The New Enterprise NCC-1701

My son was playing with a Hasbro model of the new starship Enterprise from the J.J. Abrams Star Trek movie and I started thinking about the various starships from the Star Trek franchise over the years.

It suddenly occurred to me that in Star Trek V, the brand new Enterprise-A was depicted as being in a constant state of disrepair. It was "brand new" and as such had all sorts of glitches and problems to work out in a shakedown cruise. It was new, undergoing refit (retrofit?), and that was the excuse given for the running gags of half the ship not working properly.

In the latest Star Trek movie, the eleventh in the series, the Enterprise wasn't even given a proper christening; her first voyage out of spacedock was to respond to a call for help from Vulcan. The ship not only performed admirably but managed to go toe-to-toe with a ship that is supposedly five miles long (heck, the new Enterprise is supposed to be over 700 meters in length...)

I then realized that the Enterprise from Star Trek: The Motion Picture, the fresh refit transitioning between the old series and the first movie, worked without problems (except for the imbalance in the engines causing a wormhole...).

Unless I'm missing something, apparently the only time the running gag of "it's new, so it's expected to not work right" was in Star Trek V. Maybe it was such a dud that they decided not to revisit that plot device, unlike, say, time travel screwing up the timeline...