[J3Vr6]

Maybe NX-01 Dauntless was the name of what Enterprise was called during construction.  Or it's the next ship to come out but when Enterprise gets destroyed, they recommission the Dauntless to be called Enterprise.

I have no idea...

[elorran]

Or perhaps the ship just gets renamed in honour of something.  It happens every now and again to naval vessels and other ships.

[Tiara]

Simple reason: more people would watch a show called 'Enterprise' instead of 'Dauntless'. At least, they hoped. Enterprise is well known thanks to TOS and TNG so they hoped to capitalize on that.



*continues downloading 3x19 - Damage*

I got all eps on my HD now

[IceFire]

Originally posted by Grey Wolf 2009
They said in-episode that it was named after the original NX-01.

I don't remember that part at all...

Its also quite possible that a number of prototypes coming out of starfleet are initially labled NX-01 before being reassigned a more proper and full length number later.  Voyagers crew could have assumed that Dauntless was so new it was litterally hot off the presses and not assigned a formal registry number.

It could be a little known tradition...there's plenty of those.

Its hardly a continuity hole...

[an0n]

I fail to see where the confusion lies. Really, what exactly are you people arguing about?


And in general terms, NX means experimental. By the time the Defiant came about, there were numerous new ship classes being pushed into production to combat the Borg and eventually the Dominion (such as the Nova class and the Prometheus). But back when Enterprise got kicked into space, Starfleet had invested all of its eggs into that one basket. A basket which heralded a new era in space-travel. So it'd've made sense to call in the NX-01.

It was also the first ship Starfleet produced after it decided to get a little more firm with the Vulcans.

[WMCoolmon]

Originally posted by Tiara
Simple reason: more people would watch a show called 'Enterprise' instead of 'Dauntless'. At least, they hoped. Enterprise is well known thanks to TOS and TNG so they hoped to capitalize on that.

Yes, it'd be a bit...odd...to have a show called Enterprise with a main ship called "Dauntless".

[Liberator]

:roflmfao:

[Admiral LSD]

"NX" is supposed to mean experimental (a practice that dates back at least as far as the original series/movies. In Star Trek 4 I think, the Excelsior has the registry number NX-2000 implying that its the test bed for the new Starfleet transwarp drive. When that failed, the transwarp gear was dismantled and it was fitted with conventional warp drive and recommissioned as NCC-2000 when Sulu took command of it in Star Trek 6) but in Enterprise it's the class definition. Enterprise has been described on a number of occasions as being an "NX class" starship.