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At the end of her five-year mission, the ''Enterprise'' returned to Earth in [[2270]]. Following her success, the ship had become a recognized symbol of Star Fleet and the Federation. Star Fleet's array of unique [[assignment patch]]es were abandoned for the universal adoption of the ''Enterprise'' [[delta]] symbol.
The stalwart vessel herself was by then twenty-five years old and returning from a deployment that included a unprecedented number of warp-speed records, [[hullHull]]-pounding battles, and frame-stressing maneuvers.
[[Image: Enterprise11.jpg |thumb|In [[spacedock]], 2272]]
System upgrades with new [[technology|technologies]] after long deployments weren't unusual in her history, but the ''Enterprise''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s overhaul of the early 2270s became a keel-up redesign and reconstruction project.
The very [[heart]] of the ship was replaced with a radically different vertical [[warp core]] assembly, linked to new [[warp engine]] [[nacelle]]s atop swept-back [[nacelle pylon|pylons]] and integrated with the [[impulse]] engines. The new drive system allowed for an expanded [[cargo bay|cargo hold]] in the [[Hull|secondary hull]], linked to the [[shuttlebay]].
Weapons system upgrades included nine dual-[[phaser|phaser banks]] with [[energy|power]] channeled directly from the warp engines. A double [[photon torpedo|photon torpedo/probe]] launcher was installed atop the secondary hull.
Multiple egress points now included a [[port]]-side [[spacedock]] hatch, dual [[ventral]] [[extravehicular activity|EVA]] bays, four [[dorsal]] service hatches, and a standardized [[docking ring]] port [[aft]] of the [[bridge]] on the [[Hull|primary hull]]; four more docking ring ports, paired on the port and [[starboard]] sides of the launcher and secondary hulls respectively, and service hatch [[airlock]]s on the port and starboard sides of the hangar bay's main clamshell doors.
A new bridge module reflected the modern computer systems, operating interfaces, and ergonomics that ran throughout the ship.
