U.S.S. Enterprise NCC 1701-D:

The NCC-1701-D Enterprise was a Galaxy-class extended-duration Starship and the flagship of Starfleet. The fifth to be named Enterprise, she was commanded by Captain Jean-Luc Picard.

With a total of 42 decks, the Enterprise-D was twice the length and had eight times the interior space of the Constitution-class ships of over a century earlier; she carried a combined crew and passenger load of about 1,012.

Defensive systems included 10 phaser banks, 250 photon torpedoes, and a high capacity shield grid; there are some 4,000 power systems in all aboard ship. Full acceleration time from reverse, sub-light impulse through nominal top warp speed, Warp 9, was 0.03 milliseconds. The ship achieved maximum speed of Warp 9.5 maximum when pursued by the entity known as "Q"; at Warp 9.3 its engines had passed the red line. By stardate 43205, she had already logged tens of thousands of light-years since setting out around stardate 41153.7 after Jean-Luc Picard formally became her first captain on stardate 41124.

An average day aboard ship, according to Lieutenant Commander Data, included four birthdays, two personnel transfers, two chess tournaments, a secondary school play, four promotions, the celebration of the Hindu Festival of Lights -- and a birth and wedding. Some 13 planets were represented among the ship's complement as of stardate 44247.

During the Borg incursion of 2366, Decks 23-25 were sliced open by the enemy during the final battle over Earth, requiring a refit at Earth Station McKinley which lasted 5-6 weeks. It was far less damage than the kamikaze warp-driven collision Commander Riker had readied as one last recourse, however. During that refit, the Starship received a phaser upgrade as well as damage repair and a dilithium chamber articulation frame.

It offloaded the original three Runabouts and the first arriving officers at DS9. The Enterprise-D was destroyed in 2371 after an attack by renegade Klingons breached her warp core; although the saucer section separated before the breach, the force of the explosion caused the section to crash on the planet Veridian III. Fortunately, losses were minimal.