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. Ships namedEnterpriseare the cream of Starfleet’s crop, staffed with the best and the brightest minds.These ships are also top of the line from a technological standpoint, but in a preview forStar Trek: Lower Decks#5, fans learn they have a fatal flaw.
Ryan North, the writer of theStar Trek: Lower Deckscomic is currently writing theOne World Under Doomevent for Marvel.
IDW shared a preview ofStar Trek: Lower Decks#5 withAIPT. The issue will be written by Ryan North and drawn by Jack Lawrence. The preview opens with theCerritos’senior staff attending a briefing by the Starfleet Department of Temporal Investigations, who handle time travel cases.They reveal that parties unknown are tampering with the time stream, and important ships, such as theEnterpriseor theTitan,are potential targets.Any changes to those ships would be noticed by the hostile party, clueing them in that Starfleet knows 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 history than theEnterprise.The name already carries real-world significance, having been the name of several sailing ships, Navy vessels and even the prototype space shuttle. In theStar Trekuniverse, theEnterpriseis always the flagship and the pinnacle of Starfleet and the Federation’s ideals. The ship is regularly sent on important scientific, diplomatic and peace-keeping missions, and as such, contains the best technology Starfleet has to offer in terms of weapons, propulsion and scientific facilities.
While theEnterpriseis a marvel of engineering and technology, it is useless against the ships and tech of the future.
With this in mind, it might seem that flaws in theEnterpriseand other similar ships might be rare, but they do exist, especially when it comes to time travel. Whoever is altering the Federation’s history has deep knowledge of the ships that protect it, vessels like theEnterprise,theTitanor theProtostar. They know these vessels are key points in time, and even slight alterations to them can have massive ripple effects across the timeline. While theEnterpriseis a marvel of engineering and technology, it is useless against the ships and tech of the future.
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As seen in shows likeEnterpriseandStrange New Worlds, time travel will become more important to theStar Trekuniverse as the centuries progress, ultimately leading to a Temporal War in the 30th century. This implies that the Federation will eventually improve its time travel technology, to the point where it becomes effortless. This means that ships like theEnterprisemay be better able to detect and counter threats from different timeframes, thus eliminating the one fatal flaw from the Federation’s flagship.
Source:AIPT
Star Trek: Lower Decks #5 is on sale March 12 from IDW Publishing!
