Star Trek: Every Starfleet Starship Class Ranked Worst To Best. 27. NX Doug Drexler. The NX class was Starfleet's first Warp 5 vessel, taking over for the older Freedom class in the 22nd century.

So any old NX-class ship still around in 2259 would have some Horonium in its hull. But they don’t even need to find an NX ship, which to both Pike and Boimler are very old.

Star Trek: Every Starfleet Starship Class Ranked Worst To Best. 45. Intrepid ... The ship looked like a predecessor to the NX, with many of the same angles and turrets, ...