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The Enterprise, the third ship of the Galaxy class, was launched in 2363. It was built at the Utopia Planitia Fleet Yards orbiting Mars. The ship was heavily damaged during the Battle of Wolf 359 in 2367 and subsequently underwent extensive repairs.
In 2371 (Star Trek: Generations), the Klingon DurasIn Star Trek, Duras was a formerly important House in the Klingon Empire, once holding seats on the High Council. Throughout the 5 iterations of Star Trek the Duras House has been shown to be treacherous and manipulative. Members include: Lursa, B'Etor, T sisters were able to render the Enterprises shields useless by finding the shield modulation. Though the Enterprise succeeded in destroying the sisters' ship, the MMatter is anything that has mass and occupies space. One [contemporary] view on matter takes it as all scientifically observable entities whatsoever. Matter can more accurately be defined as the energy that has a low vibratory rate, a compressed energy st/ AAntimatter is matter that is composed of the antiparticles of those that constitute normal matter. In 1929 31, Paul Dirac put forward a theory that for each type of particle, there is an antiparticle for which each additive quantum number has the negative reactorReactor may relate to the folowing: A chemical reactor a device for containing and controlling a chemical reaction. A nuclear reactor a device for containing and controlling a nuclear reaction. An arcade game entitled Reactor also released for the Atari 2's coolant system failed as a result of damage sustained during the battle. The ejection systems — which had been shown previously to be unreliable in the Galaxy class — failed. The saucer section managed to separate, but didn't clear the explosion radius fast enough, and its impulse enginesIn Star Trek, the impulse drive is the sub-light speed engine that the starships use when they are not travelling at warp speed or in hyperspace. It allows ships to travel non-stellar distances fairly quickly. For example, Starfleet Academy cadets use it were knocked out as a result. The out of control saucer was pulled into the gravity well of Veridian III , crash-landed on the nearby planetA planet (from the Greek , planetes or "wanderers") is a body of considerable mass that orbits a star and that produces very little or no energy through nuclear fusion. Prior to the 1990s only nine were known (all of them in our own solar system); as of 3, and was damaged beyond repair. Shortly after, all of its crew (except for Captain Picard) were killed by of the Nexus of JoyThe Nexus (aka The Nexus Of Joy is a spatial anomaly that exists in the fictional universe of Star Trek and was key to the plot of the film Star Trek: Generations''. It is a ribbon-like energy pattern that travels through space. When it comes into contact.
When Picard entered the Nexus, he also entered an alternate paradoxFor other meanings of "Paradox", see Paradox (disambiguation). Robert Boyle's self-flowing flask fills itself in this diagram, but perpetual motion machines don't exist. A paradox is an apparently true statement or group of statements that seems to lead tical universe which he could manipulate at will. Picard chose to go back in time to prevent the events on Veridian III, thus in the alternate universe the surviving Enterprise-D crew was rescued (though the saucer itself was still damaged).
It should be noted that the idea of Picard entering an alternate universe (thereby implying that all events after Veridian III take place in this alternate universe) is purely conjectural, as there have been examples of self-contained timeloops in Star Trek before. Nothing since Generations has ever indicated that an alternate universe was entered.
One of the reasons that the destruction of the Enterprise-D was written into Generations was because the studio had begun to tire of the Enterprise-D. Rick Berman was quoted as feeling that the franchise was ready for a new Enterprise.
In an alternate timeline featured in the TNG finale episode " All Good Things . . .", the events of Veridian III appear to have never happened, or at least had a different outcome, as the Enterprise-D is shown to be still intact some 25 years after the events of the series, with a third warp nacelle added. In this alternate future, the ship is commanded by Admiral William Riker.
See Starship Enterprise for the starships with the same name, before and after her launch.