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It is speculated by fans that the ship was originally the USS Yorktown (NCC-1704), and was rechristened as the Enterprise-A after the Probe incident in . However, the only basis for this was a comment by series creator Gene Roddenberry, and no solid evidence has ever been provided about the ship's history prior to that film.

Between the fourth and fifth films, the Enterprise returned to spacedock for refitting. The bridge sets from the first through fourth films were scrapped. For the fifth film, new bridge sets were constructed. The producers explained that the reason the bridge appeared so different was that the bridge module was replaced during this refitting.

In the ship was dispatched on a mission to rescue hostages, despite being not operational. It was then hijacked by the Vulcan renegade Sybok, who took the ship to a mysterious planet, where God was supposedly found. After a short while there, the crew were caught off-guard by some Klingons, and they caused minor damage before being called off.

In the next film, , the ship encountered a Klingon ship that could fire while cloaked (this had been previously impossible). It suffered major structural damage before being able to track and destroy the Klingons, with the help of the USS Excelsior ( NCC-2000). At the end of the film, the Enterprise-A was decommissioned.

It is assumed that after the events of the film, the ship was put in the Starfleet Museum . However Kirk's speech about passing control of the ship on to others leaves open possibilities not intended by the scriptwriters who wished to pass the torch to The Next Generation.

The command structure of the NCC-1701-A is unlike anything ever encountered in Star Trek in that the senior crew of the vessel consisted of no less than three officers of Captain rank: Kirk, Spock and Montgomery ScottMontgomery Scott usually known as Scotty is a character in Star Trek: The Original Series played by James Doohan. He served as the Starship Enterprise's chief engineer, spoke with a thick Scottish accent, and was seen as a 'miracle-worker'. The character.

See Starship EnterpriseThe United Star Ship Enterprise is a starship (a fictional type of spacecraft) in the fictional Star Trek universe, a science-fiction setting. Top Row (Left-To-Right): NCC-1701-C, NX-01, NCC-1701, NCC-1701-E Bottom Row (Left-To-Right): NCC-1701-D, NCC-170 for the starships with the same name, before and after her launch.