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Is there a list of Starship Enterprise battles?

Is there a list of all battles and skirmishes that the USS Enterprise (NCC-1701) (respectively, the main ships of the other Star Trek series) had to fight in space, or against opponents on the ground? All I could find are Star Trek battles included in "best space battles" lists. --KnightMove (talk) 10:26, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

There was some battle (sometimes multiple battles) involving the ship in maybe every other episode of each series, so it would be a huge list. So, what's the goal of compiling such a large list ? It's a bit like listing Three's Company episodes which contained sexual innuendo. StuRat (talk) 14:29, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

You know, we have the full List of Star Trek: The Original Series episodes (and the same for most series), and such conflicts in space only appear in a minority of them. As far as I remember the plots, #10 "The Corbomite Maneuver" is the first episode to include a hostility in space. I don't think that a not-at-all-so-special interest in this specific element requires explanation. --KnightMove (talk) 15:49, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Eh, Stu has probably never actually watched Star Trek. Anyway, I thought maybe Memory Alpha would have such a list, but I don't see one; their Conflicts might be one place to start. Are you specifically asking about the TOS Enterprise, or all Enterprises (including A through E? Including NX-01?), or would you include Voyager and the ships on DS9? Adam Bishop (talk) 16:45, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

I've seen all of the original series, the cartoon, and Next Gen. Currently working my way through the rest. StuRat (talk) 17:47, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

If it comes down to how often they used their weaponry for one reason or another, then "every other episode" might be understating it. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 18:34, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

Additionally, KnightMove, are you interested only in episodes of the (7) TV series, or also in the (13) movies, or also in the hundreds of novels, stories, comics and games written as part of the franchise? {The poster formerly known as 87.81.230.195} 2.217.208.38 (talk) 17:30, 14 June 2017 (UTC)

IP & @Adam Bishop: My primary interest are the battles of the Enterprise in The Original Series, but any addition would come in handy.

@Baseball Bugs: I don't actually believe that. In most episodes, the conflicts arise in other places - usually on the planets they visit (mostly, for Kirk and Spock), or also frequently aboard the Enterprise. Do you concur that #10 of the original series is the first one to depict such an interstellar conflict (I might easily have missed one)? The last of the 79 episodes is #75, I think. --KnightMove (talk) 13:45, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

In how many episodes did they either fire their phasers or threaten to? ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 19:17, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

I don't know, but as stated - I don't think that they did in the first 9 and the last 4 episodes. This to be a happening in the majority of all episodes is therefore highly unlikely. --KnightMove (talk) 14:09, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

Reading the description of "The Man Trap", the very first episode aired, they used their phasers. ←Baseball Bugs ^{What's up, Doc?} carrots→ 17:43, 16 June 2017 (UTC)

I'm amazed Memory Alpha doesn't have a list.

This Quora post looks like it might be right, though. [1]

ApLundell (talk) 18:46, 15 June 2017 (UTC)

Does that include the horrifying battle against the brain-eating NBC executives of Sol III? Clarityfiend (talk) 22:27, 15 June 2017 (UTC)