr, shuttles, Lingua, the virus designed by Emilie, and the final decision to evacuate the crew.

Agnes and Angie remain aboard to trigger self-destruction and commit to the ramming trajectory. In the line experienced by the crew, the Enterprise then becomes the material and human cost of the temporal correction.

Read after Book I - Episode 128.

The clandestine operation launched from 2554 does not save the Enterprise. It returns to its very last minutes, when the ship is already doomed, to extract Agnes, Angie, and the elements of Lingua before the final impact.

This nuance matters: the ship remains destroyed during the ramming of Tarantula, but a temporal intervention makes it possible to recover what can still be recovered before the explosion. The Enterprise thus becomes at once a tomb, a battlefield, and a decisive extraction point for the continuation of the Schak'Irra case.

The Enterprise is an engineering feat born of a long development. Its construction begins in 2011 at the NATO starbase and ends in 2023, after the lunar shipyard is upgraded to accommodate a more ambitious project than the Nauvoo.

The ship relies on the declassified plans of the real 23rd-century USS Enterprise NCC-1701, available in the Schak'Irra archives alongside other Starfleet models. The 21st-century engineers probably favored these designs because they were more accessible than later technologies.

This origin explains the place of the Constitution class in the Special Fleet: more ambitious than the Nauvoo, but still reproducible with human means. The Enterprise therefore combines 21st-century technologies, experience gained through the Nauvoo, Class F shuttles, and documentation from a temporal ship whose systems remain largely out of reach.

Its experimental warp engine is theoretically supposed to reach Warp 3.5. That performance places it far above the Nauvoo, but the story also shows the limits of a prototype used under extreme conditions: heavy combat, improvised repairs, temporal jumps, and an escape at a speed beyond its design.

The Enterprise begins as a promise: that of a flagship, a spacefaring future, and exploration made possible by seventy years of secret research. But it very quickly becomes something else: a refuge, a bridge between two eras, then the instrument of a temporal correction that costs its crew almost everything.

Its narrative strength comes from that tension. It is more advanced than the Mercator, but still too young for what is asked of it. It carries technologies inherited from the Schak'Irra, but does not belong to the world that produced them. It gives Agnes and Angie a new command, then carries them to the decision to disappear with it in order to save a story larger than their own survival.