333 - Enterprise A

Ceti Alpha 3: A Star Trek Podcast

Ship Profile: NCC-1701-A
The history of onscreen Enterprises is rich in detail for some and scant for others.
Then there's the U.S.S. Enterprise-A.
First introduced in Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home as a reward for our TOS-era heroes saving Earth once again, we saw this Constitution refit-class in the next two movies (Star Trek V and Star Trek VI). The trio looks at this ship's origins and purported ending, discovering more mysteries about it than first thought.
They look at the largely non-canon origins of the ship, and ask if the U.S.S. Yorktown, then recommissioned as the Enterprise-A, was a new or quite old vessel? What about the history of the Constitution-class and its refits in general? What are the differences, if any, between the refit NCC-1701 and the NCC-1701-A? What was the A's mission in between its malfunctioning introduction in Star Trek V and its scheduled decommissioning in Star Trek VI?
Join us as we discuss all things about the first Enterprise to add a letter to its registry and the last with Captain Kirk in command.