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USS Enterprise (NCC-1701‑D)

A vast Federation command vessel whose forward bridge ring holds the ship's nervous system: waist‑high consoles, holo‑displays and a central command platform where officers snap orders under strain. Under relentless Ferengi fire the ship groans as phaser banks and defensive arrays falter; shields sit at one‑fifth strength, modified beams have fused, and the transporter is offline. Crew press at consoles—Data issues a clinical engineering verdict, Kolrami pushes for retreat, Burke and Picard trade terse commands—while the ship’s failing systems translate tactical peril into an immediate, embodied crisis for everyone aboard.
54 appearances

Purpose

Serve as a Starfleet flagship command-and-control platform for navigation, sensor reconnaissance, tactical defense, crew support and transport operations.

Significance

Acts as the story's mobile protagonist and moral locus: its crippling transforms technical failure into an ethical crucible when Picard refuses to abandon the crippled Hathaway. The ship’s physical vulnerability and failing systems drive the plot stakes, compress time under Bractor’s ten‑minute ultimatum and shape character decisions and conflict.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

54 moments