(78)The XCV Enterprise 

For those younger than 25 years old you have no idea how difficult a time the Eugenics Wars were back in the mid nineties. It puts the whole Covid crisis in perspective.

The real world clips and music gives this a very high production value. Felt more like an episode of From the Earth to The Moon.

Re-watching first contact one can't help but smile at the Vulcan's culture shock. They would never admit to being surprised but they definitely surprised.

I knew NONE of this and am just blown away at your extrapolations and gap filling. I am curious as to how far the Proxima inhabitants had advanced on the return of the XCV Enterprise. Man, talk about being invested in a storyline! Very cool! Thank you!!!

This is an untapped area of Trek history. And a wonderfully told story! Love the longevity of UESPA too, it makes a lot of sense

Very creative and plausible story of how the XVC Enterprise would fit into the Star Trek TOS and TMP cannon. I appreciate that you did not have the crew make actual "first contact" with the inhabitants of the planet, so as to keep Cochrane with that honor. It was great to see a photo of this ship (along with other ships named "Enterprise") displayed in the rec room of the re-fitted U.S.S. Enterprise NCC-1701 in TMP. My understanding (correct me if I am in error) was that the design of the XVC Enterprise, was an early concept idea created by Art Director Matt Jefferies as he was sketching out possible designs of the starship Enterprise for Star Trek TOS. In my opinion, your prequel story can easily fit in TOS cannon a lot more faithful than the Discovery prequel series. LL&P.

Paramount/CBS needs to bring you into the writing fold.

I always wondered how Zefram Cochrane invented warp drive, taking a defunct tech from before the war and making it more punchy by using ICBM tech of WW3 actually explains that very well, I loved this......👍👌👍

Thank you for this awesome look at a ship that was only a picture in the STO TMP. how wonderful you built a full history for it, this was awesome you should do more of these it helps fill out the history of the Federation and StarTrek. again Thank you for this awesome Video.=)

I would love a whole series on these "historocal" trek ships

I have to give you all the credit in the world. You are the only RU-vidr that I have seen do a video on this Enterprise

So, Zephram Cochrane did not invent warp drive, he just reinvented it using nacelles.

So Zephram Cochrane just got lucky the Vulcans were flying by. He wasn’t the first to do anything special with warp drive on earth. There was at least two warp capable vessels prior to 2063.

Can you do a video of the launch and fate of the SS Valiant, the Earth ship that was launched in 2065 that went to the edge of the galaxy where some of their crewmembers mutated to godlike beings, which was explained in TOS pilot "Where No Man has Gone Before"?

Good job! Nice explanation of how the government after the war wanted peace.

I'd love for their to be more alpha canon material for the XCX Enterprise- loved what you stringed together (and expanded on) as always

Excellent. Thank You I’ve been waiting for a XCV 330 video.

Once again another great story for a ship with hardly any canon. Bravo

I've been waiting for a video on the XCV Enterprise!!! YES!!!!

She was first seen in the first movie. I am glad this channel covered this ship.

This seems to parallel the history of Leif Erickson predating Columbus.

My theory is this would have been Archer's ship if not for the First Contact timeline alteration.

Interesting. I think it was the Star Trek Spaceflight Chronology that listed this Enterprise as a space cruise ship. I like this better.

That looks like a good fun use for space engine and weaving the shots into the story was flawless, great job.

This is the story telling I love! Thanks my brother! We love you buddy!

Yes great tale would make an interesting miniseries

With human tendencies to just flip switched, this to the scene of Scotty locked into the transport system while stuck on the Dyson Sphere, and question later. Scotty, became very lucky, that Jordy, is the one that came upon the rigged setup. Of course it leaves the question, why not travel to other galaxies, lock in transporter loops and auto downloaded on arrival to the new galaxy, no older than a few seconds in age, than when one left.

The XCV Enterprise a alcubeare warp drive ship this might be the closest fictional starship comparable to the theoretical warp starship IXS Enterprise

That was well done and very moving !!. I greatly appreciate it !!

I was just wishing for a video on the backstory of these ships the other day! I love how this weaves the ship neatly into the timeline. As to it being warp capable, I dont think this needs to contradict the idea of Cochrane first breaking the light barrier, there are various "warp barriers" like warp 2, warp 5 etc, so breaking ftl itself would be probably the first and most difficult to overcome. I doubt one would go straight from experimental "torodial space time dilation " experiments to ftl. One would test this sublight and achieving ftl might require field and engine designs orders of magnitude more difficult than a sublight version of warp.... so... So, I might guess this is a sub light warp, based on the alcubierre design where the Cochrane design is modified to overcome the limitations it may have. So it may achieve only say 90 percent lightspeed, thus still arriving around 5 years at alpha centauri, but there's some barriers to the old design that limited the Starliner class to mostly in solar system use or only as far as alpha centauri... If we actually developed a drive that achieved even 10 percent c we could travel across the solar system in less than a year, hence using these ships as soon as warp propulsion could provide even a slight advantage over vasimir for example... So i would say Cochrane was developing the upgraded drive before ww3 to overcome slow acceleration and whatever the limitations would be, and had to work with scrap once UESPA lost support from earth due to ww3. How about a video speculating on Cochrane's career before ww3? Was he a UESPA scientist perhaps? I personally doubt btw he was born in 2030, the 2013 date makes more sense...was he involved in top secret research pre war?

This was pretty amazing. Well done sir. I would love to see a video of the Star Fleet fleet museum. It has been mentioned in several of your videos. I would have to also assume that anytime someone, from any of the TV or movie series, mentions seeing an older Fed ship in a museum they are probably referring to this one. If you already did one on this please point me to it.

Dang, that was interesting. Loved it !!!

I'm not going to lie, this was a gorgeous episode! I love to see more content like this on the channel owner!

I'm glad the ship gets to recreate it's historic voyage on every anniversary of the initial mission just imagine being a federation citizen and getting ready for a warp 4 trip on a starliner class ship to your nearest star system with some of your closest friends from distant worlds from some of the coolest corners of the whole federation. How awesome would that be. By the way great video ❣️❣️❣️❣️

That was a fantastic video! This ship is one of my favorite designs and it never sees much attention. You certainly did it justice, thank you!

I’ve been waiting for a video detailing any info available on this ship for a long time! Thank you so much for such a high quality production.

Great video! We need more from the lost ages

This is such a great story that fits directly into cannon, very well done, the way you tell it gives great honor to the early years of space travel, it is like this story could actually happen, the music was excellent, the presentation, graphics are well thought out, I would like to see the interior of the ship and how they lived on their 10 year journey, I think this is the best one you have done

*The sad reality is that governments are hyper paranoid, they will always assume any alien life is a threat and will make preemptive attacks even if its meant said aliens were friendly (including other countries!!)* That's why we would never have any extra terrestrial allies, until humanity can first learn to get along with each other. I hope one day world peace can be a reality. Great video, I'll have to watch more. Subscribed. 🤗🤗

thank you for sharing this emotionel and brave story about a fiktive journey to ac. I'm loving it.

I always saw the model on the shows but never knew anything about it..ty..love the chaannel

I gotta admit, I absolutely love that ship design!!! 😎

What a delightful and inspiring video. As for me, I'm not only extremely grateful for this great video, but also highly motivated to watch more of your videos, as the quality of this one was extremely high, and it was really fun to listen to you. Thank you very much, I hope there will be many more of these videos that will finally refresh the really long overdue world building for Star Trek! Keep it up, and from me as well: Live long and prosper! 🖖

Very well done. Nice use of cuts between sources. Just enough to fuel the head cannon of "Could be" for a bit of creative fun. Live long and prosper and blessings to you friend. ^.^

Been saving up interesting videos like this to piece together to work out to to keep my mind occupied. Although I've seen background images of this, having in styled with the TOS aesthetic really brings it to life. I just looked at it as a silly design till now, i'm only now realising how graceful and actually pretty the design is. More a comment on the subject matter than the channel but a much better vid than I was expecting. Great work.

GREAT JOB!!!! REALLY!!! I want to see this tale told. THIS could be an epic storyline that could anchor an entirely new cycle of Star Trek films. They voyages end could even feed into a retooling of a Genesis II/Planet Earth TV series, with the ESPA and the Enterprise veterans, returning with key biotechnology to help restore the Earth one island of humanity at a time, uniting Earth and propelling it into a mature 22nd century.

I am listening to this while animating some star trek, amazing work! Keep it up!

Nice job on creating the story for this starship.

Another excellent video! I had not seen much info on this class, so this was certainly cool!

Great Video! Amazing job with all the informations! 😄👏👏👏

Most definitely 👍👍I would love to hear MORE truth or Myth Trek historical storytelling like this . Very interesting fable using TOS,TNG ,DS9 and Enterprise canon history loop .. very well done ... Would like to see more. Please.

amazingly well done ! I'd love to see this as a movie ! don't stop it's so cool !

Lovingly done, Bravo!

Great video! Love that ship. I wrote an alternate story for it on what I consider a follow up/companion to the Federation: The First 150 Years book. I wrote to Titan Books regarding the ideas but I haven't been following up with the proposals.

This was spectacular. I would love to see more like this.

This was actually some good insight on this vessel. I had thought that the enterprise was launched after first contact instead of before.

WOW very nice Video, Thank you very much

Very cool! Loved it.

You weave a fantastic saga! Please continue!

I've always been interested in the story of this vessel. It would be interesting to learn more about the people on that strange new world in another video. Nice job

Let's make sure history never forgets the XCV Enterprise

I really love this episode you really did a amazing job putting it all together.

I saw a painting in the book Ship of the Line.

Thanks for acknowledging this ship. I thought it was much over due. It is a cool design and cannon so it should have something out there about it. I like this design.

Wonderful, just wonderful. Subbed & thank you for this.

🖖😎👍Very nicely well done and very well informatively explained and executed indeed 👌.

Good story. Thank you.

Excellent, Sir.

Very good. Thank you for your wonderful work.

Well done!

I first saw the ship in Spaceflight Chronology in the early 80's. Such an awesome book.

Great video. Thank you.

Really great story. I love it!

This was beautiful ! ! I was always mildly interested in this ship/class, but never knew what to properly think about it and its place within the ST universe. Otherwise, I already read the story about the pre-Cochrane Centauri flight quite a few years ago, probably on Memory Beta, but I did not like it that much. I especially did not like the part of the planet's being inhabited by a sentient sapient species*, and moreover, I did not like that the aliens superficially looked almost like Humans. That was a massive let-down to me since I found it pretty lazy and unimaginative. I am guessing that this Beta story was created some time during the '70s or '80s when some Trekkies CLUMSILY strove to reconcile the TOS episode Metamorphosis with wider Star Trek canon which was caused by the old outing's Zefram Cochrane's proclamation of his being from Alpha Centauri. They obviously got all confused over it. * - As far as I know, in the current ST canon the Centauri planet was naturally M-class and it already supported complex life upon its discovery by Humanity (definitely flora in the least), but there was not any intelligent species living there. Canonically, TOS's Cochrane's claim of his being from the Centauri only meant that he was a Human from the Earth who only moved to the new world later in his life.

I really enjoyed this video! Thank you for all the work you put into it. Especially the renderings, the writing, and the editing. I was thoroughly enthralled, and I can't say that for most of the other content I watch (which is mostly just to pass the time). Now I have to check out your other videos. I was just thinking, considering the XCV Enterprise was armed with hydrogen-fusion missiles (I assume), what would they have done if the Proxima Centaurians detected their presence, or had ranged armaments that could reach space from the ground (like ICBMs)? Or perhaps, if they had primitive space vessels (like ours in the present day)? Would there be a situation (other than the one outlined in the video) where the Enterprise would make the decision to fire? And if the Enterprise was lost, would Humanity then start building fleets of starships, or possibly launch warp-capable missiles from Earth? Did I mention that I really liked the video!?

Great work on telling the little told story of this class of star ship, do you make videos of other canon series, such as Battlestar Galactica? If so I would be greatly intrigued by a story of the earliest star travel that this tv saga history has to offer fans. Thank you!

The Terran Universe counterpart might have bombarded and invaded that pre-warp civilization and reported everything so that when Cocrane signalled the Vulcans they were ready for it (as seen in the intro of ENT terran episodes).

The chronicles of the XCV-330 Enterprise would have arguably made a better TV series than the last Enterprise TV series (with Captain Archer and Sub-Commander T’Pol). I hope this happens one day, even if it’s just 2 or 3 series long with 10 episodes each.

Great tale,I'd love to see a full length story or movie of this,you'd make a great narrator for the audio book...

Loved this, what a concept! With Midnight Sky & ST the Motion Picture being pitched and produced seems this could make the leap too. 2010 built some tension with events at home helping build story. Would love to see something well done with more character development and less flash (Hollywood).

I was going to write a normal comment here but something really crazy happened and I'm just going to stick my head in the ground in shame. Love your starship videos

Very coOL....You did a great job exploring this early Starship. In an alternate Universe, the Jupitor spacecraft reaches Alpha Centauri using Hyperdrive after a long deviation from it's original course. Upon arrival, and to the surprise of the Robinson's, welcoming Alpha Centuari military officials greet the crew but arrest Dr. Smith and a long trial occurs. Seems Earth established communications between the 2 star systems during their long journey in space....

Beautiful visuals and another great story. I really want to see the Starship museum. Maybe in Picard or Discovery?

Never heard of this ship before. Very interesting.

That is a very Hopeful story thank you

Damn fine work

Damn this was AWESOME!!

Beautiful!

great

can you do a beta canon story for the akira class with your

I know I'll never forget where I was when I heard the Eugenics War had ended.

First: It's a wonderful story. Thank's for it. Second: What I think about the ship-design itself: It is a really beautiful Ship, but I think, I would jump in the next escape-pod at the first sign of trouble. I just don't believe, the this fragile structure could withstand a meteorite-impact or more than a very weak phaser beam...

Well Done!

The thing is that when they imagined these they couldn't believe how close to reality they were

Man, It would be nice if they made an actual star trek show that plays before 2100 on board this ship or the first SS Emmete. Something that takes place mostly in our Solar System.

I Love this Spaceship Design . I would love to see a Series in this Time Periode . A Mix of interstellar Another Life and Star Trek .

Cool story! I hope it gets picked up as the official backstory.

Can you do an episode on the species that was discovered???? What are they? Who is their daddy, and what does he do?

Amazing x

Another Great Story and Video. Result: 2👍👍 UP. 🤩