Starfleet Museum

[Meste17]

So I’ve had a thought when I woke up just now, and it dawned upon me that although the Starfleet Museum at Athan Prime is admittedly a pretty cool idea that the writers of Picard had put in, it does beg a few questions….

1. Why don’t they think of including an exhibit specifically devoted to the Enterprise? That particular vessel, in any form, WAS indeed a very important part of Federation AND Earth history, and some vessels of that line ARE in the museum, such as the NX-01, the A AND now the D.

2. Even accepting that it might be because most of them were lost in the line of duty, such as the original at Genesis or the C at Narendra III, why not just take sisters of those vessels and rename them? We’ve obviously seen that Geordi, as the curator, had taken the saucer of the D and mated it with the star drive of her sister ship Syracuse, as is specifically stated by him in the episodes. Plus, the Constitution I-class New Jersey was berthed at the museum, so it wouldn’t be too much of a stretch simply to take the name and registry and change it to the Enterprise’s designation (as such with the D, except just rename the vessel all the way, or is the case of the Saratoga, which is also at the museum).





Any thoughts on this?

[McAvoy]

You answered your own question. Not many in existence.

We know the OG 1701 was destroyed and she wasn't even in her original form. The A can reflect that. We have no idea what happened to the B. C was destroyed. D exists in semi name due to being rebuilt with retired Galaxy parts with the saucer being original. No idea what happened to the E but definitely had something bad to her. F we saw in all her glory for like one minute before being destroyed.

There are holograms they can do to show interiors. Remember even the main Museum made need to have their own Constitution class or Refit or Excelsior class etc. How many remain to fill in as a dressed up Enterprise that really isn't the Enterprise?

[Tinadrin Chelnor]

It feels to me that it would be somewhat illegitimate (perhaps the right word) to simply rename a different ship to Enterprise for the purposes of the museum. But, we all have our own opinions

What LaForge did with the "D" was different, as at least part of that was still the original ship that had participated in those adventures, and made it's name in history, etc.

It would be more honest (to me, at least) to either purpose build a replica (wouldn't need to have all the extensive fancy tech, only the necessary parts really), or to use a holographic version. I mean, they could have a holo projection, and then if visitors wanted to have a look around inside, just use a holodeck at the museum?

It just seems that, say the USS Kongo had its entire history of service, and then it was retired and they simply renamed it to Enterprise for the museum, but for me at least the ship, the Kongo, had it's own entire history of service, even if it wasn't as famous as the Enterprise.

[None of this may make sense to Humans, but I am by and large extremely weird, so there's that].

*Note: The use of the name USS Kongo was not a suggestion for using that ship, it is simply a name I know is associated with the Constitution-class in some materials, though I do not think canonically.

[McAvoy]

It feels to me that it would be somewhat illegitimate (perhaps the right word) to simply rename a different ship to Enterprise for the purposes of the museum. But, we all have our own opinions

What LaForge did with the "D" was different, as at least part of that was still the original ship that had participated in those adventures, and made it's name in history, etc.

It would be more honest (to me, at least) to either purpose build a replica (wouldn't need to have all the extensive fancy tech, only the necessary parts really), or to use a holographic version. I mean, they could have a holo projection, and then if visitors wanted to have a look around inside, just use a holodeck at the museum?

It just seems that, say the USS Kongo had its entire history of service, and then it was retired and they simply renamed it to Enterprise for the museum, but for me at least the ship, the Kongo, had it's own entire history of service, even if it wasn't as famous as the Enterprise.

[None of this may make sense to Humans, but I am by and large extremely weird, so there's that].

*Note: The use of the name USS Kongo was not a suggestion for using that ship, it is simply a name I know is associated with the Constitution-class in some materials, though I do not think canonically.

I agree.

Now here is the thing we don't know what entails for a Starfleet Museum. Are they open to the public? Or just static displays with some occasional visitors?

Think about it, most of these ships are as large as the museum ships we have in real life. Usually it's an all day event to go visit these real life ships. Travel time, get there, tour the ship, do whatever, and then leave. Visit the local restaurants, bars etc and then go home.

One ship. Nevermind a whole starbase with many many ships. You would have to pick and choose which ship to go see.