"And how much is this little enterprise going to set me back?"
Win or lose, the Enterprise is going to be seen by people who only hear about her.
The Enterprise was going to be here longer than he had planned.
Another possibility was that Enterprise had been here and gone.
"The Enterprise is not going to be the instrument of his death!"
But now the Enterprise was going down, testing theory in action.
The battle was moments away, and the Enterprise would not go easily.
The Enterprise went up on a side, almost ninety degrees.
The Enterprise had gone through an unprecedented four chief engineers in its first year.
He wished his own enterprise could have gone half as swiftly.