So it just occurred to me that during the TNG production era there is a shift in ship nomenclature:
- TNG: The Enterprise
- DS9: The Defiant/Yukon/Danube/etc.
- VOY:
TheVoyager - (ENT): “Ennurprais” is all that’s left.
Seems towards the later shows they stopped referring to the ship as a, well, ship and just addressed it as a character? Why?
Because the ship is a character, who is with us for the story, and protecting her crew. In both Voyager and Enterprise, that was it, you couldn’t go to drydock between episodes to be fresh again nearly as often.
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