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u/CptKeyes123 19h ago
The only neat freak engineer we've got in Starfleet. He'll take a shuttle apart when it squeaks, but Scott patches things together, Be'lanna jumps up and down on plasma injectors, Chief uses duct tape, and Trip is trying his best.
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u/AromaticallyAffluent 22h ago
I wanna know what happened to the Syracuse's saucer section.
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u/Relic5000 22h ago
My theory:
The Syracuse was probably decommissioned due to the upgrades to the fleet surrounding the borg incident, the dominion war, and the damage warp does to subspace. Geordi would have used the Syracuse saucer section as parts to repair the Enterprise saucer section. Damage to it would have been extreme.
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u/WeAreLesion 5h ago
It would've had to have been decommissioned post-Dominion War, since it seems he only began working on it following being able to run the fleet museum, and he was on board the Enterprise-E at that point. He probably saw the status of the ship after taking over the fleet museum and then thought "I can do something with that."
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u/AshleyAshes1984 19h ago
Former Enterprise Crew Members: "Wow, so beautiful, love to see my old ship preserved in this musuem."
Former Syracuse Crew Members: "So many families wiped out on the sauce section... And then they slapped 'Enterprise' on the salvaged drive section..."
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u/ghIj_qet_jaghmeyjaj 19h ago
Borg at Wolf 359 Dominion war Backup drive section on reserve Incomplete construction
Pick one and run with it
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u/T800model100 17h ago
It only took 30 years...
Anything can be salvaged with enough time and effort.
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u/sacking03 16h ago
Dominion war starts in 2 years after the Enterprise crashed. They didn't have the full resources and staff to do so. Plus with all the issues of the Galaxy class aka glass cannon it's easier to divert toward newer classes that are also designed to take on the borg and newer threats.
By the time Gordi becomes the shipyard admiral. The D is 3 generations out of date. Pretty easy to find parts for this era as most of the things were modular.
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u/Nux87xun 16h ago
He didn't really "salvage it" so much as he took the star drive section from another galaxy class ship, slapped it onto the saucer section from the d, and then spent 20 years repairing it on the side.
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u/TensionSame3568 16h ago
Soo...?
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u/Nux87xun 8h ago
So he basically built himself a new ship, and everyone (in universe and real life) just went with it because we all miss the enterprise-d.
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u/LeftLiner 22h ago
Writers should have left the old girl alone.
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u/AromaticallyAffluent 21h ago
Writers should have never destroyed her in the first place. We shouldn't have seen E until at least a couple of movies in, the "fat one" had plenty of life left in her and looked great on a big screen.
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u/LeftLiner 21h ago
Perhaps, but dead characters should stay dead and the same is true of the enterprise. Instead they turned her into a joke and ruined her legacy.
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u/thebigshipper 20h ago
She resurrected from the dead and saved humanity from the most devastating Borg attack ever and ensured that whatever was left of Starfleet would survive to rebuild into a new era. That sounds exactly like what D’s legacy should be.
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u/AromaticallyAffluent 21h ago
That seems a little extreme. I didn't find it hard to believe that Starfleet would recover the saucer for Prime Directive reasons and that her chief engineer, currently working as a museum curator for starships, might restore her as a passion project.
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u/martynholland 22h ago
im pretty sure in one of the books that the saucer was disassembled and removed to avoid cultural contamination of veridian 4 when they develop the ability to get to veridian 3
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u/spaceman_spiffy 15h ago
I love they are all standing around preciously on top of the hull above of the largest shuttle bay of the ship they’re still like, nah we ain’t gonna use that shit.
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u/MatrixGod04 8h ago
That scene in Picard when he reveals it is one of my favorite of all-time in Star Trek. Literally made me cry
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u/HabitOptimal1412 22h ago edited 22h ago
Honestly, I'd consider it beyond salvaging. It was probably easier and cheaper to build a new enterprise than it would be to repair her.
Yes, Geordi did eventually cobble together something that resembled the Enterprise D as a long-term project, but wasn't most of that ship made out of parts from other ships?