Screen Rant

Why didn't the Enterprise participate in Star Trek: Discovery's Klingon War? 1 / 7

An official tie-in novel, "The Enterprise War," has finally explained the answer. 2 / 7

The Enterprise was exploring the hostile Pergamum Nebula... 3 / 7

And the Federation hoped this could become a fallback for humanity in a worst-case scenario. 4 / 7

Unfortunately, Pike and his crew wound up caught in a war of their own... 5 / 7

And it took them the best part of a year to get out of the mess. 6 / 7

By the time they escaped the nebula, the war was over. 7 / 7