In "Is There in Truth No Beauty" we meet Lawrence Marvick, one of the designers of the Enterprise (anybody have the exact quote?). The actor David Frankham was 42 years old at the time (born 1926). Taking this as the approximate age of his character, he couldn't have worked on the Enterprise more than 25 years before (when he would've been 17).
Since we don't know the exact age of the character, there is no need to contradict Okuda's age. This also suggests that the Enterprise was quite different from its class ship, else why not say "one of the designers of the Constitution"?
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And for that matter, what about the Enterprise-D's engines were so fantabulously different than Galaxy's & the others that required Leah Brahms?
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The guy could still have designed the Constitution, and they only said "Enterprise" because it was their ship, and, if he designed one, he designed them all. He could also have worked specifically on the E, in addition to having designed the class.
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It could be that Marvick was the one that broke the "time barrier" and Enterprise was the first ship to receive the new engines. Regardless of precisely what Marvick did, the fact that he was specified to have worked on the engines only means that the rest of the ship, in theory, could still be much older than twenty-five years, if anyone had a wish for it to be.
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Shik's question is easy enough to answer: Brahms added two more warp coils to the nacelle (or at least to the relevant display graphics, as evidenced in "Contagion")!
Marvick could have done something similar to the Enterprise, helping distinguish her from her slightly older sisters. Or then Marvick could have been involved in a pre-TOS redesign or upgrade of the entire Constitution class - one would assume such upgrades would come at less than 20-year intervals, considering Morrow's exclamation in ST3.
Still, I feel it simplest to say that Marvick was ten years older than the actor. After all, so was Picard.
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Maybe. Generations, First Contact and Insurrection were always set in the "current year", to match in with DS9 and Voyager. However, there is no need for that anymore. They can mess about with the date the movie is set in like the original films did.
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I find interesting that the TNG crew has sepnt the same amount of time on the E-E as they did on the E-D. But my guess that until they need to be in the future alittle more, they will stay in Chornological order like in the past, not like the TOS movies did. (Where STI jumped from 2271 to 2285 in STII)
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