Quote Originally Posted by Mik View Post
Honestly, I think Enterprise-A could've been an Excelsior class and it would've been cool.

The Constellation was newer so I think it works better as Picard's previous ship
Funny thing about the old DC comics is also that Sulu was supposed to be Excelsior's captain (although of course that concept finally was brought in VI). Apparentally the Excelsior actually dates back to TWOK's script, where Sulu was supposed to get command after the "little training cruise" (The scene hasn't been available but there is a weird edit in TWOK where this dialogue would've probably been). However I don't think the idea of it being a sort of advanced experimental ship came up until III was in development (and there's absolutely nothing in III about Sulu assuming command, although he does drop the Transwarp drive exposition). For all we know it was going to be another Constitution.