At least four or five according to on screen information.
I believe the meme above refers to:
- Archer’s NX Class (NX-01)
- Kirk’s Constitution class (NCC-1701 with no suffix, heavily modified to Constitution refit class for feature films 1 through 3)
- Kirk’s Constitution refit class (started the letter suffix system with A)
- The Excelsior class seen briefly in Generations
- the Ambassador class seen briefly in an episode of TNG
- Picard’s Galaxy class
- Picard’s Sovereign class (the most recent in the series with a suffix of E)
As the seven starships named Enterprise.
There is an 8th that has been seen on screen; Archer is given a brief glimpse of the future Enterprise J by his fairy godmother Crewman Daniels. This implies that an F, G, H, and possibly I will be commissioned. I is sometimes skipped with registration numbers because it can be confused with the number 1. So if the show’s in-universe “present day” is where ST: Picard is, a few decades after the events of TNG, there are four, or possibly five, Enterprises implied or confirmed in canon to be built over the next ~250 years.
To be fair, IRL there were 3 carriers, 3 sloops, 2 schooners, a patrol boat, a building, and a space shuttle
3 carriers? I know of CV-6 and CVN-65. Are you counting the Ford class under construction?
Yeah. To be fair, I was reading like the first 3 words for each bullet on Wikipedia
So we’re moving from steam to magnets, basically following the ENT intro. I hope to see the Phoenix launch in our time, but I guess we have to go through the Bell riots first.
Can’t decide if being captain of the building enterprise is cool or lame.
The Cerritos
Actually that answer implies some nerdy knowledge.
True but that’s how the meme works
I think in the original she asks: “If you’re a cop, name a law.” His answer: “Don’t kill.” is correct, but not exclusive cop knowledge and thus no prove.
However, knowing the correct number of Enterprises is, in my opinion, proof for being a Trek nerd.
Or is this meme so meta that it’s joking about the meme… I don’t even, we live in a society!
I don’t know where the meme comes from but this is how it is used as far as I have seen it. A question “Name X whatever”, one single answer and the joke is that the answer fits for X
The existence of the Enterprise implies the existence of Backspaceprise
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Enterprise, Lexington, Hood, Farragut, Defiant, Yorktown, Pegasus.
They had to make sure history never forgot the name… Enterprise.
You could say, it’s been a long road!
