Star Trek: Armada III begins with the first stirrings of the Dominion War and allows players to take command of five unique factions, the United Federation of Planets, the Klingon Empire, the Romulan Star Empire, the Cardassian Union/Dominion Alliance, and the Borg Collective. Explore strange new worlds, seek out new life and new civilizations, and boldly go where no one has gone before.
"She's a damn fine ship if you ask me!"
- Captain Montgomery Scott, touring the Enterprise-B
The USS Enterprise NCC 1701-B was launched in 2293 under Captain John Harriman, after the decommissioning of her predecessor. An elite variant of the base Excelsior-class design, the Enterprise-B was to serve as the new flagship that would lead the Federation fleet into the 24th Century. Launched amid a fanfare of ceremony and media attention, the new Enterprise left spacedock carrying a number of notable passengers - several members of the legendary command crew of the original Enterprise, including Captain Kirk himself. The Enterprise-B's shakedown cruise, however, was a disaster. Answering a distress call from a pair of El-Aurian transports, the Enterprise found the ships trapped in a unique energy anomaly moving through Federation space. Moving into range to beam many survivors aboard, the Enterprise herself was trapped and took heavy damage attempting to escape the anomaly's grasp. The Enterprise finally pulled free, but at great cost - the death of Captain Kirk, who gave his life saving the Enterprise one last time.
The death of Kirk was a bitter learning experience for Captain Harriman, who went on to command the Enterpise-B for many years and became one of Starfleet's most respected officers. The Enterprise-B went on to an illustrious career in exploration and diplomacy, and was most notably involved in the Tomed Incident of 2311, exposing and bringing to an end a plot by Romulan extremists to manipulate the Federation and Romulan Star Empire into war, setting the scene for the signing of the Treaty of Algeron.
The Enterprise-B went missing and was presumed destroyed in 2329, when the crew, under Captain Thomas Johnson, contracted an unknown alien infection. At that time, the Enterprise-B had mapped more than 140 unexplored star systems, made first contact with 17 previously unknown civilisations, and defended the Federation from a multitude of threats.
Love the Excelsior but not too sure of the refit. Idk why.
Did you incorporate anything new with her, anything increased? Special abilities?
Adam
Besides balancing, the Excelsior and the Lakota refit are unchanged.
Just out of curiosity.... Any details about this "unknown alien infection" from 2329? Havent found anything.
Nope. It's only mentioned in passing on Memory Beta.
I guess the point of it is that it hadn't been encountered before and the crew couldn't find a cure. The ship went missing and no one really knows what happened to her.
I like the idea - it lends some mystery to the Enterprise-B's story.
It does. I wish the new series explored this particular era. So much to write about and fill in the gaps.
I kinda like the gaps. Fans have created some amazing stories for that time period.
They probably found a Warp portal and got Papa Nurgle's blessing.
The ENT B really did need more of a story, along with the Ent-C. I wish their stories were more developed.
Instead of this new "Klingon Starfleet" design, planned for new series, I'd like to watch story of Enterprise B voyages.
I always thought it'd be neat if there was a "duo" series. It'd start off with Enterprise B crew, and the other half would be a time skip to Enterprise C. And the story would be investigating a Romulan plot, eventually leading up to Neandra III. Enterprise B either got destroyed or captured, getting too close to the "truth". The series finale would be just before the events of Yesterday's Enterprise.
We'd see Captain Harriman, coming to grips with Kirks death (Having "The" Admiral Kirk perish under your watch, wether you respect him or not, that's gotta take a hit on any self respecting Captain's self esteem), and steadily growing his confidence back, becoming a bad *** captain eventually. And Garret being more seasoned Captain, dealing with the revelation of the Romulan Plot.
Good idea.
Excelsior rebalanced? Hope you buffed her as she deserves.
Nope. Any changes have been minimal at most. The Federation in general probably needs the least attention of all the factions.
I think the USS Discovery is ugly. You have sleek designs with the Defiant, Voyager and a Enterprise E. Given the series is meant to be present day, they could have used so many existing starship designs - love the Nebula / Pheonix and the Akira designs.
I agree with the above, I think an Enterprise B would have been good. I'm a big fan of the Excelsior Class and still makes regular appearances in ds9
Discovery takes place after the events of Enterprise but before TOS.
In game I through this refit should have been just for a lakota hero unit, and the standard excelsior design be the only one you could mass produce.
My head canon for the Enterprise B was that it was eventually found adrift somewhere, maybe a decade or so after the crew was all killed by the infection, and it was just kind of mothballed and set aside. When the dominion threat became real, it was dusted off and used as a test bed in a modernization project for excelsior class still in service. It was one of the oldest excelsiors still intact, constructed in the 23rd century, if it could be properly modernized any newer excelsior could. It was also recommissioned as the lakota.
Also head canon, the B/lakota was the only 'b' type excelsior ever constructed, the show itself hardly contradicts that.
Sweet!
The Lakota and Enterprise B only used the upgraded model because they used the original USS Excelsior studio-model for Generations and Paradise Lost; For Paradise Lost they wanted to revert the changes made to the model, but it was impossible to do without breaking the model.
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