The Ambassador class is a fictional Starfleet starship class that first appears in the Star Trek series Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The Ambassador class was designed by Andrew Probert to suggest a natural progression, from the older Excelsior class starships that had appeared in the third and fourth Star Trek movies, to the newer Galaxy class starship that featured throughout the The Next Generation series. The first appearance of the Ambassa...
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The Ambassador class is a fictional Starfleet starship class that first appears in the Star Trek series Star Trek: The Next Generation.
The Ambassador class was designed by Andrew Probert to suggest a natural progression, from the older Excelsior class starships that had appeared in the third and fourth Star Trek movies, to the newer Galaxy class starship that featured throughout the The Next Generation series. The first appearance of the Ambassador-class design is as part of a sculpture depicting the five starships named Enterprise and the U.S. Naval carrier Enterprise, that hangs on the back wall of the conference room of the Enterprise-D . The sculpture appears in the pilot episode of the Next Generation and appears throughout the first four seasons of The Next Generation.
The first actual Ambassador-class starship to appear on screen is the Enterprise-C in the third season episode "Yesterday's Enterprise". The crew of the Enterprise-D encounter the Enterprise-C after it travels...
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