Star Trek: Picard tips the cap to Star Trek: Enterprise in “Vox”

Star Trek: Picard finally got a tip of the cap in the 9th episode, “Vox”.

Star Trek: Picard has worked hard to pay homage to all the shows that came out during and after Star Trek: The Next Generation. We saw Voyager’s ship, the U.S.S. Voyager. We got Deep Space Nine villains, the Changelings, and we even saw relics of the Next Generation all over the place.

We even got to see the Enterprise-A from the Star Trek films of the 1980s. Yet, the one show that didn’t get any love so far through the first nine episodes of the last season of Picard, was Star Trek: Enterprise.

Enterprise, canonically, takes place before any other show or film in the Star Trek timeline and tells the story of how one ship, a captain of quantum proportions and a can-do spirit built the base for the United Federation of Planets and its Starfleet.

Well, in the ninth episode of Picard, we finally got some love for Enterprise, when Admiral Elizabeth Shelby, while at the helm of the U.S.S. Enterprise-F, saluted the events of Enterprise, the series, as the ship took its place among the rest of the fleet.

Here’s what Shelby during the scene;

"250 years ago today, The Enterprise NX-01, the first Warp-5 capable vessel to ever be constructed by human hands, made its maiden voyage. With it, a crew of 83 souls embarked on a journey. One of bravery, perseverance, and sacrifice. That would lead to the birth of what we know today as Starfleet."

Star Trek: Enterprise finally got some loving

It was always going to be hard to pull in elements from Enterprise to work among the “modern-day” elements of Star Trek. Sure, T’Pol may still be alive, as Vulcans do age slower, but that’s a reach. So a mention in a speech made as much sense as anything else.

Seeing the NX-01 at the Fleet museum was cool, but getting to hear how revered the crew was of that ship was even cooler. It’s a dignified way to acknowledge a show that was a lot better than people wanted to admit at the time.