Star Trek's Enterprise Is Iconic, But the Flagship Has One Flaw Nobody Saw Coming

Warning : contains potential spoilers forStar Trek : Lower Decks#5 !

Star Trek’sEnterpriseis one of the most iconic starships in pop culture , but the flagship has one fatal flaw no one saw coming . ship namedEnterpriseare the cream of Starfleet ’s crop , staff with the best and the hopeful minds . These ships are also top of the line from a technical point of view , but in a prevue forStar Trek : Lower Decks#5 , fans learn they have a fatal fault .

Ryan North , the writer of theStar Trek : Lower Deckscomic is presently compose theOne World Under Doomevent for Marvel .

IDW shared a trailer ofStar Trek : Lower Decks#5 withAIPT . The consequence will be written by Ryan North and drawn by Jack Lawrence . The prevue opens with theCerritos’senior staff look a briefing by the Starfleet Department of Temporal Investigations , who treat time travel cases . They reveal that parties unknown are monkey with the time watercourse , and important ships , such as theEnterpriseor theTitan , are potential targets . Any change to those ships would be noticed by the uncongenial party , clue them in that Starfleet know of their movements .

The StarshipEnterpriseIs One of the Most Iconic Vessels in Pop Culture

Yet, theEnterpriseHas a Huge Flaw When It Comes to Certain Types of Threats

InStar Treklore , there is no shipwith more account than theEnterprise . The name already transmit real - world significance , having been the name of several sailplaning ships , Navy vessel and even the prototype space shuttle . In theStar Trekuniverse , theEnterpriseis always the flagship and the pinnacle of Starfleet and the Federation ’s ideal . The ship is regularly commit on authoritative scientific , diplomatic and peace - keeping missions , and as such , control the best engineering science Starfleet has to offer in terms of weapons , propulsion and scientific facilities .

While theEnterpriseis a wonder of engineering and engineering science , it is useless against the ships and tech of the future .

With this in mind , it might seem that flaws in theEnterpriseand other standardised ships might be rare , but they do be , specially when it come to clock time travel . Whoever is altering the Federation ’s chronicle has deep knowledge of the ship that protect it , vessel like theEnterprise , theTitanor theProtostar . They know these watercraft are cardinal point in time in time , and even tenuous alterations to them can have massive ripple effects across the timeline . While theEnterpriseis a marvel of engineering science and technology , it is useless against the ship and tech of the future .

Will the Fatal Flaw on theEnterpriseEver Get Fixed? Canon Says Maybe

Time Travel Becomes Increasingly Important to the Federation

The Kobayashi Maru is a dreaded rite of passing at Starfleet Academy , but now the franchise has confirm that it is absolutely necessary .

As seen in shows likeEnterpriseandStrange New Worlds , time change of location will become more significant to theStar Trekuniverse as the one C progress , ultimately leading to a Temporal War in the 30th C . This entail that the Federation will eventually improve its meter travel engineering , to the point where it becomes effortless . This means that ships like theEnterprisemay be well capable to observe and counter threats from dissimilar timeframes , thus eliminating the one fatal defect from the Federation ’s flagship .

Source : AIPT

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